Happy 1st Birthday !

Dear Grace,
Thank you God for bringing you to our lives, You are indeed our precious. At this hour a year ago, Mummy finally gave birth to you after 22 hours. I tried natural birth, but unfortunately or fortunately u came by c-section. We Pray that God will continue to shower His blessings on you, protect you, and guide you throughout the years of your life, and you will dwell in Him all your life.
Thank you for being our daughter and teaching us how to be better parents each day.
Love you always!

Love,
Daddy (Thomas Ting Wei Huat ) and Mummy (Amber Lee Hui Ting)
with lots of hugs and kisses.

tam jiak baby

mummy would teach at sunday school on sat afternoon. When nai nai is not around, we would send baby Grace to Sister Mary at St Thomas Catholic church. One day, when i've finished my class, i went to pick her up. Then i saw her holding something on both of her hands.. and keeps trying to eat or bite or mouth them. She has no teeth yet... but she's really a tam jiak baby.

funny snoring daddy

I attended a seminar last saturday. The speaker showed this particular clip which made me laughed like a crazy woman. Hope it would light up your day as well. have fun watching.

cutest baby contest

Parkson is having cutest baby contest. Thus, we compiled 4 photos of Grace and hope that she could win us some Parkson shopping vourcher as she does look cute in her mummy and daddy's eyes. so this is what we've submitted. May the cutest baby win!

my Princess & Allergy

Grace had fish on her 7th month. In chinese it's called 'sek pan'. On the next day, she had something like mosquito bites on her chest.. then leg.. which we thought some naughty mosquitoes must have bitten her during the father's day lunch at the restaurant. At night, there were new bites, and again we thought oh gosh.. could it be dust mites.. Thomas changed the bedsheet.. and the next day.. you could look at her face and body.. my Poor little princess. We finally suspected the fish. My mum insisted that it was just mosquito bites but we brought her to see doctor and yupe, it's allergy... she is still having allergy now.. but it's getting better. This is how she looks like... my poor baby

Grace's Favourite thumb

Grace loves to suck her thumb. We tried stopping her by giving her pacifier.. she sucked so hard for a while but spitted it out. I guess she was thinking.. stop kidding me, there's no milk coming out from this thing! so, it didn't work. I also spent few days sitting beside her and took her thumb out when she tried to put in her mouth... but it didn't work. Although many people asked me to stop her from doing it, however, it's a very convenient 'pacfier', now, she would suck her thumb and be very happy about it. I don't have to sterilize it. It's her favourite thumb.So I just let her do it. I gave up.

This morning, mummy had tummy ache. It was soooooooooooooooooo painful. I told girl girl that mummy is having tummy ache, and i guess she understood. I was lying beside her and she started sucking her favourite thumb. It definitely looks like she is enjoying it so much and it is so delicious. So i asked her, Baby, is your thumb delicious? it must be delicious ya, it looks so yummy, can u let mummy suck too? ok, now mummy opens mummy's mouth, you put in mummy's mouth and let mummy sucks ok ?
she paused for a while......................... then she took out her thumb and put her hand in my mouth ! Gosh ! i was shocked! and I was sooooo touched! my tears rolled down my cheek again. I wasn't expecting that as i didn't know she could understand and could do what i asked her to. I don't believe it's a coincident as she never put her hands in our mouth before. I appreciate my 5 months old daughter sacrificing her favourite thumb for mummy. Baby! Mummy Loves you ! It's definitely God's grace to have given you to us! Thank you God!

