Saturday, June 20, 2009

"Sticky" 37 months old & "Bravery" 8 months old







It's more easier for mummy to blog milestone of our 2 little ones at the same time as their birth date only 4 days apart. So, basically, as of today...

En En is 37 months and 5 days old



Vital

Weight: 15kg (before hospitalized, she was 15.6kg with rosy cheeks!)
Height : Unsure

Diet

Basically the same, still refuse to chew on rice! Eat fish porridge the most, sometimes alternate with pork and chicken or 3 together! (Super nutritious...) Normally we just add in variety of vegetables on alternate days except BROCCOLI as it is a banned vegetable for the family.

Lately not sure why she started to refuse milk, she will take in half a bottle, 4-5oz the most then daddy or Ah Mah got to finish for her. Maybe it's time to change new taste?


Potty/toilet Training

She is progressing good as she started to request not to wear disposable diaper at night. We just afraid she won't be able to wake up after sleep and wet the bed. There were times mummy stayed alert till 1 or 2 am just to bring her to sit on potty. Well, that's the time to pee.

It's quite relieved when we hear she scream or talk louder saying :" I want shee shee (pee)..." at least she's not just cry and let you guess what's wrong with her at midnight.

Behaviour Issue

After this incident, En En now stick to Ah Mah like a glue because Ah Mah looked after and accompanied her in the hospital every night. During that period we tolerate her, gave her what she wants and followed exactly how she wants things to be done. Well, it's pampering her as she went through such a heartache and pitiful injections with too many crying and yelling. We just want her to calm down and forget that unhappy moment in the hospital.

She is becoming too much nowadays as she uses screaming and crying as a method to get what she wants now. She is not only scream and cry like normal but her terrible way to express herself made all of us feeling to whack her as much as possible! She doesn't care what's right or wrong and cry like a mad person non-stop plus screaming as if she had been abused by us!

She refused to bath, refused to change clothes, refused to eat, refused to drink milk,... she's doing everything that's oppose to what we said! Lately, she's addicted to Astro PHDC programme and even asked Ah Kong not to switch her channel or else she will start to cry till you get along with her way! She only favour Ah Mah to do everything or anything with/to her which we all think it's ridiculous and too much!

Suddenly En En turns into a little devil in the family... compare to friendly Baby Zheng, she's too "sticky" to handle as she only glue to Ah Mah day and night... However, we still persuade her sleep with mummy, daddy and DiDi at night even there were times that she cried for Ah Mah during midnight.

Mummy wonders whether it's time to let her go to kindy?


New experiences / achievements

1. Brush teeth on her own with toothpaste

2. Take off her shirt with two elbows "slot" in the lower part of the shirt then pull up higher and higher... Mummy taught her this one! So proud~ :)

3. Discovered fun to lock / unlock the door

4. Will say "Sorry" if she accidentally hit on something BUT not SOMEONE!


Zheng Zheng is 8 months and 1 day old



Vital

Weight: 8.1kg (after meal, it's 8.2kg!)
Height : Definitely grew taller

No teeth yet!

Diet

Baby Z is a "dustbin", LOL! He can't help himself whenever he sees someone is holding a cup, a bowl or chewing. He sure will approach you and make his grumpy noise so that he can get a taste of food/drinks. After that, he won't leave and will even ask for MORE! Never stop with just one time of tasting...

Eat 3/4 bowl full of porridge 2 times per day which alternate with pork or chicken or both. Fish is given separately started a few days ago.

Breakfast sometimes will be Mee Suah, wholemeal bread with warm water/bm, Weetabix (wheat biscuit) mix with baby biscuit in warm water / bm.

Still on breast milk througout the day, feed on demand. Nap and sleep will look for longer suckling. Reject milk bottle totally as he think it's a toy! :) Therefore, we need to spoon feed him EBM, water, soup, or anything liquid.

Basically mummy let him test on new food in small pieces every now and then as he is so interested in food. How mummy wish he has teeth to try all the food. He has breakfast, breast milk in between before lunch, then bm for nap, tea-time (smashed fruits with wheat biscuit, baby biscuit, bread, small pieces of cream crackers dipped in choco-malt that mummy takes,...), bm, dinner, bm and supper before nen-nen again.

Motor Skill

1. He's crawling so well and fast too! Started to crawl at 6 months old, able to switch sides - front to back, left to right by 7 months while sitting.

2. He's learning to stand and able to move the legs in or out from the original location.

3. He's able to squat down from a standing position with one-hand supporting on chair / desk.

4. He's able to climb up staircase without any help with one hand pulling on the grills. He is yet to master how to go down...

5. He's able to grab food with his palm and fingers and send into the mouth.

6. He's able to get out from the walker starting with one leg up to the seat follow by the next leg! He has powerful arms that once he grabs / leans on some surface that's almost the same level of the walker you'll find his upper body already climbing out towards the flat surface... SCARY!!!

