5 years 9 months old - Influenza A

Mummy has been taking mc since Friday until today (Wednesday). Since Friday night you had fever above 38 degree Celsius. On Sunday noon, jie jie's turn to have high fever but your fever seemed to have subsided without much medication since morning. I gave you propolis to bring down the fever and pear juice to cool down your body. However, your fever came back on Sunday night. On Tuesday, we went to Dr. F. Both of you were
tested with swap by poking a stick into your nostril to check if you've got influenza A. The result was positive. Dr subscribed antiviral and she said to take for 5 days, once every 12 hours.

This virus is so strong and below are the tortures you and jie jie experienced.
1) migraine
2) body ache
3) Nausea
4) High fever (38.5 to 40 dc)
5) Running nose and stuffy nose
6) Sneezy - only JK
7) Tiredness and weakness
8) Extreme exhaustion
9) Sore throat - only jie jie
10) Cough - only JK
11) Lots of smelly farts



Both of you have been calling mummy non stop asking for help because of extreme uncomfortable condition, from stomach discomfort to having the urge of vomiting, migraine, cold feet(JK).
Mummy would massage both you and jie jie's head during migraine attacks and luckily it didn't happen at the same time. Mummy also massaged your legs almost the whole night on certain night. Running back and forth kitchen and living hall, up and down stairs, drained my energy. When you couldn't sleep in the room, I would take you downstairs to try sleeping on the sofa.

Even though I've given paracetamol to both of you, the fever just won't go away, especially you. I couldn't give you another dose until 6 hours gap is up. So I had to just keep you away from the fan and air condition and close the window to prevent mid night cold wind.

Mummy is worried sick so I dare not go to work and stayed home to care for both of you. Daddy advised to get kakak and granny to care for both of you during the mid night and day time but I think I would understand both your needs better. I prayed to Kwan Yin for speedy recovery for both of you.

It has been a while since both of you last fell sick. Mummy has been taking propolis -5 drops, in hope to stay save from this virus.Daddy has been busy at work and only reaches home around 12am every night ever since he joined his new company.

5 years and 6 months old

You can memories times table 2 now and learning up to 3x5 now. For addition, adding 8 and 9 to other numbers.

Learn to cycle on 2 wheels at 5 years 3 months old

Mummy wanted to post this earlier but didn't have time. It is something mummy wish to remember. Daddy took you to condo to learn to cycle with 2 wheels. It was your first attempt & we didn't expect you managed to balance yourself on the 2 wheels bicycle within 20 minutes! We think you're extremely amazing.

The night before, you said you only want to learn cycle with 2 wheels when you're as big as jie jie. I said you always say you can't but you haven't try. Just like playing the piano, you can't play with both hands last time but now you can and you're very good at it. I think you're worry you might fall and get cuts and bleed. I assure you that daddy will hold you tight to prevent you from falling.

5 years old

We have been doing SAM worksheets from around 8:45pm to 9:30pm recently with jie jie.
When we're on the bed, sometimes we do counting by 2, by 5 and by 10. Just last 2 days I gave you some problem solving questions when we're on the bed. You loved it. The questions I asked were very simple. For example, if we have 6 kittens in the kitchen, next day we saw only 2 kittens. How many kittens are missing? You got it right most of the time.

When we do SAM worksheets, we get teacher Ant to mark your work and teach you sometimes. Teacher Ant is mummy's pointer and middle fingers. Haha!! When teacher Ant sees your beautiful writing, he will draw a star beside your answer. You love seeing teacher Ant tumble over from the table to the floor. That happens when he got a shock to see your beautiful writing.

4 years & 1 month to 4 years & 8 months old

09 Aug 2015

You can float by yourself with the jacket and move about with the blue swimming board

11 Aug 2015

You asked me not to wear the black skirt with 2 holds on the back because others can see my flesh.

12 Aug 2015

Dagu wore a skirt with zip a bit low, you told her she cannot wear that next time.

16 Aug 2015

You can float for 20 seconds by yourself by pushing the water down with your hands and kicking the water. When we were lying on the bed, you asked if I kept the books I took out for you just now. I said I did. I'm so amazed with your tidiness.

22 Aug 2015

We visited MC ah yi at K9 and you swam by yourself because I didn't bring my swim suit. You put the board on the deck and pushed yourself to the middle of the pool and swam about independently. Finally... I'm happy to see you enjoy floating about independently in the water.

26 Aug 2015

We were  sharing the flower blanket on the bed. After awhile, you gave me the whole blanket. You covered me up nicely and said "I give all to you because you are not well". I was having stomach ache due to mensus.