You Can Do It

Hope You'll be encorgaed by this:
The inspiring story of a two-legged dog named Faith, as seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Sunday School - He Prepares

Our baby Grace is now 5 months 5 days old. Time flies. It is like yesterday that she was born. Before her arrival (the arrival of her majesty Grace- my little Princess), I told God, God, please give me a baby that is easy to take care of. As you know, I don't know how to take care of baby, and if you give me a difficult baby, it's hard for me to go back to teach in the sunday school. So, Please, give me a good baby. And, sure enough, God is faithful. I'm so thankful that my girl girl is a quiet and good baby. She seldom cries (unless she is not feeling well), she is easy to be entertained, sometimes i just put her on the bed she would just play on her own and fell asleep, and she is soooooooo cute ( yes yes, i know, all parents says their baby is the cutest when their babies are actually very ugly) hahahaa.. i used to rank no. 2 in my husband's heart. (No. 1 belongs to God) now, no. 2 belongs to both Amber and Grace. but i really don't mind. i guess the feeling is mutual. hahaa..
We had hard time taking care oof her, learning how to take care of her, and my huusband even have to pray to God for me to be good in taking care of baby as i totally sucked in this. She had oral thrush as my confinement lady didn't sterilize her bottles, and her buttock was scratched bcos the confinement lady was too rough in wiping her small little buttock, you must be thinking that she tried to wipe it so clean that's why? no, i saw with my own eyes she proceed to wrap the diaper while there was still shit on her buttock !! Dirty confinement lady ... anyway , that's another story .. and she had jaundice, and she had the yeast from oral thrush at her bottom for weeks. The oral thrsh was especially annoying and heart aching which happened repeatedly in her mouth. I just found out recently it was due to the antibiotic i took as I had fever during delivery. Even with all these, she didn't complain much, she wasn't too difficult. How could i complaint having such a baby?

I applied 4 months leave with God. Now it's time for me to go back to teach in Sunday School. God is so great and nice and wonderful to me, how could i stop serving Him ? I hope i 'd not give all kind of excuses to stop serving Him. The first week, Thomas do not have church visitation activity so he took care of Grace and i went teaching. 2nd week, school had replacement so there was no sunday school. last week, Thomas got to apply leave and didn't go for visitation as we've no idea who can help to take care of Grace. But, Sister Mary came to my mind, i remembered her saying it's good to have baby at her place some times. But How could we even ask for this favour from her? We prayed to God saying, God, We've sure you would prepare someone for us since we're going to serve you and let us know if it's Sister Mary. so, we went to visit her with Grace last saturday. The first sentence she said when she sees us was, ' ohhhhhh I was wondering when are u going to bring the baby over for me to take care' .. I can't believe what I heard! We've not even asked. and yes, today I'll be bringing Grace to Sister Mary while I teach at Sunday School. We'll see how it goes. God is Great isn't it. Yes. He's is such a great friend to have.

Grace's New skill - rolling and crawling

If Grace moans in the middle of the night, I'd suspect she is learning a new stunt in secret again. When she was about 2 months old, she woke at 5+am in the morning and started moaning and complaining while she tried hard to roll over. Then, it's learning to roll over to the opposite direction at 5+am as well. Now she can roll almost everywhere. She has started her lesson on crawling these 2 weeks and today, she can move from one corner to the other slowly. Couple nights back, i woke up and was left with only less than 20 cm on our king size bed as she rolled to my side AGAIN... mummy hardly has any space to sleep.

This is the way she turns..

and ops.. she dropped to daddy's bed.

and mummy got to build up walls to prevent her from falling.

Babies Part II

I had hard time sleeping last night due to a news i heard 3 days back on Taiwan News Channel.

The summary of the news is a baby was thrown into a boiling pot of water during a domestic dispute by her father and she was suffering from 84 % of 2nd and 3rd degree burn. The news showed clips captured from cctv showing her mother rushing the baby to the hospital and how panic she was in the hospital when she arrived with the baby.

Yesterday, the baby died after 3 days , you could check out the news in the following link

Taiwan baby dies three days after father throws her into boiling water
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/featurestory2/baby.html

How the baby screamed when she was thrown into the hot boiling water came to my mind when i was trying to sleeping last night, and also , how she was picked up from the boiling water... the news didn't say that neither of her parents suffer any burn, so perhaps they delayed by pouring the water out of the pot and causing further pain to her? the journey to the hosital must be hell for her.. i think the news underrated her pain as thousand knife cutting her. The pain would be like more than a thousand knife cutting her.

it was all due to the mother challenging the father by saying, if you're daring , you throw her to the pot. '你有種就丟丟看'... and the father was really 'daring' and 'brave' and crazy enough to really had thrown his own baby to the boiling pot of water. By the way he was drunk , but that doesn't mean u can kill someone when u're drunk. The mother was not drunk, but challenging your husband with such a thing ?? the baby was only 10 months old.. and she was very adorable..

