my little-big-boss

Bought some cute tools to make cute meals for Little-big-boss

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Tadah~
Yuto kept requesting that we wants a bear rice while I was trying to make it! Ended up with this in a short time

Little-big-boss: Bear is sleeping~ blanket~

Little-big-boss: Tamago~

The egg blanket can be prettier without the rough-cut vege..

Well, it was a quick prepared lunch!

What I wanted to say is,
anyone can prepare one easily with that cute mold!

Even though it might not be as pretty,
it is still cute and the baby will love it haha

Hello~!

It is always a busy period during this festive season
The whole month of preparing for Christmas and soon after that, to welcome the New Year!

Well, preparing for the Christmas was fun

We don’t have enough space to place a normal Christmas tree at home , so I tried to make a 2D tree which I can just stick it to the wall

Then I had my Little-big-boss to decorate with candies, cookies, biscuits onto the tree

Decorating with goodies day by day..

bit by bit..

one by one..

And here, the goodies Christmas tree~

Almost 80% of them are stick by Little-big-boss

While preparing, Little-big-boss kept playing Santa boots in the house
This boots are actually a hard case..but somehow Little-big-boss fit in very well
Just that he would walk like a robot after wearing them..

  ON CHRISTMAS’ EVE  

We had a little party
Daddy was busy at work, so only Little-big-boss and I joined the party

We had a sorta big feast

Cheese fondue~!

Little-big-boss star hashed potato

A Christmas tree made of cucumber

Time for some wefie shots! ...

Smile~~~~~~

Oh, we made a cake too!

With these super nice strawberries!

Yah, Japanese-style Christmas cake, a cake with strawberries!
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The strawberry shortcake   Christmas version
This cake is super easy, no oven needed!!
coz it is made of pancake mixed flour

You just need to have fun decorating it!!
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I made a video on making this cake!
Little-big-boss helped too

A recipe where you can try with your little ones!

Make a different decoration, it can be a cake for any occasion!!
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The final touch

I was asking him to look at the camera and he kept looking everywhere except the camera..

Trying to make a peace~~~~~~

Sliced!

It tasted actually good.
Not too sweet, definitely good for little babies

  ON CHRISTMAS DAY 

We didn’t do much instead, just enjoying the Christmas night at home peacefully 

Little-big-boss house was decorated for Christmas too

Little-big-boss cozy home

My Little-big-boss~

Peeping out from the little window over-viewing the Christmas night

Well, it’s already 2015 now!

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

Since having a child, I am getting more eager to celebrate any events, simple or big – never a matter, you’d just want to with a 2 years old baby around
He learns, he enjoys it and we all have fun

Only me and Little-big-boss were at home.
This year, papa is soooo busy until he had to stay in his office to work overnights

So this is how we had 2014 Happy Halloween (★ФДФ)

The DECORATION

The draft
Just a very simple one for my wall

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Tadah~

The deco house on the wall with ball lights~

Peeking out from the window of his cardboard house

Ball lights inside the house too~

Peek..

Peek peek..

Peek peek peeeeeeek~ hellooo~

Coming out?

Yes, he really is..

Successfully






The COSTUME

The whole month of October, everywhere was decorated with Jack O’ Lantern, ghosts, vampires, bats, all sorts of the Halloween members~ especially yeah, the famous Jack O’ Lantern (*-∀-艸)

So, this year my theme is all about Jack O’ Lantern the Ghost Pumpkin~

My baby Jack O’ Lantern – handmade pumpkin costume

He was actually very happy with his pumpkin suit

He kept saying kabocha (pumpkin) clothe, kabocha clothe since when I’m in the middle of making it

He moved so much and yeah it was hard to take pics on a baby..
but for this 2 years old here, when I said “STOP”, and he stopped with this cutey reaction

The plump plump pumpkin ball

The pumpkin Playtime~






The Halloween FOOD

Breakfast
The pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern pancake~

Chu A kiss to start
(the eyes, nose, mouth is made from milo..)

