My hubby and I have been teaching our kids that smoking can bring cancer. They know cancer is a kind of illness. How? One time at Borders, they picked up a book about our body. The book is title “Inside You”. It talks about how our body makes it through a very bad day. A video CD comes with book that shows the inside of our body. It is a nanocam, a very tiny camera traveling through the body system.

Now I have 2 smoker alarms with me. Everywhere we go, when a smoker is around, my 2 little smoker alarms will sound an alert, calling “smoker smoker” and “smoking can caused cancer”. Well, after a few reprimanding from me, asking them not to be too loud, they resort to coming near me and whispering in my ear. Sometimes they literally do not want to sit near smokers and asked to move to another table.

I really hope the government or the community do something about smoking in air condition places. Build a room for the smoker to smoke all they want and keep the rest of the air clean. For those smokers out there, please do not smoke in front of children. I really dislike those people who are so insensitive.

My children love playing with water since young. I remembered when they were a baby, every time I bathed them, they are very happy. They kicked the water and have fun.

I never had any problem asking them to take a bath. They will be all excited. The problem is getting them to come out.

My children’s bathroom does not have a bathtub. Guess what? We used the portable swimming pool to be their bathtub. They have hours of fun in there. Sometimes if I want a dip in my stress free lavender bubble bath, I can use it too. The good thing with this swimming pool, I do not need to inflate it. I can just roll it and put it away easily. It is cheap too!

By the way, I just learn how to play Mr. Bean theme song. It is good to have a kid learning music, I can learn from her. Enjoy my short piece of music.

Keys are: DDFGA D’D’CAGFDFGA D’D’C

That is what I look forward to at the end of the day after work. I always look in the mail box to see what is in the mail for me. Sometimes I get surprises.

Remember when Tim and Emily got their own room. Tim decided to build a mail box for it. He even put a number in his room, pretending it to be his house. His number is 84. Emily followed his footstep, she asked me to build a mail box and she numbered her house 85.

Well to make the children happy, I wrote little notes to put in their mail box. They were happy to see letters in their mail box. Yeah both of them were grinning ear to ear. It just showed that they have my gens.

Today I bought a little gift and inserted it into their little mail box. I didn’t make any sound. When Emily saw something in her mail box, she screamed and shouted for joy. Moments like these makes me happy. Similar reaction with Timothy. The gift was only RM3. From this day forward, I will put more letters and gift in their little mail box.

First we indulge in Haagen Dazs, I got a free RM60 voucher, thanks to Abbot after collecting many milk scoops. We ordered a Haagen Dazs fondue and my children love it at first sight. Maybe because they can play with the melted chocolate.

On Sunday, we had dinner at my church friend’s house. One of my friend brought durian from the Orang Asli plantation where she helped out. It was delicious! Next, we had rich chocolate cake to celebrate the October’s babies.

Now I need some leong char to get rid of the heatiness. Some say if you drink water from the durian shell, it can cool you down. And if you wash your hands by scooping water with the durian shell, it can get rid of the strong smell. Don’t believe me, try it.

Last, my church friend threw in a whole bunch of keropok (aka potatoes chips) which he bought from the handicap lady. My hubby, Emily and I had all the above. Timothy had all the above except durian. Guess who is down with cough?

I strongly believed that she had a bad wheezing cough because she ate M&M chocolate. Somehow she is allergic to it and Japanese biscuit. Any of your children is allergic to these? Poor gal cannot enjoy M&M with me.

Many of you will have to decide how much to give your child when he goes to primary school. I gave Tim RM1 first day of school and that’s it. The RM1 is still in his wallet until today. I never give him after that. Every day I packed him something to eat during recess time. However he never wants to spend any money in school.

The main place to spend money is not in the canteen but the book shop. They sell all kind of things even games in the book shop. A few times when I visit the book shop, I see children’s spending their parent’s hard earned money on unnecessary things. I see some of the children even carried RM10.

