Before the END..

Today is the last day of 2006, so better to write down something to mark the end of this year. :)

Just very sudden i found out my Jo has grown up so much, and he no longer a little baby who used to sit inside his stroller while shopping. He prefers to run around the mall with his cheeky smile and squealling sound, and he likes to do his own shopping to toys shop. Just within a week from 24/12 till 31/12, only 3 days he didn't bring toy back to home as we didn't go out, yes, i know that we are spoiling him.

We spent our 30/12 in HK again as HK has a year end crazy sales till 1/1/07, that's a fruitful and tired trip. Jo only had 1/2 hour nap time in car rode on he way to Lo Wu, but 1/2 hour already enough for him to be extremely energetic in the mall. It's tired to keep eyes on him while had to hunt our own things, so finally i brought him to McDonald and let hubby had his own peace time to hunt for his shoes. Jo loves McDonald so much as he could gobble down his fries and cola without much restriction of mommy, of course has the toy that FOC.

When i told him we're going down to HK later, he even asked me these "go and buy ABARE's car car for Jojo?", "ABARE's car car very pretty?"...He loves this AbaRanger (Japanese Cartoon) so much lately, before AbaRanger, he loved Ultraman and he always self-proclaimed himself as an Ultraman. But now, he is an "ABare Blue".

He looked so puzzled when choosing the Abare, which one is better??

Finally, he opted this "Abare Black & Raptor Set".

We headed back home around 8.30pm with our victorious goods (Timberland 30% off & 2%'s Bag 40% off). By the way, Jo slept throughout the way back home and only took his dinner at 11pm.

Blog Break

I can't access internet smoothly after the earthquake happened on Tuesday night, the connection here is extremely slow, so i think maybe can take this time to have a blog break too.

My place could feel the quake too, but maybe i am pregnant and became more clumsy so i was totally couldn't feel it. Hubby felt it and asked me could feel it or not, i even said maybe he was sick so felt something abnormal, and maybe just the impaction of renovation outside. Both staying in same house, but one felt it another one just like nothing.

See you all after New Year 2007! Happy New Year to you all!

p/s: 2 backdated posts (about food poisoning on Christmas & met my first blogger mummy, Jazzmint) will be up soon, stay tuned. :)

New Camera but Bad Experienced!

This is my new camera, Canon IXUS 850IS. Bought it on 24 December 06 at Broadway, HK. We started our snapping at the Snoopy Park right after we bought it, it was about 150 pieces photos saved in the memory card, and i don't know why i could be so stupid to wrong PLAY with the format button, and the photos from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day till today Boxing Day are all gone! I miss my Jo's sweety smiles that had being captured..Today just a BAD DAY for me..i feel like i wanna to bang myself to wall...

Let's Celebrate the holiday...

Happy Winter Solstice and Merry Christmas to you!

From the day you born

A letter to Jo.

It's like yesterday i just took you out from hospital, time really flies and you're 33 months old now.

Mommy hope you can be a good and obedient boy, and follow the God's path that never diverted yourself to left and right. I pray God to give you a strong body that you can withstand all the sickness, and pray angels keep eyes on you away from all the bad happenings, last, i pray God that you are a happy and joyful boy as your Chinese name stated. Amen.

p/s: Photos from left to right, from top to bottom stated Jo's born day till current 33 months old.

33 months old

Jojo turned 33 months old officially on 15.12.06. He dislikes reading, most of the kids will look for the desire books when they shop to bookstore, but my Jo is opposite, he would go to the disc racks and hunt for his lovely cartoon and use his cry as a weapon to force us pay for him. He even said "i am very pity, why i have to read book?", can you imagine what a little boy's thought of reading, is it as a pressure? In fact, we never forced him to read and never forced him to remember certain of things, everything we introduced to him was in fun basis, but he acts so reluctantly. Secondly, he doesn't like nursery songs (blamed mommy barely listened one when pregnant him) but he would sing the Japanese cartoon song when TV is broadcasting the cartoon, of course he is not capable singing a complete song. Apart from reading and singing, he is just so excellent in everything especially his dexterity, he ever said this before "I want be Number One in racing but not in reading" (我赛跑拿第一，我不要读书第一), as a mother what will you do when you heard this? Just let him be what he wants to be or hold the cane and force him to sit for reading? Both ain't, we trying to cultivate a good reading environment for him as we believe persistent cultivation sure can upbringing a love reading child. I just hope his current interest in reading is not equall to future, in case not, i just don't know what is the remedial for his declined.

