Jared's Birthday Celebration in School Part 3

Delivering cake to school. and wait at sch compound for kids break time at 9:30am

Family pic Shot 1

Family pic Shot 2

Cutting the cake

Ms Lim distributing the cake, while Jared helps.

Jared served the cake to Mrs Chan, the kindy principal. Kids eating, this yr we had it outside

Jared's birthday part 2-dinner

Jared's 5th Birthday celebtation: part 2

May Song

Seemed to be easy peasy??

Goodie bags for Jared's 5th Birthday

The kids got so excited with so many things laid out..

Chocolates!!! Daddy got a big big bag from US..cos it was cheaper usd10+ for that few kg choc..Out of the bunch, my fav has to be almond joy and Reese

Twisties

Kayleidoscope

Stickers

1 of the goodie bag

Pizza baking

I’ve been contemplating for pizza baking for the longest time..We just had spaghetti the last weekend, so we had left over spaghetti sauce..Just nice for pizza base.

I prepared the dough the night before, as I saw kneading& proofing need 1hr+

This is the first pizza we made..thicker, with yummy bread as we eat right after taken out from oven..

Recipe from Happy Home Baking

Thick Crust Pizza

Ingredients: (make two 10" pizza dough)

250g bread flour
50g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1/2 teaspoon dried mixed herbs (optional)
1 tablespoon olive oil180ml lukewarm water

Method:

Place bread flour, plain flour, salt, yeast and dried mixed herbs (if using) in a mixing bowl.

Mix well with hand. Make a well in the centre and add olive oil and water. Using your hand, gradually work the ingredients together to form a soft dough.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 10-15mins until the dough becomes smooth and elastic. Shape dough into a round ball and place in a lightly oiled mixing bowl. Cover with cling wrap and leave to rise for 1 hr or until double in size.

Turn out the risen dough onto a lightly floured work surface and knock it down to release the air. Give it a few gentle kneading. Divide dough into 2 equal portions. Shape into two balls, cover loosely with cling wrap and let the doughs rest for about 10mins.

Roll or press out each portion to a round, about 12" in size. Place dough on baking tray lined with parchment paper or on a greased pan.

Spread some pizza sauce over the dough to within 1 cm (0.5 inch) of the edge. Arrange a layer of grated cheese (I used grated mozzarella), followed by preferred toppings. Sprinkle the top all over with grated cheese.

Bake in a preheat oven at 220 degC for 15-20mins or until the crust has turned golden and the cheese has melted. Serve warm.

Step by Step Demo by the kids

The dough waiting to rise

Jared rolling the dough

Putting tomato sauces..We only have square baking pan by the way..

Putting pineapple..

Possing for mommy..Kaylen looking at Jared what facial expression to make! heh

See she slower by 1 pace

Putting on ham

Daddy helps..while I hang the clothes from laundry..

Final bits os cheese

Ready for oven..

Work in progress in our trusty microwave oven, We don't own actual oven..but I swear if we were to move house, I will get an inbuilt oven!!!

The hawaiian pizza!!!

Jared's 5th Birthday Celebration Part 1

14 Nov, Sun
Celebrated in advance as I wanted to bake a cake for him..we also made pizza for the first time!

Kids having hands on pizza baking..they love the process..but not eating..Jared only takes pineapple, Kaylen takes only ham..

Yummy pizza

We used the stencil from Daiso for the happy birthday wordings..Daddy came out with idea for M&M no. 5.. and can only find 2 small candles at home..that's why his cake only got 1 candle.

Perfect smile and perfect cake

It took them many many trys for that smile heh..

Cake turned out a little dry this time..

Xmas is coming! ho ho ho

Interesting Conversation by Jared : 10 days to turning 5

Jared: What are we going to do in hong kong?
Mummy: Who told you we are going?
Jared: We are going…Are we going to take A380? *mummy think, jared lihai leh*
Mummy: no, budget.
Jared: budget is small plane, A380 is xtra large plane, normal is medium plane. What is xtra small plane?
Mummy: maybe jetplane?
*daddy came in*
Mummy: the boy is asking if we are going to take A380?
Daddy: nooo..A380 will crash, parts will fall down..so we take budget.

