Conquering New Height

Remember his daring moves to climb into his walker? I had kept his walker to prevent any unfortunate accident. Today, I'm shocked to find him conquering something else!!

Watch how he climb up the chair effortlessly!!

See, mummy, I'm up in less than a minute!

Now, we have to keep a constant eye on him otherwise he will dash for the chairs! Can't possibly keep my dining chair, can I?

Guess boys are boys...always finding new challenge...

@ 18 months

For all the past few jabs, I don't have any problem with him. He will just lie there and let the doctor jab without a struggle. But today, my gosh, he needs 3 persons to hold him down!!

Wonder was it because he has grown up already and knows what's happening or of the frequent Salbutamol "breathing torture" whenever he sees the doctor...?

When we got back home, he refuses to let us put him down onto the floor. He will wrap his legs around my maid or me and "cry" once his legs touches the ground! It suddenly occurs to me that it could be the pain from the injection. So we just let him mun jar for a while...

The funniest part is when he woke up from his afternoon nap, he actually walk with a limp!! My maid laughs and said he is trying to get our attention. Just like daddy... ; P

Claypot Tung Hoon

One of my favourite dish

Ingredients:-

1. Butter/ pork lard - 2 slices

2. Coriander Leaves (root/stem part) - 4 stalk

3. Spring Onion (white stem part) - 2 stalk

4. Large prawn / crabs - estimate 2 to 3 prawns for each person (min 8)

5. Glass Noodle (Tung Hoon) - pre soaked to soften - 1 packet abt 130g

6. Ready made chicken stock - 500ml

7. Oyster sauce - 1 tbsp

8. Sesame oil - 1 tbsp

9. Dark soya sauce - 1/2 tbsp

10. Light soya sauce - 1/2 tbsp

11. Sugar - 1 tbsp

12. Cracked peppercorns - 1tsp

13. Pepper - dash

14. Chinese cooking wine (Hwa Teow) - 2 tbsp

15. Coriander leaves - for decoration

Lazy methods:

1. Place the butter on the bottom of the claypot

2. add in all the above according to order listed

3. Cover and cook over high heat abt 7 - 10 mins.

4. Remove from heat. Add no 14 and 15, cover for 5 mins.

5. Before serving, use a chopstick to place the prawn on top of the glass noodle for presentation.

King In The Making

Think my little prince had decided tp upgrade himself... today, as we were about to leave the house, he happy walked to the shoe rack and retrieve his shoes. Guess what? He brought his shoe to his 2 Jiejies and indicate to them to wear the shoe for him!! And now, he has 2 princess serving him!

Playtime

One of his favourite activities is to play with my cooking utensils. Not that he doesn't have any toy cooking utensils, he got lots of them, thanks to his 2 jiejies. But he still prefers the real stuff! (Good for me too, can use this as excuse to buy new one for my kitchen...gagaga)

And today, he found his companion! His dajie! And my gosh, they even took my oranges to play with!! When they are done playing with it, I even found some with bite marks!

Notice he still uses his left hand? The dajie reminded him to use his right and he obediently switched it.

Side track a little, I'm still anxiously finding a good playgroup for him...any recommendation? The centre must be able to see him through to K2...

Salmon Patty

A very easy receipe.

1. 2 fillet of Salmon - steamed and mashed

2. 3 to 4 potatoes - peeled, cut into cubes, boiled and mashed

3. some cheddar cheese (depends on your liking)

4. 2 eggs beaten

Step 1: Put all the above together and mixed well

Step 2: coat it with some bread crumbs and fry (oil covering half the patty)

Step 3: Ready to eat!

Left Handed?

I just realised that he had been using his left hand a lot. He uses the left hand to waves, to point at things, to hold things etc...

I now trying to "force" him to use his right hand by handing things to his right hand and "remind" him to point and holds thing with his right hand...

It's not that I'm against left handed people... I've learn that left handed people are more creative and artistic but there are a lot of inconvenience that comes with this gift.

Hope I still able to reverse the situation...Any suggestion parents as to what else I can do?

Up He Goes!

Today is the 13th day counting down from the first day his er jie first chicken pox symptom appear. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that he will be EXCUSED this round. I heard from my sister that those who do not have the jab will have the whole body covered with the dots. I can't imagine that happening to him...

His fever has subsided and he is back to his active self again. He kind of "lost" his voice due to too much crying and coughing....poor baby

It's his dinner time and I told him to go to his walker first...and this is what he did!

Finally got his butt on the walker's tray...

Okay. I'm ready mum! Where's my food?

I didn't expect him to climb into his walker. What I meant as for him to bring his walker to me so I can carry him in. With him doing this kinda stunts, guess I need to put this walker away when no one is watching or accidents may happen...

Sleepness Night

*sigh*.. He's sick again...I'm still keeping my finger crossed that it's not Chicken Pox...

9.30pm...His temperature suddenly shoot up! Took his temperature (through ear)..it's 39.1 degree!!! Fed him with his usual Ibuprofen and paracetamol (I had to rotate these 2 medicine every 3 hourly) and his temperature is under control again... Grandma is very worried and try to convince his daddy and me to bring him to hospital..she kept saying that children with high fever will become retarded and this worries daddy. I had a hard time explaining to him what doctor had said...that the fever is a sign of the body fighting the virus and it will not cause the child to be retarded. I used to bring him to our family doctor every time he had a fever and was told by the doctor that we can just give him the medication and bring to him only if the fever doesn't subside after 3 days or if he is lethargic and restless...

He's fine during the day, playing and laughing...His terrible stunts was only reserved for the nights (after 1am when everyone is asleep..) He will cough and then followed by the "Merlion" stunt and this wakes everyone in the house. My maid used to be able to pacify him but this round, he doesn't wants her. He kept crying "mom meee! mom mee!" Although I had to wake up very early tomorrow morning to prepare his eldest sister's birthday party and would gladly leave him to my maid, but hearing him calling me in such a "pertatic" tone, I gather my strength and went into his room to take over from my maid.

Guess talking to him in a soothing manners help and I guess he can somehow feel my calm inside and he soon quiet down...I asked him in a soft tone if I can put him down, he gave me a nod and down he goes...I slept next to him with my hand on him so that whenever he tossed and turned, I quickly patted him back to sleep.

Being mummy is never easy job...

Counting My Blessing

Humans are short-sighted species and complain at every little things that befall unto them.

I'm not exempted. Been complaining why I was so unlucky this month...my prince got HFMD and now my 2nd princess got Chicken Pox! Its one of those "hair-pulling" episode and I think I'm getting a nervous breakdown soon (so worried that my prince will get the Chicken Pox from her as he has not been vaccinated yet!)

But after my quiet time today, I realised I have to thank God for all these! Why?

1. I thank God that his is a very mild case as compared to the current HFMD outbreak.

2. I thank God that he recovered in a very short period of time with no complications and scarring.

3. I thank God that my 2nd Princess was given two Chicken Pox's immunisation jab (one by mistake by the School). Due to this, her Chicken Pox is very, very mild and she recovered within 5 days with no scarring too!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my little prince will not get it. But should he caught it, I must remember to thank God that he caught it now and not later in adulthood which could be worst...