Swiss Garden, Kuantan – 5 June 2010

Posted on July 2, 2010 by khongfamily

As the kids grow up and each have their respective classes during the weekends, it is getting increasingly difficult for us to go for a family holiday without interrupting their routine (something that we do not want to do).

The 1st weekend of June 2010 presented us with an opportunity to go for a short 1-night holiday. Braedyn and Shayanne both wanted to go to the beach so it was a toss between Port Dickson or Kuantan. After checking out the room rates at both places, we decided to go to a beach close to Kuantan that we’ve not visited before – Balok Beach where the Swiss-Garden Resort & Spa Kuantan is located.

We left late morning and arrived late afternoon after a lazy drive up the East Coast Expressway. The plan was just to enjoy the beach and the pool without venturing too far away from the hotel (we’ve covered the local tourist spots during our last visit to Kuantan).

The kids enjoyed themselves thoroughly and we’re happy to see that Braedyn is no longer afraid of the waves.

Aerynn a bit hesitant initially but warmed up to the sand very quickly

Shayanne has always liked beaches and she had a great time

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Aerynn: 11 Months Old

Posted on July 1, 2010 by khongfamily

Our ‘anak bongsu‘ just turned 1 year old on 22 June 2010. Photos of our little birthday girl’s celebration will be out soon. For the moment, here are some snapshots of our ‘anak bongsu‘ when she was 11 months old:-

Shayanne jie-jie loves doing this to her little sister….

The 2 older kids wanted to ka-ka-cau-cau, therefore I asked them to pose monkey faces for me! :D

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Genting Trip – 10-11 April 2010

Posted on May 25, 2010 by khongfamily

Life is short so we take every opportunity to squeeze in a family trip.

We visited Genting Highlands (again!) but this time, we decided to bunk at Awana Genting since neither daddykhong nor myself have visited Awana Genting.

We booked one of their refurbished rooms in their tower block but no amount of refurbishing was going to save a tired-looking room with stains and cigarette burns on the carpet, main door with the main lock bolt replaced with a flimsy temporary bolt, NO towels in the room, and a host of other small issues. We might as well have booked a room at the Chin Swee Temple instead :)

Genting Theme Park – 10 April 2010

As always, kids love Genting for its theme park even though daddykhong could walk around the theme park blindfolded, having been there too many times. Fortunately for him, he came armed with his latest toy which kept him entertained as he provided live updates on our visit.

Braedyn and Shayanne with their big smiles and beanies

Myself with my 4 babies

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Aerynn: 10 months old

Posted on May 8, 2010 by khongfamily

 

Photos above were taken when Aerynn was 9 months old.

Our little baby is growing up fast. Aerynn will turn into a little toddler in 2 months. Time really flies fast, especially when you have 3 kids!!!

Updates on Aerynn in her 10th month:-

Weight: 8.3 kg

Teeth: Top:4, Bottom:4

Food:

  • She’s having 2 portions of the same food for lunch and dinner.
  • Porridge (read this on how porridge is cooked) with vegetable puree/cod fish/chicken.
  • For vegetable puree, she particularly loves carrots! There was this one time when I gave her too much carrot that even her paediatrician commented she was turning a bit yellow!
  • Some days, I just give her vegetable puree on its own
  • Mee suah with homemade chicken stock soup (she loves this!)
  • Macaroni (she doesn’t seem to like this)
  • Mummykhong’s lazy day – I feed her ready-made baby jar food.
  • Breakfast – brown rice cereal with blended prunes + apricot + raisins, rusks/white bread with milk, fruit puree (avocado, banana & mango (her favourite) and apple)

Milk feed:

  • 4-5 times of 4 oz Enfalac A+ daily. She will wake up once at night around 4-ish am for a milk feed.

Aerynn’s development:

  • She’s a late crawler.  She started her combat crawling style (just like her kor-kor) recently.
  • She can wave bye and give us a flying kiss.
  • Her latest trick – push her tongue out together with any food in her mouth!
  • She is very stingy in giving kisses.
  • Very good at throwing her water bottle away when you are not looking!
  • Using two hands to hold onto the bottle while drinking milk lying down.
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Twisties are HOT!!!

