Video Of Alycia Playing With Baby C

Video taken 2 days ago.


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Mac N Cheese Again

If I would just allow, Alycia and Sherilyn would be too happy to eat mac n cheese everyday. But mac n cheese per se is an incomplete meal, without much protein and protein is just what growing kids need. So to make their mac n cheese meal complete, I normally fry them each an egg or omelette with french beans. This way, it's quite a wholesome meal with a combo of carbo, protein and fibre.



Mac n cheese with french beans omelette, chicken meat (from the soup) and soup of the day.

Video of Sherilyn Dozing Off At Dining Table

Here's a video of Sherilyn dozing off at the dining table taken 2 days ago. She had again refused to take her nap in the afternoon and when it was dinner time, she had exhausted all her battery and had no strength even to eat or drink. After more than an hour painstakingly chewing and swallowing her food, she finally konked out.

Here you go, have a good laugh....

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9 Questions Tag

Lian wants to see some fun injected in my blog, so she passed this fun tag to me. I've not done a tag for aeon but since I'm quite opp-less now, I have a little more time to do tags, though I must admit I don't really fancy tags :S

So here goes:

1. Have you ever been on TV?
Yes. When our house was badly flooded in 2006, some reporters from NTV7 came to interview the flood victims. One lady reported saw me carrying Sherilyn (she was only 1 yo then) and lugging my paraphernalia and she stopped me to ask for an interview. I tell you, I look so horrible on TV!! So 'chan', so haggard, hair so messy and I look like an ah soh, my gawd!!

2. Have you ever sung in public?
Does karaoke count? I've sang in karaokes many times but there was once when I was touring in Australia with my mum, there was a karaoke session one evening. I sang in front of all the tourists in our group... and the song was That's What Friends Are For.

3. Have you ever dyed your hair blond?
Nope coz my hair is naturally blond... eerrr, nolah, it's kinda brown.

4. Have you ever eaten frogs' legs?
Yup, why not? It's wholesome and good for your skin. If you have eczema, eat more frogs!!

5. Have you ever received a present that you really hated?
Of course...and I recycled it, haha! Better than letting it go to waste right?

6. Have you ever walked into a lamp post?
Not really lamp post but on a pillar and on doors. It happened when I was deep in my thoughts or had a troubled mind.

7. Have you ever cooked a meal by yourself for more than 15 people?
Nope but I am capable of doing that coz I kinda love cooking.

8. Have you ever fallen or stumbled in front of others?
Thank God no! But when I was in Standard 6, I always had a phobia of stumbling and falling in front of a group of boys from ACS school. Each morning in that year, I had to walk across a lane to get to my class and there would be a group of boys waiting at the lane for the school bus to come to pick them up from MGS (my school) to ACS. I remember very vividly that I was terribly self conscious and would walk so carefully just so I would not trip or stumble in front of those rowdy boys (and I had my eyes on a few handsome ones too hah!

9. Have you ever done volunteer work?
Yes, when I was a girl guide. If I had the time, I would really LOVE to do more by contributing my time and money. That's one of the things that I will do when I have the time and I'd encourage my kids to do them too.

Not tagging anyone but if you would like some fun injected into your blog, you're most welcome to do this tag.

Jogging With Baby C

Baby C seems to have the ability to 'sense' that I am leaving her each morning before I leave the house to go jogging / gym. Many times, she would wake up just before I leave the house.... and she wouldn't want to be left with daddy or kakak. So I normally lug her along, in the stroller. After the stroller mishap 3 months ago, I now have a phobia of pushing her on the stroller on the road. So if she wakes up before I leave the house, I'll bring her along to the gym. However, my little Energizer bunny can't sit on her stroller for long if she's not pushed. Yesterday Baby C woke up again just as I was about to step out of the house.... and I lug her along again. This time, I didn't bring her to the gym. Instead, I went jogging at the lobby of our condo. I pushed her on the stroller and jogged up and down the corridoor of the lobby .... and Baby C loved it. Not only did she not crack any noise or fuss, she was so 'high' being pushed and enjoyed the cool morning breeze so much that she almost dozed off in her stroller.

Disney Digital Camera Selling At Only $19.99!

Did I tell you that Alycia has pretty good hand control and photography skill? She is normally my photographer whenever daddy is not around to help me snap pictures. But I am still paranoid that she will drop my digital camera because I can’t survive without my camera! My blog is dead without my camera! I am pretty sure she will be in cloud nine if I bought her a Disney 3MP digital camera. This Disney digital camera is the perfect digital camera for kids of all ages and is now on sale at buy.com. Normal price is $79.99 and it’s now selling at only $19.99. The digital camera has many cool functions and one of it is that it comes with a Disney Pix photo editing software so that the pictures can be customized with Disney characters, stamps, frames and more! I think it’s a pretty cool and affordable ‘toy’ for Alycia. I’m sure her photography skill will soar if she keeps snapping away on the camera.

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.