7. He's able to claps his hand when we ask him to do and able to close/open his palm as to do Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars.

8. He loves to move his butt front and back when he's happy and along with music! Happy cute baby!


Other developments

1. He can recognised his name whenever we call him.

2. He knows it's time to look up for light when mummy said "Light, light"

3. He will PRETEND to cry when he refuse to sit on highchair after meal by making crying voice with blinking eyes (to see whether we notice him or not) or when he wants to come out from walker.

4. He started to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with En En jie jie and stay "stone"... so young to watch TV...

5. He will turn up and crawl away if he refuse to nen-nen for sleeping very quickly.

6. He knows when it’s time to go kai-kai and will crawl faster towards the door whenever he sees anyone use the key to open the door.

7. He won’t go to sleep if Jie Jie is awake or talking. He loves to be part of Jie jie playmate by snatching whatever toys Jie Jie is having even we gave him other toys.

8. He knows when it’s time to hold on something firmly if he ever feels insecure e.g: mummy’s shirt, mummy’s HAIR (Ough!) when he’s high above on mummy’s shoulder…

9. He's yet to speak but just baby talk... the most we can hear from him is "nen-nen", "mum-mum" and good news is he's starting to follow the sound of a single words that we repeatedly speak to him.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Whack! Whack! Whack!

The same buttock again, just that it's bigger now... LOL! It's En En and it's not mummy who whacked her but Ah Mah! We really can't understand her why she dislike or want something she just screams and cries out loud?? She's already 3 and able to speak like an adult (trust me, she is very good in talking) and yet she still wants to behave like a baby...

She is too pampered and spoil in the sense that she wants everything her way. Up till today she's not willing to borrow any of her toys for DiDi and dislike DiDi making noises and seriously jealous when, well especially Ah Mah sayang DiDi.

We were geram about her acts as she thought she can get everything she wants by throwing huge tantrum and screams her lungs out. Mummy got to be her translator as most of the time others are unable to understand what she's trying to say when she's crying. The terrible part is she will choose Ah Mah to do this or that for her but in a very unclear murmuring...

Mummy tries to intepret the cause of what she wants and how to make her stop when she really gets mad (scream and cry for 1 hour!) and found out most of the time it's the adults, us, didn't understand what message she was trying to deliver to us. In short, it's COMMUNICATION PROBLEM. We need to learn her way of communicating instead of asking her to do what we want her to do, right?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

What's this??!!


Looks so cheesy and was incredibly hard to believe that breast milk got thick FAT layer!!! This was taken out from freezer after thawning... amazing... Now mummy also believe breastfeed really can slim down! Wahahaha...
So far with no strict diet, no exercise after delivery and yet mummy lost 10kg in 6 months time!!! How wonderful it is... but then this also means right after 6 months of breasfeeding, it's time to pick up exercise as baby Z no longer depends solely on mummy's milk. Therefore, the "slimming process" not really that effective anymore... *sob sob*

Still on antibiotic

Even En En is home now but her allergy condition is still under monitoring. She still has to take antibiotic since last week and another 3 days down the road after visited paed this morning.

Paed said her body is not yet fully recover and the bacteria might not be fully clear out from the blood stream. The effect of taking the antibiotic results that she will have bowel movement 3-5 times per day! Yesterday was 7 times of bowel movement till there's no stool came out but only the mucus/lining of the colon... Thank God it was just soft stool most of the time...

Today she started a new antibiotic and Smecta, went to poo poo 4 times already, including just now at 1am!!!

Poor En En and pity mummy and daddy who can only fall asleep after 1am since few days ago...

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Knitted Stuff

Completed these quite a while ago but never update to the blog...




More baby wool longies here...
Trying out crochet as well and this pair is so absorbent! Can guess what it is?


The 3 Year Old's Birthday

This is one backdated post. It's 15 May 2009 - Rou En's birthday. As usual, we only celebrate her B'day at home with her cousins and of course DiDi - the new addition to the family.



This was the day her medicine allergy reaction shown and we were actually brought her to see paed in the morning. Her whole body was covered by Calamine lotion, that's why looks so white!




En En gave us a happy smile when her two cousin sisters arrived to celebrate her B'day.




Cake cutting ceremony... she understands what a B'day is now. She loves to blow the candles.



Chocolate "Black Forrest" cake... enough for everyone of us!


Oh... not forgetting her B'day gifts... 2 story books and a brand new bicycle redeemed from CIMB bank! Cool huh? Guess how her old tricycle looks like? That's the 2 year old B'day gift too.


Sunday, May 24, 2009

What a 7 months old can do?


Eating chicken??!!


Being innocent??


Being brave and strong??!!


Never give up??


With high determination...


I am the 7 months old baby (little monkey)... and if you stop me from what I love to do, I SCREAM my lungs out!!!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Back home!

