Important Mission!

We three sisters have made up to the arrangement to take our turns to go back Taiping and help things out. I am the first to start this so called important mission! Reason being Theng can only come upon her hubby's return on 10 April 2011. And Woon will come back this coming Saturday, 2 April 2011. Thank goodness my manager approved my leave, I did explain why to her.
Hubby fetched me and Kye Xin back to Teluk Intan for a wedding dinner on Saturday. Kye Xin is the happiest of all, she did not have to worry about anything but to enjoy her days out of KL to the maximum. She had a great time at the dinner, dancing and eating all way to the end.
Next day, Sunday, 8am, we started our journey back Taiping. Managed to reach at about 10am. Had breakfast at Restaurant Kakak and came back home.
First task of the day is to bathe Kye Xin and unload her stuff. Then I started to vacumn the floor. I began with downstairs first. After vacumn, I wiped the TV cabinets, the computer table, the sofa, the coffee table and the dining table. I then mopped the floor.
Then we went out to buy lunch. We spent RM11 solely to buy those Nyonya kuih. Hmmm, can't imagine kuih nowadays can cost this much. Mummy said Papa didn't have rice for the whole one week. Reason being there isn't much choice in the Kamunting area for him to buy. When Papa ate the rice, he asked where I bought it from. I said, it was from the Peace Hotel. He replied he didn't know where to buy all these. Of course la, I said. It was all the while Mummy's job to do all these.
After the lunch, I went upstairs and start to vacumn and mop the floor. I finally realised that owning a landed property is not easy, things made worse with a double storey. I cleaned the balcony and changed all bedsheets. By the end of the day, I am all flat.
Mummy was very glad that I am here to help. She labelled me as her new maid, Papa is the old maid. Hahahahaha, I am happy too to help her. Today, I will be cooking meals for them. Kye Xin will also be with me this whole week. She is so far so good in Taiping, making herself very comfortable here. And I felt they are happy too to see her, Kye Xin will definately add laughter and happiness to Mummy, Papa and Jason!

Series of misperhaps in my family

March 2011 wasn't a good month to cherish after all. Other than my sis's birthday, the rest are all disasters and series of accidents. A week before the school holiday, my bro Jason met with motor accident and injured his left wrist. He went for an operation to insert a wire in and fixed his bones. He needs to go for series of physiotherapy and will need to wait for 2-3 months to fully recover.
11 March 2011, the whole world is shocked to hear about Japan's tsunami + earthquake. Not only that, their nuclear plant exploded too, which resulted in a total lost to the country. My heart dropped when I saw those photos in the newspapers. I reminded myself to appreciate even more with what I have now.
19 March 2011, mum fell while hiking the mountain. We didn't know until she called us on Sunday morning just before entering the operation theater. This is something which I fear the most each time when I heard them hiking those mountains. Reason being that mummy is a diabetic patient. No one would ever want to get themselves hurt. She hurt her left ankle, and I sensed this must be a bad one!
She must not step on the floor for the coming 6 weeks. In 10 days' time she will have to go to take off the stitches. But from now, it would mean a complete change to our family. I understand why mummy didn't want to inform us earlier. Yes, she didn't want us to worry for her as we have our own family to look after. Then again in my mind, I couldn't think of anything else but to be there with her through these few weeks.
I discussed with Theng and thought if we can take turn to go back to take care of her. Now that Jason is injured too, that leave only papa himself. It will be extremely difficult, I couldn't imagine what will happen later.
I knew mummy didn't tell us all the details. I knew she is very sad now. I knew she must have blamed herself for making us worried of her. I knew she treated herself a burden to us. But I just want to tell her that she musn't think of all those but instead sharing with us. No matter how hard, we shall go through this time together.
Kuan Yin Ma, please please please please , a thousand, million, billion, zillion please to bless my one and only mummy. Let her recover, give her strength to go through these 6 weeks. And I shall be truly extremely grateful! Let Jason recover too, and bless him with his SPM examination this year!

First drama to be nominated!!!

