A New Habit

Lately, Sharlene has developed a new habit of wearing socks to bed every night. This habit was formed when she had runny nose and cough sometime beginning of last month. Her cough got worse during the night. During that time I applied Vicks on her chest, back and soles of her feet and put on a pair of socks before she went to sleep. This method helps her to sleep better in the night. Although now she has fully recovered from her cough, she still insists on wearing her socks to bed every night. I suppose the socks are keeping her feet warm and comfortable at night, especially when she’s sleeping in an air-cond room. Perhaps, I should try it out tonight...and who knows, I might like it too, haha.

Who's Hiding In The Box?

Sharlene is 100% diaper free since the beginning of this year. I use a box to store up her unused diapers.

She likes to remove the contents of the box and I presume you know the next thing she’s going to do...

While I was busy cleaning my room last Sunday, she entertained herself with this...and got me involved too.

Mummy, can you come and find Sharlene??


I knew she’s hiding inside the box but pretended I don’t know.

I acted as if I couldn’t find her.

After awhile, she tried to steal a look at me.

Where is mummy? Why I cannot see her?

Before she gets bored with the game, I quickly walked towards the box, pretended I’ve found her.

When I was about to open up the box, she happily declared that...

Mummy, I'm here.

Ahhhh… so nice to come out from the box and show my face….hee hee!

My Little Food Monster

Sharlene likes food a lot and I think she really wish to have her favorite food EVERYDAY. She would ask me this question, “Mummy, do you have something for me?” the moment I step into the house every evening. Her 'something' means food, of course.

What happened was one evening I brought home one of her favorite foods (I couldn’t recalled what was the food I got for her as it was quite long ago) and I called out to her... “Sharlene, mummy has got something for you here.” I bet you know what was her reaction then. So from that day onwards she has been asking me this question (whether I bought back anything for her to eat or not) everyday.

When it comes to food Sharlene can eat faster and in more quantity than her cousin sister who is 3 years older than her most of the time. She will eat mostly what’s available at home. That’s why I try to stock up on healthy foods and prevent buying unhealthy ones. In addition to her main meals, she takes 3 full bottles of milk everyday and snacks in between her meals. After lunch or dinner, she would ask for some other things to eat. Her eating habit really worries me sometimes.

At the moment, I’m quite pleased with her daily food intake that mainly consists of carbohydrates (rice, bread, noodles), protein (meat, eggs and nuts), calcium (milk, yoghurt, cheese), fruits and vegetables. She also has her share of not-so-healthy food once in a while.

Hopefully, my little food monster understands the importance of healthy eating when she's older and also the reasons why I limit her intake of fast food and other low nutrient snacks.

Superior Scribbler Award

Many thanks to Mummy Gwen for presenting this adorable award to me.

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!

Now I would like to pass it on to:
1. ContentedMom
2. Ming & Ling
3. Irene
4. Jo-N
5. Leona

Her Favorite Toys

These are Sharlene’s favorite toys and she calls them rabbit, kitty, small bear bear and panda. Those were the few that followed her to my mum’s house last month. I took this photo when she was sleeping on my sis's bed. Her toys were sitting on top of her head. She has a lot more soft toys but she only picks her favorite ones to sleep with her every night. She will not hug them to sleep but LOVE to place them neatly by her side, sometimes talk to them and kiss them before she dozed off. *rolled eyes*. After that, my job is to quietly remove them from her bed and put them back on the shelf. We have to wipe and wash her toys quite often too.

She’s treating them like her ‘friends’, very protective over them and gets really angry if anyone throws them on the floor or sits on them. At one time, she even tried to feed them with food and drinks, put them into her school bag but I took them out and told her that she can’t bring her toys to school. Since then, I’ve not seen her doing it anymore. She understands that her ‘friends’ have to stay home whenever she goes out with us. However, if we are going back to my mum’s place for a couple of days, I allow some of her toys to be packed and brought there. Otherwise, she will definitely miss them dearly!!

What about your kids? Do they have their favorite toys too?

Simple Food For Lunch

We always have a problem of what to cook for lunch during weekends. It is rather difficult to come up with something that everyone loves to eat, especially the kids. Most of the time we ended up with noodles - a dish that is simple to prepare and easy to cook!

At times, we will just cook a BIG pot of porridge when we are bored with noodles or simply when we can’t think of what sort of noodles to dish up. Sharlene’s nanny is also our cook. She handles all the cooking for us and if she’s not on leave during the weekends, she does that for us too. That's the reason why I'm so lazy to cook now...heheh :)

Normally we let her know what we would like for the day, purchase the ingredients required and she will do the cooking for us. Here are the noodles we ‘ordered’ from her a few Saturdays ago...


Fried Tomyam Meehoon – with lots of beansprouts, prawns, squids, fishcakes, fried beancurd and shredded ‘daun limau purut’. She cooks this dish very well and everyone doesn't seem to get tired of eating even though we have it quite often for lunch.


Another variety of noodles for the kids. She has to fry this non-spicy meehoon along with the tomyam meehoon just for the kids.


On that day I also baked a tray of chocolate chips muffins for teatime. My nephew loved this and chomped down 3 at one go. Actually, my main purpose of baking this was to finish off the remnants of chocolate chips, which I used to bake cookies for CNY this year. So long ago right...but when I checked the expiry date; it’s still within the expiration. So no worries :) I put in abundance of chocolate chips but there were still some leftovers. Looks like I need to bake another round of....errm, perhaps chocolate chips cookies this time to clear my stock.

Have you noticed the uneven color tone of the muffins? Some are darker and some are lighter in color. It could be the heating element of my oven that is positioned at one side of the oven. So, the muffins that were placed near the heating element obviously get darker and those placed further were lighter. Arggggh, can’t wait to buy a better oven BUT the current one is still in working condition…so got to put off this idea for the time being.

Ouch! My Bum Bum Is So Pain:(

Sharlene has been complaining about this the whole day. She has slight diarrhoea and each time she complaint of tummy ache, she passed out watery stools numerous times today. So frequent that her bum becomes sore and painful. She also accidentally poo pooed in her pant. She yelled and cried everytime she needs to poo poo today.:(

Sharlene had developed high fever of 39.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday afternoon, after she came back from school. She was so unwell that she lied down on the sofa the whole afternoon and refused to eat anything. Luckily, she didn’t reject water which was given to her from time to time. Her fever came down after a Voltaren suppository was inserted. She took her nap shortly after that and was again in her bubbly self when I came home after work. I started to have a second thought of bringing her to the paediatrician, thinking she’s all right.

After I came out from my shower, I saw her lying on her bed and I knew instantly she wasn’t feeling well again. Her temperature shot up again. Hubby and I rushed her to the paed clinic immediately. After a thorough check the paed said she has 2 ulcers in her throat. Poor girl, her throat must be so painful at that time. We went home with a bottle of antibiotics (Augmentin), and a bottle of fever and pain relief syrup (Nurofen) for her.

Her fever subsided quite fast. However, she’s still taking her antibiotics today and I think it could be the antibiotics that caused the diarrhoea and her painful bum…haha! Hopefully, the diarrhoea will stop once the antibiotics is discontinued, which will be on Monday. She should be able to go back to school on Monday as well after being absent for 2 days.

Tonight I’m going to apply some petroleum jelly onto her painful areas and hopefully it could relieve the soreness.