Sneak preview...

Prince William's royal wedding to Catherine Middleton is today, also the same date is my very own prince William's 3rd birthday. Here's a sneak preview of his birthday cake, made by Ivy






Happy Birthday to William, my very romantic boy boy. He told me "I love you, Mummy!" and then said I was his Little Mermaid. Last time I was his Cowgirl, then I was his Cinderella, and now his little mermaid *heart melt* (how come the daddy don't say this to me one?)

More pictures next week. Have a great weekend, everyone! I'd be glued to the tv later to watch the royal wedding, once I put this William to sleep. Haiyaa, the Prince William will have to wait!

When I break one of my own rules

We read about regretful stories of parent(s) leaving their kids in the car just for a short while, only to discover a mishap has happened to their child. Call it their own fault - serve them right - if you're cold hearted, or cry along with them.

As a mother, I set my own rule when it comes to leaving behind my kids in the car - DO NOT, even if it's just to pop into a shop to buy something. If out of convenience, I'd have at least the maid in the car, LOCKED, with strict instructions NEVER to open the door even if confronted, and the car is within sight of where I am to be or less than 15 seconds walk away.

My rule. I'm an accounts person by background (eventhough I don't practice much of it now... or even then, hehe) so maybe this explain why I set some basic rules for myself - afterall this is what accountants have been trained... all the principles, remember?

So I broke that rule once or twice. Or thrice *guilty*

The most recent one was leaving Vic in the car, making sure she has locked the door before I walk away, and the car in sight to where I was going. It was raining, quite heavily I must say, and I promised her fried kuey teow for dinner, as she requested.

One more hour to dinner time and this evening rain doesn't seem like it will stop, so I thought I better buy the kids' dinner at the night market before they get hungry and cranky (or before I get hungry and cranky).

No crowd, so quickly I bought some fried noodles and popiah and then arrived back at the car in less than 10 minutes. Vic quickly unlocked the door for me, helped me with the food stuff, whilst I struggle to close the damn umbrella.

Just as I entered the car, my dear daughter thanked me for buying her kuey teow, and how she will repay me by buying anything I like when she's older (or did she say when I am an old woman?)

When we got home, I asked her to switch on the livingroom light. But she defied me, and went upstairs to... check on her sleeping brother!

Haiyoo, kids can surely surprise us with their nice-tist! At other times, they'd be on each others nerves (don't even get me started... we were having lunch at Souled Out today, and they almost started WW3 over a blue coloring pencil!)

First Gymboree class

We finally decided to start William on formal education... haha, Gymboree! OK I can hear your silent protest that Gymboree is NOT school. It's just play. Well, all we wanted was to get this boy out of the house, see a teacher, spend some hours playing or learning, and basically just getting used to taking instructions from another person than his parents, and yes, being away from mummy!

Am totally afraid that next year when he goes to kindy, he may freak out, and cry for weeks... or maybe mummy would (I'd be crazy lady in headscraft snooping around the school compound trying to peep into the windows just for a glance of my boy boy)

So after his first trial at Gymboree a month back, we decided to sign him up, after contemplating another kindy.

This time William wasn't as excited as the trial class, and he was sometimes distracted during the play time, and I had to carry him back a few times and remind him to listen to teacher.

Music class... William holding his drumsticks : )

And eating the microphone... oops! Sorry I meant, William did a rendezvous of the ABC song. Loud and clear, that's ma boy!!!
Catching the bubbles ... see his serious face!
Errmm, he does this best... clean up, clean up...
Art class the next day... look at my butterflies mummy!


May I add that after that first day of class, Mummy was very very tired, but William still showed lotsa energy after that... I can't imagine another 50 plus more classes!

Nose bleeding

After that severe allergic attack on Vic, and then her one eye conjunctivitis a week later, followed by a nasty episode of impetigo on her right elbow... I thought all was over. The toxins in her body, if I could solely blame all these health problems on it, should have finally been purged from her body.

But last Thursday April 21st, Vic complained of mild pain on her left abdomen during lunch. The discomfort went away after lunch with a warm cup of soya milk. Then I went to church, whilst hubby babysitted the kids at home during my absence.

My handphone was off, and at 3pm when I on my hp back, hubs called to say Vic's nose was bleeding non stop, and he will rush her to the hospital's A&E. I rushed home too, as fast as my little baby benz could fly me, heart so troubled that something bad will happen to my little princess.

By the time I got home, hubs messaged me that they have arrived the hospital. Apparently he was flying faster than me. After I put William to sleep, I went to meet them in the hospital. The ENT explained that the little's area in her nose is very sensitive and delicate, top with the fact that she is highly allergic. If her skin outside is considered dry, what more inside her nose.

ENT adviced no air condition at night during sleep (my immediate thought was he was crazy, with the hot humid weather in Klang Valley, the air conditioner is no longer a luxury but a necessity) and we have to make do with just the fan. Aiseehhh!! Already this little girl likes to sleep with long sleeve long pants and socks (yes, you heard me right, socks!) and complains that the air cond is too far from her bed. Now, she's not to sleep with air cond?

OK, we tried that out for the past few nights, I put the fan speed a notch higher, and used the air cond only for a while to cool the room down. We all survived quite comfortably during the night. Also good that the weather has been rainy in the evenings that brings the room temperature down.

In the meantime, Vic is on Fucidin cream for her right nostril and Leftose syrup until her next follow up this Thursday.

