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Yogurt time!

The boys love yogurt, they would of course prefer it to be cold, but since they are coughing and got a bit of flu, I had to let the yogurt cool or warm a bit then give to them.

A minute later, this is what on the floor, a work of art maybe?

What happened was Mer accidentally drop the spoon. I actually like looking at how the yogurt dots on the floor.

He looks like this after the yogurt time, messy of course!

What come next was Mer did the washing up himself but of course it involved playing with the tap and filling up the wash basin.

Once I told him that I’m taking his photo, he doesn’t hesitate at all to give me a big smile! After some time, he was still there and it turns out that he has wet his shirt and pants!

Look at that, giving me a side kick when I wanted to snap his wet shirt and pants!

As for Cal, he is cool, just sat there having his yogurt while watching cartoon.

I was actually having fun using photobucket’s border function in editing these photos *grin*

Alright, time to have lunch!

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All of us (me and two sons) will be going off to visit hubby again this Thursday. Yippy yay! Well, and also, “oh no!” because I’ll surely be having headache when taking off and landing. I don’t like that feeling, it is like my head is going to explode anytime. I just hope that the boys will be fine and they’ll stay put in their seat, take their mean onboard and stay quiet along the journey. Little Mer has been very loud lately. When we were over to my in-law’s place, our house is the noisiet! The whole village can hear us!

Mer is the little one, and yet he got the loudest voice. He’ll be grumpy if things that he wants cannot be met, or his big brother is bullying him. I just wish that he can talk softer or just be quiet abit. I don’t remember that he was that loud when he was a baby. He just love being in his cradle that my mom love to put him inside. He used to sleep in there. I actually love to watch him sleep, so peaceful.

I do have crib bedding for him while he slept there at night and he loves to look at those animal prints. I’m still using the crib bedding now a day to prevent him from bumping his head on the bed side.

Well, traveling time is near and I got to prepare things for the boys, their clothes, milk, and overall preparing them for travel. As for China VISA, we can stay up to 15 days when we go in. That is still alright for us as we won’t stay that long. Hoping to do some shopping this time especially getting some clothes for the boys, they have out grown their pants!

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This post suppose to be out before “5 years ago”. But it has been in my draft folder all the while, so here goes..

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Big Aunt: “What did you do with your hair!?”

Cal: … (with a big grin and mischievious look on his face)

That’s what happened if I let my scissors laying around in the scraproom and that’s what happened if you’ve got a son who do things with guts! He cut his own hair! One big bunch infront. So now there is this one big “hole” on his forehead with really short hair!

Later he explained how he had cut his hair, he was even so proud of it when the teacher asked him this morning. We were teasing him and ask him to cut his own hair without needing to go to the salon, I bet he’ll do it without hesitation if we encouragement him.. adui..

We had a really simple birthday celebration for Cal, black forest cake with candles, that’s it. The cake doesn’t even tasted nice to my taste bud. Will not order the same one again fron ConsFood. But he had fun! The boys love it! I suppose anything with candles on will amazed them.


Did you notice the “white” area in front of his head? Yup, those big bunch!! The scar of his forehead is from a fall on Sunday when we all have tried to stop him from playing on the road down the hill, sentences haven’t finished and yet it happened (This is really Chinese way of saying). The teddy bear is from his grandma (My MIL) and the air-plane is from his teacher, not bad huh.. got gift from teacher some more *grin*  As for mommy and daddy’s gift is actually a bicycle for him from his effort in saving some money for being good boy in finishing his homework and sleep early. I can only get the bike on Saturday, he surely going to love it.

As for my sister who are flying back to Hong Kong today, they all are being strainded in the airport now for Hong Kong is having a bad weather with Signal 8! Typhoon!! But they’ve all checked-in and just have to wait for a clear weather.

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Good to know that they have already safely return to Hong Kong with the mid-night flight on that day and they have been given a free stay in Beverly Hotel while waiting for their flight. It means more shopping for them, but I guess shopping here cannot be compare to Hong Kong.

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Yup, that’s what the boys get, a new set of wheels for each of them. Cal get a new bike as the old one is too short for him. As for little Mer, he really did get a new set of wheels, only the wheels as the old one has broken.

