Sherilyn's 4th Birthday Celebration

Last night, we had dinner at my favorite Seoul Korea Korean restaurant. We invited a few close relatives to the restaurant to celebrate my princess wannabe's 4th birthday.

The appetizers were so much (replenishable too) that we couldn't finish the main course and had to pack the unfinished food home. Click HERE to view pix of my princess wannabe's Princess birthday cake.


Baby C wearing her favorite sunnies.... which belongs to Sherilyn cheh cheh. Baby C seems to know that she looks darn cute and hillarious in the sunnies and would give us the cutest and sweetest smile whenever we put the sunnies on her. Oh btw, Sherilyn actually brought the sunnies along to the restaurant and wanted to put it on her head as if it was a head band. This vain pot also wore a toy watch, her angel wings and put on lots of accessories on her hair.

An Act Of Kindness From Friends And Stranger

Money aside, another priceless gift that I've gained out of blogging is friendship. I've made new friends with many great mothers in the blogosphere ever since I started blogging almost 2 years ago. When one blogger mum read that Baby C has to undergo a surgery, she emailed me and offered financial assistance to pay part of the hospitalization bill. She said she really wanted to see Baby C get well once and for all. Since her company pays the medical expenses for her and her kids in full, she felt really thankful. In return, she wanted to do something to help me and Baby C. I told her that though the hospitalization is not covered by our insurers, my hubs will nonetheless find the means to pay the bill, which is expected to be over RM10k. I then told her to donate the amount of money that she intends to help me to other people who are in a similar situation as Baby C but need the money much more than me. This will definitely help save someone's life.

Another mummy (who is not a blogger but a frequent reader of my blogs) from Australia offered to help me buy cranberry capsules and mail them to me after reading from my blog that I was looking for them. I turned her offer down but this kind lady took the trouble to get the details of the cranberry capsules from the local pharmacy and emailed the details to me. I finally got the cranberry capsules when another reader of my blogs told me that I could get them from GNC in KL.

Then there is another blogger who sent a gift to Baby C when she read that she was hospitalized for another UTI attack. And there is another good blogging pal of mine who visited Baby C and me when baby was hospitalized the first time. Am I blessed to have so many people who are so concerned for me and Baby C?

I'm really grateful and thankful to everyone who had offered their help, gifts and comforting words to me in times when I really need them. Thanks to YOU... you know who you are :)

Another Eventful Valentine's Day This Year

Exactly a year ago on Valentine's Day, daddy and I spent our evening at the ER of the hospital. Sherilyn fell and hit her forehead at the sharp corner of a wall. Blood was oozing out from the cut on her forehead. She took a piggy back ride on Alycia's back whilst I wasn't looking and when Alycia got up, she fell. I was 7 months pregnant with Baby C then. We only managed to cut the Valentine's Day cake at 10:30pm when we got back from the hospital.

2 days ago this year, the exact thing happened to Sherilyn. According to Alycia, Sherilyn tried to sit on her shoulders and fell and almost hit the sharp corner of the wall again but thank God, her forehead was spared from cracking again... phew! She only hurt her leg. Spooky eh? Lightning does strike twice at the same place, at the same person.

On Valentine's Day yesterday, Sherilyn the menace created trouble again. She had a fight with Alycia and cried till she puked.... on the bed!! All the dinner that she had spent 2 painstaking hours to eat (and fell asleep on the dining table too) came pouring out on the mattress and on daddy's pouch! My maid and I spent our night cleaning up the mess. I was really fuming mad with her. We couldn't cut the Valentine's Day cake early because we had to wait for 2 hours for her to finish her dinner and when she finally finished her dinner, all came out again! Again this year, we only managed to cut the Valentine's Day cake at 10:30pm. So we have had 2 eventful Valentine's Day in a row.

Click HERE to see Sherilyn dozing off at the dining table with a mouth full of food.

