Wonder Woman and Lemonade Award

Thank you very much Mummy Gwen for remembering me and these awards are simply sweet. The Lemonade drink, love the one from Auntie Anne..long time not having that too.

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Alphabet Tag

Got this pass from Serene and Mummy Moon. Simple yet interesting A-Z tag.

A. Attached or single ? - Attached
B. Best friend? – Yes, do have a few
C. Cake or pie? - Cake
D. Day of choice? - Sunday
E. Essential item? - My specs and handphone
F. Favorite color? - Blue, Ivory, White
G. Gummy bears or worms? – Gummy Bear
H. Hometown? – Kuala Lumpur
I. Favorite indulgence? – Ice-cream
J. January or July? - January
K. Kids? – 1
L. Life isn’t complete without? - God and Love
M. Marriage date? – 27-Feb-2005
N. Number of magazine subscriptions? - None
O. Orange or apple? - Apple
P. Phobias? – I’m afraid of crockroaches
Q. Quotes? – Be happy for what you having
R. Reasons to smile? – When seeing my family complete and healthy
S. Season of choice? – Fall
T. Tag 5 people – Malaika's mummy, Sting, peimun & kendra, Vickylow, Vivian Choo
U. Unknown facts about me? – Careless
V. Vegetable? – Yes, like it very much.
W. Worst habit? – Forgetful
X-ray or ultrasound? – Ultrasound
Y. Your favorite food(s)? – Japanese food and Malaysia local foods.
Z. Zodiac sign – Gemini

Thomas Train lil' fan

Since more than 1 year ago, it really caught Terry's attention when the Astro Playhouse Disney Channel started to preview the Engine Roll Call song and Thomas movie thriller. He will stay still and the eyes glue on it whenever he heard the song. Once the Thomas movie begin, he can stay and sit still to watch from start till the end. From there I know this lil' brat of mine in love with Thomas.

To some, Thomas movie may be a boring one, as all characters in the movie are not moving. The only moving things are the train's eyes, when the trains chuff away and the steam whistles. But I believe, this Sodor show still caught a lot of boy's heart. He simply love it and almost not missing all show time.

It sounds like not complete if he only get to watch from the box but not get to hold his favourite Thomas. It was quite sometimes later only I bought him the first small Thomas train. It was roll-push and leave it go one, no need battery to operate (can play longer), it was RM 29.90 bought from Toys'R'Us. He love it to bits and so excited when saw it. He can play that everyday for months and play till it broken and parts lossen (play too hard). That time thats the only Thomas toy he has. The collection only go wider since few months ago.

Build 'N' Go Thomas (a get-well-soon gift from Mummy Moon)
Thomas toys
(Left) Push and Go train (the very first toy from mummy)
(Front) Cubes puzzle from po-po bought in Taiwan
Thomas plush pillow, Sing-a-Long CD, Apparel (1 home wear, 1 for going out)
Since bento-ing hits me, the collection for Thomas is there too. Here are the bento box, baran, sauce cases, and flag picks. Sure he adores every of that. To all his Thomas toys too, he still play every of that everyday, without failed. For the songs, he will ask me to sing Troublesome Trucks, 5 New Engines In The Shed and Boo-boo Choo-choo. He can sing along some when it plays.

I was actually win the bid from eBay on this full set of Thomas apparel and wanted to put on him on his 2nd birthday. But too bad, he has outgrown of the sandal and top when I got it. I have let go this (sold away in eBay).

He never ever get enough of Thomas, when I'm using my computer, he will sure come to me and say "train, train". So I will play him some videos and games from Thomas website, if not, he will whine and not let me to continue my work. Not long ago, he can maneuver the lappie mouse and play the Emotion Games by himself. I just need to name him the train and he will move the mouse and click on it. (The video is a bit lengthy 1:44, pls be patient..)


The most funny one is he named his Thomas as TON-CEH since 3 weeks ago. He couldn't pronounce it yet, so that is his way of saying it.

Another one, Thomas ride. This pic taken long time ago. Once he sat on it, he not ever wanted to let go willingly. All the times, I forced to pick him up. Up to now, he is only familiar with James, Percy, Emily, Salty, Molly and Gordon. I got so much more Thomas stuff in mind wanted to get for him like the meal set, movies, tumbler, learning tools and etc. Hope can get this collection soon as sales is coming.

