My baby girls! 😍

2015 vs 2021 (6yo)

2019 vs 2024 (5yo)

Today:

Toys on the dining table? Irritated about it today, will miss it when they grow up... 🥲

I love my girls

Who made wonderful Father's Day cards for me!🥲

Cute notes from under the door

They're going into my folder of collection of cute notes from my lovelies 😊

Our last baby

Capturing moments with wye4 before she outgrows her baby phase...

What is joke?

YE: "Papa, what is 'joke'?"

Me: "It's a funny thing."

YE (grinning): "I am a joke."

😂 哭笑不得!

Sticker cupboard

I found the usually restless Ye quietly sitting in front of the "sticker cupboard" one morning, peeling off new stickers and adding them onto the display, which was started by her sister many years ago. Now the decorative cupboard looks out of place, it's messy, it's untidy, the stickers may turn yellow; I know for sure I wouldn't be able to return the cupboard back to its original condition, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. 

Busy Books play with Yx Ye

Been awhile since I played Busy Books with my children, now Ye is at an age which she can also participate constructively (instead of destructively 🤣). The story yesterday was 3 teams comprising members of the same colour defending the city against two baddies (Charizard and Pingu). Pitting magic powers against magic powers, using whish whoosh flying carpet and lightning shots, neutralising typhoon wind and flamethrower, the united city defense stood strong and successfully chased the baddies away! But it won't be for long...

drawing from a fashion magazine

She drew this unassisted! The female even has got eye shadow! Ye drew the noses nicer than me!

I love you in the whole universe

A few days ago Ye suddenly quipped, "Papa/Mama, I love you in the whole universe!" while wearing a cheeky grin. My heart melted. 

This is the same sweetheart who dashes to the door to greet me when I return home from work; this is the dearie who pops her head into the study room and says "parps!" when she comes home from sch (100% of the time even if she's super high tide) on my WFH days. Love you back and more, my girl! 😘

Ye goes to Beary Gym

YE putting on jiejie's uniform and attended her first official Beary Gym lesson. She enjoyed it! Teacher D was surprised to learn it was her first lesson, said Ye did well and has strong legs.

random drawing

She said this is 爸爸妈妈结婚

Cycling at the void deck

Our house isn't well connected to parks or sorts so there isn't a good place to pick up the bicycles and cycle. In a bid to have the girls more practice, we only have the (quite limited in size) void deck to make do. 

This evening I brought them down and we played the "打油" game... Where the girls would stop by and refuel at the vertical plumbing pipes. They were initially just contented to stay within that small plot so I expanded the "map" by coining the adjacent void deck as "new town" and there is opening promotion for the new petrol station 😂. The girls eventually got curious of the different red numbers labelled on every pipe, they got off their bikes and ran about the void deck, exploring and pointing them out. At the end, I think we succeeded in getting them to be familiar with the environment so that they begin to be comfortable hopping from pillar to pillar, turning around and peering behind corners, at times by themselves.

Cycling practice has now evolved into a game of mini towns littered with petrol stations lol... "Welcome to Uncle Ben's new petrol station opening!" 😄 

So cute to observe my kids playing, talking and laughing to themselves!

Prepping dinner with Ye

A few days ago, wifey was out to pick Yx from ballet lesson. I prepped dinner and Ye offered to help.

And so she did! She opened the drawer and whipped out the child-safe Toddlr knife. I showed her how to slice the skin off carrots, and she tried her hands on it. Later, I tasked her to chop the carrots whilst I busied myself with other things. It was followed by cracking two eggs and mixing it up with salt and pepper. When that was done, I told her she could exit but she wanted to stay on and watch me fry the veges. Eventually, Ye hopped off when she heard her sister coming home.

Later that night, in bed (she asked me to sleep with her), she uttered out of the blue  “刚才晚餐菜很好吃。”

That was the best moment I could ever ask for to end the day. ☺️

Random drawing

Setting up the Xmas tree just got easier

Because of them! Haha! So enthusiastic to put on the stars they didn't need any help this time.

长大了 🥲

Rapunzel and her Prince

At the library

Candid capture of the sisters enjoying each other's company 😊

Yx was reading and pointing the contents of the book to meimei, who paid v ernest attention.

Wye turns 4!

To my feisty and determined imp who makes us laugh as hard as often as we lose our temper with you.

Happy 4th birthday! You're quite an incredible and amazing individual. You're so different from your sister it frustrates us, but it's not a bad thing for you are at the same time so outstanding and unique. 

Wishing you good health and happy smiles! Chuckle on! 

More about WYE

Realised this was in my draft since Apr 2023, hai I procrastinated!

Wye is a really unique character and possesses huge amount of resilience (some might say obstinacy) and pursues her desires with much gusto. She is fiercely independent in wanting to do/attempt things by herself even if it's her first time. We can see it in her that if guided and channeled correctly, Ye should grow up to an adaptable and highly motivated individual.

We love you so much baby.

(A more recent pic)

And you are growing up too fast!