Finally, En En discharged yesterday afternoon. Mummy was looking forward for her since morning but she's throwing tantrum (it was her time for napping) when reached home and refused mummy and DiDi! She also refused us to take down this one:-

For memory, is it?

This was the room she's staying. Most of the time when she's on drip, cartoon movies that played from daddy's laptop will distract her from the pain and sorrow. The moment this picture was taken, she's no longer on drip (good news!).

Otherwise, she can be found playing happily in the children's playgroup at the padiatric ward.

Hands like that still can play slide... aiyo...

Seeing her smiling face made us all relieved at last!
Welcome home, sweetheart!!!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

En En's progress

18 May 09

Finally, mummy was able to drive to hospital to visit En En. Zheng was with daddy and Ah Mah at home as Po Po & Gong Gong were here to rotate taking care of her.

One blood test result showed that En En has double white blood cells in the blood stream and she is attacked by unknown bacteria (from second blood test result). The red patches are due to allergy still but maybe because she went to hospital for anti-histamine shot 2 days ago, probably got infected by other bacteria during that moment. Arrgh... Just like Ah Kong said if nothing's wrong with the body never go to hospital especially when one's body is weak.

En En looked tired and super scare of nurses when they are coming close to her. No appetite and she's on drip.

Today
Mummy is unable to visit En En today as mummy has mild fever and headache. Gosh... hope to get well the soonest! According to daddy En En no longer on drip as she has gained back appetite... Thank God... wish she can come home soon!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Hospitalized...

13 May 09

Mummy took En En and Zheng Zheng to see paed.The girl has breathing difficulty during sleep at night and phlegm clog in throat (?) and stuffed nose while the little boy has CONSTIPATION! Yeah... it's quite rare to happen on breastfeed child but this occurred since he started on solid food.

En En was diagnosed having nose and lung allergy and that's why all the symptoms slowly showing at this toddler year, according to the paed. Fine, we were seeing another paed as their original paed was on leave. So, the paed prescribed some anti-allery medicine for En En and Lactulose to Zheng for softening the stools. By the way, En En's nose allery is inherited from daddy's family side.

After we went home, Zheng had bowel movement but En En not yet started her full course of medicine as it was almost late afternoon. So, she just took the medicine once.

14 May 09

En En took the full course of medicine. Night time sleep no more breathing difficulty.


15 May 09
Today was En En's birthday! Daddy said she was scratching her whole body since 5am. At 7am, red patches started to show on her body, limbs and neck. We thought it's mozzie bites but discovered most probably was allery reaction towards the medicine.

Went to hospital again and this time seeing back her paed. Confirmed it's allery reaction and was told to stop medicine immediately while paed prescribed Pirition (anti-histamine) and Calamine Lotion. Poor girl still scratching the red areas but she looked active.


16 May 09

Red patches came and gone on and off but never really disappear completely. Worst part was it's getting swollen and even redder when it's hot. Daddy and Ah Mah brought En En to hospital again in the morning as she was unable to sleep whole night, crying and screaming of discomfort and itchiness. We were all prepared to admit her but was told not to from the hospital as she will prone to more viruses staying in children ward. En En was given a jab to control the itchiness and went home drowsy. We need to monitor her until night time but there was another jab awaiting in case there's still no improvement.

Late afternoon the redness faded but appeared again. We ahev no choice to bring to hospital for the second jab otherwise, she would scratch till the skin peel off!

This was the sleepless night for us... En En had fever in the middle of the night. Forced to use suppository on her to control her body temperature.


Today

En En was admitted to hospital as she is swollen at every part of her body! Poor little girl... Mummy is unable to go as need to take care of Zheng Zheng. Heard daddy said En En was given 6 types of injections!!! (Fever, Pirition, double-dose Piriton, Anti-swollen, Anti-itch, another one forgot...) She screamed and cried hysterically and was unable to recognised daddy as well! She just ran and hide away as much as she could... So heart broken to see such scenario. Paed even got to give her another shot to calm her down!!! She gone through 2 times of blood tests, this is really too much for a 3 year old!

Poor girl, mummy couldn't even be there to hold her... Only Ah Mah & daddy was there. The hospital is crowded since A(H1N1) influenza arrived in Penang.

Another episode in hospital since last year.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Little Missy is 3 today!!!

Happy Birthday to Rou En!!!

Unfortunately, she got allergy reaction today as well from the medication she took for nose/lung allery. Her whole body developed red patches with itchiness... Poor little one. Will blog this in the other post.


Sunday, May 10, 2009

Before I hit 7 months old...

I can sit on my own...
I love to give you my signature ~SMILE~
I can grab toy and give it out to you...

I will scream out of a sudden whenever I like...

I enjoy my food so much...


