Emily’s Hand Print:

Timothy didn’t want me to print his hand. Next week I will try the feet.

Daddy’s Creative PlayDoh

Tim: Mummy I wanna watch Kiki Mouse.

Emily: Watch Barney.

Tim: I wanna watch Pingu.

Emily: Wanna Buzz LightYear.

Tim: Wanna watch Pingu.

Emily: Watch Barney.

Mummy at the player, waiting for them to decide. Fortunately I only have 2. Anyway, they are choosing their babysitter to keep them quiet as long as the show lasts.

Yesterday, I don’t know what happen to Emily. She was crying every other hour during the night, until 5am. She was crying for Barney, Buzz Lightyear, want to wee wee, want mummy to remove her diaper. This is the first time she cried in her sleep. :sc:

Poor me, I am so tired the whole day. Due to lack of sleep, my mind floating in mid air. Worst I have to finish 5 IT contract agreements dateline today. I am so not myself. I can feel myself floating. Strange hor? Some more nearing “Ching Ming”. 😆

Sorry no blogs today, just some whining. Let’s hope my gals sleep well tonight or I will move her to another room.

After reading Zara’s experience on medicine, it inspired me to post this.

Every child hates to take medicine. When my children first encounter with medicine, they obviously hate it. Often need 2 person to force feed the medicine in. One to hold the child and the other to feed. After a while, either the child gave up the fighting or we as parents master the skill. :clap: I must say both have no problem with medicine. I can pop it into the spoon and they can take it from there.

A tip with feeding medicine I learnt is that I often use a syringe and I squeeze the medicine at the side of the mouth. That way, the chances of the medicine getting onto the tongue is less and no bad taste or after taste. For really bitter medicine, I prepare 2 syringes, one with the medicine and the other with water. After I pump in the medicine, I will pump the water to quickly wash it down. I ensure that the medicine is flowing by the side and not directly into, to prevent choking. Placing the child lying on high pillow.

Last week, Emily was down with high fever. The doctor ran out of her usual liquid antibiotic, must have been a lot of children having fever lately. She asked me do I have problem with pills. With pills, of coz you cannot pop it down a child’s throat. I wish, it was that easy. I need to open the capsule to get the powder out, to feed her. The doctor suggested that I mix it into Vitagen for her to sip it down. She warned me that the medicine was very bitter.

Silly mummy, I followed her advice. I put the powder into Yakult and put back the cap, put the straw in for her to sip. She took 1 sip and she gave it back to me saying “pu yau”. :wall: Now the problem gets worst. How to feed her the entire bottle of Yakult, I cannot syringe it in??!! :sc: I cannot open another capsule to feed her, it will cause overdose. Fortunately, she drinks it all after I put into her favourite cup and spoon-fed her. Hey I should have more confident in my gal.

Next dose, I just mix water with the powder and use the syringe instead. She has no problem with it. :angel: By the way, never mix bitter medicine in their milk. The child will hate his milk next time.

A month ago, I bought some paint, palette and brush for my children to do some painting. I also got a couple of potatoes for printing shapes. I halved the potatoes and make shapes on the surface. They can colour the top surface and make print on the art block. If you want them to get into a mess, you can also do finger painting. Later you can cut it and frame it, to decorate their room. Ensure you buy washable paint, else it will be difficult to come off from their clothes.

Colors:

Blue + Red = Purple
Blue + Yellow = Green
Red + White = Pink
Red + Yellow = Orange
Black + White = Gray

Have fun!

The Potatoes:

Materials:

Mummy’s ART:

I love this video. See how Emily show her love for Tim??!! 😆

Bumma, when I return home from work, no electricity. Sigh. :sc: Tim keep asking me to switch on the TV for him. Told him no power. He didn’t understand. I told him TV has no battery. 😆

What I dislike about no electricity is that I have no hot water? When you are so used to showering in warm water, the thought of doing it in cold is absolute frightening. Yeah call me pampered. Oh well, the first bucket of water was hard. After that, it was ok. Since there is no electricity, we went to GIANT hypermart to enjoy the air condition there.

In the car, had a meaningful conversation with Tim.

Tim: Mummy see Buzz Lightyear (his toy) is tall.
Mummy: Mummy tall or short?
Tim: Mummy not strong, cannot pow pow us. (as in carry 2 of them together).
Tim: Papa strong, can pow pow.
Mummy: Oh mummy not strong, mummy tall or short?
Tim: Mummy short. Papa tall.

I am not strong and short. :eh: Thank goodness, after we return home, we saw Light.

In my life time, I had 2 unplanned stayed the hospital. Once was 12 years ago and this year. Oh, I couldn’t remember whether I was hospitalise when I was small, I think I did, just couldn’t remember how old I was. However after 5 years old, there wasn’t any until I was 24.

At 24, it was a frightening experience. I was visiting the doc on my problem, next thing he told me that I needed to go under a few test. At the end of the test, the doctor told me I need to be dissected go for a surgery. I almost fainted because I didn’t know what to do. He didn’t give me anytime to think. He asked me to come in tomorrow for the surgery. Anyway, it was not as frightening as I thought it was.

This year, last week, I had to check in because of my eye infection. Fortunately there is no surgery. Doctor just wanted to apply eye drop every hourly for my eye and keep me under supervision. She also didn’t give me time to think, just admitted me in the same day. However she provided me wad leave. Wad leave is where I can return home at the end of the day but still check in. I had to do that because of my children.

Of coz, there are 2 planned hospital stayed where I have my 2 lovely children. I am keeping my finger cross that I do not need to check into the hospital after 12 years. :pray:

Sometimes Monday does bring disaster. I read somewhere that said “A high percentage of folks have heart attack on Monday” Maybe because they enjoy the weekend and the heart cannot take stress when they go back to the hussle, bussle, pressurizing lifestyle on Monday.

Anyway, today my car acted up on me. It didn’t want to start and it probably woke up the whole neighborhood with the noisy alarm. Each time my hubby press the automatic key to unlock the car, the alarm went off. The alarm went bonkus. We thought was the alarm or wiring problem. We had a few incidents with alarm, central locking and wiring problem with this car. Good thing, I am with AAM. I gave them a call. Not bad, they arrived within 30 minutes later.

The mechanic did some testing and found that the battery was flat. Now when was the last time I change the battery? Beats me! He fixed it and I was late for work. Fortunately I could still work from home the first hour.

Well, the day started bad but when I return to work I received a couple of good news, work related. You wouldn’t want to know.

I am not sure whether I have posted this, sorry for my poor memory. Anyway here are two very creative photos. One is done by a designer and the other, my darling hubby. I guess you know which is which, right?? :shifty:

Formula 1

Electrical Robot