Next are the illegal stalls outside the school. Fortunately there are not many, less than 3 and 2 of them only sells food. Hehehe…I used to eat from one of the stalls when I picked Timothy. Who can resist the delicious fish balls, right? Well after hearing the headmaster telling the students not to buy from those stall, I had to set a good example. No more fish ball for me.

One time I heard from the Tim that many children buy “spray mulut”. He told me that the headmaster warned the children, the “spray mulut” is not good for their health. Tim said it can cause cancer. Yes, he knows what cancer is.

By the way, if I do my calculation correctly, Tim has saved up enough to buy a big size transformer. Shhh shh…don’t tell him yeah. I will save it for him in his bank account.

Thanks to daddy for this.

Teacher: What is your ambition? What you want to be when you grow up?
Emily: Bible reader and Artist.

Another kid (non-christian): Pastor.
Teacher: Why you want to be a pastor?
Kid: So that I can talk a lot.

On another note, I did some clips last few days with the lovely ribbons I bought. Do you think it can sell for RM$2 per clip? I do for fun and I just have too many now.

Size of the clip: 1 inch.

Emily two front teeth has been jotting out like a rabbit teeth. It is a little loose and I believed it is about to drop. Both Tim and Emily had their first tooth at 3 months, so it makes sense to drop early. Emily refused to let me touch her 2 front teeth, she complain a little pain if I touched it.

Anyway, the other day when we went to Ikea, she was pushing the small trolley. I warned her not to push too fast as the floor in Ikea is not even. As I was looking at the display, I saw her crying and her front teeth were bleeding. I had to console her, no use scolding her at that moment because it will make her wail even louder. I wipe off the blood but the teeth were still intact. Apparently she bumped her face into the trolley handle.

A day later, the left tooth turned in a funny position. Again, she didn’t want me to touch it. She is mega sensitive to pain like me. :giggles: She was whining about it during meal time and I asked her to use the side teeth to chew.

Another day passed, the tooth was halfway out but not fully out. I asked her can I pull it out, she shook her head with fear. Well I have a strong feeling that it will come out by itself when she sleeps. She has a tendency to grind her teeth while she sleeps.

This morning as I woke her up, I saw her tooth missing. She opened her mouth and the tooth was there. So far she shred 2 milk teeth. Let’s hope her permanent teeth grow back in time for Christmas. 😛

I have a children room and of coz my bedroom. My children room is the 2nd room. The third room is my so call walk in, play room, ironing room and store room. Tim wants the 3rd room to be his room. When he was young, he disliked the 2nd room. He told me he didn’t like the glow in the dark stars I put up. He is starting to be a fussy boy.

Today I decided to take leave to do some spring cleaning. I cannot believe the amount of rubbish I accumulated. I cleared up the 3rd room, put a bed in for him. I had a table for him to do his homework. I even clear my store room. All in a day’s work.

The problem with me is that I like to collect things and I hate throwing things. My hubby said if I don’t touch it for a year, it ought to go into the bin. Sigh, I cannot have him throwing out my things. Who knows, I made need it sometime in the future.

By the way, I have a car seat, 2 strollers and a yiu yiu to give away. I wonder where I can donate it in Penang.

I am all exhausted now and there goes my 1 day leave. Next I need to repaint the rooms. By the way, see what my hubby did to our bedroom when I was in US…. isn’t it romantic?

My friend introduced gummy bear multi vitamin to me. I know my children would love it. I got Vien to get 2 bottles for me. Actually it can be found in Costco.

It has 6 great natural flavors cherry, strawberry, tropical punch, orange, lemon and white grape. It has no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. In addition, it has no wheat (gluten), milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts or soy. It has Vitamin A, C, D, E B-6, folic acid, B-12, Biotin, Iodine, Zinc and others. Ooh, it has received American Chefs Best Award 2009 BEST TASTE.

When I introduced it to Emily and Timothy, they didn’t like it at first. Maybe it was the vitamin in the gummy bears. I ate some myself. I kind of like the yellow ones. I gave them the yellow ones and they changed their minds. Now they just take it without any problems. It is nutritious and taste great with no artificial stuff. Imagine I like it too. 🙂