Alycia's Sudden Love For Math

Alycia astonished me yesterday when my daughter who didn't seem to have interest in Math previously asked me to practise doing equations with her. Ever since she mastered the skill of doing mental addition about 2 months back, she's been very proud of her achievement. But yesterday, I don't know what piqued her sudden interest in Math as she kept asking me to set equations for her. First I set some additions for her, then some subtractions. She's still quite confused with her subtraction though. Sometimes she would also get confused with the plus and minus sign.

I put the bigger number in my head, then show 3 fingers... so ten plus three is..... ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen!



Busy doing her additions.



Today she asked me for more equations! Woohoo.... whenever I hear Alycia asking me to do Math with her, I tell you, that's like music to my ears! And she's getting better and better each day.

My Girls Are Really Lucky

Alycia and Sherilyn are really lucky girls, a hundred times luckier than me when I was young. Not only are they loved dearly by daddy and mummy, they have doting grandparents and aunts who constantly shower them with gifts. See these hair accessories? My sil bought them for Sherilyn in Hong Kong Disneyland recently as my princess wannabe is obsessed with hair accessories. These hair accessories from Hong Kong Disneyland ain’t cheap but this did not stop my generous sil from splurging on them for my princess wannabe. I wished I had such a generous koo mar too who would buy me almost everything that I desire, including a commercial real estate!

Cute stuff from Disneyland...

These hair elastics have a different Princess picture printed on each of them.


I like this best. They are really pretty eh?

Keeping Baby C Still During Diaper Times

I always have toys and other stuff lined up readily on my bed all the time for Baby C to play with coz my sweetiepie can never lie still when I change her diaper, except when she's in a deep sleep. Here's a typical diaper changing moment:



... a phone in one hand and a colorful rattle on the other hand. There were a couple of times that Baby C moved and flipped too much that I could not fasten her diaper at all... and my back hurt like hell from bending it... and I just smacked her on her butt! When she bawled, my heart melted again and I gave her a hug and sayang her again! This mummy's heart will surely melt whenever her sweetiepie cries. I spoil her too much eh?

Pureen Baby Biscuits

I got my sweetiepie a box of Pureen baby biscuits from Jaya Jusco the other day. I was a tad skeptical she would like it as my baby is quite selective when it comes to food, particularly anything that is sweet. Thank goodness my sweetiepie loves the baby biscuits. In fact, even my 2 older girls and I like them as they are really crunchy and taste good too.

The Pureen baby biscuits are made in Italy and are enriched with DHA. It cost around RM14+ a box.



I have the most success with biscuits to keep my sweetiepie still on her highchair during mealtimes, though the aftermath is really messssy!

Keeping Baby C Still On Her Highchair During Mealtimes

Baby C can never sit still during her mealtimes. If there's nothing to entertain her or to distract her, she will stand and wriggle her way out from the seat belt and climb onto the table attached to her highchair... and this happens everyday, at every meal! I guess most babies are like this too, right? Is your baby like this too or is mine hyperactive?

Other than flashing cards to her, I keep her still like this :


By giving her a teething rusk to nibble on....





and to let her feed herself with an organic cereal bar. She recently discovered how to pick up her food with her fingers and boy does she love putting the food into her mouth, instead of being fed by mummy or kakak.




But how I hate the aftermath of this.... it's super messy with crumbs strewn everywhere on the table, floor, her chair and on her hair!

Video Of Baby C Giggling

Last night I finally managed to capture on video Baby C giggling when she saw the picture of her 2 sisters on the computer. I had actually captured her on video giggling loudly 2 days ago but when I downloaded it, my maid's laughter and voice overshadowed Baby C's. All that I could hear was my maid laughing and talking loudly... haiz, she spoilt the entire video.

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Baby C And Alycia Cheh Cheh

Here's Alycia doing her homework in my bedroom. Eversince we lent our baby cot to one of our relatives, we have been unable to put Baby C into the cot and let her watch TV in the bedroom while I have my shower. So I now get Alycia to entertain her baby sister in my bedroom while I have my shower. The sight of Alycia and Sherilyn never fails to put a smile on baby's face. Alycia and Sherilyn don't have to do much to entertain Baby C. Baby C will self entertain herself and giggle by herself just by looking at her 2 cheh chehs play and talk. Baby finds her 2 cheh chehs really entertaining, amusing her with their antics, laughs and sometimes ruckus.

This is a slice of bamboo charcoal bread with yam kaya. According to the maker of the bread, this bread can detoxify your body! Check out my other blog to find out where you can get this bread and kaya.