Munch munch yummy~
Little-big-boss: “Pancake oishii~”

Lunch

The pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern Okonomiyaki
(Doesn’t really look like one for this though..)

Little-big-boss: “O~aki de~su”
(faking to eat)
“Aaa~ nom~”

Dinner

The main dish!
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The pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern curry rice~
(The Jack O’ Lantern rice is made of pumpkin + rice)

And Little-big-boss making Jack more scary on his first slash..

Wahahahaha!

Little-big-boss favorite CURRY RICE~
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Though just the 2 of us, this is how we celebrated a quite simple but warm Happy Halloween
No tricks but only treats though~

The end

2 years old birthday Part 1 – My Little-big-boss is TWO






We had the big party 2 days before, and a small party on the real day~

On this day, the first session –
A birthday plate specially for the birthday boy
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Little-big-boss favorite VEHICLES into his birthday dinner plate



After some wah~wah~WAH~ Itadakima~su!



Starting from the cheese~



A few shots taken from SONY RX-10



Then another few shots taken from iPhone 5



Feeding mommy (he doesn’t eat fresh tomato, that’s why.. )



Still feeling so loved~



Feeding papa too of course!
(actually he had his hand all stick with rice.. papa helping Little-big-boss taking them off )






2nd session –
Dessert time~!
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A mountain of WATERMELON~



Ahh~~~nom!






3rd session –
Little-big-boss 2 years old handprint session!
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This is the third time we had his handprint printed!
One when he was newly born, one at 1 year old and now, 2 years old!



Surely he had grown so much bigger now~






The 4th and last session! –
Family pictures~
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Peace~



Smile~



Family time~



Make many funny faces

and this is how we celebrated a day of Little-big-boss Happy 2nd Birthday

My Little-big-boss is TWO

..since last month

So, he is officially 2 years and 1 month plus

We celebrated 2 days before the real birthday, on Sunday, and same as last year, only the 3 of us




1st session – Dinner time~

A very simple birthday plates
Papa just had his wisdom tooth removed and still in pain, Mama is having her orthodontic treatment, so we both can’t really eat



Pork meat rice burger with prawns and mini tomatoes as side dishes  for mama and papa



Veges rice burger with fried egg and mini tomatoes as side dishes for the Little-big-boss



Itadakimasu~ nom nom nom nom



Little-big-boss was very hungry..
Was late having this dinner cz of all the preparation



With papa



With mama






2nd session – Birthday cake time

I’m literally not good in making cakes..
Still I took the challenge to make one instead of buying one..
just to see my Little-big-boss’s happy face when seeing a CHOO CHOO TRAIN cake



He is very obsessed in vehicles, like all of any vehicles. At first he had his attention to buses and trains. Then the fire engine and ambulance. Lately, the construction/working vehicles! He knows most of the names too. the common ones of course . Excavator, dump truck, bulldozer, tractor, garbage truck, tank truck, crane, cars carrier truck, tow truck..etc



So, this year I decided to make him a Choo choo train cake!
I know it looks like an amateurish made cake..



But Little-big-boss was very very happy with the cake 



Where he kept saying choo~ choo~ all the while~



Happy 2nd Birthday



My little baby






3rd session – Present time

This year we present him..
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Tadaaaaaaaaah~
The RAILWAY TRAIN SET



Yes! Everything is about the TRAIN today!!
When Little-big-boss first saw this, he imitated me
“Tadah~ tadah~!
and he was like “Waaaaah~, yay yay yay~!!”



Trying out the pressie with papa~



Very concentrating



Like as if he is not going to sleep tonight..






The next morning..
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Still very excited seeing his trains~



And the next next morning~




Till today he is still fun playing with them

Ever since I have my Little-big-boss around, almost everyday we’ll be out having a walk or to nearby parks or tea with nearby mama friends

It’s just easier for me to look after Little-big-boss and without cleaning up and got messed up again the next minute
And of course it’s happier, healthier and much more fun for me and Little-big-boss himself

Yeah, we have to keep connected with the outside world through our sense not just through the screen




Anyway, when we were having our walk, there’s this old little cigarettes’ shop that we would stop by most of the time.