Boy, if there were any chance in future, daddy mummy will sure give you a Thomas theme birthday party (Hopefully by the time he still favourable with Thomas).

Successful train on daytime diaperless (Part II)

@ 2 years, 5 months, 1 week & 3 days old

It is worth to record this great achievement of Terry back in 3 weeks ago. He is now successfully being train on full daytime diaper-less at home. It was something unexpected he can be successfully train, as the mission 3 months ago failed. I was thinking he might need to continue fully on diapers for quite sometimes.

How it was started? Well, I’m not sure is this the sign consider he is ready. There was one day I found his diaper dry for whole day. Ya, one of the reasons that day he drank very little water, but it is impossible the diaper is totally dry. So, I was asking him what happen? No pee today? So you don’t want to wear diaper is it? He just looked at me one kind of cause.

So the next day, I said what I will do. Before taking bath, I repeated to him many times, no diaper on after shower and you got to pee on potty. He feels much ok without diaper on and not asking for diaper. After a few days diaper-less, he even can repeated what I told him, "No, pian pian" (diaper) after shower.

For me, my job of letting him go diaper-less on the first day seems stress free. It was not like previously, I can’t do anything to whole day and just keep watching him and also much of get ready to do clean up job. This time, I don’t even get ready old cloth to clean up the mess. The first hour after shower, I put him to sit on potty and asked him to pee, to my surprise - he DID IT! Wow, I’m so glad about it and keep praising him. On the first day itself, I’m not even let him wear diaper during nap time.

My timing for him pee is like is between every half to 1 hour, also depends whether he drinks much water or not..if it is, will call for pee in more frequent. So far so good, since the day he went diaper-less, accident few times sure have and once pee on sofa. He not able to tell yet whether he want to pee, cause I still get a silent response when asking. So average in a day I need to clean the potty for like 5-8 times. When he pee accidently on the floor, he will point and said "Wet, wet". While I clean up I do keep reminding him not to pee on the floor again..Now hardly find him pee on the floor. It was so fun, few days later when asked him again where he pee on the floor wet wet, he can point it out.

So now the daytime diapers is hardly use. I will only put on when we go out or if I’m busy especially before dinner. Sometime before day nap and happened he drinks a lot then I will let him put on just in case and I will remove it once he wakes. So compared with last round, it is much easy-peasy..he is ready means ready, very easy to get him to pee, of cause it is much better, if he can tell. Now, I'm not sure when he is ready to stand and pee. I know soon it going to be difficult if he needs to sit all time. Mummies, any suggestion on how to start? or this job perhaps let daddy leads on?

As of today, Terry is turning 2.5 years old!

8 Random Things About Me

Thanks Mummy Gwen passing this tag to me and this is the 4th time I'm doing the simliar tag in this blog. Anyway, I will still do it and it is fun to know this little things in me.

1. I'm graduate as an Advance Diploma holder in Business Computing and worked in a Market Research Company as a Data Processing Exec. for 3 years time before become SAHM.
2. I raised in a small family, I only have an elder brother.
3. I like food with soup. Whatever soak in soup or soup itself I will like it, like soup noodles, soup dumpling and etc.
4. I love non-fried food more.
5. I'm tall (5"5'), but my feet is small. Shoe size is 4 or 5.
6. I always can't make decision in speed. As like when buying things, this or this better? Will take long time to decide and compare.
7. I can be very talkative and can be very quiet. So some people don't know me, may say I Action or Cool.
8. I can hand-made cards, gift cards and book marks. Those days, Valentine's day card, birthday card to boyfriend, I do it myself.

Recap the rest of 24 facts here,
8 Random Facts About Me
8 Things About Me
8 Terrific Things About Me

Your Voice Survey

I have signed up with Your Voice Online Survey and did some survey since a year ago. I'm so glad to do so as it already twice earn me rewards and more to come.

This is a survey panel side whereby you need to answer some survey questions and they will reward you with E-points. The points collected can redeem some rewards like shopping or movie vouchers, reload coupons, home living items and etc. So here I'm happy with the 2nd set of RM40 Jusco vouchers. The first time was like 5 months ago only.

