I must say that my children has blossom or grown up. At this age, there are many things that they can do on their own. I do not have to be with them all the time like when they were babies.

Knowing me, I love to sleep in especially on a holiday or weekend. Tim will wake up first, he is an early bird. He will go and brush his teeth, either go down stairs to watch cartoon or go to the play room. If he is hungry, he will go down stairs to the kitchen and grab some biscuits from the cookie jar.

Emily will wake up next, she will go to brush her teeth and join Tim in the playroom. Yeap, mummy wakes up last because mummy is a late bird. By the way, they spend an hour playing with each other in the room.

They can do a lot on their own and here are some of the things. I guess having no maid help a lot because they do the things themselves.

• They can eat by themselves. Emily needs some help if the food is not to her liking.
• They can bath by themselves. They like to bath in cold water except for rainy days that I need to switch on the heater for them.
• They can wash their own school shoes.
• They can help themselves in the toilet if they want to do big or small business.
• They can help themselves with switching on the TV or video player while I am cooking.
• Tim can pack his own school bag and does his homework. He still needs a lot of help with BM.
• They can put away their toys but with constant reminders.
• They can sleep by themselves when lights out. Sometimes when papa put them to sleep, they bully papa by asking him to be in the room. As for me, when I leave the room, they sleep.

Now you know why, even without a maid, either me or my hubby can take care of them. They are a lovely pair of children, just precious!

Please slow down, I still want to enjoy their development a little longer.

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Tim got a bad rash since last Wednesday. He came home with rash on the face and legs. I suspect he ate something that he was allergic too. Up to this day, I am not sure what. Anyway, I applied calamine lotion to ease his itch and monitor him, hoping it will go away.

A few days after that, it seems to look better. However on Sunday night, it becomes worst and Monday, it starts to spread to the hand. His primary teacher called to ask us to take him home from school, she was afraid that he has chicken pox. My hubby did tell her that it is rash and not contagious.

No choice, I had to take him to the clinic. The doctor prescribed some antihistamine (Zyrtec). Hydrocortisone cream (a steroid used to reduce inflammation) and anti-itch medicine. The cream is to be used sparingly. Well his condition is very bad that I need to use this cream. Today he looks much better.

The doctor gave Zyrtec pill and Tim never learnt how to swallow a pill before. He was terrible at it. He kept it in the mouth until it dissolve and finally swallows it. The next course, I had to make it into powder form and add a little water for him to take it. I also prepare some tic-tac for him to get rid of the bitter taste.

I remember my mom gave me “kar in chee” after I eat medicine. I still love it, not the medicine but the kar in chee.

Mothers do not have Labor Day holiday per say. We still have to take care of our kids when we are off from work. Remember the time I took off and went down to KL for a shopping spree, maybe that was Labor Day for me. Anyway, now it is my hubby’s turn, he went down to KL for a mission conference for 3N/4D. I am home alone with the kids. He is back now.

Labor Day was a day well spent with the kids. First we went to have morning breakfast at indoor mamak café. Each has a roti canai. Timothy likes it with curry and Emily likes it with sugar. She started to take curry but still see her spicy face after eating it. I had my ice milk tea in mamak style. Both of them shared a syrup lime. Next we went to do some groceries shopping in Giant, which I have no clue that there was a sale going on. A few items were on sale but needs to purchase in carton. I got some stuff to cook lunch for them. My children wanted pasta and pasta, they shall have.

After their nap, they wanted to go to an indoor playground in Queensbay mall. We don’t have that many good indoor playgrounds as compare to KL. They played more than an hour and all sweaty. Queensbay mall was really packed with people during labor day but not as bad as MidValley KL. I hate the way, they blocked certain path to the carpark, forcing folks to go down and jam up the parking lot. Of coz, I was smart enough to take a longer route to go up.

Of coz, there was this crazy car with plate number KL XX. While I was queuing to go into the car park, he cut into my lane with no signal. “Nevermind”, I said. There were 2 lanes. As I approached nearer, I found that the left lane was going up to the indoor carpark and right lane was going into the open car park. I signaled to move to the left lane and was quite successful. The KL plate car tried to get very close to me wanting to cut in front of me. I really hate people who do that. It was a bumper to bumper queue. However my lane move faster and he missed cutting in. He was trying to go left and right, not sure what he was doing. I didn’t let him through. Fortunately another car cut in front of him and he was way at the back as our lane move faster. I mean how fast you can get by cutting into people lane, such inconsiderate driver. Another thing, I bet he got stuck in the parking jam because many were force to go to lower floors. I managed to sneak to the upper floors with plenty of parking space.

After the kids enjoyed the playground, we did a little shopping at Jusco. They were having some sale. I got some items. My children saw me carrying so many stuff, they offered to help me carry. I was surprised by their gesture.

I felt happy and rewarded them with going to ToysRus, their favorite shop. It must be the economy downturn, a lot of toys were going for 30-50% discount for members. Timothy spotted some Lego going for 40% discount. It was really cheap and I got him a set.