I Want To Marry 'Uncle Danny'

During breakfast today, Sherilyn told me that she wanted to go to the Times Square theme park. Daddy had once brought the gals there and they had a swell time there. She was yakking and yakking about Times Square and suddenly she said "mummy, next time I want to get married in Times Square!".

Mummy : Who do you want to marry?

Sherilyn : Uncle Danny (beats me, I don't even know who Uncle Danny is, he must be Sher's imaginary prince charming!)

Mummy : Who is Uncle Danny?

Sherilyn : Daddy's friend.

Mummy : How do you know Uncle Danny?

Sherilyn : I saw him in a big castle (see, she really wants to marry a prince charming living in a castle!). He is Danny King....

Minutes later, Sherilyn went singing a song that she made up herself which goes like this :

Uncle Danny hahaho..... Uncle Danny clap your hands......., Uncle Danny hahaho..... Uncle Danny clap your hands....... like a princess, like a princess....... (while 'lifting' up her imaginary princess long dress)
and she goes dancing and twirling round and round the living room like Princess Giselle in the movie Enchanted....

I think Sherilyn doesn't even know the concept of getting married. But she had seen documentaries on couples getting married and I think she is only fascinated with the beautiful wedding gown, veil, nicely coutoured hair and everything about the wedding!

Prawns, Dried Scallops And Pork Ribs Porridge

Everyone in the house were feeling under the weather last week. Sherilyn caught the flu bug first (she must've been bitten in school), then me (my immune system has never been this weak for the longest time, darn the stress, worries and lack of sleep), next was Alycia then hubby kena. Thank God my maid was spared. I hardly cook porridge coz the gals and I don't really fancy porridge. The only time I cook porridge is when hubby or the gals are not feeling well. So I whipped up a pot of prawns, pork ribs and dried scallops porridge last week. Everyone loved the porridge, even my 2 gals who hate porridge. Know why? Coz there were huge prawns in the porridge. Alycia and Sherilyn are crazy over prawns and if there were prawns cooked together with anything that they dislike, they will surely sapu them too, coz the prawns are there. I tell you, if you throw in a few big prawns, especially those with lots of roe into your pot of porridge, the porridge would taste and look damn good!

Monkeying Baby C

Baby C seems to like wearing Sherilyn cheh cheh's 'Paris Hilton sunglasses' a lot. Each time we put the violet sunglasses on her, she will give us her sweetest grin, then everyone will laugh at her coz she would look reaaaaally hilarous yet cute in the oversized sunglasses!





This is yet another of Baby C's cute antics that never fails to make me and everyone else in the family burst out in a guffaw!

Alycia's Ting Xie

Yesterday was Alycia's first Ting Xie (spelling in Mandarin) exercise in pre-school. She told me that out of the 5 words, her teacher asked her to write out 3 and according to her, she got all 3 correct. Well if she did, I'm really proud of her coz I had only spent 2 days to drill her for her Ting Xie. Tomorrow, she's having another spelling exercise and the words are 'angry', 'upset', 'happy' and 'shy'. With constant coaching from me, Alycia is progressing pretty well in her spelling, Ting Xie and Ejaan (she's the weakest in Ejaan, must drill her in suku kata). Now, she even knows how to do mental Math (addition) up to 2-digit numbers.

Who Ate Baby C's Cereal?

Baby C dislikes eating cereals, just like Alycia when she was a baby. I now have 3 types of cereals which I had bought for Baby C that are untouched coz ever since Baby C tried her first taste of homemade porridge 2.5 months ago, she has refused to eat her cereals. It's such a waste throwing them away, so I gave them to Sherilyn! Sherilyn is a milk and cereal lover and she ate cereals and blended food till she was 3 years old.

Sherilyn ate the cereal as if it was her dessert, after her noodles.

Last night, Sherilyn refused to eat rice for dinner again. She kicked up a fuss and demanded for green tea noodles. In fact, she has been asking me to cook green tea noodles everyday (twice a day) and refused to eat rice. I refused to give in as I didn't want to spoil her. I wanted her to eat whatever that I'd cooked. She bawled and threw herself on the floor and I ignored her. After she had cooled down, she went to the kitchen, took the tin of cereal, walked to me and said "mummy, I want to eat cereal" and gave me a smile! So cereal it was that she ate for dinner last night!

