Baby C Loves Her Frozen Water-Filled Teething Ring

and that's the only toy that can pacify her and occupy her for at least 15 minutes. Whenever I need to have my meals, I will put her on the bouncinet or on the mattress on the floor next to me and give her her 'ice cream' for her to suck. This frozen water-filled teething ring was also the life-saver and managed to distract her from crying during the recent MCUG test at the hospital.





Eeeee...... very cccccolddd......

Chicken Pox Meds

Our doctor prescribed these meds to Sherilyn - Zorax Suspension (to thwart the chicken pox virus from proliferating), an anti-itching syrup and a topical cream to apply on the pox. I did not feed Sher with the anti-itching syrup as the spots didn't cause her any itching. I never knew that there's meds to reduce the severity of CP. When I had CP 15 years ago, I just suffered very badly in bed for a week and only applied calamine lotion to ease the itch.

The Zorax Suspension needed to be taken 4 times a day and there were times when I had forgotten to feed her. Guess who reminded me to feed Sher the meds? Sher's cheh cheh! Alycia is now my very helpful assistant and she can remind me to do things, pacify her baby sister and help me fetch things around the house.

Swimming class

My 2 older girls are all excited that we will be moving to our new condo next month, well hopefully next month. What excites them most is that they will finally be able to swim in the pool everyday. I will need to get them some pool floats and sun tan lotion. I intend to send them for swimming classes but the problem is that the swimming instructor at the condo only conducts his lessons between 3pm – 5pm, the time when it’s the hottest during the day. Well, the majority of his students are Japanese kids who live at the condo and their parents don’t mind them swimming in the scorching sun, crazy! Hopefully this instructor is willing to start an evening class to cater to Malaysian kids who cannot stand the hot sun!



Check this one out. This pool float even comes with an overhead shade!

The TV Is My Best Babysitter

What am I going to do without the tv? It is such a great sitter to my kids. My 2 older girls, especially Sherilyn can never ever sit still for a moment, except when the TV is turned on with her favorite programs. When I need to take my shower or get some work done, I’ll turn to the TV to babysit my kids, including Baby C. I was really amused that even Baby C who is only 3.5 months old loves watching the TV. When the TV is turned on, she does not even want her all-time favorite mummy's teats and her head will be turned towards the TV! But I only limit her viewing time to half an hour a day (only educational programs) and she doesn’t watch the TV everyday. Can you live without the TV?

President Petit Brie Soft Ripened Cheese

Everyone in our family loves cheese. Last week, my mil bought this cheese :





This is the cheese that we normally get to eat from the buffet spread in hotels. It goes very well when eaten with crackers.


Cheese on a slice of multi-grain wholewheat cracker.


Looking at the ingredients, this cheese does not contain coloring, preservative and does not contain as much food additives, sodium and chemical as the regular single sliced cheese like Krafts. I think it is a healthier choice of cheese for kids but the taste is slightly bitter and it has a layer of 'skin' which my Sherilyn does not like. She will ask me to slice off the layer of 'skin' before she pops the cheese into her mouth.

Having Fun Under The Crib

Sometimes, my 2 older girls can be really mischievous and when they are bored, they can find amusing ways to entertain themselves like playing under the crib, of all the places! And yes, I know you must be wondering why there is a crib in our living room?

I still have Sherilyn's old playpen but the board is missing, so we couldn't raise the playpen. Since we have 2 Safe n Sound cribs, we brought one down. Instead of wasting a few hundred bucks on a new playpen, we used Sher's old crib to place Baby C during the day. Afterall, it's only going to be temporary. Very soon, Baby C will be able to stand and we can put her in Sher's playpen.

Cassandra's Meds

These are Baby C's 1 month supply of antibiotics from the hospital. Don't know why this HUKM has to prescribe us with meds that are so tedious to prepare. In the past, I was only prescribed with 1 bottle of antibiotics that can last Baby C 1 month. But for this particular brand and type of antibiotics, each bottle of meds can only last 1 week, after which I will have to discard the remaining meds.



The tedious part is preparing the meds. Notice the 2 lines marked in red on the bottle? First, I have to pour water to the first level marked red. Then I have to stir the powder and have them dissolved, which took me quite some time to stir the powder to dissolve them. Next, I have to pour water again to the next level marked in red..... and I will have to do this every week for God knows how long. The most tedious and challenging part is feeding Baby C the meds. Though I am dead tired at the end of the day, each evening, I have to carry Baby C with one hand and feed her the meds drop by drop with the other hand. I also have to carry her round the house, dance with her, sing to her and find new things each day to distract her so that she will not puke. Please Lord, please heal Cassandra from her Kidney Reflux and spare her from all the pain, trauma and discomfort ASAP.

