All About Your Child

The Frown:
Binbin is still feverish. Allan and I were digging into our memory and realised that the last time he was so sick was when the whole family, EXCEPT ME, was down with H1N1.

So Binbin skipped school for another day.

3 days ago, Allan and I was still joking about letting the boys skip school for this week, since its only 3 school days.

OOops!

Guess such things are not good to joke about either……

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The Grin:

Recently, the number of spams hitting this blog’s spam box has increased tremendously.

From the usual 5-10 spam comments a day to the current 20-50 spam comments a day!

I often console myself whenever I run through the spam box to double confirm that the comments are really ‘fake’; there are incidents that your comments (genuine readers) were dumped there by mistake.

So, I would chant to myself “The more spammers like my blog, the more it shows that its valuable.” *laugh*

Today, after clearing 38 spammy comments, I thought, “Hhhmmm….Why not find out how much this blog is worth!?”

MY OH MY!!!!

$4,074 USD!!!!

This definitely put a Grin on my face after looking at the many frowns for so many days on my boys’ sick faces!

Maybe this site should worth more when considering its age…. but I am someone who is happy with every little success… so I’m still delighted to see this result. *smile*

Go find out how much your site is worth! You might be pleasantly surprised too.

***Note: if yours is blogspot, then the worth is ONLY based on blogspot’s value, not your individual site.***

Yesterday ended the super-long-weekend school break. The boys were in school on Friday 6th for a short 2 hours National Day Celebration. My afternoon-session boy, Keatkeat had to wake up at 6am+ just for that special day. Waking the boys up on special occasions like these is easy peasy. Because of the excitement, they jumped out of bed with just ‘one call’. *smile*

Friday 6th August to Tuesday 10th August — All thanks to Singapore National Day, the boys had 5 school-less days…. but not much fun either…

It was as if the hype was too hot for them. My prone-to-sickness boy came home with cough after the celebration and eventually turned into his ‘good friend’ — Bronchitis.

2 days later, even my hardly-fall-sick Binbin fell prey to flu and was down with fever. I have to say that though he was burning at 39.+ degree, he was still giggling and very alert. Without a thermometer, you would never believe he is sick. *smile* He is just an amazing little fellow.

Its so rare to see Binbin sick that even my MIL called to check on him. Errr… its also a little sad because Keatkeat is sick so often, the attention was not on him at all. Ooops!

Binbin is still unwell due to viral infection and is snoring away, as I type this post, after his medication.

So his super long weekend school break extended for another day. Yup, today no school for him still, 6 days in a row. Here’s crossing my fingers and toes that he would be all good by tomorrow…..

No one likes a bad habit. Definitely not a habit like yesterday’s post on the “Toddler Smoking Habits”.

But what if A habit is done subconsciously? Can any habit be done subconsciously? Because it was done so frequently, the person does not even realise that he or she is doing it?

Alright, what in the world am I trying to say….

Keatkeat has a ‘habit‘ of farting in the car. It is EXTREMELY annoying when the 3 of us have to wind down our windows 2-4 times over a 20mins car ride.

I remember there was once, he was having a farting spree, I had to wind down my window more than 5 times in less than 15mins!!!

I am not sure if the smell of the car makes him feel like farting or was it a subconscious habit of getting attention.

“Excuse me.” is ALL that he said. And All the windows will be down.

The worst part is when we have just wound it up and he said the Next “Excuse Me.” *Eyes Rolled*

Subconscious Habit or a Conscious one? *shrugged*

Did he want to poo? NEVER!!! We have tried so many times, to ask him to go to the toilet after we stopped the car. He can sit in for a good 15mins and NOTHING was ‘bombed’.

Yet, the moment we got back into the car, the farting routine starts again! *Super Eyes Rolled*

We do not put any fragrance in the car, so unless the Natural smell of the car triggers that ‘hole at his rear end to whistle‘, or else, it would be his mind is in for some ’smelly fun car rides‘.

Whatever the reason, its definitely pushing his Papa’s anger button each time that habit begins and Mommy dearest would often say “That’s a natural way of removing toxic from our body, when it has to go, it just has to go.”

But when it happens so often and DURING car rides 90% of the time throughout the day, I start to wonder if I’m right. *Pout*

Anyone else has this same issue?

It was not too much of a shock to me to read a ‘2 year old Toddler Smokes’, when I saw the headlines earlier this week on an article. Remember my previous video showing another toddler smoking on the streets?

What made me post such a similar video again is because of how the parents reacted and how early they started giving him that stick. Look at the way the Toddler smokes…. *heart sank* I’m keeping this short. Let the video do the talking….

Alright, Binbin is more or less back to normal now — An update from this post: Physical or Psychological? But we are not giving him his usual quantity yet. Small portion, taking a small step one at a time, as we build up his appetite again.

He looks really skinny (to me) now and it hurts. Then again, its worth celebrating ‘cos at least he is eating now. *clap clap clap*

To build up the health issue, Keatkeat’s Bronchitis came in to join the party last night. *eyes rolled*

Its been a long while since the last visit from this ‘faithful friend‘ of his. Not going to repeat all the dramas, which I had blogged about so many times over the 3+years.

But yes, the dramas still happen whenever ’she’ visits. So at 4.11am (looking at my PC time), not sleeping yet, cos’ don’t know when he would roll out another film to begin his next take, to get Mommy out of bed to clean his mess…..

Yup, that’s it for now… Good nite. *wink* Good Health to all. *hugs*

Never did I expect to write this post
A post about Binbin
A boy who loves to eat fruits
and vegetables too
A boy who has no fear in trying new food
or drinks even if the colour looked weird
A boy who has always been praised for his appetite

5 days ago
4 spoonful of porridge made him gagged
thereafter, every meal became a challenge
A challenge to get the food pass his throat
Since Saturday,
My younger one hardly eats more than a teething baby
starting on solid
This morning,
even a bite into his favourite chocolate did not work

Its time.
Its time to visit the doctor
To find out if its a psychological problem or a physical issue
We did suspect that it was psychological because other than meal time, he is a happy lad
Jumping, Laughing out loud, climbing up and down, yelling at his brother for playing with his ‘Hot Wheels’ without asking his permission….

Gastritis - so said the doctor
Medicine given
Observation period began
If conditions did not improve
Further consultation would be needed

So fingers crossed for now
2kg gone in 5 days is a Warning sign not to be dismissed
Let’s hope the next post for on Binbin would be a celebration post

*toes crossed too now *

***Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

I’m so glad I do NOT have another kid, a third child, or else I do NOT think I can handle this kind of news anymore….

As if its not bad enough already (read yesterday’s post), I received this from Binbin’s school…

*super faint*

Oh man! Do I really need to visit the optical shop again? Or could I actually wait for him to go Primary 1 in 2012 for a confirmation?

*Scream*