I don't know what to write for the title...

22 days to go...

Today I went out to have lunch with one of my best friend, with Caleb tagging along of course. So, we sat down and talked and talked and talked about anything and everything. It's good to meet up with a friend or two once in awhile because it takes my mind off birth anxiety ( I can't wait to see my baby but I dreaded the needles poking part), how our family going to multiply from 3 to 4 soon, how to cope with one active/demanding toddler and a baby (I'm praying hard that this baby is going to be an easy one for me...god please have mercy) and so on......

Anyway, right before we wanted to go home, heavy rain was pouring. I'm not worried on how to get into the car because I parked it at basement. I'm worried about how to get off the car and walk into our apartment building with me walking like a penguin and one kid on tow without getting wet. Luckily I always kept one raincoat in the car, Caleb's size, just for emergency.

So, I told him, "Caleb. it's raining now, Mami put raincoat on you, ok? so that you won't get wet." He said ok. I wrapped him up in the car, took one huge umbrella, gather a huge courage before stepping out into the rain, opened up the passenger door to let Caleb come out. Wowww....I tell you, the rain was NASTY. My shirt and pant were drench the minute I stepped out. I was holding his hand and one hand managing the umbrella. Strong wind doesn't help at all........

Caleb quietly walked beside me. At last when we reached our apartment building, he said "OH MY GOODNESS...." I asked him why. He said, "YOU SEE, MY SHOES IS WET. THIS IS NOT GOOD!"

Hahahaha.........and he kept on complaining and complaining until we reached home.

Yes, he hate wet shoes.

When I was small and Christmas trees were tall....

I rummaged through Caleb's photo album since yesterday and I found some of his pictures that quite hilarious. Didn't have the chance to blog everyone of them, so I thought why don't I just dump it all here :)

Time is precious :) (or I'm just plain lazy :))

1. The first time we 'botak'ed him back when he was 2 months old. (Shaolin Kungfu Master's look)

@ 2 months old

2. Fuwahhh...I'm damn angry because my mami dont want to feed me my favourite cookie, just because of what? I don't have enough teeth to chew? Put your finger in mouth, I DARE YOU....

@ 1 year old

3. I'm safe and sound here. My secret hiding place....

@ 1 year 4 months old

4. I told ya, my safely hiding place. Likey.. :)

@ 1 year 9 months old

5. Sometimes I propped  it up and ride in it. Hah! Talking about convenient, eh?

@ 1 year 7 months old

6. This is more like it...Vrooooommm, vrooooommm....

@ 1 year 7 months old

7. You see, with chair, I can fully entertain myself. Get one for yourself TODAY :)
"Uhhhh...what's that down there?"

@ 1 year 7 months old

8. Of course, accident do happen. Yelling does helps, most of the time.

@ 1 year 4 months old

9. What are you thinking mom? A princess ballet dancer? Oh pulezzz......

@ 10 months old

10. When you ask me "how does a bee sounds like?" You gonna expect I'm showing you this face. Buuzzzzz!

@ 1 year 5 months old

11. Like a gangster, I like to put my leg up when I'm eating. After the umpteen time I got scolding from dadi, now I'm just putting up my leg on chair when I'm eating. You know, like 'ah pek' style :)

@ 1 year 4 months old

12. Or you like it if I'm ending up like this? The choice is yours... *evil laugh away*

@ 1 year 10 months old

13. Can't wait. Ngap! Ngap! Ngap!

@ 1 year 9 months old

14. I have weird sleeping styles. Sometimes, I sleep like this.....

@ 1 year 4 months old

15. Or like this.....

@ 1 year 9 months old

16. Or like this if I had too much work to do....

@ 2 years old

So, are you puking with my endless pictures yet? Blame it on my mom, ok? I told her not to already...

Here's more to come....

17. Peek-a-boo!!

@ 1 year 8 months

18. I swear my mom made me wear this blouse.....

@ 1 year 6 months old

19. Poor Thomas..... This explained why Thomas cracked at the butt. Opppsie ....

@ 1 years 9 months old

20. Getting ready to work. Pekerjaan: Penoreh getah (rubber tapper)

@ 2 years 1 months old

21. Awwww...... I look so cute when I'm wearing hat. Agree? Agree? *wink, wink*

@ 2 years old

22. Mami always said: Better start young. By now, I can recognise 40 over words. (*Beaming with pride*)

@ 2 years 2 months old

23. Last one, I shall finish it off with my 'monsterous act'......... You not gonna like it!

@ 2 years old

See, I told you so.......LOLz....

