Questions for Caleb

Our favourite questions for Caleb.

Us: Tell Ah Ma (my mom) what you want to eat?

Caleb: Cha Siew Pau

Us: What dadi likes to eat?

Caleb: Mai Kai...

Us: Loh..??

Caleb: Loh Mai Kai

Us: Who gave you the red car?

Caleb: Am ker Deh Ric (not a foreign language..haha...it's actually Uncle Deric - our neighbour staying 2 floors above us)

Us: and who?

Caleb: Am Ti Turtle (Auntie Turtle...hahaha, Deric's wife. Why turtle? Because she gave a turtle soft toy to him last time and we refer her as Auntie Turtle ever since :))

Us: Blue Cow leh? Who gave you blue cow? (Yes, a cow in blue color...haha)

Caleb: Chi Chai Koh Koh

Us: Water bottle? Who gave?

Caleb: Koo Poh (jk's aunt)

He can reply you very fast on every questions provided that you have some food in your hand.

Hahaha.....

How come it sound like I'm training at dog?

HAHAHAHA!!

Rice mites

*Beware: Scary pictures ahead*

I knew for quite some time that my rice was infested with mites, rice mites that feast happily at my rice. I still cooked with it every now and then and every time jk would complained about the rice tastes weird. Something like stale, woody-musty kinda thing.
I used to brush him off and force him to finish his rice...hahaha....wasted ma.

Until yesterday, I finally bought another fresh batch of rice in the market. I just bought 1kg just to taste the texture and make sure it suits our taste bud.

And then I need to get rid of my old stock of rice.

 First, THE MITES!!

I poured them out and all those suckers were crawling out....So so so many of them...

Eiiiii......but then how to kill them off once and for all?

I stood there watching them, smashing them, flipping them, poured water into my sink, hot water, cold water, dettol....until more than 1h later, all of them pronouced DEAD. Hahaha.....*evil grin* mission accomplish

Here another picture of them.

Gili leh....

Now, what shall I do with the remaining of the rice? Somebody need rice to cook for their dog?
Come and contact me, I'll give them out for free.

Caleb's homecook meals

More than often, I ran out of ideas on what to feed Caleb. He don't fancy porridge anymore ever since he got his molar and been quite picky on food. One thing for a start, he don't like vegetable which he refer as 'choi choi' Sometimes, I just force it into his mouth, 'no choi choi means no Yakult' and it worked everytime. He loves Yakult more than his mom, yes, thats how serious it is.

I need to think of variety food to feed him. If rice, I need some dishes to accompany and when I'm running out of ideas, I just did this egg sandwitchwich. Boiled one egg is more than enough most of the time. Whenever there's leftover, it's the bandaraya mother to clear it up. Less headache for me too because I did not need to think what to cook for myself. What he eat, I'll eat that too.

Wholemeal bread + mashed egg + cheese

Pasta is one of my favourite too. Err, Caleb's favourite also la....It's easy to cook and I can just dump whatever I have in my fridge that time. Normal ingredient would be egg, carrots, sometimes if I'm lucky my mom will prepare some mince meat for me to bring back. Simple meal, with a little dash of tomato sauce, it's really appetizing.

Caleb hates when his food is dry. So, whether I'm preparing fried rice or fried noodle for him, I intend to pour more water and let it simmer. Watery and mushy....That the way, ah ha ah, he likes it, ah ha ah ha. But not for me, thank you very much.

Fusilli (spiral type) + scramble egg + carrots

This another easy peasy fried noodle for Caleb. I love easy to prepare food....one thing, no need to think so much, second less pots and pans and plates to wash up after cooking. First, same thing, boiled to soften noodles, fried garlic until fragant, throw in fish slice (marinate with some soy sauce, sesame oil, a lil bit of pepper) stir stir stir and lastly the noodles. Stir stir stir, pour in some water, close with lid. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes and voila...gao tim.

See the hand? Cannot wait and while I'm taking this picture, I need to constantly tell him "Wait Caleb wait..., let mami take pictures first..." :) 

Stir-fried noodle with fish. Tak cantik tapi sedap la.....

Mee suah for a change. I'll try to go Organic if possible whenever I cook for Caleb. This type of mee suah is organic type and it's really good. I know some type goes very very mushy and starchy if it overcooked. And when it sit too long in the soup base, it become 'harden' like 1 patch. I hate it very much :( That's why I dont fancy mee suah.

But this organic type is good. It wont go mushy no matter how long it sit in the soup. It still have the texture when you bite in it. This I cooked with potatoes, carrots, mince meat (ya, what's new...same old thing) and top with fried fish paste. Niceee....got soup, got fish, got potato, got meat....what's more can you ask for :)

Mee suah soup

Fried fish paste, cut into strips

Ok, are you drooling on Caleb's food yet? :)

When I got the mood to cook more variety and don't mind washing pots and pans piling up in my kitchen sink, I'll steam some rice, scramble egg and boil soup. Most of the time it would be vegeable soup with either chicken breast or pork ribs. See which one available that time. If I don't have any of them, I'll just use anchovies. Smell heavenly too....

Steam rice, fish paste, scramble egg and vegetable soup.

This is another 'I got the mood to cook' meal. Steamed pumpkin together with rice and it really fluffy and filled with pumpkin aroma. Stir-fried mince meat with egg and steamed fish slice. When I brought this plate out from kitchen, Caleb was exclaiming "WAHHHH..." Very funny. :) As if he knows not those all-in-one-pot style of food.