It happened like this, Cal got his new bike on Saturday after getting him to tried it out in the shop. I was looking for even higher one, but he is not that tall yet, so he is getting one that is just nice for him and have room to improve. At the same time, I’ve got a new pair of spare wheels for Mer, for he doesn’t know how to ride on a bike yet, so he needs the supporting wheels.

Two of them were having so much fun riding, chasing each other, but little Cal bumped into Mer’s bike and break the wheel! Well, Mer’s bike is actually an old one from Cal, so he has been left there for some times and the plastic wheels has harden, so it broke!

I had to get him new one else he won’t have any bike to ride on, and it was dreadful for him. I got them changed to a new sets of wheel plus the hand-brake handle changed. Mer is absolutely loving his “new” bike now. The first thing he asked in the morning was if he can ride on them *LOL* He even instructed me to park my car outside, so that he can use the front porch to ride his bike! No one can park there, even big Yi-Yi also have to give way *LOL*

The boys not only getting new wheels, they also got new hair-cut! Since Cal cut or chop off his hair in front and looks like a “hole” infront, I brought him for a hair-cut which really shorten his hair. Both of them looks like monk now *LOL* I must said Mer got a rounder head and he looks nicer with bold head. As for Cal, his head shape is flatter, so he looks a bit odd. Well, have to wait till it gets longer.
When I got my camera out on Sunday night, Cal wanted to take photos with me, so this is how it turns out:

I must say he likes to make funny faces in front of the camera.

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Five years ago today I gave birth to a healthy boy, weighted 3.6kg! Today he is officially five! Goodness, where have all the time goes? I still remember clearly holding him, seeing him the first time, seeing his birthmark and thinking that why there is a pieace of stool on his knee *LOL*. Waiting patiently for his first stool before discharging myself from the general hospital. I spent a night in the hospital sharing the same bed with my little one, and being a first time mom, I was so afraid to fall asleep just in case he needed anything!

After that was history full of adventures, surprises and most of the time disciplining him to be a good little boy. Happy Birthday Cal! Mommy got a cake for you tonight!

You may have gotten lots of unique baby gifts during your celebration when you were one-month-old, but the only thing that is still visible everyday now is the car seat given by mommy’s friends from church. But you yourself is my precious gift from the Father above. Happy 5th Birthday my dear!

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It was a jiff last night for Mer to take his medicine!! He even going around to my sis and mom telling them how he had just swallow the first shot of the bitter medicine, reporting to them how a sweety good boy he is. I’m glad for that and this prompt me on another truth about my boy, ie. when he doesn’t want to do certain things, he’ll insists and grumpy and being resilient. so it is better to talk him into doing it rather than pressurising him.

Another problem that I’m facing almost every night is bed time. It is dreadful for me to get them into bed early, the earliest that I have was at 9:30 pm. If they are not sleeping by then, then they’ll drag on till 10:30 or even later than that! I just don’t want to face two grumpy-not-enough-sleep boys in the morning. During those time, they’ll talk, sing, play, fight if I’m not in the room and also demanding me to prepare more milk for them which I think it is way too much already.

I’ve been trying to put them into this routine before bed: brush their teeth, wash their feet, let them pee first, get them to change to pyjamas, read to them, let them have their milk, then lay beside them and hoping they’ll fall asleep fast. The hardest part is the last bit which could drag on and on for an hour! Sometimes the more I push them to sleep, the more resilient they became, but it is getting late, I need them to have their rest, else I’ll be rushing in the morning.

Would really love to have the secret recipe for them to get to bed early from any expert out there.

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It was dreadful to press Mer to take his medicine last night. It was a war!

After much persuation, he still refused to take it and that is awful lot of take, 15ml in one go! So I had to use the 5ml syringe 3 times! He cried, scream, kick and what not. It took 3 of us to get him to swallow that medicine and the last shot was mix with honey. So the remedy of having honey on his mouth before taking the medicine doesn’t really work. After he had the taste of honey, he ran off!

So, after the medicine war, I had to get him change his clothes, wipe his face, tears and mucus. It turns out that Cal is a better medicine taker, brave boy! I know that his is even bitter than Mer’s medicine, but as a big brother, he gulp it down with water and before that was some honey for him, then raisin after that.
Little Mer was totally fine when getting home, running, jumping and like usual fighting for toys with his brother! This morning he woke up with high spirit and chase me to go faster in getting to school! Buoy, am I glad that he is back to his normal self now, the noisy whining Mer *LOL*

Last night , Cal welcome me home with his “communication booklet”. It is all with “excellent” and “good” remarks except with word underline: 牙刷 (tooth-brush) and 衣 (cloth). Those are the words that he can’t recognised. Other than that, he is fine.

