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Faythe is trying to learn how to use chopsticks. She actually requested me to let her eat with that when she sees all of us using chopstick to eat our meals. So I will usually give her a pair for her to learn. She’s very slow and struggling with it. But I guess it’s not easy. I only learned how to use chopstick at a very later age.

This cheeky girl of mine, she tried to cheat using the chopsticks, so she was holding the peanut with 1 hand, and the other hand put the chopstick close to her mouth, as though she’s holding the peanut with chopstick.

I could still remember when I was young, my brother always hit my hand when I eat with chopstick. Reason is I’m a leftie and he’s trying to ask me to use right hand so that I won’t clash with other chopsticks. Somehow as I grow older, I learned to use with my right hand and it improved. Now I can use with both my hands hehe…at home I use left, outside dinner, I use right..but if Daddy sits next to me, I have to use left, cause he’s a leftie too.

I must go and find a pair of children chopsticks. I heard they are specially designed to train the kids how to use chopsticks. Any idea where can we get those?

Lately there are alot of books warehouse sale. Nowadays, books are increasingly getting more expensive. I wonder why? Government encourage us to read more books, and yet they are not getting them in cheap enough for us . Which is why we end up have to source for cheaper books from warehouse sale or stock clearance. In fact, I get some of my friends in overseas to buy for me sometimes since they are cheap especially when they are having sales.

People always say how baby’s face could change from day to day. When Faythe were born, she’s like a trademark of the Hon family. Exactly like Daddy!! Every inch resembles him. Then slowly she starts to change, and people say they look like me. But I don’t quite notice that.

I don’t have many photos of myself with the children as comparison as I’m always the one behind the camera. Sigh…I must really make more effort to take pics together with my kids, if not next time if I’m dead, they won’t have any nice pic of them with Mommy haha…*choi choi*.

Anyways, so one day we were all in good mood, chilling out. Vyktore asleep downstairs. Faythe & myself camwhoring upstairs haha…Found the pefect spot, on her bed and did some test shot. I lure her to come next to me to take pics and she was all excited.

So we were there snapping away and looking at the result. The photo which caught my attention, is this one, at 1 glance, we are so much alike each other gosh….At last I believe what people been telling me, Faythe is looking very much like me. Aiya…but I don’t like her eyes look like me, mata sepet. Better looks like Daddy, big double eye lid eyes. She inherits the long lashes from Daddy, but her double eye lid sometimes is obvious sometimes not. Vyktore definitely inherits Daddy’s eyes, MIL says he has eyes like mata kuching LOL.

When someone gets too old and they are not convenient to walk up and down, it’s advisable to let them stay downstairs. This is because old folks legs are not strong, and the flight of stairs going up and down, it’s pretty risky for their wobbly legs. But if you do not have a room downstairs in your house, probably you have to invest on a stair lift. It’s a stair, which is installed with a chair whereby you can move up and down easily.

backdated post, this happened on Tuesday night, 6th May.

We left the house about 8pm+. Wanted to catch a movie at 9pm. At the same time if there’s time, look for laptop at the Curve. We were stucked in the jam at Sunway Damansara that we were too late to catch a movie. So we spent some time crazily running around all the shops looking at laptops before they close …Daddy and his usual leave at 8pm to go do 1001 things.

So we went home at 10pm+ when all the shops start to settle down. Happily driving home and chit chat.

As soon as we turn in, we saw a police car, smack right in front of my neighbour’s house . This is my left hand side Chinese neighbour. The other side is a Malay couple with a lil girl. This one is 2 brothers living in the house.

We wind down our window and asked the police sitting in the car…

Kena masuk pencuri - that’s what the police told us

Wah liao…..my heart nearly sank when I heard that. And Daddy was like, eh, maybe pencuri still hiding OR maybe pencuri climb over our place. So we quickly went into the house and he took a parang (not a very smart move if the pencuri is still around) and checked every nook of the house. Then he declared safe for all of us to go in.

Our neighbour told us nothing much went missing, except the TV and some watches. They broke in via the sliding door. I could see the lock were damaged. But funny thing is the grille to the sliding door, that lock is all intact . I’m still puzzled over how they got in if the grille’s lock is all in tact.

They left the scene pretty neat as well. I imagine, they open up the autogate, move the TV out, then close it back. Then close the sliding door, leave everything nicely, then climb out from the fence. Yikes!!

And we were told, that day itself, there were 3 cases of robbery/theft/house break in in the same area. We are paying 400 a year to get some security to watch over our house, and yet this is happening…sigh…

I woke up 4am this morning with cold sweat. I had a bad dream. I dreamt that my house got broke in . The thief actually came from the roof. But I heard sounds, so I took the golf club, ready to whack him…then I kena whack….by my son and I woke up LOL….

