Weekend Updates

Baby Josh is still not well so we skipped the PC trip on the weekend. Hopefully he will feel better next week for our visit.

We had Korean BBQ on the sat. very yums! but tummyache later. hehe. overdosed of kimchi.

We caught up with Earle and Christine and had a very nice lunch at their home. It is nice having Joel behaving well this time. He was decently polite and both me and hubs have been pleased with him

We meet up with the Ips and let the kids have a nice play at the park. Really enjoyed these quiet weekends.

Boys had some pizza for dinner and some play time at time zone. Later on we bought the nail bitting treatment for Joel. He will have a surprise today.

Joel likes hot food for his lunch box. so these days i am using the thermos alot. He asked for pasta everyday. Of course that is not possible but i will try my best to make hot meals for him. I tried some nuts for Joel but he don't like them. So i crushed it up and put them inside his yoghurt each morning. He likes it that way. So does Jovan.

Tonight we will have soup noodles and vegetarian dumplings. I left a whole kg of chicken thigh on top of the fridge and forgot to put them inside. the scent was so bad and the colour was really off. that is close to 5 days on room temp. such a waste. So i have to make do with some other ideas for dinner this week.
All the prep work done for the week just a bit of running for fresh items and we will have this week covered off. and guess what, mommy is cooking dinner these days. :) i see alot of unhappy faces but they will live with it.

Our garden slowly growing . those are the cucumbers flowering

 didi happily playing at the Dandenong park

hello my handsome boy ;) Joel and his fav hat.

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day to all.

And a special Happy Birthday to my best friend in MY. It is sad that we hardly or very rare get to to spend birthdays together. i think the last time we had a picture taken together was during her wedding. We used to spend countless hours on the phone or sitting over drinks just talking about anything under the sun. I still miss those days and find it harder to find that type of friendship as i grow older.

Well, i dug a very old pic of us together. haha. i can't even locate all of our other pics cause i have no idea where i saved them. that's what mommy brains are for these days. :)




Happy birthday old friend and miss you lots!

Busy busy weekend

We have been so smashed from all the weekend activities. We literally had a mini party at our house and took me the whole of Sunday to recover.

The boys had alot of friends over and the adults had a nice of drinks and chit chat. All ended with a sleepover for Jules and a very tired us in Church on Sunday.

But the boys had massive fun. So all worth it.

  

As usual, my Saturday morning is my time. I made them meatballs from mom's recipe but didn't quite turn out the way she does it. Added to the fact, i forgot to put more salt in it. Joel seems to enjoy it, he had quite alot of balls. But didi just didn't like it cause of all the orange carrot sticking out. sigh..

but it is healthy, with lots of vege, meat. very balanced. I made some seaweed soup and we all had lunch at home when the boys came back.

Later on, i made my nashi pear dessert and started my baking for Joel's lunch box. Cooper's mom got me alot of ripe bananas and i just had to use them for the muffin else it will go bad. So banana choc chip muffin for a week's supplies. enough to give away to Cooper's family, Lam lam and Jules. It was a huge batch.

 The boys played, had hubs super best CKT and continued playing more. no fuss no dramas just good play time for all. We had a few bottles of wine and good time just laughing and talking. It was a very pleasant evening.

boys continued more playing at church and we had lunch with Jules and all. They were both sad to say goodbyes but we will definitely see lil Jules soon. :)

 

see how tired this boy is. Sleeping in style and a chocolate stained mouth. This is after eating 2 mini muffins. Off to sleep.

 Joel's prep work. This is my son's amazing art work. i really don't know what he is trying to acheive

 This is mommy's version..

 can tell that he is already starting to get lazy with the drawing. now he draws himself as a huge blob of blue. :)

will be making cookies this weekend for his lunch box. i think everyone is muffin phobia. :) cooper's mom gave me some fantastic ideas for lunch boxes which i will give it a try and see if Joel likes it. so another busy week.

Funny Boys

 My lil boys have been keeping fine with our new routine. The early mornings and late evenings, they are coping pretty alright.

Joel has been good at school. He is liking it more and no more dramas. I am starting to have homework! yes me not my boy .. sigh.. And despite how tired i am, i will make sure i complete all his home activities together with him. Yesterday he showed me his story telling books, with a really funny picture he drawn of himself. I am suppose to draw a picture (either parents to draw) of him going to school. It was fun, while waiting for our dinner to bake and just spending that couple of minutes with my boy. He reminded me that i need to add his hat, his book bag and lunch box. I guess the constant nagging of him taking care of his things is finally taking effects. so we completed a nice drawing of him with his school gears and a badly drawn pic of his school at the background. The teacher will tell a story base on my drawings.

And the nightmare begins with all the school activities. Joel wants to take part in basketball and tennis. he already has tennis and the basketball is bigger than him! So i allow him to go for tennis cause it will be same as lam lam and i guess he just wants to be make more friends.

A thing with his lunch. Joel is an extreme eater. he finishes his lunch stuff and still wants more. i packed different sandwiches for him each day and try to maintain variety in his lunch as i want him to be expose to different type of food and nutrition. I usually pack sandwiches or rolls, fresh cut fruits, tomatoes, yoghurt drink and a snack. Try my best to avoid anything with too much sugar. I baked some muffins last week and will need to stock up with more home baked goodies this weekend.

Sometimes he picked his snack and he tells me what he likes but most of the time he whacks everything without being too picky. Bear in mind his serving is extra large and he still says he is hungry. He eats another bowl of lunch at lam lam's place and when i picked him up, he has another snack, either yoghurt or biscuits then it is dinner. and he still managed to eat each time i present him with food. I think he has worms.

But i am very happy with his school and even happier that he is slowly adjusting to the routine.

Jovan on the other hand has been wetting himself. i don't know why. very tiring to clean after him especially when carpets are involved. Jovan is still very picky with food but will still eat some after some nagging. He stops asking for junk or biscuits after dinner and seem to be satisfied with his just having a small dinner. But i found out from daycare he eats alot there, so maybe that explains the lack of interest at home.

 

Jovan is full of cheekiness and funny faces this morning. 

 enjoying his snacks

 another funny face

 

Angry face :)

 

My lil champ. this is taken at home after school yesterday and after having a nice long shower.

Joel and school

 Joel's second day at school went pretty well. I drop and picked him up last Friday and me and the boys went shopping after that.

Lately, Joel has been displaying very rude behaviour. Not sure if all the transition and change has affected my sweet boy but definitely something we don't enjoy. Have been trying to talk to him and will have to exert strict instructions when we are home with him.

he has been rude to uncle Earle and Aunty Christine which is really bad. Me and hubs are very disappointed with him but will have to put in more effort to correct him.

my boy enjoying his sushi. i packed some homemade sushi for him today. hope he likes it. missing my boy so much. just wish i can be there every day to pick him up

 my latest collection to the house. a wall sticker, fabric based and not those el cheapo sticker type. :)

 organising 94 hot wheels cars into boxes and organisers.

 spent my weekend baking more muffins for the boys. mini and medium ones.

 also spent some time in our garden with another new addition. a myer lemon tree. please don't die.

 my sweetie helping me with the baking. he did a pretty good job with it

we met up with old friends for lou yee sang and then spend more time with sandra and family on sunday. it was really nice and they kids were so happy. all slept late and this morning we have all the funny dramas from both boys.

pray my boy gets better in school :)