Love Never Fails

Nathan turns 3

ruth — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:52:15 +0000

Nathan turns 3 on Sept 4. We had a big birthday for him since we want to make him special before his baby brother’s arrival. This is the first year we actually organize a birthday party for him since he missed one when he was one year old due to the stomach flu. Then the second year we decided to take him for a mini vacation in Branson instead. This year is different because he could raise his voice of how he wants his party to be. He decided on the theme of the party – of course, Thomas the train theme and the guest list. Daddy and mommy have started cooking for the party before the big day. We made tons of food – mee hoon, satay, peanut sauce and ketupat for the satay, curry, ribs and sausages – wow!!!! What a feast!!! We are thankful that our friends’ moms were able to help us up on Friday. The next day more cooking to do and got up at 6:30am to start cooking more for the lunchtime party. He was so happy to have the birthday party and so many people came to celebrate with him and of course all the presents that he got! By the end of the party, we both were exhausted and we decided to take a little nap while Nathan was playing with all his new toys all by himself!

Anytime now!!

ruth — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:08 +0000

It’s my 36th week of pregnancy now. I’m almost finish running the pregnancy journey! I had my appointment today, the doctor took the culture for the Strep B test. He also told me that I’ve dilated for 2-3cm already! Then he told me that I could be anytime now! I went home and told my hubby about the news. He started to worry about it and wanted me to pack all the bags so that we could be ready. Somehow I didn’t think that the baby would come as fast as I would thought. Well, I’ve two more weeks of children bible study to teach, one woman’s bible study to lead, and a after church meal to prepare before the baby’s arrival! And of course, my MIL’s room to clean up and some baby’s stuff to be taken down from the attic! Come to think about it, I’ve so many things to do before my baby could come! I need to start crossing out my to do list!

Adventureland at Fellowship Bible Church

ruth — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:55:53 +0000

It’s the first day of Mother’s day out program for Nathan. He got up early in the morning and was ready to go!!! We had our breakfast and got dressed in few minutes. When I looked at the clock, it was still too early to go and Nathan was pulling his backpack around the house and hurried me to the car already. Then I said, why not we rest for a while before we leave. Then he looked me and started asking me to pray for him. I was more than happy to pray for him in this special moment! We left the house about 8:30am and but it was still too early to go in and I decided to pump gas. Nathan asked, “Mom but we have to go to school!” Well, after assuring him that we will go to school, he was happy to be waiting in the car while mommy killed some time at the gas station. Now it’s time to go to school, we reached there and he immediately jumped out of the car without any delay to go to the classroom. But we’re still early..hahha!! We had to wait for a few minutes to check in the kids and after everything is done he rushed to his class without even said good bye to me!!! I was disappointed and kept calling him and finally he heard me and waved good bye to me. Oh well, apparently it was harder for the mommy. My hubby was asking me if I could stay with him for the first day last night. My answer now it’s absolutely NO!!! He was doing just fine without mommy!

Daddy misses Nathan

ruth — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:57:19 +0000

Yesterday we went to a friend’s house and stayed there for the whole day. We had lunch and Nathan even took a nap there. We left the place about 5:00pm. We thought we might get home before daddy. But daddy got home didn’t find us there and started calling us because he had not seen us the whole day!! After talking to him, I hung up the phone and turned to Nathan and told him that daddy was worry about us. Nathan pretended to cry and to be sad: “Daddy misses Nathan…sob sob!”
When we got home, he was happy to see daddy. Daddy welcomed us back and Nathan commented: “Daddy cheered and said hurray, hurray! Nate nate is back!”

Things that the kids learn these days…

ruth — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:02:46 +0000

N: “Mommy, do you know that iPad is like a small computer and iPhone is like a small telephone?”
Me: “So, daddy told you about that?”
N nodded. After that, he ran out of my bedroom and started looking for his “iPhone.”
When Andy got home and I told him about the thing that N told me this morning, he immediately said that he didn’t tell that to N.
So, I started to wonder where did he learn this from?? I wonder things that the kids learn these days… I still remember back in my old days, I don’t even know what is a cell phone or a computer!!!

8 weeks to go…

ruth — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:39:40 +0000

8 weeks to go and we will be meeting another baby of ours! Can’t believe that when I first found out in Jan that I was pregnant and now the pregnancy is almost over. Lately, I’ve been having bad heartburn. I’ve read about the pregnancy book and found out that this is quite common. Who would know that I could pass my GTT and instead having heartburn. hahah.. I would definitely agree with everyone else, every pregnancy is different. But I would really pray very hard that the labor process would be as easy as the first one though!!! We have decided to name our second boy – Noah. Can’t wait to meet the little baby Noah in another 8 weeks!

Sunday at Church

ruth — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:34:16 +0000

We got back from church and I asked Nathan what did he do at church? He said he had fun playing with his buddy. Then he told me the following:
Albert asked me if I’m Nation.”
N replied: “No, I’m Nathan!!!”

Apparently, his buddy still couldn’t get his name right. And Nathan as usual likes to correct people mistakes, corrected him that his name is “Nathan.”

Is it the first born thing or what, I find that Nathan likes to give out instruction or to correct people. Aww… I’m so not look forward to all the bickering between the brothers and all the correction and instruction he will be given to his little brother!

Happy Farmer

ruth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:10:12 +0000

Finally days of anticipation, Nathan is able to pick the cantaloupe out of the vegetable garden. Nathan has been enjoying going to check out the garden everyday. The most thrilling days are when he sees the tomatoes are turning red, and he will points at them and shout: “Ma, the tomato is red now!” After all, I’ve enjoyed to have a little vegetable garden this year just to see the joy and excitement from him.
I won’t believe that the cantaloupe is actually grow out of my garden!! I’ve never planted cantaloupe or any melons before, it turns out that this is really easy to grow but I’ve no guaranteed of the sweetness of the cantaloupe yet. In a few days, we’ll find out how it tastes like.

Cake Decorating Class

ruth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:23:13 +0000

I’ve been attending the cake decorating class offered by Wilton for two weeks now. It has been a pleasant class and I’ve enjoyed them a lot. I think the class is kind of intense with a lot of preparation done ahead. I talked a friend of mine, apparently the class’ format has changed and sounded like the new course has more hands on experience to compare to the old course. So far, this is the first cake that I’ve decorated in my second class. Here is the picture:

The cake turns out pretty nice, don’t you think? hahah.. but I think I might have won the the title of “The ugliest cake” in the class but I’m still proud of my accomplishment
I’ve another class to attend tonight, I’ll be decorating cupcakes that I’ve already made. Will upload more pictures to let you see how it turns out.
Update: Picture of my cup cakes…

What could be the better Truth than hearing it from your Toddler

ruth — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:46:45 +0000

I was reading the stories from the “Elmo and friends!” book to Nathan. When i read about the story of Cookie Monster was going to invite his friends over for a meal, then he decided to made a list of things to do around the house. Then we came to this page of Cookies busy cleaning the house. Then my 3 years old pointed at the page and added his comment: “The house is messy like mommy’s!” I turned around and asked, “Really mommy’s house is as messy as Cookies?” Nathan replied: “Yes!” Of course, Andy was busy laughing!!! I guess innocent toddler doesn’t lie and I’ve to improve on my housekeeping skill.