I had an early telecon this morning and had to go to the office for it. Tim & Emily were still sleeping. I carried Emily out quietly but she woke up. She opened her sleepy eyes and saw mummy. As I was walking out the main door, she started crying. I carry her back in, she stopped. I walk out, she struggled. Back in, she stopped. :wall: If you were there, you will see me walking back and forth, while carrying her.

In my mind, I could have just let her down on the sofa and let her wake up fully. Switch on some cartoon to make her happy. However, I know when its time for her to go to the nanny, she will cry. I decided to let her cry and carried her over. When she reached the nanny, the nanny asked her to stop crying. She stopped. Sigh, how come she bullied me?! :sc: My nanny is fairly strict with her and she listens to her more than me.

I notice that she could be bored at the nanny’s place. I am still thinking whether to start her with nursery (preschool) together with her brother? At least she will have more fun in school. I know she will enjoy it. What do you think?

From 8 months onwards, my son Tim dislikes milk from the bottle. I had to spoon feed him through spoon. I have changed his milk powder to variety of brands or add milo but he just doesn’t want to take it from the bottle. Strange, he takes water from milk bottle. Anyway, it didn’t stop me from discontinuing his milk intake. I believe milk is important for his growing bones.

When he was older and learns how to sip from the cup, he takes milk from the cup. However he is very slow in finishing it. Sometimes it can take 45 minutes to finish it and the fastest was 15 minutes. As you read, I always have to remind him to finish it fast. Even Emily can drink faster than him.

Once I said to both him and Emily, whoever drinks the fastest can receive a present from me. However, that didn’t work either but it did improve his finishing time. By the way, his normal routine is after finishing the milk he will put the cup in the sink.

One day, the usual I gave the bottle to Emily and gave Tim the cup of milk. I walked to the study room and do my usual surfing, while they watch TV drinking milk. I think I sat for 2 minutes and I saw Tim walking to the sink. I asked him whether he finished his milk, he nod his head. I said “Wow, you so clever boy today, finished faster than Emily.” He was very happy and said “Got present, yeah”. :giggles: After that day, it takes less than 5 minutes for him to finish his milk.

Tim likes it when I say, “you so clever boy” or “you are a good boy”. Oh well, here is another method of disciplining your child, better than the usual cane.

I am trying to write a medical post with no medical background whatsoever. Often a lot of people confuse thyroid with tonsils. Both are totally different and function differently. Thyroid disorder will make hormones go amok.

Basically Thyroid is a gland takes iodine in the body and manufacture hormones called thyroxine (T4) and thriiodothyronine (T3). All the cells in the body depends on the hormones to regulate metabolism.

There is 2 types of Thyroid disorder, Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism. Hyper is overproducing of T4 & T3. Hypo is of coz lacking of T4 & T3.

Symptoms of Hyper could be:
Goitre
Weight Loss
Heat Intolerance
Breathlessness
Hands Tremor
Muscles Weakness
Irregular Period
Vision Problem
Hair Loss
Fast Heart Rate
Increase in Bowel Movement
Etc..

Symptoms of Hypo:
Weight Gain
Sensitivity to the cold
Fatigue
Slower pulse rate
Heavy Period
Dry skin/hair
Constipation
Muscle Cramp
Depression
Memory Loss
Etc..

There are a few ways to treat this disorder. If you go untreated, it will become severe. Example too much weight lost, suffer insomnia, heart complication and sometimes the thyroid will become cancerous. Treatments such as Anti Thyroid Hormones Drug, Radioactive Iodine, Surgical Removal or taking thyroxine to restore level, if you are under.

By the way, a clear symptoms that can show you that you have thyroid problem is the neck area when the thyroid gland is, is swollen. If you are in doubt, please consult your doctor, he will run a blood test to see your T3 & T4 level.

After much said, I am hyper with T3 & T4 normal but I have goitre. Probably the hormones are trapped in the gland and no where to go. I have seek many specialist advise, seems that no medicine for me. 🙁 The only means is to go for a surgery to remove it. Oh well, this is my next mission. The good side of it all, I get 15 days of MC. :dance:

Here’s presenting Emily, the little actress. Scene 23, take 1 in Aladdin, where Jafar thought he has the lamp.

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Line: Mummy It’s all Mine, Mummy It’s all Mine, Mummy It’s all Mine…

By the way, she also learns to answer this question from the cartoon, “What’s your name?” Tim thought her. Yeah yeah yeah, both of them watch too much cartoons. :naughty:

Tim just learns this word. Mummy buy this. Mummy buy that. Mummy also thought him these 2 words “No money”.

Tim: Mummy buy black car.
Mummy: No money. You got money?
Tim: Got in the Barney’s coin box. :wall:

He took the McD discount promotion coupons that was recently received and asked me to get things for him. Things like sharpener and Thomas train VCD. Better not tell Tim how much he got in his bank account. :giggles:

One time, I was giving them honey stars for breakfast. I told him, must pay me for the honey stars. He went to the table, took 10 sen (which I left there) and pay me. :giggles:

Now someone else catches on.

Tim: Mummy go Giant buy Nemo.
Emily: No money. 😆

She is really my assistance and she has been very talkative. It is amazing how she pick up words. The latest is “Mummy, go follow kor kor to school”. Not sure she asked me to go to school with Tim or she wants to go to school.

I just got back from the hospital. I just wanted to share some good news with you. Probably a birthday gift from God to her. Emily was due for a second MCU with a pass record of reflux grade 1 and UTI. History here.