Jo said these..

Jo is started to show his masculine act that he wants to be stronger and even bigger in size. As he said, he wants to protect his mommy.

M - Jojo, you're a bad guy.
J - No, i'm a policeman.
M - You're a monster.

J - No, i'm Ultraman. (His favor personated character)

M - You're a little mouse.

J - No, i'm a cat.

M - OK, you're a cat.

J - No, i'm "Alex The Lion". (Sure you will know who is Alex The Lion if you ever watched Madagascar before)

M - You're a monkey.

J - No, i'm a pig, pig 胖胖(fat), monkey 廋廋(thin).

M - You're a frog.

J - No, i'm kangaroo 会跳跳 (can jump jump).

But when i said he is a kor-kor now, he will insist he is still a baby!

A myth saying that little kids always can predict a correct gender by asking them, so i asked Jo,

M - Jojo, mommy's baby is di-di or mei-mei?

J - mei-mei.

5 mins after, i asked him again,

M - Jojo, mommy's baby is di-di or mei-mei?

J - Is a monster. (是怪兽）

M - *speechless*

Another 5 mins after,

M - The baby is mei-mei or di-di?

J - di-di.

So, is what?

The other day, he even stepped my tummy and said "I don't like the baby, i want to step the baby". Why suddenly acted so cruel and not thoughtful? Emm..I think the mind of sibling rivalry has being started and sprouting gradually at this moment.

What a dull reading a post without photo, i love this photo so much, not because the people but is the background, the withered forest.

Yi-yi-Yap-yap at Park

I know i was so bad as i sneakily taking these photos! But, i think the couples won't mind it since they already doing openly at one of the famous park in my area. It's very common to see couples "pak-tor" at park, but this white shirt one really made a big scene for me as he was very hungry to fond the girl's breast and the girl's body was almost half exposure for public seeing. Be frankly, the fondling and kissing absolutely were an eye-opener for me, as first time i watched in real-making LOL!

They are quite young, i guess they about 18 or 20, sigh, pity their parents! If want to do something, please do secretly, don't uglify the natural beauty of the park LOL! Somemore that day was Saturday, was a congested day for public to visit there. They are so young until don't know how to protect themselves, poor girl, such a young age already been seeing by so many people. I don't think they first time doing this LOL!

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Cough, cough go away..

Jo's stubborn cough finally being cured after giving him the "Zithromax". My paed ever told me before that i can feed "Zithromax" for Jo if the sickness seems to be fitfully happened. It is a good antibiotik that cured Jo's bad cough which had already last about 3 weeks, and the 7 types of cough syrup can finally be putting aside. I hope he can gain back his weight though he still need to take the unhealthy delivery rice service, boy, we are going back to Sabah soon, just be tolerate a short while, ok?

I'm thankful that God given me a very easy caring son. He never got the fever, flu, cough or diarrhea before 1, and even the teething period also like nothing happened to us. I'm thankful too as i have a good nanny who had given an extremely good care to Jo. I sent my Jo to her on 19 July 2004 (Jo was 4 months old), from the first day till November 2005, my Jo fell sick once only which was happened on his first birthday. I have a superboy who achieved every milestone earlier than the chart's mentioned. He managed to rollover himself left and right when he was 4 months old, he started his first crawl when he was 5 months old and his first step when he was 10 months old. Apart from dexterity, he was a slow talker if compare to his peers. But nevermind, at least he can talk perfectly now...fast or slow seems doesn't matter.

But after we are residing here, the situation has changed as he always tends to fall sick especially this year 2006, we had been visited different doctors in different areas from KL, KK(Sabah), Macau, China to HK, that's not a good experience to be a hospital-goer especially with a sick kid who needs extra handling and caring. Somemore we don't have our own transport here, it's really havoc to take a public transport to consult a doctor.