Alycia's First Spelling

Alycia sat for her first spelling exercise on Friday last week. She got 3 1/2 words correct out of 4 words. I would say that's really not bad at all for a first timer who had missed almost a whole year of classes in her first year of pre-school due to falling sick every month. She's also one of the youngest in her class being a December child.

The correction that Alycia has to do at home.

Tomorrow she'll be sitting for her first Ting Xie (spelling in Mandarin). When she wakes up from her nap later, I'll be sitting down with her and make her practise writing her Mandarin words.

Baby C Unbuttons Her Blouse

Last week, I left Baby C in her playpen and went to the bathroom. When I stepped back into my bedroom, I burst out laughing. My cheeky baby had unbuttoned her blouse. She was practising her new found skill of unbuttoning her blouse! I then buttoned up her blouse and stepped out of my room for a few minutes. When I came in to the room again, she had unbuttoned her blouse again! I quickly grabbed my camera and began snapping her pix, whilst she was in action removing her blouse.


My cheeky baby caught in action!

Everyone Down

Everyone in our house is down with cold. Sherilyn got it first, followed by me, then Baby C, next Alycia and yesterday the hubs got bitten hard by the bug. Alycia, Sherilyn and I are getting better. We have been popping Esberitox (made from the the purple cone flower, Echinacea) for a week. Baby C's nose is runny and she has quite a hard time nursing. I have to prop her up in a sitting position so that she can breathe. I wanted to visit Montessorimum who has invited us to her lovely home but with everyone having goo goo dribbling out from our noses, I think she will be worried to have us to her home. Sorry Elaine we couldn't meet up this time.

Get Paid To Blog

Times are pretty bad. Offers from advertising networks have been really scarce. Even if there are offers, most advertisers do not want blogs with a PR0. One advertising network has even slashed down their payout amount from a minimum of $5 per post to a pathetic $0.50 per post! Many bloggers who blog for money have been hit hard by the worldwide financial tsunami.

It’s really rare to see opps at $10 these days, especially for PR0 blogs but this morning, I got a $10 opp from Paying Post, a new advertising platform that brings bloggers and advertisers together. Paying Post works pretty much the same as most advertising networks. In order to receive opps from Paying Post, you have to submit your blog(s) to payingpost.com. Your blog will then be reviewed by the support team and whether your blog is approved or otherwise, you will be notified via email. Once your blog is approved, you will need to install a chunk of codes into your blog before you can proceed to reserve opps at payingpost.com. There is a long list of opps at the Paying Post website and the opps will be available to your blog on a first-come-first-served basis. The opps are shaded in different colors to signify the availability for your blog. Once you have reserved an opp, you will have 6 hours to complete and submit your review to payingpost.com. Payment will be made out to you via your PayPal account once your earnings reach $50.

So if you have a blog and want to make money blogging or if you already have a blog and want to earn more moolah, quick register your blog at payingpost.com now. But remember, your blog has to be at least 3 months old before you can submit it to Paying Post. Don’t worry about the PR, PR0 blogs get approved too!

Bow Tie Pasta And Cheese With Pork Chop Strips

I cooked bow tie pasta with cheese for Alycia and Sherilyn the other day. They prefer the San Remo's macaroni and cheese but I find that a tad too salty, so I cooked my own. I added some milk powder, 2 slices of Kraft singles cheese, some butter and tadaaa.....




Also cut up some homemade pork chops into strips for added protein and iron. And cut another slice of cheese into strips for deco and a more cheesy taste. Yums... hochiak!

