The birthday, the CNY and the V day

GONG XI FA CAI to everyone! Here is wishing everyone a prosperous year of the golden tiger.

We just returned from papa's hometown (there was no internet at home) and have been busy spending time with families that we've not had a chance to blog. So much happened in the last few days. Hayley celebrated her birthday twice, CNY was spent at papa's kampung and V day was celebrated with families.

Hayley's birthday

We celebrated her birthday on 12th February with mummy's side of the family. We had our reunion dinner early and took the opportunity to celebrate her birthday as well. Big yi yi(mummy's elder sister) bought Hayley a nice princess dress, small yi yi bought Hayley the Mickey Mouse jelly cake and popo gave Hayley a big angpow.

Birthday cake from small yi yi, thank you yi yi

The birthday girl grinning from ear to ear when everyone sang her the birthday song.
After a while she became really shy being in the center of attention.

She suddenly looked scared and was about to cry. Thankfully the song finished.
She didn't even want to blow the candles on the cake.

The birthday girl with her papa.

The second celebration was on 13th February at papa's kampung with papa's side of the family. After the reunion dinner, we took out the green tea cake from Bread Story and sang her the birthday song. We have a few February babies in the family, grandma was born on 6th February, ah emr (papa's eldest sis in law) was born on 1st February, Su Lee (cousin sister, ah emr's daughter) was born on 18th February and of course Hayley on 14th February. So we sang the birthday song to everyone but Su Lee ceh ceh blew the candle with Hayley. Thanks to ah emr for the birthday angpow.

The deicious green tea cake from Bread Story, RM35 for 0.5kg

With Su Lee ceh ceh and grandma

Hayley looking extremely happy

This is her birthday present from us. The Vtech genius laptop have various activities but is only suitable for kids from age 4 - 7. We thought we can expose her early to technology but the fact is she really is too young to understand the buttons and the instructions. Anyway, it doesn't matter as we didn't pay for this as we redeemed it using our credit card points :-). Nevertheless she is still extremely happy to have her own laptop and is constantly asking us to 'play' with her.

Chinese New Year

We were back in papa's kampung for reunion dinner and spent 3 days at home with the family. It was nice for Hayley to spend sometime with grandpa and grandma whom she only met once a year. Ah gor (papa's sister), Uncle John and everyone was back home too. Hayley collected lots of angpows and wishes to thank everyone for the generous gestures.

Hayley is extremely friendly with ber chik (papa's youngest brother) because he's got the IPhone.
In this photo, she was busy playing with one of the games.

She likes Uncle John as well because he's got the Ipod :-)

And Elyn ceh ceh (ber chik's girlfriend) is the best cause she's got Minnie, the poodle. When most kids are terrified of dogs, poor Minnie is terrified of Hayley. She's not afraid when Minnie licked her in the face.

Valentine's Day

As the first day of CNY was also Valentine's Day, ah gor (papa's sister) surprised the ladies at home with a Valentine gift. She bought for grandma a pair of pearl earrings, bought for mummy and ah emr a lovely pendant. Thank you ah gor for being so thoughtful and mummy felt so bad that she didn't get anything for anyone.

Mummy's Valentine gift from ah gor

BTW, papa didn't get anything for mummy for Valentine's Day. should he be punished?

The 2 year old

Now that she's 2, she's becoming chattier by the day and could communicate in proper sentences most of the time. She can combine 2 - 3 words and make it into a sentence such as 'papa come here' or 'Sue Vin want to play'. She's also showing lots of expressions and was labelled as the 'drama queen' and 'Duracell battery' at home as she likes to exagerate be it her expression or her laughter or her movements and she never stops running around. She kept everyone at home entertained with her cheekiness and her high level of energy.

The angel

The playful

The pretentious

The devil with her 'I am angry' look