1st day in school...

today school reopen after the break. we have decided to send ian in for a trial. we picked r.e.a.l. kids since is the nearest although they are not as flexible compare to brain child. we were given 2 days trial.

we have planned to be there around 8.30 as it starts at 8.30. mama woke up as planned and get ready as planned. but there are something that we can't plan. ian's sleep. this little boy somehow just couldn't get to sleep last night. mama need to wake up early and she went to bed earlier. ian was falling asleep while mama put ice to his bungalow. ya. he got another bungalow on friday evening and we think that it was the worst so far. is big, blue black and even bleed. mama put 6 cubes of ice on that night itself. he fell down from the cushion. we had play mat around but he so happen to land on the floor without the play mat. we ended up bought another 2 sets (4 in each set) from babyland on sunday. is indeed much cheaper, only rm45.90 compare to toycity, rm59.90. we already bought 2 sets from toycity. 1 set long time ago and another set recently. the set from babyland comes with 4 colours. red, green, blue and yellow. the 2 sets we already have were blue and red in a set respectively.

oppss.. off topic... but because we wanted to use the new mattress we just bought on sunday, so mama carry the sleepy ian on her arms while papa place the new mattress. once mama put ian on the new mattress, he suddenly feel so awake. looking around as he sense the difference in the mattress. from then on, he just couldn't get back to sleep. while mama half asleep, heard papa repeatedly told ian to sleep. papa is getting angry if he still don't sleep.

not only that. he even woke up in the middle of his sleep. when mama woke up around 5+ he is awake and don't know what time he actually gets back to sleep. poor thing to have to wake him up so early and also papa. so, mama decided to make it a bit later. so, we only reach school when is almost 9. actually we already planned to only send ian to school around this time but for the 1st day, try to be a bit early. but too bad then. so, here the story goes...

the headmistress bring ian into his class (holding his hands). he was good even from the beginning. the moment he enters the class, he started to help himself with the toys. really enjoying himself. he don't even bother to check on us. but he is just playing on his own and there is no interaction. how sad. but this is just the 1st day. shall keep our fingers cross and hope for the best.

we stand there to watch him. papa even took some video. he is playing with the shape sorter. he is definitely pro with it. there is only circle, square, triangle and star. he easily finish them. then we saw something and it triggers our tears to fall. the one we have, he can easily open up the cover and pour those shapes out to play again. we think this one, the cover is a bit tight. he just can't get it open and he ended up walking around with it. it makes us feel so sad seeing him like this. he doesn't know how to get help from others. really heartache. later the teacher saw him and open it up for him. but then this little boy put a few in and there he goes to play something else. the very him that we are familiar with. we even heard the teacher saying, "ian, come finish them"... hehe..

soon, papa left for work. mama stay there trying to monitor and watch him but yet at the same time not suppose to let him see her. have to monitor him as though when we are not around. this is the 1st time leaving him alone with strangers. is really a challenging job. as ian will on and off peep through the window. he even stand on the chair that makes mama have to squat down. he sometimes will even run to the door as though wanted to go out. but he did well. at least no crying. because is the 1st day of school, so many kids were crying. also a lot of them were really late. even after 9 and probably almost 9.30.

but actually mama thinks that he knew she was there from how he peep from the window and walk towards the door. so far so good until eventually mama really bum into him. haiya.. all effort gone. teacher bring them to wash their hands. so mama quickly ran outside the building (cannot stay outside the classroom). mama peep from the outside window and already saw ian was in. so she went in. suddenly ian ran out from the classroom and there when mama bum into him. too bad..

later mama saw he try to take a bottle from a little girl and teacher was not there. may be he must be thirsty so mama went in to give him some water. how to teach him to get his bottle to drink water when he wants water. at home he sometimes does. but mama did see that the teacher from time to time did get the kids to drink water.

actually their food for the break was bread but happen is 1 of the little girl's birthday and so they have cakes. this is the 1st time a stranger feed him food. so far besides mama and papa, only seh ku help to feed him before. he did not reject and finish them. good boy. later the teacher feed him vitagen. is grapes flavour. mama saw the rest of the kids hold tight to theirs and keep drinking till it finish. but our ian, the teacher have to go after him to feed him and yet he only drink sip by sip. too bad he just don't like all these. hehe..

