All About Your Child

After clearing all the vomits for Keatkeat for 2 days, his stomach flu is getting better. I am so glad I no longer need to worry that however small amount of food went into his mouth will be regurgitated in less than 15 minutes.

Dealing with the smell, bathing him over and over again, washing lots of soiled clothes….and as if its not terrible enough, the weather for these few days are so cold, no sun, just chilling breezes from morning till night, the clothes are so cold even though they are hung up for more than 24 hours. I can’t even tell if the clothes are cold because of the wind or they are cold because its still not dry yet!

My super long day started when the clock strikes 12 in the morning. I didn’t type wrongly, I mean in the morning, the very moment, 2nd of March began.

12am – Lie down beside Keatkeat to pat his bottom till he sleeps. I am still trying very hard to stop this habit that was passed down by his grandma, when he was under her care while I was doing my retail business. I fell asleep. Not too sure who fell asleep first though.

12.30am – I was woken up by laughter from the bubbly little Binbin and his Papa. Binbin took a very long nap yesterday and woke up at 8pm, so even though its past midnight, that little rascal is still super active and high in spirit.

The price to pay for being a busybody is really high!

12.30am – Went to check out what was so amusing. Found the father and son playing with this. Fisher Price Baby 1st Blocks – it was Keatkeat’s present when he was 6 months old. The 2 look-a-like males were playing a different game with the blocks.

Instead of putting them in the container according to the shapes, they were stacking them up to form one tall tower. Pretending that it was dad’s birthday candle and they tried to bloooooow the tall candle down. When it does land on the ground with a big crash (its late remember?) the little one laughed his heart out. They do it over and over again!

As I approached, the dad gleefully walked back towards his PC which was updating the highlights of the many English Soccer Matches going on, sat down and said, “yeah! your favourite mommy is here.”

12.45am – I continued the blow-the-candle game with my little laughable. Suddenly, water was gushing out of the little boy’s long pants. Yes! Binbin urinated on the floor! The last time he did this was 1 year ago! Was it the extensive laughing? Was it the coldness of the floor? Was it the 3 cups of water which he drank an hour ago? I don’t know!

The only thing I know was I am back to cleaning up and washing of soil clothes! Although I am spared from the smell part, ahhhh… I told Allan, “Now I know why I am woken from my sleep, ‘cos I had to fulfill my duties as a mother – you will never get to rest till your kids are asleep!”

Binbin complained with a frown, “I can’t believe I shh…shh… on the floor.”Ya man! Indeed its unbelievable. Sigh…..

1.05am – Help the little fellow with his diapers (he’s not toilet-trained for night yet) before the next mishap occurs. Tucked him into bed and pat on his buttocks to get him to dreamland. He was really NOT TIRED. He started to chat with me. “no…no…boy, its late, sleeping time….we’ll talk again tomorrow. Now close your eyes and sleep.”

2am – FINALLY! Asleep! But now I am wide awake with a growling tummy. Went to cook my favourite Korean Instant Noodle.

Switched on the TV as I savour the delicious taste of the unhealthy food.

The more I sat in front of the square box! The more awake I became. Oh no! This is not happening!

3 am – Forced myself to switch off the addictive set powered by an invisible force known as electricity. Washed up the pots and bowls. Drank a big glass of water. “Yup! I am ready to sleep!” and so I thought! I was wrong! Dead wrong!

3.15am – Tossing and turning in bed as if I had a thousand worries. But I don’t! I only had ONE worry, that is when am I going to sleep?!

3.45am – Got out of bed again. Turn on another addictive set run by the same powerful force – the computer. Watch lots of ‘nothings’ from Youtube. Ahhh.. I have downgraded myself from the bigger screen to the smaller one, yet I am still doing the same thing – staring at the screen.

5am – My 30 year old body finally shows signs of fatigue. I was unconscious almost instantly when my head touches the pillow.

8.30am – My rooster boy, Binbin is up and about! Are all kids born in the year of the Rooster such early wakers, irregardless of what time they sleep? I already know 3 kids who have this wake-up-early-automatically blood cells in them and lo and behold, they are Rooster babies!