I told Daddy, I can’t sleep. I’m worried….sigh….it could have been us as well, cause we were not at home that time. But probably he chose the neighbour’s house cause it was better renovated compared to ours.

Go out, we worry bout kids being kidnap……

Go out, we worry bout car being hit & robbed…….

At home, we worry about being robbed……

At home, we can’t even sleep in peace…..

Sigh, what is this country coming to. Now how I wish I stay in a gated community, at least the likelihood for this to happen is less.

One morning when he woke up, he was very happy. Walked out from our room and saw Faythe flipping her book. Well, he got a lil bit excited cause he saw Nemo on the book. Faythe was turning the pages and Vyktore tried to stop her from turning the page. In the end…the page tore apart . And Faythe screamed and cried, “Vyktore tear the book”…wuaahh…..wuaahhh….

So both Mr. Hon & myself came out from the room and saw what happened. This is in fact not the 1st time he tears a book. In fact, his favourite Nemo book is already in 4 pieces . Boys are really rough. So what else, Mr. Hon sent him to naughty corner.

The poor boy, instantly his face turned and cried…Daddy was trying to tell him no he can’t tear the book. But I wonder if he understands as he’s too young. Or he’s just too manja and never been scolded. I also add the *api* and scold him. Telling him he can’t tear the book.

He didn’t stop crying till I gave him a hug later. This boy of mine, whenever he stars crying, he doesn’t stop . I hope he learns his lesson well and handle books with better care next round.

Whoa…another month to go and this boy of mine is going to be 2 years old . Can’t believe how time flies. I haven’t even plan for his birthday, sigh….
Vital Stats:
Weight: 11.5kg (it’s going up n down due to him recovering from cough again & again)
Height: forgot to measure, I guess same as last month
Teeth: 14 (if not mistaken. he’s teething lately and been looking for things to chew, including Mommy’s fat thighs )

Dietary:
Still a fried rice person. He only eats that. If there’s no fried rice, then it’s oats. He will sometimes make us Happy, if he eats rice with soup. But that’s pretty rare occasion. He loves pears. Still loves yoghurt & yakult. He’s a biscuit lover.

For the Record:

• Speech - he has shown some improvement this month, babbling more, pointing more and trying to speak more. His latest addition of words which I could decipher:
• boh - ball
• kek - cake
• jak - jack (nightmare before christmas monster’s name)
• og - frog
• baba - sheep (I sing baba black sheep everytime he points to the sheep in the book, probably that’s why he calls it baba)
• bu - book
• kak - chiak (peek a boo)

• Books - beginning to show interest in books. But still doesn’t have the patient to slowly flip thru. And only points at the things he likes.
• Jump - He attempts to jump lately. Faythe loves to jump from the last step of the stairs to the floor at home. Watching this, he tried to mimic the same.
• Door - able to reach the knob but has yet to be able to turn it around.
• Vain - he loves to comb his hair in front of the mirror after bathing. If we give him some powder/lotion, he’d put on his face hahaha..
• Taking instructions - he takes instructions pretty well and doing it dilligently.
• Separation anxiety - he’s going thru the pretty bad separation anxiety, especially towards Mommy. Once he sees me going upstairs, even for a bath, he’d whine. If nobody sees him, he will sneak upstairs to look for me. When he’s sleepy, he’d look for me too. And hug me very tight.
• Drawing - he starts to show interest drawing on papers, etc. And after drawing some sketches, he’d say it’s a car. If not he’d ask me draw a car, repeatedly!!
• Medicine - he hates medicine and it’s really tough to trick him since he don’t love all the food that we give him. We tried putting it into Yoghurt, but he has exceptionally sensitive taste bud that once he taste it, he won’t want it..sigh…it’s really a struggle to give him medicine.

Health Record:

• He’s been falling sick on and off for the pass 1 month . First it was cough & flu. Then he got well, 2 wks later again it came back with phlegm. Apart from that, the blisters on his legs are getting pretty bad, spreading from 1 leg to the other. Need to bring him for another round of doc.
• Took his Hep A Jab recently as we will be travelling with him soon.

That’s bout it. Happy 23 Months Vyktore.

Celebrating Mother’s Day for the 3rd year!!

Nothing much to say actually.

Don’t know what to write about.

Don’t want to write something very mushy.

Don’t feel like writing up a funny post too.

So I just change my banner and wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day!!

