Y2010 Kids-In-Charge day

Again last week, we had three events on the same saturday.

Morning - Kids-In-Charge day by missys school, they have sports day this year in accordance to Youth-Olympic.

Before we went to the stadium, missy insisted on wearing her new baby mickey's sweater. and when we reached there, Ashley (missy's class mates) greeted her and gave her a hug.. haa so sweet and cute. she is very small size, same month as misst but very small size.



whisle blowing when cheering, missy with ashley and also Insha Akira



missy enjoying the sports day atmosphere


Missy was quite good t obstacle games and hurdle. some of the photos with her in action !




missy with her chinese and english teacher..missy and her classmates wandering on the fields.



each child gets a gold medal for the event !


Afternoon - Shichida class
suppose to be term break but one of the sat sinsei was sick so this week wa a replecement class. we were so earlier, so missy dancing around in class.




Evening - Company dinner & dance

we park missy at her grandparents's home that night while mum look after didi until we took over after our D&D

few snaps before we went to my company D&D


with cols ..sob i still look fat.. esp my arm.. got to work harder !



And finally on Sunday, we had mushroom steamboat at home with sis over

Milkathon

Back dated entry !

Missy's first ever "marathon" or..for her age "milkathon" heee.. on that particular day we were sosos busy running 3 events on the same day

morning 830am to 1130am - milkathon

While on our way thee, missy so happy.we only get the milkathon shirt when we reached there


all toddler drinking the milk at the same time breaking the record. it's mamil milk, which i find it tasted like fresh milk. we drink Gain IQ, so missy maybe not use to the taste and never finish it


After we drank the milk, the 1km walk started.. well, most of us stray half way to tale picture as it's at ECP, beautiful scenary. and missy wanted her daddy to carry most of the time instead of she ownself walk. shake head.. so no sportmanship !





afternoon - shichida class
gong gong drove us there, but due to National parade rehearsal, the road was so jam, we ended up half an hour late to class.. sob.lGG brought didi to sis's place as mum look after him as we planned to go universal studios in the evening and we dun want didi to go to crowded places yet


missy posing for me while we were waiting for bus to go to ah Yee's house to meet LGG & didi

evening - Universal Studio
we went to ah yee's house after shichida class, have our dinner, then off we went to Universal studios

We took photos at the Universal studios globe.. cool ! and we got our tickets from BIL who manage to booked our ticket in advance, so we no need to queue. hee.


In side the Universal studios are shops of various brand.. one of my favourie is Betty Boops.. i almost ot a comb there.. but hold it.. cos if i buy there means im a tourist wor..not worth it !as they mark up the prices there



We catch the Bee movie9each weekend different movies) at the cinema, missy first movie in cinema, she is quite frightened by the surround system as she keep cover her ears..she is so tired and wanted to sleep half way through the movie. the show started at 8o0pm to about 930pm. way passed missy's bed time.



after the bee movie, we went back to ah yee's house to pick didi then ent home.. all knocked out in car.. even the father doze off..

Overall, i must say spore has done well by bringing in the univesal studios ,go standard ! will go again next time !

lucky thing we had our Sunday whole day free at home so we can rest

Father's day

This was back dated entry. but i want to remember this. lil missy came home with this card , made by her teacher miss yda of course, but with her foot print on it. and that sweet poems.

When her daddy came back from work, i ask her to give the card to him and say "Happy father's day" and she did so well.

Rotavirus

After so much huha abt this vaccination, finally we went ahead to take it today. lil boy is happy when doc gave him the oral vaccination, maybe he thinks is sweet.. haa,.. he swallow all. good boy ! last time missy spit out some and that stupid doc din manage to feed all and said is ok.

so one month later we shall go for second dose to complete the whole rotavirus before 6 month old.

end of July we shall go for our 3rd dose of 5in1 & 2nd dose os pneumococoal.

2 weeks back, lil boy had fever for nearly 1 day after his second dose of 5in1 jab. we so worried, cos when he took his first dose of 5in1 +1st dose of pneumococoal he din have fever at all. why second dose will have fever..but anyway, after 1 day (as expected in most child), he is ok. last time missy din have fever for all her jabs.

im wondering, isn't it bfed baby should be stronger ?

anyway, we are on schedule for our jabs.

Lil boy's development

Yesterday, lil bb boy finally make his turn successfully. he has been trying since last week. always got stuck half way , either his hand stuck underneath his body or lower body not enough strength to trun over. yesterday, when he was playing on his baby gym (harder surface compare to bed), he finally turn over on his own and manage to pull his hand out and lift himself up so high..

