Rayden's progress

After being sick for some time, this little boy has gone down in weight. Poor thing.

• He dislikes drinking breastmilk from the bottle. Recently, we tried Promil Gold on him, he seems to like it. He's allergic to Enfapro cos when his eyes swell when he drank it on Tuesday.

• He loves to say "baa,baa, baa" and talks in his own baby language. Even Kyan seems amused by that and will imitate him.

• He cruises now, though not very confident.

• He loves to eat solid food.

• He knows that pencils/pens are used for drawing and would try to imitate Kyan to draw on paper.

• He puts everything he can reach into his mouth!

• He can clap his hands, wave bye bye and play peekaboo.

• He understands when you tell him "NO".

• He crawls pretty well.

• He is still clingy to me.

Kyan's progress

Kyan is learning so many new things everyday!

Just last month, while playing with his brother, he told Rayden, "Didi, gentaly, gentaly". I didn't understood what that was and it turned out to be "gently". He couldn't pronounce that no matter what. *LOL*.

Then he was building some stuff and when he finally managed to do it, he shouted,"Yay, I GID IT!" Haha, that translates to "I DID it".

However, when I asked his the other day, he could pronounce these two words clearly now. My little boy.

Well, he has indeed grown up a lot.

1. Words that he can recognise:

• Cat, bat, fat, hat (thanks to leapfrog)
• MRT station names -Pasir Ris, Tampines, Eunos (thanks to ah yi)
• His own full name, Rayden's, mum, dad (Once he told me that I am Mummy Julian Asri)
• East, West (from hey diddle, diddle)
• Bus
• Sun
• Car
• His friends' names - Ariel, Kyna, Joy, Eve

2. Numbers from 1 to 100

3. Timestable 10

4. Draws pretty well

Pic 1: Mummy carrying Rayden, Kyan, and Daddy (Dun ask why Mummy's so BIG)

Pic 2: Mummy's eating an apple

Pic 3: Our whole family again
(When my mum saw his pic 1, she told him that he must add more hair to the people that he's drawing. He remembered that and thus for Pic 3, more hair added was added to everyone!)

Time with Kyan

Yesterday, Kyan and I had some fun time alone. I really miss spending time with him. I've gotta bring him out more often.

We went to Downtown East for lunch at Burger King's. He had his favourite chicken tenders and fries. I had to coax him to try some tomato ketchup and he was hooked on it! Then we spent about an hour at Kids Explorer. Kyan is definitely not an "explorer". He doesn't dare to venture out to new places on his own. I had to take him to through the maze before he was confident to go on his own. I definitely have to expose him to more new things!

Then we took the train to Orchard to meet Asri there. We shopped for a while before heading back home. It was a lovely afternoon spent with my darling.

Bugged...

Everyone I know is sick. My whole family is sick. And I was sick the entire last week. When will this end? It's so frustrating to see our house turn into a mini pharmacy. I need to disinfect the house soon, get it rid of germs and viruses! Begone all you flu and cough bug, you are unwelcomed here!

10 million dollars!

If I had 10 million dollars, I will

• pay in full for our current Punggol flat,
• buy an apartment at Amber View - the one with the nice balcony overlooking the sea,
• get a beetle for myself and paint it pink!
• get a car for Asri too,
• invest in blue chips,
• save for Kyan and Rayden,
• distribute part of my wealth to mum and sis,
• go for a well-deserved holiday for the whole family,
• go shopping and get presents for everyone I know!
• donate a large sum to children and cancer charities
  

CNY 2008 - the not-so-pleasant part

Then came the third day. Rayden had fever and it didn't go down despite the medicine. It got worse on Sunday morning so I brought him to the GP downstairs. He was given Brufen- a stronger fever medicine and Oralcort - a cream for his ulcers in the mouth. I suspect that he had HFMD but the GP wasn't sure.

His ulcers became worse. More started appearing in his mouth, on his tongue, gum and lips. He was so cranky that he couldn't sleep or feed. He didn't even want to suckle. He was still having high fever of 39 degrees.

Then on Monday morning we brought him to see Doc Sim. He said the poor boy's mouth was full of ulcer and that he was in a lot of pain. My heart felt so pained. He said to spoonfeed him with milk and to let him have ice cream and yoghurt. These will help to soothe his throat. He was given Difflam- a gel for ulcers and Tonimer- a throat spray.

We spoon fed him with cold expressed milk and Heinz fruit gel. He quite liked it. Despite being sick, he could still clap his hands when we asked him to. My little brave boy.

Then came the many sleepless nights cos the little one refused to sleep on the bed and needed someone to carry him all the time. Both Asri and I were completely exhausted.

Now my only hope is that Kyan doesn't infected by it.

CNY 2008 - the happier part

We had 2 full days of visiting. 1st day was to all the aunties' houses and 2nd day was to Sally Jie Jie's house for sharkfin's then everyone came to our place for dinner. Kyan was delighted at seeing his house full of people, so much so that he was actually quite sad when all left. He didn't verbalise it but just remained very quiet when we were cleaning up the house. Poor boy. Rayden was clinging tightly to Mummy or Daddy cos everyone was trying to carry him.