Sad & Nervous

It's sad to leave my husband alone for 1 mth. poor guy. after all this years married and be spoil, now he have to be independent again, wash his own clothes and other duty. I will be missing him so much.

It would be hard for Jeffrey as well not having his Dad around. He will definitely miss him. I wouldn't know what to do. Worst come to worst, we come back early that expected. I hope he will be fine and just have a blast. many things to do overthere. Abd not stuck inside home due to the winter. We will be in a tropical climate....yippie!!! no jacket, no gloves and hat! and no boots! and that dirty stain frm the wet snow!!

I will miss my bed and my home. Yes i do have family there still, but it's not the same anymore. I have my own life and my own orders and rules here. So this is going to be a long month. Still going to make it fun, but will be missing my independent for 1 mth. I would have to depends on my family a lot when u get there, to go places. Sucks! but what to do lah....

But i am looking forward to spent my time this trip with my friends too.

See ya!!

We are escaping winter for 1 mth

Me and Jeffrey only will be going to Kuala Lumpur this weekend and be back on 3 Mar 2009. I have an opportunity of business networking in Kuala Lumpur and going there for a conference for 3 days. My ticket is paid for, how sweet it that? ;) just paying Jeffrey ticket.

Using this opportunity to see my family again and spending more time with them eventhough we just visitied them 6 months ago but it was a very rush trip.

So for my family in Malaysia, i will see u on Feb 2 around noon.

See ya!!

Argue with Daddy and won it!!

His Daddy is trying to teach him to say 'Apple' and he is been saying 'Papple' for a long time. And still think he is right...check it out!! and to make matter cute, he is kissing Daddy and comfirming that he is right!! Funny betul...and cute too.

Hosted a Baby Shower for my friend Rawan

quite a turn out!! thanks for coming u gals!!

she is about to pop out anytime!!

our sweet friend Rawan

my 3 friends who help me alot a day before and on that day

the centerpieces...we have 4 tables

favourite of people...the chocolate fondue machine...u dip the fruits in it

the show table..heee..heee

me and her..

i made this diapers cake!! cantik kan?

I did decorate and make my own icing this time!! fabulous! was pain in the 'tush'....but worth it...so pretty cupcakes

Been bz for the past week preparing for her party. We had a great time I believe. About 25 people showed up. Thanks for making this event a wonderful time ladies. Hope u had fun with the simple games too. Challenging the brain for a few minutes huh? We played the Baby Scramble Word game, Tray game, and guess how many diapers in diaper cake.

We had so much food as our guest was generous to bring some food with them. It was all delicious!!

Thanks to Lee Lee for that delicious 'hot dog in a bun' , Khadija for coming early helping set up and cleaning after the party, Reema & Manar for helping with the sandwich and pretty much make it themselves at my home, help with the icing of the cake and last but not least helping me organised and decorated the place and clean up. Rawan, thanks for helping us too!! U shouldn't have and glad you are part of the process!! Love ya'll!!

Rawan will be moving and leaving us in June to Minneapollis pretty soon after labor as her husband is a Doctor and will be changing place of residency. We will miss you so much Rawan!! We are having a few close friends moving too :(, Melissa will be leaving early March to Chicago and Reema also will be moving to St.Louis in June. Am so sad that my posse is leaving me.

But we will have a good time before u gals leave me OK?

Sleighing down the hill in our neigbourhood

We woke up with some snow and the temp is not that cold. So after snowblowing the driveway, i took Jeffrey out to the entrance of my neighborhood and had a blast with him sleighing down the hill. He climbed up the hill by himself too and need no help. What a big boy!!

Mommy 35th Bday Today!!

One more year older...but didn't feel it at all. Do i look that old huh? Anyway it's also 10 Muharram and I was fasting. So much for bday huh? Hubby take me out for dinner at BoneFish Grill...yummy...love that place for sure...

Hubby wrote a really hard felt bday card for Mommy. That was realy nice. Thanks Hon!

Got a lot of bday wishes via email and FB friends.

Jeffrey...The Prince Charming

the throw that cause some suspicious Santa Secret finally reveals!! It's actually Mommy's bday gift frm Win & Chot that came way too early that we thought it was for X'mas gift.

He is 2.4 years old on coming Monday. Talking a lot more and get so cute sometimes. He charmed his way in getting what he wants...yeap!!. He will say 'thank you 'for everything we have done for him without us prompting him. bringing him milk, meal, snack or even when we turn on the Wiggles dvd for him. And saying 'please' too. So sweet. Saying a lot more words now and we can understand him clearly too. He will says sometimes ' Mommy's or Daddy's ' referring to my stuffs or Mahesh's stuffs that he is not supposed to touch. His language skills take offs so fast and when we pointed out and saying the words while reading books, he will try imitating it and sometimes said it correctly. Bravo Jeffrey!! We think in the next few mths, he can speak in sentences hopefully. But 1st Mommy have to starts trying out for Potty Train....yicks!! We shall see how long this will take.