Next week, they are going to have a sport day and I presume I’m going to take some time off to attend it. Mer also keep on reminding me to bring him along to watch his big brother in action. Cal keep on showing me what he is going to play during the sport day and keep on explaining to me how does the game works. We’ll see for real.

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We always nick name Cal as lawyer buruk as he always has lots of reasoning to do whenever we question him on what is he doing or what was he trying to do with his little brother. He is one curious little kid that have hight observation power and fine motor skill. He is always in the look out for new things, new adventure and some times do things that we don’t allow such as playing with the bail of water outside that my parents use to wash the vegetable for sell. Other time he play Ultraman mimic game with the little brother with his side-kick and punches!
When we get down to ask him what is he doing, he’ll goes like “We are just playing.” or “I’m Ultraman, Ultraman can do …” Other time when there are things that he is not allow to touch, he’ll goes like “Mommy, can you please open this and let me see? I just want to see.”
Well, will all his reasoning skill, some times it is funny to look at how he react on certain thing and certain people especially my dad, as Cal is afraid of my dad more than anyone else in the house. Maybe one day he is really going to be a lawyer, who knows he can get involve and get a job as truck accident lawyer. We’ll never know what could happen.

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Give me one sick kid and my life will be shorten for at least a year. Give me one that is grumpy with fever, I will definitely woke up with panda eyes. Yes, little Mer is sick with fever and he prefer to have sweet syrup rather than the tablet or Chinese medicine, give him those and he’ll surely spit them out no matter how hard we press him to swallow them.

This morning I brought him to see Chinese doctor in Luyang, as expected the doctor warned about bitter medicine. However she gave me one remedy so that little kid can take the medicine in more ease. “Just rub on some honey on their mouth before giving them the medicine and they’ll be ok.” I bet Mer will remember that remedy and ask for it even when he doesn’t need to take any medicine.

The doctor also warned that I don’t give him any seasonal local fruits like rambutan, longan, mango and especially durian. Lychee is another one since it is the season now which daddy brought back days ago. Little kids stomach cannot diguest them properly and they are consider “heaty” for the body. She also said that not to let him take egg, poultry, crackers and any spicy or fried food. She kept on reminding little Mer to “Drink lots of water!”

He is one sweet little boy when the doctor told him to drink more water and take his medicine, he just nod with pitiful eyes. With the Coxsackie cases in West Malaysia, it is dreadful to know if Mer has got it, fortunately the doctor confirm that he is free of that and we’ll just have to be careful and take this seriously, making sure that he washes his hands frequently and drinks lots of water.

Seeing here is little Mer laying there quietly last night on the sofa (so kesian huh). It was a quiet night last night and I can even watch “Desperate housewife” in a roll for the first time! How nice if I can have a home theater seating that I can relax on. After that, I have to read two stories for sweet little Cal for waiting for mommy the whole night without attending to him. While I was watching TV and checking little Mer, he flip through the story book to look for one short story with interesting picture. We are now going through the “365 bed time stories” which he always insisted in reading every night before bed. A very good practice, but there are times that I was too tired and now I realise that no matter how I say no to him, he’ll keep on bugging me and whine and refuse to sleep. So I’ve given up for not reading to him.

As for hubby, he has responded in the comment area of the previous post telling the whole story of what had happened in Singapore lately. Am glad that he is fine and got himself a new handphone.

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Little Cal: “Mommy, you’ve got monster’s eyes!”

Me: “huh!? what? why?”

Little Cal: “Cos your eyes got black color on them.”

Ok, what he meant was my eyes got dark color eye shadow on. How observant little Cal could be. He notice itty bitty things around him, even my eye shadow colors also he noticed. Not even my hubby would make such a comment. He doesn’t mean bad, he just thought if I’ve got dark colors on my eyes, they look like monster’s eyes, dark and big. Another thing is he is always the one who notice things that I’ve made and compliment them, sweet little guy huh.. if only he stop fighting with little Mer. That’ll really make my day.

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