Mickey? Mouse!.. Donald? Duck!... Plu? To!.. Goo? fy!..

That's exactly what our princess will do when we read out the characters of Disney to her. It's really amazing and bringing her to Disneyland had been one of my queen's MUST do list in Japan. As parents, we were just as excited, thinking that she will be overwhelmed by all her favourite characters and up close and personal! Especially when we had subscribed to disney playhouse channel with Starhub months before and she would danced with them and started making friends with the disney characters ..

So the night before, we were sharing with our princess where we will be going and repeated some names to keep her excited. The day finally came and it was a beautiful sunny day! We were up early, prepared our princess and we were on our way to Disneyland!

When we arrived at the station, the disney "experience" has actually began! and although, it was a distance away from the main entrance, you will always be reminded that you are in the magical kingdom!

Jazelle! Look!
and the train reminded us we have arrived!


Ahh!..Toyko Disneyland!


passport?

As we were getting the tickets, we realised the characters are out to meet the public! Like a little kid, we grabbed our stuff, camera on standby and we rushed to introduced them to our princess...

hi piggy!

it was only then that we realised, the 'oversized' characters got into our princess. All her softtoys were smaller than her and the disney characters in the disney channel is not bigger than the TV.. so when she saw the characters up close.. guess what?? she cried! and say.. No! Don't wan.. Pa! Pa!(as in scared) ... sign.. At that moment, both my queen and i went blank!(ain't we supposed to be here to see them???)and we were actually queuing to meet Mickey and Minnie..

"No!pa! Pa!"

"HELP" haha! Caught you! it was not Jazelle! she would have freaked out!

Boy! We have no choice but to give up the queue to see them but we didn't let that spoil our fun! =)

kawaii!



piglet & Pooh!


goofY!

The famous castle! spot any difference?

And as we moved along, our princess will turned back and say "Goofy.. Hi.. Daisy.." Thinking that she had warmed up! We asked her , "do you want to go to them and hug them?" she replied anxiously," No ! NO! pa! Pa!"

ahh.. finally! she is happy hugging them!

and she wants them now!


what a beautiful sight!

a ride that we have queued for 45 mins!

But it was only after the ride that my queen told us it was the wrong ride she wanted us to go, it supposed to be Peter Pan! no wonder, our princess came out crying! as it was pretty dark in there! hahaha..

say cheese!


do i look like a mouse?


look familar? when we had property launches in Singapore? You must be thinking, the japs are using their stroller to book the queue! But fortunately, this is disneyland! it is just the area where all the strollers are parked. =)

i want to drive the CAR!

happy now? YES!

it's a small world afterall! The second ride we took and the most memorable for our princess!

wow! so crowded? what happened?

What Else! The 2 o'clock show!!! the street parade!





mickey!! & friends!

As we were walking, we realised that it was getting crowded and only then we knew that it was their school holidays! No wonder there were so many families and kids! But what caught my attention was that it's their local tourists that made Tokyo Disney so successful! and i meant great local supporters!! It's something we got to learn!=p

it's everywhere!

no wonder the cash register can't stop keching!

happy families!

Ok! i'm getting tired.. i will continue part 2 of the Disney experience! especially the 7o'clock show and the fireworks! which left an impression on our princess! till then, folks!

Jazlyn is 3 months 2 weeks old!

As i was about to share with all our disney experience, my conscious took over and realised that we have neglected our princess jazlyn! "Bad Parents!!i want to protest" seems to the words that is coming from my princess..

Can you image? our princess is already 3 months plus. How time flies again! And as we were playing with her , suddenly all the images of Jazelle flashed in front of us. We started to ask, When did jazelle started smiling? when did she flips? and was she crying that much when she was 3 months.. That really made us wonder, Isn't we are more "experienced' now? how can we forget?? =) and we really have no clues..

Fortunately, due to this blog, it helps! Jazelle was learning to flip at 3 months plus but she was so frustrated that she kept making noise.. Boy.. isn't babies amazing.. and we the king and queen are really getting old!!! getting forgetful!(Excuses!!)

But do you remember the series we did called, Facial theraphy! that they are so expressive..here is how our princesses looked like at 3 months!

Jazelle at 3 months!

Jazlyn at 3 months!

there she is! happy bb!

Next! Disneyland! we promise ;)

雪人什么颜色？白色！

are we talking about snow? sakura? well..this is the favourite question our princess love to answer! just becos she learnt that in the sunday class at zoophonics.. and you should hear her saying 白色! so chinese!!

