Changing Diaper

Our Sweetie Pie can change diaper! Well almost, if she had a real baby to practise on.

Midori's First Haircut

Mama Pig has been contemplating on cutting Lil Piglet's hair for a long time. Fearing that Midori might develop a lazy eye from the constant blocking of her right eye by her long bangs, Mama Pig put Midori on her high chair, bribed her with a piece of biscuit before snipping some 6 cm off Midori's bangs...... a tad too much.

Electric Toothbrush

Our Golden Pig tried brushing her teeth with her very first electric toothbrush today. Midori loves it! So much so that now she wants to brush her teeth more than twice a day.

Play Time!

Given the beautiful spring weather, Mama Pig and friends brought their offsprings to the playground today.

Midori loves to swing more than playing with the sand.

Shaki-ra

Midori loves to shake her butt. Our lil "Shaki-ra" has been rocking since the day she started sitting.

Dr. Midori

Mama Pig bought her Golden Piglet a doctor set to help the latter overcome her dislike for her pediatrician. Since then our Sweetie Pie has been playing doctor to Mama Pig, Papa Pig, her dolls and stuffed toys.

Hopefully, this will inspire Midori to be a physician just like her auntie SW and uncle E.

Putting on Shoes

Mama Pig and Papa Pig are proud of the fact that our Golden Piglet has started wearing shoes on her own at 17-month old. What is more amazing is that it was self-taught, because Mama Pig and Papa Pig never taught Lil Piglet how to do it.

Midori doesn't always get them right though. Sometimes she walked around with her right shoe on her left foot and left shoe on right foot. So she still needs to work on it, just like how she's working on getting the right pronunciation on "shoe".

Goodies from BB

The 3 Lil Pigs were overjoyed to receive a surprise parcel from BB the other day. It was like some kind of telepathy between Mama Pig and BB for the latter sent us goodies which Mama Pig had craved for just 2 days before.

Thank U very much for thinking of us, BB!

Mama Pig also likes to thank YY for the interesting DVDs on HK soaps which will spice up her desperate housewife life in Germany.


Hugs & Kisses,

Lily + Stephan = Midori
aka
The 3 Lil' Pigs

Midori Understands

Our Sweetie Pie knows all her stuffed toys by name. Midori understands much more than what she can say. The song "Words Don't Come Easy to Me" best describes her current progress.

Our Pumpkin loves the cute Mr. Donut Japanese commercials so much so that she likes to mimic the characters.

Midori At Work

Midori the mover was dressed up for work.

Our Piglet turned grouchy because she was thristy.

Doesn't our Sweetie Pie look like a boy? Ha ha ha.

Midori the mechanic test drove the car with much pride.

Oh My Darling, Clementine!

Papa Pig came back from work today and saw our Golden Piglet happily peeling and eating a clementine while Mama Pig was napping on the couch. Papa Pig and Mama Pig were so amused at the sight, but our lil' greedy Piglet ignored us and carried on eating.

Guess, Midori was in Chinese New Year spirits cos clementines are the closest fruit to mandarin oranges here in Germany.

Midori Walks!

Yipee! Our Sweetie Pie is finally walking on her own!

Mama Pig and Papa Pig were so thrilled when Golden Piglet started taking her first steps a week ago. Since then we have been encouraging her to walk more steps everyday and today she walked a couple of meters!

Go, Midori! Go!

Standing Tall

Our Precious Piglet stood confidently today after her first stand about 2 months ago. Midori loves to practise standing up on the bed.Our Golden Piglet finally did it! She stood tall and made Mama Pig and Papa Pig so proud of her.

1 Year, 1 Month,1 Week and 1 Day Old

Today our Golden Piglet is 1 year, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day old. The 3 Lil' Pigs didn't celebrate the occasion, instead Mama Pig brought Golden Piglet to a birthday while Papa Pig rested at home on Buß-und Bettag day, a state holiday in Saxony.

