Daddy was setting up the swimming pool for the children to have some water splashing time. Whenever they hear swimming pool, they get all excited and grin from ear to ear. Our swimming pool is very easy to setup, no need air, just add water and it will stand on its own.

Anyway, Tim rushed to the toy box and pick up a fishing rod. We usually put all the pool toys in a bucket at the back porch. As usual, upon seeing the brother taking a toy, Emily would want the same. She wanted the fishing rod. I looked at daddy, ask him to look for it. He went to the back porch bucket and ran back upstairs to go through the toy box.

As he was finding, Emily said “Where is my fishing rod?” a few times. Timothy being a resourceful boy (from mummy’s gene) went to the back porch and retrieved the fishing rod for her. He yelled “Daddy I found the fishing rod already”. It is always difficult to ask my hubby to find things because he will never find it, even if it is right in front of him. Anyone knows why?

I saw this in Huisia‘s blog and my itchy fingers went to the site to try it out. See what I got? I am dependent on LOVE, without it I am incomplete. Not sure how true?

You are The Lovers

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.

Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that’s actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can’t understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.

What Tarot Card are You?
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God has given me 2 blessed children, go see for yourself. They mopped the floor glittering clean. Let’s hope they continue to like what they are doing.

Emily: Mummy don’t step on the floor, after fall down “kok tor tow” (knock the head)
Tim: Mummy see dry already
Tim: Mummy, don’t step here, after fall down, knock the head.

Emily gave me another fright. She has high fever and a fit. She had her suppository and fever medication, but that didn’t stop the fever. It surges up and she had another attack. I had to send her to the hospital again. She is fine now and discharged.

The doctor said it is probably due to viral infection because he ran a few test like dengue and oral test. All were negative. She had high fever for 4 days and today it was gone. I stayed in the hospital with her throughout the 4 nights. Last night, a baby checked in to the same room. She was one noisy baby, sleep during the daytime and make noise during the nighttime. Emily slept through it but I hardly can get any.

Funny conversation with the doctor:

Doc: I will let her continue with her antibiotic. (prescribed by the paed on Monday before she was admitted). I do not have to change the antibiotic, most cases it is due to viral infection and antibiotic will not be necessary.

Me: That’s true.

Doc: She is still having fever but not as high. Actually I didn’t do anything, she is healing on her own.

Me: Does that mean I don’t have to pay you since she is doing it by herself. :giggles: *nurses were also giggling*

Doc: The insurance will worry about that.

Me: Yeah I am sure.

According to the doc, since Emily had 3 attacks of fit, the next one would be 4%. I am praying that she will not get it again. It is horrible to see another fit and there is nothing I can do to stop the fit. Although by now I am experience in handling it. :pray:

Christmas spirits are around and most of the malls have put up the Christmas decoration. Not to mention, people have started to shop for Christmas presents. In my office area alone, I am surrounded by 4 to 5 Christmas trees.

My children were very excited when I mentioned I will put up the Christmas tree. They helped me in putting the ornaments onto the tree. After I switched on the lights with Christmas music playing, they didn’t allow me to stop. Yesterday, Tim requested that I get a star to put on the tree. The past years, I just put a soft toy on the top of the tree.

I always like Christmas not because of the presents, the trees or even Santa. It is about what God did, planted a gift of love into this world knowing that the world rejected him from the very beginning. The gift of love through Jesus who save us from our sin. Christmas is about the relationships that was broken and now fix because of Jesus. The greatest gift God has ever given to me and you.

What is the meaning of Christmas for you? You have 21 days to think. 🙂

Today avoid going to the south side of Penang. Predicted to have a massive jam. Maybe it is the 1st of December, there are 3 big events.

1. Opening of the Penang Queensbay Mall.
2. PESTA Penang Opening for the year-end fun.
3. PC Fair

What is in the Penang Queensbay Mall? A few new outlets has landed in Penang, Jaya Jusco, TGIF, Borders, New Zealand Natural Ice Cream, Sa Sa and lots more. Click here and here.

Lastly not forgetting people rushing to go home from the factories, as it is a FRIDAY.

