All About Your Child

(( I can’t wait for school to start again!!! I miss blogging so much! With kids in the house 24/7, its really out of the question to get a post done. Ok, one more week. One more week and my life will be back to its usual momentum. Counting down now…. The following 3 posts will be back-dated. Yes, I’m typing THIS post at 1.22am on Friday 19th Jun, but THIS POST was meant to be on 15th. So I ‘cheated’ in a way…. *wink* ))

For the past 1 week or so, Binbin had been climbing onto my bed in the middle of the night. Every single night without fail. In fact, he refused to sleep on his own mattress.

We would grant him his wish only to wait for him to fall asleep and then carry him back down to his mattress. No matter how exhausted he was, without fail, he would ‘wake up’ at wee hours in the night and squeeze himself in between Allan and I on our queen size bed.

I asked “Why”. He said “Very itchy. Mosquitoes bite me. Very itchy.” But I know there wasn’t. ‘Cos if so, I’ll be the first to be bitten. Its been tested too many times to doubt that. *wink*

For the past 2 nights, I gave up my space, went down to his mattress to sleep, instead of squeezing with the two males. Minutes after I entered my dreamland, I was woken by itch too!!!

I suspected it might be an insect or worse, it might be dust mites. My 6th sense was telling me that the possibility of dust mites was 99%; after sleeping on that mattress for 2 consecutive nights. No no no, not that I saw them with my eyes. It was because Keatkeat was scratching every now and then too while he was asleep.

I never knew such microscopic insects existed till 5-6 years ago, when I was a Bazaar organiser. One of my vendor was Rainbow, the company which sells the cleaning system (they refused to call their product : vacuum cleaner), that not only cleans the floor but your mattresses too.

They had this video about dust mites playing repeatedly throughout the 5 days event. So that was how I increased my knowledge about why some kids woke up with very tiny red dots on their body, scratching all over during nap time and minutes later after waking up, the tiny red dots would disappear.

As I recalled what happened over the past week, I realised that Keatkeat and Binbin had those symptoms too.

And so, chip chip chop chop, we went for new mattresses for the boys early in the morning yesterday. I’m glad it came today (15th June. Just in case you forgot this is a back-dated post).

Everyone needed that UNDISTURBED rest so as to be chirpy and bright tomorrow for the trip to the zoo with my MIL, FIL, 2 nieces and 1 nephew.

So was my 6th sense right?

1st:

My 8year old niece, ZY, finally got what she wanted – her very own email address. Guess who she sent her first email to? *laugh* – Her Favourite ShenShen (Auntie) – good old ME!

Seriously, I think it would be a great way to improve her English, which is pretty worrying for her level right now. On top of that, she can pour her heart out and vent her frustrations anytime she wants, instead of waiting till  she sees me on Sunday. And more often than not, she doesn’t really have the chance for a quiet heart to heart talk when so many are around every week.

2nd:

Finally I have decided to start Keatkeat with briefs. More than a year ago, my sis suggested that ‘Its Time‘, but I wasn’t keen. I wanted his little ‘elephant trunk‘ to grow freely for another year or so before the ‘protection‘ begins.

In another 6 months, my elder one will be in Primary School. Truly, NOW, the time has come. He was excited, partly because his brief has his favourite Transformer picture on it – Optimus Prime. *wink*

Today is the 2nd day, no reminders needed. He just picked another piece of his newly-purchased brief this morning and slipped into it without any fuss before he pulled up his usual shorts.

When a kid is READY to be trained, its easy peasy for the parents. *Whoo-Hoo*

3rd:

Binbin went for his 4year old assessment this morning. My greatest fear might be coming true.

Binbin had a 12-1 for his left eye and 9-1 for his right. I asked what the numbers meant and the doctor told me: “12 means: what normal people with normal vision can see in 12metres, he can only see in 6metres. And the right eye ‘9’ gives the same explanation”

I asked: “Is myopia hereditary?” I know I’ve checked this question on Google so many times and I had even done a blog post on it. But with a myopic of 900+ on both his Mommy’s eyes, I just want to be 100% sure. Silly me.

He replied calmly: “To certain extend, Yes. But Environmental issues also play a part. Singapore has the highest number of children with myopia in the world. Studies have shown that the kids in Singapore tend to do more indoor activities like watching television, playing computer games, reading…. But research also have shown that sunlight have some positive effect on the retina, hence its advisable for the kids to be OUT playing in the sun at least 15mins every day.”

Hey hey, that last 2 sentences were something new to me. So I’m glad I was being ‘silly’ and asked that questioned. *wink*

He continued to advise me to bring Binbin back for another eye-check in 3-6 months time. ‘Cos the numbers shown were considered borderline cases, it may stablise or worsen. *sigh*

So till then, my fingers and toes are crossed tightly….