Our Beautiful and Happy Family

Here is a collection of our happy family together:








I was there last November which coincided with Dad's birthday. We celebrated at a restaurant and again at home where I took the great opportunity to take a long awaited family portrait. Here are two videos of the us at home celebrating Dad's birthday. It is so interesting to notice how they now love to blow the candles and want to cut the cake instead of being afraid of fire and being totally oblivious to what a birthday is all about.




This has been such an enjoyable journey creating all these posts, and even though it took quite a bit of time, it was all worthwhile. Hopefully, this will inspire my sister to do the same for them. I hope you enjoyed them too.

Brother and Sister Part 2

You can see that their poses get more creative as they grow older ...

Cheeky Joshua

The other love of my life, Joshua, is a natural charmer. He communicates a lot more and certainly knows how to use his best assets to his advantage. He is so loving and clever and he says the cutest things all the time as well.

His ears are very sensitive and he hates really loud sounds/noises. At Joy's first piano recital, he turned to my Mum who was sitting next to him while the teacher was playing a piece rather loudly and said "Po Po (Grandma), can cry or not?". My Mum, a little surprised and oblivious to the pain he was suffering, said "No. Cannot." He nodded his head in silence and when he couldn't take it anymore, burst out laughing. Even Joy could recite this incident later on the phone to me.

It is so wonderful to see him grow into a more confident little boy and I can't wait to see or hear what "new sayings" he has up his sleeve the next time I see him. This is Joshua's journey:


















Now, onto the videos. The first is one of Mum feeding Joshua spicy curry at the age of one. He has a better appetite than Joy does as a baby, and would jump up and down for more. There are moments of realisation that the food is a little hot, but he digests it all, and then asks for more. The slight scratching of his head is the spice getting to him. Marvellous!



This is Joshua singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep" in his own way ... Priceless!!

Watch Joy Blossom

She looks more and more like my sister Jen as she grows older and I don't believe I am biased in any way, when I use the word prettier as well. She is the quieter of the two, rarely speaking in a social environment, and doesn't find the need to charm anyone, but she does have her lighter moments. She is a keen observer and judging by the way she poses for the cameras, and the things she tells her Mummy and I, she picks things up pretty quickly. Here is her journey in chronological fashion:














Her first horseride
In her Princess outfit that I bought for her.
Playing with snow at the Science Centre




Mum loves to challenge the kids by teaching them chinese poetry or names of our family members. Here are two videos of Joy at three pronouncing some of our names. Since she is more reserved by nature, I just love how much fun she is having and laughing at her own jokes in protest of this exercise. The first video also demonstrates the love of grandparents when you can hear my Mum praising her pretty face, something that I had never heard when I was growing up. LOL.

Lastly, here is her last November, practising her singing at piano lessons she was having: