Cool business idea

Here is a really cool business idea: mamatongsoup.com
For those living in USA and wanting to enjoy some of the benefits of the chinese confinement foods, here's a business that would send prepackaged soups to you. Great for baby shower gifts too!

She links us to www.thechinesesouplady.com to a family in hongkong who have put up so many soup recipes and actually tell you what those chinese herbal ingredients are and for. Very informative!

Firsts... box of infant nappies

Bub has outgrown the newborn sized nappies already (they go up to 5kg). So it's onto the next sized nappies -- infant size...

photobooks

Got a voucher to do up photobooks from photobookshop.com. The vouchers were $29 for 60 pages for a 22cm x 28cm photobook which would have otherwise have cost $101. So I thought it was a great saving! Did one with our Bali pictures and did another one with our wedding in Malaysia photos. They are going to go onto the shelf for easy viewing :)

Tomato fried rice

was trying out the new camera to see if i get better food photographs :) this was lunch.

New camera!

Hubby bought a camera (second hand), but new to us. Now we can take better pictures! We decided that a professional photo shoot for a newborn was too expensive, and that money was probably better spent on a new camera. 

I never could capture her feet in good detail with the other cameras that we've got. Now I get to keep a picture of her tiny feet! She's growing up so quickly now. She's managed to turn from her tummy to her back today. Another milestone!

first month celebration

I think I was keen to get out of the house 4 weeks post partum, so what better way than to organise a first month birthday celebration for bub? CK kindly allowed us to host the event at his house as it was bigger.

so... dyed some eggs red using a recipe i found online...

 I only did 1 hard boiled egg per person, wasn't so sure how the red fresh eggs would go down, so decided to combine them with easter chocolate eggs (we were in easter period). i wanted them to be all red foil wrapped chocolate eggs (but they were sold in multi colors per pack), we couldn't find any red colored foil, so hubby bought these red paper streamers instead (which is incredibly hard to wrap around an egg). So gave some gold eggs mixed with the red eggs... (one needed to give an odd number of eggs for girls, and an even number of eggs for boys)

I baked a blueberry shortcake from my trusty baking book. Gave up trying to make ang koo kueh (they had to have the patterns for a girl and can be round and plain for a boy) -- sounded like a malaysian adaptation from the nyonya culture.

We did cut a short length of hair at the back. 

more cooking

got this easy mini frittata recipe from woolworths magazine. i didn't have enough eggs but it turned out ok. 

and this recipe from a cookbook: noodle w sesame sauce and garlic, topped w bean sprouts and red capsicum. tasted yummy too.