Mum and i cheer for him, and i quickly smsed LGG to tell him this.. heee..a great effort and progress for him. so, his development matches his sister's. they both can turn ovr at 4 month-old.

and we noticed that he started to show sign of grabbing toys. the bear hanging on his baby gym always get his attention, he will brinbg both of his hands and try to grab the bear. always miss, but he will keep trying and he manage to grab it but cant hold tight and the bear slip away..very fun to see him doing these..his hand0eye coordination is not there yet, but at least he has the intuition to do such action, which means very soon, he will be able to grab the bear and put into his mouth. he has been drooling quite a bit too. missy only has first tooth at 6 month-old. i think lil bb boy will be the same ? shall see

now, he can drink about 150ml of milk at one go, with 3 to 4 hours interval.i have started to store my milk, as i will be back to work soon. at least, when im not around, he has enough milk to drink. hope we can persist on breastmilk drinking at least until he is 6 months old. then we will start rice cereal with him at 6 month-old just like his sister.

I find it so much easier after knowing what is coming, what to do with second child. like more expert liao now.. hee..

Great job my lil boy ! mummy gives u a big hug ! muack!! for your great effort.

didi likes to smile

lil boy loves to smile, i think 80% of the photos taken, he is smiling.. haaa.. he made a good progress on his turning last night. he mange to turn all over on his own.. but one hand stuck below his chest..

See these photos.. he has lots of expression.. cheeky like his sister:0)



I bought the rattle socks for him before he was born, now it's fitting, he likes to kick and kick i wonder if he knows there are rattles on his socks ?



these are photos taken last night, when he made his turn, all of us cheering along.. he is working pretty hard on this. after we help him to turn over face up, he is looking tired.. haa.. mum said once we were born, we have to work hard till the day we say bye bye.. it's very true !




Good job my boy..he is going to be 4 month old next sat. fast fast fast and i'll be back to work sob sob sob

Missy & her Palm Art

Missy loves to do palm art.. she will colour her palm then print it on paper..i drew a penguin for her to colour actually, but she is more interested to print her palm..

recently, OKTO is showing sesame street at 8am. so we have been following almost every weekend, this week was about letter "O', number "7" and penguin. it's very educational. but i wont consider buying their DVD cos wat's the point of buying if the same DVD is repeating the same letter/number? we are better off wathing it on TV on weekends since it's always different and free haaa..



i showcase some of her more mature art work.. including her palm print. she is very engrossed with being a dinasours lately. she is posing as a dinasour to me on the photo..with her messy coloured claws.

missy has been asking lots of questions recently.. she will ask me " mummy, what are you doing ? " when i explain to her what im doing, maybe taking things, reading newspaper (which she can see what im doing actually), she will reply "ohh..".. then when she sees me doing something else, she will ask again "mummy what are you doing" or "mummy, where are you going ?".. and she loves to ask "What is this?" many many times.. either things from book, things from TV.. things she see outside.. etc etc.. i wonder.. she did not ask me so much of "Why" .. but "What".. so, i will instead ask her "Why"...she will try to answer me.. but most of the times none related to the WHY question i ask.. haaa

she now knows the answer for "How old are you?" last time when we ask her this question, she will reply her name. now she knows the answer is "i am three years old" eventhough, she usually answer just "Three" and she now knows when someone says "Thank you" you usually reply "You are Welcome" which she answer just "Welcome" now.. heee..

she is still testing her boundaries at home, things i ask her not to do, she will continue to do, till i flare up or i just the " 1, 2, 3".. she will quickly stop it. and she knows after mummy angry, she has to say "Im sorry mummy" and she usually will come to me for a hug, indicating i stil love her and want to play with her.. she will sometimes ask this question to get some comfort "You want to play with me ?" if i say "No" she will cry or feel sad (after i angry due to her mischievious and ignore her).. so usually i will say "Yes" so that she feels i have forgiven her.

really must have lots of patience handling toddler's behaviour..i tend to raise my voice a lot which i really really hope i can control it and talk to her nicely when she is disobeying things..as i notice she imitates me a lot.. Oh no.. i cant be a good example ! im still learning to be a better parent !


Long journey in parenting!

Dumpling O Dumpling

It's Dumpling festival again..mum made Bak chang last Friday and we had them for dinner yum yum.. i grew up eating my mum's dumpling, so i never like those selling outside, the one mum made was modified according to our liking.. it has lots of "kao lat" haa..