Jeffrey 'sayang'...you will always be Mommy's Little Prince Charming. And yes, he loves saying 'Mommy' just to hear me saying 'Yes Sayang'...means yes my darling.. xoxo ;)

Our 4th Wedding Anniversarry

I forgot what this called. Vito Chicken I think... ;)

Tuscany Steak..that I have

calamari

virgin strawberry margarita

We are very unfortunate to celebrate our anniversary on X'mas Eve Day. But we have another 2 others dates too lol...anyway, we went out for dinner at a nice Italian Restaurant called Vincenzo's.

Celebration of X'mas with Mom & Dad

Mom & Dad spent a few days with ur frm the eve of X'mas till early today. That was nice for us nad especially for Jeffrey bonding with his grandparent.

He had a simple yet relaxing X'mas with them. I cooked my special Salmo Tango for X'mas Eve Dinner. X'mas day started with Turkey Bacon, Scramble Eggs and Waffles. Then we opened X'mas presents; which is mostly for Jeffrey...lol

We had a late X'mas lunch and the menu is Sweet, Sour & Spicy Snow Crab Legs, Roast Chicken in special Malaysian sauce and marinating spices called 'Percik'. Greek Salad with feta cheese, rice and toast with sparking apple cider....yes...not champagne as u see in the picture. We don't drink. So that's good enough for us and it's Martinelli's brand. The best sparkling apple cider I've taste!! And we invited Aunt Sharon, Mom's twin to join us for lunch.

Mom & Dad watches Jeffrey for about 2 hrs while we going for our 4th anniversary dinner at Vincenzo's Family Italian Restaurant. That's was delicious food we got there and receive a complimentary dessert for out 1st visit frm the owner and the waitress that we known.

Thanks to our nice neigbour Byran & Lisa for inviting us to their X'mas party. It was fun eventhough we have to leave early 'coz Jeffrey is cranky. Thanks to my others neigbour that get together there and bring something to share. love u guys!

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Summarizing this year 2008

Dear families and friends,

It’s been a happy and sad year for us in 2008. So many great memories made and sad memories happened.

Let’s start with a happy note first. Jeffrey as usual, is having a great year. He is a world traveler at the age of 2. He officially go around the world in the last trip we went to Malaysia. Have his first touch on the sand and sea water there. It was exciting seeing the other part of the family in Malaysia as always. We also had a short vacation in Kuala Lumpur and Bali, Indonesia for only 2 weeks. It was lovely in Bali, we spent a lot of the time rejuvenate in the swimming pool and let Jeffrey played in the water a lot. We needed that vacation and it was perfect.

Just enough to see everybody, but not enough to taste all that yummy food for 24 hrs 7 days a week L .Jeffrey starts talking a lot more words now and has his tantrums too sometimes…what else, ‘terrible two’ they said and I heard ‘3’ is even going to be worst. Oh dear! But he is always as cheerful and charming as he can be and cannot live without ‘The Wiggles’ dvd movies; in the car and at home too.

Mahesh is doing well at work as a Software Developer/Engineer, even though there is up and down of time that he has to spend away from us. But it seems that his work now is more stabile. He always enjoyed what he is doing at Gallup. It’s a great place to work for him. And next year I heard he will have his new office in the new office building…yippie for Daddy!!!

As for Mommy, this year is been real busy socializing and having a side internet business, Yes….handbags business all the way in Malaysia. Small side business but making her busy shopping for items at all time everywhere she goes. Doing what she likes at her own sweet time. Wish her luck for this to success more so we can travel back to Malaysia often.

On the sad note, we lost Vijay, our beloved brother and Uncle to Jeffrey very suddenly this year. He had a brain seizure while he was sleeping resulted from his previous medical situation from accident a few years ago. We missed him so much and part of us is still in denial about losing him. But we believe that he is in a better place and at peace. God bless you Vijay and we always miss you every time we thinking about you. It’s very hard on Mom and Dad and definitely on Mahesh. Losing someone very close is very hard to deal with and sometimes, we don’t even want to deal with it sometimes. But eventually, we will make peace with losing him in our life, just pray that everything will be ok and at peace for us too please.

With this, we are wishing you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and Happy New Year!! And hope that this year has been a great year for you and hopefully this coming New Year 2009 will be more exciting and more adventurous for all of us.

See you next year!
Love,
Ellie,Mahesh & Jeffrey Sookram

1st snow this winter!!!

He just happy to see the white stuffs on the ground.... ;) xoxo. This is the 1st one frm many more coming our way.....yicks...it's going to be a loooong winter for sure.