Little Elise enjoying the outdoors

Did I mention little Elise likes going "kai kai" (out..anywhere out of the house)? Oh....she really likes it so much, she will squeal with joy whenever we say we are going out and when she notices we are preparing to go out....to a certain extend, she waits at the door....

Here's 2 layouts of the little one enjoying the outdoors....the playground and the beach.....

The first one, she's at the playground near our house....here's where I will bring them if it is not raining.....and here's where the big sister conquer the swing....little sister conquered the play station...see her joy?


Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April Kit
Sketch: Scraplift from Susan Weinroth's "Let's go outside" layout. Loved the little tree, and ended up using her sketch too.

This second one was little Elise during our first beach outing this month. She initially was irritated with the "sandy" feeling, but later found that there's nothing to fear about....so she started "walking" (well, with help of course) and then proceed to crawling...and in one of the photos, she'd grab a "pinch" of sand in her hand....



Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April Kit
Sketch: Studio Calico NSD Sketches

Long long title

Naming a layout can sometimes be a little hard for me....thus, most of my layouts have short (the most 3 words) title....this month, I played a little with the titles and made 2 layouts that have very long title...

This first one.....was about Grace finally overcome her fear for swing....yeap...she was very afraid of swing....ever since she was a little baby....she refused to sit on one...even if I forced her...it will only be 1 or 2 swings.....ever since she joined school, she'd become a little more wild and more courageous.....don't know since when (sigh....sometimes things happen too fast)..she'd overcome the fear...Now, whenever she visit the playground...she will want to sit on the swing...and you can hear her say "Mummy, push faster....faster.." and she can still be silly and dance a little while on the swing...


Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April Kit
Sketch: none

This second one...the title and the photos say it all...little Elise trying to kiss the "other her" on the mirror...she seems to be enjoying it.....

Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April Kit, frame from some pregnancy journal (my sister sent it all the way from the US), Jillibean Soup journalling sprout
Sketch: I scraplift the idea for the title from Nicole Samuels

Koi Haven

Early April, I (together with my 2 little girls) followed my parents and my brother to Alor Star for Qingming (is a festival where Chinese people visit the graves or burial grounds of their ancestors in memory of the deceased). And of course, there need to be other more fun activity for the little ones. So dad brought us to this Lye Huat Garden (about 20 minutes from Alor Star) so that the little ones can have fun looking at the animals and most importantly the Koi fishes.

To me....the mini zoo and other displays were just "so so" but the Koi pond was amazing. The fishes were so not afraid of people and were so eagerly waiting to be fed...that whenever you walk by the banks of the pond, the fishes will follow you....and sure enough...little Ms. Grace had a blast feeding these fishes....I think I finished up 4 packets of fish food....

Here's a fee shots of the fishes to give you an idea of the number of fishes..followed by a page I made to safe keep this memory....




Scrapbook materials: Studio Calico April Kit, Jenni Bowlin Stars Chipboard (left over from March kit)
Sketch: Sketchbook 3 Online Class

The Wig and Gear Up

Just wanted to share these 2 layouts on respective girl.....

Earlier I purchased a bandanna with wig for little Elise...just to cover up her "hair-less-ness"....but she doesn't like it....she kept reaching for it and afterwards....I found fake hair all over my bed....sigh....but it sure make her look different...


Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April's Kit, some die-cuts shapes from years ago, Basic Grey Brad, Jillibean Soup journaling sprouts
Sketch: Sketchbook 3 Online Class

Early April, my dad promised Grace a set of protective gears so that she could wear it during her cycling session. Unfortunately, the store owner was out of pink helmets, so for the first week after the promise was made, Grace only get the elbow, palm and knee shield....she was ok with that provided her gong-gong get the helmet that weekend and give it to her the next week.....unfortunately again...the stock does not arrive on time...this time Grace made a big fuss and only a tub of ice-cream could solve...so, waited for another week...and here she is satisfied with her gears....(note...the knee shield was too big for her...so used the elbow shield as the knee shield..)


Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April Kit, rick-rag from my very big ribbons stash
Sketch: Sketchbook 3 Online Class

10-month-old Elise

Can you believe it? Another 2 months and we are celebrating Elise's 1st birthday!!!

This little girl of mine is 10 months old.....and she's still at the 6.5kg range...I don't know why...she's been eating and drinking milk well.......but people around us says that she does looks bigger....and she's happy....so I think that's ok.....

She did get sick...with throat ulcer...thanks to her oh so compassionate sister...whom kept kissing her even when I warned her not to.....sigh..

Well....here's a series of photos of the little one....

For some reason, she likes to wrestle with her bolster....and sometimes even her pants came off....

Digs into this basket for her toys...she can sometimes climb into the basket, grab a toy and then climb out of it...

Love, love the playground...

Can you see her saliva?!?

Still put almost everything that get takes into her mouth
Knows where her toys are...here, she's trying to get the box of balls....
Doesn't like people touching her mouth....so this is a very rare glimpse of her 2 little teeth
Isn't she cute?

The more you stop her from grabbing something, the more she wants to take it...here she's trying to bring down the plastic container in my parent's house

And if you stop her even more....this is what you get....

How lovely.....

And sometimes....she just needs to sleep like this....

Sandcastle

Grace was off school for the past few days and will be for another 5 days....is she sick? No.....her school was advised for a compulsory 10-day close due to the outbreak of hand foot mouth disease....and so, 2 kids at home is driving the mummy to the wall....

So, on Thursday....I bundle them up and went to my parents place.....so that I have extra helping hands....like all grandparents....my parents is also always looking for fun stuff for the kids to do...and so later that day....we bundle up the kids and lots and lots of little containers and off we went to the beach.....it was our first time to this beach...it was a really nice beach...with shades and clean beach.....Grace love it and Elise also grew to love it....

Why little containers?....well, we did not know that we're heading to the beach, thus left all our sand-play gears at home....being my dad....whom is so good with kids play.....found all those old stuff and took it to the beach....Grace had a whole lot of fun making castles.....

And...of course...we had to go again next week....and I can foresee...many many weeks to come.....

Here's a page I made on our creation....



Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April's Kit, Rub-ons by Cosmo Cricket
Sketch: by Jessy Christopher @ Scrappin Studio blog

Above all else

About this time last year, I made a "Mother's day resolution"...which I always hold on to....

"I MUST do all I can to shepherd their hearts. Guide them in the right path. Tackle their heart, instead of aiming for temporary correction of the exterior. Teach them the words of God. Teach them to fear the Lord. Submit them in the hands of the Lord."

And yes...this remains my goal as a parent....

Yes...there's a whole lot I want my daughters to be.....like the layout below, among others....be amazing, be true, be kind, be themselves, be grateful, be positive...but ABOVE ALL ELSE, I want them to be faithful to the Lord our God.....to fear the Lord....to always walk in God's path....and Yes...that remains my most important, our most important for the rest of our lifes.....


Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico April's kit, Mister Huey's Color Mist (Applejack), Basic Grey brads
Sketch: Sketchbook 3 Online Class