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For the past 2 days, my baby has finally found the confidence to walk round the house unaided… though when she wants to run, she will hold on to a chair and push it to support herself running!  No longer does she want to remain in her playpen now after experiencing the sweet feeling of running and walking round the house.  She is also climbing on everything and anything and knows how to open our doors and drawers.  She is really a handful now and I can no longer do anything whenever she is not asleep for I need to watch over her like a hawk.

Baby C goes running and running and turning corners! 

Watching her walk like a drunkard with her legs kankang (wide opened… for better stability!) is really hilarious and she makes everyone laugh when we see her take her cute little steps.  I really can’t remember much how Alycia and Sherilyn looked like when they learnt to walk… but having a baby who is learning to walk, run and talk now feels kind of errmm… enjoyable for everyday she brings you immeasurable happiness seeing her progress.  But no, this will not and will never tempt me to have baby #4 even if I am guaranteed to have a boy, ever… period, hahaha!

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… got punished by mah mah yesterday. Despite infiniti warnings from us, Miss Fearless and itchy-fingers scribbled on the wall. And so she got her penance…..

Mah mah made her clean up the stains on the wall with a sponge… but I think this would not deter Miss Fearless from repeating her mischief coz she was actually having a time of her life scrubbing the wall (as if it were some kind of abstract artwork!) and she kept washing the sponge and scrubbing the wall… and wet the floor *rolls eyeballs* .  In the end there was more work and kakak had to mop the floor and clean up her so chau see (aftermath)!

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… and that’s exactly how Baby C is feeling now. She can now walk, albeit like a drunkard and she looks like she doesn’t know how to ‘brake’ when she walks. Well she looks like she’s half running all the time and she always makes everyone laugh when she walks like a drunkard muahahaha!

I can remember both Alycia and Sherilyn were walking very stably at her age and they were even running in the park and playing with tricycles. Had Baby C been well and wasn’t hospitalized for 3 weeks (which slowed down all her developmental milestones), I’m pretty sure she would have been running stably by now. But I’m not complaining at all and am very pleased with her developmental milestones. Despite all the torment and trauma that she gone through recently, my baby is still a very happy, cheeky, active and mischievous toddler now and I pray that she will grow up normally and happily without anymore issues with her urinary tract.

Baby C looking like a clown in Sherilyn jie jie’s swimming suit and cap.

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Everyone in our family loves salmon fish. We love it eaten in any form - raw (we have never let our gals try it though), steamed, pan fried, grilled, toasted (wrapped in aluminium foil and toasted in the oven) and BBQed.  We normally pan fry the salmon head and then boil it to make a pot of nutritious and yummy soup. Even Baby C loves salmon.

Hubby bought one whole salmon fish from Lee’s Frozen last week and had it cut into slices and put into take-away plastic boxes:

I love the deep orangy color of the salmon… which means that the fish is fresh.

We had so much salmon fish that Baby C has been eating salmon porridge for the past 1 week.   This is Baby C’s bowl of salmon-beet root-pork-veggie porridge and she loved it. 

I know salmon fish is full of goodness, Omega Fatty Acids and nutrients, but I still feel wary each time I eat it. In fact I feel wary each time I eat big, deep sea fish as I wouldn’t know if I’m reaping the benefits of the fish or slowly poisoning my body with the consumption of these fish as big, deep sea fish have been notorious for being tainted with mercury. 

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The good side about coaching my 2 older gals in their homework is that I’m also learning. Being a yellow banana who only had a couple of years of tuition for Mandarin (when I was 7 and 8 years old), I’m now learning new Mandarin words everyday!

When I was doing revision on English with Alycia yesterday, I learned 2 things : a drake is a male duck and a sow is a female boar.   I may have come across these 2 words in the past but it’s only yesterday that I finally knew what they were hahaha!  Shame on mummy!

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Ever since I found out about psyllium husk and have been consuming it, I hardly suffer from constipation (knock on wood!). Before psyllium husks came into my life, I had tried several products to stimulate my bowel movements, including using laxatives which caused terrible tummy aches. I now gulp down a tablespoon of psyllium husk together with a glass of water and apple cider vinegar the first thing in the morning and it’s really effective in keeping the constipation at bay. However, on rare occasions, I still suffer from constipation, especially when under stress or when there’s a disruption in my usual daily routine. That’s when my body system is ‘confused’ when there’s a change in the regime. In times like these, even psyllium husks would not work. Today I discovered the magic bullet suppository which helps to stimulate bowel movements gently. If ever I suffer from constipation again, I think I would not mind giving this magic bullet a try.

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In my opinion, I think these Math equations are way too difficult for 5 and 6-year old pre-schoolers :

Take a look at the boxes on the questions.  They are everywhere…. some in front and some behind, first set and second set.  I think even some adults would need some time to ponder how to solve the equations.

Alycia didn’t understand the concept and I had a very tough time explaining the rules to her and making her remember them.  She still doesn’t know how to do the questions on her own…. but has no problem with straight forward additions and deductions.

I then set some questions for her to practise to get a hang of it but had to guide her to solve them.

Check out Baby C under the table LOL!  That’s my typical afternoon - coaching the 2 older brats in their homework while Baby C would be crawling and walking everywhere.  Sometimes baby would make me search frantically for her and then I would find her happily picking up dirt from the floor, under the table … and almost putting them into her mouth! 

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Alycia and Sherilyn had their first swimming lesson on Tuesday. Just before they took their nap, I dug out their swimming suits, caps and goggles and laid them on Aly’s bed so that when they got up from their nap, they can hop right into their swimming suits.  Baby who was gallivanting from room to room spotted the bright red Minnie Mouse cap and tried putting it on her head.  We then helped her put the cap on her head and oh my, she looked so hilarious and too cute… and everyone had a real good rib-aching laugh.

Baby now knows how to say pool whenever she hears kids laughing and jumping into the pool, from our room on the 5th floor of the condo. She will also point at the window as she says ‘pool’.

Baby’s speech is progressing well and she will try to say new words each day. I was really shocked when I heard her say ‘tumbler’ as she pointed to her 2 jie jies’ water tumbler in the kitchen yesterday. She could also say ‘tan’ (thanks) whenever she receives something from us. She could also say ‘nana’ (banana), papa (papaya), bear, ball, chair, brer (breast), milk, tub, ‘ket’ (biscuit) and much more. I can’t wait for her to call me mummy (though she can call me mummy when she cries and desperately wants me to carry her) and to speak in sentences

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This year marks hubby and my 10th wedding anniversary. We were registered in the year 1999 and our wedding ceremony was held the following year. How time flies. Hubby once told me that on our 10th wedding anniversary, we would go to the bridal studio to get some nice shots of us and our kids together but that has not materialized yet. Well, I haven’t given this much thought as my mind has been too occupied with other more important and urgent matters. Our wedding wasn’t a dream wedding for me. If I could have it done all over again, I would focus less on the bridal studio wedding pictures (we had spent more than RM10k on that alone!) and spend the money on something else, like getting nice bridesmaid gifts for my bridesmaids and getting nice wedding favors that can be keep-sakes for our guests. We would also use a bigger portion of our budget on our honeymoon, rather than spend it on our hefty wedding dinner.

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