Into Year Three

Yes, it’s the 3^rd year ever since ningmengcha was created back in 2007… It’s quite a memory storage for me and my family, watching how my blog grows with the happenings in our life.

Year 1, with the arrival of Megan… Year 2, with the challenges being parenthood… Year 3, with the arrival of Melody and the challenges of parenthood getting tougher than ever…

As you may have noticed, my entries are so full of my M&M sweeties, and the fact is, my life has been revolving the M&M sisters ever since their arrival… And I’m glad that the sisters’ story brings joy to my readers… (if only those woes of parenting can be reduced that way too… haa!)

As you may also noticed, entries are getting lesser nowadays… oh well, whata you expect from a daddy blogger of two? There really isn’t much free time… nor energy… but the urge to blog is still there every now and then, whenever there’s happenings… its like, I’m so addicted to blogging… haha…

As you may even noticed, my blog not only serve as a memory storage for me anymore… it went further to serve me moolah! Keke… oh well, since there is a blog, since there is a advertising channel (nuffnang), say why not… till date, nuffnang ads earnings is also one of my motivation to keep my blogging mojo going strong…

As you may irritated-ly noticed, I’ve gone even further to increase readership to my blog by using many of the social networking sites online… Irritatingly and shamelessly promoting my blog… and here we go again…

NANG ME!

LIKE ME!

SHARE ME!

TWEET ME!

As you may finally noticed, I still haven’t wish my bloggie a happy birthday yet… anyways, H@PPY BIRTHD@Y, dear bloggie… it’s a wonderful and amazing 3 years!

To end this, lets share some recaps over the 3 years with our readers:

Apr’07: When we found out we’re going to be parents!

Jan’08: Got my Lumix FX55, that started the interest to photographing…

Apr’08: Megan’s Arrival!

May’08: When I told Joelle, 2nd one wouldn’t be in the Year of Tiger… but then…

Aug’08: The day that I starting thinking of getting a DSLR…

Dec’08: And the day I got a DSLR… Canon 450d…

Apr’09: Megan’s first birthday celebration.

Oct’09: When we found out we’re going to be parents, AGAIN!

Dec’09: Megan’s first day at school… childcare actually…

Apr’10: Melody’s Arrival!

May’10: My shameless sobbing when Melody was hospitalised… :(

May’10: Joelle’s first Mother’s Day card from Megan…

Jun’10: My almost into tears Father Day Card from Megan… My first ever card!

Aug’10: Today! My Blog turned Three!

daddy, i want to go fish bite toe…

and that’s what megan told me this morning, leaving me as puzzled as u are… before i go into that, lets look at the pictures we had over the past few days…

 

of Melody

she is growing fond of her hands recently, as how everyone puts it, ‘wah, eating chicken drumstick ah!’…

it do sounds finger licking good…

and little melody isn’t that little after all… she had outgrown megan’s size when megan was at melody’s age… and little melody is more challenging than megan as melody simply refuse to sleep long hours…

on the book, babies should be sleeping 16 hours per day… and yet, melody is sleeping like, 3 to 4 hours lesser… of course, its just books… but her refusal to sleep is draining us of our sleep and energy… :S

 

of The Sisters

there isn’t many chances the sisters get to pose together for their daddy… and when chance do come…

 

 

 

 

glad the sisters are getting along well… but actually, megan is a little jealous of having her 100% attention being reduced… if joelle is carrying melody, megan would want me to carry her… u know, stuffs like that… i guess, thats normal bah…

 

of Me and The Sisters

i dun really get to have my photo taken as most of the time, i’m behind the camera and not in front… recalling a shocking remark from a shocking colleague of joelle’s when she saw my long-time-no-see photo on my batam trip post… “omg! so long time never see richard and his jawline is missing!”

what missing jawline? its the angle problem… angle problem!

and recalling a blogger’s comment on the same photo… hitomi: “whoa is that you in the first photo?”

ouch… 打击真大... but i’ll be strong! haha… still posting my photos… :P

 

btw, that part, that’s being touched by melody, that is my jawline… MY JAWLINE! keke… :P

 

of Our Outing Today

yes, back to the subject… that was then i realised, joelle’s brother was talking to megan last nite, asking if she wanna go to the fish spa thingy at 仟湖... and of course, in megan’s language, that fish spa thingy is “fish bite toe”…

and off we went, and maybe because she’s being ‘dug out’ from her nap, megan gone all cranky when we’re on our way…

but of course, first stop is to have a haircut, and while waiting…

 

 

and finally, we reached 仟湖...

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the highlight of the day! fish bite toe!!! melody’s toe!!!

no lah… melody didn’t dip her toes in lah…

 

megan didn’t really get the fish bite toe effect, as first of all, her feet doesn’t have that much 死皮 for the fishes to nimble on, and moreover, the fishes are frightened off by megan’s kicking and splashing…

us, on the other hand, due to extensive walking in our adult life…

its a feeding frenzy for the fishes lor… and since tiny fishes dun give me the sensation, i decided to dip my feet into the big fish pool and i got these…

 

and joelle’s having a good all-natural pedicure time…

 

and so are megan and valerie…

with all the sensation going on at our feet, its not easy to camwhore like this…

had a great fish bite toe day… and the sisters, knocked out when they’re home…

omg, i’m feeling hungry now… grrr, i better watch that jawline of mine… :P

nuffnang moola #5

yes! my 5th cheque arrived today…

till date, from all my cheque records from nuffnang, i’ve earned $616.40! and since first nuffnang ads started jun 2008 on my blog, and moola #5 comes on 28th July 2010, it has been 787 days… hence it meant, ningmengcha is earning $0.78 everyday! haha…

problem is, a can of milk is around $50, and melody finishes it up within 2 weeks, hence it meant $3.57 everyday!

cannot cover leh…

 

so… more nuff power from ningmengcha readers… haha!

 

btw, not only clicking ads helps, giving me the nangs
http://www.nuffnang.com.sg/blogger-profile/?blogger=xiaofu77

and the likes
http://www.facebook.com/pages/NingMengCha/114702821905291

and the shares
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fningmengcha.blogspot.com

and the tweets
http://twitter.com/home?status=Check+out+post+from+%23xiaofu77+On%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fningmengcha.blogspot.com

helps as well… :)

 

thanks everyone! and thanks nuffnang!

我问天

what more can i say??

that 15 minutes that made me realised i’m no longer 15…

this morning, as joelle need to pat melody to sleep and megan kept pestering joelle for attention… i decided to bring megan down for a little ball game… its actually some kind of megan throw the ball and daddy went fetching it game…

we had a good time, as from her smiles, can see she really enjoyed it…

 

now this made her look really sporty… YOG watch out… haha…

 

just 15 minutes, and i’m totally dead beaten… gosh, age is really catching up… haiz…

 

so… its less energy draining playing with melody? no way, she is a little… weighty than megan used to be when she’s 3 months old… my back, shoulders and arms were aching after carrying melody for a while…

 

or again… i’m really that old?? can’t do what i used to be doing already… :P