while everyone sits to have their cake, so happen there is no chair for ian. he walk around, playing while the teacher feed him. when he felt like standing on the chair. ya. he stand on the chair many times and sometimes the table as well. the teacher actually carry him down many times. since there is no chair for him to stand, he squeeze onto the chair 1 of the little that is sitting on and stand behind her. gosh... headache with this boy...

mama also spotted that he actually pull off 1 of the knob from the cabinet. actually is a toy stove. some of the kids stare at him while he play and eventually try to fit it back. later the teacher saw and put it back.

when the teacher bring the kids to the computer room, mama manage to catch the opportunity to talk to the assistant. she said she is the assistant and the other is the teacher. anyway, mama will just in general address both as teacher. told her about ian's case. things that they might need to pay attention and keep an eye on him. when mama mention about the knob that ian pull off, the teacher said that it is already loose. many of the kids pull if off many times. ohh.. so not ian's fault la.. feel better. hehe.. mama peep into the room and saw that while the rest of the kids sitting and listening, our ian get himself busy with the mouse and keyboard. things that he already familiar with. haha..

on the way back to the classroom. teacher allow them to play at the playground. at 1st the teacher hold ian's hand to let him climb up the stairs. later he is all on his own. but he did well. at 1st he is not use to the slide that turning down. he stop there for a moment while the teacher call him to come down. he walk to another slide. the straight one that he is familiar with. but later mama saw he did came down from the turning one. this clumsy boy, instead of walking to the stairs he walk the other way towards the bottom of the slide and knock on it. haiyo... the teacher saw and did check on him. later mama did check and is fine. no bungalow.

when the teacher bring them back this little boy you can see that he still wants to play. showing the usual excited, jumping sign while looking back at it. but he did not cry or make a fuss when the teacher bring him back to the classroom. when everyone line up, of course ian won't so the teacher has to hold him. haha.. but we believe ian will be able to get in line later, right?

almost time to go back but the bell haven't rings yet. soon teacher say can go home, mama bring ian home. anyway, another little girl's grandma also there to bring her home. we met the headmistress when we leaving. she made a good point in saying that we need to teach and train ian for eye contact. that's the initial point for communication and it will also help him to focus. ya. ian is lacking in eye contact for sure. we will try to guide him. he will do better in later days for sure...

overall for a 1st day in school, mama can say that she is proud of him. he did not cry. most of all he did not reject the teachers. not even when they feed him. they happen to be all indians. so, you know why mama is proud of him. *smile*

after a tired day in school, also because he did not have a good sleep last night, he really have a good, long nap. mama feed him, let him poo and gave him a simple bath. let him watch tv for a while, while mama had her lunch and put him to nap around 1. he nap through till after 3. cool!


(we are so in the rush that we do not really have the time to snap photo. so, this will be the sole photo of ian's 1st day to school taken by papa...)

hepatitis a vaccine - weekend...

hepatitis a is not one of the compulsory vaccination enforced but we decided to give it to ian. according to ian's dr, he only need to take it once and you do not need any booster unlike hepatitis b. in total you need 2 jabs in 6 months apart. but you must not exceed a year for the 2nd jab. otherwise will have to do it all over again.

we wake ian up early on sat to get ready for his vaccination in sunway. we were there around our usual time, 8.30am. to our surprise, our queue number is 30 and currently they are serving number 2. this is just to get ian registered. there are so many people and we are the 5th patient for ian's dr. gosh! this is the worst we could recall. even worst as his dr is that day's dr on call. haiyo.

later we found out that they now start on 8.30 and no longer 9. no wonder la. we know for sure we are not late but why we are queued so behind already. then, 1 of the dr (the dr that took ian's case when he was infected with hfmd) was on mc and his patients has to be taken over by the rest of the dr. hai. no wonder again... when we are done, is almost 11 already. is the longest so far.

due to the wait papa and mama have to take turns to walk ian around. he will on and off sit to watch tv (disney channel) but not for long of course. ian behave very well when the nurse took his weight and height. mama told him this morning while feeding him milk. ask him to let nurse to take his weight and height as we don't have those utilities to get his reading. that's the only chance we can get his reading. bravo! thanks, ian... glad that his reading are all in place. *big smile*

then we had breakfast at 1 of the hawker center at ss15. a new place for us. is pack with people. we have to share table with a couple. papa ordered dried yee mee for mama, fried tong hoon for himself and some fish balls of course for ian. while waiting, mama feed ian a piece of rusk. this naughty boy. don't know why he will never be able to feed himself that. he will never bite it. he will just put in and then out again from his mouth without biting it. mama have to feed him. he enjoys the yee mee. his 1st try again. we ta pau those left over fish balls for ian later. he later finish them at home.

