Mr & Mrs Fok plus Baby Esther

Sometimes its very scary how time just fly pass so fast that Esther is 3 years old now...

I still miss those days where she is a toddler or even in mummy's tummy.


Thats Esther's favorite Barney cake... Sometimes its really hard to choose 1 store which is halal and has the barney certified cake... any suggestion?


Daddy Mummy took leave especially to celebrate Esther birthday in school..


see how excited the kids are...


Its time to give presents   now that she is 3 years old, she get to make decision like her cake, presents and where to eat. well done!

Mummy is a bit KS and decided to make Annabelle's passport while still on my maternity leave.

Let me present Annabelle's passport photo... Its tough making passport photo for babies men especially she got to hold them upright and stand sideways to make sure that u are not being captured in the photo.



Looking back at Esther's passport photo makes me release that Esther is really a chubby baby men.


See how round she was but i love her chubbiness when she was young... hee feel like hugging her more.

As one says having 1 kid is a challenging task, wait till u have 2... Its really a challenging and sometimes u can go crazy managing 2 especially when u are alone.


From the start we have been preparing Esther for the day where Mei Mei will be arriving in this world as part of our family.

At first it seems like she is ok with the idea but i know that she is a bit apprehensive. Cos she was a bit cranky and emotional. She will often cry for the smallest thing and even wake up in the middle of the night crying. The schools' teacher have also feedback that Esther will often cry after waking up from her nap and asking for mummy.


So far we have been trying our best in managing both of them and i must say that at times mummy will scold Esther out of frustration.

We just pray that God will give us the wisdom in bringing 2 kids up and teach us how to mange them as well as having some couple time together too.

Realise that its been quite a while since i last blog about Esther...

It can be a real challenge now managing her esp she is a Jie Jie now. Esther will want our attention at times and she will tend to create some actions or request whenever mummy is attending to Mei Mei.

Anyway we had the annual parent teacher conference towards the end of 2011 and it seems like Esther is a pretty quiet girl in class. A bit different when she is at home.


She is a more hands on person and love to play activities like sand, water, music, arts & craft.


Her best friends are Lovelle and Arisa. They love music and singing together.

However, the teacher mention that Esther needs to build up her confidence level. She tend to be very shy in front of teachers and whenever the teacher call her name, asking her to stand in front of the class, she will tend to look down. She needs someone to assist her to go up or rather she prefer to have the accompany of her friends instead of alone.



How can i help Esther to build up her confidence level? Help!!!


And this is 1 of her favorite activity in school - playing with blocks and stacking them together to become a train.

Bringing a 2 year old kid to USS is not that fun after all...

And worst Esther was a bit cranky that day...


Its so hard to capture a photo with the words USS on top of us....


Daddy and GuGU had lots of fun playing the rides and exploring all the fun and trilling rides.


This is what i meant by Esther being cranky that day.... and nothing we do seems to be able to excite her nor get her interested in.


And finally we found 1 thing that save the day... Its such a hot day and we all need some cold, icy and colourful drink. See how happy both of them are!!!



Overall it was quite fun and we recon that we should go other US the next time... maybe HK? But heard that u will see lots of "people" there and the que is super duper long.

Been a long time since we bring Esther out for a swim.. Now that mummy cannot fit into the swimming costume so daddy has to be the one to accompany Esther while mummy snap snap photos of them...




Realise that we have to bring along some toys to the swimming pool...



And she simply love spending the time with Daddy, climbing onto daddy's back and make daddy swim to and fro the pool... haha great workout for daddy too.

We just attended Esther school 1st Parent Teacher Conference and it was great cos we get to know how she is coping in school and its a show case of all her art work.



We realise that she love music and will dance along with songs and at times hyer going in circle.



And she love art work too. So long as she can cut, paste, stick and use her hands, she simply love it.



Not to forget all child all time favourite to play with water.

Mummy is sick of waking up super early and prepare and cook meals for Esther so been trying to expose her to various food...

So far, i would say that its still a fair bit to go cos she only love soft food like tofu, egg, fish, soup with rice. Western wise she only loves fries... Thats this once where we bought Mac happy meal for her, in the end she only ate the fries and didn't touch the nuggets at all.

We have been trying to find nice places or restaurants to go to that is child friendly with good meals for kids.


Thats Esther at Nandos... We love the kids meal cos there is a balance of fruits with juice and food while parents get to enjoy the yummy delicious chicken.

Its has been ages since Mummy last posted an update on Esther.

Anyway heres what happen for Esther's 2 year old birthday.

Finally we settled Esther childcare at My First Skool.

At first, Esther was pretty happy during her first day cos i guess there are so much toys to play with and there is music and games to play.



And there are also so many friends around her.



Subsequently, i think Esther realise that its not a playground where Daddy and Mummy bring her to play, its a place where she will be in the whole day from Monday to Friday. So, she started to cry and shouting "Daddy" whenever we drop her at school in the morning.

Then, we transfer Esther to another centre to be near to grandparents so that its easier for them to pick Esther up. So its another transition again. Oh well, we thought that its better to transfer her early since there is vacancy rather than wait till she settle down at 1 centre and transfer her again. But, we know that its a painful process for both parents and kids.

After 1 day at the new centre, she fall sick and was off from school for almost 2 weeks.

So its back to 1st day of school again.



This is Esther feeding herself. Maybe she is too pampered at home or rather we scare of the trouble cleaning up the mess if she self-feed so we seldom let her feed herself. But in school, they learn how to feed themselves and pick up the motor skills pretty fast.

So far, we have been proud of Esther as she has been adapting well and coping well and even did flying kiss to Daddy in the morning.