Benjamin & Anniina Teh's Blog

Surprise! Surprise! Ben just learned himself how to swim by floating face up for several feet. We were really surprised as we did not teach him and he did not swim often. In fact, we let him swim once every 1 or 2 months recently. I don’t think he even tried this swimming style the last time we swam although daddy and mummy swam this way sometimes. We usually bring him to the playground or park for exercise, but just found that his appetite is better after swimming compared to playing in the playground.

So far, there are two things that Ben learned himself, without us teaching him. One is drawing, the other is swimming. We’ve been talking about sending him to swimming class and art class but did not really take action. I guess we better take action.

We made 2 day-1 nite trip to Cameron Highland when Mummy’s sister and her family visited Penang.

Ben’s drawings have improved and he still draws whenever he feels like drawing. Recently, he likes to draw animals, ambulance, and houses. Sometimes, he likes to draw and write something or label what he draws. He asked Daddy to send the first picture below to Mo Mo when she was hospitalized a few months ago. The 5th one was drawn to give his friend. He drew some pics, wrote something and gave them to a few of his friends sometime ago but, we did not get to shoot photo of them. They were really nicely done.

A pen and a paper sometimes help us a lot when eating out as they can entertain Ben very well and keep him under control..
These pics tells how he got busy drawing and what he drew on tissue paper!

Sometimes old presents are more precious than new ones as they have sentimental values. Recently, Ben inherited some of Daddy’s 30-year-old (or may be more) childhood stuffs, when Daddy cleared up his old house in his home town. Daddy brought back a box of Legos, cars, stickers, a blanket that he used when young, his old shirt and some of Daddy old photos, that look like him. Yes, these were hidden treasures for the past 30 years. Most of the Legos are still good although some have turned slightly crooked. Cars are still in good shape and some of the doors can be opened up. And the cars were made in France, UK, Hong Kong etc that we can’t find in the market now. Ben  loves to use the blanket and wear the old shirt but it’s a little too big for him. He asked for the shirt to wear many times . It tells how much he loves Daddy :*)

These are the precious happy times of two of them captured over some time. It’s time to take some more. But it’s really not so easy to get good ones like this. Even if we get, the quality of photo is not so good sometimes. Anyway, we enjoy shooting them for both photos and videos. We really need one whole day to watch all the collection of videos and photos from their Day 1 to flash back the special memories. We don’t know when it could be.

Yay!, Daddy has found a new activity for Ben, making dumplings or paus! Daddy and mummy let Ben see and help in making bread, cakes and paus since we got Noxxa Oven with dough kneader, which makes life easy. Daddy usually makes bread and paus while mummy makes cakes. It’s a fun time unless Ben does not listen to our instruction. We have tried assorting beans, meat, kaya etc. inside paus but Ben and Mo Mo prefers plain paus. Plain paus are simply delicious with Pork dish with sweet gravy :*) Recently, Ben created Milo pau, which turned out nice with chocolaty flavor!

We notice that the commercial paus and bread are much whiter due to using beaching chemicals. And many good nutrition are lost due to bleaching. We can also get non-bleached flour at affordable price.

So, it’s time to have fun making nutritious and delicious paus and breads.

Ben busy in the kitchen with Daddy making paus

Here is our paus.

Ben’s Milo Pau, looks pathetic but yummy…

Hot Paus anyone?

Anniina turned 2 years in Gunung Jerai when we went there for a night trip on 4th Feb. We enjoyed the chilly weather and mountain view together with our friends from Iran. Ben and Annina enjoyed playing with Arshida. Arshida was like a big sister to Anniina. The place is just nice to lazy around or just read a book with a cup of tea. We also had a great view from our hotel room. The food was good at restaurant too.
Happy Birthday Mo Mo!

Licking up the cheeses of carrot cake Mummy made with love.

With butterfly tattoos

Chasing bubbles

We celebrated this Chinese New Year with Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle in Penang. Ben was so happy to have guests at home rather than getting ang paos. I guess he doesn’t know how to appreciate ang paos yet. And as usual, it was hard to get him take group photo with us.

Happy new year to everybody! and Thank you so much for the ang paos for our kids!

These are some of the good ones that Ben drew in recent months. We put them up on our living room walls.

If you are interested in children and their drawing development, you can check out

http://www.learningdesign.com/Portfolio/DrawDev/kiddrawing.html

He named it “Tunnel” and wrote it there himself asking us how to spell.
His creation with stickers.
Ben I am Not??

Daddy and Mummy like this one very much except the background coloring.

He drew it before his concert. He said it’s him with 2 big eyes performing on the stage

and flowers are given by audience. ha ha..

 We don’t know where he has seen audience give flower to performers.