24 Months & 1 Day oLd

The day was so hot that his sweat made his forehead turned red, hence the hair being tied up. He is still being mistaken as a girl until now.. does he look like a she?

Attempting the dangerous headstand position on top of his toybox.

In his Jap wear by both his god-mas, Joy & Gwen

Quitting ...

Well... Hubby didn't really quit smoking as in going cold turkey but I actually gave him till year end to quit. It was him himself that said by the time his son turns 2, he would quit hence the 28 Sept as his benchmark but well, guess it is now prolonged till 31 Dec 2009.

So now, his promise and how-to-quit smoking tactics would be:-

29th Sept -29th Oct : ONLY three sticks of cigarettes a day

30th Oct - 30th Nov : ONLY two sticks of cigarettes a day

1st Dec - 31st Dec : ONLY one stick of cigarette a day

by 1st Jan 2010, he should be clean off and off the ciggie for good!

if by any chance he breach this promise of his, as in if he takes more than the promised sticks a day for the particular month, I get RM50 for a stick he puts in the mouth, doesn't matter if he buys a new pack from outside or given by friends or puffs by friends. The additional puffs will just costs him money and into my Emily-For-Fun FUND... =)

So who wants to place a bet now that he will be clean off cigarettes by 1st Jan 2010?

I am trusting him so well, we shall see when Jan comes...

Happy Birthday, Jaden Simon Yap!

and he turns 2... This is the very first part of Jaden's 2009 2nd Birthday celebration, which was the 12 o'clock midnight celebration with his Kai-Yeh, Grace, Gynette & PeiSan, Hubby and I and TommyTKC who came a lil later after the candle blowing mini ceremony. I shall let the pictures do the talking for now...

Jaden's Birthday Cake

Excited over his Birthday Cake.. He can't wait to sink his teeth into it =)

So different compared to last year when he was almost all puzzled why everybody was clapping and singing to him. This year, he participates together and enjoyed every single minute of it. *sniff.. My little boy is all grown up*

Making his Birthday wish before blowing the candles out

Customary family photo of the Three of Us!

me feeding him his Birthday cake.. letting him indulge in chocolate @ 12 midnight..
*tsk tsk* what were we thinking.. (think children & sugar high)

Ahmmmmmm.. gigantic bite

One of Kai-Yeh's birthday gift for Jaden
(He loves the sound of the F1 car zooming by....)

My Birthday gift to him -His First mini Grand Piano
(macam pro playing the piano eh?)

Concentrating hard on thinking which song to play for the occasion

There was just one thing we forgot to do.. that is, to take a group photo of those that were there with us last night celebrating with Jaden. *slaps forehead*

Nevermind! Will do so when Sat comes!

Despite eating the cake that was rather sweet, Jaden fell asleep almost instantly when he was put to bed without any struggles normally like what he does.

... and that was now his 12 o'clock midnight Birthday celebration went.. He went to sleep a happy boy!

Just waiting for tonight's family dinner for the only three of us.. =)

**updated @ 30 Sep 2009 (just because I was tired after the dinner session and no luck of going near a comp the whole of 29 Sep 2009)

Both mother and son ready to go for dinner

So off we went to Uncle Chilli's to have Jaden's birthday dinner just because I have won an RM80 food voucher from PJ Hilton Zest's competition.

It was a giant huge big monstrous mistake!!!

First of all that pissed me off was that I had made a reservation for a table since 3 weeks ago and when I called them up at about 6pm to re-confirm, the guy on the line told me that there was no such reservation made under my name. BAD BAD BAD already! ( - 5)

Then, when we reached there, it was a pub kinda restaurant with NO no smoking area. ( - 100)

I won't complain much about the service there because the waiters were ready to be at service so well.. they get a ( +5 ) for it.

Can you see the similarities of these two Simon Yaps studying the menu?

Food wise? well, it was BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD..