Missy get to taste her dumpling too, eventhough the filling has "rempah" she still can take it, not bad this girl ! can eat spicy food liao



While lil boy looking on his sister enjoying her dumpling (she did not finish it, left most to me at the end), he can try it when he has teeth next time.. heee



Happy dumpling eating !

My lil boy's in action

yeah.. im been sosooss free ..after nearly 4 months at home.. too free until i everyday go facebook and buy "pat kua" magazine to read weekly.. if not bcos of my baby.. i will feel like im wasting my life..haa

and also im too free.. i keep taking my boy's photos.. since missy in school during the day.. so mum and i just nua at home.. while she always reading her recipe books and try out new dishes.. and i (lazy to cook.bake when mum is around) as she will always make good things for me to eat *feel so lucky*..so i take bb's photos lor..

he has been working on his turning recently.. getting better now, he can turn more than half now.. soon, by 4 month he will be able to turn over liao.. tt's what mum and i predicted la.. cos we have been watching him progress each day from side way to upper body turn side way.. now his lower body also turn side way together..last time missy also turned over at 4 months.. so tat's our gauge for didi..

yesterday, didi gave me this very cute smile of his..he confirm can smile more than his sister..so sweet smile




i took some with him too.. after awhile, he is bored with this "game" and "bian" mouth haa.. this has been picked up by his sister.. she will bian chui ba too when not happy following his didi.

Lil boy and his sister

ok..what's the updates this week for my two little baobeis..

lil missy wet her bed this morning, usually she will just wake up and ask to sit on potty when need to pee at night. but yesterday, she missed it.. and by the time she call her popo... she already wet the whole bed.. ohh well.. we have well-prepared for such occurence.. we just replace the whole bed sheet as the mattress is protected by water proof bed protector.. *i feel so clever* haaa.. so, no big deal. such things happen for toddler who just went diaper free.

as for lil master, he is refusing milk lately.. not that he dun drink, he drink but little bit. always left half a bottle wasted. at night too, he sucks awhile then refuse to drink anymore but want to sleep. so my milk has been going down the drain bottles after bottles..no choice .. i remembered missy also like that last time. we always say. we have thrown away many tins of milk powder for her.. now, is my milk... tsk tsk tsk..

this week, im gonna do some shopping as im going back to work soon, got to add some new clothes to my wardrobe..and now is GSS so good time to buy..

lil boy's progress

lil bb boy is now 3 months 2 weeks.. he has since sucking his thumb especially when he is hungry.. or before he wants to sleep..he sucks from the back of his hand then slowly to his pointing finger.. then now thumb. he just dump the whole thumb into his mouth and suck until "tsk tsk tsk" sound.. *shake head*.. he prefer his thumb more than pacifier.. but mum prefer he sucks pacifier than his own thumb, as from her experience (my sis), when we wean him off pacifier, he will stop sucking, but thumb stick with him, so he will suck whenever he wants after he is used to it and even dirty also will suck when grow big..



so, we still insisted that he suck pacifier whenever he push his thumb into his mouth.. haaa.. missy never suck thumb last time..so another difference spotted.

Now, since 2 weeks back, he showed some sign of turning, he started with his left side, but not enough strength yet.. somtimes we will help him a bit by giving him a slight push , and he will turn to his tummy and one hand stuck underneath his tummy, then he slowly slowly adjust and push his hand out.. *Strong boy* we like to see him do this like some kind of entertainment to us.. haa.. cos his expression vry cute like wannt poo poo like that use lots of strength to turn, push his hand out.. then lift himself up.. but he wont last long, the most 5 mins then he will make noise, and we will turn him on his back again..



see this lil happy boy, he loves to talk to my mum (his granny).. maybe they both tiger ( mum is golden tiger too 1950) and this little golden tiger click with the older one haa.. i always sing "liang zi lao hu"..




2 more weeks and i'll be back to work.. my feeling is so confused. excited cos finally i can go back to my normal role (as working lady) but bu se de.. cos i will npt be spending my whole time with my newborn..i guess balance of both will do me good. so im still looking forward to going back to work.

Play n learn @ home

Besides our LM's home practise, missy just play her puzzle and her toys..

recently, we introduced teachatots to her.. she suppose to arrange letters to form a word, which of course , has not been achieved by missy yet. But what she is able to do now is to do matching of letters to form a word.. as the cat picture will have the word "CAT".. i will lead her to find the matching letters of alphabet to form CAT.. she nows the letter from A to Z now with their sound *BRAVO MISSY*..so, i just have to ask her where is "C" then she will tell me the sound of C then look for C.. then "A" then "T"..




