5:30 Foong Koong (in Cantonese, meaning finish work)
5:45 Pick up Tim from school
6:00 Shower. Have dinner. Watch TV3 TVB Chinese series. Darn they move up the Chinese series to half and hour earlier due to fasting month. *GERAM*
6:45 Commercial break, go next door pick up Emily.
7:00 Play with the children or take them out for a stroll.
8:15 Change Tim & Emily to their pajamas.
8:30 Tim & Emily drinks their milk.
9:00 Tim go into his room to sleep while I accompany Emily till she doze off.

The rest is happy hour for me and my hubby.

Mummy: Pa Pa
Emily: Pa Pa *loudly*

Mummy: Kor Kor
Emily: Kor Kor

Mummy: Mummy
Emily: *Quiet*

Mummy: *Geram & bite her right thigh*
Emily: *Giggles*

Mummy: Twinkle Twinkle Little
Emily: STARRRRR

Mummy: How I wonder what you
Emily: STARRRRR

Mummy: Up above the world so
Emily: STARRRRR

Mummy: Like a diamond in the
Emily: STARRRRR

Mummy: Twinkle Twinkle little
Emily: STARRRR

Mummy: *clap* *clap*
Emily: *clap* *clap*

Mummy: *tickle Emily*
Emily: *Giggle loudly*

This is basically what I do before she go to sleep.

First it started with Emily. She was having fever last Wednesday. My babysitter caught her shivering. She called my office number and spoke to me in hokkien. Fortunately I still can undertstand her bit on the fever part, the rest is bla bla bla. I called my hubby, he is away from his desk. I got one of his colleague’s numbers and call him to help locate my hubby. Remember to always keep your hubby’s colleague’s number for emergency. He located him.

We were very worried because we were afraid of the Dengue spread in Penang. Anyway, we told her to our usual paed. By the way, my hubby’s office, my office, my paed’s clinic, house and babysitter are all within range. Another plus point, of staying in Penang. Paed ruled out Dengue because her fever is not high enough and no rash. It could be the MMR and her sore throat. We need to monitor her.

On Thursday night, I was on high fever and pop down 1 panadol. I dislike taking medicine unless it is necessary. Friday woke up, fever gone. Work for half day and then fever came back. I went to the doctor, she also rule out Dengue coz fever not that high and no rash. I got a MC till end of the day. Funny until today, I still don’t know the cause of the fever.

Today, my son is having fever. I am working at home to babysit him. I could not take leave as I have a couple of meetings that I need to attend. Fortunately I do not have to be on site for those meetings. My son is having a good time because he is away from school and gets to do what he wants to do at home. I am pampering him since he is sick.

Emily & I have fully recovered. Ok no more fever spreading in the family..….

Tada……

If you said FOOD, you’re spot on!! My little “wai sek mui” (in Cantonese) always want a piece of anything you are eating, be eat chilli hot or sour. She will follow mummy and called out “mum mum” rather than mummy or ma ma. I have no problem feeding her, everything she also wallops. Unlike the brother, a little picky on his food. When she sees food, her face lit up like the previous picture.

Guess what she saw?

After reading DomesticGoddess blog about her piano, it makes me want to blog this. I have no music talent whatsoever. I am tone deaf, please don’t ask me to go for karaoke, you probably kick me out after my first song. I tried to learn music when I was 12, took organ lesson. The teacher asked me to go home and never to return. Somehow I cannot follow the rhythm and I have poor coordination. Imagine playing with 2 hands and 1 foot.

The funny thing is my Dad, he can play the harmonica very well. He just listens to the song and reproduces it using his harmonica. He can play by ear. He played his harmonica during my wedding. Everyone enjoyed it. None of my sister and bro can do that.

Now I wish my children have my dad’s musical genes. I want them to at least learn 1 music instrument be it the piano, violin, organ or guitar. If they cannot, I will not force them, at least they tried. While I was pregnant, I listen to some music. Some say the baby in the womb can hear music if we plays it. I also played soft music when they are about to sleep. I find that it helps to simulate their right brain (creative side).

My son is very creative, I can tell by his speech and action. Example, I have been giving him multivitamins and told him it is vitamins. The vitamins come in shape of the hearts. Once he came up to me and asked me “Mummy, I want vita-hearts”. Isn’t that creative or what? There are other examples.

If you look at western countries, most of their children start to learn music when they are young. As you know the famous “Barney” and “Hi 5” that all children loves. Now my gal starts to like it and watch it with her kor kor.

Let’s hope my children will have interest in Music.

Many of you know that Mybabybay.com was down on whole of Monday, due to over exceeding of bandwidth. It was partly my fault as I was not paying attention to warning emails triggered. Anyway, I have extended the bandwidth now and it is back on.

I pay for Mybabybay.com and it is not free. It is a good thing that it is down because it shows the popularity of this site. How this works, you may ask. As you access Mybabybay.com, my server uploads files to your browser. The amount of files in bytes traveling to your PC is called bandwidth. There is a limit to the bandwidth in my server. The more you access, the more bandwidth it takes. That is how it works.

