Siblings

Mummy loves to watch Nadine and Aaron play together. Nadine is fiercely possessive of Aaron and even though Aaron pulls her hair, bites her, and hits her all the time, she still loves him to bits. She gets terribly upset whenever anybody says they want to bring Aaron home. Ok, occasionally, she'd slap//hit him out of the blue. But there's still much more love than jealousy.

Here's them having fun in Daddy and Mummy's bed.

Aaron - 11 months old

Aaron is one active boy. Cannot stop moving, and crawls really fast. He's also very determined and persistent. Here's him trying to catch up with his jie-jie, who had scurried up to the top of the swirly slide.

Nadine - 41 months old

At 41 months old, Nadine is a real smart aleck. She comes up with the most unexpected lines that stun Daddy and Mummy. Here are some:


Mummy: Nadine, I told you when we're outside you must hold my hands.
Nadine: But we're inside the shop!


Watching Alvin & the Chipmunks
Nadine: Alvin is naughty. Simon is not naughty
Daddy: So do you want to be Alvin or S
Nadine: But I'm a girl!


Flipping through a book on cake decorations
Nadine: Mummy, you bake me a castle cake
Mummy: Erm ..... how about when you're old enough, I send you to baking class. Then you can bake me a cake?
Nadine: Ok ...... but you're old enough. You can bake me a cake already!


Sharing a coke with Daddy, and Daddy taking a long sip from the coke
Nadine: Daddy, stop drinking. You're still fat!

Hair cut

Aaron's hair has grown quite long. The last time we brought him to a salon, he moved so much that the hairdresser did not dare to cut his hair, and told us to try on our own at home. So we did. And now, it's time to cut his hair again. So lecheh. So much easier with girls, just keep it long. Nadine only had her first hair cut when she was almost 3.

It's almost impossible to stop Aaron from moving. After cutting his fringe, with much difficulty, Mummy gave up.

While Daddy thinks that the hair cut is "ah keong" - whatever that means, many pple who saw him in church today think he's stylo! Mummy thinks so too.

Aaron loves to eat

Whenever he sees people eating, he'll want a bite too. He loves to eat, and loves to try all kinds of food.

In this video, he's savoring a handful of rice that he's grabbed from Nadine's plate.

Ironing

Nadine's finally recovered from her stomach flu, and is once again, her usual active self. Thank God!

Today, Mama saw Nadine imitating Bibi ironing with a mini board meant for ironing collars and sleeves. Nadine was "ironing" hankies. So Mama decided to go find a toy ironing set for her. And she found it in a neighhourhood shop!

Nadine loves her new ironing set! Actually, she loves to help Bibi with household chores. Wonder if that means she will actually help with housework in future!

Stomach flu

No sooner had Nadine recovered from her HFMD, she's down with stomach flu. Poor girl! Must have caught the bug in the park on Sunday. And Mummy thought it'd be good to bring her out for some fresh air! Sigh ....

She had fever for the last 2 nights, and diarrhoea. Hopefully, the diarrhoea will break tonight and her diarrhoea will stop too.

Nadine's 1st school progress report

Nadine's doing pretty well in school, scoring "Satisfied with progress" (S) for most things .... but 1 nerve-wrecking "Needs help" for "I am interested in Chinese stories"! Oh no!

And while she scores S for "I sing familiar songs and rhymes", her "I sing familiar Chinese songs" is an I. Sigh .....

Maybe we should buy her some Chinese DVDs/cartoons, or let her watch some of her cartoons in Mandarin! Hmm ......

2 x HFDM

The inevitable happened .... Aaron got infected by Nadine's HFMD virus. He had on-off fever for 2 days,  but thankfully, was not too cranky. Maintained his appetite for food, but not milk. Maybe sucking from a bottle is painful for him.

Poor second child. He's been sick so many times and seen the doctor much more in his 10 months than Nadine has in her 3 years!

Nadine seems much better already. But the spots on her hand still look a bit scary, so we have to quarantine her for a few more days. Although she's quite happy staying home, playing with her toys and watching her dvds, she's also been asking to go play downstairs, to go swimming, and to go to the shopping mall. It'll be tough leaving her home this weekend, when we go to church.  Sigh .....

Maybe we just keep buying her more plasters .....

HFMD

On Sunday, Nadine was very listless. Not her usual bubbly, active self. And she became feverish after we returned home from church. Bibi noticed she had a few spots on both feet. Alarm bells rang. 

She was grouch and moody, and woke up from her nap crying inconsolably, and refused to eat her lunch. Fell back asleep after she calmed down.

In the evening, more spots developed. So we brought her to Uncle Doctor Kevin, who confirmed that Nadine has HFMD. And she had more than 20 spots in her mouth! Poor baby! Must be so painful!

Monday - Day 2

More spots on her feet ...

And hands

She asked for plasters on the various spots on her hands, to ease her pain (she thinks plaster are ko-yok)

Tuesday - Day 3

Spots have developed on the edge of her mouth

And more angry spots on her hand ..... ouch! She refused to wash her hands today.

Despite the growing amount of spots, Nadine has remained cheerful most of the time. And her appetite came back today. Our little precious resilient girl. We're praying that she will recover quickly from this bout of HFMD!