Bringing Baby C To The Gym Again

Baby C woke up early again this morning. Despite nursing her and patting her, this Energizer bunny didn't wanna go back to sleep. She's been waking up very early these days and she napped for only 1.5 hours the whole of yesterday. So again, I strapped her into her stroller and brought her to the gym this morning. Also gave her a teething rusk but this time, the rusk only managed to keep her still for 15 minutes, after which she kept hitting the mushy stick on the stroller... and messed up the stroller, her hands and clothes. I had to pause the treadmill and clean her up. I then gave her a packet tissue to play with but this fler now knows how to lift the sticker and remove the tissue papers... play with them and of course chuck them into her mouth. Haiz... again, I could not fulfill my 30-minute workout target and had to leave the gym after 20 minutes.

Killing Two Birds With One Stone

That's what I like to do - kill two birds with one stone lol! Instead of merely feeding Baby C her meals, I flash cards to her, show her alphabet and numbers foam, teach her colors and show her cheh cheh's toys like fish, burger, pot, cup, etc, point out to her all her body parts, point out things in the house to her, among others. Babies just love activities when they have their meals, instead of sitting and doing nothing. They will surely get restless within minutes. Baby C is learning well and I'm amazed with her progress, despite the challenges that she has to grapple with.

Of All The Toys

Of all the toys in her playpen, Baby C likes the tissue box best. Well, the forbidden apple sure tastes good eh?


BTW, this tissue box is empty. When I need just 5-10 mins to get some work done, I'll throw in an empty tissue box or my handphone into the playpen and then I'll get peace!

Guests At My Condo

I had some guests at my condo yesterday. They were none other than Barb (Chumsyashley.info), her cutie and social butterfly daughter, Ashley and Andy. Ashley was just smitten by Baby C and she kept touching her face. Barb, I think it’s high time you consider giving Ashley a baby brother or sister *wink*! Too bad you could not stay longer. I’d love to have you over for coffee or perhaps wine of the month some other time. We can do that at the pool side of my condo next time k? I don’t mind cooking some simple dishes so that you can stay for dinner too. We’ll do that next time k? You can hop over to Barb's blog to view pix of Ashley and Baby C.

I Am Really Exhausted

These days, I have been so terribly exhausted at the end of the day that when I put Baby C to sleep at around 9:30pm, I would doze off first before her. For the past few nights, I told myself that I will put her to sleep and once she'd dozed off, I have to wake up to get some work done on the PC but that never materialized coz I slept along with her. I even switched on the room light to prevent myself from dozing off but my battered body and mind were just too jaded and I just fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up last night, it was already 2ish am and I was so dead beat that I could not even bring myself up to shut down my PC. Nonetheless, I still forced myself up to change and sniff Baby C's soiled diaper. I have been waking up every 1-2 hours every night for the past 7 months just to change Baby C's diaper. I wonder when I can ever have uninterrupted sleep and just sleep without any worries from night to morning.

Binging On CNY Cookies And Didn't Gain A Pound

When my parents came to visit me last week, they brought with them jars and jars of Chinese New Year cookies for the kids and me. Oh gawd, I just love gobbling on those cookies! I always tell myself that I only get to eat them once a year, so eat now and worry later! When I stepped on my scale this morning, I was overjoyed that my weight went down to 47kg again from 47.5kg. With so much stress and worries plaguing me right now, I can eat to my heart’s content and don’t even need weight loss pills to help me shed off some pounds. I think I'll lose more weight when Baby C goes for the surgery later this month.

Lost And Found

The other day, I panicked like a headless chicken when I couldn’t find my expensive Longines watch. I searched high and low and at every nook and corner of my bedroom but couldn’t find it. I really thought that I had lost it or someone had stolen it. I even suspected my maid took it, so evil of me! I told the hubs that if my watch was lost, he has to buy me another watch. It doesn’t have to be another Longines watch though. In fact, I would be glad if he would buy me one of those elegant Swiss Army watches for ladies. Anyway, about a week later, I was ecstatic when I found my Longines watch inside a box in my drawer. That wasn’t the first time I lost my Longines watch. The same thing happened to me last year and again, I found it several days later. Am I getting old or what?