Recent Hair Cut

To get Samuel to have his haircut is a very torturous affair for him. Everytime we pass by the barber, we will 'pyscho' him 'want to have cut hair?', his default reply would be, "Don't want!" If we attempt to step in, he will be crying even before we set our foot into the salon, sigh! Last Saturday was the utimatum, his hair is simply too long and needed a cut. We brought the portable dvd player and loaded in Barney vcd in, still....he cried through the hair cut! At least less tears than before and he don't fidget but sat on daddy's lap crying thru' the session.

Neater right? We deliberately still keep the 'curly' tail behind, find it so cool!

His current favourite dvd

Thomas & Friends! These are the few characters he recognised and among these, he likes EMILY the most...which really surprises us! :) Opposite Attracts?

Random Pixs - Oct 2009

Haven't been blogging much lately, my dear son down with flu & cough for 6wks, still not recovered. Brought him to PD again and got a referral to do a chest X-ray, concerned that excessive cough might not be good for his lungs. Thank God that the result turns out well - lungs cleared, but he is still on medicine now, ate so much medicine for 6wks until he is 'addicted' to it. :( Will resort to TCM if this last addition of medicine don't works for him. Blame the haze...last yr this time, he also down for several weeks due to haze!


1st attempt of homemade ABF for him(after seeing SY made it for Shawn), he loves the sausage, scrambled egg ok but baked beans ...no no!




Samuel can fix a 12pc puzzle by himself...way to go boy!! I have many more sets of jigsaw puzzle waiting for him to complete...including Bob the builder and Thomas & Friends!

Enjoying picnic & kite flying at West Coast Park

2nd Birthday Celebration

We had a small birthday party with my family today, Samuel was thrilled and seemed to know abit more about birthday and could say 'happy'. How time flies...he is turning 2 in 10 days time. Am amazed at how fast he has grown and thank God for his good health and happy nature.

Banana Bread Receipe

My SIL gave me this recipe(not her own), try it and see if you like it.

Banana Bread V
SUBMITTED BY: Pat Heldenbrand
"This is an old 4H bread recipe my daughter used to make in the 50's. Best one I ever
ate."

Prep Time: 10mins
Cook Time: 1hr
Ready In: 1hr 10mins

INGREDIENTS
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 5 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup mashed bananas
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

DIRECTIONS
1. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
2. In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter or margarine. Beat the egg slightly, and
mix into the creamed mixture with the bananas. Mix in sifted ingredients until just
combined. Stir in milk and nuts. Spread batter into one greased and floured 9x5
inch loaf pan.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until top is brown and cracks along the
top.

I Love CAPS

When Sam was younger, he hates to wear caps. As he grow older(& more 'vain' I think), he loves wearing his caps, strange eh! He will cry if you try taking it off his head unless we reached home. It's hard to find nice and fitting caps for him, if any of you know where, let me know.

Bake Craze #2 Attempt

Yes, we're so happy that the oven works well now, it has given us hell of a time in the past, the whole house power supply will trip when we turn the oven on and hubby has to use extension cord to try various power points in the house to get it working. Feeling so fustrated, he dismantled the wiring of the power plug of the oven and 're-wired' it!

These are what we made over the weekends...this time round...the taste is 'very good'...IMO!



This batch is banana yogurt muffins w/ walnut(inside), still perfecting! Receipes from www.littlegastronomy.blogspot.com . :)


Banana Bread w/apricots - 2nd attempt done by my hubby...turned out quite good, moist and soft! Receipe from 'Kak'. :)

Baking #1 - Banana Bread

Suddenly had an urge to bake after reading a receipe from Company's Coming(Author: Jean Pare), given to me by my BIL in Cananda last December.

1st attempt - not quite successful as i mis-read 'ml' for 'g'...for flour and walnut, ended up the whole bread was so heavy...(see the bread nearly split into two...hee hee). You would either like it or dislike it, people who like strong heavy tasting food will give thumbs up! IMHO: 6/10 only! I will try it again...

Going TWO soon...

Sam in sunday nursery class in church, enjoying his biscuit snack time! This is the only time that he will sit down and munch, the teachers recently feedback that he has such big strength that he will pushed away those heavy cabinets/shelves surrounding the play area and sneak out!! Ooops...did we feed him too much beef?

This is Sam's 2nd birthday gift from us ... he was frighten when I used the 'remote control' with him in the car and refused to sit inside! I got this 'mini' from a BP spree, abt 25% cheaper than retail price. He rather his teddy bear sit inside than him, hopefully he will overcome this fear soon. He is also scared of those coin operated kiddy rides...*faint*.

Trip to Farmart

Mummy & Daddy brought me to Farmart for the first time, there's really nothing much to see except alot of live seafood there. We didn't buy much stuff except for some yummy freshly based portugese egg tarts, a box of quail eggs and some vegetables.

Animal prints

I meant to buy animal prints bedsheet set but ended up with quilt cover set! It is really upsetting, got con by the packaging, it stated 'queen fitted sheet', ended up is quilt cover set! Argh... good thing i didn't paid a bomb for it, it was S$39, so it was a steal instead. In this warm weather, we just use it as a blanket w/o the full works(quilt) and i used a similar blue(same shade of blue as the elephant) bedsheet to complement it. Samuel loves the animal prints and will point to them when he sleep on our bed. Of of us still need to fall asleep with him on this bed before transferring him to his playpen. Very soon, we are going to transit him to sleep on the mattress...on the floor!

1 week ago - new hair cut

After 10-15mins of crying, a tired & sleepy Sam you see! It is still a tedious chore to bring him for haircut, hope this phase will pass soon and we will bring him for cut more often to help him overcome the ordeal. This time round, no fancy hair salon, this is $5 at a barber which is 2 bus stops away from where we live. Be it $5 or $20 haircut, he also cries his lung out!

Durian Farm & Kukup Trip

We went for a day trip to JB for durian and visit to Kukup kelong last Saturday. I was telling SY last week that my G10 is under utilised...true enough...i forgot my cam for the trip!!! Here's some pixs to share from Samuel's Godparents.

Sam with his Godpa, a very humble man who love God & the little ones, he is one of the very experienced core nursery teachers in TCC! Every Sunday, when Sam cries and refuse to enter nursery class, Godpa Wilson or Godma Kelly will come to our rescue and carry him in and calm him down. We're so blessed to have them as Samuel's Godparents, God is good!

Sam's Godma Kelly

Little rambutan thief!!

These are very sweet, pluck straight from the branches...yum yum!


Our boat ride to Kukup Kelong ... that's Lily & John, they have 3 boys, *salute* them!

Refreshing look

Been a long time since I change a new blogskin, I like this refreshing look, do you? :)

Home made dumplings/ngor hiang

This is after steaming, I freeze it last night after that and going to fry it tonight...yum yum!

If you notice, I seldom blog about food ...just some random pixs of what I made yesterday! (spark off from a friend who made recently...I decided to give it a shot!)

Other than dumplings and ngor hiang, I used the balanced bits of the meat to make chicken patties, Samuel loves it. He loves fried stuff. I also used the meat to steam egg but it went to waste as Samuel refused to eat it w/rice as he was cranky after his nap. Last night, his dinner was 2 small chicken patties, some strawberries and some star puff, followed by milk before his sleep. We have become more relax if he refuse usual staple meals, let him eat whatever he wants as he is still in the teething process...slow but progressing! :)

Cheeky face

This is how he looks when he's cheeky!

These days it's tough to get him to sit still to take decent shots....

Samuel's new pet...The Dalmatian

"Sit...don't keep bouncing up & down!"

Been wanting to get a pet dog balloon for Samuel...it can "walk"!! He is so excited and walked the dog up and down the hallway and very upset when I teased him this morning, 'Mummy bringing doggie to work'! :)

My Tech Savvy Son

Photos courtesy of Auntie Sharon

Samuel has been introduced to the world of 'IT'....my tech savvy son! This iphone serves him well when he is cranky and refused to eat his meals, my secret weapon!.

He begins to talk more now, he can now utter, 'ah ma'(my mum was thrilled last sunday!), 'papa' and 'apple'. I look forward to communicate with him more, it is fun!!

Going 20 months...

Been out of action for quite some time as am caught up with chasing HK drama...haahaa.


Mummy tired me out that I dozed off in this push car.

Little Pianist in the making ...stay tune!


Flower basket presented to Mummy ...from Samuel (auntie sharon helped me to arrange the flowers...so pretty right)