[qi 1y3m]

Qi loves to droodle. Whenever I took out crayons or water color for her brother, she will join in the fun immediately. But usually she'll get bored after one drawing and starts to droodle on the floor! She even put the brush inside her mouth once before I could stop her, sigh ....

I'm done!!! Gosh, all the red paint on my pants!

Don't color the floor, Qi!!!

"O-oh~~~" saying with her little finger pointing. (She said this when she has done something wrong. But, she will purposely did it again and again said "O-oh")

Following is a color pencil drawing which done by Qi one month ago ^_^

[Xiang 2y5m; Qi 1y3m] We Luv Yogurt

My son Xiang love yogurt since his first taste on it, due to his cough problem, I dare not give him too often. What I did what take it out from fridge for at least 30 minutes for the chills to subside before giving it to him.

Qi recently had her first taste of yogurt, her expression was funny. I think she felt it tasted weird at first, but after her 2nd try, she was yelling "mumm mumm" non-stop. ^_^

Chinese SenSei Method

[xiang: 2y5m]

Xiang has this cough & phlegm problem ever since 6 months old. He is diagnosis as having minor asthma problem and whenever he is coughing furiously with phlegm, he needs to be on his inhalers again. There were 4 times where he had to put on nebulisers at the pediatrician place. After he entered into the kindergarten, his condition is getting worse. His cough-free days will only last for 2 to 3 weeks and I always wonder whether his little body could take so much medicine.

Asthma is actually a condition whereby the airways (of lungs) become irritated and inflamed. As a result, they became narrower and produce extra mucus. This makes it more difficult for air to flow into and out of the lungs and causes the symptoms of asthma. I’ve also heard from others that taking medicine for a prolonged period of time will make the situation worse as the medicine will not be able to provide relief during an attack after passage of time.

Thus, we have decided to treat him using the Chinese SenSei Method instead. Last Sunday is the second time we paid a visit to the SenSei, waited for more than 2 hours!

The cough syrup has a very strong Chinese herbs taste plus some mint flavor (we tried it ourselves and YUCKKKK!!!). Xiang immediately turned away from the medicine when first time trying it, with his face crooked up and even crying little bit. We use raisins or Ribena pastilles and he managed to swallow the 2 table spoon of Chinese herbs. Xiang is naughty is many ways but he is really superb when came to taking medicine. Even my hubby (who had cough problem and was given the similar taste cough syrup) felt like vomiting after taking his medicine.

After the 2 bottle of cough syrup, we need to prepare a herb-drink 七辛茶 for him. Then, we will take him to the SenSei again for next round of checking up. I hope that this time it will work for him. I can say that it is working well until now since his cough is under control after 3 days of medicine. Usually, he needs at least 3 visits to the pediatrician before he could fully recover.

Here’s a photo of his medicine

And some photos of him taking it.

Other than this, we are also trying to keep our house dust free. Floor is swept & moped daily, furniture is wiped daily, bed-sheets are changed once per week, curtains are washed once per month, and recently, we have installed an air-purifier in our bedroom.

When we were together ...

23 & 24 May 2009

Last weekend was a busy weekend for me, there's so much that I did, went to help out a green project, bought toiletries for my kids due to their sensitive skin, met my old buddy and her chubby 7 month daughter, brought my son to a sensei, and .... meeting my online friends for the first time!

Frankly, I'm a not-outgoing-person, and I was quite nervous to meet them. When I reached Maggie house, it was already 3pm, last one to arrived. When I went up to Maggie house, all of the 3 ladies are sitting there chatting.

I couldn't recognise Maggie at first glance, she definitely looks prettier and much younger than her photos! Her cozy home is nice and I love her kid's room! Guess what, I have visited Maggie's area numerous time coz my brother in law house is just the next neighbourhood to Maggie's area! Kiyo is super cute, she's just like her mom, small size. Her face is small but her eyes are huge, making her looks like a cute doll. She performed a show together with her father, which makes us laughed non-stop!!! I love to see daughter-father with this kind of relationships, being so closed together ^_^

Hui Chen looks just like in her photo, but she's really tall! When we went to pasar on Sunday, I guess she really gotta squeeze her arms & legs in order to fit into my tiny car! Haha, paiseh paiseh! She won on Sunday morning breakfast time --- to able to get the check and paid for the breakfast! I should be paying instead as she's a guest. She's good with kids, even become a temporary nanny on both days when we were busy.