This shop is kinda unique

The uncle from this shop will always place something especially things that attract kids in front of his shop And they keep changing according to seasons and festivals

For example,

A table with some spinning tops
One of the old-time games



Kinda nostalgic to see this and heart warming to know there’s someone is trying to keep the old culture
Little-big-boss had fun with them

Kids play whatever is given, shall we let them explore before they got stick on the screen of some sort

There were colorful rubber balls in a pool of water too
Hold, roll, throw, pick the colors, any ways you wanna play it




At the same time, it was the 7th of July, the Tanabata festival
Uncle, the shop owner prepared some papers and pens there for people to write down their wishes, “tanzaku”

And we wrote down a few

Little-big-boss writing down some wishes too
He had a flu, so I wrote a wish wishing him for fast recovery



The setting for the festival



A wish for everyone 　May you all be happy always






1歳１０か月１６日
1 year 10 months 6 days old






After a month, when I came back from Malaysia, we came by this shop again

As usual, though I didn’t mention it yet, there are always some small animals displayed alongside too.
Fishes , scorpions , snakes, snails, crabs, tortoise, beetles and etc



In small aquariums and containers



The uncle here I think he likes kids to expose more to the nature, that he always talk and persuade Little-big-boss to try and touch or hold the little animals (the safe one of course!).
Little-big-boss likes to see from far, but once any of them is near him, he will move back and hide



Since he was afraid of touching any of them, the uncle let him help to feed the tortoise instead



In summer, there was a plant of Mimosa Pudica displayed over there too.
I think some of you may be quite familiar with this in your childhood
In Malay, we called it rumput malu-malu which means bashful grass
and in Japanese we called it Ojigi grass (おじぎ草) which means the bowing grass



And we have a new display this round!
“Rocks with drawings”
Creative and definitely one of an interesting activity for the kids






What even more surprising me was, the Tanabata display a month ago has turned to…

The Kappa family (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)



And there were 2 families (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)
It is a tradition to water the Kappa’s head especially when it dries up faster in a hot summer day



Here’s a display of Kappa’s faces



Feeling inspired, we got the base from uncle and started drawing our own kappa



Tadah~ the Kappa pendant



Hehe
Happy summer~

1歳１１か月１３日
1 year 11 months 13 days old

Yeah, I was back in Malaysia for a 3 weeks holiday staying at my brother’s house
Yappi was with us for 4 days only, and back for work after that.



Departing from Haneda from 23:30 almost midnight..




Arriving safely and happily after 7 hours flight



It was good traveling on a night flight with a toddler  Coz they will most probably sleep through the night
Little-big-boss dozed off once he was on the plane and woke up around 1 or 2 hours before arrival

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Anyway, we have met a lot of friends.
Among them, we so happened to have one who runs a baby spa – Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
We never knew and we were very curious
I didn’t know that baby spa actually is already quite well known in Asia.. like what I’ve heard, there were already above 2000 baby spa running in China

And so, our friends, a married couple, who were so kind to have invited us for a try out with Little-big-boss



The play corner for the babies to warm up

We were like, wow.. what a luxurious space for babies..



I can say, this is Little-big-boss very first experience on a baby spa
Luckily we were taking baby swimming course back in Japan, which made him go down the water more comfortably in the spa



The Baby Spa
There were 2 big tubs (for 6 months to 3 years old) and erm..I think 2 small tubs (for baby below 6 months old).



He was happy



Yeah, very happy during the bath



While relaxing after the bath, it was time for a baby massage..



