Alycia Can Read

Alycia reading the words that granny is flashing to her. Read the rest of the story here.

Fresh Dates

These are fresh kurma or dates. My mil bought these from The Gardens @ Mid Valley. She thought they would be sweet and tasty, just like the other type of fresh dates (the brown ones that are roundish) but nope. These dates are a tad sweet and bitter and if you eat the skin, it's even more bitter. The texture is crunchy but the aftertaste you get on your tongue is like you've just eaten a banana that's unripe and your tongue will be coated by a layer of sap. There's definitely no second time buying these and they are expensive too. A small punnet with 1 bunch cost over twenty ringgit! I wonder if I can let these dates dry at room temperature on their own so that they become dried dates, like the ones sold during the month of Ramadhan.

Snacks From Japan

Each time my mil and sil come back from a vacation overseas, they will bring home with them a big bag filled with goodies for the girls. These are some of the snacks that they bought from their recent holiday in Japan :














The snacks are all very tasty but I find them a tad too sweet, thus dare not indulge in them too much. I've already gained 1kg from gorging on mooncakes over the past 2 weeks. I wish I could increase the duration of my morning jogging session but I just don't have the time for it.

An Orange That's Red In Color

Hop over here to read more about this red fleshed orange.

Baby C Dozed Off On The Highchair

After going through a traumatic and painful time and crying till she tired herself out yesterday, Baby C was so tired that she dozed off within minutes after she was seated on the highchair at the dining table during our dinner time. The same thing happened today after the third dose of a very painful antibiotics jab. Poor baby, I pray that she never has to go through such traumatic and painful time ever again.

Cheese, Potato And Ham All-In-One Dish

My 2 older girls absolutely adore cheese, ham and potatoes. Yesterday, Alycia chomped down a big wedge of President Petit Brie soft ripened cheese, a kiddy cheese stick and a packet of Laughing Cow Cheeze Dippers during breakfast. Since Alycia and Sherilyn love cheesy food, I found a recipe for Country Potatoes au Gratin at myrecipes.com. It’s a dish made up of all Alycia and Sherilyn’s favorite food, i.e. potatoes, butter, milk, ham and lots of cheese. I’ll try to whip up this dish one of these days when the girls are in school. I think they will love it.

Quick Fix Homemade Almond Milk

I made almond milk yesterday, using my mum's Cosway soya bean milk maker and it tasted perfect - creamy, rich and has a flavorful nutty taste! It's my 3rd time making almond milk using the maker and it's just so easy to make. With RM6 worth of Chinese white almond, I can make 2 batches of almond milk. I even used the white almond residue to make pancake, by cracking up 4 eggs and adding a tablespoon of corn flour and salt to taste before frying it. However, the washing part is quite difficult and my maid has to soak the stainless steel filter before using a toothbrush to scrub away the residue.

Soak the white almonds first (for about an hour)

and within 20 minutes, I have hot, rich and aromatic almond milk.

One of my readers told me that almond milk can help soothe / treat a cough. Don't know how true it is but you can try it if you have a cough now, no harm.

More Disney Souvenirs

More souvenirs that my sil and mil bought for Alycia and Sherilyn from HK Disneyland :


A Mickey Mouse clock.




Mickey Mouse and My Melody spoon and fork set.

Precious Moments and Hello Kitty bowls.

Hop over to my other blog to read Baby C's kidney reflux update.

Pork Chop For Dinner

I had a high protein, high fibre dinner yesterday consisting of pork chop and stir-fried choy sum. The pork chop was very tasty. I marinated the pork chops with Lea and Perrin sauce, ginger wine, corn flour, soya sauce (MSG and preservative free) and some honey. I made a big batch and deep freeze some. I can never get fed-up of eating pork chops and I really don't mind eating them a few times a week.

