My Birthday 2024

My birthday was smack in the middle of our Sunway staycation. Basically I was too preoccupied to arrange any celebration for myself.  Hubby did suggest to get cake at one point but then I totally forgot about it.  To my surprise, my girls were prepared.  On my birthday, JE pulled out this painting she'd made featuring both the girls' favourite toys.  

Happy birthday to Mama, says all the pets

SE produced this card.

From the piglets

I was surprised as I didn't realise they were making cards. 

When we got home, asked SE to hold the card so I could take a picture.

Happy birthday to mama!

  Aww... love my girls.  Another year older and wiser for me (I am so very wise by now!)

Sunway Staycation p3

Final day of our staycation, SE checked out the kiddy club.  It caters for younger kids though there was a big video game screen which would have been fun.  We didn't have time to do much before check out.

Ball pool hehe

JE got to try out Potato Corner as she'd been wanting to for some time.  As I'd expected from the reviews... basically expensive fries with tons of seasoning powder.

Let's try this potato

The buffet breakfast was excellent, but a buffet does pose special difficulties for SE.  What I saw was her taking too-healthy items like yogurt, cheese and hard-boiled egg in small portions i.e. half a bowl of yogurt, a few small cubes of cheese, half an egg.  She claimed she ate a lot and said she was too full for the next meal.  And the next.  And so on - it was difficult to get her to eat for the rest of the day.  So overall I wasn't sure she was getting even her usual daily amount of food.  Regular meals would be better for this girl at the moment.

Anyway... was a good holiday!  We finished using our vouchers, had lunch, walked around Pyramid a bit and then scooted off home which was so near hahaha.

Sunway Staycation p2

SE was looking forward to the water play pool.  We used to swim on a weekly basis, but she hadn't been in a swimsuit since December (i.e. over 3 months) when the doctor forbade her from swimming and other strenuous activities.  She put it on and said she looks good in a swimsuit.

First the playground...

Swinggg!!!

Cycle cycle

The girls tried out the various water features.

Water portal!

Sliding BACKWARDS is more fun

This is fun!!

I was mindful to limit pool activity time for SE.  She went back to the playground a while.

Some kind of climbing 'makcik'  haha

Sunway Staycation

Need to catch up on my March posts.  OK so we took a 3d 2n package at Sunway Resort hotel with breakfast and some food vouchers included.  It was value for money, the dates suited us and a staycation would be a perfect activity for the school holiday.

Driving there was a breeze of course heh heh.  Reached there in no time!

Checked in... and I was amused to notice SE had fed her piglets - technically one piglet, one moomin who'd stood in as a replacement pig when the piglet was lost and one moomin who'd never been a piglet (yes it's complicated).

Packet of sugar for each of you

Had to take a photo of the hotel backdrop matching JE's holey outfit hehe.

Mama is much amused by this

Love the colours

Used the RM75 voucher for this "CRAZYSHAKE" at Black Tap.  It had chocolate brownies, chocolate milkshake, loads of cream, choc chips, choc sauce... fun experience but to me, not worth its hefty price.  

Giant milkshake

More to come on what we did.

JE’s birthday 2024

JE is 14!  This year, our maid (who has started taking baking classes) made her birthday cake.  She got out the fondant one night earlier in our apartment - SE made blobby and the moomin, JE made the monkey.  So this year it was a very personalised and unique cake.  

Me, my cake and my pets!

SE made her sis a card.  It's a moomin on the front...

Outside

Which opens up to it yelling out "Happy B-day!"

Inside

JE chose Mcdonald's for lunch.  We didn't go out for dinner since we were going to be eating out the next few days.

Me and my fam

Happy birthday to my darling girl!

How bad

How bad was the problem with SE... well, bad.  Her bones were sticking out.  The veins on her arms were so obvious as there was insufficient flesh to cover them.  Her pants were hanging loose, the butt area hollow.  

Bones

More bones

'How' she managed to get to this condition is a mystery to me.  As is the 'why'.

Waiting

One month of forced absence ahead of the actual school holidays... seems such a long time.  It turned out that due to classrooms being required for SPM exams, JE was largely off school for the month as well.

I was very apprehensive how things would turn out, worried how SE was going to take it.  How was she going to fill her day?  We others had our daily routines and would not be able to spend all the time with her.  For once I wished she was addicted to iPad games!  

After the first day, fortunately the situation did improve.  Overall we were more relaxed - bedtime was later since there was no need to wake up for school (JE was in the afternoon session).  SE started reading the Harry Potter series.

My taugeh grew

Our objective was to get her weight up as much as possible in 2 months.  Then she would be able to start school with everyone else after the school holidays.