All About Your Child

This is a continuation of yesterday’s post “Bathing“…

Keatkeat: “Mommy, I am very happy to see that you give me (he mimicked my 2 thumbs up). But on other days when you are not in the bathroom, I still bathe my normal way.”

Can You Imagine The Stare I Gave Him???!!!!

I started to train my boys to bathe on their own when they were 3 years old. I taught them, I demonstrated to them because we bathed together and I corrected them.

After 1 month of training which happened 2 years ago, Binbin had no problem, as usual, when it comes to learning survival skills. There is no issue of too much soap taken or too short rinsing time. Back then, when he was only 3 years old, his only issue was not wiping himself dry ‘enough’ after the shower. *smile*

……..

*Deep Breath*

As for Keatkeat….I started training him 3 years ago…. but he did not take one month to master…. *sigh*

Or maybe I should not sigh, I should be celebrating because FINALLY!!!! After practising for 3 years! He can bathe on this own without me nagging:

“too little shampoo…”
“shampoo your whole head! Not just this two parts…”
“if you don’t go under the water how are you going to wash your hair?…”
“you’ve forgotten to put soap here, and here and here and….”
“there is still soap on your body, how can you say you are done?….”

And FINALLY after practising for 3 years, I NO longer see these scenes:

He used to wash his hair as if they were porcuppines’ spikes! Touching them seems to hurt him! *eyes rolled*

He caress his hair as if a slight force would cause him to be bald!!! *super eyes rolled*

He only shampoos his ‘horns’! Every other part of his head is un-shampooed! *pout*

Washing his own rear area made him feel like he had to drown himself into the sewage! *shake head*

Putting his head under the water raining down from the shower cap made him feel like he is going to give up his spirit any moment. *double shake head*

So….

FINALLY all these are over!

Since 3 years ago, I gradually moved from bathing with them together, to checking on them on alternate days, to weeks, to alternate weeks, to the current monthly checks. I am happy with my achievements.

I am proud to tell people that my younger one Binbin, had been bathing independently since he was 3. When I meanAs for Keatkeat, though he needed 3 years of practise, I am still happy that he finally did it!. *smile*

The days whereby no more spot-checks are needed is round the corner….

*clap clap clap*

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
~ Charles R. Swindoll

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…..

When….
He allows me to play with his toys.
He giggles at my jokes.
He laughs at my weird expressions.
He shares tidbits with me when there’s only one packet left.
He puts his arm over my shoulder.
He plays nicely with me (and doesn’t hit me).
He doesn’t switch off the toilet lights when I’m shitting….
*giggle*

~ Angeline Foong, for her sons…

I call myself a sleep queen because the moment I am ready to sleep, I can sleep almost immediately, for many hours (my longest record was 16hours)  at anywhere (once in the toilet) and in any position. *giggle*

I was lying beside my boys… Fell asleep before them… Was suddenly woken with a big shake from Keatkeat…

Keatkeat: “Mummy! Wake Up! Wake Up!”

Me: “What?” Still semi-conscious…

Keatkeat: “You are lying on my pillow.”

I pushed the pillow back to him and ready to climb back to my bed but was stopped by the little hand…

Keatkeat: “EEeeeeeeee…….. Your saliva is on my pillow!!!! So wet! How to sleep?! EEeeeeeee……”

NOW I’m awake because of embarrassment. I stripped the pillow case from the pillow and threw it to the corner, thinking that it would appease him enough so that I can get back to sleep.

I was wrong…….

Keatkeat: “Eeeeeeee…… my pillow is still wet!!! You got so much saliva!”

Super embarrassed and awake, I took the pillow away and said: “You have 2 pillows anyway, sleep with one tonight. Will wash this tomorrow morning.”

Keatkeat: “Wash properly ok! If not will be very smelly….”

*screeeeaaammmm* Find me a hole to hide in!!!

Homework , oh homework,
I wish I had more,
‘cause life without homework
would be a big bore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more,
‘cause school without homework
would be a big snore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I’d had more,
‘cause with my homework,
I cover the floor.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more,
but when I sit down to do it,
my tushy gets sore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more,
‘cause if I don’t have it,
you will hear me snore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more.
My homework is missing,

I’m going to get sore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more.
Homework, oh homework,
it’s my favorite chore.

Homework, oh homework,
I wish I had more.
That’s why I scream as I
run out the class door.

~ 10 years old