Baby C Loves Blowing Bubbles With Her Saliva

Baby C's latest favorite past time, apart from feasting on her fists is to blow bubbles with her saliva. When she does it, she will give me that cheeky look, powerful kick from her legs and mischievous shriek... and when I carry her, my shoulders will be all soppy with her saliva, yucky!!

A Room Full Of Disposable Diapers

When Drypers was having a promotion at Jaya Jusco recently (I think sold at RM30.90 per pack), my mil and hubby bought 2 packs each of M size diapers for Baby C. That would have cost us a savings of around RM20 since the normal price is around RM35 each pack.

Now, the diapers are all stocked up in our laundry room / store room. Thankfully our house is big enough to keep stock of diapers. When we move to our new condo next month, I guess I will have to keep these under the bed!



Our friend who has boxes of free Pampers gave us a box full of L size Pampers. But I hate the orange color packaging Pampers. It's one of the lousiest diapers around as it leaks super easily and is flimsy. Since they are given free, why not? Just use them during the day.

Homecooked Food

Whenever my mil is around, she normally does the cooking and I don't have to lift a finger.... and I am lucky as cooking takes up a lot of time, energy and sweat. Now that she's away, I have to plan the cooking, which has to be simple dishes and do the cooking myself as my maid can't cook despite teaching her repeatedly and I can't be away from Baby C for too long.

I cooked these yesterday :

Stir-fried 'kwai tau miu' or baby french beans with garlic.



Stir-fried choy sum with garlic.


And bak kut teh with 2 hard boiled eggs, dried mushrooms, foo choke (dried soy bean sheets), dried bamboo fungus and RM20 worth of pork ribs. I thought of cooking a big pot and deep freezing half a portion but everything was polished off the same night! The bak kut teh was a big hit with everyone. Even my fussy caterer hubby who had sore throat ate it!


Also cooked a big pot of pork ribs and fish slice congee for hubby. Mr Fussy Pot didn't complain and polished off the pot of congee too.... and I was one happy housewife! Nothing makes me happier than everyone enjoying and finishing what I've cooked without any fuss and complaints :)

Click here to find out what we ate at Crystal Jade Chinese Restaurant @ Gardens Mid Valley on Monday.

A Cruise Vacation

My parents will be celebrating their 38th wedding anniversary in a couple of months time. I wonder how they can ‘survive’ being together for so long. I hope the hubs and I can weather the storm and go through thick and thin for this long too and even longer. I think I should get my parents a small gift in celebration of this joyous occasion which really deserves to be celebrated. If I had the money, I would love to treat them to some
cruises getaway and I am very sure they would love to go on a cruise. Who wouldn’t like a cruise vacation right? My dream is to go on an Alaskan cruise!

My Favorite Bakery

That's my favorite bakery. I managed to take a pot-shot of the breads and cakes that were just out from the oven on Sunday before I was told that I can't take pix in the bakery. For this, I will not divulge the name of this bakery.


All my favorite cakes and breads - the cheese cake and mini chiffon cakes are really tasty.


The green loaves on the shelf are made of wolfberries (kei chee) and sunflower seeds, one of my favorites.

This bakery is really thwarting my diet plan as hubby and I will surely visit this bakery at least twice a week and spend quite an amount on my favorite multi-grain loaves, wolfberry loaves, cranberry cream cheese buns, cheese cakes, banana pudding, green tea cakes and chiffon cakes, walnut wholemeal bread, red bean and coffee bread, ham and cheese loaves, sausages rolls (Aly and Sher's all-time favorite) and much more. How am I going to shed off those extra pounds from my baby belly you tell me, sigh.....


After visiting the bakery, we headed to the restaurant for dim sum. Baby C refused to sit on her pram and wanted to be carried whilst I ate. Fortunately, I managed to rock her to sleep and I quickly finished off my meal before she woke up. Her forty winks is truly a forty-minute shut eye and sometimes even shorter and it is during this forty minutes that I have to eat and work speedily, swallowing my food without chewing them properly most of the time :(

Hearty Breakfast Of Homemade Goodies

That's my mid-morning breakfast today :


A slice of homemade multi-seed bread (consisting of roasted green soya beans, pecans, chickpeas, organic pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and roasted almonds) with my mum's homemade red bean spread and homemade peanut butter.

A small slice of moist and light cheese cake from my favorite bakery.

2 cherries


A glass of homemade 4-seeds milk consisting of soya beans, red beans, mung beans and peanuts which my mum made this morning.