27 Aug 2015

I suddenly remember in July when we went to Hello Kitty Land, you didn't want to go into Angelina Ballerina's studio initially. Only after awhile, I discovered that you thought that was for girls and you're too embarrassed to be seen interested with Angelina Ballerina activities which includes putting on a ballet costume and dancing.

21 Sept 2015

You came upstairs and suddenly went down again. I heard you asking 2 cups from kakak. You are so observant to notice there were no cups on the small table.

4 Oct 2015

The other day you told me how to love you. You said just say nicely to you and you will listen. So every time you disobey, I will remind you of what you have said and you will immediately obey. Hahaha!!

10 Nov 2015

You did rock climbing all by yourself for the first time.

5 Dec 2015

You went to Heguru class by yourself. You were so steady & just joined in the class with the others without hassle or rejection. You waved at me when you saw my camera from the little hole at the door. I'm so proud of you. Today, I'm is signing SAM franchise agreement and I'm feeling anxious. I hope everything goes well.

18 Jan 2016

You slept by yourself last night after I brushed your teeth. More independent now.

10 Feb 2016

In Taiwan for CNY, you showed me in the bath tub at yi gong's hse that you can dunk your whole head into the water. It's another milestone for you.

9 Mar 2016

I was feeling down for the past few weeks. You asked me what happened. I said I can't. You felt so hopeless. Then on, you always ask me if I have a bad day and if I don't, your said I can just open up my hand phone to see your videos. You think if I watch your videos I'd be happy.

4 years 11 months old

Mummy felt dizzy since morning to the point I had to lie down. I think it was due to very low blood level. I had not been sleeping enough too.

When you came downstairs to find me on the sofa, being so thoughtful, you went to the toilet to brush your teeth by yourself without being told.

Before you left for school, you patted on my head and said you've already put Qi into my body and you took the Qi from the universe. HAHAHA!!!

When you reached home at 3pm, you saw me on the sofa again. You went to the kitchen and brought me a bottle of water and handed it to me. After I had a sip, you placed it on the table next to the sofa and said that you will place the bottle there so that when I'm thirsty, I can take it from there.

Then as I was about to go out at 3:30pm to pick up ZY to go for her singing class, you told held me and said slow down, be careful.

When I reached home, you have gone to chinese class. You left me half your sandwhich, a piece of watermelon and a bahalu. So sweet.

I waited for you to come back to eat with me. You said you left the food for me incase I'm hungry and have nothing to eat.

4 years old

We had a birthday party on 9th July(Thurs) because we were going to JB on 10th(Fri) & coming back only on the 12th July (Sun). As usual, we invited aunty GM & aunty PL besides our family members. Mummy bought you a Pin ball machine from Toy R' Us. You didn't seem to like it. You only played with it for a couple of times. Dagu bought you a dinosaur & Boov soft toy (Boov from the movie Home). SY aunty bought you a bubble fan. Aunty GM & PL bought you some cars.
 
Half way during our bed time, you went down stairs to make the dinosaur roar twice! Hahaha! So cute. Yeh yeh thought you were funny when I told him this during our holiday in JB.

At school, the July babies birthday celebration was fixed on 15th July. Mummy called your principal to ask if any parents are allowed to attend. She said no parents allowed because there were too many July babies. However, we could bring a cake to school. Hence, mummy bought 1 small American Chocolate cake from Berry's for you to bring to school. As of now, I haven't seen any of your birthday photos taken at school yet.

Your achievement:
1) Able to write 1 to 20
2) Able to read Oxford Reading Tree Level 6 (except some words)
3) Speak very well in mandarin (with English accent)

You're not good at differentiating capital letters and small letters yet.

You mix up square and rectangle.

At Heguru, there's a game whereby students are required to guess the quantity of the objects in a 2ft x 2ft card after just one glance. I remember you got it right twice & the number is 16 and 23. Lately, mummy finds that when you take few deep breaths before guessing, you tend to guess correctly most of the time.

Whenever we think of you, we smile. You're very cheeky & funny. Y

Aunty SY said "Wow! You're 4 years old already, so old already!"
You said "No, I'm just a boy"

Aunty SY likes to tease you because you give the funniest explanation and response.

Aunty SY said "Can you let me use your new bottle"?
You Said "No, this is for small children".

You've asked me a couple of times about when will you grow bigger. I said you will but not now.

I love to see your cute little fingers and cheeks when you're sleeping.

You do drive me nuts many times by not wanting to bath or sleep when I tell you to. You know how to try your luck by crying or throwing tantrum.