Whatever Jie Jie does, Mei Mei must follow. Kiasu ma…

Working hard on her colouring book.

I also can do colouring but look more like tearing out the pages.

Last Wed (25th Nov) Kyrie came home from school with fever and the next day she told me her throat was very painful. I called her usual Paed but she was on holidays and therefore I brought her to see my company’s GP. The doctor found 3 ulcers in her mouth but nothing on her feet and hands. We were told to observe for the next few days for sign of HFMD.

She recovered pretty quickly and we thought it was a false HFMD. My mom kept insisting is not and it only body heat and we feed her lotsa of “ling yeung”. In fact by Saturday she was up and jumping and looking forward to her school’s first concert. My baby is performing on stage!!

Sunday we went to Swensen for brunch because I felt like having American breakfast. Half way during the breakfast, Hallie my wai sek baby was fussy and refused to eat. She kept yawning and by the time I “swallowed” my breakie and carried her, she was hot like an oven. We immediately brought her home and I fed her paracetamol. Around 3 pm she was so hot that we decided to bring her to the A&E since all clinics were closed. The doctor at the A&E inserted a suppository into her buttock to bring down the fever and he also found a few ulcers in her mouth. Bumper!!

Whole of  Sunday night, my baby was in extreme pain. She cant eat, drink nor sleep. She was crying the whole night. I called up another Paed but he was on leave too. Why all Paed have to go on leave together. We got no choice but to bring her to see a new Paed we bumped into at the hospital. The doctor claimed that hers was no HFMD and basically viral infection. I requested that Hallie be admitted but this Paed refused. Second night we suffered the horror of cries, tears and hunger. I really hated the doctor then. Why cant she admit her so she wont be dehydrated and in pain.

Tuesday morning (1st Dec), after I sent Kyrie on the school bus, I paged the hospital for our usual Paed because I knew she would be back on that day. She called me back and asked us to meet her at the hospital ASAP. The moment our Paed saw her, she confirmed is HFMD and it only affected the mouth, throat area. Hands and feet would not have any rashes nor blisters. Immediately she put Hallie on the drip and started her on antibiotic and some mouth spray plus gel. The whole Tuesday, baby was still in pain and kept crying the whole day in the hospital. She only went to sleep at 10 pm since she woke up at 730 that morning. Imagine we have to take turn to carry for 15 hours straight.

Wednesday, Hallie was much better. She willing to take some milk but still refused to suck on her bottle. At least she willing to play on her own and sit on the bed instead of koala-ing us the whole time. By Thursday, my little baby can be discharged from hospital. In total she spent 3D/2N

Photos below was taken on Friday before she fall sick. Check out the cheeky look.

That’s the way my baby does her “CHEESE”

See her drip on her left foot. She keep telling me “pain pain”.

Dear baby, please get well soon.

No, no, no…..we didnt purchase any massage chair from Osim. Not like we can afford one anyway..:P

If you can’t afford one, must try to improvise what you have at home and make do with it. This is what I saw this morning after I came out from the shower.

Watching Nickelodeon on TV.

Total cost of this new Osim massage chair without any massage function is less than $10. Btw, the car seat was given to me by an ex-colleague. (FOC)

Yesterday over MSN, WSL said she missed eating Chao Mien, the HK style. I told her can get from any cafe in KL but she claimed the one from HK style cafe is expensive and not nice.

Our topic moved to breakfast and she asked why I didn’t take my brekkie at home. I told her there’s only bread at home and I hate bread. Our daily breakfast menu is quite wide. Everyday,we eat $1.20 nasi lemak, lontang, soto, wanton mee, fishball noodle, porridge, fried economic meehoon, etc

So this is what I had for today. Fried meehoon mixed with mien (80 cts) with additional ingredient a fried half cooked egg and a fish fillet. One bowl of hot peanut porridge ( 80 cts) as well.

Kyrie is very into puzzles nowadays. She’s crazy and can play the same puzzles everyday over and over again. The new puzzle that we bought her, she took a day to master it and now can put all together within minutes.

Putting together her Ariel puzzle

Completed 2 sets, working on the 3rd

She can work on the 20 pieces Mickey puzzles rather easily and working towards the 5 years old, 40 pieces Snow White now.

This is our favourite all time restaurant for Xiao Loong Pao in Singapore. Whenever we have guests from overseas, we sure bring them there to try.

Hot & Sour Noodle

My fav soup. I usually order the one without the noodle.

Cha Cheung Mee. (Minced meat with some thick sauce)

shredded pork with dunno wat veggie noodle

Both girls love the noodle above. In fact, they both share a bowl and managed to finish almost all of it.

Water boiled dumpling

Woh Tip - 1 of our fav and "must-have"

The Xiao Loong Pao. Juicy and tender

We ordered the 2 desserts as well but totally forgotten to take photo; therefore, I have to get the photos from someone’s else blog.

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The above pancake is the best pancake I ever eaten. The redbean paste is not too sweet and the skin is crispy and just nice.

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The tong yun with filling, peanut and sesame filling. The clear soup comes in 2 flavour; namely rose syrup or osmanthus  syrup. The soup is nice and not sweet. Hallie drank 1 bowl without the tong yun.

I’m starting my kids young. Hopefully I can train one to become a “Xie Xingfang”

Gaya or not  my Xie Xingfang?

Sisterly love.

Ok, enough training. Let’s the real game begin.

First game, Singapore vs. Bangladesh.

Hallie pening kepala

I was unable to capture any photos during the game because all chasing after the shuttle instead of hitting it. After 5 minutes, both the Singapore and Bangladesh teams threw in the towels and decided to run around like terrorists around the corridor.

P/S: Did anyone notice that the Bangladesh player is wearing a cheongsum?

Kyrie woke up at 6:30 am this morning because she was excited about going to school to celebrate Halloween with her friends. Dressed her up in the Halloween t-shirt we bought from HK last year!!!

Sunday, afternoon, home was like oven so we decided to go grocery shopping because supermarket has the coldest aircond.

Upon reaching Tekka, I told Daddy I need buy milk tea ( chan chu nai cha) because it was just too hot. Told him to look after the kids where I dashed over to the next block to the buy the drinks.

Came back with the drinks and saw Daddy and kids eating Old Chang Kee’s fish balls.

Me : Nah, your drinks.

Daddy: Thanks. What drinks did you buy for me?

Me: Your favourite lah. Sour plum green tea with pearls.

Daddy: Wah, you really my wife. I don’t need to tell and you know exactly what I wanted.

Me : *happy* Of course. So what snack did you buy for me from Old Chang Kee? What’s my favourite?

Daddy: Oppphh. I didn’t buy anything for you. Curry puff  is your favourite?

Me: #$%^&*@#$

Currently, the noise from my household is very similar to the TB Ward. The kids are still coughing non stop since the last 3 trips to the Paed clinic. This morning I brought both of them there again as Hallie has vomited 6 times last night. We ended up waking up changing sheets and pillowcase the whole night. *Yawn* I’m so tired now.

Paed’s conclusion was both have sensitive airway that causes them to cough especially at night. Now both is on one month of Singlair tablets that cost a bomb as well as Bambec.

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