Also ate half a red dragon fruit and a glass of skim milk with my multi-vitamins and fish oil early this morning.

Very heavy hor my breakfast? Despite exercising, my weight is not going down any further, it remains stagnant at 47kg. Sigh... never mind lar, got to eat healthily and wholesomely for the sake of producing good quality milkie for my darling Baby C. I'll worry about dieting when I wean her off my boops when both of us are ready to be weaned.


The 4 types of seeds waiting to go into the soya bean milk maker.

Tube Bra For Breastfeeding Mums

To all breastfeeding mums, if you don't have this yet, you really got to buy one or two of this tube bra. I got a promotional pack which costs RM70+ for 2 from the Baby Loft Shop. I find this a must have. With this tube bra, you can wear just about any clothes and don't have to buy expensive nursing tops.

It doesn't slide down your boops easily since there's elastic at the bottom. When you want to nurse, just pull down one side of the bra.

There is a pocket inside the tube to hold the bra padding.

It looks great under your baby T and spaghetti tops too! You can even wear it on its own at home.

The removable bra padding.

Site Statistics

I have not been checking the site statistics for both my blogs for quite some time and when I checked today, I was really astounded and ecstatic to find that my Blogspot blog has finally breached the 1,000-a-day visitor mark! Woot, that's really great. Here's an excerpt of the statistics from my Google Adsense account :

Day / date / no. of visitors

Friday, August 1, 2008
254

Saturday, August 2, 2008
452

Sunday, August 3, 2008
601

Monday, August 4, 2008
1,210

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
876

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
871

Thursday, August 7, 2008
836

Friday, August 8, 2008
589

Saturday, August 9, 2008
408

Sunday, August 10, 2008
322



Traffic is normally lower towards the weekend.

My statistics for my dot com blog isn't too bad too and I have between 400-500+ visitors a day.

High traffic/visitors = good Real Ranking = more opps. No wonder I got a USD100 opp from 3P today. To all my readers out there, thanks very much for visiting my blog!

A Phone Call From Alycia's School Principal

My heart skipped a beat or two last week when I received a call from Alycia's pre-school principal. She has never called me when Alycia is in school. Well, any call from the school during school hours is not a good thing right? When my maid told me "mam, ada talipon dari sekolah Alycia", I felt this sudden pang right in the middle of my tummy and I think the color of my face must have turned pale white. "Oh shit" I thought, I hope Alycia has not hurt herself. Thank God Alycia didn't hurt herself. The principal just wanted to confirm with me that Alycia is participating in a school concert in October as we have to pay RM100 for the costume and booking of the hall. Phew..... really gave me a scare. I've already confirmed Alycia's participation in the message book, yet she called me, silly principal. And oh yes, Alycia did hurt herself on that day. She fell and grazed her elbow during PE but thankfully it wasn't serious and she didn't cry. Boy, I just hope I will never receive any more calls from the school in future.

Homemade Jam

My mum made these mouth-watering jam and bread spread. Click here to read on.

What's Inside Their School Bags

When Alycia first started attending pre-school early last year, she was very reserved and did not talk much in school. She was such an anti-social and refused to talk that I thought she was suffering from selective mutism. She did not quite like going to school and had nervous symptoms like vomitting in the morning. After a few months, she made some friends and now, she's very sociable and chatty in school and likes going to school.

Now, Alycia even brings stickers to school to exchange with her friends. When I checked her school bag last week, I was surprised to see all sorts of things from home in her bag from stickers to balloons, coloring books, sticker books, toys, cards, notebooks and much more.

These things were recovered from Alycia's school bag and I removed them before she went to school last week.


Sherilyn the rubber stamp of Alycia also followed suit and I recovered some stickers, balloons, Lego blocks and even Baby C's teething rings from the bag. No wonder I could not find the teething rings for 2 days! There was even a Guardian Pharmacy flyer in the bag, which I threw away immediately *slaps forehead*

Do your kids bring these stuff to school too?

Psyllium Husk

Ever since I started consuming Psyllium Husk, I never suffered from constipation and piles anymore. My piles was pretty bad during all 3 of my pregnancies and got worst after delivery of my babies. Thankfully with Psyllium Husk, I no longer bleed when I do my poopie business now. Read more here.

Alycia Can Read Her Peter And Jane Books!

I just have to put this on record before it slips my mind again. Since yesterday, Alycia has been reading.... reading on her own that is and she's reading the Ladybird Peter and Jane series. She managed to read the entire 1A book yesterday and today.