Happy jamming. I will be staying at home.

After talking about raising the second child, let’s talk about motherhood. I found that being a mother have improved a lot of my skills and brain power, which makes me smarter than before I became a mother.

Problem Solver – All mothers are good problem solver. Hey your child didn’t come with an operating manual. When he/she cries, you do not have any reference books to tell you what went wrong. However we were given a maternal instinct to detect it. Have you ever heard a saying, “Before a child asked for things, a mother already knows what he wants.” Chinese saying “Kat hey til mei, ngor the ji lei yu mud” (in Cantonese).

Networking – Hey mothers are good in finding other mothers with the same problem and discuss a solution. Many mothers today are well verse with the Internet. Some who has no IT background but could pick up blogging, chat and make full use of parenting forums. How cool is tat?

Creativity – I am not sure about you but I use my creativity to deal with a child or discipline them. When your child is rude or does things that are not right, what do you do? You could cane them? That is one option but not necessary the best or give the best result. It may not even be suitable method for certain types of children. For me, my hubby makes this song up. It goes like this “Shame Shame, all the monkeys know your name”. Every time my children do something rude, I sing that. They laugh and know that it is not a right thing to do because they do not want monkeys to know them. :giggles: Anyway, this only works for children below 5. As they grow other, I have to be creative about the methods I used to discipline them.

Resourceful – I read up a lot about pregnancy, breastfeeding parenthood, children behavior and anything about children. I bet most of you also find out vaccinations and diseases related to children like chicken pox, measles, UTI, etc. I may not be an expert but enough to know how to deal with it.

Multitasking – I do this most of the time especially when they were a baby. I have to carry them to pacify them while using another hand to make milk or express my milk, and talk to them at the same time. Today, I need to use this skill to handle 2 requests at the same time as I have 2 demanding children and a hubby.

Read more about this in this article: How motherhood makes you smarter.

I found that raising the second child is always the easiest than the first one. For those who have 1, faster sign up for the piggy’s club. You still have time.

Anyway, here is what I found.

Speech – Emily picked up speech faster than Tim. As she always converse with Tim. She also picked up the fierceness from me. She makes me look at myself and reduce my fierceness, which is a good thing. Once she picked up her Minnie Mouse Toy.

Emily: Don’t cry ah. No chocolate for you.
Emily: Don’t cry ah. I will beat you. 😯

Dancing – As you know Tim did the dancing for the concert. He did a couple of rehearsals at home, showing Emily how to do it. Once Tim sang the song and Emily did the dance. It was a great sight to watch them do things together.

Singing – Both likes to sing a lot. They learn songs from Sunday school and their nursery. Emily knows how to count and her alphabets too.

Competition – Last time Tim was having trouble with his meal or milk drinking. It took forever for him to finish his meal. Now with Emily, they will try to out beat each other to finish their milk or meals.

Potty Trained – Emily does whatever Tim does, so potty training is easy. Of coz, not stand and pee. Both sit on the potty to do their business and pee. Emily is diaperless during the daytime, a few months ago.

Of coz there are the bad when you have 2.

Fights – No one can escape from this. I just have to learn how to deal with it. Usually I will just let them fight, cry and stop. You do not need to stress yourselves, shouting at them, it does not work. They will fight even more. Focus on the child that will be distracted easily and solve the fight. Not easy but it can be done.

Selections – Each have their own selections. It is better not ask what they want, else it will end up with fights. Example, if you ask them what cartoon they want to watch, you are just asking for trouble. Mummy chooses and they watch it.

Oh well, if you are having a tough time raising 1, don’t despair. It is definitely easier with the second one. A lots of things, you will just close 1 eye.

I was going through my recipe books on what to cook for the weekend. I found something I really love to eat. It is the sago honeydew and really easy to make.

Recipe here: http://mybabybay.com/cookblog/?p=68

Yummy!

Later in the evening, I took my children to watch “Happy Feet”. I find that the show was not really suitable for my children. Too deep for them. Not much action, but a whole lot of penguins. After dinner we had a delicious ant dessert. See the before and after shot.