Once you join, they will notify you through email if they have any survey available for you. Don't worry the survey not come very often too. All you need to do is just spend 15-20 minutes to complete them. If you are not interested or no time to do, you can leave it, not compulsory to complete. But of cause, if you done there will be points allocated for you, even you are no eligible for the survey, a prize draw chance is reserve for you. Pretty good ya? Hope you can join in too and get something good.

I found that this works better than my Jusco J-points redemption. At Jusco 2500pts only can redeem RM20 voucher. At Your Voice, 450 e-points can get RM40 gift vouchers already. It is far more easy to accumulate by doing survey.

If you're interested to join, please leave me your email address in comment box and I will send you an invitation.

Gifts from Taiwan

My parents just back from Taiwan Round Island trip and this is what they brought back and all only for Terry. Thank you very much mummy!


Can you imagine, shop in Taiwan is a real heaven. Just the above, it is not even need RM100. According to my mum, shopping there is really fun, lots of young and trendy clothing, bags and accessories, of cause the style is the most latest one too. The selling price can really makes you shout. I guess if I'm there I will be bringing few extra luggage back.

Once Terry saw all this, the most attracted to him is nothing more than the Thomas puzzle and the small book on Transportation. Notice all the tops, there are long sleeve as it is Fall now. The clothes quality is extremely top good and each piece of that is less than RM20!

The Power Blog

Thank you very much Mummy Moon for remembering me and giving me this cute Powerpuff Girl award. This simply brighten up my day =)

The three PowerPuff Girls named: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. I do not know them until one day my boyfriend (hubby now la..) bought me a Blossom keychain which was so cute and sweet and he actually having the Bubbles keychain too, but lost it now. I still keep the Blossom keychain with me. I do used to love them for awhile and have a collection set of Powerpuff Girl's towel back then.

Yeah, mummies are all powerful people, don't you think so?

Terry at 29 months old

Weight: 13.8kg
Height: 94cm

Eating Pattern
Still the same 7oz milk the most, 3 times a day. Volume vary depends on how full he eats the meal before. But morning for sure 7oz. Porridge 3 times a week and normally on the day we have soup, he will having rice soup and eat like what adult having too, but he will have an extra piece of meat ball or fish fillet.

He loves soup, so far no reject on any of vege or herbs soup. He wants soup drink separately. When drinking soup, he must see the bowl with soup only and not other than that. So, if I holding rice and feed him 1 or 2 mouth soup, he don't drink.

Like grapes and he is good in feeding himself fruits in small cubes. But to food, he plays (chop with spoon) more than eat.

His eating speed still almost the same, but slightly better already, still need around 1 hr to 1 hr 15 min to finish. Sometimes I get very frustrated and start to raise my voice when feeding him too long.

Vitamins: IG6 (add into milk morning and night), Colloidal Silver (10 drops each morning and night), Vitamin C and Amway Chewable (once a day), injury drops (3 drops a day), Vitamin E (2 capsules a week), tonic food (bi-weekly). So far after taking all this his skin colour change a lot on some parts.

Love biscuit and raisin now and less favor on breads.

Able to eat together with us when we eat out. I keep a small scissor when going out and cut small the foods to feed him.


Speech Development
Still speaking baby language but getting lesser

Able to pronounce more words accurately and espeically like to say these words - open, raining.

Love to call "Mummy" and "Pa" for nothing, sometime just want our attention. Very good in calling my brother - Jiu Jiu (舅舅) even not see him around. Can says 2 words in continue like bye-bye cat, bye-bye ball, bye-bye car (can bye whatever he wants).

Greet me Good Night (he says eight-nine) before sleeps. Reading alphabets and numbers from paper bags, boxes, books, cards and etc. Some he simply read, some he got it correctly. Numbers 1 to 15 no problem, 11 to 15 think he can't recognise it yet. Alphabets good in recognise almost half and love a few like A, G, N, O, P, R, T, Z and etc.

Can pronounce accurately for colour names like red, blue, green, yellow, purple but not recognise any of that after teaching since more than 1 months ago.

When he says something you must answer him or repeat what he says, else he don't like and will cry. If you are talking to someone and he wants you to repeat answer him or sing to him, he not allow you to talk until you have answer him.