I hope my Jo can stay healthy with guarding by angels and God, please God, let's protect him away from sickness and let him fit enough to attend his class. From September till November, i have already lost count how many times he fell sick, but i can remember every month he only managed to attend 2 weeks and another 2 weeks have to stay at home waiting for recovering. Sigh..not because the fees i paid, the most worrying part is his healthy.

Boy, mommy will pray hard for you, ok? Even for the baby inside my tummy!

My Sunday in HK

My to do list:

Buy GNC's vitamin C

Buy digital camera or watch

Buy Jo's shoes

Buy a bag

Buy breastpump

Change Jo's toy

But...

Though hubby was kind enough to withdraw money from the ATM and prepared himself to pay my Christmas present, unfortunately, we only managed to change Jo's toys and the rest still on hold!

We were walking around to hunt a good digital camera from one place to another, but i still can't make up my mind which one is the best, i have 2 eyeing items, Canon (Digital IXUS 900 Ti or IXUS 750 Ti) and Olympus (MJU-750), actually both of them don't have special functions like Samsung does, but Samsung doesn't produce good photo quality than Canon and Olympus.

Then, hubby suggested we take a look on my Citizen watch since he planned to buy 2 presents for me, at first we thought it costs HKD1000+, but it costs HKD3000+ that even more expensive than the digital camera, crazy la, if this price i better buy other famous branded watch.

After i went to check the Avent's breastpump at Mothercare, but it's out of stock!

Then, we shopped to every sport shop to buy a sport shoes for Jo, from Adidas, Nike till Timberland, can you believe all ran out of sizes. OK, due to the season, i understand.

Last, i just felt tired to buy my vitamin C and bag as i felt very very down, walked the whole day but buy nothing. Luckily i had a good appetite to gobble down the beef steak and spaghetti.

So, on the way back to China, i just kept counting what my hubby had bought me throughout this year, oh, finally i remember, he bought me the Nokia N70 on 1 Jan, and a notebook on Valentine, ok la, if no Christmas present also nevermind !

Oh, ya, finally we managed to take a family photo that's long long due!

VCD make up Jo's day

Within a day, he could watch:

High School Musical - 3 times

Winnie the Pooh and Friends - 3 times

Bob the Builder - 4 times

He has ton of questions while watching the "High School Musical", and he even looked sad when Troy and Gabriella are not talking to each other. I was quite enjoying the plots too especially the singing and dancing parts. Hubby bought the "High School Musical" last Friday, and till now we have been watching more than 5 times.

Today have to make something with Jo, if not, sure he will become 4 eyes turtle (wear spec) in short future, ok, let's play Origami later.

Finally...

Jo can recite 1 to 10 now through hide and seek game! At first, we still need to guide him by dividing the numbers into groups ("1,2,3" , "4,5,6", "7,8,9" & "10") and recited with him 123,456,789 & 10. After few times of playing, he finally managed to recite the numbers by himself. Sigh, as mommy is the victim that have to hide most of the times.

I have a son

While we were watching TV, suddenly hubby said "i have a son". Then he continued "i have a son who has mental, who tells lies, who loves to retort and who loves to cry"....

He shows his mental distinctly after he started to talk, it doesn't mean he didn't own mental before, but we can clearly see his growing memory through his mouth now, he knows how to tell us his self-making story when he did something wrong, he knows how to give us retortion when we scolding him and we're no longer made the white lie successfully as he could remember what we have said before.

My little boy has grown up so much, and he becomes more lovely and adorable than hubby! He would say "Mommy, becareful, don't cut your finger" when he sees me holding the knife. He would pat my back when he sees me vomiting and that day he even held my hand when i came down from the bed after the fetus scanning. He kept saying "Mommy, mommy..becareful". By the time, my hubby just like a trunk standing there and without any thoughtful action, fortunately i have a son!

25 November

We celebrated hubby's birthday on last Saturday in HK, he received a precious gift by seeing the growing fetus in my tummy through the scan. That's my first prenatal check for second baby. Other than a fetus, the doctor even found a cyst that even bigger than the fetus (2.01cm). However, he told me the cyst will be going away automatically after a while, but i just wondering why the cyst is over there. This round we paid HKD1160 (including consultation, medications and lab charges), that's an expensive price that i never paid in M'sia.

