All About Your Child

On Thursday, Keatkeat was in a very good mood. After school ended around 12noon, he played happily with his hot-tempered brother for the entire afternoon without actually getting into a fight…

Keatkeat didn’t want to take his usual afternoon nap at 3pm but fell asleep on his own at 5pm+ when I was telling a story to them while they lie on their mattress…either my story was damn boring (*laugh*) or he had over-stretched his limits of staying awake.

After sunset, I tried to wake him up, he refused. He didn’t even whine. He looked as if he was hammered on the head and was completely knocked out. Being the go-with-the-flow kind of Mommy, I left him alone after trying to wake him up at intervals of half hour till it was 9pm! Yes, I didn’t bother to wake him up even though I knew he hasn’t had dinner and he should…

At 11pm+, in a drowsy tone, he called out, “Mommy, I want milk milk…” Without second thoughts, I gave him the milk he requested. He gulped down that 250ml of white liquid in super fast speed and concussed again!

The next morning, Friday, he woke up on his own at 7am for school! ON HIS OWN!!!!

Every Friday, it is Allan’s duty to wake him up for school. Though it may sound as if we fail our maths, we think it is FAIR that I wake up extra early from Monday-Thursday to bring my 4year old to school and take a break on Friday.

Allan was more than surprised to see Keatkeat walked out of the bedroom to greet him in the kitchen when he was preparing his snack for school!

With 14HOURS OF SLEEP Keatkeat was an ANGEL the entire Yesterday! He had huge appetite for lunch and dinner and was smiling throughout. Giving in to his brother like he had never done before. Helping us (parents) in small ways like taking our slippers for us when we were preparing to go out for dinner. Even for his usual ‘home-study period’, he did all the worksheets (I gave) perfectly well without me saying, “Can you pay ATTENTION please?!”… he was just so abnormally-good!

But today was very different from yesterday…

Other than his usual unpredictable self, he finally felt what is the real sense of loss.

My boys love to play in the bedroom more than their play corner. They like to roll the cars on the bed and would form tunnels and high cliffs using the bolsters and pillows. They somersaulted their hot-wheels cars in the air as the 4-wheeled metals fly off the cliffs.

I’ve told them many times that it is DANGEROUS to play near the window (my bed is pushed against the wall, just next to the window). Dangerous for their cars, NOT THEM.

Told them countless of times that there might be a possibility that their hot wheels will just fly out of the window and crashed to the ground. The level I’m at is 2-digit, so crashing to the ground could be THE-END of the ‘life’ of that car.

Kids or even Teenagers are usually in the Seeing-IS-Believing category. Nothing you say will REALLY register in their little heads till THE BIG ‘IT’ eventually happened.

Lo and Behold, after several months of ignoring their Mommy’s warning, IT happened today.

When I was reading my newly purchased book, ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, Keatkeat ran out of the bedroom, braked in front of me, clutching his hands with head slightly tilted-down, spoke in the softest voice ever, “Mommy, my blue car fall out of the window accidental…ly *WAILED*”

He was sobbing away and I was going, “See?! Didn’t I tell you that THIS would happened? ” He nodded unwillingly, he still have that pride in him that goes, “Damn! Mommy is RIGHT again!” Kids being kids…understandable… I was like that too, wasn’t you?

“I just hop it didn’t fall onto anyone’s head…did you hear screams after the car fell out of the window?” I continued.

So we went down with a heavy heart, Keatkeat was prepared to see his favourite blue hot-wheels car in pieces, but IT was in perfect condition! Though it lay wrong side up, it was completely ‘healthy’! I was amazed! To fall from that height and still be in one piece, it was almost unbelievable!

Keatkeat was almost in tears when he picked it up – tears of JOY!

(I’m really impressed with the workmanship of hot-wheels cars, REALLY IMPRESSED! Kudos!)

Unbelievably exciting weekend…

I was so eager to tell you about how I felt before the Working Mothers Forum, I forgot to talk about what happened during the forum, luckily I’ve got Malmal’s mom to remind me (see her comments for yesterday’s post).

So registration opens at 1pm with refreshments and people get to tour around the many booths that satisfy different needs of mothers or family.

Unbelievably natural-me photos…

Q, a very pretty and soft-spoken lady, one of the coordinator of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide attached some photos of me in action when I was on stage….(go see her comments for yesterday’s post and click on the links provided by her)

I reckoned that I have a ‘big’ mouth (as in physical size), not the ‘big’ mouth, as in going around spreading people’s secrets…*laugh*… and the professional photographer did captured ‘that part’ of me really well *huge laugh*

Go see the photos if you are interested to see my different expressions throughout the event….*wink*

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Unbelievably sick Sunday….

I woke up on Sunday morning like a pirate. My right eye was swollen with yellowish-greenish pus. *Ewwww*

As if moving around with one eye wasn’t bad enough, I was having a terrible runny nose. Never had that for a very very long time now.

I was practically lying down the whole time. Squeezing my eyes every other minute hoping the pus would be drained out that much faster….

As I type now, my eyes are better, my nose is better, just that I’m feeling a little groggy now, maybe due to too much rest….

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Unbelievably down on luck….

To me, being sick is normal, so I would not consider that as down-on-luck. But when you have got 3 electrical stuff down at the SAME time! That’s truly an unlucky day!

1) How many of you CANNOT ‘live’ without your mobile phone?! I would be in deep trouble because I hardly remember the numbers of ALL my contacts…and lo and behold, my mobile phone can’t be charged, can’t be switched on at all!

2) It was super warm last night and we needed the fan badly but its ‘spine’ was fractured because of the kids’ mischief (who else?).

In the end, we had to support it by tying a wooden stick to it to hold it up!

(see picture)

3) Allan needed to print his flyers urgently for his upcoming Open house for his client and yet the printer is down after a few prints…

*Urgghhh*

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Unbelievably cooperative kids…

But God is fair. Though I’m so sick, and nothing seemed to work well in the house, the kids were unbelievably cooperative.

Many of you have your hubby with you during weekend, I don’t, because of the nature of Allan’s job.

But coincidentally, Allan was free this weekend and hence was able to go to the forum on Saturday with me (giving me the moral support I needed badly) and being at home on Sunday to take care of the kids when 90% of the time I’m lying around, either on the sofa or the bed.

The kids hardly fight (physically) yesterday and today. They do have their arguments, but were resolved without our (adult) interference – amazingly rare. Then they played together harmoniously with their hot wheels.

When that didn’t excite them much, they cut papers and used markers to colour those tiny pieces and ‘decorated’ their cars by sticking them with scotchtape.

My house is in an unimaginable mess right now, but that’s alright…since there isn’t any guest coming over…sometimes when your kids are so damn obedient, even the mess they create looks pleasant to the eyes….*wink*