Bonda Villa 1st Anniversary Birthday

As many of you know I did my last confinement at one of the most prestige confinement centre in town and that is Bonda Villa.

The first 100% breastfeeding friendly confinement centre located in Kota Kemuning. Their package, well.....not really cheap but hey, if you do the calculation yourself with 6 organic/healthy meals a day, 24hours nurse service, lactation consultant and relaxing resort/villa 'feel', it's worth it.

I know what's running through your mind right now....hehe, I'm not rich myself and definitely not rich man's tai tai (wife) **chuckles** although that was my childhood dream*

What I can say is I'm very very lucky that I stumbled upon this place accidentally when I was 4 months pregnant, bought Gina's book on breastfeeding months before at Fabulous Mom and was ecstatic when I found out the Gina actually own this place.

That means I'm sure I will have 100% success in breastfeeding my baby. Why? Because it stated in term and condition that there will be NO formula-feed throughout the centre. Wow.... isn't this a  good news or what? Hahaha....no one will sneakily feed my baby with formula milk behind my back. Well, that's what happened to Caleb previously during my confinement. *cough-milfeedformulabehindmyback-cough* 

And since they had this new opening promotion price, it's really REALLY worth it! But you know how Chinese/Malaysian mentality about 'cheap thing no good, good thing no cheap' philosophy. We were in doubt, of course. Jk actually drove me to the stated address and check the place out. Indeed, the place exists. :) Pheewwww..... and they're really good! I enjoyed my stay very much.

Last month, they were celebrating 1st anniversary and I was invited! Haha....Gina still remembered me. Well, how could she forget? Me and one of the mommy rummaging their refrigerator for foods during our stay. 

Always. (*wink to Lauren Lai) 

Pictures above: The celebrating cakes and 2 leng lui si tau pohs. (Pictures taken from Bonda Villa Facebook)

I'm so happy able to see all of them again. Especially Lauren, Sherry, Gina and Shirley, the 2 si tau poh. Because of them, I'm still breastfeeding Caven. Woww.....never I thought I can breastfeed for this long.

The nurses missed Caven so much and they even nicknamed him, 'Mr. Handsome'.

Generous Gina even gave us a copy of her 2nd edition Love Breastfeeding book. I know I don't need it anymore but hey, I can lend it those who need it right?

For those who are serious about breastfeeding should get a copy of this book. It is very informative. Everything you want to know about baby, breastfeeding positions, breastmilk nutrients, breastmilk storage, how much baby needs milk, why baby's crying......it's all in the book.

Now I'm looking forward for our next meeting. Birthday celebration in December!

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Caleb's 4th Birthday Celebration

Arggghh.....this is soooooo backdated. I'm suppose to post this up on 24th July, a day after Caleb's birthday and now I'm still stuck at this post. Most of the time, I don't even have time to touch my lappie, what's more to blog. Anyway.....

It was Caleb's birthday yesterday last week two weeks ago (blehhh) and as usual I made him a birthday cake as I always did every year. This time a red velvet birthday cake. How nice is that? But juggling between a crying-whining-leechy-baby-who-just-want-to-stick-with-his-mommy and baking was indeed a challenging task.

This is the birthday cake for the birthday boy. It look so 'homemade', right? There were  a lot of flaws on the cake if you look closely but I guessed the most important is the face on my birthday boy. His eyes lighten up when he saw this and that was priceless!

A few accompaniment of red velvet cupcakes with flags made from washi tape. I really fell in love with washi tape already! However, if you noticed, the papercups detached itself from the cake and honestly it looked hideous. I did around 20 cupcakes but only 9 of them looked presentable. Why ar? Anybody know why? (*scratching head*)

This time, for the first time he has the whole crowd to celebrate with him because he was celebrating it in school. Oh boy! He was soooo happy and for the first time he woke up before 7am. That was a record because normally we need to drag his fat bum out from the bed, spend 5 minutes just telling him to brush teeth and another 10 minutes asking him to finish up his milk.

The happy birthday boy!

I know he has been dreaming of sitting there for the longest time, in fact maybe every kid. It does feel special when you're sitting on special chair where you got a birthday cake with your name on and everybody singing birthday song to you.

I asked him if he wants to take some pictures with his friends and he said yes. How could he resists?

Everybody is sitting on chair singing birthday song. Cute little people...

This become his signature post. Must have to 'V' sign. Mmmm...where did he learn this from? I don't know.

Cutting the cake and grins on his face.

We picked him up after his daycare and went to Sakae Sushi for dinner. His favourite 'frog sushi'. He love it so much. Probably because of the kid's set bowl that there are providing have frog face on it. I don't know, just guessing..... :)

After dinner, the father brought him to games arcade for some fun. You know, doing guy's thing. Like basketball.... mmm.... I guess if I have a girl, I would definitely bring her for pedicure and manicure on her birthday. Hah!

We had another birthday song singing and candle blowing moment back at home. I have a few more cupcakes and decorated it. Bahhh...I need more improvement on my decorating skill.

Caleb was so happy. He even asked my if he could have another birthday tomorrow. Hahaha.....

Mother's Day card from Caleb

Caleb came back from school yesterday and gave me this.

A flower which he made in school.

He came to me running and was so excited shouting "Mami mami, I got something for you. A flower. Happy Mother's Day Mami. I love you." and a kiss (muaks)

Hahaha.....heart melted.

Finally, I got my mother's day gift this year. The last time we enrolled him in school was after mother's day and just before father's day. So the father got a crap card instead.

Happy Mother's Day to all....