Sister Love

Priceless moments.....


If only my 3 girls will still be that loving and caring towards each other when they grow up....

Herbal Remedy For Relief Of Cold

Everyone in the house has been down with the cold but we did not go to the doctor this time. I prefer to let my gals recover on their own and fed them with Millennium cactus juice. The other day, the hubs also bought a pack of Esberitox N from the pharmacy for us. It is a concoction of herbs consisting echinacea and other herbs and can be taken by both adults and children. It is chewable and Alycia who is very sensitive to the taste of meds and chewable vitamins turned out to love this tabs! She thinks they are candies and kept asking me for the tabs the whole day. After 2 days chewing on the tabs (I did not give her full dosage but just gave her 3 tabs a day), her nose stopped being watery. This herbal remedy is made in Germany and costs RM75 per pack.






Disclaimer : This is not intended to be a medical advice. Please consult your doctor for proper diagnosis and medical treatment.

Healthy Lunch Box

Alycia requested to bring Edamame beans to school yesterday and I microwaved a handful for her. She also requested for oranges, so I gave her half a small orange, peeled. However, she brought home the lunch box with her food almost untouched. I guess she must have spent too much time peeling the soya beans and the 10 mins of recess was just too short for her to finish her food. I am really amazed with how some pre-schoolers can polish off a bento box filled with a hearty meal.

Baby C Wants To Be Carried The Whole Day

for the past few days and my hands hurt so much from carrying a 6kg living dumb bell! Yesterday, my mil and I had to take turns to carry her during lunch and dinner at home. She did not even want to be placed on the mattress on the floor, placed next to the dining table. At one point, I took out my sling and put her in the sling. That little brat gave me a big grin the moment she was inside the sling, snuggled up comfortably with mummy and stared at me with the happiest and sweetest face! Just tell me how to be angry with this cutie pie with that sweet grin of hers? Minutes later, when the both of us were sweating profusely (the weather has been really sweltering lately!), she cried, kicked up a fuss and kicked my tummy in defiance, telling me she wants to be out from the sling. I had to remove her from the sling and carried her with my left hand and ate with my right hand. When my mil finished her dinner, she took over and I quickly ate, then quickly went up to have a quick shower and came down to bring her up to my room. That's motherhood..... with a young baby, you don't enjoy your meals anymore and you can't even scrub your body the way you want anymore during your showers.


Baby C loves to be on her tummy now. She now HATES to be placed on her back! She wants to see the world too!

Sherilyn's Quirky Taste

Yes, Sher does have quirky taste buds. From chicken feet to sandwiches with 5 types of jams and paste, now, she likes her fried eggs with chunks of butter and kaya on them!

Fried eggs with slabs of rich President butter and kaya!

Hearty Dinner

That's what we had for dinner 2 nights ago :



Zucchini omelette. You should try this dish. It's simple and wholesome and your kids will surely love it. My kids and I love Zucchini.


Stir-fried petai (stinky beans) with prawns and shallots.



Hoi Sum (sea cucumber) braised with pork, dried flower mushrooms and dried 'wong kai lon' (a type of dried cuttlefish).


That's one of the advantages I get when my mil is back. I don't have to worry about what to cook for she will kau tim the cooking and marketing part.

I never knew cooking sea cucumber could be so tedious until I saw what my mil did. It took her almost a week to prepare the sea cucumber dish. First she soaked the sea cucumbers for more than 5 days or until the sea cucumbers turned soft. Everyday, she would change the pot of water used to soak the sea cucumbers. On the 3rd and 4th day (I think), she would boil the sea cucumbers. After boiling, she cleaned the sea cucumbers carefully, which was a very onerous task. Then, in went the sea cucumbers into the pot again to be soaked in cold water for a couple more days. Finally when the sea cucumbers were soft and clean, she cooked them. I would NEVER cook this dish myself! No wonder this dish is so expensive in restaurants. And people love eating sea cucumbers as they are free of cholestrol and high in protein and other nutrients.

Sherilyn's Chicken Pox-Infested Body

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A Fishy Sunday

Hubby and I were supposed to bring Baby C and Sherilyn to the pediatrician yesterday morning but on our way to the clinic, we were informed by the medical assistant that the doctor will be 2 hours late. So hubby sent us home and brought the 2 older gals and mil to tar pau (pack) fish balls and noodles from Ah Koong fishball and seafood restaurant at Jalan Pudu, our favorite place to eat fish balls and fresh seafood noodles.

