On day 2, we decided to go hiking at Taman Perbandaran. It was a tiring trip because we had to carry Iliya most of the way up. But despite that, I have to say that she was very well behaved through out.
All in all, it was an enjoyable trip. Tiring, but enjoyable. I loved going to the park and look forward to going back again.
Morning Beach Walk
Before the hike up the mountain
And the hike begins!
Halfway up; Really exhausted.
Was told these were poisonous
On our way down
Yay! We survived the hike!
We left for Kedah around 2 p.m. to visit our grandfather in Kedah and to eat yummy Prawn Mee at Pulau Sayak. If you're ever in the area, you MUST drop by the stall to have a plate. I promise you, you won't regret it.
We left kedah around 5 and reached KL around 9 p.m. Had lunch at uptown and arrived home at 11 p.m.
Boy am I glad the weekend is over. It's probably one of the longer weekends to-date. I was working almost non-stop since friday. I only slept for 2 hours on Friday and was up from 7:30 a.m. - 11.00 p.m. on Saturday. You can imagine my exhaustion.
We had some big orders to complete for Saturday so sleeping was not an option. We had 300 cupcakes to bake, and 800 cookies to ice. 200 of those cupcakes were for a wedding on Saturday so they needed fondant roses on them. The 800 cookies were also for a wedding.
It didn't help that we were shorthanded and both my MIL and my SIL left around lunch time, so I was left at home alone to man the fort. It was hard. I wanted to cry and hide in my room because I was so overwhelmed by the amount of work that had to be done. It didn't help that I was sleep deprived and hungry.
There was no one around to give me a hug, pat my back and say, "there there, you'll get through this." I felt so alone and helpless. It was depressing. It's times like this that you feel the loneliest. I had 200 cookies to ice before nightfall and the kitchen was a mess from all the work that had been done the day before. As my SIL said, "this is the worst I've seen the house since we started business." No truer words were ever spoken.
Thankfully, my cousin came to help me out with the cookies. She's a live saver. I couldn't have completed my job without her. Okay, I would have completed it in the end, I guess. But there would've been a lot of tears, cursing and anger.
We managed to get all the packing done by 7 p.m. and I sent the cookies out after prayers. Thankfully, the bride was happy with them. All in all, I'm glad it's over and no one was killed in the process.
We have a wedding cake for this weekend and some cookies and cupcakes for a birthday party. I think I should be able to handle those. The next big order is for the 14th where we will have to deliver 720 wedding cupcakes. I shall have to start making roses now if I want to survive that weekend. Wish me luck!
Today, I went to Dira's wedding. It was nice to meet Julia again. *waves to Julia* Dira looked beautiful in her pale yellow ensemble. She's so thin now! Congrats Dira! Oh, and both Julia and I agree that Sham is a definitely looker. I wish the both of you nothing but happiness till the end of your days.
I also met Marissa and Jooli at the wedding. It almost felt like a blythe meet instead because Julia brought her Blythe Doll with her and we snapped photos of the doll, and us with the doll. Heh.
We talked and laughed and ate and talked some more for a good 2 hours. I also bought a bag from Julia somewhere in that 2 hours.
I left the wedding around 4 p.m. because it was about to rain. It did rain before we managed to leave the house so there was a lot of running involved. I covered the bug's head under my tudung so she wouldn't get wet but she thought we were having a game of peek-a-boo instead and went, a-boo! and come out from under my tudung.
We stopped by shah alam mall to have some ice-cream because the bug has been asking for ice-cream everyday with out fail. We had our ice-cream and people watched for a while. I couldn't hang around there for long because I had an order for cupcakes at 8 p.m.
It was raining when we wanted to leave so I had to hide the bug under my tudung again. She didn't play peek-a-boo this time but she sang the rain song instead. I would say "rain rain" and she would go "go away". This may sound biased but I think the bug is such a clever little girl. Clever and cheeky. God is she cheeky.
I'm free for now. But in two weeks time, It'll be frenzy again! Till then, I'll just put my feet up and enjoy my time. I leave you with the obligatory bug photo.
Sorry for the long absence. I've been swamped with work. Business has been good so that means, no free time for me. Although, I guess that shouldn't be an excuse for not updating my blog, right? Right.
So what's new? Hmm.. The bug has learned a whole lot in the past few weeks. I can't even keep up. She recognizes McDonald's. She calls it McDonos. Whenever we ask her what she wants to eat, she'll go McDonos.