Caleb's lantern party at his kindy

2 weekends ago, Caleb had his Moon Cake Festival celebration in his kindy and a week before they made their own lantern, of course mostly with teacher's help.

Yupe, that's his lantern. When I ask him, who did the coloring for his lantern, he said "Caleb."

Mmmm...I doubt it. Hahaha...

It's kinda pot luck party where they asked for parent's contribution. At first I wanted to bake cake or cupcake or something like that. But on a second thought, I'm lazy, plus my backache is killing me now. And whadda-u-know, a whole stretch of 10 feet table was full with foodies. Fried meehoon, curry chicken, hotdogs, sausages, nuggets, puddings, jellies, cupcakes with nice frosting, buttercakes, pies, tarts, you name it, it's basically there. Luckily I didn't bring anything or else mine could be abandoned.

The party went quite well but unfortunately most of Caleb's classmates didn't show up and he was left out. Sad.... He still went around trying to fit in older group of kids but most of them ignore him. Soooo sad ler.

Anyway, he entertained himself by taking sweets and puddings, went around asking other kids "Do you want some? Do you want these?" Hahaha........just like a Santa Clause.

You see? sad or not? Sigh......

Nevermind, I can play by myself ....

It's ok baby, you'll have a lot of friends when you grow up. Mummy still love you very much although I always brush you off sometimes when you ask me to play with you. :(



Caleb's homemade birthday cake 2012

For those who saw my previous post with birthday cake pictures without any words, I'm sorry. I was supposed to upload those pictures to my other blog (just for my parent and my father-in-law to see just in case we couldn't make it back home several weeks and they kinda miss Caleb), but I made a mistake. No wonder my mom complained that she couldn't see the pictures eventhou I said I've already uploaded them and she blamed it on my dad for getting senile (already??) for not able to type the blog address properly... haha...Sorry la dad.....  

Anyway, I've delete that post and decided to write a proper one....

Ok, back to Caleb's homemade birthday cake. Last year, I did his birthday cake too but I didn't like it because I cheated! Hah..... I made the cake with premix powder. No choice, couldn't make it on time as the first attempt failed miserably.

So, this time I was determined to make a proper one...from scratch. Ahemmm.... I surfed a lot of baking blog and there is one that never fail to impress me. Wendy-in-kk. God, she is the Goddess in baking and cooking and her ideas are endless. There's nothing that she can't do actually. So, I searched for her recipe on cake ideas and this particular one looked "wow..."

"I wish that I can do this"

Wish no more, let's get down to business.... And so, I bought all the ingredients and began doing it on Friday. We planned to go back to my parent's house for the celebration as my mom said she'll do the red-coloured-eggs (a must in Hokkien family, I guess but only if you are before 10-years-old because I don't remember my mom did any for me after I've puberty ;)) and a few other dishes.

So, this is the cake. My version. Of course don't compare with Wendy's one. :)

One mishap happened when I frosted the cake. As I don't have a proper frosting equipment like the spinning wheel where you put your cake on it and spin it around when you doing the frosting. So I just propped it on an upside down big bowl. While spinning the cake slowly and slabbed on the buttercream, the whole cake fall down. "AHHHHHHHHHH..." - this is my reaction. Caleb ran from the living room into the kitchen and asked me "Mami, what happen? what happen?"

Hahaha...I just shoo-ed him away. I don't need another trouble-maker from my guy.

The whole cake was 'senget'. Aiyer.....my whole effort is gone. G.O.N.E... I was stunned.

Finally after calm down for a while, I decided to use whipping cream instead of buttercream as whipping cream is more light and I needed to use tonnes of it to cover the flaws. Buttercream is too over-whelming. We ran down to gaint at 7pm and searching for some ideas to cover the side as well. Jk was 'kan cheong' as well. Hahahaha.........

So, I bought one pack of cadbury's chocolate stick and a packet of strawberry. And ching chang ching chang back in kitchen for another 2 hours (amateur, that's why took so long) and the final product look quite presentable. Phewwww........

The cake looks like bricks on the wall with badly infested white ants. Hahahaha....

Anyway, my mom like it very much and she was impressed. The next day, they had it for breakfast and my dad asked my mom "How much is this cake?" My mom said "What buy? Your daughter did it lar..."

Ahemmm........ this is priceless :)

A surprise on Valentine's Day

*hick hick hick *

Got this today from dear jk.

I don't normally get things on any other special day (i.e my birthday, Anniversary, Valentine's...). Imagine my surprise when he handed me a bouquet of flowers.

Jk just drove back from KL, fetching us going back to reality tomorrow. My 3-weeks-holiday officially coming to an end.

I'll definitely miss thee:
- just eat whatever my mom cooked without having to think and plan what to cook.
- if I'm craving for something, I can make an order to my mom and puff...there, I have it on the table. :)
- laundry has been perfectly taken care of... haha
- somebody to play with Caleb and he didn't come and bug me. Ahhh...bliss
- free time to go online and blog as much as I can :)

6 stalks of champagne color roses and forget-me-not makes

a perfect combination

Caleb said he wants to give it to Amah. Ohh...how sweet.... *.*



Even we don't say this much, I know you'll always be there for me.

You know I'll do the same too.

For we will treasure each other on every single day and many days to come.

 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to all.......

Chinese New Year is finally here....

Chinese New Year is finally here.

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Dragon Year and Gong Xi Fa Chai!

See the cheeky face? Haha... I was asking him to show me "Gong Xi Gong Xi" hand sign but instead he showed me a cheeky face plus a "stomp-y" sign.

Haiiiii.... at least he was looking at the camera, right?

Jean, the shirt is from you. The one that you bought from US. Can wear already, looking smart hoh? 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!~~