As this is NOT Vic's first time, and there have been easily 4 episodes last year, we are still very much concern and hope to solve the root of the problem. Am in the market to look around for good humidifier right now so we can use this with the air conditioner. We already have a HEPA air purifier in the room which works on part time basis.

Thank you all for your concern and prayers for Vic's health when I last posted about her allergy attacks. For those who think she may be deprived somewhat in her childhood because of the restricted diet and periodic hospital visits, I beg to differ. Vic is a very happy girl, although she has her bouts of moodiness but she's more blessed than many kids her age, and is stronger mentally than most of us, her maturity beyond her age and her patience unbelievable.

Lego creations

Last week I had a fresh discovery, that my foreign domestic help has a hidden talent... in lego building!

She's built a KLCC-inspired twin tower, complete with a link bridge, double fire stairways, sky garden and a clock at the top of the tower. All these within the one hour when I was upstairs with Vic last Thursday (trying to separate Vic and Will as Vic was having conjunctivitis that day).



Madam is very impressed! : )

Looks like Daddy has a challenger now... kekekekeeke!!


And this is my William's very own little creation which I must emphasised that he made this "all by himself" and presented it proudly to me... he calls it the tortoise although it looks more like a giraffe.

Approaching 3

William is just a week away from turning 3yo.

A couple of months back he has been more assertive in wanting his independence, I suppose this is a good thing. But it gets annoying when we are in a rush especially, and he seems to be struggling or taking his own sweet time to complete the task.

For example, he wants to choose and wear his own shoes and here we are rushing to go out. Then there's William wanting to brush his own teeth "all by himself" but you know how clean that is? For a cleanaholic like myself, I rather not see, than to get agitated at the many spots not cleaned. And there's also a time when mother-son had a dispute over wearing his pants, which ended him in tears.




William has many wants. I guess he feels bored at home, and he can tell me within a day that he wants to see snow in the morning, and an hour later, he wants to sit on the cable car, and in the afternoon he wants to go swimming. These days he'd also say he doesn't want to go to school, and asked why, he'd answer, "I ALONE, how?"

The unevitable truth is he kisses me less often now, but still oblige if I ask him, and I hardly hear his spontaneous "I love you, Mummy"s. But his little pleas for me to play with him, still melts my heart. He'd go... "Mummy play with me. Please... please... pleaseeeeee???"



Prince William will be marrying Kate Middleton on April 29th, the birthdate of my William. How coincident is that! : )

Is it time to give up?

Eversince Vic's recent allergy outburst on the evening of Friday, 8th April, which resulted in rashes all over her abdomen, chest, back, nose bridge and eye area, part cheek, arms. This was considered her worse allergy outburst since 2year plus, when she had the one bite of a muffin that resulted in red clumps on her arms and body, which gradually subsided within the night.

Since September 2008 when she had her first blood test which confirmed her severe food allergies, her diet has been well controlled, even until today, and as parents, we more than applaud Vic for her patience, maturity and understanding in abstaining from all the allergens, not easy for a child her age.

The rashes that appeared two Fridays ago took about 3-4 days to totally clear off, and thinking that was the end of it, Vic contracted one red eye on the Thursday after, 14th April and thinking it was a result of her aggressive rubbing when she woke, I brushed off the thought of conjunctivitis. But her school, being very precautious, called me within half an hour and asked me to pick her up "just in case".

The doctor later confirmed it to be conjunctivitis, caused either by viral or allergy (??). She was prescribed antibiotic drops which cleared her red eye almost immediately, and antibiotic cream for her lip area - which has been very dry, cracking, peeling, bleeding and now letting out secretions showing signs of slight infections.


Last evening, I realised her right elbow skin has lumpy dots, some bleeding and looks very scary.


Honestly, if these are all caused by that one allergic outburst, it must have been something very "poisonous" for Vic's body to react this way. I don't know what this is, and she says it's painful. I'm sure it is, because it even pains my heart just to look at it.

I'm bringing her to see the doctor tonight, after the Elomet steroid doesn't seem to show any signs of improvement. So is it time to give up on the doctors? Her allergies are manifesting in so many ways, it's hard to pinpoint one out and say it's the culprit, it's even hard to find out what is her allergy now, because just recently she has been zerorised by Dr Wong.

What can Dr Yadav say about this? He will just run another blood test to confirm her allergies, tell her to abstain, becareful of what she eats, and that's all. Can anyone heal her? No.

I'm saying this in public now, I am giving up on the doctors. We have seen enough, and unless there is one who can confidently, through proven records with patients still living, stand up and say s/he can heal her, we will pay! But at this time, I am feeling the hopelessness in human beings. I almost think there is no cure, and the sad thought always creeps into my mind... can my precious little girl be as normal as she can be?

So the big question... is it time to give up? Yes. On doctors. On humans. But no, although I'm giving up on people, I am not giving up on God. If He will, He will. If He doesn't... well, when I get to heaven, I will ask Him.

Vic, mummy shed tears for you. I am helpless as it is now. One day when you read this, I hope you would have been healed and stand as testimony for the One who created the miracle for you.

Update @ 510pm

Brought Vic to see the nearest GP as our paed is not opened yet. He diagnose it as impetigo , and later mentioned furunculosis. I googled both and felt Vic is more of the former ie impetigo. He has prescribed oral antibiotics for Vic, and suggested the same antibiotic cream used for her mouth and her elbow too. Healing should show in 48 hours. The cause of this could be due to her weaken immune system after the allergy attack, and resulted in all these. Hope this is the last.