remembering biao yee ma

Our last group photo with biao yee ma at our home.

Prepping Leanne for biao yee ma's departure one night, I told her that biao yee ma was very sick and would soon die. She go to heaven first and we would meet her in heaven again one day.

 

Leanne’s response to me was “ you’ll see her first because you are older and will die before me”.

We have been to biao yee ma’s twice since her departure.

The first time there, Leanne noticed that biao yee ma’s denture was no longer in the glass in the bathroom and said that biao yee ma was not here anymore.

The second time we visited, while using the bathroom again, Leanne asked ‘ why did biao yee ma have to die so soon?"

Auntie Paula gave us a few tea cups that were greatly treasured by biao yee ma and the generations before. When I gave instructions to auntie sherly to carefully pack and put them away in the cabinet, Leanne chirped in and said “these are very precious. When we look at them, we remember biao yee ma”.

I think biao yee ma would be chuckling if she heard these.

our dancing princess

leanne's fifth birthday

After much consideration we decided to change Leanne to a new school. The school uniform helped in convincing her to the changeJ

She soon made friends and two of her good friends are sophie bella and gwen.

 

We celebrated her 5^th birthday in school. We thought Leanne wanted a princess cake but her liking for chocolate and ice cream overcame her aesthetic preference and she chose a chocolate ice cream mud pie instead.

 great fun preparing the goodie bag

 heart shaped candles that Leanne chose personally

 gwen

 miss serene

  hmmnn... what shall I wish???

 nevermind, be systematic about blowing the candles first....

 happy birthday darling!

 

After the celebration, we went to vivocity to catch a movie and it happened Frozen was screening there. Leanne got to choose her own birthday present and she headed straight into smiggdens and selected one of those huge padded pencil case and started packing in stationaries following the display pack.

Frozen has become her all time favourite movie and Leanne is able to sing almost every single song from that movie and first song that she started to learn was “ Let it go” and part of the lyrics goes like this:

Don't let them in,
don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel,
don't let them know
Well now they know

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore

leanne's best friends

 sophie bella

 

who is very much head strong like Leanne. the teachers told us that they could be the best of friends one minute and refused to play the next.

 

and gwen.

the three of them: Leanne, sophie and gwen have been forbidden to sit next to one another in class because they talk too much...

the completed tree

 no theme. just lots of fun picking up the different decorations that we like from the shops

 Leanne chose these stars

and this little wooden angel was bought from heals in London years ago in anticipation of the tree...

our very own christmas tree

we finally got our very own Christmas tree !!! for Christmas 2013 at hillview.

 the cheeky smile of Leanne

and a different smile from Leanne that we hardly see...

concert preparations

Leanne was all excited the night before and was ready to go to bed though it took her a while to fall asleep.

some still shots of her sing and dance routine.

 so pleased with the make-up on her face.

 

some still shots of her sing and dance routine.

leanne's first concert performance

the year end concert at st joseph child care. this is the n2 performance. the children did both an English and Chinese performance. Leanne was really good at keeping mum when I asked her about it before and told me it was meant to be a surprise.

we all think she was the best dancer in class :-)