We have progressed from Leap Frog Letter Factory to Words. so, she is starting to understand that letters A to Z when combine together can form words. she can even sing the songs out. *clap for her*

so, slowly we shall try to form more words..still maths is not something she is interested in. number 1 to 10 she is still not keen. will have to work on it more often

Now, my next endeavour is to get her to read more mandarin material. got to do some research on this on what to get her to be interested :)

our typical morning, before sending her to school, she will be drinking her morning milk, brush teeth, wash up, change into school uniform, eat her vitamin C (cod liver oil) then go toilet for pooing (sometimes wil do it in school). then when LGG is ready, we will go out together, she will wear her shoes, cary her own bag, then off we go.

When we reach school, teacher will check her temperature, check inside mouth, both hands for any sign of HFMD, then go in, she will ownself take out her shoes, put into shoes rack with her name, then she will bring her bags in (sometimes, or most of the time teacher will help her carry in), she will then take out her water bottle, milk bottle and milk powder (all labelled with her name) to put on the table and take out her mattress cover and put into the rack.

then, she will wash her hands and join others for breakfast :)



her life is very routine hee..only occasionally, there are changes here and there :)

Sandwich from missy

Missy came back from school with her self-made sandwich from school last week. she is so eager to eat it

when i ask her what is this ? she kep saying "triangle" instead of "sandwich". mm..she then open up the sandwich.. Oh my.. what's these ? it's apple and pumpkin seed.. what a unique sandwich filling.. haaa.. i think the teacher gave them few choices and they choose what they want as the filling.



well done my girl !

lil missy is diaper free

It's been 2 weeks now, missy never wet her diaper and she ask to pee in potty or go toilet at night if she wants to pee. she is not diaper free in school during nap time, now at night also diaper free.

It's an achievement for lil toddler in toilet training. she has graduated :)

Weekend, after shichida, we let her have her apple, while waiting for her to finish, she said "Mummy, i want to pass urine".. i thought i heard wrongly, i ask again "huh?" she repeated " mummy, i want to pass urine" her "pass urine" is very soft almost whispering.. haaa.. this is the words she learnt from school as we always use "sh sh.." or 'pee pee' at home, these are parentese. so im glad, her teacher let them use the proper words. Good job my girl !

Oh.. ok, continue my story.. then im just lazy to bring her the nearby toilet, which have to go into the mrt station. since there is nobody there, i ask her to just squad down and pee.. heee.. opps.. bad mummy..and she did..so this pool of water is from her. we made the "naughty naughty pose' haaa..she so happy after that..as if, she left somehing good behind.. muahahha





some photos aken in McD while we have our quick desert before goin to SM.
missy with her black teeth..

My lil boy

lil baby boy is showing some changes :

1. he seems to recognise people now. he dun feel happy with new faces.
2. he likes to play game.. like pee ka boo..sort of, his daddy will hide and he will search with his eyes then when he saw his daddy he smiles so much and they can repeat this several times..
3. he cry a lot when he feels like sleeping. he needs us to cuddle him and give him pacifier..he is now good at sucking his pacifier already last time he always spit out.
4. he can lift himself up at maybe 45deg. ot 90deg yet.
5. he din show much sign of turning yet, but if we put him on his side, he will turn over..
6. he poo lesser now.. only twice the most per day..
7. he sleeps longer at night..there were once he din wake up for milk nearly 5 hours.. but i still have to get up cos engorged.sob
8. he still not interested in following sounds. he follow our face movement more.
9. he now sleeps in swing cot in the afternoon, we try not to shake yet, just let him enjoy being cuddled.



we took both babies's feet for comparison.. hee.

lil boy @ 12 week old

my lil boy is 3 months old today. time flies.. he is now very active, hands and legs move none stop when we leave him on his own. and he squel and coo so much... we sometimes cant believe these are sound made by him.. so loud.. haa



he poo leser now compare to previous months, we concluded that his body adjusted to breastmilk better, as breastfeeding cause much more frequent loose tool, sandy and yellowish.

now, one day one or two times poo with more loose stoo, usually just some splatter of yellowish loose stool.

he drinks about 100ml of milk in 3 hours interval. at night, sometimes it will go to 4 hours. but still at times, he drinks only 50ml to 60ml then wakes up and drink again after 1 to 1.5 hours..

he likes to be carried to sleep, which really tired us out. so no choice, got to get maid to help carry if im not around, so that mum wont be too tired or have backache.

tmw, we shall go for our 5in1 and pneumococoal jabs. shall weigh him. we felt the pressure of carrying him more each day.. haaa..

look at his michelin's arms and thighs.. hoo..



one more month, i shall be back to work, which some how i feel im ready, as staying at home each day can really make me go "mad".. so darn bored.. and even more tiring.. haa.. opps.. i love spending time with my baby.. but not full time.. 4 months with baby is more than enough..