Caleb's new bicycle

Not updating blog for almost a month now. Must be wondering what's happening right? Haha...I'm still alive and kicking. No worry, everything is fine.

This is a backlog post as I should post this a few months ago when we get Caleb a brand new bicycle. 

Dunno what went into the father's head that day when suddenly he decided to make a hole in his wallet. RM169 for that fire-yellow bike and RM10 for helmet.

 Aren't the spiderman helmet looks cute on him? :)

Not much thing to say. Brain-stuck with words again. Just enjoy the pictures, ok? :)

When they start talking....

Conversation #1
Caleb: Mami, do you want to play ball?

Me: Errr....no.

Caleb: No, Mami cannot say no. SAY YES!

Me: No, Mami don't want to play ball.

Caleb: No, no...SAY YES. Mami be good girl, ok? ok?

Me: (hahaha...) Okla, okla. Play ball la.

Caleb: YEAH!! Hooray! Let's play ball.

Me: *pengsan*


Conversation #2
Caleb: Where is dadi?

Me: Dadi go working.

Caleb: Go where working?

Me: Go office working lor.

Caleb: Where office working?

Me: Office lor.

Caleb: Where office?

Me: (sighhh...) Shhh....be quiet.

Caleb: No, cannot be quiet. I want to talk (cantonese: oi kong yeh)

Me: No, cannot talk. (cantonese: no, cannot kong yeh)

Caleb: (whine and started to cry) Ehhhh....oi kong yeh. wuuuu, wuuuu...

Me: *pengsan*


Conversation #3
Me: Caleb come, change and wear your pant. We are going kai kai.

Caleb: Go where kai kai? Playground or eat-eat? Which one? (we normally go out for breakfast)

Me: (wahseh, know how to ask me back) Go eat-eat.

Caleb: YEAH!! Hooray! Let's go eat-eat! (happily skipping around)

Me: *pengsan*


My mom commented that I'm cruel for not letting him talk. But hey, sometimes when all you want is some silent or peace, this guy's talking can be real annoying. Hahaha....I know, I know, I shouldn't be complaining. Well this is just another phrase we're going through in 'the walk into parenthood', eh?

Kid says the darnest thing

I completely forgot about this until my mom brought this up when she talked to my aunt over the phone on other day.

I went over to my mom's house on CNY eve (jk's house and my house is just 8 minutes drive) as every year my mom would cook up a feast to give our offering and prayers to the ancestors. This year we are adding another name to the call-up list, my youngest ah chek (uncle) who just passed away last December. My mom reminded my father do not forget to call up his youngest brother to come  too.

Anyway, as usual, my mom would prepare steamed chicken, meatball soup, chap chye, fried mee, rice, fruits wine, Chinese tea. My father was setting up the table and chairs just in front of our main door. I helped out by bringing out the foods and arrange nicely on table.

Caleb was playing with his toys all these while me and my father walking to and fro from kitchen bringing foods, chairs, bowl, chopsticks and glasses. After all done, I said "ok, all foods out already" and suddenly Caleb dropped everything on the floor and proceed climbing up the chairs (which mean for the 'guests') and said "Ok, Mami come, let's eat"......

I was stunned. My father was stunned too... Hahaha. I quickly pulled him off the chair and said "No, cannot eat". He think for a while and said "Baby chair?"

Hahahaha.....I almost die laughing.

Apparently back at home, after I've cook dinner, I would bring out all the dishes and put it on our dining table and I did said "Ok, come eat-eat" :D

And the baby chair, yes, he need to sit on baby chair everytime he eats at home.

Yes, kids say the darnest things when you least expected it. :)

What Caleb has been up to this CNY.....

This CNY, we went back to our hometown a few days before CNY. Me and Jk stay in one same kampung. Lucky us..... Looking at those jam, we were lucky that we don't have to travel far to hometown. 

So, what Caleb has been doing back in his kong-kong, amah and yeh-yeh's house?

Here what he did.....

Riding on the bicycle with kor-kor. This is my nephew and Caleb loves this kor-kor very much. He would keep on asking his whereabouts if he didn't see him for one second. Basically Caleb attached to him like glue.

Yeh yeh teaching him numbers with those blocks. (p/s they are not Lego....hahaha)
Occasionally Caleb would say A, J, Q and K..... ;)

What CNY means without some firecrackers right? These 'pops' are mean for kids but it makes me jump every time Caleb plays with them. Here, he just woke up in the morning and after his morning routine (milk and pooed).