Name all the vehicles when we are on the road in the car. Truck, taxi, bus, car, bike...non-stop. So, there goes, I repeat to him almost all he named.

Body parts can name all. Eye, nose, mouth, hand, finger, leg, head, hair. When played with puppy, bears, or reading books, he will name and point out those parts.

Can answer me sometime when asking him want or don't want. He only able to say 要 (yao). Sometimes when he wants to eat something he will says Terry (mumble), 要, 要 .. non-stop. Sometimes he can says in sentence like Chuk-chuk (porridge) Terry 要.

Can name his own name continuously in full.

We speaks English, Mandrin and Cantonese with him and he also knows those words in these language.

Can follow on the interactive cartoon like Little Einstein, Mickey Mouse Club House doing the actions, reading and etc. I got no idea lately he so attracted to cartoon Strawberry Shortcake.


Sleeping Pattern
Normally 1 time afternoon nap 2-2.5 hours. If nap early in the morning, it would be 2 naps.

Night sleep at 11.30pm, getting late and late. If daddy not sleep, he not going to sleep.

Hug adult bolster to sleep at night and very "lan fan".


Attitude and Behavior
When being scold, no loud cry, only :( sheepish cry with tear.

When demands not fulfill, he will walk away then squad with head bow down or sit on the floor and two hand cover his eyes and cry sheepish.

No shy in mix around with other small kids now. Can share toys with others.

Like to mimic my action, like I used my leg to close the fridge door as my hand holds on something. Minutes later, after I asked him to bring bottles out from the fridge, he used his leg to close the fridge door.


Others
Officially starts diaperless train II on 30th Oct. Daytime will go diaperless all day even on nap (only if I don't nap together). So far so good, accident few times on the floor. He still not able to say when he wants to pee. So, I just ask him to sit on potty to pee on every 1 to 1.5 hours and everytime he also able to pee. He not ask to wear diaper after shower, as I already told him that he is big boy and no more pee on diaper. He seems like understand. This round I less stress not like last round training. I think it will be more easier when he knows how to tell. But slowly la...

p/s: Right after I wrote this, I found 3 big patches of wet on my cushion sofa (he sit everywhere before I discovered). There goes his first time pee on it. So wet! I got to rub it over with wet cloth and dry it with table fan.

Play with fingers in showing 1 to 5, still trying to grab his own finger doing thumbs up, cause I used to shape his finger how to do the thumb up and he also grab by his own when he wants.

When I said I want to SWEEP THE FLOOR, he will quickly pick up all his toys. Without the magic words he won't pick it up.

When I said No means No, 1 means 1, last time means last time, he will get it and not cry or ask for more.

Likes to help me, like bring out the juice bottles from fridge when I said Juice time, placing back and stack up the pails after I hang the wet clothes, place the laundry basket and pick up the unwashed cloth back into it.

Likes drum very much.

Can stand still and give a smile when said take photo.

Sick week

It has not been a good past week for us, me and Terry, both fall sick. First, it was me, last week down with cold. It is just plain cold with body pain and tired. No fever, no throat infection, just only throat dry and flu. The mucus fall out is like water, can drip out when I bow down my head. The next day, quickly went to see doctor, so that I won't pass it to Terry.

But I think it is hard to avoid also, which I already try not to keep close distance with him. It can't stay far when feeding, talking to him or sometimes he wants me to hug and somemore we sleep together. I also avoid already, we slept opposite direction.

For me after 3 days, med finish I began recover, thats not the end, I began to cough..Argghh..What the heck is this! There goes, finally on Sunday morning, Terry sneezed and I know it is not something good going to happen. In follow of that, mucus all round his nose and coughing with phlegm (mild). Quickly after church, went to paed (Dr. Ooi at OUG) there to buy flu med and gave to Terry.

This morning, mucus still a lot, I kept cleaning his nose and cook at the kitchen at the same time, to and fro almost pengsan. As see his coughing more serious, can't wait till daddy back to bring us there, I took him to see doc. 1 hour waiting there, 3 patients before us. 8 out of 6 patients there is with flu and cough. Luckily the boy can sit still for like 45 mins holding one toy. He simply love car, another big kid came in with a robot toy car and began to play and roll on floor. He wants that and almost start whining for it, if I'm not distract him saying another table also have car.