Im however a working lady, who.. i think more suitable in workforce than just stay at home look after baby.. and i already submit preliminary registration for lil boy to go childcare for Jan 2012 term.. when he turns 22 months old.

my boy, grow up fast then we can have fun together with ur sister :)

Zoo Fun

Finally we brought missy to Zoo.. after considering going to underwater world and all.. cos we still think missy will enjoy seeing animals (which she akready know how they look like from her toys) than just see sea creatures in underwater world.

Sunday weather was perfect eventhough LGG found out from weather broadcast, it will rain. Lucky thing it's partly cloudly and it only rained after we reached home. phew.. what a great escape.

We started the exporing from about 10am and ended the wh
ole journey about 2pm. 4 hours and we were so exhausted already. missy is tired and sleepy. LGG is tired of carrying missy as we need to carry her up to see the animals, since she is still not tall enough. and im tired too, partly cos i felt breast engroge haaa.. after pumping i felt relieve.. heee

and the weather was so humid and stuffy. the best part i think is the tram ride, that we can sit through and relax.. but then we felt hungry and sleepy.


After we catch a quick lunch at KFC, we went straight home.. missy sleeps on the journey home. so tired already.

some of the candid photos we have taken :)

Toilet Train progress - 31 month old

Missy is now competely off diaper for her naps.. we have tested it for almost 2 weeks now in school and at home. perfect ! no accident o far.

And we noticed that, if we get her to pee before sleeping at night, 3 out of 5 nights, she is dry throughout. But, we still let her wear diaper at night, just in case. eventhough i already prepared by putting the waterproof mattress protector on her bed, we bought two , just in case accident happen, can have replacement. hee.

Good progress so far. shall see if we can slowly wean her off her night diaper ! Good job my girl !

SM: Linking Memory

We have been practising our set 2A linking memory since Monday, by playing the Tensai CD track 9 and 10 for set 2A keywords, slow and fast speed.

i let missy listen to the track 9, while she points at the picture on the card. then we play track 10. after that i let her arrange the cards, she has been doing quite well as she manage to arrange all cards ( we do only 40 cards as required by sense for this week Brain Olympic test).




The test this week is to arrange 40 cards in 3 mins..hopefully Missy will do her best and not help me suffle the cards again in class..

ABC Music And Me

Missy has been attending the ABC Music and Me by Kindermusic for the second month now.

Last month the theme was about "Let's play" wth songs and activities on play, playground, sounds, train, jumping, running, hopping, what you can do with your hands..The story is about Golden Bear

This month, the theme is about "Out and About", pretend play on picnic, sounds of birds, encourage us to bring children to picnic (which coincidently, missy school is organising a picnic to botanic garden next week), the story this week is about Froggy going out.



Quite fun session, as the children are having so much fun and laughters during the class while playing while learning with teacher Angel, from Kindermusic, she really can sing, i heard her during first lesson when i sit in..

Great to see missy having fun !

ELC shopping

today ELC having 20% sales for all ELC items in united Square branch. from 9am till 2pm only.







so, about 10am, i went down to United Square (first time i was here), usually i went to Paragon branch. look for the items i wanted, like ready mix colour, brush, wanted to buy one more giant puzzle but the theme not so attractive, what princess world, market place which i dun really fancy, i prefer one theme puzzle like tractor and the farmer or farm animals or houses.. blahh.. so i din get any giant puzzle today.

bought 3 bottles of ready mix colour, green blue, purple and i realised i forgot the primary colour, yellow.. shit !.. then i bought one set of colouring brush, and i bough one huge bottle of ready to use bubble, which i can refill into missy's smaller bubble bottle.

i bought one canvas painting set for missy too, butterfly, she can use all the gadget and colours in that set to paint on the canvas.

and i also bought a medical case for missy.. opps.. we already have one which we bought from Melaka, but i find this have more tools and the quality of course way better than the one we already have.. heee.. im splurging again.. must control.. next time..

after i was done in ELC, i saw Les Enphants on sales too, so i bought one sweater fro missy, one shirt, one set of Pjs. bought one pair of training shoes for bb, one shirt, two under pants. and i also bought one minnie watch for missy.. opps.. again im buying wayin advance..

well..happy shopping today for my kids.. hee

Mother's Day wishes

Been helping my boss with his document last week, till i feel lazy to blog(write).. but i want to remember this year's mother's day as missy gave me a flower made from her class with her handprint and she tells me "Happy Mother's Day" for the very first time,, which i feel so warming to the heart and feel proud for her as she , at such tender age is able to express her love to her mummy..