Steam rice with pumpkin, scramble egg with mince meat and steam fish slice

This is happy meal for Caleb. Hahaha..... made with love from his lazy mami. My mom made some mee ku for me the last weekend I went back. Mee Ku, 面龟 is a Hokkien word for Tortoise Bun. It is basically a mantou, or plain steamed bun. Healthier and more nutritious compare to big production bread in the market. Home-made without any artificial preservative, colouring or chemical substances.

So, I steamed it since I took it out from fridge. A slice of cheese, 2 pieces of Heinz Little Kidz tomato minicorn cakes, banana and oranges. Oh and a cup of Farmhouse fresh milk.

So gwai lou style..... haha

Caleb's Vocabulary @ 25 months

Caleb has been talkative nowadays, with his own native languages. Sometimes we thought he maybe talked to us in Thai's, Korean's and even Tamil's. There was once he wanted a 'kok-kok'. We asked him what is 'kok-kok'? He just pointed to his toys box and repeatedly said 'kok-kok', 'kok-kok'. There are thousands thing inside his toys box and we really have no idea which on is kok-kok.

And when we don't comply, he started showing his tantrum. Ehhhh.....ehhhhh....ehhhh...*rolling on the floor* Aiyo...what the hell is kok kok...

Then I said to him, 'you want kok kok, you go and take, go...go take'. Slowly he went to his toys box and took this out.

Aiyo...what is so 'kok-kok' about this? *smacking head*  I told him, "This is truck. Next time you want this you tell mami truck, ok?" And he nodded. Phewww......


Anyway, he can say quite a handful of words and recognised a lot more, just that he can't really say it well.
Vehicle:
-Car (car-car)
-Truck (truck)
-Bicycle (ke)
-Motorbike (bike)
-Aeroplane (plane)
-Boat (bot)
-Train (train)

Animals:
-Dog
-Cat
-Bear
-Mouse
-Sheep
-Elephant (fern)
-Tiger (ger)
-Lion (he pronouce this as 'L')
-Bird
-Butterfly (fly)
-Frog
-Rabbit (bit)
-Flamingo (go)
-Snake (sssssnake)
-Monkey (mom-key)
-Turtle
-Horse (house...hahaha....)
-Cow
-Fish
-Bee
-Chicken (ken)
-Whale

Colors:
-White
-Red
-Blue
-Purple
-Yellow (ilow)
-Green
(silly jk asked if we should teach him 'Magenta' or not? I told him don't be crazy...lolz)

Food:
-Banana (Baaa-nana)
-Apple (Air-ple)
-Orange (O-fin)
-Juice
-Rice (this as farm farm)
-Soup
-Vegetable (he said this as choi choi)
-Cake
-Bread
-Cookie (kie)
-Cereal
-Cheese
-Yakult (yahh kut)
-Prune
-Water (Wo-ter)
-Milk

Actions:
- Pau pau (when he want to be carry)
- Cho cho (when he wants you to sit with him)
- Eat (when I ask him if he's hungry)
- Gai gai (when he saw us changed into 'gaigai' apparel)
- Pom pom
- Shi shi (this one a bit confuse because either he wants to poo or pee, he use the same word)
- Mart mart (when he found himself wet)
- Pain pain (haha...this one when i bite him or kena rotan)
- Mit mit and point to his nose (when he want me to korek his nose, hahaha, bandaraya ma, apa boleh buat?)
- Yes (more like zesh )
- No (no no no no is when he insist on rejecting something)

Garments
-Sam sam (cantonese for t-shirt)
-Maad maad (cantonese for socks)
-Foo foo (cantonese for pant)
-Shoe or hai hai
-Pien pien (cantonese for diaper)

I'm not sure if I've missed out any. He sure talks alot now but not in sentence.

*over looking at a crystal ball*
Mmmm....I can forseen myself asking Caleb "Baby, can you stop talking and asking question in just 5 minutes? Let mami have a peace of mind please..."

Hahaha.....

Caleb's 2nd Birthday Celebration

Just a short blog about Caleb's birthday more than 2 weeks ago ~~~ Hahaha....yes, Miss Procrastinate is here again :)

Had dinner at TGIF @ IOI Mall and the food sucks....well, at least Caleb had a free meal.

Caleb's Spaghetti Marinara.

My main : Sizzling Chicken and Shrimp

This is the first time I ordered a main course under Sizzling section. I regret on ordering this dish the moment it reached me. For a start, the damn sizzling part. Kanasai....sizzled non stop. The oil, I suspect came from the melted cheese, kept on pricking on my arms and face. Painful~~~

Jk was complaining too...haha...no choice because of the small table that we were sharing, I need to move the hot plate away from Caleb as far as I can and thus ended up right next to Jk. Lolz....this guy complaining non-stop ler until it stop sizzle, which was 10 minutes later.

Birthday boy enjoying his birthday dinner :)

Birthday boy with mami

Ok, it's time to go back and cut cake already. Since there were only 3 of us at home, we couldn't take a family picture because 1st, my camera's baterry was flat zero and 2nd, we could only took pictures with iPhone. Jk's hand not long enough thus everybody couldn't into the screen very well.

Just birthday boy and mami

Caleb was eyeing on the candle all the time because he can't wait to blow it. There were a few times I need to cover his mouth just to stop him from blowing the candle before we finish singing birthday song to him :)

 I stopped him from being too near to the candle and blowing it

When he can't get near to the candle, he just blow from afar. And this time I need to cover his mouth...Hahaha~~

~~Birthday ceremony ended at 10pm :)~~

~~Happy Birthday Baby!~~