That's why i was saying... Accident like this happened ... if parents treat their own flesh and blood this way, do i have to convince you again how would a maid treat your kids? What if she did something wrong and you scolded her till she cried? or mad? or .. ??? How then would she be treating your kids when you're away? Would she revenge on your kids.. how would they destress?? babies couldn't talk. Even if they could.. some do not know that they could complain to their parents !

Today, I've received another child abuse's clip. The Maid kicked the kid and jumped on her and ... I feel so sorry for this kid and i know there's more out there. Dear Parents, if you couldn't take care of your baby on your own, please... do something to make sure your kid is not the next victim. Try to treat the maid nicer. Hopefully they would treat your kids nicer too, you've put your kids in their hands.

May God bless all babies. May Jesus's love be in your family. Jesus Loves YOU!

it's a girl !!! ??????????????

We were watching tv. Movie entitled "The Last Kiss".. In the movie the daughter called up the dad and said, 'it's a girl'. the unmarried daughter called up the dad to inform him that she's pregnant, and it's a girl. Thomas asked, how would you respond if that's your daughter. I paused and replied , too bad it already happened, I'd have to be with her, no point disowning her. I think i might be able to take it. Then he continued after a while... but he's a rascal.. ... I started laughing so hard till tears rolled down my cheek.. i was speechless... no i couldn't take it. God, please do not let that happen. May you give us wisdom to help her grow with your words to be her light. Help us to protect our precious baby girl. May you Bless her with good health, bless her studies, bless her career, bless her future with someone you've chosen for her. Someone she could serve you with. Someone who would Love her all her life.

One day, she will marry her friend, the one she laughs with, lives for, dreams with, LOVE.

I finally understand why mothers cry on daughter's wedding. I'd be one of them.

Babies

I stopped work to take care of my baby. I always think that mummy should take care of own baby IF POSSIBLE.. so, that's what i'm doing. I stopped work and am a full time mummy and wife.

Stay home mum has been such a discontinued model. I've not been getting too much encouragement for doing this.. One Aunty of mine even commented, huh ?!!?! isn't it soooooo wasteful !!! (so sayang lah) why ah why ah ? and she started talking about this .. dunno who else she told, trying to convince everyone it's such a waste that i'm no longer working. I mean, I respect mothers who desire work. Not all women are destined to be home maker. each has different purpose in life. different role to play. There are mothers who wish to stay home but couldn't. You've all my respect.. But i always hear people saying, isn't it so bored to stay at home? oh gosh , my baby turns me crazy, ... blah blah blah ... and i also heard of parents who do not want to breastfeed because it's too tiring, or too tough... not because they do not have milk ! hmm... (I hope i wouldn't offend anyone here, it's just my penny worth of thought)

I always think we should look at what it gets at the end.. So, after working your whole life.. and fostered your kids out and get others to take care of your kids, what do you get? You might be mighty rich, but you might not. Do you have a very good relationship with your kids after 20 years? I haven't seen that happens.. (there are some exceptions of course, I don't mean all, I do know some parents really love their baby and baby loves their parents) Are your kids growing up well? physically perhaps, but may be not mentally and spiritually.. how about your relationship with your husband? No, not for me to judge.. but i just came to the conclusion that for me, it's not worth it, I want to take care of my baby on my own! I didn't know how, i didn't have the experience, I was not good in it. But i will try my best. and I'm still learning..

I try to take very good care of her, but these are what happened...

Yesterday morning , i woke up at 7:30am to feed Grace, then i changed her diaper at 8am.. Shockingly, I found out that we forgot to change her diaper since 7pm in the evening due to some misunderstanding ! Gosh .. poor baby.. wearing the same piece of diaper for 13 hours !!!

