KY and Mommy appeared on News Straits Times!?

Hi folks,

Just got to know from Ros, from MomBloggersPlanet, that the Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out event which we attended on 2 Jan, 2010 was mentioned in News Straits Times(NST) today.

Below was the story extracted from NST Online:

Note: Can you see me and KY in the first picture? But nope we are not the Grand Prize Winner(it was Ros) but we had loads of fun! Thanks to Nuffnang and Friso!

Cheers!

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Thursday, 14 January 2010

A chip off the old blog 2010/01/14 Parents and their children clap to the beat. —Pictures by Rizuwan Zaini Petaling Jaya: Over 300 prolific parenting bloggers and Friso Gold product users with their children attended the Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out 2010 held recently at Kizsports & Gym in 1-Utama Shopping Centre. It's a kind of magic at Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out 2010. The guests were thrilled that Nuffnang, Asia-Pacific's first blog advertising community, and Friso Gold, a premium growing up milk formula from Dutch Lady Milk Industries Bhd, had organised another family day out following the first in 2008. The event was an opportunity for the guests to bond with their children and young family members over activities and games. Toddlers were entertained by music and taught to do the "Hokey Pokey" dance while kids above 3 years played games like "Stand On The Spot". There were also a sand art colouring session and magic show at Playland which amazed both the kids and the parents.

For full article, go to NST here!

Cheers!

Updates on Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out, 2 Jan 2010

Hi folks!

Time really flies....After two busy days sending KY to nursery, finally I am up to it and eager to post up some pictures and write-ups on Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out which we attended on 2 Jan 2010 held at Kizsports & Gym, 1-Utama Old Wing.

Look at the long queue and crowd...we arrived at 10am but there are already a long queue there...good response yeah from all parents!

Picture courtesy of Nuffnang Official Photographer of the event, nicknamed Shaolintiger. More pictures of the event can be viewed from his gallery here

This year, I am so lucky that Nuffnang had called me to inform that since I am one of the early-bird entry, I am given another family invitation, which means I get to invite another 2 adults and 2 children along and have fun with us! How nice right, but at that point of time, suddenly I am not sure who to invite(at such short notice when everyone could be everywhere else having their holiday break).

First, I contacted my sister(she happened to have arranged for outstation trip that weekend), some blogger friends, alas in the end, I thought hey, why didn't I think of my babysitter!!(As decribed in my previous post entry here)

So, I quickly gave her a ring and asked if she would like to join us for some great fun at the event with her kids and hubby before the school reopen! And YES, why not, she said!!! So here's a picture we took that day! Say Hi to my ever-trusted babysitter and her family!

Picture courtesy of Nuffnang Official Photographer of the event, nicknamed Shaolintiger(see his picture below taken by DH!). More pictures of the event can be viewed from his gallery here

Thanks to this gentleman(nicknamed shaolintiger), who is the Official Photographer for the event(why I must say official, 'cos with the numerous bloggers bringing along their profesional camera, SLR, you would be confused who is the "official" one...haha...)who helped us to take the group photo!

This year, my baby Shone enjoyed himself a great deal(last year when he attended the event, he was merely 5 months old), this year he went pa-pa 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 [means: climb-climb,1-2, 1-2, 1-2] with me following behind closely or rather chasing behind him...

Shone went through the slides(high and low ones) countless times...phew..thoroughly enjoyed every slides ride...:)

Shone immersed in a pool of colourful balls

Shone enjoyed being a footballer...I simply love this big open space for kids to play balls safely and have fun!

As for KY, I noticed that she enjoyed the magician show as well as the gym class the most!! Compared to last year whereby she practically do her own stuff when the gym teacher was doing the singing and dancing, etc, this year she followed the Hokey-Pokey dance and obstacle course pretty well.

KY doing her Hokey-Pokey dance

Obstacle Course

Guess this is the difference which comes with age! She also enjoyed the magician show and kept repeating to me some of the things she saw the magician did during the event!

Some kids cried upon looking at the magician in a red robe and played tricks with FIRE!! Haha..kids don't try this at home ok!!!