As expected, he is not used to and doesn’t like and not willing to let anyone he doesn’t know to interfere his life all this while kinda.. how can it be okay of having the staff to massage him..(→my doubt earlier)

Baby is supposed to lie down while enjoying the sensation of massaging by the professional there, but since Little-big-boss was not willing to,  we still tried a little while I hold him up..

Yeah, it didn’t work out 

I think he might thought that the staffs there were doctors 
he hates docs.. haha

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After the baby spa, we head to another friend’s place for lunch.

This friend is a Japanese who married a Malaysian-Chinese wife and stayed in Malaysia.
They opened a Japanese restaurant which specialize in FISH dishes  UOKATSU 



Happy eating food that he recognized

Well, we really really had a wonderful and fulfilling day and it was so great to have wonderful friends like them
Grateful thanks to:
Nick and Stephanie from  Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
Tomono-san and Winnie from UOKATSU

A story of Spring 2 months ago 28 April 2014
春のお話

Hana – flowers
Kirei – beautiful

Hana kirei – beautiful flowers!

ここでは、”はなきれい”の巻だけど、色々しゃべるようになったよ～

Yeah..Little-big-boss starting to talk like us! I mean, a language that we understand!..erm… I mean talk in not just his baby-language!

Sorry, confusing..

Me, his mommy speaks English and Japanese with him.

His daddy speaks 100% Japanese with him.

His grandpa, grandma (dad’s parents) speaks also 100% Japanese with him.

His grandma (mom’s mom) speaks Cantonese with him.

..so he is like.. I think he is all confusing at the moment but manage to START TALKING LIKE US! 

I think he started with calling us
Ma (mama)
Pa (papa)
Maa maa (grandma in cantonese)

Or maybe the animal sounds

Or maybe “ba- ba-” (bus)

Not too sure coz I think they are about the same time

Ah~, no, before he turned 1, he started with “kore, kore”!! means “this, this” in Japanese since

He pointed everything he sees and kept saying “kore, kore”, like he was trying to ask “what is this?, what is this?”

Even when he was having his food, he kept asking by saying, “kore, kore”
He is not going to eat if he doesn’t get his answer..

At 1 point, we adults kept saying “dame” alot, which means “no”, then he started telling us “meh!” in return.. since then we try not to use it too much..

But somehow, his most use word now is “No”..”no, no~!”.

Anyway, some time back, Little-big-boss trendy words were about the “flowers” in Japanese though, which is “花, hana”.
I taught him “flower” first, so he knows it in English too but never pronounce it yet .

At the mean time, his words are still mostly in one word. Normally he picked up the last sound of a word

So,
花, hana = na~

When he started saying “na~” everytime he sees flowers, I will then asked him, “hana kirei?”, which means “Is the flower beautiful?”

He actually answered me for that by saying “kiREEEi”! (kirei *beautiful)

Though I know he was just mimicking my words back then, but it just felt like we conversed! haha

hana kirEEEi~





He knows happa (葉っぱ), means leaves too~
Though he only says “pa~, pa~”.
葉っぱ、パをいうよ～

Yeah, till now,
he knows the transport vehicles　その他に、乗り物系↓
train (krain), densha 電車 (sha~)
bus (ba-)
car (ka-), kuruma 車 (ma~)
truck (kruck)
crane (crane)
fire engine (jin~)
ambulance (urance?)
motorbike (bai~)
bicycle (ker)
aeroplane (prein)
boat (bo-)

he knows the colors　カラー
red (re)
green (gree)
blue (blu)
white (wai)
black (blak)
yellow (lo)
gray (gray)
pink (phin)
purple (per)

he knows his numbers from 1 to 10　数字
one (wan)
two (tsuu) (two)
three (sreee) (three)
four (fo)
five (fai)
six (shi)
seven (eeuun?)
eight (ei)
nine (nai)
ten (ten)

Others like　他
door (dho-)
light (rai)
air-cond (kon)
rain (rain)
open (pin)
close (clo)
okay (k)
ii *good (ii)
etc~

And now follows his mommy saying A to Z
アルファベットも！まねっこしていう段階だけど、”O”だけは文字じたいわかってるみたい～
T-シャツにアルファベット”O”みたら、指して”おー”とかゆってくるよ～

I know his clothes, his hair here kinda girly,
and some of my friends or family kept asking me, “do you like girls? that’s why you are dressing your son like that?”