Now, before you come banging on my door questioning my parenting skills, let me tell you that we do not feed her McDonald's that much. Occasionally we do go there, but it isn't so frequent to warrant her wanting it for every meal. So, I am just as puzzled as to why she would request it every time I ask her what she wants to eat.
Her new favorite food is, Char Hor Fun. Or, cantonese fried kuey teow. One day, she suddenly developed a taste for it and she never look back since. She calls it kuey shiow.
She recognizes trucks, busses, motorcycles, vans and cars and she will point them out while in the car. Her favorite is the bus. She just loves busses. Oh, she can also say plane, train and crane. I've been reading too many Dr. Seuss books, can you tell?
Yesterday, she came to me with a feeding bottle and asked for some water. Orange juice to be exact. I asked her twice, "are you sure you want to drink in this", "nak" was her reply. So I filled it up with some juice and gave it to her. She happily took it from me and walked away while drinking from the bottle. I found it both amusing and confusing. She never took to the bottle. When she was younger and I was experimenting with ways to feed her milk, she would cry/bawl/turn away at the sight of a bottle. So, you can see my confusion.
She walked around the house a bit with bottle in had, occasionally drinking from it and even went up to her grandma to show her bottle off. She patted herself on her chest and exclaimed, "baby!". Ahuh, my kid is in denial. She's barely two and she's already trying to act younger than she actually is. No one told me it starts this early. Why don't kids come with a manual?
She loves elmo. Loves loves loves elmo. She constantly asks for him, especially when the tv is on. Thankfully, we have youtube so she can watch elmo online, on demand. Her favorite elmo clip right now is this one.
Because she watches it so much, everyone else in the house sings it too now. It's quite addictive. How can you not love elmo?
We bought a potty for her recently from Ikea. We think it is about time to potty train her, but I have no idea how/where to start. Can someone point me in the right direction? Or even better, train her for me? Please? I'll pay you in cupcakes/cookies, whichever you prefer.
The other day, during her bath, I took her diaper off and put her on the potty. I went, shhh... shhh... for the longest time. Even the bug joined me. Nothing came out. Not even a trickle. So I figured, she must have just peed in her diaper and stood her up and I went to pee. She came up to me, and peed, standing up. I didn't know what to say.
This potty training is more complicated that I thought. Is there a way to not go through it? She'll learn on her own, eventually, right?
I've been knitting a bit here and there. I still have a few things I have to knit. I just need to find the time. I also have some knitted things that need to be put together. I just need to find the time. Starting to see a pattern here?
I haven't had time to do anything else. So most of my projects are on hold. Hopefully, I'll be freer after mid-june. Hopefully.
Till then, it'll be long silences and infrequent posts.
Last Friday, I met Alin to deliver her the cupcakes she ordered from me. You can read more about it at her blog.
We just stood infront of my car and chatted a bit. She took a photo of me with her phone. I would have rather she didn't but, since I wanted to help her score her phone, I agreed anyway. You can go see the photo at her blog as well. Do yourself a favor and don't though.
Here's the 1 photo of her I did take.
Alin
The bug also wanted to do her bit in helping Alin win her phone.
I seldom take photos of what I bake. (most of the time, I forget till after the fact) So Last Monday, while all was quite, I took some photos of the cupcakes I was baking at 1 a.m. I'll leave you with some visuals.
These are the plastics. 26 all together, I think? I touched a princess ala mode!! Aahh.. She's so pretty. I don't think I'll ever buy her though. Unless the husband becomes very very very rich. The guy bought her for RM1600.00!!
All the girls
Dira's Saffy
In the presence of royalty
A custom
Julia's EP. She's a beauty.
Twins
Triplets
Oh wait, make that quadruplets
Spectators.
You can't imagine the amount of people that came to snap photos of the dolls. They kept coming. Some even came up and posed with the dolls. A lot of people came up and asked us whether we were selling them. Hehe.
Can you guess which doll this beauty is? Right guess gets a surprise!
Went to a blythe meet today. Finally got to meet the infamous Julia!! Hi! Julia!! *waves*
Yes, she really is that nice. She's as nice as she is on her blog. Maybe, even more so. hmm.. I am slightly disappointed that we didn't get to talk much. I must request that for the next blythe meet, it be made a some place where we can sit and have drinks and talk for hours. It is a bonding session after all.
First up, photos of humans.
L-R:Julia, me, Alin, Dira, Marissa and Allen.(No I wasn't sleeping)