something cute happen during breakfast. ian called the couple sitting opposite us. he bang loudly on the table and mumble something loudly. the guy was shock, turn and look at ian. ian and him exchange smile. the lady was curious looking at ian and later found that the guy was smiling to ian. we drop by a shop along the way to pick our car to buy some fruits. bought honey apple for ian to try. mama use to eat that when pregnant ian.

then we went to buy ian's veggies before we head home. papa feed ian lunch, shower him and nap with him. mama busy in the kicthen. cleaning the fat from the chicken bone to boil soup to cook ian's porridge. usually ah poh do that when we go back melaka using her double boiler to steam it. this time mama tried doing it using slow cooker. there goes mama's afternoon. no nap on saturday. when everything done, is time to go out. we got to shop earlier this round as we need to attend ian's little cousin's full moon (ronnie, ah pek's little princess).

we did a quick shop for ian's veggies. then mama shop for a while as jusco having some special sales for its 25th anniversary. but no luck. mama only manage to buy a pair of shoes for herself. while papa shop at isetan. isetan having some sales for japanese junk food. we tried to look for animal puzzle for ian but couldn't find any. we left around 6+. papa drop by sri petaling's pasar malam. he wanted to grab some junk to eat but eventually only manage to buy ian's pear. while waiting for papa, feed ian porridge in the car.

something funny happen at this time. we already plan to change ian's diaper before we go for the full moon party but while feeding him, seh ku suddenly felt her pants get wet (ian is sitting on her lap while mama feed him). oppss.. ian's wee wee overflow. his pants was wet. stop feeding and get him changed 1st. lucky not too bad. bit dry up by time we reach ronnie, ah pek's house in puchong.

this was ian's 2nd full moon party. 1st was baby nicole's (mama's friend, may and lawrence aunty uncle's princess) full moon almost 1 year ago, some time around june. ian behave quite ok. but he refuse to try any of the food. we ended up have to keep him happy with his cornflakes. but eventually we got to stop giving him when he started messing up the place. he some how prefer to walk along the corridor outside the house. may be too many people in the house. he gets so sticky due to the walking.

seh ku said he play with shern ko ko. running... of course ian won't be able to catch up with shern as he is already 10 years old. but this little fellow was kinda cunning. he stop running. then shern thought that he don't want to play and walk to him, he started to run. so he gets ahead of him. cunning right? haha.. even shern told seh ku this is what he noticed. haha..

there is a little girl in the party. we guess she is definitely younger than ian judging from the way she walks. not very stable yet. but then she keep walking around. very cute. actually we wanted ian to make friend with her but worry that ian might be a bit rough for her since she don't really walk stable yet. anyway, ian prefer to stay outside. when she leave, she give high 5 to everyone. really cute. we get ian to give high 5 to her as well. this little boy, don't know whether he is shy or just want to manja. he will turn over to hug mama tightly after he give her 5. mama get him to do twice and he behave the same for both time.

we left and reach home 9+. gave ian a quick shower, feed him some milk and get him ready for bed. that's our saturday.

we did not take any photo. just seh ku tried to catch some shots. will put in later after getting them from seh ku. we really do not take much photos lately. mostly are on the 25th each month. getting lazy. hehe..

actually we forgotten to give ian a course of paracetamol. we usually will give ian 1 course at night on the day he get his vaccination just in case he might catch a fever. but due to all the rush after the night outing we forgot about it. lucky that ian was fine. no fever. yay! actually are we starting to take things easy? hehe.. anyway, ian is a big boy now. he should be able to handle it better, right?

since we skip our park session on saturday, we plan to do it on sunday. somehow this little boy woke up early in the morning around 5+ and that causes mama get more tired (already tired) and eventually we decided to skip it for this week. he get back to sleep as usual after a while but we can't let him sleep till too late as we have to go for his class around 3. so we only let him sleep till around 8.30.