Last stop, we headed for Borders bookstore to read some books. Of coz, not forgetting has a nice supper at Starbucks. My children just love the atmosphere there and I can surf the net with my iPhone while they enjoy their cakes.

Tim: Mummy, I miss papa

Mummy: Ooh, you want me to put you on a plane to KL, to see papa.

Tim: No.

Mummy: Emily, do you miss papa?

Emily: If I say I miss papa, you cannot say send me to KL on a plane, ok?

Mummy: Ok. :giggles:

Emily: Yes.

A dress does not stop Emily from climbing or swinging. The dress is made by Jess, isn’t it beautiful? I adore her dress design. As for Emily, she said “Mummy see, I can swing”. By the way, she is born in the year of “Monkey”.

Have you notice that the books stores in Malaysia have 70% of English books, probably 10% BM books, 15% Chinese books and the rest are others. I was looking for some BM books for my children so that they can build their BM vocab. It is so difficult to find good books.

I remembered in my days there was Dewan Pelajar or Dewan Masyarakat magazine. I cannot locate them. I like Dewan Pelajar magazine because it has lots of education articles. I used to participate in their contest and won some prizes myself. Do they produce it anymore?

Next, I wanted to get some education VCD but 90% are English and 10% are Chinese. No BM to be found. Sigh. I think I have better chances of searching the internet for it.

One very interesting comic book I found for secondary students. Yes comic book for history (aka Sejarah). Too bad they do not have that during my school days, else my Sejarah marks would be better. It is a kind of neat way to teach Sejarah. Visual pictures are definitely better than a book of words. It put me to sleep.

If any parents who know where I can find BM education VCD, I love to hear about it.

I had a German visitor last week. Before he came, he messaged me to prepare his visit. Oh well, I took the opportunity to ask him to bring some German chocolates. I adore German chocolates as they have alcohol or liquor in it. It is much creamier and melts in your mouth.

He didn’t just bring one bar of chocolate, he brought a bunch. How lovely of him. Our team certainly enjoys it. When we left the meeting room, there were only a few left. Even that didn’t last very long.

Hehehe…I ate so much of it and I believed I need some acne treatments to recover.

Timothy has his first sports day and we were invited. I really don’t remember my parents ever attending my sports day as they were busy people. Tim’s school was really efficient by the way they run their sports day.

First, std 1 to 3 has a separate sports day during school days. It doesn’t make a different for me because Timothy didn’t participate as only limited children were chosen. I believed he didn’t volunteer himself. On the sports day itself, only std 3 to 6 were competing. They had track running and some telematches.

Secondly, events were held together to save time. The price giving was done while the track field running was going on.

The weather on that day was good, not too hot. They provided a nice big tent for the parents/visitors to sit. However they put the VIP in the first row, they were not very good seats as the sun was directing the rays on them. I had a nice seat where the fan was blowing. Kind of cool for me.

We decided to leave early before they catch us to do the parents event. They made a couple of announcement to request parents to join.

No medal this year for Tim, oh well we will wait for next year when he volunteer himself. He got long legs, should run pretty fast.

During the school holidays in last March, I brought my family to Bukit Merah. There was an Eco Park where we can feed the animals. Animal foods were available for the children to feed the hamsters, rabbits, mice, tortoise and fish. There was a feeding area for us to go near the rabbits. However there were so many people feeding the animals, the animals were not interested in our food. I had left over bread, some vegetables and lots of fish food.

We walked to another area where the deer, birds and a pond of fish. I decided to throw some bread, the deer and birds were interested in my bread. When my children saw it, they started throwing bread and they were excited seeing the animals eating the food. Eventually we ran out of food. Later my children fed the deer with huge leaves. The deer approach us very near to eat those leaves. Emily and Timothy pat it. They were excited and almost tearing every leaves there to feed them.

Later we went out of the Eco Park but my children still would like to feed animals. I bought some more bread and they threw it to the ducks. Ended up a huge crowd of ducks came to catch the bread. Wow, those animals must be under fed. My children had a good time and told me to get more bread next time to feed the animals. Yeah, mummy will buy a few loaves of bread for them.

Look what I saw in the LCCT Airport.

I was so tempted to get this for my children but it cost RM49.90. It is not value for money. However I snapped a picture for them to see. By the way, the giant lollipop is not entirely candy. It probably takes forever to finish it. It is just a wrapped round box with normal size lollipop inside.

I missed the Sarsi flavored lollipop. Anyone knows where I can get those. I used to get it from primary school junk food stall. I wonder do they produce it any more. Any parents see it in their children’s junk food stalls?

My hubby took Tim and Emily to visit the Pisa stadium swimming pool. He captured their pictures and updated it with captions. Tim and Emily sent this to me through email.

Tim: My hobby is swimming.

Emily: I love to go to swimming pool. I want to use my arm float.

Where was I? I was in KL shopping and spending time with my parents. I have lots of annual leaves to kill. I even bumped into a blogger, guess who?