This is how he play with it. Not throwing away but stepped on them HARD. Those popping sound makes him so happy. Well, boys will be always be boys....

 

Riding on bicycle by himself. He can maneuver the bicycle very well despite just started riding on it for 3 days. He'd give you one cheeky look whenever he succeeded in doing something.

This is where he was sliding down a slope at the drive-way. See, all smiles and giggles and laughter. MY BOY~ Such a happy baby.

FIL bought this lion for Caleb to play with. At first we thought it was the kind of lion head where you can wear it on your head and goes dong chiang dong chiang all around. But no, it's not.

This is, in fact a tissue box holder.

I was scratching my head why on earth my FIL would buy a tissue box holder for Caleb. And my FIL said he too had mistaken took it as lion dance costume/toy.

It doesn't come cheap. This alien tissue box cost RM26.90..... Gosh, pricey...

But Caleb loves it very much and played with it almost everyday. How to play with tissue box holder?

Shoved small tangerines inside the lion's mouth one by one and when it stuffed to brim, he'd asked the lion to spit it out.

Caleb: Lion! Please 'phui' (spit).....orange.

All of us laugh and seeing Caleb having so much fun, FIL said it's all worth while. :)

He's an apple to his yeh yeh's eyes.

Conversation with Caleb

I was cooking lunch in the kitchen this afternoon and as usual Caleb came to me and hugged my legs. Asking me to go and play with him. Aiyaiyai....

Caleb: Mi mi...come come....

Me: No lar baby, mami is cooking now. Later ok?

Caleb: Mi mi...come come... (*2 volume higher*)

Me: Nooo...baby. Mami said mami is cooking... Please baby, go outside ok?

So, he went out and after 1 minute he came into kitchen again. This time he pointed to the cow fridge magnet and requested me to take it down for him.

Caleb: Mi mi...cow cow....Caleb want cow....

Me: Caleb....can you see mami is cooking? How many hands you think mami have? Please wait, later mami take for you, mami is cooking now....

Caleb: No no...no cooking, ok? (he is asking me to stop cooking)

Me: No cooking then Caleb eat what?

Caleb: Eat cake (pointing to the oven....) - yes, I made cupcakes yesterday and he loves it very very much.

Me: Ya ya....you banyak pandai hor. No, cannot eat cake.

When I heard him saying that, I was laughing hard in my heart. Thinking back, true also la, no need to cook, eat cake ma ok lor....

Hahahaha...............

When he knows he's in trouble....

Just when I was about to put Caleb for a nap just now, as usual, he was jumping up and down on the bed. Despite on numerous time I told him not to jump, he still....sigh.... I think he must be trying to deflate his battery once and for all before recharging again.

So this guy was jumping up and down and me sitting on the bed telling him not to. Without any warning, his head smack me hard on my face. Aiyooooo.......Immediately I was cupping my head and wailed in pain. Caleb looked at me and smile. Chis...can smile somemore.

I was still cupping my head (where it hurts) and I said "Pain-pain, pain-pain, mami pain-pain" and put on a 'sad and very cham face'. He, still lying on the bed, said "I love you mi-mi, I am sorry"....

Walau....my heart melted straight away....

Then I said "Come and kiss-kiss mami...." and he came. Muaks! Muaks!..... 2 times.

*Lum until die*

And then he pat me on the head slowly and said "sayang-sayang"

*Lum until die 2nd time*

When he knows he's in trouble............

Where's Caleb?

The other day Jk came out from the room and at one glance he didnt see Caleb anywhere.

He asked me: "Hey, where's my boss?"

I replied: "There......." (looking at Caleb's direction, without pointing because my hands were on the keyboard)

He looked and asked again: "Where?"

I replied: "There la, on the chair, playing with my phone"

He looked closely again: "Ohhhhhh........I thought nobody's there"

Hahahaha.........

You know why? Here's why...

Because everything from head to toes is in white color.... Hahahaha...

So serious....concentrate, concentrate, concentrate....

And no, I didnt put the box on his head. He likes it this way......why? Beats me....

Our day full of surprises from my little cow ;)

Caleb went crazy...

Jk went out to tapau chicken rice this morning and since I don't feel like eating one, I told him to skipped my portion. So, after Jk changed into 'kai kai' clothing, Caleb went to him and hugged his leg tightly. "Cay-ler go kai kai, Cay-ler go kai kai" - means he want to tag along too.