E Coli Bacteria In Baby C's Urine

Instead of waiting until October to do the urine test, my guts feeling told me that I had to do it and last Friday, I sent Baby C's urine to the hospital for tests to be done. Turns out that there is a moderate growth of E Coli bacteria in the urine. The funny thing is that Baby C has no fever and is feeding pretty well. Our paed said that it may not be another UTI (urinary tract infection) and suspected that the urine might be contaminated with faeces. Also, the urine culture report showed that E Coli bacteria is resistant to the antibiotics that Baby C is taking now.

Today I brought Baby C to see the paed again. He told me that I have to collect sample of Baby C's urine for another test. If the WBC (white blood cells) increase, then he will switch the antibiotics to one which the E Coli bacteria is sensitive to.

I'm just praying that the WBC will drop today. Our paed said that it is not good to keep switching antibiotics as the bacteria will soon be resistant to all the antibiotics and I certainly do never want this to happen as this would mean more UTI attacks!

I've dedicated a post to Baby C. Hop on to my other blog to read.

Pix taken yesterday, of me feeding Baby C her med. You can read about it in my other blog.

Baby C And Her Highchair

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Doughnuts Again

The hubs is nuts over doughnuts. Though he doesn't eat much of them, he just loves buying them. Almost every time he's at Mid Valley or Pavillion, he'll get a box of Big Apple or J.Co doughnuts. I find them too sweet for my liking... not to mention fattening too coz they are all empty calories and I would need to exercise like a fitness freak to burn off those calories piled up after gorging on these deep fried flour coated with coloring and sugar.

Alycia and Sher loved them of course, which kid doesn't like colorful and sweet stuff eh?




Alycia just can't resist digging onto the colorful icing and licking them.

I Need Closed Captioning and Subtitling Done To My VCDs

I really need closed captioning and subtitling done to some of the Korean movies and Thai horror movies VCDs that hubby bought recently. I like watching these Korean love drama and horror movies but I have no idea what the actors are talking about. It’s a wonder how my hubs can watch these movies with such excitement, as if he understood every word spoken by the actors.

I Am Paranoid Of Trimming My Baby’s Nails

Can you beat it that up until today, I still have beads of cold sweat dripping down my forehead whenever I trim my kids’ finger and toe nails, especially Baby C’s tiny fingers? I am paranoid of accidentally cutting their delicate skin as well. I used to delegate this ‘chore’ to the hubs but lately he’s been really busy, so I had to take on the ‘chore’ myself. Perhaps I should get myself a pair of Rubis Baby Safety Scissors that are designed specifically to take care of baby’s tender fingers and toes. It’s time I rid myself of this phobia.

Disney Pencil Box

My sil bought a Disney pencil box but she only bought one... and it is an expensive one. So there was a tug-of-war over the pencil case and I said that it should go to Alycia as she's going to Standard 1 first. Luckily Sherilyn did not kick up a big fuss... as there were other pressies to distract her. Sher was really tickled pink with some cute Disney hankies compressed into a heart shape, which would 'open' up once soaked in water.



The stylo-mylo pencil case has 4 buttons on the left for different functions.... one is for a built-in sharpener, one for an eraser compartment and another 2 for dunno what...

The pencil case can be opened on both sides...


The other side of the pencil case.

Chelation Therapy To Rid Your Body Of Excessive Heavy Metals

Every evening as I feed Baby C her daily dose of antibiotics, I would say a prayer. I would ask God to spare her from having to take the antibiotics for several years, that her kidney reflux would resolve spontaneously soonest possible, that she will not get another attack of Urinary Tract Infection, that she will be spared from having to go under the knife and spared from other invasive treatments and that the antibiotics will not cause her any negative side effects like mental retardation. My heart aches seeing her struggle to eat those meds. I wonder if she needs to go for a chelation (pronounced as key-la-tion) therapy to rid her body of the excess heavy metal elements and toxins resulting from having to consume so much antibiotics. The next time we see the pediatric nephrologist, I have to remember to ask her if it’s necessary for Baby C to have an oral chelation or an oral EDTA chelation.