P/S: Don’t ask me why black colour banner, Mother’s Day suppose to be girly (red & pink), but I thought black would give that DARK FEEL for Mother’s Day haha….something different from the usual .

MOM, I MISS YOU DEARLY.

Last week during Labour Day, I weren’t off. As a labour, I was working . Took up a short assignment, thanks to Sue, to do a photoshoot for a newborn. His name is Lyan Fung. Nice name . Errm..he’s not Sue’s baby eh …a friend of hers haha…

So the night before, as usual, we did some survey, check out sample shots and prepare the tools for the shooting. And I convince myself, this one, gotta use 50mm f/1.8. Yes…I decided that I shall shoot with the Prime Lense, with flash ON!!

We reached his home at 8am. Very early in fact!! He’s still soundly asleep. Then he had his morning feed while we did some test shots. After that, we strip him n@ked in the room (no aircond, no fan) to make sure he don’t get a cold. He was so co-operative throughout the 2.5 hours photoshoot. He just let us to wrap & position him whichever way we want.

I must say this is quite an easy job cause model is very co-operative haha…

We finished closed to 1030am, and he woke up for his next feed. Just nice .

HERE are some photos taken during the photoshoot. All direct from camera. I’m tempted to change some to B&W, but just pure lazy.

Lessons learnt:

1. newborn shooting is great. I enjoy it very much.
2. indoor flash is OK sometimes and it gives a good quality pic instead of increasing the ISO.
3. look around the house for good background to reduce post processing work.
4. be ready to get wet all over. Throughout the shoot, he wee wee 3 times LOL..and poor Mommy’s bed.

Christine (Lyan’s Mommy), thanks for having us around.

So much so I’ve seen crocs accidents in the net and circulations in emails…I’ve never thought that this would happen within my family. But of course, I’m extra caution. Whenever my kids takes the escalator/lift, I’d make sure they don’t go too near to the side, too near to the inner side of the steps (where the yellow line is), walk out of lift properly. Yes…I’m very caution.

I’ve also told my MIL about this to be careful. And my SIL, being a paed, has always reminded us to be careful. But accidents do happen when you least expected with careless of the MAID!! I’m not gonna blog bout her…she’s going back soon, so probably attention is no longer there, she’s gonna get a pep talk one of these days…you bet .

So what happened? Last Friday, while I was at work, I received this SMS.

Vyktore foot got caught in escalator. Shoes sticky. Got a superficial cut on leg. Took him to MC (my SIL).

When I saw that superficial…my first thought was OMG!! Sorry, but I’m not very good with medical terms, to me something with a word super means…of great impact….so superficial was like *jialat lor*….the toes are gone ….

So I picked up my phone and called MIL. I could hear Vyktore wailing behind the phone (as though bringing down the whole clinic). And MIl told me it’s a minor cut, all toes in tact and he can still walk around.

What a relieve. I spoke to SIL as well and she reassured me that he’s alright. No big damage.

I went to MIL’s house during lunch to check on my poor boy. He must be traumatized by the lift now.

He just woke up from his sleep and when he saw me….ou…..he was so manja!!

Vyktore: *hands pointing at the leg*….hmm…hmm..whining at the same time.
Mommy: Ohh poor boy, pain pain at the leg….
Vyktore: He just lied on my shoulder, and then he kept pointing at his leg, He wants me to blow lah…

Sigh…and the poor fella, cause he thought the damage was so bad, he’s limping around haha….and it looks very funny oops…then he go about to everyone in the house showing his painful foot.

My silly MAID, showed me the damaged shoes…my gosh…I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that. Totally ripped off.

So, what we did next. Threw away all the crocs (ori or fake). And we went to get some new shoes for Vyktore & Faythe at night.

He still has the trauma. He didn’t allow us to put shoes on for him . Then I found out the other leg, he has blisters all over and the skin is cracking…aiyooo….I feel really bad. That I’m not taking care of him properly. I never notice this when I shower him at nite. Sigh….And this is definitely inherited from Mr. Hon’s foot!!

As for Faythe, she keep chasing Vyktore around with a plaster in her hand. She wants to put plaster for him…hahah….

Faythe is very careful when it comes to escalator. The moment she steps onto it, she will warn everyone don’t step on the yellow line. I’m glad that she always remember this and she reminds everyone. But Vyktore is too young to understand the danger of yellow line.

He didn’t learn his lesson well, no phobia on the escalator still. But now we will hold on to him real tight or even carry him when we come to escalator. Crocs or no crocs, accident can happen too.

So Mommy out there, please watch out for those lil feet and toes. We do not want more accidents like this happen.