After consulted doctor, we just went to Toys 'R' Us to buy Christmas present for JO. Due to his eagerness, the present was being unwrapped by him just right after we exit the checkout. But very unlucky that i only found the thing i bought is a bit out of functions when we're at home, so have to take back to them and ask for exchanging. I can't accept when i press A it reads B, you get what i meant? It's very good electronic learning kit to kids, but it doesn't mean to me if its software has problem. (check the website www.vtechuk.com)

Hubby was very generous to buy toy for Jo, maybe that day was his birthday or maybe he made jo fell off the escalator due to his careless, it wasn't serious happened, but we found scars at Jo's head. It's an instanteneous falling while hubby was holding the stroller when we going up by standing on the escalator. Jo's stroller just fell backward and he knocked his head to the escalator. Before the fallen, we just cleaned up him as he threw up everything when we were having our lunch. We even met a very horrible HK guy like a murderer when Jo put his left leg on his chair, he kept on saying "thank you" (in Cantonese) and his eyes just staring at Jo's leg. Maybe he thought we're from Mainland and non-educated as we speak Mandarin. I was very angry and used English to scold him back, he just kept quiet there perhaps he doesn't know how to retort me with English. So we have 2 unhappiness happens on hubby's birthday.

We didn't have a special dinner at night too due to my low appetite, but i bought a birthday cake and present (chinese tea and the cup) for him the day before his birthday. The cake was chosen by Jo, it had stawberries as decoration on the cheese cake (refer the picture above). It was like Jo's birthday as he took most of the strawberries and vomited everything out after half an hour later. He has stubborn cough, that's why he tends to vomit oftenly.

Every year i would buy a birthday cake for hubby, but i have never been received my cake for ages and nor present too. No birthday, valentine, anniversary and even Christmas present. OK, dear, if you see this, please don't forget to buy me "something" for the coming season. You know what i am eyeing now, i know you're affordable, just see whether you're generous enough or not. I'm waiting to have my Citizen or Canon. Oh, you know i love Joey, somemore the watch is marked with Joey's signature.

Last, i would like to say thanks to "someone" (you know who you're) that surfed the coughing remedy for me, i'm free from cough now after taking the chinese medicine. Thanks GOD and thanks to YOU!

First but not last

I didn't suffer any morning sickness during my first pregnancy. But this time...i don't have morning sickness, but i have afternoon, evening and night sickness.

I feel ok every morning, but i tend to feel nauseous once the afternoon reaches, and it lasts till night. I didn't experience vomit at first pregnancy and i felt comfortable throughout my previous, i even could cook 3 meals for myself everyday.

However, i have experienced my first throwing about 9pm yesterday, i just threw out everything i had eaten before and suffered dizziness after the throwing. My hubby said determinedly "Don't worry, this is your first and also your last", ya, i also told myself this is the first and also the last. But, i vomitted again just now about 7pm, what came out just a water as the whole day i only took 2 slices of bread.

I can't eat, i can't cook and i can't drink water. I feel guilty to my son as he has been taking the delivery services for few days already, it's tough for me too when comes to feeding Jo because i would feel nauseous when i seeing his meal.

Sigh, it seems like my "pregnancy" sickness is real coming.

Drawing

I don't have any drawing talent, absolutely don't have. I remember i used to ask my friend to draw for me when came to an Art session. My secondary school just has Science and Commerce & Art stream, if you choose Commerce then you have take the Art as compulsory too. I did try my best to draw but no matter how hard i tried, i only managed to get "E", i never got a better result than "E".

So, i'm not shirking my responsibility to my hubby, just because he can draw more nicer than me, hence, he has to give up his TV time and teaches Jo.

My hubby drew whatever Jo had requested.

Following sure you know is my notorious "masterpiece".

I made these 2 paper hats for Jo, i feel OK lol, but hubby said these 2 just look the same for him. What do you think? Same looking? Anyway, Jo just loves these so much. Maybe he still doesn't own any artistic feel to examine which one is better and nicer.

Do you still remember my Halloween hat? I won the certificate. Then..who said i don't have the talent? Hubby said just because the school wanted to give me FACE as Jo is a only one foreigner student.

