Wo Hoooo.....X'mas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ah Our favorite time of the year! I love everything about Christmas, and I have a great childhood memory about Christmas! The School X'mas party, The Church ( My Church in Jakarta is St Maria de Fatima), the gifts, the song, the spirit, the decorations, the food , the movie, the Santa, the reindeer, the story, just LOVE it!

So when I become a mom, I want my girls to have that same memory towards this special time of the year. This is the perfect time to make family gathering.
My mom is so great! She told me that Santa will come on the Christmas' eve and I must prepare food for the reindeer and Santa, and put it under X'mas tree and the next morning, the gifts for me will be under the tree ( If I am good , that's it). So what my mom told me, reindeer eat those unwanted "wild" grass around her orchid plants, and I must take it all out and put it under the tree for the reindeer! And I do it in no time, because I wanted to make sure the reindeer are happy so the Santa is happy! and I will be happy! And now if I think back, my mom actually just wanted me to help her to clean the plants! HAH! tricky mom, but it worked! LOL

So for Indy and Maya I ask them to put carrots and potatoes under the tree, and a glass of milk for Santa. Indy wrote a letter to Santa , 2 weeks ago and asked me to send to the north pole!
She still not good at writing, but she is quite a creative girl, instead of writing, she draw a girl ( her) and a bike ( what she wants) and draw a big guy with beard ( Santa) and a big letter I LOVE YOU. And she wrote her name Indiana Rocco.
My lil' Maya of course will not write a letter for this X'mas! :-D

This year is special because my DH can be off on Christmas day, this is a very rare occasion for us.

So Indy got her bike! And her dad will teach her how to ride it without the extra wheels. Maya got a doodle board from Santa ( since I "reported" to Santa that Maya draw on my couch and wall).

From Mamma and Papa Indy got Pony from My Pony ( that can be decorated), and Maya got a wooden kitchen set and pots , hopefully they can play together. And a Tiger plush doll from Papa, and reindeer toys for both of them also from Papa.

This is Maya in her new kitchen....

They are so lucky to have many other presents from our friends too! Thanks everyone....
And also thanks to DHL KK Team for the Gingerbread house! and Melissa from Veda blue for the yummy Christmas cake!


Oh and I got 10 pieces of Corning ware from my hubby! I think he wants me to cook more!LOL and he got a Crocs shoes from me!

Merry X'mas and Happy New Year , everyone!

Maya got this ride on from her mak cik.

Indy and Maya after opening all the gifts

We also been invited for a Annual Christmas dinner from the Shangri-la 's chefs club LOL, not really a club, but just happen to be a bunch chefs and only chefs & F & B managers. From the executive chef, F & B director, pastry chef, Resident manager, etc. Only my husband is the "outsider" And we the wives just sit down and wait for the husband to prepare and serve . LOL

The table setting

The cute Elf's shoes napkin


"Us"




Maya the lil' dancer

I've been tagged

I've been tagged by Miranda.

1. Do the following without complains.
2. Choose 5 people to do this quiz after you've done yours.
3. Tag the chosen one.
4. Start your post with "I've been tagged"

Favourites
Colour: baby lilac,lavender.

Food: woaaah to many to be listed here!I love the authentic version of Indonesian/Malay food, Chinese food, Italian food, Thailand food, Japanese food, Korean food etc :-D

Movie: Depends , but I will always like sounds of music, and a walk in a cloud ( easy to tell why ! KR fan 4eva)

Sport: walking and typing

Day: Sunday

Season: Durian seasons, nangka seasons, Manggo seasons

Ice cream: prefer sherbet

First
Best friend: lily ( SD Ricci)

Crush: uhm....:D got a few to list... ES, SS. muahhaahha

Movie: 101 dalmantians

Music: Especially for you ( Kylie Minouge and Jason Donovan)

Last
Drink: ice water...

Car ride: to the Happy Mums

Crush: Now and forever will be always Keanu Reeves!( from I was 16 YO) and current additional crush JUDE LAW!