The reason I started Mybabybay.com is to help mothers, to get mothers together to share so that other new mothers can enjoy their experience. I want mothers to be connected so that they can learn from one another. Laugh together and share worries together. I love gatherings with mothers and their children too. I met so many mothers when I started this. The friendship just carried on. Of course, we will not forget the daddies too. I love to teach and help other non-IT literate mothers to blog too, to write a diary of themselves and their children. Sometimes, I feel that mothers can share their feelings through blogging or let out their depression by writing. Sorry that I am not the Guru, but I am learning myself when I teach.

Secondary reason was that I want to keep up with the new Internet technology out there. Being in the IT line, I have to keep up to speed with technology. I learn about forum, blogs, and lots of other Internet tools like WordPress, Mambo, PhpBB, Gallery and etc…etc. The cost is very minimal, I only pay RM120 per year for the domain, server hosting, storage and bandwidth. The value I got from it is priceless.

For mothers and daddies out there who want to join us in mybabybay.com forum, please register yourself at http://mybabybay.com/forum . It is free.

My family went out for a quiet dinner today at Gurney Mall. My hubby and I could not decide what to eat. It seems that we are always choosing the same old food every time. Anyway we stroll down on all the eating-places outside of Gurney Mall and see what they have. We came across this “Fish & Co”. The waiter outside told us they serve seafood. First thing I asked them, do they have any baby chair. I really don’t like going to restaurant without a baby chair. I want my gal to sit in her baby chair when she is having her dinner, same goes for my boy. He is now big enough for an adult chair. He is tall so he has no problem reaching the table. They did have baby chair.

I didn’t know what to order. The waiter recommended crab (opps, I meant real crab). I guess everyone knows that they will always recommend the most expensive. Like crab will keep us full for the evening. I don’t want to go home and worried about supper. Anyway, I saw the side menu and order the Family Seafood Platter for 2. I also order a kid meal for my boy. My gal has her own porridge and will take some from our order.

Our dinner came:

RM: 48.90

Source of the picture was from myBest, member of forum.mypdacafe.com. Sorry we didn’t have a camera to take shots of it.

It looks delicious and it was great!! It has prawns, clams, calamari, rice with raisins and fish with chips. We also had 2 humongous drinks called the Jungle Freeze and Sharkie Freeze. It is a blend of tropical fruit juices in a giant mug.

My children also enjoyed it. My gal was enjoying the fish, rice with raisins, and her porridge. My boy was enjoying his kid’s meal with fish nuggets and of course his passion fruit drink. Both did not make any fuss. My hubby and I did have a great time.

Later we dropped by MPH to get some colouring books for my children. We had an expired voucher worth RM38. Fortunately, MPH still allowed us to use it. By the way MPH was newly renovated. It was close like for a few months. We really missed it.

Crazy mother like me started collecting milk powder scoop from Day 1 since my son was born. He was drinking Similac. My gal is on Isomil, heavy drinker too. These scoops can be toys for my children to play. I kept them in a basket. I have about 70 of them and counting.

Two days ago, as I was buying Isomil for my gal, the Abbott promoter ran up to me and told me in Hokkien to keep the scoop. I asked her why. She told me that I can exchange gift with it. However she didn’t have much information. It is like chicken and duck talk, she spoke Hokkien and I replied in English or Cantonese.

Being a resourceful mother like me, I surf the Abbott website, no details found there. No email address listed but a KL contact number. I asked another mum in KL to call for me and ask for details. She told me that it is an exclusive membership, sounded so grant. I need to fill up the form and send one scoop handle in for them to accept me as their exclusive member. I have already done that and now waiting for them to reply. I am not really sure why they want to make it so exclusive.

After becoming an excusive member, I can exchange all this scoops for gifts. Happy with my 70 scoops. Simply Precious!!

Today, I took my gal for MMR shot. She is supposed to take the jab 2 weeks ago but she was down will diarrhea. She is now 15 months. I carry her into the clinic, she was happy to see so many toys there. There was no queue, the paed called her in. My hubby just put her on the chair and she sat there by herself. She gave a cheerful smile while the paed checked her heartbeat. The paed ask my hubby to hold her while she jab. The paed did a good job, it was pretty fast. She didn’t cry at all. I was so proud of her.

Later she wave bye bye and gave the paed a flying kiss.

My son and gal are not afraid of the needle. Not like me. When I was young, when I saw the doc preparing the needle, I scream. I told the doc, please don’t jab me, just give me medicine will do. I remembered once, I was struggling when the doc jab me and the needle broke in my buttock. Ouch! I was a weak child and always get sick. When ever I have fever, the entire family will be worried. My fever can shoot up very high and followed by seizure. My mum will put a cloth wrap spoon beside my bed to prevent me from biting my tongue when I have seizure. I am not sure whether it is medically sound for that. Fortunately I grew out of it. Mum said it was due to the Chinese medicine (deer’s horn) that she gave me. Honestly, God saw me through.