we went for breakfast at a hawker center, a new place for us again around usj. papa ordered pan mee for himself and chee cheong fun for mama. mama prepared fish balls from home for ian that ee po bought. ian had mama's chee cheong fun. yummy! he enjoys it. then we let him try papa's pan mee. ohh.. he don't really likes it. actually papa also don't like it. when mama let him try pan mee again he refuse to turn over. but once mama said is chee cheong fun, he turn over. uhh.. he understand see..

we drove around to get some contact numbers for some nursery, ta pau nasi lemak for seh ku and we went home. mama play ball with ian while papa prepare for cooking. papa plan to cook dinner. a ball we got from ian's dr yesterday. of course not for long. something cute happen later when mama carry ian to the kitchen to visit papa while he do the cooking preparation. papa also saw it. hehe.. guess what? ian kiss mama on the lips. aawww... so sweet. he did it few times. that was ian's 1st kiss for mama... on the lips...

when papa is done. papa feed ian lunch, shower him and nap with him. while mama get the rest of the thing ready in the kicthen and the rest of the house cores. this round mama manage to get a short nap.

during the short nap, was being disturb by the little fellow's giggle. ya! he giggle so loud and so long while he is sleeping. we both staring at him and very sure that he is sleeping. we both were laughing too looking at him giggle happily...

times up. woke him up and feed him some milk. then, off we go for his class. this round is a revision class for letter "q". learn to write letter "q". play with little quilt. fold quater. there is something new this week. ian was given play-dooh...

roll it into a ball and flatten it. then use an ice-cream stick to divide it into quater.

roll it into a long string. then shape it to a question mark.

roll it into a long string. then shape it to a letter "q" (small letter).

this week's art is doing a quilt. quilt is made of many small pieces of cloth. for the art, the kids will paste many small pieces of different design piece of paper (in the shape of square) onto a big sheet of paper that have many drawn squares. those small piece of designed square are suppose to be paste onto the drawn squares. along the pasting process, ian did something cute. papa also there to witness it. he picks up a small designed square and put it on 1 of the drawn square. hehe.. since he initiated, mama goes along with it. ask him to pick and where he wants to put and mama help him to put glue then guide him to paste it. when paste it, he actually will use his finger to tap tap on it (mama thought him so). papa and mama is so happy with ian's initiative. good boy!

and this is ian's work...



this week's tumble tots session has lots of new challenging task. but too bad that our ian was being so distracted. he did not pay attention to what he is doing at all. especially when he is climbing up and down, his eyes were looking else where. even the instructor is calling out for him to look at where and what he is doing because is so dangerous as he is climbing up and down. there is 1 task that requires ian to hold 2 rings, 1 by each hand and try to lift himself up to support his weight with his both hands. of course ian did not manage to do it. he basically doesn't know what and how is lift himself up. but he did manage to actually hold on to the 2 rings by himself. at 1st papa has to hold his hands but later he could do it himself.

stick again! but not 2 little stick. is a big, long stick. not too bad. of course ian won't do most of the things. a very obvious thing we notice. he don't know how to jump! how to teach a toddler to jump? no idea. tried googled before but no luck. wonder when ian will only know how to jump. because they ask the kid to jump across the stick front and back and left to right. every week there is sure something that need ian to jump. *sigh*

then we went home. papa cook dinner. we realize we forgot to buy bread. mama drove ian with seh ku along to the nearest petrol station to buy bread.

that's it. that's our weekend...

by the way, ian giggle again during his sleep on sunday night. the same loud, funny giggle during his nap. but this round is shorter. wonder what he actually dream?...

mothers' day - weekend...

mama's 3rd mothers' day... is not that bad after all... really...

ah poh and ku ku came on friday to spend their weekend here. we manage to sneak some time to spend alone. only 3 of us. although they are only short ones but they are as good. they really gave mama a sweet mothers' day rememberance...

we went to mpsj field on saturday morning. ku ku and ah poh joined us. mama tried to give ian as much freedom but he sometimes try to go to some inappropriate area. eg, run into people where they are running, go to the fence etc. he sweat even more than papa who actually jog for 5 rounds around the track field.

we went to apollo for breakfast. ian had "chee cheong fan" and fish balls. we ta pau the fish balls to feed him later. went to ta ku's house to meet them. we are seeking their advise and idea for renovating our new house. we plan to go around houses there that had the original same design as ours next week to get more ideas before we decide on anything. hopefully we can get our house done and move in before the next cny.