Once, i tried to clean her buttock using just cotton and water.. and she ended up swollen a little that got my heart ache for while..

Now, she has broken skin behind knees, which, one Pediatrician said is eczema, and got us to applied hydrocortisone , the other pediatrician said it's not eczema but caused by sweat. After applying the same medicine for 3 weeks, it didn't get better. Today we brought her to the skin specialist, and he said it's due to the yeast (Candida Albicans).. so we got to apply something else

Can you imagine? I try to take very good care of her, be very careful, yet I've caused her this and that( or contributed)... Can you imagine what will happen to her if i foster her out or let the maid to take care of her? How lucky can you be to get a kind and patient maid to take care of your house and to take care of your baby, especially when the baby cries, would she still love her and be very patient with her? I've heard of a mother saying, she almost thrown her daughter into the bin for her baby was crying whole night long! that's her own flesh and blood! and what will happen if it is not your own ? Two days ago, i saw a clip, which made me feel really sorry for the babies, and comforted with my own decision. The First 2 months was tough.. but now i'm getting used to the life of being a home maker. Thank God for having mercy with me and listen to our prayers, giving me strength, knowledge, and patience. I hope i could do better in this. May God gives me more strength and wisdom to be a good mother and wife. I'll not spoil her, I'd just love her, love the asset that God gave and let me take care of ..


Attached with the clips, I sincerely hope this will not happen to you nor your baby. May God bless all babies..

Thomas's Birthday 25 March 2009 =)

It was Thomas's birthday. Mummy put on the thinking hat and tried to think of how to celebrate Daddy's birthday. Initially mummy wanted to cook western food for Daddy... but it turned out to be tooooo tough.. as mummy had to take care of baby Grace and the house was in a mess. ho ho .
We ended up going to Sis Hui Jing's house for Lunch, with Birthday Mee Sua prepared by my Mum, she also bought him a birthday cake and gave him an ang pao. That's very nice.

When we reached home, daddy left for work, and mummy started to bake a choc-banana cake (again, it's from Aunty Yochanna's website) for Daddy.. and cooked bird nest for daddy.

We went to Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant at Tembeling, which is at the swimming pool at where we are staying and had Thai Food for Daddy's birthday. Of course we brought Grace along, as it's her first time celebrating birthday with Daddy and mummy only. I thought that would be a good place as we've never been to the Thai Rest, and it has romantic view as we can see Kuantan Town from there.. but we ended up folding our legs on the chair and later daddy even climbed up the chair as... there were too many MOSQUITOES !!! gosh .. we had the fastest dinner ever.. and quickly left that place.

Mummy and Baby also made a birthday card for daddy.. baby printed her footprint on the card.

May God bless Daddy abundantly! Happy Birthday Honey!

Oh Yes ! I think Daddy was pretty Happy... here's how happy he was !

MYF sisters' night 21 March 2009

it was MYF sisters' night. Both mummy and Baby attended the meeting together with daddy. The brothers were so nice to serve all the sisters with delicious western food ( pork), mash potato with gravy made by my hubby (mushroom and black pepper gravy) , 2 diff types of drinks, and delicious brownie +banana+ ice-cream. yummy! they had even arranged the setting as if we were in restaurant, there were brothers serving us as waiter, brothers preparing PNW, games, and all brothers were nicely dressed up. All of them were wearing shirt except 3 sweaty BIG CHEFs of the Night (poor thing) (Andrew, Da lit, and Thomas), i heard some brothers went to shop for things early in the morning ! There were brothers singing, playing flute, playing guitar entertaining us just like those in the 'ming ge chan ting' oh gosh .. they waited till all sisters finished eating, then only they started eating after the fellowship.. ohhh... poor thing.. my poor baby was too tired staying awake the whole night, when everyone sang birthday song for daddy (daddy's birthday on wednesday 25 March), she actually got a shock and cried..