Alyse is very "si mun" (soft-spoken & gentle). No wonder she's bully by her "si tou poh". Apparently, her house is very near to my house too. Too bad that I did not have a chance to go to her house this time, maybe next time.

One funny scene is that though our Sat dinner place is extremely hot, the 4 of us kept on chatting non-stop after the dinner. All the others have already gone out of the restaurant as it was cooler outside. Then we realised it's late and decided to leave. We stood in front of the restaurant to bid farewell but the chatting started again!!! hahahahaha, really "mu sei tek" to leave.

I've got so many gifts on that day, some which I only realised after Hui Chen went back! So paiseh... Next time we must make a rule not to bring any gifts when we meet!

Haha, I've forgotten take out the 2 mangoes in my fridge when I took this photo.

Guess I was too nervous that I've totally forgotten to bring camera on that day. When they are in my house, I too forgotten to take some pictures, aisey .... Luckily we had some during our dinner, go to Maggie's album to see them ^_^

A GREEN effort

This came in last minute, each divisions were requested to send representatives. When I was asked to join by my boss, I was torned in between this and my dear friend is coming all the way from Melaka. I'm so glad that she understood.

I guess that everyone should really starting caring for our environment, if not, there won't be any GREEN left for our little dear children. I've recently received an article about the plastic water bottle and gosh, I never realised such a little thing could have done harm to our environment. I'll try not to use such plastic bottle again, and if I did, I'll recycle them for sure.

Anyway, just for promoting, Sony will be having a corner at the Rainforest 1-Utama, starting from today until 24 May 2009 (Sunday). You just need to bring the recycled items as in below photo (in case it's small, I've attached the file) and be rewarded with goodies (don't asked me, I myself doesn't know what's in the goodies). There's some events for you to join in as well.

Anyway, tomorrow will be a busy day for me. Morning, I'll be rushing to 1-Utama as a helper for this green event. Then I'll drop by my good dear old pal who stays nearby 1-Utama. Afterwards, I'll bring my kids to a Chinese sensei (who also stays nearby) for a follow-up checking. Then, I'll be heading to meet my dear Melaka friend!!!

Please vote for me Part II

I have participated in another EOE competition again. This is a last minute decision. I was thinking long whether to put my photo up there as one of the terms & conditions is to upload MOMMY & CHILD photo.

On 20 May 09 (submission closing date), my itchy hands went clicking again. Unlucky for me, my network had been down on the last day of uploading photo. After numerious times of failing, I tried my luck one last time at 11.45am, success!!! My submission photos are one of the few last photos accepted

So, if you don’t mind, could you please vote for us again? Err, just to be fair, I have to upload 2 photos for my 2 kids.

My son – Wei Xiang & me: please click the following link
http://www.eoe.com.my/en/funs/competitionItem.jsp?_=1242792709341&r=hits

My daughter – Wei Qi & me: please click the following link, or when you are in Wei Xiang photo page, just click the icon NEXT at the bottom of the page
http://www.eoe.com.my/en/funs/competitionItem.jsp?_=1242792483572

The voting start from 20 May until 3 June. You need to go to http://www.eoe.com.my/ and login before you could vote. You can vote everyday once per photo entry. So, if you got time and not troubling you too much, kindly vote for us everyday ... kekekekekeke ... too much or not? Thank you thank you ... Kam Siah ... 谢谢 ... Toh Jie Sai ... Terima Kasih ... Arigatou!

I was also wondering when the previous “My Happy Baby” Competition Result will be out. I have seen the voting results, there’s really a slim chance I could win as other’s entries accumulate as high as few hundreds votes!!!

Neno's Award

I got this from Angel's Mommy - Caroline .... such a wonderful award! I've never thought that my blog will be inspiring nor friendly, but I'm glad that at least someone likes to read it. I'm really touched receiving this, so lots of hugs & kisses to Caroline!

Terms & Conditions For the Award Recipient:
1. Paste the Award Logo in your blog
2. Give out the award to 10 Blogs that you feels the most inspired and most friendly.
3. Make sure u back linked the recipients' blogs to your blog.
4. Inform the recipients about the award by leaving them comments on their blog
5. Give some love to the person who give you this award.

10 blog only? There's so many on my mind! So I'm not going to name anyone this time, I wanted to pass this to all my dearest blogger friends out there. It's always informative and fun reading your blogs.