we then bought some breads and head home. notice the missing part of buying ian's veggies? papa happen to go for a meeting on friday. he came home after that and he was early. so we went out to buy them on friday evening. take a rest and went to mid valley after ian's nap and shower. yes! shower! ian enjoys them very much. hehe.. we drop by to pay ee po a visit before we went to mid valley since she is not feeling well. hmm.. what's the story here? mr. bean animated series' music! that was ee po's sms tone. it really catches ian's attention. seh ku had it copied to her phone and she have to repeat it for ian. haha.. we all had fun too. looking at ian smilingly enjoys it.

we have some thong kei egg tarts while we did a quick shop at carrefour. ian had his 1st try of egg tart. yummy! he likes it just like mama do. hehe... then we had dinner at laminala. this round we let ian had his fried rice 1st before we top him up with his porridge. bravo! he really eat lots of them. we only need to top him up with very little of his porridge. mama ended up finish up his porridge when we get home. ian was eating slow as he needs to chew his rice. so, ah poh, ku ku and seh ku went off 1st. somehow, later this was our great time together...

almost miss this out... during our dinner, mama actually did not buckle ian up in his baby chair. actually mama lately did not really do that in almost all occasion. *ahem* can say that ian have been behave good. suddenly we notice that he has been buckled up. uhh! he actually did that on his own. haha.. then we witness he unbuckle and buckle a few times on his own before the buckle start to get a bit stubborn and play him out. he fail to unbuckle after he buckle himself. haha.. but is really cute watching him do it repeatedly...

while we walk over to the garden, we spotted an advert for phineas and ferb cartoon. ian watched them when he is still watching disney channel. now we switch him to playhouse disney channel. he happen to watch them again when he is admitted to sunway. when we saw that advert, mama said "what you doing?"... haha.. ian giggle. so cute... we repeated few times and each time he will giggle. then, mama felt like taking a shot of us. we stop by on our way and tada! this is the shot. consider not bad, right?



we just walk around. there is nothing much. when we are about to leave isetan, we spotted the thomas and friends toy train being displayed (moving). ian was so excited. he hold himself up in his stroller to get a better view. cute...

then we meet up with them and shop a little while at jusco before we head home. that's our saturday...

on sunday, we went to the park instead of mpsj field. mama let ian run around at the basket ball field 1st. later spotted that the futsal field was empty. bring ian in (is surrounded by fence). he ran a while and started to walk towards the door (wanted to go out) already. so mama bring him to the playground. let him play with the bouncer. not long, he then tried to come down on his own. then, walk towards the slide. yes, the slide! ian always like that. he actually tried made his own slide at home. how? he place the cushion chair, then the stool next to the cushion (single), where we use to put his car seat. he will climb from the cushion chair to the stool and finally to his car seat. just like a slide steps. then he will slide down from his car seat. gosh! wonder where he got that idea. but he no longer able to do that. we kept everything. only left the cushion...

since mama is alone, so mama wanted to let ian try doing it by himself. let him climb up on his own. get him to sit down when he is at the top of the slide and get him to push himself down while mama just watch by the side just in case. great! he did it by himself. later everyone joins in and we have some fun watching ian playing the slide. he wanted to be adventurous. so we let him do it. he crawl through the tunnel to the other slide and slide down from there. cool!

we went to pelita to have roti canai for breakfast. ian tried roti kosong this round while waiting for roti telur. yummy! he likes it. then we head home. papa drove ah poh and ku ku to pay ronnie, ah pek's little princess a visit. seh ku brought her work home to do, so she is in her room. mama had some time alone with ian before his his lunch time. he run around the house. then, mama thought of taking some shoots. tada! actually there are quite a number of nice ones but these are mama's favourite. more to ian looking cool in them.





papa get home just in time when mama giving ian a shower before his nap. we all took a nap. later woke ian up for his class. feed him some milk and we left for his class. this time, ian did better. of course compare to last week. but then last week he did quite bad. so, up to you how you want to grade it...

what ian learn this time? mostly new things...

learning alphabet "q" - how to write (on a laminated cardboard with letter "q" on a queen's head - little "q")

learn "q" for queen, quilt, quil, quiet - given a small piece of quilt to play. given a quil's feather to play

story telling - 5 little ducks. ducks quack. counting 5 ducks, 1 swim away, left 4 and so on...

learn quater - how to fold a square into quater. fold 4 quater to form a square. count the quater

art - made a queen's crown. this is the fun part. those kids are so fond of the crown. some wanted to wear it so much that they even wore it during the tumble tots session. haha.. but our ian, always refuse to put anything on his head. mama have to hold his hands to catch the following shoot (we saw people started taking photos, we took also. hehe..)