Well, back to our japan trip. As i was explaining that having a kid is no longer the same when we go on tour. Image, when she got up, its almost 10am, have to feed her, bath her , entertain her and then the queen and king take turns to bath and at the same time prepare the "princess bag" which contents her change of clothes, milk powder, diapers, toys.... So by the time we are out of the apartment, it's almost noon!! We became better each day and started to pack the basic the night before so that we can have an earlier day out. SEE!we are learning..

Ok, i have been told by my queen that there are too much words in the first blog and she is asking for more pics.. and say most of the visitors to our blog dont read , they just want to see the pics... ( so sad..) Anyway, here is our first 2 days in Toyko.. Enjoy! especially the SAKURAs!!!

Checked in! and out within an hour!

our first sighting of SAKURA!

tokyo tower was just behind our apartment

Jazelle's first lunch in Japan!


YUMMY!

NEXT STOP!

Baby Hypermart!
Akachan Honpo

So many,so Kawaii!, but so little time!

No wonder the queens took so long!

DAY 2 - ASAKUSA

it was really crowded.

up close with beauty!


more beauties! =)

not forgetting the J-kids!Kawaii!

ain't they beautiful? SAKURA

we had lunch here!

ever imagine how interesting food can be!

NEXT STOP! UENO PARK - EVEN MORE SAKURAs

parents at work!

so comfy, isn't she?

winter wonderland!

nice ...

Oh my gosh!

"you are my beautiful gals.."

Picnic under the Sakuras! japanese's must do!
heaven!

just us!

Coming up next... Disneyland.

We are Back! Happy, Accomplished! & Wiser!

my favourite shot!

Wow! Where should we start? It had been a wonderful experience for my queen and i. Thankfully to my mother in law and our domestic helper, our princess jazlyn was in their good hands and we were able to have a fantastic trip!My queen was extremely happy that we were in time for their sakura season and able to bring our princess to Disney! And i am sure for all the anxious parents out there who is thinking of bringing the young one overseas, they will have the same fear, worries and concerns as us. We were afraid that we may forget about the experiences we have learnt and thus decided to write immediately and it may take a few blogs to compete the whole trip. so pardon us ok? =)

Generally, the trip has been very fruitful. It bonded the family especially my princess and me. She wanted daddy to do everything that my queen was kind of jealous initally but was pretty happy that i have to do all the work instead of her! =) Anyway, from the preparation of the trip to the actual trip itself, having a kid with us have been an experience. You can't move as freely as before and by the time we are ready to go out, it's already noon.

FIRST, FIRST , FIRST

Yes, it was our first trip with our princess and our princess's first too. Thus for the preparation, we have to prepare the usual stuff such as the diapers, milkpowder, winter clothes, light weight stroller and my queen went further to get some medicines for common cold and cough and our princess's favourite books and toys to entertain her on the plane. We also bought the family travel insurance which will cover our medical expenses especially for jazelle and for the usual baggage delays or loss. The best is that if we fell sick after the trip, the insurance will cover that too!! 6 hrs flight is usually quite alright for us as we have the inflight entertainment but 6 hrs with a 2 yr old KID? we have to plan their entertainment!

For the flight, we deliberately booked the night flight thinking that our princess could sleep through the night and awake upon arrival. We even asked our agent to book an empty seat between us so that if we are lucky, our princess can have a seat for herself instead of the bassinet(as we were worried it will be uncomfortable) and she could sleep better. We were so WRONG! We prepared her before takeoff but she finished her milk before the plane took off ( as it was past her usual milk time) thus my queen went on to her plan B, Apple juice! We need to let her suckle so that she will have no problems with the pressure change during the takeoff. We had to come out with creative ideas how to prevent her from finishing the juice and fortunately, Plan B was well executed. Lights went off , and we were off to Japan! and our princesses was about to enter her LALA land and suddenly, the annoucement was made for refreshment and the lights came on again! (We were not warned about that!) Our princess was awaken and by the time the meals are served and lights off, an hour has passed! And we didnt realise that we have to book for infant/kids meal in advance and thus our princess didnt have her meal. You can't image our anxiety. There it is, 3 am , the queen and king were half awake and our princess was whinny, sleepy but just couldn't have her usual comfy position..

We managed to have the empty seat to us but it took us another hour to pacify her to sleep and she just can't find her comfy position and by the time she does, i have to relocated to another seat nearby so that she can sleep across the chairs! Guess what, by then the plane was about to prepare for arrival!! As for our friends who was with us, their son was with a bassinet and he slept through the flight. Wat a night and a valuable lesson learn.

up next! Sakura aka cherry blossom!