On April 17, 2009, both Isabelle's grandma (my mom) and mom (my eldest sister) were not available to take care of her. One had to attend the annual gathering and the other had to do facial and body massage. Since they are my beloved family, I want them happy; I volunteered to baby-sit Belle. Based on several reasons, e.g. nice weather, just two of us staying at home is boring, my heart's desire of bringing Belle to somewhere funny, etc. I decided to take Belle to Hong Kong Disneyland where I believe most of the children would love. This was my first time to take care of a child out all by myself for longer than four hours. I made it! I could feel Belle's happiness from her face when we got there. At around 13:00, we took few pictures in front of the Mickey Mouse and Whale fountain and then we stepped toward to the park. Just behind the entrance, there was a choo choo train, which was one of Belle's favor. When Belle was on the train ride, she showed a glimmer of jitter even though she took this kind of ride many times before, yet Belle is not enough three years old. She didn't want me go away from her for taking her pictures; she just wanted to stick tight with me. We reached Fantansyland at 13:20. We stayed there for 2 hours for only taking Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride, Cinderella Carousel ride, lining up to take photos with Tigger, Mickey, Goofy, Winnie the Pooh and Marie. Belle kept asking to meet those characters, but she never smiled to them when taking photos with them. Strange...why's that? There we go...time for watching parade. Before that, I bought her turkey leg, and also tear the meat into shreds for her easy intake. We were just like mother and daughter to share the hand-shredded turkey leg while enjoying the show. Playing toys at shops is also Belle's favor. Therefore, she played different lovely toys in most of the shops located at main street for a pretty long time. Wow...17:15...really have to urge Belle to go home! I dare to admit that I was a competent baby sitter. I provided Belle thorough care more than just sterilized and washed her hands before and after meal, feed her food and water, kept check her temperature, kept her away from danger. My tip for getting along well with certain children especially Belle is to take them out consuming their energy and letting them concentrate their attention on surrounding environment rather than doing nothing at home. Anyway, baby sitter is not an easy job!
自從藍孩子出世後, 包包立即升級為 "大包", 因為藍孩子嗰樣有D似大表姐, 而且藍孩子亦都係有兩個較細嘅臉珠嘟嘟, 所以論年齡或論臉珠嘟嘟大小, 藍孩子都只可以叫做 "細包"。 不過, 細包最近又多咗一個新別名。 那就是 "藍藍盃"。 由於只有兩歲半大的大包說話仍不清晰, 所以當我們教佢講 "藍藍表妹" 的時候, 大包總是會話 "藍藍盃 藍藍盃"。
總之呢一大包一細包攪到我們全家人氹氹轉又轉。 但係, 我哋又轉得好開心吔。
On day 38 after my birth, mama and papa sent me to grandparent's home. That was the first time I stayed out overnight. It was because they had to register my birth and get me the birth certificate on the following day. They finally confirmed my name...first name: Magalie & middle name: Ngo-lam not Megan, Pearl, Katrina, Cheuk-lam or Ching-lam. In that morning, they woke up early and stood in a long long queue in order to get a morning quota tag; however, they could only get the afternoon quota tag. That means they had to go back to the immigration department again at 15:00. As papa needed to work, he let mama to do the remaining procedures alone.
Mama said she barely could do the task successfully because papa forgot to give her his copied ID card. The staff expressed that nothing could be done without it; nicely, she suggested my papa to fax it to the department and continue the registration. If not, mama must get angry. Finally, mama registered my birth (no charge within 42 days of the birth) and got me two copies of birth certificate (HK$140 each).
Because of me, papa and mama haven't relaxed themselves for a while. Therefore, before picking me up that evening, papa and mama went to watch a movie "Mama Mia" and bought the takeout sharing with grandparents. Papa mama, please keep up your efforts for taking good care of me after this time's relaxation, ok?