For your information, chelation therapy helps to rejuvenate the cardiovascular system, reduce toxic lead and metal deposits and abnormal calcium deposits, reduce blood pressure and blood cholesterol, improve circulation, improve vision and hearing, improve liver function, improve skin texture and tone and much more. If you are interested in chelating your body system to restore your health, you can pop over to cardiorenew.com to read more and to purchase their range of chelation products.

Restless Baby

Baby C tends to get bored easily if she's placed on our lap and the longest she can sit still without kicking up a fuss is around 10 minutes, after which she would start to whine, scream and arch her back, signaling to us that she wants to be carried round the house or do other more entertaining activities.

When my mum placed her on the dining table last week, she went really excited, kicked her legs and wanted to walk! I think she will be another early walker, just like her sisters who both started to walk at 9 months.

Lots Of Goodies

My mil and sil from Hong Kong arrived last night. My generous sil brought home suit cases filled with pressies and goodies for everyone. As usual, Alycia and Sherilyn received the most gifts - from clothes to Hello Kitty pencil box, a Mickey Mouse clock, organic snacks, Disney cutlery, Disney souvenirs and much more. She also bought lots of mooncakes from HK and also cakes and chocolates from Hokkaido.

The 'lai yau' (milk butter flavor) mooncakes from The HK Peninsular Hotel are one of the tastiest mooncakes in HK and taste really good, though a tad sweet.


Pretty hankies from Hokkaido.

My 3 angels also received lots of pretty clothes from koo mah. Check out my other blog to read on...

Paying The Price To Have My Babies

Some women are really lucky that they don’t suffer much from pregnancy problems while some are plagued with all the classic pregnancy symptoms. I fall into the group of unlucky pregnant women for I suffered from many problems during all 3 of my pregnancies, especially during my first pregnancy. I had a sensitive uterus, bleeding gums, bad bout of morning sickness, acne outbreak on my face, rashes on my body, dry and peeling skin, varicose veins, sciatica, nose bleed, heartburn and dizziness. The varicose veins on my thighs worsened during each of my pregnancy. It was so bad during my third pregnancy that both my thighs and ankles have big, ugly patches of purplish spider veins and my legs hurt too. I couldn’t stand too long or walk too much, otherwise my thighs will be more swollen. When I could no longer stand the sight of my unsightly legs, I bought a pair of compression socks and wore them for 4 months every night before going to bed and the condition improved. Immediately after the birth of Baby C, most of the varicose veins miraculously went away.

It’s already 4 months since the birth of Baby C and my tummy still looks like a 3-month old pregnant belly. Despite me jogging and doing crunches on my fitball everyday, the stubborn belly fat ain’t going away. I am even thinking of getting some compression garments to wear on my belly to rid the bulging belly. I saw some compression garments at recoveryelements.com and I am thinking of getting either a binder or an abdominal girdle. They look good and I think the compression garment will be able to help me flatten my belly. I may even want to get a gel eye mask from this online shop to soothe my very tired and puffy eyes. I’ve only been getting about 5 hours of sleep for the past few months. Well, that’s the price I have to pay to have 3 beautiful angels and I have absolutely no regrets with it!

Water Tumblers Again

I bought water tumblers again. Believe it or not, ever since Alycia and Sherilyn could drink from a water tumbler, I have bought over 20 water tumblers for them. That's because most of the tumblers (9 out of 10 of them) would leak no matter how tight I screw the cap. The worst are the ones with straws.

Of all the brands that I have tried, I like Rubbermaid (the non-straw ones) and BROS best as the cap can be screwed tightly, which prevents water from leaking out.

The Disney Pooh Bear tumbler is for Alycia and the BROS animal cartoon one is for Sherilyn. These tumblers don't leak, can be used to store both cold and hot water, are not breakable and they are not very expensive. The Pooh Bear one only cost RM17.90 and the BROS one cost RM11.90.

I also got 2 Rubbermaid Chug bottles for myself. The one of the left can be used to put both cold and hot water. It's a buy 1 get 1 free pack and only cost RM15.90. I bought them all from Jaya Jusco.