My love, thank you :)



She actually told me " Happy Birthday Mummy".. but corrected to "Happy Mother's Day" heee.. cute

Lil Boy @ 11th week old

Try to capture lil bb making cooing sound and playing on his own .. he is quite sensitive to my phone, whenever i come near him, he will follow my phone and stop making sound. so, only manage to capture the video below, the rest all no sound cos he is curious with this pink thing keep looking at him.. haa

Missy @ BBQ

Sunday, we went over to Aunt's house for BBQ, missy is the happiest girl there.
She plays with cats, chase the cats, being entertained by all her uncles, aunties..gets to eat new food like satay, bbq chicken wings.


bb brother is enjoying being carried by different people.. haa..




we adult, enjoy eating the food.

Missy & Maths

Last week, we did some maths with missy. using her ducky and the number puzzle, which she did quite well for number zero to four. as she got almost all correct. with some hints, she finally got all right. shall practise more, and add five to nine this week.

She is not interested in dots cards, so i guess this will make do.




now, to practise her letters, i will write A, B,C,D,randomly on her easel, ask her circle the letter i say. so far, she did fantastic job, got all right. shall add E,F,G,H this week.

Since this term no linking memory, i did flash memory with missy instead as home practise, about 4 to 5 cards. adding new cards each day. when she is paying attention, she usually canget all correct. but when she is restless, she will be insisting to get the cards from me and flash to me instead.. sigh. shall work on this more.

Lil boy @ 10 week old

It's been 10 weeks since we have our boy.. not sure his weight yet as we have yet to visit doc for jabs.

He sleeps longer when he is on his tummy, which we only do that during the day, as night i will still let him sleep on his back. he likes people to carry him around in this position (photo below), like "tao ke" .. he will keep quiet and enjoy the walk, as he wants us to carry him this way and walk about. if we stop, he will wiggle his body and make noise, once we stand up and walk, he will keep quiet again. OMG. he is exactly the same like his sister. *shake head*.. imagine our arm muscle getting bigger..



during day time, when missy is in school, we will let lil boy playing on the playmat, so that he can get some stimulation by the sound of the rattle, the mobiles , the colours.. he enjoys it but usually not too long, as he still prefer us to talk to him than all these still stuff.. haaa




Weekends, usually i will ask his daddy to bath him, let him enjoy bathing his son. he did it for missy last time too. This weekend, we had our first whole family outing to the supermarket, bb boy on carrier, he is sleeping through the whole 1 hour of our journey there, back and also the marketing. missy is so adoring her brother, that she always wants to "sayang" him and kiss him. so we say lil boy is lucky as he has a very loving sister. hee

Chocolate crumble top muffins

I love muffin and i love chocolate.. once i see this recipe i cant resist it.And i did not regret making them. so good. fluffy and the chocolate chips just melt in my mouth. yum.

again, recipe adatped from Home baking mum.




Ingredients

1. 250g self-raising flour
2. 1 teaspoon baking powder
3. a pinch of salt
4. 50g butter
5. 100g soft light brown sugar
6. 100g chocolate chips
7. 2 eggs, lightly beaten
8. 225ml milk
9. 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Chocolate Crumble Topping:
1. 50g plain flour
2. 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
3. 40g butter
4. 2 tablespoons caster sugar


Method

1.For the chocolate crumble topping, sift flour and cocoa powder into a bowl. Mix in the sugar and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Set aside.

2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and the peanut butter chips.

2. In another bowl, mix eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Pour the liquid mixture all at once into the dry ingredients. With a wooden spoon or spatula, mix until just combined. Do Not Over Mix. The batter should remain lumpy.

3. Fill paper muffin cups with batter sprinkle with the crumble toppings. Bake in a preheated oven at 200degC for 18-20mins, or until well risen and firm to the touch.

4. A skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean. Let cool completely.
Recipe source: adapted from Muffins Galore, Catherine Atkinson