Doggy Birthday Party at the Foreshore...

We were invited by Fiona for a little birthday party for Jack at the foreshore. We were happy to go along and attend our first doggy birthday party! Agnes was a little anxious about all the dogs around, since she's afraid of dogs, but it was Jack's party after all. Jacynth probably sensed the emotions, which made her cry. Either that, or Jacynth's starting to be wary of strangers. Our theory was that maybe Jacynth couldn't recognize Judy with her new hairstyle!

Anyway, we decided to leave the pack of dogs to join Fiona at the barbecue....

Jacynth needed her nappy changed, and Agnes went right down to it...

It was a nice day, with a cool breeze blowing inland and beautiful clouds rolling by...

Jacynth, Fiona and the the doggy of the hour - Jack, who is ten years old!

Can I have some burgers too? please?

All in all, it was another good day out at the park...

Best Hokkien Fried Noodles in Perth, and Jacynth on the Trolley

We decided to try out this cafe in Karawara called 'Mama Kopitiam' after a recommendation by one of Kevin's colleagues.  Jacynth has a little bit of fun with her tray in the stroller as daddy places the orders...

The $4.80 Nasi Lemak with chicken is definitely a great find! it's probably the next cheapest meal you can get in Perth after the packed rice in Chilli's which costs $4.50. And it actually tastes good too!

Agnes ordered Hokkien fried noodles, and it turned out to be the best we've ever tried in Perth! They used the wrong noodles - the yellow noodles rather than the fat ones you get back home, but the yellow noodles are almost as fat as the fat noodles back home anyway. It's also not as good as what you get in Malaysia, but beggars are not choosers! They even had pork lard in it! We'll definitely be going back to this cafe in the near future...

After lunch, we went shopping for groceries, and Jacynth had her first ride on the supermarket trolley. She loved it!

And she's been having fun in the trolley ever since...

Mushy Stuff...

 We've started Jacynth on solids! Starting with porridge, rice cereal, pureed potatoes, broccoli and pumpkin...

 However, she appears to be more interested in the spoon than in the food...

...and definitely prefers the few grains of rice that we feed her from our plate...

The pureed broccoli that we keep in the freezer...

All I Want for Easter is My Two Front... ?

We knew it was coming when everything seemed to go into her mouth...

 So we thought we should help her out by letting her have the necessary equipment...

Yes... Jacynth has two little teeth protruding out of her gums!

No more toothless grins!

Pumpkin Muchkin

Autumn is here... and with it, pumpkin season! We bought a pumpkin so we could start Jacynth on some solid food, along with some broccoli, potatoes and rice cereal.

Just a day after, we found a whole box of pumpkins lying at the front entrance to our church, and they were for sale! It was to raise funds for the chaplaincy in some school. We of course couldn't resist getting Jacynth a little 30 cent pumpkin to play with!

 And we bought another one for ourselves (which Jacynth also had a chance to play with)

 It's mine!

Anyway, with so many pumpkins, the only way we could make full use of them was to make pumpkin cakes! ;)

New Mum's Group

Over here, new mothers are encouraged to attend new mothers' group organised by the local child health centres. The child health nurse would be with the group for 5 weeks going through important subjects about raising baby. From then onwards, the group can decide to continue meeting and eventually form a playgroup. 

Agnes only attended a new mothers' group when we came back from Malaysia, so Jacynth is a wee bit older than all the other babies in her group. While all other babies are still sleepy heads as new babies should be, Jacynth is quite fully awake most of the time. Also, the meeting time coincides with her nap time, so on arrival at the centre, Agnes' first task is to get her to sleep which is quite a mammoth task. Thank God she always managed to do it. 

Now that the sessions at the child health centre are over, the group is trying out a few venues to choose a permanent place. This week, they were at the South Perth Library for rhyme time. It doesn't make sense to be napping at rhyme time so the plan was to try to get her to wake later in the morning and make a dash home for a nap once the session is over. Well, it worked out by itself since she had a long wake the night before (more on this later) so ended up waking later.

It was fun attending rhyme time although Jacynth was more busy rolling and turning on the floor and meeting new friends! :)

Agnes can cook #7

As we went to the Vic Park shopping arcade to get some medicine from the pharmacy for Jacynth, we stumbled upon this shop selling Malaysian food... and guess what, they had Nasi Lemak bungkus! We were craving for it, so we bought a packet and sat down to eat... it was not bad, and quite cheap ($4.00 = RM12.00) for Perth standards. It turns out they only sell it on Saturdays. 

Nasi Lemak is one of our favourite dishes, so recently, Kevin managed to convince Agnes to try cooking our own... and it was a success (not without a slight hiccup which required an S.O.S call to Agnes' mum)! :) Will definitely do it again....