Nathalie turns 1 today so her Mexican mom and German dad threw her a real kiddy birthday party complete with pinata.Midori and Mama Pig had so much fun. We tried hitting the pinata, but too bad we couldn't break it. Mama Pig got to know many Spanish-speaking lady expats in Görlitz and Midori made many new friends too.

Happy Birthday, Naty!

Cheers,

Mama Pig & Golden Piglet

The Morning After

Midori woke up and started playing with her new toys even before she had her breakfast.

Stephan joined our precious Piglet and it seemed that the old Pig had more fun with the baby toy as he couldn't keep his fingers off it. Poor Midori, she didn't stand a chance with her toy when her Papa was around.

Thank u very much for the wonderful presents and for celebrating our precious moment with us! U know who u are.

Hugs,

Lily + Stephan = Midori

Happy 1st Birthday, Midori!!!

Time flies. Midori turns 1 today! I can still recall vividly how we were in the hospital anxiously waiting for the arrival of our Golden Piglet last year.

Our Piglet is happy cruising and crawling around the apartment, exploring every corner and studying everything like the great detective Sherlock Holmes. She understands a few commands, words and names of her toys. Our Precious can also say "mama", "papa", "baby" and "bye-bye".

Midori's hearing is very keen and any noise will immediately catch her attention. She also has eyes of a hawk which enable her to spot and eat tiny crumbs off the floor.Our Piglet adores her belly button and feet like no other. Oh, she also loves babies and dogs and will point them out to us and squeal in delight whenever she sees them on the streets or on tv.We threw a birthday party for Midori this afternoon and invited friends over for brownie popsicles, lime cream cheese cupcakes served in ice cream cones and Thai curry sausage rolls washed down with mango lassi served in baby food bottles with straws. Yeah, lots of carbs and cals, but what the heck they were yummy.
The guests showered Midori with presents and she loved it! Her new toys kept her busy and happy through out the day.

Our Piggy loved her vanilla and chocolate mango birthday cake. Then again she loves anything sweet because our Pumpkin has sweet tooth just like her Mama. Actually, 8 sweet teeth (4 each on top and bottom)! We let the birthday girl stayed for as long as she wanted, but by 8:00 pm she was too tired and had to call it the night.

Too bad Midori's dearest Opa, Oma, Tanten, Onkel, KongKong, MahMah, 11, 99s, 99mas, cousins and cool Aunties (u know who u are) weren't here. Wished u were here!

Happy Birthday, Sweetie Pie!

Mama & Papa wish Midori health, happiness, love, beauty, intelligence, wealth (toys) and peace always.

Hugs & Kisses,

Mama Pig & Papa Pig

Let's Play, My Friend!

I noticed Midori has been reaching out to babies and kids. She squeals in delight and points at kids whenever she spots them. However, I had yet to see her play with kids until today when my Japanese friend, Y, brought her baby, A, to our place. It was the first time that Midori and A played together!

Y and I were amazed and amused at how our 2 golden piglets seemed to understand each other via their baby verbal and body languages. They enjoyed chasing each other on fours which left us laughing and snapping away with our cameras.

4.5 months ago, both of them were just sitting in their baby car seats without interacting with one another.

A, is exactly 6 weeks younger than our Sweetie Pie. Technically, she is our Pumpkin's first friend because the 2 Eurasian piglets have known each other since they were still in our tummies! However, the first few meetings weren't fun as both babies cried when they were put next to each other.

Midori Loves Papa

Our Sweetie Pie loves it when her Papa plays with her. Midori loves Papa!!!

Zam-buk To The Rescue

Our Piglet missed a step and fell the other day, hitting her temple on the hard floor.

Thanx to her thoughtful MM99 who suggested to her dearest BB11 to send Zam-buk all the way from Singapore. The irony is Zam-buk is produced by the German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer, but is not sold in Germany.....at least not that I know of. The ointment worked wonders. Midori's boils subsided within an hour and the bruises were gone by the following day.

Thank u, BB11 & MM99!

Up & Down

Our Golden Piglet can get up and down the couch and bed. She is better at getting down and still needs a little shoving up the couch and bed.