(thanks pa, mama likes this shoot very much. a sweet one for happy mothers' day to mama...)

we enjoys the tumble tots session. why? there are few kids that were so funny. ian's "friends". we (the parents) giggle while watching them. haha..

remember the stick last week? mama start to worry when she spotted the other group playing with the stick. but not too bad. ian actually did some of the things when the instructor told him to. of course with mama's help. but definitely better than last week. at least no accident...

at the end of the session, they had a birthday song singing session for a little girl. they had a fake cake for the candles for the kids to blow. the little girl was given a balloon. later, they get the kids to collect a flower from the instructor to be given to their mummy. of course mama have to guide ian to get it. you guess what? instead of getting the flower, he detour and grab the little girl's balloon. lucky it did not burst. huh! ian showed his "geli" face after he touched the flower. haha.. later they ask the kids to give their mummy a hug and a kiss. ian did hug mama but no kiss. but is indeed sweet...

papa wanted to buy some curry puffs from uncle lim. while he queue for it. mama walk ian around. once mama let him free. he run like crazy. ohh.. no.. no more running. papa is done. there we go home. papa bought a roti bakar for ian. yummy! he enjoys it. we went home to pick up ah poh, ku ku and seh ku to have dinner at ta ku's house.

ohh.. ya. went we drop by at ta ku's house yesterday, ian as usual wanted to walk up and down the stairs. you guess what? he manage to walk up on his own. but he will make sure that mama is following him (he on and off turn to ensure that). so cute... so, he did that again on sunday. while papa bring ee po, ah poh, ta ku and su ean jie jie to the dvd shop, ian behave so well that mama have to jot it down. he can sit between seh ku and mama to watch tv. is actually so hot that we can see he is turning red but he still can sit quietly. of course with some movement but is really cool! later we went home...

so that's our cool weekend... so, isn't it true? is not that bad after all. indeed it is cool!

out alone...

1st time mama went out with ian alone. actually mama recalled there was once but is back in melaka and is only going back to poh poh's house from ah poh's house. papa, the hero have lots of such experience. eventually, here comes mama's 1st experience...

yesterday, amanah saham wawasan 2020 launch new units. papa had a meeting at putrajaya. so, we are thinking to try our luck. mama will go alone with ian. we get all the fund prepared in mama's rhb account, get and filled up all the necessary form. everything ready so that will be easier for mama since need to handle ian alone.

papa left home 7.30. woke ian up a bit earlier, before 8. so happen that danny and daddy was aired at 8. ian was so happy. have been long since the last time he gets to watch it. disney channel keep changing their program time until we don't know when it was aired. (later in the evening, mama found few episodes posted in youtube. hehe.. ian enojys them. will get papa to download them. mama had 1 episode recorded in her hand phone. hehe..) get everything ready and we left slightly pass 8.30. we drop seh ku for work and there we go to taipan...

as we drive through looking for parking, you really can't believe your eyes! the queue is already up to the corner shop! mama made up her mind. we shall just buy bread for papa from baker's cottage (papa's throat not feeling well) and then go home. mama reward ian by buying an extra kaya bread for him. the other day mama feed him and he loves it.

but still we need to look for parking. saw some parking but is a bit far so plan to turn to look for others. when we pass by maybank, gosh! also pack with people. here even worst. they don't even queue! no luck. have to take the bit far parking. oppss! no more. we ended up park at the water hydrant (illegal) and did a quick shop and left. lucky no "saman". hehe..

although we did not get to do what we intend to. but it was definitely a good outing alone with ian. ian behave well. no problem in the car, neither while mama buy bread. thanks, ian...

back home, mama realize she left her hand phone at home and also forget to switch off slow cooker for ian's porridge. hehe.. shall learn from mistake, ok...

does he understand?

today the cleaning lady will come. she suppose to come around 2.45 but she called up to change to tomorrow morning around 10. but after thinking hard, mama really lazy to redo everything. so call her up to check the reason for her not being able to come. she is tired and need a nap. that's her reason. so mama suggest how about later. she suggested 3.30. but she ended up over slept and mama the bad person go call to wake her up. she eventually came around 4.15.

due to all the change in time, mama have to feed ian pear while the lady cleans our room before she cleans the hall. mama decided to let ian free (run around) while feeding him pear. mama told him that once he finish, come to mama to get another bite. he sometimes do come but sometimes mama have to call him to come.