Lets just say I had to rush to toilet once I reached home... *sigh*

The food is not worth the price paid. Sucks badly. Really. The pizza is the most KERING pizza ever made. Dave's @ 1U is so much more better anytime! For the price of the seafood platter.. served with the most KERING lime that you can only squeeze out seeds instead of juice, you might as well pay for any japanese buffet price and get your money worth!

The dinner is so bad, its one of the biggest mistake of our lives to even think to want to go there in the first place. That trip is going to be one of our first and very last to Uncle Chilli's.

Anyway, just a few more pics of Jaden being happy running around and sitting on the sofas in the hotel lobby instead.

Jaden is a happy baby boy!

Checking out his two latest addition to his very own Transformers collection We stopped at TRU 1U after dinner just to let him choose his own toys and he chose these

Look at his hair.. *sigh*

Playing with his two Birthday presents from Kai-Yeh & Grace

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** psst! You don't think the words make sense do you? Well, just posting up what my son was trying to blog thru my phone.. just that my phone is unable to post it up thru the WAP.. so here I am just copying and pasting what Jaden was trying to blog about.. =)

Jaden loves Genting Highlands

The trip to Genting was not pre-planned. It was suggested by Iz over Sunday lunch and well, off and up we went to Genting Highlands the next day, which was Monday of course.

"Is Kai-Yeh here yet?"

We went up quite late, well, no thanks to me for some delay here and there and we set off at about 345pm instead of the planned 2pm. It was a really nice cooling drive up, only some setbacks when it came to parking. Luckily, we got a parking space in the First World Hotel carpark instead of the ones outside.. brrrr...

"Daddy, can you not kiss me in front of all these people?"

"No lah.. I am only trying to point out that hot aunty to you at your 9 o'clock!"

"OK Daddy.. enough of looking at hot aunties, lets take a photo now"

We reached Genting at about 520pm as you can see from the clocks in the pictures above. There were so many people up there, all because its public holiday both in Malaysia and Singapore for a Raya break.

The entrance fee to the outdoor theme park would have costs up hundreds for four of us to enter, which will prolly end up being a waste of money because none of us four wants to line up and wait for rides and plus, this time round, we are with a TWO YEAR OLD, the main reason why we went up to Genting in the first place. To let the little one play!

So we went back to First World and bought two ride tickets for the Carousel Horse and Ferris Wheel. The line was sure long, especially for the Ferris Wheel but it was worth the RM8 a ticket. We went round and round and round and round and round so many times. As for the Carousel Horse, Jaden enjoyed it so much he didn't to come down. I have to tear him away the horse and proceed on to the Ferris Wheel. He liked the Ferris Wheel too because he gets to see a lot of things from high up and well, the kids screaming about got him excited as well.

The Ferris Wheel takes me round and round... round and round.. round and round...

Starving, we proceed on to the 2nd floor for dinner. By the time the stroller hits the escalator, Jaden's head was already 'fishing'.



The boy was so overwhelmed by all these things new and fun to him, he got tired and fell instantly asleep after the rides.

waiting for our food to arrive...

That gave us some peace to eat our dinner without any hands trying to pull down plates and cups. =) Jaden woke up right after we finished our dinner. Talk about nice timing!

Hubby and Iz then went off to find some kaya balls to feed the boy because it would be quite a hassle to make him milk. The big kaya balls would be filling enough to last the boy till we reach home.

We made a stop at the Chin Swee temple as they have this lantern exhibition. Jaden had a blast running around the open space. The lanterns lit up the night and well, what could be more perfect to have your husband and child with you on such a beautiful cool night. *sigh* It would have been perfect if we could stay a night but the pricing for the rooms on public holidays are ridiculously over-priced!

"Kai-Yeh, you take my photo from the back when I run towards Mommy ok?"

"Mommy, see.. I am running!"

Both Daddy and Mommy making me pose with them in front of some dragons.. *sigh*

"Daddy... I am telling you that there is a BIG BIG insect on top of us!!!!!"

