Rafe's 28 Month Birthday

01 May 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

28 months old!

Yaya is holding my eaw!

Caveat: this entry (for April) was written in June. Thank goodness for backdated entries! Also, we kind of forgot to take pictures of the boy to document his day any of those days in April. So this month's entry will be a roundup of my favorite pictures taken in the last month.

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69 Months

22 April 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

Here are the 69 month photos!

Yaya and her mouse

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Rafe's 27 Month Birthday

29 March 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

Twenty-seven months old now!

Ooo-chak! Peekaboo!

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68 Months

26 March 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

68 months now! Five and 2/3 years old! Whee!

Chuffed about something!

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Yaya's Super Frog

09 March 2014 | Hisham | | Artwork, Family Pics
 

Yaya drew a super hero of her own design for Sila's birthday earlier in the year.

I prettied it up some more for her. 

Or a toad!
 

Rafe's 26 Month Birthday

02 March 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

And now the boy is twenty-six months old!

Happily gnoming on goldfish crackers

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67 Months

22 February 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

Another month! 67 months old!

Yaya the butterfly (note the antennae)

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Teluk Senangin Picnic

05 February 2014 | Hisham | | Family Pics
 

During the trip back to Sitiawan, Atok and Opah thought it would be great for us to have a picnic at Teluk Senangin, a public beach accessible from the Sitiawan-Pantai Remis road. Because it was Chinese New Year, it would not be wise to have a picnic at Teluk Batik. In fact I don't believe we have ever been to Teluk Batik during major holiday periods.

There were many other visitors to the beach. But it was not packed. There was probably more visitors than usual because it was Chinese New Year and there was litter everywhere. The location did remind me of Teluk Batik before I left Sitiawan.  

Here are some photos from our excursion to the beach. 

Ain and Irfan
 

Atok and Opah
Irfan tries submerging
Opah views the cars coming in to the beach
Maybe someday we'll return with tents
Gonna go lie down for a bit brb afk lol
 

Rafe's 25 Month Birthday

02 February 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

The boy is twenty-five months old now!

Happy Adik!

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Ain's Birthday Dinner

23 January 2014 | Hisham | | Family Pics, Food
 

Ain levelled up yesterday. She's gained a year, so we thought we'd splurge a bit on a proper birthday dinner. It would be a proper dinner with proper food, namely burgers.

Meanwhile Irfan made his specialty ice cream cheese cake.

Mixed flavour of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry

That evening we went to this burger restaurant at the Ampang Waterfront. It seemed to be a great place to dine on burgers. If I were to go out and have burgers for dinner, this would be the place I'd go to.

Wish I could do this for Ain every year... can't even buy her a present

Irfan and his Cik Su scour the menu for consumables. Irfan is happy with stuff smeared with tons of cheese.

As I write this I hear 'ass thrusters' coming from the TV

A fried egg (or perhaps the interstellar neural parasite that killed Jim Kirk's brother Peter on Deneva) obstructs our view of Ain's chicken chop.

The sauce is delicious

Even Atok and Opah joined the event via a phone call. We should bring them to this place the next time they come and visit.

They call Irfan on his own phone nowadays

Finally, this one is mine. All you bloodsuckers stay away from it. GET BACK! GET BACK, YOU PEONS!

The chilli sells it
 

In closing, happy birthday & lots of love, Ain!

 

66 Months

22 January 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

66 months! Five and a half years old! Whee!

My baby girl!

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The One with the Party and the Forgotten Cake

15 January 2014 | sila | | Family Pics
 

So two weeks after Adik turned two, we had a small gathering at our house with friends and neighbors.

Birthday boy happily riding Rocky the Rocking Giraffe

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The New School Year is New

02 January 2014 | Hisham | | Family Pics
 

It's Irfan's final year of Primary School. He starts on Secondary next year.

I can't believe five years have come and gone since he registered for Standard 1.

 

Rafe's 24 Month Birthday (aka Second Birthday)

29 December 2013 | sila | | Family Pics
 

And so the boy is now two years old! The big T-W-O! Twenty-four months have passed so quickly!

Angel baby

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Christmas 2013

26 December 2013 | sila | | Family Pics
 

So this year we decided to participate in the Christmas tradition. Yaya is old enough now to enjoy it and in fact, she asked for it. So here we go! Our first family Christmas. Also, since we have had a lot of work travels in recent months, we decided to forgo our usual end of year trip (someplace warm, usually) and stayed home instead. So bring it on! We start with the obligatory photo with Santa:

Yaya was happy but luckily Adik did not cry (he thinks Santa is an evil overlord)

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First Snowfall of the Winter

23 December 2013 | sila | | Family Pics
 

So we actually missed the first snowfall in Ohio (in November) this year while we were away at work in Pennsylvania. But when we were in Pennsylvania (again, for work) in December, snow caught up with us. This entry is basically just some fun photos taken during the snowfall, and afterwards.

Most of the photos were taken on the Sunday afternoon (you might remember the Eagles Sunday afternoon game with snow flurries that severely limited visibility on TV?), but some were taken in the days after.

Let's play in the snow!

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65 Months

22 December 2013 | sila | | Family Pics
 

65 months! Five years and five months have passed.

Beautiful smile

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Amusements at the New Ducky Hotel

16 December 2013 | sila | | Family Pics
 

So we have spent many days at the new Ducky Hotel in the past three months. We played in the snow, and amused ourselves in all kinds of ways. This entry is just a bunch of fun photos of the activities at the new Ducky Hotel (that would be the Homewood Suites in Lansdale, PA). Our Old Ducky Hotel was in Cranford, NJ. :-)

Smiling as brightly as the sun

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Selamat Pengantin Baru Cik Ma and Farid

11 December 2013 | Hisham | | Family Pics
 

Irfan's Cik Ma and Uncle Farid got married on the 11th at Pondok Lubuk Tapah; and thus Uncle Farid was upgraded to Irfan's second Ayah Cik.

Since I had an exam the previous day, I arrived just in time for the festivities. Here are some photos from the wedding festivities.

When everyone was busy sometimes Irfan babysat Zara.

Aqad completed, Ayah Cik and Cik Ma were now husband and wife.
I photographed stuff in the back.

 

Dinner with Tsing and Michelle

07 December 2013 | Hisham | | ACS Memories, Family Pics
 

Tsing, Michelle and their kids visited us for dinner last night. Having us as one of their regular stops during their vacation never fails to warm my heart. The last time they were back there were two children in two. This time there's three! Unfortunately I did not take a photo of baby Ezra because he was busy playing the keyboard, then sleeping.

Looking at old photos with Ashley
Emma
Irfan still calls Ashley her cousin
33 years of friendship