Dinner At Iketeru @ Hilton Sentral Hotel

We had a pretty late check-in at Hilton Sentral Hotel KL on Friday night, at around 9ish pm. After checking in, we went to Iketeru Japanese Restaurant, a fine dine Japanese restaurant with beautiful interior and landscape and great food. After a big hoo ha over no short pants allowed into the restaurant on a week day, we finally got in. You see, when the hubs made the reservation earlier, he wasn't informed by the reservations staff of the hotel about the no short pants dress code on week days. It's clearly the fault of the hotel for not informing us.

Anyway after the big hoo ha, we finally got inside and ordered our food. Since there were only 2 adults dining, we got a 50% rebate off the total bill as the hubs is a member of the Hilton Privilege Club. It's a rare occasion that we got to eat together, just the both of us. So the hubs ordered a delectable, sumptuous set consisting of:

Appetizer consisting of baby lobster (in yellow cup), scallops, Edamame beans and can't tell what that brown meat is in that little blue plate...


A sumptuous stir-fried lobster...



Sushi...


Sashimi....


Kobe beef, one of the world's most expensive beef...



Clear soup served in a Japanese teapot and cup set....



And black sesame ice-cream with fruit cocktail as dessert.

It was a very sumptuous dinner but I didn't eat much since I already had my dinner at home earlier. Total bill was close to RM400 before the 50% rebate.

What Tickles My Sweetiepie

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Pictures of her 2 doting cheh chehs! I kid you not. When I was looking at the pix of Alycia and Sherilyn taken at Disneyland HK on my PC this afternoon, Baby C who was having her porridge saw the pix and she burst out in loud giggles and said "cheh cheh" while pointing to the PC!! Those giggles were so sweet and cute, as if someone was tickling her. My sweetiepie never fails to giggle whenever she sees pix of her 2 cheh cheh on the PC. I must try to capture her giggling on video one day!

Dreaming To Wear My 2-Piece Swim Suit Again

One of the things that I have to buy is a new swim suit since I now have the luxury to swim everyday. I have a 2-piece sexy swim suit but I have not worn it for more than 6 years. I used to wear it before I had any kids. I don’t have the confidence to wear it now though I'd very much love to as I no longer have a flat belly to flaunt but only stretch marks that I need to hide! Perhaps after a couple sessions of microdermabrasion when my stretch marks are gone, I will have the confidence to slip into a 2-piece swim suit again. Do I have any regrets what my 3 pregnancies have caused to my figure? Absolutely no! When I look at how beautiful my 3 angels are, I tell myself that they are worth all the pain and sufferings that I had gone through.




My sweetiepie giving me one of her sweetest smiles.

I Need A Laptop

When Baby C goes for a surgery next month, I will stay with her in the hospital. If all goes well without any complication, she can be discharged after 3 nights stay and that’s what I am praying for. I hate hospital stays. It’s darn boring, depressing and it makes me miss home and my 2 older girls terribly. When Baby C was hospitalized during her first UTI attack and was warded for 3 nights, I stayed at the hospital with her. My days spent at the hospital bored me to the core. If only I had a notebook computer, I would surely bring it along with me to the hospital to help me kill my blues. I am still contemplating buying a notebook computer but with opps from advertisers being slashed down drastically now, my earnings have also dipped badly. I guess my purchase of a laptop would have to be put on hold again.

Baby C And Her Sunnies

The other day, daddy bought sweetiepie a pair of cute sunnies from Mothercare. My sweetiepie will surely remove anything that we put on her head from hair bands to hair clips but if we put a pair of sunnies on her, she would gladly wear them and give us her sweetest smile.

Our sweetiepie doesn't have to fight with Sherilyn cheh cheh for her Paris Hilton sunnies anymore coz she has her very own pair of stylo mylo sunnies now.

What A Small, Small World!

I got a very pleasant surprise at the hospital this morning. After arriving at my pediatric nephrologist's clinic, a lady who doesn't look familiar to me at all came up to me and asked me as she pointed to my sweetiepie "is she Baby Cassandra?" I said yes and for a moment, I was trying my best to recall who that lady was. Her face didn't register in my brain at all. I then asked who she was and she said she's Claudia and Marcus' mum. But I was still struggling to remember who she was. When she said I'm Mrs Wallace, a-ha, I then remembered that she's one of the blogger mums. Mrs Wallace is a Malaysian mum married to an OZ hubby and they live in OZ. They are now back for a holiday. I haven't been visiting her blog for quite some time and have even forgotten to enter her blog URL in my blogroll.