Absolutely NOT!

He is just a baby, you can’t even tell the baby gender without confirming the down part most of the time.

All babies are cute.

Even if he’s a boy, as long as the dresses, the clothes matches the baby, why not?

As long as you don’t go over it and dress him skirts or laces (except for some special occasions), really why not?

Not all baby suits all clothes, I know

And I don’t know why, most of the boys’ clothes are just not cute..(except for some brands)

Anyway, I’m glad and happy, and most satisfied with how I dress Little-big-boss.

It’s just cute

And about the hair,
even male adults now has long hair! Why not on a baby~?

With his curly curles!

It’s just cute




Age in the pics and video,
写真と動画は、
603 days old
1歳7か月26日

5 April 2014 – My fourth “hanami” of the year! at Showa Kinen Park, a very very big park!

This time was with Yappi and his friends

This park is really really big that in order to get to our lunch destination, the open field, we had to walk like more than 30 minutes in the park itself..
There were a few entrance for the park and the entrance that we entered was the furthest one..

Pretty challenging when you have a baby to look after while carrying all the stuffs and while you have a husband who went ahead so far away to take pictures
*Nah, just at some points He will be back to help




Well, we reached the open field,
and never thought it will be this OPEN

This tree was just right at the center where we meet with our friends

And we had lunch
We took a spot nearer to the kids playground instead of the sakura coz it was so crowded at the sakura area and we all have kids!

The day started very sunny and nice, but suddenly there were hailstones dropping onto our food!

Luckily the sun came back to us after an hour or so

After lunch, we had a walk around the park




Little-big boss giving a helping hand

Looking good

Kakko ii~ かっこいい～

Little-big-boss doesn’t want to walk sometimes..

Little-big-boss says, “I want a bike too!”

Little-big-boss got his wish!
*Borrowed from friend’s 3 years old son..

Daddy on the act!




Walking under the blossomed sakura is like a dream..

If there weren’t too many people..

Time for Little-big-boss to have a noon-nap on his baby carrier
while the adults keeeeeeep walking~




We walked around the park for another 1 hour or so..
and Little-big-boss woke up just in time for the boat ride~
We were on the lake though the picture above doesn’t show!




Time to head home before sunset.




A pic of my mom
taken while we were walking again so far back to our carpark..

580 days old
１歳７か月３日






Hanami 2014
→Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 三ツ池公園でお花見
→Sakura in Yumemigasaki Zoo Park 夢見ヶ崎動物公園でお花見
→Sakura along the Tamagawa riverside 多摩川の河原でお花見

2 April 2014 – My third “hanami” event, at the riverside of Tamagawa

with my MOMMY little-big-boss’s grandmama~

Grandmama and little-big-boss

Grandmama is here for only 3 months and literally became little-big-boss’s playmate






My third hanami,
and at last, the  full-bloomed SAKURA~
ザ満開

桜めちゃきれい～
What more can I ask for
I am too blessed to be able to witness this beautiful season, this beautiful trees

It was a peaceful day

Being on a weekday, there were not too many people

So calm, so tranquil..

Under the beautiful tunnel of sakura trees

Feeling so blessed to be in this beautiful part of the world

To be able to enjoy the mother nature of the earth is my happiness

To let my child to be part of this world is my joy

The old, the young, we share the world

Feel the air of spring

Feel the wonders of spring


Well, look up .. where ever you are..

before you regret 

There are wonders everywhere






577 days old
1歳7か月0日






Hanami 2014
→Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 三ツ池公園でお花見
→Sakura in Yumemigasaki Zoo Park 夢見ヶ崎動物公園でお花見