Phone call: Mimi

CD played: Samsons

Gone out with good friends: Yesterday...to Happy mums to buy my dh's xmas present huhahaha

Broken a law: Driving without license ( 400 m only hehehe)

Been arrested: nope

I'm going to pass this tag to:(sorry 2 first at the moment )
Taty
Vivian

Lagoon Park

This December is a busy month for us. And sure is a exciting month for Indy and Maya as Christmas is almost here.
Indy is on school holiday, so I must bring her some where , to entertain her. Too bad my hubby is very busy this month. 2 weeks ago he couldn't have any day off. So the last week of November, He took a 2 days break and we managed to go to Kundasang. Too bad I my camera didn't work that time and I didn't got the chance to buy a new one then. So no photos from Kundasang.
Then my dh took a day off last week on Thursday and we went to see the "golden compass" which is a great movie!

Indy already watch 3 movies this month! Bee movie, The Enchanted ( very nice and girly movie! :) and then The Golden Compass.

Last Sunday we went to Lagoon Park in Karambunai. near Nexus resort. We went there a few times this year. The last time we went there we had a bbq with friends.This time just us and no bbq , we just pack lunch ( sandwiches, dough nuts, and some croissant ) .


We had a small dip into the beach, and so did Maya. This is not her first time to the beach, but still she act like it! See how happy she is :


Indy even got the chance to show abit of her swim"movement"...kind off..to her dad. And her dad also showed her a bit of tips on how to improve her swimming skills. My hubby was a really good swimmer ( now not as good as before LOL) and he was an active member of boyscout too. He is into rock climbing, scuba diving,motor bike . So for him , he prefer his children to be active in sport rather than got a cum laud mark at school. One of his big disappointment is that Indy still can't ride a bike yet. So this year "Santa" will give Indy a bike! :)



Even though she is not really swimming yet, but a word of encouraging means a thousand words to her. Sometimes we as parents , without we even realize it , we give too much pressure to our children now a days. Keep comparing them to their peers ( who crawl first, walk first , talk first, then who got the better mark at school, who can do it better etc). Below is Indy's face after she got a "glowing mark" for her "swimming skills" from her papa.
After cleaning up, I was trying to get Maya to sleep, but I FAILED. She kept want to go back to the sea! sigh...


Here I want to share , how to loose 10 kg instantly ( without Photoshop editing) :
ask somebody else's kid to cover your bum, then as your own kid to cover you head. Then bend down, and try to keep your toddler from diving into the sea( since she was so excited with the taste of the water!) There you go....10 kg off instantly in the photo! :-D

Ok...I m off to dig those recipes for chocolate chips cookies...IF I have the energy to bake some this year...

TAG: 5 things

Got this from far.Looks easy but....not really easy to do...

That is to have 5 answers to all questions and tag another 5 person.

5 things in my room :

1). BED laar...(with pillows and gulings/bolster)
2). wardrobes for my n dh clothing and stuffs.
3). make up table (kind of)
4). mini fridge
5). arm chair + bed side table

5 things I’ve always wanted to do :

1). Bring my lil girls to Disneyland ( cant wait to see their faces when they finally meet with Cinderella )
2). shop till I drop in via Garibaldi - Turin ( but money always not enough)
3). Buy a good laptop for my own use :-D ( no body cant touch it hehehehe)
4). Renewing our marriage vows in front of our daughters ( hopefully can happen in year 2009, AMEN)
5). going on Caravan trip with my family

5 things in my bag :

1). Wallet
2). lipstick ( 2pcs)
3). Lipgloss
4). hand sanitizer
5). my mobile

5 things in my wallet :

1). Duit lar
2). CC and ATM card
3). Receipts
4). name cards
5). photos

5 things I'm currently into :

1). Still Cloth diapering ( im a boring person)
2). Reading about a 1 yo - 2yo developments
3). blogging
4). make up n skin care
5). buying things for children


And these awards goes to 5 nominated ladies : jeng jeng jeng...
this is susah I dont know who's been tagged
1). Christine
2). Ai Lian
3). Chanel
4). Angie
5). Charis ( do it before u pop up!)