New Friends

It has been a total new experience for me since we moved to the new house. I am so used to living in a "pigeon hole" that it took me quite while to get used to living on the ground. One aspect I needed to get used to was the uninvited "new friends" that would visit us on different occasions.

The wild squirrels would pop in any time of the day to help themselves to Fefe's food and poop all over the backyard. We also have beautiful birds popping by too and Fefe's food is always the main attraction. The most irritation guests we have are the hungry stray cats, they would almost end up in a confrontation mode with Fefe every time. We would have to break up the standoff by chasing them away.

Recently, it has been raining hard and we had a new friend in the garden scaling up the wall. With this fella around, I get questions like "Mummy, where is the snail going?", "Mom, why is the snail climbing the wall, can you ask him to come down?" or ,"Mummy, where is the mummy snail?". Next day, Sofia would be asking me where is the snail and spend the next half of the day searching for the snail in the garden.

I guess these are all good opportunities for the kids to learn about our earth and we are certainly not alone on this planet.

Ana

Ana has been a great help around the house eversince she came and even more so after Jeremiah was born. She learnt very quickly from my mum the way to bathe him, feed him and kept him company. She even managed to established a sleeping pattern for Jeremiah. When Jerry was very young, Ana made sure he took a nap every two hours and that went on for quite a while till when he was older, he took a nap every three hours, even right now. Jerry took to her very well too and she was like an elder sister to him. We were all absolutely happy with her around and I could run errands without worrying about Jerry when I need to leave the house. There were even a couple of nights where we put all the kids to bed with Ana and Daddy and I could sneak out of the house for a date.

Ana's contract is due in mid-Nov and we have spoken to her about extending her contract but unfortunately her mum is not well and she would need to go home in Nov. We are going to miss her a lot and I am sure Jerry is going to feel a bit lost too after she leaves us. We surely hope there will be another chance for her to come and help us again in future.

In the meantime, the search is ON again for another domestic helper.

Family Portrait

Sofia drew this balloney family portrait yesterday and we all find it very amusing and interesting. We had all become balloons!!

From left: Fefe, Po-Po, Gong-Gong, Ana, Jeremiah, Daddy, Sofia and Mummy

Pig's Hair?

Jeremiah is sleeping in the hammock during day time and he never fails to wake up with his hair at the back of his head looking like this. He used to have very soft and fine hair when he was a baby but all that was history after his haircut. He continues wears this "out of bed" style for the rest of the day until his evening bath, Ana says it feels like pig's hair because it is so coarse!!

Indoor Birdpark

I caught a glimpse of a banner that was prompting some bird exhibition at Ikano the other day. Since it was the school holidays and Sofia had nothing much to do, I brought her there to check the chicks out.

It turned out that the KL Bird Park has brought along some of their birds and exhibited them indoors. I thought it was a great idea, the weather was so hot, there was no way I would bring Sofia to the bird park! She was of course delighted, running from cage to cage, inspecting the birds, trying to talk to the birds.

Then, there was a bird feeding session at 2pm. I knew we had to stay for this, she would LOVE it.

True enough, she was game for it!

So we fed the birds not once, but twice!

At the end, before we left, I asked her jokingly,"Shall we bring one of the birds home?"
Her eyes grew BIG and ROUND and nodded at me profusely. I had to explain to her that the birds are actually living in the bird park and they need a BIG BIG home to fly around. Furthermore, Fefe would bully them if we bring them home. She accepted my explanation and went home with me, she is such a lovely darlin' at times.