Posted on May 8, 2010 by khongfamily

Braedyn has started eating spicy food and he was sharing his curry-flavoured Twisties with Shayanne (who still can’t take spicy food).

After a while, we overheard this conversation:

Shayanne (blowing on her piece of Twisties): “This Twisties is hot!!!”

Braedyn: “Don’t blow, it’s hot inside. You can’t blow it.”

Shayanne stops blowing and continues to eat her Twisties and the next thing you see is her holding on to a half-piece of the same Twisties…..blowing on the insides!! LOL hilarious.

Braedyn meant to say that the entire Twisties is spicy and Shayanne thought it was just the insides :)

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Aerynn’s Video: Peek-a-Boo & Crawling @ 9 mo

Posted on April 24, 2010 by khongfamily

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Shayanne’s 3rd Birthday Bash – 24 January 2010

Posted on March 30, 2010 by khongfamily

I don’t like organising parties and daddykhong does not like paying for grand parties but, as always, we always end up doing what we don’t like doing. Yes, we organised a party to celebrate Shayanne’s 3rd birthday. Only because we had one done for Braedyn when he turned 2. No double-standards in this family :)

So, in a record quick time of 2 weeks, we confimed our guest list, party venue and everything else.

FB invitation card. Hard copies were printed for the seniors

Shayanne standing in front of the main counter. Banner and decor was provided by Marmalade

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New scooters

Posted on March 18, 2010 by khongfamily

Last weekend, we bought scooters for both Braedyn and Shayanne and they immediately tried them out on the neighbourhood roads. It appears that they need a lot of practice :)

Additional note: Daddykhong bought a new bike for Braedyn on the same day.

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Bird Park – 20 December 2009

Posted on March 2, 2010 by khongfamily

During the last school holidays, we decided to visit the KL Bird Park hoping that Braedyn would not be as terrified of birds as he was back in Hong Kong :) Fortunately, he’s much improved now though he was initially a tad hesitant in walking close to the peacocks.

Lots of peacocks around with their tails fanned out

This is what happens when a big bird gets too close to the kids :) Braedyn and Shayanne are keeping an eye on the offending bird while Aerynn has no clue as to what is going on.

Aerynn fell asleep 3/4 way through the visit and had to continue sleeping in the carrier

Taking an ice cream break

Bird feeding

At the kid’s playground

Overall the KL Bird Park is worth the entry fee but make sure you are paying the reduced MyKad prices and not the tourist prices.

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Chinese New Year 2010

Posted on February 28, 2010 by khongfamily

It’s Chinese New Year again and it’s our first one as a family of 5.

Festivities started off with our reunion dinner which was held at Overseas Restaurant Jaya 1. It was a terrible dinner. Our booking was for 8pm and fortunately for us, our table was ready at 8pm but 60% of those who booked for 8pm had to wait for at least 1/2 an hour before their tables were ready.

Why didn’t the restaurant shoo away those who started at 6:30pm? Because they know that the reason everyone is late is because the food was late! Oh yes, the Tiger Year starts off on a heated note.

Our food came fast and all of our surrounding tables gave us knife-edged stares as we tossed our yee sang while they drank away their hunger with some lukewarm Chinese tea. Most of them only started on their yee sang when we were already on the 4th course :) It was until our dessert that we had a taste of what our neighbours went through. We waited for more than an hour for our dessert to arrive. In the end, we did not bother and we left without ever seeing our dessert!

Incompetent restaurant manager. Must call the HQ to complain

Daddykhong & Aerynn trying very hard to smile

1st day of the New Year – visiting the relatives

Our 2 girls at their Ma-Ma’s (paternal grandmother) house

Do you like my pink shoes? They are softer than Crocs!

Sam Suk (daddykhong’s youngest brother) trying very hard to pass on his kuaci-loving tastebuds to the older 2 kids. He did a good job. Braedyn can now bite open soft kuaci

On the night of the first day, we left KL at 11:30pm and drove up to Tapah to visit more relatives (both daddykhong and myself have relatives there). We arrived at 1am the next morning and stayed for 4 days.

Singing Chinese karaoke at Gong-Gong’s (maternal grandfather) house. It was so bad, everyone left the room!

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