I was really surprised that Mrs Wallace could recognize Baby C coz my sweetiepie was asleep in my arms. I guess Mrs Wallace recognized my sweetiepie's thick hair coz very seldom you see babies with thick hair right? Anyway, it was really a pleasant meeting with Mrs Wallace and her 2 lovely kids. Her baby, Marcus is less than 6 months but oh boy is he chubby! Jeles only seeing other people's babies who are younger than Baby C but weighs more than her!

Our Thursday

We spent almost the whole morning and afternoon at the hospital today. Baby C went for a MAG 3 scan today to have the function of her kidneys evaluated. While waiting for the doctor to prepare the MAG 3 scan report, we went to an Indian restaurant across the hospital for lunch. This is what we ate:

Indian rojak, fish curry, murtabak, veggie, ayam masak merah, vadai and a hot mug of sugar-free teh-C tarik which is my all-time favorite beverage (not in picture) and hubby had nasi briyani (not in picture).

Cool and refreshing mango lassi.

While we ate our lunch, Baby C was still in a deep sleep in my arms as the sedation meds had not worn off yet. As I am typing this post, she's still alseep and she's been sleeping the whole day!

Go check out my health blog to find out what happened at the hospital today and to view pix of the MAG 3 scan.

My Super Vain Pot

My #2 has a fetish with hair clips and hair accessories. Just like her mummy who is very fastidious with her hair, Sherilyn has to have her hair tied up and clipped up everyday, the whole day, from the moment she wakes up to the moment she goes to bed at night. Sometimes she even sleeps with her hair tied up and clipped up. Lately, she is spending much of her time in my bedroom, rummaging through my drawers and hogging my hair clips... to the point of not wanting to return the hair clips to me!



My vain pot hogging on to my hair clip on her hair!

Alycia And Sherilyn At KLIA

Pix taken at KLIA yesterday. Click here to read on.

Alycia And Sherilyn Have Gone To Hong Kong

Finally Alycia and Sherilyn have gone to Hong Kong with my mil. Hubby and I together with Baby C and our maid sent them off to the airport this afternoon. The house is now so quiet and peaceful without Alycia and Sherilyn. Did I just say peaceful without them? I feel bad, really bad to have this feeling but I feel a big load off my shoulder, a big stress off my mind. Nevertheless, I do miss them and keep thinking about them. It's just that I am enjoying my new found freedom and boy I tell you, I love the peace and quietness in the house.... no need to hear whining, crying and complaints, no need to yell at Sherilyn and tell her 100 times just to do a single task, etc. I've got activities lined up everyday from tomorrow till Monday next week. Must make full use of the extra time that I have now since it's a golden opportunity that I can be relieved of my responsibilities over Alycia and Sherilyn.

1-Month Promotion At Sinma Hair & Costume Jewelry

Sinma is having a 1-month promotion where for every RM20 spent in a single receipt, you will be entitled to a RM10 voucher, for every RM30 spent, you'll get a RM15 voucher, etc. This means that everything you buy will be at half price! I was at the Sinma outlet at Mid Valley Megamall yesterday and spent close to RM100 worth of hair accessories and I only paid less than RM50. Quick check out Sinma to get hair accessories, costume jewelries and other accessories for you or your daughter!

I got 2 hair bandanas, a glittering hair pin, a hair clip, a 'diamond' hair band and some black hair clips for Alycia (for her to tie bun for her ballet class).

Kids Ask The Darnest Things

Sherilyn the menace is cheeky, chatty and really inquisitive. From dawn till dusk, you will hear her yakking away. Most times, she will whine and demand for everything under the sky, some of the things that she requests are really ridiculous. When she's in an inquisitive mood, she will ask me questions like these:

1) Where does bread come from? My answer to her was bread is made from wheat flour, eggs and milk. A simple answer. Didn't say yeast, otherwise she will ask me yeast is made from what and beats me, I don't know!
2) Where does dragon fruit come from? My answer to her was dragon fruits grow on trees.
3) Where does cheese come from? My answer to her was cheese is made from milk.
4) Where does water come from? My answer to her was water is from rivers and from rain.
5) Where does paper come from? My answer to her was they are made from trees.
6) Where does seaweed come from? My answer to her was seaweed are from the sea. She then went on to ask who takes the seaweed. This one I stumbled coz I wasn't really sure who takes the seaweed from the sea! Boo to mummy!

etc, etc, etc......

I am pretty certain Sherilyn will surely ask me "mummy, I come from where?" one day. I have to start thinking of an appropriate answer for her now lol!