i was pretty impressed with everything the brothers prepared. Thank you brothers. I hope sisters will be able to do even better in the coming brothers' night. You guys are placing so much pressure on sisters already !! hahahaa..

by the way, the brownie i made got me so much praises that i flew all the way up to the ceiling and above. Thanks.. i was flattered. tired mother needs all the praises.. many people asked for the recipe. I actually seen it from Aunty Yochanna's website. I did her Banana pie and Brownie and it turned out to be soooooo delicious and nice. thus, here i attached with Aunty Yochanna's brownie recipe, sisters and brothers who wanted to try, go ahead, but remember to give me a serving ok ? ho ho ho , just kidding. this is a very easy recipe. I bet you will get it right the first time!

Ingredients:
250 gm. Butter
1 cup sugar
230 gm. chopped chocolate
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
4 eggs
2 Tbsp. cocoa powder
1 cup of roasted chopped walnuts
some chopped chocolate for sprinkling
Method:
(1) Place butter , sugar and chopped chocolate into a bowl. Sit into a pot of simmering hot water and stir till chocolate and sugar dissolves. Let it cool slightly.
(2) Add in eggs one at a time till evenly mixed and smooth.
(3) Fold in flour and cocoa powder and stir lightly with a spatula.
(4) Stir in chopped almonds.
(5) Pour into a rectangular tin 8" x 12", sprinkle some chopped chocolate on top and bake at 170 C for about 30 mins.
(6) Cool and serve with ice-cream.

http://auntyyochana.blogspot.com/2008/08/chocolate-brownie.html

I hope to see all the pictures loaded on MYF's website soon. Here you could check out their website and do come to join us if possible and when you're nearby, every Saturday, 7:30pm at Kuantan Chinese Methodist Church.

My Wedding Slide Show

I love my wedding slide show very very much. After 4 + years, I still love it and i can play and watch it over and over again... It was produced by my dear husband Thomas Ting and I still remembered him doing until like 4 or 6 am in the morning for 2-3 days .. Thank You honey ! U're the best ! And it's definitely the best wedding slide show ever in the whole wide world !!! and U're definitely the best husband ever !!!! muaksssss

Don't believe me ? check it out at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=59322516810
I have no idea how to make the video appear here yet... so... U will have to log into facebook for that.enjoy my wedding slide show, and I'm glad you like it as well!! Thank you for watching.

Normal Delivery or Cesarean Section

Thomas has always wanted me to have a normal delivery. I guess he truly wants to witness the baby's arrival. However, the baby was breech, and so our Doctor informed us that probably we'll need to go for a cesarean section. He confirmed it on the 36th week, as baby still didn't turn. We're very reluctant to go for a Cesarean section, and hey ! by chance, we watched a movie entitled 'Knocked Up' and the Doctor was turning the baby, manually, on the tummy! not sticking the hand inside to turn the baby!( so many people asked me did the Doctor stick the hand in to turn the baby) and so we started to ask around and found out that we could go to General Hospital to do that for the baby's head to engage at the pelvic, ready for normal delivery. the procedure if not mistaken is called External Cephalic Version (ECV). Our very kind friend Doctor Tan helped us to arrange and set the appt coincidently on 14 Nov. He asked us to get ready and packed all things, as there's a possibility that the baby might be lack of oxygen (heart beats slow down) and then will have to have to do an emergency cesarean section immediately. If that happens, hey ! baby will be having the same birthday with mummy !
On my birthday, we went to the hospital in the morning to see Dr Sudesan, he is such an expert that within 30 secs he already done turning the baby.. we've monitored the baby's heart beats for a day and all is well (thank God!). After all, my smart baby do not want to share a birthday cake with mummy. Mummy! I want my OWN birthday cake, and i want a BIG one... oh yes baby, it's good that u 're not having the same birthday with mummy. Mummy wants her own birthday cake as well. It would not be fun if it's our birthday and you want to go out and celebrate with your friends, yet , you're stuck with mummy, as it's mummy's birthday as well.. no .. not good at all... so, thank you baby , for staying inside another 6 more days..
That explained why we were so disappointed when we ended up having to do an emergency cesarean section. We really thought i could be having a normal delivery... It's alright, Thank God the baby is safe and healthy.
Doctor told me i could try to go for normal delivery the next time... ok .. that.. i 'd have to think about it....

