All About Your Child

Like I’ve said yesterday, the moment I stepped into my parents-in-law’s place, my little girl, ZY greeted me with an unpleasant news. Remember? I’m her Sunday-mommy, so she sticks to me the moment I’m there…

“Shenshen (Young Auntie), I am very sick. Got fever, got pain everywhere, got cough, got running nose, got vomit and got mosquitoe bites.” ZY reported.

My eldest niece, CH, who is always eager to help, summarized it for me, “Aiya, she got DENGUE FEVER lah!”

My eyes widened. My heart sank. I remember the advertisement (sorry couldn’t find it in YouTube to show all of you) about how the mother felt so remorse over her carelessness in the maintenance of the house, which resulted in the breeding of the Aedes mosquitoes and eventually caused her son to be in pain, lying on the hospital bed because of Dengue Fever.

My heart sank because my beloved little girl is so sick. Then anger came in. I remembered Dengue Fever is contagious (hold your breath, I know what you wanna say..).

I turned to my 2nd sis-in-law, “Isn’t it contagious?!” My 2nd SIL nodded and said, “I got to know of it only after I’ve reached too..”

In my head I was going, “How come when the kids over here had chicken pox in the past, my MIL would forbid us to come. Now, is it because its Mid-Autumn Festival, that’s why she was willing to risk everyone else’s lives so that we will not miss this occasion?”

I was confused. Angry. Sad and most of all Afraid that my two boys will have dengue fever too. Well, one thing I know for sure is – Dengue Fever CAN KILL!

Throughout the rest of the day, I was not very happy, but the kids loved every moment of it, so I guess I’m happy too, in some sense.

Just before dinner, ZY woke up from her cat nap screaming and crying!

My eldest BIL, her dad, yelled at her, “Crazy ah! Why do you need to scream and cry? Just let us know what’s the problem!” That’s how all his 3 children behave whenever they are sick, especially if there is a fever. They will scream and cry. Even though ZY is already 7years old, it seems that this haven’t changed.

I’m really lucky to have kids who doesn’t even throw a tantrum when they are sick. All they do is just cling on to me like a Koala Bear.

I was sitting just beside her, watching her sleep on the sofa when it happened. Somehow, I’ve got a feeling she wanted to vomit and she confirmed my guess.

I brought her to the dustbin nearby but she refused. She wanted the toliet, so I brought her to the kitchen and that’s when my MIL took over.

MIL: “Stop crying. You are fine. Papa is angry already. Stop crying.”

ZY tried to vomit but nothing came out. Then she started to hammer her chest real hard. Keatkeat asked, “Jiejie is like King Kong..” Oh Kids, what can I say other than bring him away!

She started to throw a tantrum again. MIL instructed everyone to leave the kitchen and get out of her sight, she thinks that everyone’s presence might be pressurizing her and so everyone obeyed.

20mins after medication, ZY was back to normal, that’s why you could see her standing at the back of the photo (the one where the kids stood infront of the ‘lantern rack’).

When I got home, I searched through the internet just to confirm my fear……was a mistake! *laugh* Dengue Fever is NOT CONTAGIOUS!!! Meaning, it will NOT be transmitted from one person to another. *Phew* Luckily, I didn’t confront my MIL and make things turn ugly on such a wonderful day. *Phew*

Too many things happened just on Sunday and Monday itself….don’t think I’m going to cramp all of that in today’s post…will be spreading them out to a few posts for the next few days.

There have been lots of stuff going on in this four walls and the four walls in my parents in law place… *catching my breath* But first thing first, the events on Sunday, Mid Autumn Festival, 14th Sept, was so ‘packed’.

At 10.30am, my boys and I were woken by the drums and the cymbals of the lion dance troupe. It was the opening ceremony of the coffeeshop behind my block of flats. We ‘dashed’ down after the kids gulped their bottle of 240ml of milk in super fast speed.

And they were well rewarded for their effort.

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Right after lunch at this new coffee-shop, we went to the opening ceremony of my friend’s watch shop. Remember I stood for 12hours under the hot sun helping my friend to tend her stall for a few days when she couldn’t find any staff? Yup, this is the friend I’m referring to. Finally they have slogged for more than a decade and now they are reaping what they sowed.

My friend’s youngest child of 3 is just 3 months younger than Binbin and the 3 of them ‘clicked’ the moment they saw each other….

The last time these 3 met each other was when Keatkeat was still ‘figuring’ out how to run without tripping and Binbin was still wrapped in the Sling across my shoulders.

I couldn’t get him to put down Allan’s phone because he was pretending to take a photo of me, while I take a photo of them…*laugh*

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Then off we went to my in-law’s house to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival. The moment I stepped in, my little girl, ZY (eldest SIL’s daughter), told me something that completely spoilt my mood. This itself is going to be the post for tomorrow. Too much thoughts and emotions to talk about.

So here are the pictures…it was a sumptous dinner first, then they used my eldest BIL’s rack (which was meant for greeting cards) to hang the lanterns; then my 2nd BIL and MIL lighting up the candles so that the kids can play on their ‘teck teck kum’ – sticks that sparkles upon touching fire…

You realise there are several kids missing in the photos? It was a tantrum day for the 3 kids who stay in that household…So only my eldest niece, CH, and my 2 boys were having fun.

We also celebrated the September birthday babies – my MIL, eldest BIL and ME!!! Though the cake just stated ‘for’ my BIL, everyone knew it was a cake to be shared by 3 of us…*wink*

Before we left, my MIL gave me a red packet – haven’t check how much $$$ is inside and my FAVOURITE mooncake of all time – the normal crusted DOUBLE EGG YOLK mooncake.

My MIL said she bought it just for me, ‘cos no one in the family eat such ‘high cholesterol’ stuff. *laugh*

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But way before this day, we already had an early mini-celebration at home. My sister treated us to the expensive Four Seasons Hotel Durian mooncake. This was her Plan B. She wanted to buy the Famous GoodWood Park Hotel Durian mooncake, but was already sold out.

The snow skin was superb and the durian fillings inside was simply tasty – to the adults. Keatkeat took a few bites and Binbin wasn’t even interested in getting his lips to touch that small piece of mooncake. *laugh*

So that was how we spent our Mid-Autumn Festival this year, I think its alot more fun than previous years…how was yours?