"FREEEEDOM!!!!!!!!!!"

Having a meaningful chat with Mommy

My Mommy loves me!!!!

The pagoda

Didn't manage to meet up with Ms. Ho this trip round as she was busy in meetings and well, I was busy keeping my hands and eyes on Jaden.

All in all, it was a wonderful trip, makes Hubby and myself so happy to see Jaden enjoyed himself tremendously. This trip would not have materialised if not for Jaden's Kai-Yeh and Grace too.. *muax to those two angels!*

Ma' food intake for today

cheese sticks...

two plates of white rice with ginger spring onion beef and tomyam soup...

four slices of pizza...

a pack of korean noodles and bacon luncheon meat...

what did you have today?

Its Monday again!

Don't you think the days passes by real quick this year? Time has really been moving very fast in my case. I wake up, do the daily routine and before I know it, its time to put Jaden to bed and the whole process repeats. Today might be Monday and suddenly, the weekend is here, and then so is Monday.

I took the opportunity during last weekend to go buy Jaden some jeans and short pants because he seems to have more shirts than pants. Something nice, which he can wear out to.. and so we ended up at Ikano where I remember the factory outlet store that sells quite nice branded children clothes and also the big Padini store that houses the MIKI kids clothing. Got the small little boy one pair of jeans, two short denim pants and a short sleeve Ralph Lauren collared-shirt. The previous week, we got him a red checkered shirt from OshKosh, so he could wear for his birthday and also then, for CNY. No need to go on a mad rush looking for red shirts then and anyway since the sale is still going on, why not grab the opportunity to get all these kids' clothing for 50% off?

Finally after contemplating for so long, Hubby and I finally found the perfect toy box for Jaden to keep all his toys in. Its the big big roller storage plastic box and it only costs RM27.90 at Carrefour. Tesco has nice ones too, but we rarely could find the right cover for the storage boxes in there. It is as if they only sell the boxes without lids. Jaden loves his toy box so much that he will climb into it to play with his toys. Everytime I keep the toys back in, I am sure that there will be three out of the box. Jaden sure work fast in making sure that he leaves his marks around the living room area.

I received a call this afternoon to ask me to bring Jaden for casting for some diaper shoot. Sadly, I don't think I can do so because it requires him to be in diapers, half naked I am sure, and dancing to some music... Jaden has this ONE BIG ASS BRUISE right below his left knee. Don't know where he got it from. I am suspecting it must have been the McD baby chair at Centrepoint or the little one has been running around knocking into stuff. He tends to run sometimes with his eyes close. More challenging? 'chi kek' maybe?

Jaden has learn to fear the cane now. At least it will help stop him from doing all the forbidden stunts in the house but at times, he will try to test our patience and the power of the cane too. He received one mother of all caning, just one swipe down the leg from the father because the small one threw tantrum and thought he could bite his father for revenge too. Judging from the amount of teeth he has in there, I am sure the bite must have been real painful to make the father cane him. *gRin* Me? I just sat there and wanted to laugh. I mean, Jaden deserved that caning afterall!

Lately, Jaden gets very excited when he sees me putting on the Baby Einstein DVD for him. Hubby and I bought him the Classic Collection Vol.1 Baby Einstein over the weekend and he is very interested in all the 4 DVDs they have in there. It is rather a good DVD as they have all these puppets that just stimulates the child's brain and the music soothing... I like it myself too cause now Jaden knows other facial areas other than just nose. Hey Chris, maybe you would want to check it out for Arianna? =)

o.Oh and before I forget about this one thing.... These two days, Jaden adopted a habit of wanting feet massage before he sleeps.. its either that or massage his feet till he sleeps soundly. *shakes head* He sure knows how to enjoy life huh?

I hear the father complaining outside now.. got to go and handle the kid now. So toodles, till then, maybe next Monday again.. have a great week ahead!