Pregnancy and Delivery

God knows how long we'd been trying for a baby. After the last miscarriage, i was finally pregnant on March 2008. The pregnancy was really tough i thought. i was having very serious morning sickness (whole day sickness , not just morning !) for three months, i got to be admitted as i was getting dehydrated. i had so much water retention since 6-7 months, i had minor bleeding.. i had painful swollen fingers .. I have stretch marks! i 've ugly black lines on my body ! I've gained 20 KG !!!! and God knows what else ! this time I've been very careful. after suffering for 38 weeks(full term, not a day more in my womb), finally on 19 Nov 2008, my water bag burst (leaks actually) while i was still in the office with Thomas. I was rushing off the MYF treasury report ,finalizing Andrew and Nicole's wedding congratulatory ad, and tidying up my space in the office (as I had quit my job in order to take care of Grace). Then i felt like peeing.. so i got up and walked to the toilet upstairs, but on the way, i told Thomas, i feel like I'm about to give birth . Then, i walked 2 more steps.. and.. i started LEAKING... Sh** ! Since when I've such weak bladder? This pregnancy actually caused me not being able to control my urine??? And it leaked and leaked, i walked up quickly, and finally done urinating.. but.. how come i couldn't stop the urine ?!?!? it keeps leaking ! then, the lightbulb finally lighted up above my head.. gosh ..the baby might really be coming !! but the due date is Dec 4th, today is only 19th Nov, she is 2 weeks and 1 day early ?? so i rushed down and told Thomas , it's either i've a weak bladder (false alarm), or the baby could be coming.. we're getting pretty nervous... then we rushed to the Hospital (Kuantan Specialist Hospital) while i continued to leak. Ooh yes ! i remembered the book says if the water that came out doesn't smell like urine, then it's water from water bag. so i actually wiped and smelled it.. and confirmed it's not urine. haha.. i know it sounds weird..and gross!! but i 'm a first time mother ! else how to confirm it's not urine ??

Dato Dr Goh confirmed it's water bag leaking, but it had only opened like 2 cm. so i requested to go home and take shower and have dinner. and so i did. which again the book says i could do so ... then admitted around 8 + .. with no pain at all.. the pain kicked in around 12 am , initially i told Thomas u could go ahead and sleep, but later while i was having so much pain and i saw him sound asleep, i got so bitter then i woke him up. Ha ! How could i be having so much pain and the husband be sleeping ? Although he couldn't do anything at all. around 3+ it's getting more painful, and the nurse asked if i 'd want pain killer, whether i want the normal injection or epidural, not knowing what's the diff, later i picked epidural. the anathestician came 2 hours later .. i was like .. what in the world ?? where is he staying.. even if he stays at Gambang he could be here already ! Finally he came around 5am, and 5 mins after he's done, i told Thomas, softly, (i 'd not much energy left).. .' go tell them i feel like vomitting... ' then he ...huh ? what ?? i repeated.. then he walked out to look for the nurse and anasthetician.. then immediately i ... uekkkkkkkkkkk , and uekkkkkkkk.. for two times.. i vomitted all my dinner out , on myself, as i 'd no energy to even sit up or turn my head... what a mess... when i was vomitting, my water bag truly burst, i felt so much water came out.. yes, this time water bag really burst.. (and i'd vomitted 4 times altogether as side effect of Epidural) even in the OT and after the Operation.