[mama]: ian, have you finish? (as mama notice he has finish) finish then come...
[ian]: (happily running over for another bite)...

so, what do you think? does he understand or not? we have been worrying about his development. he have yet to talk. don't really response when we call out his name. he don't point to objects when he wants something. he either stare at them pitifully or if he could he will try to reach them on his own. he always climb up and down. no matter how many times we explain to him that it is dangerous he still do. so, how could we don't worry.

mama always believe that he understand. he is just picky on things he response to. but why? is there a problem? just hope that after sending him to some classes will help him. keep our fingers cross and hope for the best...

a change for the weekend...

every weekend have been a rushy one, grumpy one, etc. mama tried for a change last week and it seems to look ok but last week was a tiring one due to the chicken and fish. continue to the same for the weekend.

1. try to put everything needed for ian's porridge to be steamed at night instead of doing it in the morning. -> this will give more time to the morning for other stuff

2. sweep the hall area on friday night instead for doing it on saturday.

3. sweep the dry kitchen area on saturday morning after preparing ian's porridge and breakfast.

4. prepare whatever ian's food available for next week on friday night. -> this will only leave whatever newly bought during the weekend shopping to be prepared

5. wake up slightly earlier in the morning.


with the above change, we manage to go to park on both saturday and sunday morning. ian really likes it. good for papa as well. mama get to do her yoga but got to sacrifice her afternoon nap because need to prepare ian's porridge for the next day while ian nap (this will allow mama to finish up work earlier at night).


(ian on his outfit for his walk. mama make sure to take a shot since forgotten to take last week)

papa suggest to boil barley for ian for saturday. he seems to drink a lot of water after the walk at park. it works. on sunday, mama even manage to boil chrysanthemum for ian. with some extra time left, even can help papa to hang clothes before waking ian and papa up to get ready to go to the park.

sunday we even go jalan-jalan to return ta ku's tupperware to her and also bring ee po's stuff that she bought that day that she forgotten to bring after shopping with us.

what a relax weekend. good for a change. live for a better, relax life.

hiccups on saturday was ian vomited while drinking his milk in the morning. quite a lot. don't know what happen to him. suspect that he might have drink too fast. he usually don't suck. lazy boy. let the milk flow in itself (mama made a big hole). but he suck this time. mama even say his is a good boy. but too bad he vomited. lucky he looks fine later.

some photos taken during the night outing (shop for ian's veggies).


(ian on his new shirt. why new? because coming wednesday is 25th again!...)


(ian with mama. hehe.. mama's face look a bit weird...)

good, big & cute boy...

thursday was selangor holiday. mama will need to go back to office the next day for a meet up for the new contract. will be driving seh ku's car. so, need to fill up petrol for seh ku's car.

ian is walking around. mama get changed. when he see mama after changed, he walk to mama and raise his hand, showing sign that he wants mama to carry. not bad. our ian note the difference. he know we are going out. our big, cute boy...

as a trial, mama let ian sleep upstairs where seh ku will watch him for tomorrow when mama is away. he sense the different and took some time to get to sleep. he somehow woke up early as well. but he never cry. good boy...

on friday, mama worry will jam due to muslim prayers time. try to leave home earlier. it means got to put ian to sleep earlier. told him that mama is going out. ask him to sleep earlier, have a good long sleep and be a good boy. he really sleep early. so mama get to leave early.

somehow the traffic was smooth. get to reach office in time. everything was smooth. when on the way home, received seh ku's sms that ian woke up. is already after 3pm. seh ku said ian did not cry. good boy...

the only spoiler out of the "good boy" was he made mama beat him because is so difficult to make him drink yakult. he split it all over. hai...
[update: later we found that is actually due to the straw not so much on the taste of the drink. he is fine if we use the straw of his water bottle... funny boy...]