There goes my sleep. I am up with my heavy eye-bags and dark eye-rings, playing with the 2-year-old again.

10.30am – The elder one woke up and we got ourselves dressed up to go to my in-law’s house for the usual-Sunday-family-gathering.

That’s the place I least want to be in when I am soooooooo tired. Every Sunday is more or less the same – Play with all my nieces and nephews, be the listening ear for my mother-in-law’s never-ending lists of complaints and the updates from my sister-in-laws.

Today is extremely terrible because my mother-in-law is furious over my eldest sis-in-law’s decision about going for a holiday on her own. I promise, I will tell you the juicy story tomorrow. (My eyes lids are getting heavier)

We were lucky. In order to escape from hearing all the fury words, it was Hougang Residents Day today. They had a carnival right below her block.

We managed to get 8 free coupons. 1 used to claim a packet of popcorn. The rest were all for games. Binbin got to touch a yellow python for the very first time. He was so excited. Kept touching it but Keatkeat dare not even get close. The snake was under the care of the owner who allows people to take photograph with the snakes without any cost involved.

10pm – Back home. Got the kids ready for bed with a big help from the man of the house.

Though so tired, I can’t wait till tomorrow to get all these written down. Now at 11.37pm, my mission is done. Oh man….tomorrow is monday, school day, got to wake up at 7am! I am really exhausted. Time for bed. Good night everyone, sweet dreams! *Big Sigh*

Myopia came and stayed with me since I was 8 years old. My eyesight degree then was 300 on both sides. 2 years ago, myopia’s friend, astigmatism, came along. By then myopia has increased to 8.50 (right) and 9.75 (left) over the years and astigmatism was 1.00 (right) and 0.75 (left) when she first arrived.

When I was a little child, adults told me that bad eyesight is hereditary. My dad had almost perfect eyesight but my mom’s myopia was above 10.00 for both eyes.

Today, I went for an eye check again. My six sense never failed me. Myopia and astigmatism has decided to increase further. Now I am (myopic) 8.75 (right) and 9.75 (left) and (astigmatic) 1.25 (right) and 1.00 (left).

Ever since I had my first glasses, I have been very careful with my eyes. Whatever myths on how-to-get-good eyesight, I will definitely try them out. From eating fish and carrots to looking at grasses and green leaves, I have tried them all.

None of them worked. Over the years, my degree just kept increasing. Many say that when one wear contact lenses, the degree tends to stay put. For me, it merely slows down the rate of increment.

Now I had to switch to contact lenses that are astigmatic for my right eye. Its completely hopeless when night falls when I am still wearing my astigmatic-free contact lenses.

I am worried. Very troubled. My dream was to go for a Lasik surgery to get it over and done with. But now, even Lasik is not the answer, ‘cos Lasik only get rid of myopia. Very soon…I foresee, I will not be able to wear contact lenses anymore, I wonder, what’s the limit for contact lenses…..if my degree continues to rise.

I worry for my boys too. They have such bright eyes. They have eyes that speaks to you. How horrible would it be, if their eyes were blocked by an awful spectacle resting on the nose and the ears?

This was what I found today…..

Is Bad Eyesight Hereditary?

Alderwood Vision Therapy said No

WikiAnswers said Yes

Is myopia hereditary?

isee.org said No

Healthlink said Yes

I am confused. So is it a Yes or No?

I thought by marrying someone with perfect or near perfect eyesight, I can lower down the chances of my kids being myopic, but….

MedHelp said Not True

I hate the fact that I am short-sighted. There are so many inconveniences, especially when you are a woman. Make-up, looking pretty or even simply feeling carefree is out of the question when the first thing you see when you open your eyes every morning is BLURNESS!

Will my kids have it? I am super duper particular when it comes to protecting my boys’ eyes. I try my best to make sure that they don’t watch the TV or play games on the PC for too long. There must be a break from the square box every 30 minutes.

I constantly remind them to have a good distance of about 30cm from their books and when they are doing their worksheets.

I try, I really am trying very hard, all ways and means to protect my boys sparkling eyes…..

Lord, bless my kids, may myopia and astigmatism be far far away from them…..Amen.