FollowWhen my parents were here last week, my dad took over the wok one afternoon and cooked fried vermicelli. After happily sweating it out in the kitchen (my dad is naturally a talented cook and loves whipping out dishes for us), my dad suddenly remembered he had forgotten to put the marinated pork into the…
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Why, Why Baby?
Why, why Baby are you waking up at 6am everyday for the past 2 days? Once this happens, mummy’s plan will go haywire. You don’t want Kakak or daddy but only want mummy, no one else but mummy!! Aiyoyo Baby girl, mummy has to supervise Alycia jie jie so that she gets ready by 6:30am. …
Princess Treatment
Since birth, Baby has been treated like a princess. Why? One, she’s the baby of the family. Two, we have to shower her with more love and TLC because of the frequent UTIs and pain that she had gone through. We love her even more after seeing what she had gone through during her 3-week ordeal in…
Baby C’s First Wedding Dinner Experience
Water Guzzler
Baby can guzzle down water from her sippy cup pretty easily. She likes it even more if she is given water from our cup or from our tumbler. Here, she’s drinking water from my tumbler. She even knows how to tilt the tumbler gently so that the water will not come gushing down on her. …
She’s Afraid Of No Chillies
My 2 older gals love nasi lemak, Indian food or anything that is spicy. When they were younger, they could not stomach spicy stuff but as they grow older, their palate evolved and now, spicy food spice up their mood and appetite! This bowl of Nyonya nasi lemak (minus the sambal which I find was too…
Baby Flosses Her Teeth
Food always gets lodged between Baby’s 2 bottom front incisors (she only has 2 teeth at the bottom) and it always has to be there and no more where else. Removing the food from between the teeth is a tall order. I normally use a wet hanky but at times, I would accidentally hurt her gums…
Baby’s Appetite Has Returned, YAY!
After a bout of super low appetite during her recent UTI attack, Baby’s appetite has made a come back, at an all-time high since Saturday. On Saturday, she ate 1 full bowl of chicken-pork ribs-abalone porridge. Porridge was something that she never really fancied but that night, she gobbled down the porridge. Yesterday night over…
Baby ‘Discharged’ From Hospital
Yesteray I tried using the potty method to collect Baby’s pee. I used 2 sterilizing tablets to sterilize the potty prior to getting Baby to pee inside. After she had peed, I poured the pee into the sterile specimen bottle. The results still showed some WBC, though reduced significantly. When I told the paed about my…
Fruitless And Stressful Day
It was a fruitless, stressful and super frustrating day for me yesterday. My maid and I had spent the whole day coaxing Baby to pee into the specimen bottle but she just would not cooperate. I kid you not, we really spent the whole day from 9:30am through 5ish pm with lunch break and short…
Baby C, The Bravest Baby Ever
Baby’s fever has subsided since yesterday. I will be bringing her to the hospital again soon. Our paed said that if she is fever-free for more than 24 hours, the antibiotics jabs can be stopped. My next hurdle is to feed her with oral antibiotics for the next 1-2 weeks. Today, we are to collect…
Alycia, The Best Jie Jie Ever
These pix were taken 2 days ago when Baby was down with high fever and was feeling under the weather. She was terribly crabby and edgy and would cry over the slightest things. After I had dressed Baby up to get her ready to go to the hospital, Alycia zoomed into the room and comforted…
Baby C Is Hospitalized For UTI
…but she’s on home leave, which means the doctor has given us consent to go home. However, I have to bring Baby to the hospital 3x a day for antibiotics jabs. This is Baby’s first UTI since her Ureteral Reimplantation surgery more than 6 months ago. Both the surgeon and I are perplexed as to…
Updates On Baby C’s 1st Post-Surgery Ultrasound Scan
Baby had her first post-surgery ultrasound scan of her kidneys today. She is required to have an ultrasound scan every 6 monthly for the first 2 years after the surgery and thereafter once a year until she turns 12 years old! What a loooooong time! She is also required to have a DMSA scan of…
Off To Penang Today
Kids Nap The Darnest Ways
Guess what this is? It’s the gals’ play tunnel, folded and buttoned up. And guess what Alycia loves doing with it? More guesses. Guess what’s inside this tunnel, which looks like the shell of a snail? One afternoon, Alycia napped inside this little cocoon… and Baby found her jie jie inside…. … and kept calling…