We waited and waited, with no pain at all, thanks to epidural.. until the next morning, and the opening was ONLY 3cm. Until today, i 'd no idea why didn't my Doctor induce me. On the 19th hour since my water bag leaked, i'd got fever, and the doctor came in to inform us, ok , now u 're having fever, and your opening is now 5cm, (need to wait for the opening to be around 10cm).. so i guess in 3-4 hours u should be able to deliver, but since u 're having fever, please decide if u still want to wait for a normal delivery, or we'll have to send u in for an emergency caecerean as your baby is having risk of lung infection due to the fever.... we were having such a difficult time deciding what to do .. i was so tired i asked thomas to decide.. may be due to the fact that we'd waited 19 hours for a normal birth !!!! how could u ask us to go for a ceaserean section now! if i knew earlier, i 'd have gone for the caeserean section ! anyway, how could we risk the baby, at the end, the Doctor came in a bit angrily and asked us, why would u risk your baby 's health ?!? if the baby comes out and something is wrong ? ok ok .. push me in and 'chop' me now.. (it's just like chopping the chicken or so) that 's truly depressing.. but as long as the baby is ok ... and anything for the baby's safety.

Seeing the operation was alright. i saw smoke coming up from my tummy as if they were bbq-ing me.. at the moment the baby came out and started crying.. i was truly touched.. and thankful ! After 22 hours, i was finally out from the Operation theater and back to my room shivering. (too cold) Later my husband told me he almost cried while i was being pushed in to the OT and pushed out from the OT( for years he never cries).

We thank God that the mother, the baby and the father are safe. The baby was 3.2kg. There was no lung infection, a very adorable baby. She was resembling the father more, but now resembles the mother more. It is Truly God's grace for giving us this baby, from pregnancy to delivery, God had been protecting and showing his mercy to us, thus we named Our baby - Grace Ting. In this blog, we will be recording our memories on my pregnancy, delivery, and my motherhood and parenting life. Hope it will serve as a record for Grace, experience sharing, entertaining stories which will not bore you guys to death and also, testify God's love and grace in our lives. Below = Grace Ting @ Day 1.

Coffee cake

recently we're having fun reading friends's blogs.(since we can't do much with the baby around)In one of these blogs, our Uni friend posted a recipe of coffee cake and mentioned that it's delicious. Thomas wanted to try. So, i decided to try making the cake yesterday while Grace was asleep. However, she took such a short nap and woke up while i was preparing the material. Since i was half way preparing ingredients, I thought hey why not baking cake together with my girl girl. So i went to carry her on one arm, and let her know that she's going to bake cake for daddy together with mummy ! hey how exciting was that. so we went to get eggs, look for flour, get oil, get salt , sugar.. then ... she started to CRYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..... oh .. mummy , i 'm not ready to bake cake with you yet ! I'm just a small baby! i want nen nen and i want to sleep !!! oh yes oh yes. forgive me baby... Somehow mummy hopes you could do that with mummy already ... how nice it is if we could cook , bake, swim, go do spa.. go for massage, go shopping together... but.. that would be years later... yes yes.. for now... Baby wants nen nen and wants to sleep, change diaper, pass motion, bath , and play for a little while in a day...
So i took her back to sleep.. and later in the evening .. i started to get the ingredients again.. this time, i managed to blend everything .. but baby was awake again.. knowing that she was not ready to bake cake with mummy.. so i told her, BABY !! please give mummy 5 mins ! mummy is baking cake for daddy !!! then she... ngekkk.. ngekk.. ngekk.. again .. so i shouted repeatedly from the kitchen and went to check on her a few times while trying to finish off the cake as soon as possible, but she complained louder and louder ! and then .. BOOM.. the whole thing.. the mixture.. dropped on the floor.. and there goes my coffee cake.. grrrrrrrrrrrrr... !!!
at night.. i tried to do it AGAIN !! I MUST DO THIS COFFEE CAKE ! so i went to prepare all ingredients and started baking while Thomas helped to take care of the baby.. and managed to bake it.. this morning.. i received a sms from thomas. he said.. the cake got no coffee taste.. .. i replied.. hahaha.. so funny.. no coffee taste better than no taste... and he replied again.. ya, got flour taste.
Ha !what a cake ! good try mummy.. ! perhaps i 'll try again next time.. at the moment, if u want to try as well, the whole thing looks simple. and here's the URL
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/cwpj/25810697
Have fun baking !