Since the father didn't want to disappoint his son's request, so ok-la, the father and son happily went out tapau together. Me and my mom in law also happily stayed at home doing our own stuffs without Caleb disturbing us. :)

After 30 minutes, I heard somebody shouting my name. Aiyo, so loud until the the whole apartment know my name. "Open the door! Open the door!". Shocked.... I quickly open the door and I saw jk was carrying Caleb while struggling with 2 boxes of chicken rice in hand. Caleb was crying, the both eyes were red, saliva and tears filled up the whole face. Aii yai yai...what happen?

I opened the door for them and Jk passed Caleb to me. He was crying, yelling and going haywire. I hate to say this but I thought he was possessed. I tried to calm him down and asked him what happen, what he want. He just said: 'yeh-yeh, want yeh-yeh, car-car, see yeh-yeh'. (Yeh-yeh is his grandpa, jk's dad)

Eventually, somehow, don't know why, Caleb have this thinking that Jk gonna bring him back hometown to visit yeh-yeh. So when they reached the kopitiam shop selling chicken rice, he started yelling on top of his voice, "No, no, no...dadi sit sit" and don't let jk stepped out from the car. Jk managed to order tapau and came back home while Caleb was still screaming on top of this lung for yeh-yeh. Back home, nothing seems to calm him down. Crying and shouting he wants to go back to the car. No choice, I carried him, took car keys and went down.

Down at my apartment, he saw birds flying and stopped crying. He said "bird fly", I said "yes, bird fly back home, you wanna go back?". He said: "Noooo..." Ok, fine. Next trick. I let him sit on bench and continue watching bird flying around. After awhile, when he is more settle down:

Me: "come, let's go back we eat ice cream ok?".... "Noooo"

Me: "kiwi?" .... "Noooo"

Me: "orange juice?" .... "Noooo"

Me: "belacan kangkung?" .... "Noooo" - with a chuckle (mmm...that's a good sign)

Me: "Kung pou chicken?" .... :Noooo" - bigger chuckle (:D)

Me: "Koo lou yuk?" ..... "Noooo" - start laughing

Me: "come , let's go back, we play bubble with turtle, whale, octopus and frog, ok?

Silent....... (even silent is a good sign)

Me: Mami blow bubble for you.....turtle blow....octopus blow.....bla bla bla...

And he finally NODDED.

Phewwww.......

And we went back.

(sometimes, baby has crazy temper.....)

Butt-up roasted turkey

Managed to take this picture while Caleb was napping this afternoon.

Looks nice with the butt-up, right? Just like roasted turkey in the oven....

Ready to serve!

'teettt'

Last night when I tucked Caleb in at bedtime:

Me: You want mami to sing for you?

Caleb: Uh Uh (means yes)

Me: Yes?

Caleb: Zesh (his own word of 'yes')


Me: What song you want mami to sing?

Caleb: A B C, A B C

Me: Ok, ABCDEFG....la la la la now you know your ABC, next time wont you sing with me..... Yeah, finish.
What song to sing again? Eensy weensy spider?

Caleb: noooo.... (this fler choosing songs one, mai siau siau)

Me: Then? Edelweiss?

Caleb: Uh Uh

Me: Bla la la la...Yeah, finish. Another song?

Caleb: (press my nose and he said 'teett') A,B,C A,B,C
(like a player asked my to repeat song... hahaha)

Me: Aiyo...mami radio ka? Hahaha...okok. ABCDEF...la la la....


How to say no when he request a song by 'teetting' my nose?

Hahahaha.....that's my son :)

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!!

Caleb and the sand

4 months ago, I went to Singapore with Caleb and mother in law. I wrote about it here and here.

What I love most about my sis in law's place is that we can reached the seaside just a few minutes walk.

So, one fine Sunday morning, we decided to bring all the children to seaside to play on sand. I don't know what to expect as this is the first time Caleb will meet 'The Sand'.

It was manageable for the first few minutes as Caleb processing things inside his brain. Observing and exploring bits by bits.

 

Then all hell broke loose.....first, he ate sand. Yes, MY SON ATE SAND!!
I became a hysterical mommy jumping up and down because I dont know how to ask him to spit it out. So, I gave him water....alot alot of water and drenched his shirt.

Thus he become topless baby on the beach.

 

 

The body covered with sand,

the hands covered with sand,

the legs covered with sand,

Haizzz, I give up.