Today, I took out the Peter and Jane 1B book and she could also read most pages in the book. This time, my mum and I were convinced that she read it through recognition of words and not through memorization. I am just so happy and proud of her achievement.


Can you believe that this book is over 30 years old? It once belonged to Raymond, my elder brother, than me and then my younger brother Roy. Now, my gals are reading it. Awesome!

Never mind about the yellow stains, the book is still in pretty good shape!

Pureen Chewable Milk Colustrum Tablets

I bought a bottle of Pureen chewable milk Colostrum tabs for Alycia and Sherilyn last week. It comes in mixed fruits flavor. While Sherilyn loved it, Alycia who is very sensitive to the taste of meds and vitamins hated it and spat the tab out. The second time she ate it, she almost puked. I had a hard time convincing her that the tabs are good for her and had to use treats to bribe her to chew the tabs. After a few days, she finally acquired the taste and now has no problems chewing them.

Colostrum contains four times as much protein as normal cow's milk and is very beneficial for those who are undernourished and need to rebuild their body tissues quickly. This is because in terms of its composition it is almost a perfect food that needs no improving on by mankind.

Other benefits of Colostrum include :

- Helps support body's natural immune system & resistance to infection.
- Helps digestive system to function effectively
- Helps support healthy brain function and retinal development
- Helps in the development of strong bones and teeth

Hopefully the Colostrum supplement, together with Millennium's Cactus juice can strengthen Alycia and Sher's immune system. I am really sick of them falling sick every other month.

Sherilyn Polished Off Baby C's Formula

This can of Enfalac A+ was bought exactly 4 months ago, just before Baby C was born and it was only finished last week. Baby C only drank the formula once or twice a day for the first few days of her life and thereafter, it was mummy's milkie all the way till today. I had kept it for about 2 months, just in case Baby C needed it to supplement her intake of mummy's milkie but thankfully, she never liked it anymore. She does not even want the milk bottle anymore. Now, I have a surplus of 4-ounce Avent milk bottles. I wonder if Baby C would ever want the milk bottle in future, when she's weaned off my boops.

Instead of discarding the formula, I discreetly put it into Sherilyn's milk bottle. Since the taste of newborn formula taste a tad wierd, I added a teaspoon of Milo Gold to her bottle and she polished off the entire 7 ounces each time I fixed her a bottle. Luckily she did not discover the wierd taste, else I would have to discard the expensive can of baby formula.

Making Soya Bean Milk At Home

Check out my other blog to see how soya bean milk is made using this fantastic soya bean milk maker.

Alycia My Great Helper

Whenever Baby C is not asleep, she always wants to be carried, talked to, sung to and have lots of attention showered on her. If we happen to be having our breakfast, lunch or dinner, I will place her on a mattress on the floor, next to the dining table and give her a rattle or her favorite water-filled frozen teething ring to chew on but that can only keep her occupied for a max of 10- 15 minutes, after which she will whine for attention again. What she wants is a life entertainer and not toys!

Sometimes, Alycia will help distract Baby C by talking to her or playing with her. It really helps that I have someone entertain Baby C while I quickly finish off my meals. Alycia can be really helpful to me sometimes and she feels proud that she can be a great help to mummy.

Mum's The Best

I've not been making my own bread for almost a year, ever since I was pregnant with Baby C till now. I have even almost forgotten that I own a bread-maker! But since mum is here, she helped me bake a loaf of multi-seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and roasted green soya beans) and oats bread today. She also made some soya bean milk today, using a soya bean maker that she gave me. She also cooked a big pot of my favorite dhall curry with loads of dhall beans, vegetables and fish. Tomorrow, she'll cook red beans and green beans 'tong sui'. I hope my mum can come here more often. Oh yes, she even made some red bean jam, green bean jam and pandan kaya. I'll blog about this soon, so watch out for my posts on my mum's homemade jams and homemade soya bean milk soon!

My Maid Drank My Daughter's Milk!

My mum caught my maid drinking Sherilyn's unfinished milk directly from her milk bottle last night. This maid is quite alright in terms of housework but there are still many things that she does that make me feel really uncomfortable and dubious about her character. Now I am beginning to wonder if she's been helping herself to my kids' milk powder coz the milk powder finishes off really fast.

Unable To Upload Pix From Blogger

I wonder what's wrong with Blogger this morning. I just can't upload pix to my post. I kept getting this message :

There were errors during upload.
The following images were not uploaded.
This image could not be uploaded due to an internal error.

Did you encounter this problem too? Boy, this is really frustrating. How am I going to work like this? Aargh....