Daily Archives: 30/05/2010

What’s your secret, little one?

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I’m really amaze at how some kids can sleep anytime, anywhere – it is definitely an ability that I would love to own. I could fall asleep in 2 blinks and be rested. A clear example would be Arianna when she was younger. I would take her grocery shopping and if I timed it right, she would be asleep right through the whole experience and wake up just as we reached home.

With KR, it’s a different story all together. If she’s home, she’s like clockwork…time to sleep means it’s time to sleep, no compromise. But if we’re out when she is supposed to be asleep, she quite happy to remain awake. She’d only fall asleep when we’re out if she really can’t keep her eyes open.

Here’s a pic of her asleep :

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Don’t you wish you knew what her secret was to falling asleep or if she’s been secretly using any sleep aids? *lol*

I reckon she fell asleep while playing and just couldn’t make it in time to lie down. :P Poor little thing….at least she got the appropriate support! ;)

Latest fabric loot

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I finally managed to find some time and went for some fabric shopping with Mum and Sis last week. We had to bring the kids along of course and mind you, it was no easy task trying to pick your fabric and keeping your toddler happy in her stroller.

It always ends up with me buying her something to keep her happy and this is not something I like to encourage but then again, any sewing mama would know that a fabric store is no place for a child, let alone an active one like Arianna.

So I guess I had to sort of give in and ensure that she was happy enough that I ended up buying 3 pieces of fabric. If only she was happy to be sitting there longer, I could have bought more. It was unlike the time when we went fitness equipment hunting – that’s all we did though. We hunted and in the end, decided that it was cheaper to just take walks to the shops every evening. *lol* We got our exercise and the girls got their evening walk in the pram without having to actually walk about. You can’t possibly complain about that, can you? :P

Going to the movies alone

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It can’t be that bad, can it? See, with just me at home, bored with nothing to do after the kids have gone to bed. I have been tempted many times to just take the car and go to the newest cinemas in town….just some 10 minutes away from home but I have been putting it off coz it seems so pitiful for me to go on my own.

One of the reasons that I have never gone alone is because it seems boring to do so. With a friend, you can hang out before the show starts and after, you could just pop out for a drink, to wind down before heading home. But alone, I think I’d end up at the cinema just as the show is about to start, and then zip back home right after coz what else am I suppose to do? Go for a drink all by myself? Golly, that would be really sad!!!

But the one thing good about going alone is that you could pick any seating you like especially in a 3 seat row (if you pick the middle one that is), it is highly likely that you’d end up having the whole row to yourself. :) No one dropping popcorn on your shoes or cold drinks dripping on your jeans. That’s not too bad a reason to go alone but nah, I think I’ll still wait for sis to come home to go to the movies. But sis, humph….she’s a brave one, she is. She’s gone many times on her own and I’m not sure what it is about going alone is that people tend to laugh at you when you do. But she pays them no heed. Good on ya, sis!!

Me, I’m too chicken, I think I’ll still stick to our good ol fashion home theater seating…. :P That way, I don’t have to stress out about anything at all. Ok, maybe in order to feel as if I *was* in a cinema, we might need to get a bigger tv. :D

Poor Cheeky!!!

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We just got back from the childrens clinic just now. Took Arianna there after she woke up from her nap. Poor thing had a swollen right eye which looked as if she got punched in the eye. Thank goodness it wasn’t blue black or I’d be in trouble for no reason!! :/

I only noticed it a little bit before noon that she had a slight swollen right eye. It bother me too much because sometimes, she gets these panda eyes from lack of sleep and such. But Mum told me that it had gotten worst and it would be a good idea to take her to the doc. But I said to wait after her nap to see if it had improved or not. I wasn’t THAT concerned because I knew she didn’t fall down anywhere or on anything coz she hadn’t cried the whole day, nor was it tearing and she wasn’t even scratching it. Heck, she didn’t even flinch when I touched it either…so I made the conclusion that it couldn’t possibly be
anything threatening until Mum mentioned that it could be conjunctivitis and that SO freaked me out for her sake and for mine!

So after her nap, the swell seemed to have gone down a little but it was still there and before I had a chance to say ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, the swell seemed to have had ballooned up! So I quickly got dressed and we both headed off to the clinic without Mum and KR.

Praise the Lord that it was nothing serious at all. In fact, doc said that it was perhaps due to an allergic reaction to something she ate (which I have no idea what it was since I don’t know of any allergies that she has) or some insect bite which she is allergic to. Either way, we came back with some medication as well as a cream for the bites. Just those 2 medications cost me a whooping RM64. *pengsan* I’m wondering if it’s because she is a foreigner that we got charged so much coz I saw on the register that the patient before me only paid RM20.

Humph….double standards right? I’m Malaysian what…..anyhoo, we’ll see how it goes tomorrow. I don’t have any worries about giving Arianna any meds….she loves it! Crazy girl….. ^.^