Counting down to 2006

We were at Kai Ma's place for the New Year Eve dinner!

Excellent spaghetti with tuna sauce! and the turkey was good too!

Here's something you won't see very often, or even in the next year.. Samantha with hair! (ok ok.. it's a wig)



Here's another skill she picked up today. How to drink from a straw! She just had to have some. A few squeak of the lips to show her how and she picked up this skill! muak!


There should be newer photos posted here and the posts should be more frequent. Yeah we did have some trouble, our faithful little Canon IxusV decided to head to the digital camera nirvana. It was soon followed by our modem. This was the cause of some of the technical glitches we experienced.

Looking back at 2005, there's been plenty of memories.
Looking forward to 2006, there'll be lots to do and more to explore!

Samantha will turn 1 within the next two weeks. What a ride it has been. It's almost a year now and she's shown us so much that she can do. It's literally a miracle to have her.

Samantha, we love you.

"Samantha is a good girl.. Listen to mommy and daddy..." is our little bedtime saying.. hoping that she'll pick it up in her subconscious mind! :)

Anyways, Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year and love to all! Especially to our most dedicated reader of the blog... all the way London!

All I want for Christmas is peace of mind ;)

Learn how to hold the bottle..

She's learning how to hold the bottle (momentarily) :)

That's a good girl!

The Little Artist

Today, we had dinner with my dad. He's going back to HK the following day. He was with us for Christmas and Samantha got to spend some time with her yeh yeh.

During the dinner she noticed her cousin Ryan's toy. It's a doodle thingy-ma-jig. Actually it was a Fisher Price Doodle Pro. What's that? Take a look.

She's a pro!.. hmmm hmmm.. (draw.. draw..) hmmm hmmm.. (draw.. draw...)

Uhh.. uhh.. eerrhh.. (I'm so excited!!!)

Then.. we apply the finishing touches..

The artist and her masterpiece!

A closer look! What do you see?

Seeing that she loved it so much, we went to Toys R Us to look for this toy. Now she has a new toy! Samantha chose red from the few on display. Thanks Winnie!

Merry Christmas!

"Jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh!"

To the tune of Elmo World's closing song!.. It's the same tune ;)

Merry Christmas to all
from
Kelvin, Melissa and Samantha!
www.samanthayuen.com

Bye..

Kelvin came back for lunch today. I was dressing Samantha up after she wet her clothes. When Kelvin finished his lunch and he opened the front door, he say bye-bye to Samantha. Then Samantha replied 'Byeee ..'. Both of us were shocked and looked at her for at least 10 seconds. Then we look at each other and started to smile. Hehe..

We tested her again, just that this time she didnt say anything... hmm..
Anyway, it's another milestone for her.

Sammi's 1st Bukit Tinggi trip...

Today we are all set for a trip to Bukit Tinggi, with grandma, and a full load of baby stuff in our proton wira.. haha..

Samantha had a full stomach before heading to the hills.. here, she is playing with her rubber duckies after the meal. She had a nice nap as well all the way to the BT. 3 hours all together.. wow!! she must have been very tired :p

We were afraid that there might be mosquitoes in the area when we parked our car for a small picnic. Samantha was still sleeping and didn't want to wake up when we tried to wake her... many thanks to mosquito net which managed to keep her from insect bites..

After she had good sleep, she started to pose for the camera...

What a happy baby !!! (click for a bigger picture!)

I think she was very amazed with the surroundings..
she was relaxed all time.. :p

Here's some photos we took with her..
Enjoy !!

she can do this whole day..

Hmm.. wild orchids should smell better than my doggie's tail..

Y i p p y!! I'm in Bukit Tinggi..

D u t c h L a d y ? Cute leh ? (click for a bigger picture!)

Sitting blur-blur in carrier

Cute boy?

We put on a cap on her just to see how she would look like..
hmm.. cute ? for sure..
but doesn't she look like a boy ?
haha..

Me cute or not ?

Suddenly, she made a funny face when she was having porridge..

oh no.. who did she learn from?

any comment ?

The porridge is yuck!!

Big Cat?

Realised Samantha likes to bite the tail of her doggie while crawling around her compound. Haha..
Doesn't she look like a big C A T with a big RED mouse ?

Check out how she is carrying her doggie ?

Anyway, the doggie gets cleaned every 2-3 days. :p

Cute doll

Took me some time to put her to sleep this afternoon.
Finally she sat down and felt asleep by herself.. hmmm.. what the??
anyway, i posed her with her doggie n teddy bear..
she looks so cute..

Where is the baby ?
( p/s : yeap, u r right!! the red patch on her face is the bruise from her recent fall.. err... )

Apple

Ooo.. an apple...

*bite!*

Sharp teeth, she has.

11 Months and counting!

Today, Samantha is 11 months old!

Check out her little counter at the top of the page today (thanks to Lilypie)!

We've been busy for the last couple of weeks, as you can probably see from the date of this update compared to the previous entry. Well, the update IS here!

There have been plenty of developments in the life of the little one.

So far, in these 2 weeks, she...
... learned to climb up on to her Fisher Price activity table play station thingy.
... learned to clap her hands when we say "Clap your hands!" ;)
... learned to Gong Xi Gong Xi with both hands. Good practice for the coming CNY! hehe.. (kiasu parents )
... has grown to 8.8kg
... likes to sit on the baby scale at the doctors!
... has risen to 74cm or approximately 2ft 5 inches tall
... still got 7 teeth in her little mouth.. but it seems that they are getting sharper!
... learned to show some temper and tantrum.. hmm... :(
... learned to dance (shake her bottom) when watching parts of Sesame Street!
... learned how to use my Logitech MX300 mouse.
... extract keys from the keyboard of my ThinkPad T41 with ease!
... recognizes my car when I return home from work.
... gotten used to our new maid. Yes, we now have more help.
... looks a lot different since Day 1!

Hmm.. She's a little unwell this week. phlegm.

We love the little one. :)