Jared is very enthusiastic with all the pics from newspaper, the news about this A380 plane crash recently..he even tried to read the newspaper!

DIY nail painting

I wonder if this is my first ever nail polish that I own??? Hehe..
I only had abt 4x nail experience done with prof on those super impt dates, wedding photoshoots, wedding, sis wedding..and 1x during hol at bali..

I never like it..but feel so tempted after reading lotsa beauty blogger..then I finally bought this cheap cheap $4 silkygal nail polish and try out..hehe..

Also tried out on Kaylen’s hand and feet..

Mine and hers..

Her little fingers..

This is what we call love…Sharing umbrellas

This is just so cute..
Supposedly a picnic at the new woodlands waterfront..our 2nd time there…event turned out disaster as it rained..
We managed to get a shelter to have food..but lots of stranger standing around..to avoid rain pek chek..and both kids are most interested in the potato chips than the fry udon which I made..



Jared offered to let Kaylen ride the bike instead..and he would hold the umbrella for her..very cute siblings in red, and red umbrella.

Painting the wall behind tv..we are probaly last family in sg still using the huge crt tv..*faint*.

Our wall was torn..since the day our wedding..that was like 6 yr ago..and we could tolerate the big torn till today…I nag nag at daddy non stop..and finally we got our engine started to re-paint the wall..But color not so suitable..*faint*

Work in progress..messy house..left kids at Whampoa on deepavali day

The finish work..

The cosy corner..but the fragile items(precious moment, and our wedding favour) has since moved to on top of tv cos Kaylen can't stop moving them around

Colour look brownish yellow here, much nicer in pic..but in actual case slightly more yellow..so not tat nice..

The painting and cleaning up probaly take less than 2hr..unexpectedly fast..very tempted to pain whole living room..but on 2nd thought better not...

Couple date

This is the 2nd time we had a date for dinner ever since dear daddy came back from US.
first was at the marche, somerset 313...This round is at Al ameen, marsiling for some north indian cuisine at the fraction of price...We used to dine at clarke/boat quay for nan..and ever since we found this coffee shop serving equally good nan with less than 50% of price..We never go to clarke/boat quay anymore..


Garlic & plain nan


butter chicken curry



palak paneer-Favourite..spinach with cheese

Kaylen @ 26mth

-Enjoy reading Chinese characters
Managing 45 words now..after 1 wk+ only since I posted the video with 10 cards..since everyday 5 new words. Taught solely by my mum.
And koko is pressurize to learn faster now.

-Colours
Finally she knew the few basic colour
Green
Red
White
Black
Yellow
Blue

In Chinese only.

-Numbers
Can read 1-9
Once she took my hp to press on the calculator, she press 189, and she read the 8, 9 by herself..

-English

still not much spoken yet compared to her chinese

The longest sentense..

I'm tired, I want to sleep already

-Chinese

speak very well most of the time, no more bb language, but sometime need to think a while longer before she can speak.

She like to talk with emphasis if we chose to ignore her

eg.

Wo yao4 he4 nao

if we don't listen

WO YAOOO HEEEE NAOOOO

O Come Little Children

This song is quite difficult, needing to control the bow...as there's a few parts that need to start half way and up bow, or stop half way down bow...For smaller kids, its just memorise when and where to stop..This is the result after he practise for 1wk+ with daddy constant scolding.

and after those dangerous point, he tend to go very fast, and trying to finish the whole song..

But to me, it seemed not bad wuh..hehe..so I complimented him for his good work...

Xiao Xiao Gu Niang by Kaylen 25mth

She actually sang the xiao S exercise song, tian hei hei, etc for me to record..but she deleted all of them left this..:(

This is what we called love..Interesting Conversation

31 Oct, Kaylen 25mth Jared 19 days to 5 yr

*Kaylen spilled the whole container of cotton bud on the floor, while daddy doing the mopping ..and this is the 2nd time it happened today…So what daddy do next, is predictable..heh*

Daddy: 妹妹检起来
*Daddy beat*
*Kaylen cry, louder and louder while daddy continued to beat. *
Jared: Daddy, I think you better stop beating meimei,I will pick up.
Daddy continued..Kaylen continued her louder cry
Jared: 妹妹不要哭，koko 帮你检起来

I’m so touched with Jared’s gesture.