And KY also tried her first SandArt with the picture of Dora. She was so happy mixing the numerous colors and she even chose the eye color as green and pink, and I just let her be since that's the only time when they are free to choose their imaginative colors and hey we do have green color contact lenses nowadays rite..lol

KY, after got her little pressie after a short dancing stint with this bubbly emcee(who also the emcee last year) ! He really has a way to make the kids dance with the music!

My babysitter's kids enjoying the "Balloon-bursting" game

And here is their lunch room for kids.

We met Redmummy at lunch room with Red Daddy and manage to catch a snapshot of this two lovely red couple!

Nicholas from Nuffnang presenting Toy R Us voucher to one of the winner from Sawanila.com who is also the Grand Prize(which is 1x 3D 2N Trip for 2 Adults and 2 Children to Hong Kong Disneyland!! ) winner of last year Friso Nuffnang event!

One of the notable sight of an event, nicely-parked strollers of all sorts of brands(you name it!) and neatly-arranged shoes of all sizes!

And from the lunch room window, I managed to snap a picture of my blogger friend, Chinnee, the owner of Mamapatch with her daughter, Qiqi and her twins who is same age as Shone!

You must be wondering why most of my pictures are taken at lunch room? Because when the kids are busy eating, that's the ONLY time I have to take pictures lol!! Other time are spent enjoying all different games, places, talk by Ruth Liew hehe..too engrossed!

Ruth Liew, giving talk and answering some common questions by parents.

Picture courtesy of Nuffnang Official Photographer of the event, nicknamed Shaolintiger. More pictures of the event can be viewed from his gallery here

One thing I especially took note of when Ruth answered one of the commonly-asked questions from many parents, which is on how to curb or manage kids who picked up foul languages once they started school.

According to Ruth, we have to asked ourselves where does the other kids picked up those foul language from if not from the adults? So the crucial part here is parents gotta be a good role model themselves and not speaking those "languages ourselves! And some things are mere learning phase and the kids will get over it soon.

And this year, I managed to meet some of the mommy bloggers as well as their lovely kids!

The first one I spotted is Izzah, the princess of Kak Ros, from Mombloggersplanet (they won the Most Creative Blog Post and the prize is- 1x 3D 2N Trip for 2 Adults and 2 Children to Hong Kong Disneyland!! Congrats Kak Ros!

I think Izzah is getting tired and bit teary here cos as usual the prize giving ceremony is at the end of the event and obviously all kids are worn out but very happy!

Shone with Izzah

Me with MommyLyna and Fahry

Look at the big crowd filled with family bloggers! Hope to get to know more of you in coming events to come for bloggers like us!

Look at this group photo of the happy winners of 1x 3D 2N Trip for 2 Adults and 2 Children to Hong Kong Disneyland and 10xRM100 Toys "R" Us!!

Picture courtesy of Nuffnang Official Photographer of the event, nicknamed Shaolintiger(see his picture below taken by DH!). More pictures of the event can be viewed from his gallery here

And lastly, look at this tired but happy Shone, lying on his babysitter's comfy shoulder.

That's all on the updates on Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out, 2 Jan 2010!!

Let's hope there will be Season 3 next year!

Thanks Friso, Nuffnang and many other sponsors and bloggers who made this event a spectacular one!

Cheers!

Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out

(Picture taken from Nuffnang site)

Hi folks,

Just a short entry...that my family is attending Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out at 1-Utama today!

Due to being the early entry, I am given the privilege to invite another family over to join in the fun!

And, I have invited my ever-nice babysitter, her husband and her two kids along to have some fun together!

I always believe that we should appreciate the services of our babysitter who given us a sense of security and comfort that our children is on good hands! And it's not an easy job being a babysitter! Not only it can be tiring but it is a BIG responsibility as well to take care of someone's kids!

So, stay tuned while I post other pictures of the event soon!

Meanwhile, happy weekend everyone and hope to meet some blogger buddies at this event! Don't forget to say hi and hope to snap a picture with you all for remembrance!

Cheers!

Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out

Hi folks,

I just got the invites to Nuffnang Friso Gold Family Day Out!!! Yey!!

Wonder how many of my blogger friends are invited to this event? Let me know in this comment box ok, so that I can keep a lookout for you all!

I have joined their event last year and guess what, this event been always a great memory to my 2 year old daughter, KY and mine as well. Obviously she had a great fun there and the term "Friso" has always been in her mind and mouth from then on. You knew it when she kept saying, " Mommy, you know the "Friso" there, they have this small little toilet bowl for kids....etc" lol. You can hear this term "Friso" repeating every now and then! From last year till now..haha..

For me, I am very glad to meet my blogger buddy, Ai Lian there as well as some renown Malaysian bloggers like Redmummy and The Obnoxious 5xmom!

So, when I got the phone call from Nuffnang to confirmed about the invitation, KY is as excited as I am when she gets to know that she is able to go to the "Friso" event(as she puts it) again this year! Just keep my finger crossed and we shall able to attend this great event safe and sound! Immune system please keep the kids and mommy and daddy in good hands! As the theme for this event is Curious kids needs to be tough inside(check out my entry here), so to let them have a good time there, we all must play our part and keep our immune system at tip top condition at all time(after this HFM attacks..it really blows me off!!! See my entry here, here and here on their HFM ordeal!)

Hey, if you have not heard of this event or have not do anything to get the invites, why not do it NOW!

As long as you are a blogger and Nuffnanger, you are qualified to enter.

I will not post too much here. The best is to read about the steps and requirement to earn your invitation to this event held at Kidsport Gym on 02 Jan 2010, 1-Utama Old Wing, 10am- 2pm, it's on Saturday!

Interested? Check out the Nuffnang site now!

Hope to see you all and kids there!

Cheers!

Curious kids need to be tough inside

Ever since I am pregnant with my first child, KY, I have read a lot about babies and how to build up a strong immune system.

Then I decided to breastfeed my child to give them the GREAT START!!

Even though, being attacked by minor sickness like flu, cough etc is part and parcel of growing up, but at least we can make their defence stronger so that they can at least recover faster or get sick less frequently or less serious!

I think that's the Best GIFT we can give to our children.

Kids are naturally full of curiosity and zest for life! In order to enable them to have a joyful and unrestricted discovery of this world, one of the thing we can do is to make them tough inside, that is emotionally and physically healthy so that they could explore their world with no worries or limit!

Breastmilk is the first step. The next thing we can do is to provide them a good nutrition from young.

The following are some steps I took to ensure I play my part in giving them a good immune system:
1. Breastfeed my kids(at least for first six months), KY was breastfed till 1 year old and Shone(at 18months) is still being breastfed


2. Adopt the 4 days rule when introducing solid food to detect any allergies in food intake. (For KY, she is fine with most food, whereas Shone seems to have tendency of gassy stomach after taking sweet potatoes)

3. Keep abreast with all the latest articles regarding immune system. I subscribed to numerous newsletter from everywhere to keep myself updated.

4. Ask around, share and scout for healthy and easy to make recipes.Keep experimenting and introducing varieties of good and wholesome food.

5. Allow the kids to run around in nature.

6. Give a well-balanced diet. I adhere the 5 colors rule, that is mixed and matched food in 5 colors combination, a simple way to ensure they receive varieties of nutrients.


7. Ensure they get enough rest and playtime.( I try not to arrange too much activities during the weekends especially during their nap times and no more parties till late nights too!)



There are more steps we can take I believe!

What are the steps you take to increase your child’s immune system?

I love to hear it especially now that my kids are fighting the HFM disease![I hope they will be as strong as the picture fighting the coxsackie virus with all their MIGHT..mommy will be hear cheering and supporting for you kids!!!! Aunties and Uncles out there, please keep them in your prayers!!]Mommy is doing ALL my BEST pumping my breastmilk(since Shone is having ulcers now and not able to suck/nurse), making ice popsicles and ensure they don't get dehydrated!

Pray that All kids grow strong and mighty!

Cheers!