I'm crawling and cruising on all four now... Just crawled from the bedroom towards the bathroom today for my bath as mummy simply didn't want to carry me... my knees were red though but I'm loving it~!


Saturday, May 2, 2009

We have a set each!

In Po Po's house...


In Ah Mah's house...
(Hint: notice the colour of the tricycle and walker?)



Friday, May 1, 2009

Quick Update

Baby Zheng

- Enjoy solid very much nowadays, loves to have a taste on everything in his reach. Good part is he will wait for mummy to feed him though he wants it fast!
- Still exclusively on breastmilk, will mentioned "nen-nen" out of a sudden when he's sleepy or really want for the McB
- Able to half crawl, half moving like a worm to reach his destination on all four. When he wants something, he will move himself to that destination no matter how many times we change the location of the item (in short distance). A very high-determined baby.
- Easily to be distracted by sounds and voices and "kepoh" (busybody) till give up sucking his milk.
- Loves to play with Jie Jie and anyone he sees.
- Will make noise if he sees others going out from the house but not bringing him.
- In walker most of the time when he's awake.
- Sleep better and longer than before during daytime.


En En

- Love to memorised and sing nursery rhyme as loud as she could.
- Able to identify a few alphabets such as A - G, able to match the alphabet with the pictures like A is for ant and apple, etc...
- Back to sleep with mummy and Di Di and stick more to mummy already (relieved!)
- Still jeaous over the little brother as she will try to do whateven Di Di is doing which can make us laugh and says cute!
- Loves Di Di very much as she will cuddle little brother everytime she saw him up from the nap and will hold/touch Di Di's hand very frequent.
- Still act unreasonable (scream, cry,... ) especially when Di Di in the walker and hit her tri-cycle accidentally. Refuse to share her toys with Di Di.
- Very emotionable as she will cry out of a sudden when watching TV about violence or sad scenes.
- In the process fo night-time potty training (got to wake her to pee later... arrgh!)
- Act oppositely as what we told her to just to make us fruss.
- Remind us to fasten the seat belt for her in car-ride as she's not using car seat sometimes.
- Still sleep after 11pm daily... but wakes up earlier nowadays before 8am or before 10am.
- Loves story-telling time...


Mummy

- Addicted to knitting, thinking to do crocheting and sewing too.
- Finding time to online and blog, feel left out slowly from blogsphere.
- Thinking to have a clearance sales on many items at home. No action yet.
- Thinking to take pictures of so many things, especially the two cuties... why so difficult to squeeze time in?
- All in all, busy to attend both of them. Therefore, highly salute mothers with no maid and many kids!!!

So "sian"...

When I got something to blog...

No Internet connection
No free time
No laptop / PC
No favourite photos for the title
No MOOD after I got all the above ready!!!

What type of blogger am I?

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Going to be 6 months ...

So happy that am able to breastfeed baby Z till six months!!! Woohoo... well, when tomorrow arrive then this is the moment!

However, officially given semi-solid to him on 14th April, 5 days before he turns six months old. He's very active nowadays as he turns and twisted continuosly when lay down on bed; "walking" and bouncing in the walker when he's not sleeping. Very busy wondering and exploring around the house or outside the house. Guess he still prefer the taste of breast milk in his rice cereal though...

Monday, April 13, 2009

The Butter Rhyme



BETTY BOTTER


Betty Botter bought some butter

But, she said, the butter's bitter,

If I put it in my batter,

It will make my batter bitter,

But a bit of better butter

That would make my batter better.

So, she bought a bit of better butter,

Better than her bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter,

And the batter is not bitter.

So, 'twas better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.


This is En En's favourite rhyme that must read out loud by mummy. Why? Coz mummy got tongue-twisted when read it faster. (Try it, you can come out with an Indian slang too) So, En En laughed out loud!!!



Friday, April 10, 2009

The Red One


En En said: " Mummy, I want to wear bra!!!"
What is mummy making for her? Definitely not a bra...

Started solid at 5 months old!


Never expect this to happen before baby Z is 6 months old but... who knows... when mummy was busy paying attention to En En, Ah Mah and Po Po couldn't wait any longer to feed this little playful boy.

Baby Z reacted very fast when someone is feeding him and he will scream in order to request more! Is it true breastfed babies are always hungry and not feeling full???

So far, we had given him sieved porridge (from Jie Jie's), banana, orange, honeydew, biscuit dipped in MILO (alamak!) ,... a lot yeah... but not everyday. Mummy will only start daily to include in his diet once he passes 19th this month.
Well, to be exact, he started his first taste of solid or semi-solid 2 weeks before 5 months old!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Together


En En said:" The yellow colour (cup) is Jie Jie, small blue colour (cup) is Di Di and the big blue one is mummy!!!
Then, she will sing:" Fly it away..." (a tune from Tweety bird's cartoon) after her bath at Po Po's home when we went back for 3 weeks holiday.