Happy 8th Anniversary!

To my dearest love,

We are married for 8 years! It seem like we just get married not long ago. It has been always fun to be you. Life would be boring without you. We learnt this during the time you are away for long business trips. We have then appreciate each other more than ever.

Few words from bottom of my heart...

Thanks for your care and love.
Thanks for your patience and tolerance.
Thanks for everything you have done for me.
I love you, baby.

Looking forward everyday to be with you.

xoxo, alyssa belle

Different ways in letter tracing

Using rice.

Faith has a lot of fun with this. It just get a bit out of hand when she started to pretend cooking using the rice.

Other suggestions of letter tracing :

- You could put shaving cream in zip lock and let them trace.

- Use stick on sand when you are the beach.

Will you give your help if you were me?

There are many incidents occurred in the past months leave me in dilemma on whether or not to assist my girl whenever she asked for help.

Incident One (Happened this morning)
My girl was playing by herself happily. She is quite good in putting stories she learnt from books or video or nursery rhymes into action. Story for this morning is "London bridge". She laid two beach straw mats across the coffee table and sofa. She then used some puzzle pieces on the mat between the gaps of coffee table and sofa. As the mats are not secured to anything, the "bridge" fell. She then get very upset and made a big fuss over it. I then asked her could I help her to build a more sturdy "bridge". She said yes.

When I was half-way through helping her, she all the sudden complained loudly saying non-stop that I did wrongly. I asked her why but she couldn't tell me. She just keep saying I did wrong. I was pretty upset and walked away.

What would you do if you were me?

Incident Two (Happened this afternoon)
Recently I brought a circle puncher from Amazon. My girl was excited and wanted to play with it. She has been punching circle herself using this puncher then. But today she asked me to help her to punch circle instead of her doing herself. She said she was doing artwork and needed circle. We were doing it happily and all the sudden she clamored her unsatisfaction over the paper I punched.

I then asked why but she just keep saying I did wrongly. I then told her to do herself.

What is wrong here? I wonder why. I know she is going through emotional growth and get very sensitive sometime. But how could I make it better and avoid this happened again and again.

Zoobles Collection from McDonalds

When they are sleeping

When they are awake

I still miss out one member "Bunsie". Hope I could get it before stock last.

More close up pictures...

Seamus

Pandama

Shellberry

Penny

Costello

Rocky

Thronton

Faith's gift from Cartier

Nice gesture from Cartier during our visit to Cartier boutique at Nassau downtown.

A coloring book and coloring pencils in a beautiful bag.

Each coloring page accompanies with colored picture for the kid to follow. All colors used are within the coloring pencils provided. Best of all they are on good quality drawing paper.

Do remember to bring your kid along to Cartier boutique next time.

Roasted Pork Ribs

My first attempt. Very tasty. My hubby and I love it to bits. I followed the instructions (not all instructions) from cooking.storyofbing.com. I skipped balsamic vinegar since my hubby don't like the vinegar. And I missed out an instruction and mix the honey at the start.

Home-brewed coffee

Every morning, my loving hubby brews this coffee.

(The orange spot on the coffee is the reflection from ceiling light.)

This is the coffee powder we used. complimentary from Steven. 

Thanks dear for your nice coffee every morning. I love you.