Kate's 奶奶 passed away on the morning on 26th May 2009 after battling cancer for many years.
She left behind her husband, 3 sons, 1 daughter, a daughter in law, a son in law, and 1 granddaughter from each married child.
Monday, 1 June 2009
Thursday, 21 May 2009
mommy's thoughts
Whenever we reached home, one of us would carry Kate to face the statue of the Goddess of Mercy to 'report'.
Nowadays, after watching too much Ninja Warrior and how the contestants run backward to gain momentum to scale the Crooked Wall, she will now run to the other end of the living room, and stand there and smile broadly, waiting for us to coax her. She will then run from that corner of the room into my arms for me to lift her up and carry her to 'report' to the Goddess of Mercy. Most of the times though, the coaxing will take very long, or she will just run halfway, then go back, or run abit, then stop, and wait for more coaxing, all the while smiling because she have so much fun in what was previously such a short and simple activity.
Hand washing also become a playful affair as she will refuse to dip her left hand to wash her hand in the basin of water, or will slap her hands on the surface on the water and wet the whole floor. Hand washing now takes at least 5 minutes instead of the usual 1 minute.
She no longer calls her bicycle de-de-de-DAL but called it "bike-tickle".
Kate has a painted butterfly cardboard cutout and now we use it to play almost everynight. I will say 'butterfly butterfly fly (bad grammer!) in the sky. Butterfly lands on ..." and she will either choose an item for the butterfly to land on. Or I will choose an item, and she will name it. Of course it does not start off like this. At the beginning I was the one choosing the item, and saying the name of the item (those items that she already know) but gradually she started to participate. And she called butterfly 'utter-ly'. And 2 days ago, she saw her first real butterfly at the heardcourt across the road.
Last but not least, she finally called me "mommy".
Nowadays, after watching too much Ninja Warrior and how the contestants run backward to gain momentum to scale the Crooked Wall, she will now run to the other end of the living room, and stand there and smile broadly, waiting for us to coax her. She will then run from that corner of the room into my arms for me to lift her up and carry her to 'report' to the Goddess of Mercy. Most of the times though, the coaxing will take very long, or she will just run halfway, then go back, or run abit, then stop, and wait for more coaxing, all the while smiling because she have so much fun in what was previously such a short and simple activity.
Hand washing also become a playful affair as she will refuse to dip her left hand to wash her hand in the basin of water, or will slap her hands on the surface on the water and wet the whole floor. Hand washing now takes at least 5 minutes instead of the usual 1 minute.
She no longer calls her bicycle de-de-de-DAL but called it "bike-tickle".
Kate has a painted butterfly cardboard cutout and now we use it to play almost everynight. I will say 'butterfly butterfly fly (bad grammer!) in the sky. Butterfly lands on ..." and she will either choose an item for the butterfly to land on. Or I will choose an item, and she will name it. Of course it does not start off like this. At the beginning I was the one choosing the item, and saying the name of the item (those items that she already know) but gradually she started to participate. And she called butterfly 'utter-ly'. And 2 days ago, she saw her first real butterfly at the heardcourt across the road.
Last but not least, she finally called me "mommy".
Saturday, 16 May 2009
20090509
Mommy use her old craft fabric to make a heart shape little pouch to put Kate's 护身符 as she lost the old one made by 婆婆.
20090506
Kate now has a daily habit of surfing her blog at the end of every day using mommy's PC...
Mommy headache of course....
Mommy headache of course....
20090502
Advance celebration of mother's day and 婆婆's birthday at Safra Toa Payoh.....
Kate and mommy and papa are late and the rest have started eating....
The children helping with decorating the birthday cake....
Janice 表姐 ,the bravest amongst them all, lighting the candles (why is yuan yuan 表哥 pinching his nose?)
The cake..its a Bob the Builder cos its selected by Yuan yuan 表哥
Kate singing the birthday song....
Kate and mommy and papa are late and the rest have started eating....
The children helping with decorating the birthday cake....
Janice 表姐 ,the bravest amongst them all, lighting the candles (why is yuan yuan 表哥 pinching his nose?)
The cake..its a Bob the Builder cos its selected by Yuan yuan 表哥
Kate singing the birthday song....
The children fighting to blow out the candles (where is the birthday 婆婆?)
Bob the Builder... note that the children had put the candles just right on Bob's eyes.....
Janice helping to cut the cake... she is 婆婆's favorite grandchild after all :P
Kate enjoying the cake....
The children playing what they call 'Poke the Builder', by stabbing the icing picture of Bob the Builder with their forks.
Bob the Builder... note that the children had put the candles just right on Bob's eyes.....
Janice helping to cut the cake... she is 婆婆's favorite grandchild after all :P
Kate enjoying the cake....
The children playing what they call 'Poke the Builder', by stabbing the icing picture of Bob the Builder with their forks.
大姨姨 showing off the itemised bill like a 春联. We certainly eat alot of food that day.... :P
20090426
One weekend morning, Kate woke up and go over to mommy's bed. Mommy quickly pull her up on the master bed and pat her to work... and then quickly go to Kate's room and get to work before carrying her back to her own room....
