Half-way mark

Yesterday marked my 20th week of pregnancy. Time flies for sure.. Counting it'll be another 17 or 18 more weeks to go. Boy, it's scary. Scary because of delivery? Nah.. Scary because of confinement? Nah. Scared whenever I thought of returning back to work. The logistic nightmare of preparing 2 kids. One to nursery n another to babysitter. With me need to express, can I even get decent sleep?? Haha

Before CNY I went for my routine gynae checkup. I'm expecting a baby boy again!! The boy gene is surely very strong in his family. Boy or girl, though girl is much preferred doesn't matter cos as ppl always say "As long as baby is healthy". I do hope mine is.. I've been very nottie, eating raw food at times I can't resist!! Haha

Chinese New Year 2011

Chinese New Year 2011 is gone with just a blink of an eye. Technically, it is still CNY as it is only the 7th day today..to me, as long as I started work, CNY is over for me.

This festive season is always fun during the preparatory stage and when it is the actual day, everyone just fall flat on their back - too tired, fatigue, hot weather! Kids will be the happiest because they will be receiving Ang Pows (red packets). Even Zach started saying "Give me ang pow" after his "Gong Xi Fa Cai"..arrggh..i m so 'paiseh' each time he said that cos that sounded so wrong! Luckily he only dared to say that to his grandpa (my dad)..lol

We resorted in giving him an empty red packet to hold

Lil' Ethan wants to play

1st Day of CNY

2nd Day of CNY - having lunch at Pizza Hut

Family pix - Don't ask me why my husband is not in the picture! The reason is the same yearly..

More photos are posted on Facebook

Kuih Bahulu

Zachary loves kuih bahulu very much! He can gobble up to 3 at one go.. since Chinese New Year is around the corner and kuih bahulu used to be made by my grandmother (the traditional way of course), I decided to scour the www for a trusted recipe!

I remembered chancing upon a recipe from My Kitchen Snippet and hence decided to go with her recipe..

This is my first try and thanks to Melinda who gave me 2 kuih bahulu mould as Christmas present..

* I omitted lemon zest and replaced 3 tbsp of melted butter with canola oil instead.