It was a blessing in disguise that the doctor was late and we did not bring Baby C to see him coz Baby C was feeling much better since last night. She could sleep through the night without coughing and no stuffy nose as well. That's the power of mama's TLC (tender loving care) and power-boosting and immunity-boosting milkie.... and perhaps the Millennium cactus infection-fighting juice. I gave her 3/4 teaspoon of the cactus juice, diluted with water since Baby C hates this juice and would almost puke each time I feed her the sweet juice.



Alycia and Sherilyn's favorite fishballs. They can never ever get fed-up of eating fishballs.

Fish paste stuffed brinjals, ladies' fingers, cillies, tofu and bitter gourds.


My favorite - deep fried crispy fish cakes.


Sooo much fishy food on the dining table.

Deep fried beancurd sheets wrapped with fishpaste and 'siew tai cheong' (deep fried pigs' big intestines) -- eerrmm..... I don't take this stuff, hubby does.

MIL also opened a canned of abalone to eat with the noodles. Yums.... so much fishy stuff!

Tag : Friendship Award

I'd like to say a big thank you to my good blogging buddy, Elaine for giving me this friendship award. Just want to let you know that I really appreciate your friendship and all the help that you had rendered to me.

Lightning Does Strike The Same Person Twice!

I cannot tell you how important it is to have an insurance for yourself, whether it is an auto insurance for your vehicle or a life insurance. They say that lightning never strikes the same person twice but I beg to differ. My friend is one unlucky guy. Last year, his expensive brand new Toyota MPV was stolen, around the same time that hubby’s MPV was stolen. After the car insurer had compensated him, he bought a brand new MPV, of the same brand. Yesterday, my friend told me that his 1-year old MPV was stolen again!! The daring and professional car thieves cut up the padlock to open the gate at the porch of his house, skillfully opened the MPV door without triggering the car alarm and drove the MPV away without anyone noticing them. The next morning, my friend woke up to a rude surprise when he was about to go to work and found the gate wide opened and his MPV missing. Oh yeah, when it rains, it pours heavily too. This guy was recently hospitalized for 2 weeks for Salmonella poisoning.

Fortunately my friend has purchased a comprehensive car insurance for his MPV and was compensated, albeit not 100%. His hospitalization bill was also taken care of by his insurers. Can you imagine how much my friend would have to cough out if he did not have an auto insurance or a medical insurance for himself?

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Early Literacy Program For Toddlers

Both my older girls have always liked reading as I’ve inculcated the habit of reading in them since they were very young. Alycia and Sherilyn are very attracted to books that are colorful, filled with pictures and they especially like books that have activities. Though Alycia and Sherilyn love reading, they still cannot read a book on their own yet. While searching the internet for a reading program for toddlers today, I found out about Funetics, a literacy program developed by top educators, incorporating research-proven instruction based on phonics teaching and theory.

Funetics is an early literacy program that parents can use to teach their pre-school children (for ages 3 - 7 years old) to read through engaging games, activities, songs and fun. Funetics cover pre-reading skills such as color recognition, spatial relationships, shapes, cardinal and ordinal number concepts, identification and printing of letters, consonant and vowel sounds, word families and sight word recognition. Several concepts are usually combined in each lesson and concepts are repeated and reviewed frequently. Each lesson comes with a set of colorful, engaging worksheets that are used in the games and activities.

I am very impressed with the learning program and have requested for a free trial. Hopefully, Funetics will ship the products to countries outside the U.S.

Her Smile Lights Up My Day

I love to see Baby C smile. She's a good smiler, especially when she's in a good mood, i.e. when she's fully fed, fully pooped, fully napped and fully loved. Each time I see her smile, I thank God for the smile.

My Maid's Passport

We were supposed to bring Baby C and Sherilyn to the pediatrician this morning. As soon as we had gone into the car and started off the journey, hubby called the clinic again and was told that the doctor will be 2 hours late. So we made a detour and went to the noodles and fishballs restaurant to pack some food home for lunch. Hubby and I then decided that we should only bring Baby C to the clinic tomorrow instead. Hopefully by tomorrow, she would be feeling better and does not need to see the doctor anymore. Afterall, we know that the doctor would not prescribe her with any meds for cough and runny nose since it’s not advisable for toddlers to take cold meds. On our way to the restaurant, I suddenly remembered that my maid's passport is still with the maid agency after more than 3 months of hiring her. I have to remember to call the agent on Monday to get the passport back from him.