After long waiting, once see doc, uuuuwa uwa waaa...burst into loud cry. The loudest among all kids and baby before him. His loud cry makes me got to raise my voice when talking to doc. Very quick one after check his lungs and prescribed the med. Still not stop crying, toys, sweets all can't stop him. I put him outside alone first then only I can continue to talk with doc for like 1 min. Once he is out the room immediate stop cry and stood still waiting for me. After taken the med, he still not willing to go and want to play the Lego there. I just told him play it last round then we got to go. Luckily he understands me and let go the toy after playing it last round.

Hard to get a cab during noon time and got to tambah-lima-ringgit only the driver willing to take me home. Quickly settle the mee suah for Terry, 45 min feeding him, take med and he nap now. Damn tired, me too...

I'm not on cough med since it is not so terrible yet, hopefully drink some leong sui can get rid of it cause I start feeling better since yesterday. If can't then got to see doctor again. I have a record recently, once sick got to see doctor twice only can recover. So bad!

Superior Scribbler Award

Thanks Slavemom for this award linky.

So the rules are :
Every Superior Scribbler will name 5 other Super Scribblers.
If you are named you must link to the author & the name of the blog that gave you the award.
Then you must display the adorable award and link to This Post, which explains The Award.
Finally you must visit this post and tell your name to Mr. Linky List.
Then they will have a record of all the people who are Super Scribblers!

Passing this to
Yling
Wonderful Life
Mummy Moon
Chen Xi & Mama
Magical Milestone

All around, everywhere..

Sunday, supposed hubby plan to go for the yearly Terry Fox Charity Run, but he "sacrifies" that and accompany me to do my stuff. Wanted to let him go first, but it will be too late when he came back and since I was fasting for the blood test, couldn't tahan for hungry till late morning.

Also, he has another plan to go the newly open ALL IT Hypermart at Ikano to grab the mini ASUS laptop for RM599. He did went on Saturday night, but back empty handed..good and cheap stuff will just clear off within minutes. So he plan to go again early on Sunday morning. So with that reason, the charity run was skipped.

Before that, got my blood test done at Pathlab OUG first. Within 15 minutes all done. Since hubby got the Pathlab Platinum Health member card, I used the RM260 voucher for doing 48 screening tests. Took urine and check blood pressure too. It is a bit low 107/67.

We rushed to Ikano and managed to reach there at 9.40am. Wotss! long queue man. I believed many people are aiming to get the mini notebook. We didn't followed daddy in afraid of pushing and the crowd. I accompanied Terry outside for kid's ride.
Within the first 10 minutes of the store open, while hubby still lining up to get into the store, the 50 units mini notebook of the day was sold off. No luck for that and he also didn't buy any others low price items too like thumb drives or printers..really cheap.

We then have breakfast at IKEA restuarant. First time eating there, while I went ordered food, daddy and Terry play at the kid's corner. Nothing to brag about the food there, not my liking. They only served fried kueh tiaw for RM 1.58 each (very the little), cheese & ham bread, pau, cakes and drinks, but still a lot of people eating there. Since nothing to buy and we not window shop too. We left with a half full tummy.

We got no plan after that, Terry was tired and took a cat nap. Daddy just drove and drove and we reached somewhere inside Serdang kampung area and tasted the pan mee with various colour (colouring done with vege). They have the regular one, pumpkin (yellow), ubi (purple), spinash (green) pan mee to choose from. Sorry forget to take photo. We also have the Tom Yam Mee Hoon, thumbs up for that. Terry shared half bowl pan mee with me. Of cause he is all time "uummm, uummm" when trying new food.

It was noon time, as planned back to my mum's place to collect the fish fillets bought by my mum before she left to Taiwan. Back there no one at home, so just take and leave. Yeah, my parents was on 7 days trip. There later, with no plan in mind, passed by Tesco Puchong and we drop by for a short while. Let Terry touch touch the toys, play-play and I did my grocery shopping.

Thats our day, after go round everywhere, reach home at 3-ish. Right step in the house its raining cats and dogs.