london paris milan aug 2015

we decided to take a month break from work and took leanne back to london for a stay and short visit to milan for the world expo.
it was a lovely trip catching up with old friends, revisiting old haunts and visiting new places as well.

 london here we come!

 first stop: v&a museum to see alexandra mcqueen exhibition

followed by the science museum across the street

stayed at uncle denis and auntie beatrice place at north greenwich for a couple of days

took the opportunity to walk around greenwich and a bit of posing

how leanne has grown _jan 2015

She is now a happy bubbly little girl with a wicked sense of humour; affectionate with lots of hugs and kisses for us; and with great empathy.

Leanne is able to pick up things and words really quickly. Leanne is able to understand what we say and develop her thoughts based on her understanding. The teachers feedback during the PTM was that she is like a little adult.

Sometimes she amazes me with the things she would say. For instance: 

-When daddy and mommy grow old, she would need a helper as she wouldn’t be able to push both our wheelchairs on her own.
-She told a classmate’s father not to be late for school otherwise the boy would miss his lessons.
-One day, she told Adrian that she giap her finger with her perfect English diction. Upon Adrian's reply- 'excuse me?'. She then corrected herself and said ' I giapped my finger'.

Leanne loves school and has always been happy to go to school and didn’t cry even when she first started at 2 ½ year old.

She loves to play with the girls and boys and is the teacher’s little helper. She loves role playing most. With the children in school, she would always be the mommy when they play family games. Otherwise, she would be playing ninja turtles and power rangers with the boys. At home, she would be Miss Serene while either the grandparents, or us and the helper would be the students in her class.

Last night, we were pretending that I was the masseur giving her a foot and back rub (just like what she saw when we went to wan yang), she quipped in perfect mandarin : 做好来,不然叫老板换人.

She has a sense of justice and fairness; and would stand up for the kids who got bullied by the more domineering ones in school.
She enjoys reading and first thing she does when she wakes up is to pick a book to read. Her Chinese words recognition is not as strong but she listens well and is often her Chinese teacher translator in class to the rest of the children.  

She is a great performer and loves to sing and dance; and can remember her dance steps and words well and takes her school performance seriously.

At home, her body will shake voluntarily when she hears music and she can dance really well to the tune and feel of the music.  

 

leanne turns six

the last time Leanne had a proper birthday party was when she was three and mrs s wanted to plan something special for her sixth birthday before she parts with her preschool friends. however, our little girl has better plans:

Leanne’s simple wishes for her birthday celebration

-A frozen cake

-sausages, pizza, drinks and crisps with her friends

-Dismissal at half day so that she could got to sushi tei for birthday lunch followed by a movie.

to build up the excitement, leanne chose the things in the goodie bag, wrote personally and decorated the bags; and packed them.

 the carefully selected things that go into the girl's goodie bag

 individually written bag for everyone

and one for the special birthday girl written by the birthday girl herself!

the lovely cake from cloud9

kate- leanne's new best friend in k2

our movie- big hero six and snacks after the birthday celebration.

leanne having a spin on the elevated platform at shaw lido after the movie. she loves the dress that sf yee ma bought her.

hong kong 2014

this year, we all managed a short trip to hong kong and macau with the aunties and cousins. the trip was short but we managed to have yummy food and shopping!

all excited the night before as she packed her luggage.

 6am at the airport...which means we were up at 4.30am...

 the travelling party with the exception of ben who went off with his hong kong friends...

 artificial snow fight in the glass globe outside haisan place

leanne's new favourite poses...

and meeting up with her best friend from school at disneyland. somehow, the girls found out that they were going to be in hong kong during the same period and asked the mommies to arrange to meet up.

 a very knackered leanne at the end of disney day...