Her results came out normal. She doesn’t need prolong antibiotic. Praise God! :dance: Rachel blog about the entire MCU procedure here.

She had fever before the procedure, I was afraid that the doctor may cancel it. Anyway, she went ahead. Her fever was due to sore throat and runny nose. I took her into the hospital early morning. I gave her the sedation medicine. Immediately after the medicine, she dozed off. Wow, I thought the medicine was effective. However during the procedure, she woke up. She didn’t scream although surrounded by strangers and mummy was not visible. I was not allowed into the x-ray room. I heard the officer said, she went back to sleep. Everything was done successfully as compare to last time, without sedation, she screamed so loud.

After that, she enjoyed herself in the playroom and watch all the cartoon on Astro Disney channel. The children wad change so much, definitely more children friendly.

Oh well, definitely a hectic week for me. 3rd mission is coming up. Sigh. Life is filled with so many exciting things with children.

It was Emily’s birthday on Sunday as well as mine. As mentioned before, she wanted a Tigger cake. The cakes store I went to, do not have any Tigger cake. I printed the face of Tigger and ask one of the cake house to custom make. This is what I printed:

And I got this, not bad eh…. :good:

Here is where Emily enjoyed her cake:

After which I brought both my children to enjoy nature, to the Penang Beach. Let me whine about the hotel. The hotel ran out of towels, could you believe that? Secondly there were so many children, that the children pool was filled with dirt. Some children were not even in their swimming suit. There was no control over the children pool. Thirdly, the staffs weren’t very friendly. Fourthly the condition of the hotel is poorly maintained. I probably will not go back there again.

Beside that, children had fun. Started with a welcome drink:

Proceed to have fun with the sand:

Mummy enjoying the seaview:

The banana boat:

Fun in the room:

After a swim:

I will make both my children milk before they sleep, just like having supper. Sometimes they have a little snack. Emily will drink from the bottle by herself and Tim from his cup with a straw. There will be cartoon accompany them while mummy rest in the study room.

Often, after Emily finished, she will leave her bottle on the floor. I will call her to put the bottle into the sink, and tell Tim to hurry with his milk. I had been repeating it daily until it gets program in them. Today, Emily came by my study room door and said “Put the bottle in the sink, ok?”. She walked to the sink and place the bottle there. After she did that, she shouted, “Kor Kor hurry up with your milk?” in Cantonese. 😆 Wow I have a new assistance. Now when will she be able to make milk…*start dreaming*.

After that, I will send both of them to the room, give them each a toothbrush and they brushed their teeth. I have to help Emily a bit as she does it very quickly. We will say a little prayer, sometimes Tim will say and Emily say Amen at the end. We greet each other goodnite. Lights out. Mummy goes down and has some peace.

Today I decided to cook lunch for them and take them shopping after their nap. They got pretty excited when I said I am going to buy them Mickey Mouse and Tigger tees.

Emily started to pick what clothes she wants to where. She will be very happy if she gets to wear the one she picks. Now she goes for all the cartoon characters, Pooh, Tigger, Mickey, Popeye, Mermaid, etc…Oh she told me that she wants a Tigger birthday cake. Daddy did you hear that?

Today during dinner, I wanted to reward them with some ice cream and pick somewhere that serve ice cream. Tim saw Sushi King and kept pulling me in that direction. He loves the Edamame. I told him, Sushi King doesn’t serve ice cream. He still wanted to go there. He didn’t allow me to enter any other restaurant. It was so funny, the waiter from Nandos came out to ask us “How many persons?” Tim shouted “Sushi King”. The waiter got a shock. 😯 Oh well, Tim won, we ate in Sushi King.

Later we went to a free indoor playground and ToysRus. They had fun playing. Both slept on the way home. I had the pleasure of listening to the radio and taking a cruise on the road. The radio was playing good songs. I love doing that and miss doing it. I used to do that in KL. It brings back lots of memories.

Oh, I watched the downloaded American Idol when my children had their nap. It was great and without any commercials! I love the part when they showed the impersonator of Clay Aiken, Michael Sandecki receiving the award and sang. Then the charming Clay Aiken came out from behind and sang together with him. Michael had the shock of his life. It was so touching as I can see in Michael’s eyes, it is really a dream come true to be singing with Clay himself. Of coz the Puck & Pickler was so funny. :giggles: Katherine McPhee sang very well with Meatloaf, “It’s all coming back to me now..” Overall both guys and gals groups gave a brilliant performance.

The not so good part was, not sure whether it was my ear or what. I couldn’t hear what Toni Braxton was singing. The singer who sang with Elliot Yamin was taking over the performance. :sc: Actually I love the finale better than the day before where the final 2 perform.

Yesterday, I am not feeling too well, have been loosing a lot of blood. Everytime I stand up, I feel dizzy. Hands shaking and body aching. I got ½ day MC from my company’s doctor.

I went back home to snooze. When I woke up, it was time to pick Tim and Emily back. I took a shower and pick both of them. I told them, they have to be good boy and good gal as mummy is not feeling well. Pretending to be crying and asked “You sayang mummy or not?”

Emily came with a cheekiest smile, the sweetest smile I ever seen. If I had a camera in my hand, I would have captured that. She came very close to me and I don’t have a clue what she was about to do. That’s the moment that make me felt good, better than any medicine in the world. She planted a kiss on my cheek. :giggles: When Tim saw that, he did the same on the other cheek.

Later, I send them all to bed by 8:30pm. No joke. I had to miss the finale of Americal Idol. 😥 Fortunately I can download it today.