I was writing about how she finished her 4oz of milk yesterday. I will continue from there! At about 10.30pm, she cried. I thought she must be hungry.....and gave her soy milk again. She is quite reluctant to drink even that she closed her eyes. I managed to put her to sleep.
Hubby came back at about 12midnight. After a while, she cried again. This time it was pretty loud. I gave up and prepared her milk. I pity her for battling with us and ended up hungry and couldn't sleep well. I tell you, we have already cross the border, Kye Xin really jumped out this round. She cried very badly, each time using her hand to push away the bottle. She must have thought we give her soy milk again. I thought if she smell soy and hubby drank her first bottle. I washed thoroughly her bottle with soap and rinse it with hot water to get rid of the smell. And prepared the second bottle. We even told her to look at the milk powder when we were to put it into the bottle. Still she rejected and continued crying.
I didn't want her to cry for long as it would cause much more wind to enter into her body. I am very much tired, stressed out and angry. I knew I can't beat her, and I chose to open the main entrance and told her to stop crying. Luckily she lowered down her tone and began to look around. Hubby tried making her happy by taking out an item after an item with the intention to make her happier, then to try to make her drink the milk we prepared. After a while, we failed and I gave up.
I brought her into the room, warned her not to cry again and I slept. 5mins later, she called me and rested on my head. She said to me "Nen nen". I reconfirm with her and she said it out again. Fine, I took her out and prepared the third bottle. Same ending, she only wanted plain water and pushed away the milk. Next thing I did, I passed on the job to hubby. I am simply very very tired and couldn't be bothered to say nice words to her. She better not cry in the next few hours, else I do not know what I am going to do next.
Kye Xin managed to sleep till 6am. Hubby gave her milk, she rejected initially but later on drank it. How can she reject milk when she is hungry. I complained the whole night drama to nanny this morning. Kye Xin's face turned sour instantly and wouldn't want to say goodbye to me. She is really a bad tempered lady.
Later nanny decided to bring her to see Dr Low again. This is the first doctor we saw last Friday. She had soft stools as a result of the milk she had in the morning. The doctor advised us to mix Milo with the soy milk to encourage her to drink. She gave a powder form medicine to make her stools harden.
Today, she ate pumpkin porridge, drank the Milo+soy milk and few slices of bread. At about 7.50pm, she passed out and the stools seem thicker than before. 10mins later, she lied on the floor and suddenly slept.
I took her to the room and changed her with her sleeping wear. I was very surprised that she is not waking up. This is the first time that I see her sleeping so fast and looked extremely tired. I checked out with nanny. Turned out to be she did not have her afternoon nap as she was busy playing hide and seek with nanny's daughter.
She looked much more better and I do hope she will regain her appetite soon. I missed her chubby face. Yes, I did complain when she gained weight earlier, and now I regretted that she now losses her weight. Poor thing!!!!!!

Pity Kye Xin asking for "Nen Nen"

It's Wednesday today. 6th day since Kye Xin is down with food poisoning. As of now she stopped vomiting, but still her stools are not solid enough to qualify to get back to her cow's milk. Her appetite remain lesser than her normal days. I was also down with diarrhea yesterday. It started on Monday night, no stomach cramp but only felt the urge to pass out. I can't remember how many times I went into the toilet, should be no lesser than 6 times. Initially I applied for first half Tuesday to bring Kye Xin to doctor to examine, and finally ended up seeing doctor together.
Doctor explained the whole situation to me, and mentioned that the virus can spread within the house and can last between 2 to 6 days. He gave me medical leave and I get to rest at home. I must have slept for the whole afternoon. Felt very very fresh today, there's difference after resting at home for a day without Kye Xin disturbing.
Today Kye Xin is begging us for milk. She refused to drink the soy milk which I bought for her. Doctor said we should avoid lactose product for her until her stools become normal. Being mature than before, she simply know how to differentiate and rejected to drink. She would rather drink plain water instead of the soy milk. Even white bread is not her favourite either. Hahahahahahaha, she will just chew and throw out a while later. Nanny cooked her porridge, she took a little, cooked rice in the evening with her favourite vegetable, still she refused to eat. We ended up giving her rice crackers.
Just now when I took her to bed, as when she tried to kiss me, suddenly she bite my cheek. Hmm, she must have been angry with me for not giving her milk. I told her many times why I did this, hopefully she understands! Later when she requested for milk, I let her to hold my spectacles and managed to persuade her to drink about 4oz. Not too bad!
Hopefully by tomorrow, her stools will be better and I shall consider to give her milk or not. I do really hope she will recover asap!

Kye Xin gets food poisoning!