And when Kate woke up..she saw THIS!
p/s for those that still cannot figure out, its a set of space glow-in-the-dark wall decal bought from SMH BP....
The many ways to taste a cherry.. :P
And when Kate woke up..she saw THIS!
p/s for those that still cannot figure out, its a set of space glow-in-the-dark wall decal bought from SMH BP....
The many ways to taste a cherry.. :P
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
20090419
The kids went for a swim at 三姨姨's place ... they have lots of fun!
Yy coming down on the slide like Janice (who is too fast for the camera)....
Charlie on the gentler slide, which is so gentle she needs to wiggle her way down as gravity is not working very well....
Kate coming down too. 三姨姨 jagar her all the while but she is censored from this picture. Kate and 三姨姨 will walk up again on the grey tiles beside the slide and then slide down again....
Kate enjoyed herself very much.... :)
20090418
Papa and mommy decided to recee the Changi boardwalk....
Papa parked the car near to the civil servants aloha fairy point chalets and mommy is drooling over how big they are. City boy Papa noticed that they are not air conditioned though.
First, the kelong walk.....
Sunset walk..it was cloudy so we didn't get to see a 'salted egg yolk' sunset.....
Sailing point walk.... there are some homes there (not sure if it belongs to the sailing club) that has a small beautiful garden and big balconies... beautiful!
Beautiful short walk (though parking is killer). The same cannot be said of the nearby Changi Village. Crowded, no parking lot, lots of illegal parking. Papa hates it.
Papa parked the car near to the civil servants aloha fairy point chalets and mommy is drooling over how big they are. City boy Papa noticed that they are not air conditioned though.
First, the kelong walk.....
Sunset walk..it was cloudy so we didn't get to see a 'salted egg yolk' sunset.....
Sailing point walk.... there are some homes there (not sure if it belongs to the sailing club) that has a small beautiful garden and big balconies... beautiful!
Beautiful short walk (though parking is killer). The same cannot be said of the nearby Changi Village. Crowded, no parking lot, lots of illegal parking. Papa hates it.Thursday, 16 April 2009
20090412
Today, Kate went out with mommy and her secondary school friends to Wong Kok Char Chan Teng 旺角茶餐厅 at Bugis Junction to celebrate Auntie Wenbin's birthday.
Kate wearing the dress give by Auntie Xiaowen long ago... and did her jumpjump act again as there is a mirror behind the couch....
Kate and Keondre admiring themselves in the mirror. She is not tall, he was just not standing straight up then.
Cheyanne and her mommy Auntie Xiaowen and her peanut butter toast bread. In the previous outing, Cheyanne was still a quiet little gal, but now she is cheeky and playful, pulling her mommy's scarf towards her so that mother and daughter are sharing it. :) She is now also very fond of practising her walking....
All the food.... we ordered main course, and alot of finger food (yes, that is a piece of bread in Kate's mouth! :P)
Kate wearing the dress give by Auntie Xiaowen long ago... and did her jumpjump act again as there is a mirror behind the couch....
Kate and Keondre admiring themselves in the mirror. She is not tall, he was just not standing straight up then.
Cheyanne and her mommy Auntie Xiaowen and her peanut butter toast bread. In the previous outing, Cheyanne was still a quiet little gal, but now she is cheeky and playful, pulling her mommy's scarf towards her so that mother and daughter are sharing it. :) She is now also very fond of practising her walking....
All the food.... we ordered main course, and alot of finger food (yes, that is a piece of bread in Kate's mouth! :P)
We had 2 kinds of toast bread, some tom yum noodles, wan tum dumplings (spicy!), bacon, rice, drinks, etc. Definitely more variety than the 茶餐厅 that mommy frequent at IMM.
Uncle Calvin taking pics of Kate with her mouth stained with hot chocolate. The waitresses there are from China and they do not understand the word 'hot chocolate'. Have to order in Mandarin.
Cheyanne and Keondre playing with toy cars.
Kate was in a receptive mood and she allows everyone to carry her...
Uncle Calvin taking pics of Kate with her mouth stained with hot chocolate. The waitresses there are from China and they do not understand the word 'hot chocolate'. Have to order in Mandarin.
Cheyanne and Keondre playing with toy cars.
Kate was in a receptive mood and she allows everyone to carry her...
... starting with Auntie Pauline....
Poor Auntie Wenbin has to carry Keondre while he drinks his milk as he refuse to sit in the stroller...
Uncle Calvin and his Cheyanne... looke like the father eh? :)
Uncle Calvin carrying Kate....
Poor Auntie Wenbin has to carry Keondre while he drinks his milk as he refuse to sit in the stroller...
Uncle Calvin and his Cheyanne... looke like the father eh? :)
Uncle Calvin carrying Kate....
The 3 kids..... ranging from 1+ yo to 2+ yo... and the most petite of them all is the oldest..ahahahhaa
Affectionate Keondre....
Auntie Xiaowen's turn to carry Kate.... she is getting tired....
Affectionate Keondre....
Auntie Xiaowen's turn to carry Kate.... she is getting tired....
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