First VS Second

I'm currently 6 weeks pregnant, some might have known about my news through MSN and mybabybay's forum. Now, I'm announcing officially here. The following is my comparisons about my first and second. Hehe...though it seems like too early to compare the first and the second.

First
I hate onion smell as earlier as about 5 weeks pregnant.
Second
I love to eat onion especially the onion biscuit.

First
I could finish a tin milk (Anmum or EnfaMama) within 5 days(shortest) or 7 days (longest).
Second
A month is overed, but i only able to finish the half tin.

First
I didn't have special craving.
Second
I have a craving for curry (curry fish's head), spicy (nasi lemak) and Nescafe.

First
I didn't feel tired and didn't suffer backpain.
Second
I feel tired everyday and i have backpain.

First
Not really remember whether i had discharged or not.
Second
I have discharge.

First
I ate 3 meals a day.
Second
I eat more than 3 meals a day.

First
I could eat a same food for few days even for few weeks.
Second
I can't eat What i have eaten yesterday as i would feel squeamish.

First
My face was shiny and my skin was smooth.
Second
You can see i have few pimples over the face.

First
I could drink plain water.
Second
I hate plain water. So, i have to put some lemon slices to impart flavour to water.

First
I felt everything is normal.
Second
I feel abnormal especially my mouth is tasteless all the time and what my nose can smell just a smoky smell. But nobody smells the same as me. I feel like being suffocated soon.

First
I didn't take any sour pickles.
Second
I love sour and juicy pickles.

First
I had urged to pee few times a night.
Second
I don't have any urge to pee.

First
I had muscle cramped.
Second
Same as first time.

First
I won't ask for When i seeing something very yummy.
Second
I have to eat it immediately when i have the desire. Just can't be waited!

First
I remembered to take my pills on time.
Second
I always forget to take my pills.

First
Started my pregnancy with fever.
Second
Started my pregnancy with fever, flu, cough and eyes infection.

First
I didn't have morning sickness. I never threw.
Second
Till now, i still don't have. Hopefully i won't have.

First
I got lotsa gas inside my stomach, when i had urged to throw, it's just a gas. However, i didn't have stomach ache.
Second
Same as first time. But i have stomach ache.

First
I never drunk coffee.
Second
I almost have my Nescafe every morning.

So, what do you think about the baby's gender? Boy or girl? Gender isn't important for the moment, i just hope my nose can back to normal, i want fresh air! Please...

Today Lesson

I flashed the word cards to Jo this afternoon, the words are 牙(tooth)，心(heart)，口(mouth)，脸(face)，眼(eye)，手(hand)，耳(ear), 头(head) and 足(leg). I did "animation and sound effect" for every single word. When i read "heart", i would give the heart pounding sound and tapping my heart simultaneously, then pronounce "heart" clearly to him by looking the "han-yu-ping-ying", as i have to make sure my pronunciation is correct. We do hope Jo can speak standard Mandarin that we can't as our Mandarin just too many "ROJAK". I flashed thrice and started to examine him (see mommy so kiasu), he turned out to be surprisingly as he can recognize the words "mouth", "face" and "tooth". He was pointing the particular parts correctly though he didn't pronounce the words to me. It's not by coincidence, he pointing the particular parts correctly twice, but of course just confined for that 3 words. What do you expect since today is a first day i flashed him the Chinese words, not bad LOL!

For the alphabet, i'm quite concerned how did he learn it. He still can't recite A to Z, but the way he learns is definitely special. He can tell me "apple" and "aeroplane" when he's pointing A, "boy" or "ball" when he's pointing B and etc....but, he doesn't know how to say "A" when i pointing A and so does others. So weird, but since this is his method of learning ABC, so i just let him be LOL!

First Wet

Jo didn't wet his pants or bed since 23/9/06 (the day he started diaperless), but he has broken the NOT WET RECORD yesterday night. At around 12:30am, i saw him turnover his body from back to chest and i saw him pulling his pants, i felt weird and thought that maybe have something biting him, i was shocked when i touched his pants, ya, the pants was saturated. However, the bed is dry. I quickly took him to potty and the potty was crammed half full of his urine. That's the first time...