Thursday night, we went to pasar malam and bought cakes for Kye Xin as usual. That was the last food she ate that night. Friday morning, 5.30am, she woke up, looked at me and suddenly vomited some phlegm and sliver. 10 mins later, she vomited again. I called hubby who was working in office. He is on midnight shift till 7am. At about 6.20am, she vomited again, this round it was all yellowish greenish liquid. I wonder why it happens.
My colleague came to fetch me to work that morning. As a precautionary measure, I brought along a cup, just in case there's forth round of vomiting. And my prediction is correct that the minute I went into her car, Kye Xin vomited.
I told nanny the whole scenario and she asked what did I give her yesterday. I said the cakes in the pasar malam. Immediately she said it must be the cakes, either they are not fresh or they did not handle the food well. I also gave nanny her medicines for her mosquito bites. There are two and it is badly swollen.
At about 8.30am, nanny called me and said she is bringing her to see the doctor. She gave her milk, thinking to feed her medicine after that, but she vomited right away, and it wasn't a normal vomit. I called hubby right away to go over to see her. Hubby came back at about 6.30am and was already prepared in case of emergency.
The doctor confirmed that it is food poisoning. She can't drink milk at least for the whole day, and can only take barley. If she passes out later, then she can take plain porridge or white bread. The whole Friday went on like that and on Saturday, I felt she should be better.
She rejected the soy milk as she is now wiser to choose what she likes and what she dislikes. Saturday, about 5pm, I gave her milk. She did not take much food the whole day and I thought I give her milk which she loves. Little did I know that I am causing much trouble after that.
Hubby drove back to Teluk Intan at about 6pm, together with MIL and SIL. He is to attend a wedding dinner on Sunday night.
The night went on well when I took Kye Xin into the room to change and to sleep. I rubbed oil on her stomach and minutes later, she passes out wind and motion. Hmmm, I wonder, it came back. And I thought I should be giving her the anti vomit medicine. I cleaned her and took her out. As I fed her with the medicine syrup, perhaps she choked herself, suddenly she vomited whatever she ate the whole day. It was terribly unexpected thing to see, and I told myself to be brave and not to cry. First thing I told her to co-operate with me and stand aside. I took the kitchen towels and wiped out whatever was on the floor. Next to dilute some soap and wiped the floor. I couldn't clean them so well because I afraid Kye Xin would have fall if she was to walk on the wet floor. I quickly changed her clothing, fed her with the medicine again and brought her in to sleep. She must have been feeling so uncomfortable, due to the mistake of me giving her milk. I am truly sorry Kye Xin!
I called hubby and nanny to explain the situation. I told nanny to be prepared in case of emergency, I would need her to fetch me to the nearest clinic. She is also kind enough to turn on her handphone the whole night. And she reminded me to maintain the right diet for her on Sunday. No milk, just purely barley, white bread and her soy milk. And I agreed.
At about 3.30am, Kye Xin woke me up. She was dreaming of food I guess, her mouth moving left to right as if she is sucking something. She must have been hungry, poor thing. I woke up and gave her soy milk. She drank all and slept till 9am today.
Nanny called in to check if she is all right. I cooked her barley, and today she passed out diarrhea 4 times, it should be normal to release all the wind out from her stomach. She did not vomit today, but choked a little when I fed her medicine. One thing for sure, she drank much lesser today, 3oz the max. Pity her!
Hopefully by tomorrow, she will recover. Hubby constantly called in to check on her, and I told him that Kye Xin missed him. She stood at the main entrance and called out Papa. Just now when she went into the room, she did call out Papa loudly. Luckily I decided not to travel back with him, with such condition, I'm sure travelling will make things worse for her. He will be back tomorrow, and working from 3pm-11pm. Kye Xin will need to wait till Tuesday morning to talk to her daddy again.

Good 16 Months

Today, Kye Xin is officially 16 months old. A year and 4 months, 485 days, 11,640 hours, 698,400 minutes, 41,904,000 seconds. How time flies!!! Today, she walks, she runs, she climbs, she talks her language, she greets us, she waved goodbye and kisses, she hugs and so much more. We are slowly introducing words and letters to her, showing flashcards to her and she slowly recognise some of them. At babysitter's home, she has a set of her own "Masak" and she will act as if pouring tea into a teacup and play around. Last two weeks, we also slowly trying to get her not to wear on diapers during the day. The weather is getting hotter by day and we thought how good if she doesn't wear diaper. Toilet training is on, and somehow it is kinda difficult to get her to tell us when she wants to pass urine or motion.
16 months, not too long yet not too short. Lots of things change, as now hubby works according to shift hours. No more sweet sweet both of us to wake up early in the morning and send Kye Xin to babysitter. I only get to do that perhaps a week in a month, that is when he is on morning shift 7am to 3pm. And that is also in a rush as we have to wake up earlier and rush to office earlier. The rest of the week I will car pool with my colleague. I am very thankful that she is willing to fetch me and Kye Xin. My days are harder, as I need to juggle the morning session myself. No choice but to sacrifice my sleeping time. No regrets though, as I understand hubby is trying to make a change for better days for our family. Somehow he needs to go through this stage, hopefully he will excel, get promotion, earn better for us.
This year, we discussed, we will try for another baby by end of the year. We are slowly into changing our diet and lifestyle, hoping that we are more ready to have a second baby. Let's hope everything will run smoothly and Kye Xin to learn to be more and more independent. She is now deemed the rascal of the family, ransacking the whole house and receiving complaints of her bad acts everyday. Hahahahahahaha....I wonder what will happen next when she talks better???? Let's see in the following few months! Till now, Happy 16months birthday to Kye Xin!!!! Daddy and Mummy love you!