Monday, October 30, 2017

Mini Milestones : Jasmine's 49th month

Last day in hospital, she was quite engrossed in cutting paper with scissors. I initially planned to make her cake topper with her help but ending up being her helper to cut paper. She was using one finger free on her right hand to hold the scissors and cut, sometimes using the left hand. So I was there to help hold the paper or help press the scissors. She pretended she is the queen mummy, I am the baby princess, daddy is the king and Jasper is the princess jeje. Ah Yi is the prince. For so so so long in this whole month (and following month), each time she sits down to cut paper... I tried to ask her to make Jasper the prince instead, she refused, she said just pretend only. 

When nurse removed the needle on her right hand, she cried so loud. I thought she would be happy? 

Finally home from hospital. We did a little treasure hunt for her to locate her birthday present. 
It's early birthday present, I thought it's nice to welcome her home with a surprise. :)
Of course with much guidance, she finally found the present in the drum room!
She was very happy!
That night, she said she misses her bed so much!! She was so happy to be back.
2nd Sept, we went to Sunway Lagoon again, and we told her our passes are expiring very soon, she said she will miss it.
We wanted to take the boat again but the timing is just bad, it starts only at 3pm and closes before 5pm! So... we ended up at the petting zoo again.
She did a bit of catching long kang fishes. We were worried for her a bit for being outdoor too long because she had just recovered. I remember worrying over her having another attack and we have to send back to hospital, but thank God that didn't happen.

Just for about 5 minutes I let them play with sand (again, I was worried there are too much bacteria in the sand so I didn't encourage her to play too much) while Joshua tested out his drone.

She has to do nasal spray 4 sprays into each nostril, twice a day! She hated it and I could understand why. She wants daddy to do and must have a blanket / napkin in her hand, ready to wipe after the sprays. She struggled and tried to run away in the beginning but after that she knew she has to do it, so she will stay still. She always reward her with chocolates and also, the antibiotics that doctor prescribed, she dislike too, which is rare. So this one must be very hard to swallow.
I told her that I love her a lot almost everyday. But one day I told her I love her a little bit, but.. it is a little bit more everyday and when we add all up, it became so much love. :) She loves the concept and she repeated it for a few days too. It's a good concept to mathematics! Haha.


Here, doing cutting cutting again.

We took the strider bike out for a good spin on Sunday night at Home Pro, while trying to search for a good light and wall fan for our living room. She did quite well on the bike.

4th Sept, is a public holiday but Joshua had to work. So Anne and I took the opportunity to go to Ikea. Just before that Jasmine was watching peppa pig going to windy castle, so she told me in the car that she wanted too. I told her yes we are going to windy castle, I branded Ikea was the windy castle to her and she loved it. She fell in love with this study nook and told us she wants the same at home. Challenging wish to fulfill. -_-
After our quick shopping, we bought chocolate donuts for her and Jasper (he preferred the curry puff). And we bought one pack of it, to serve at her birthday party. :)

That night, Joshua brushed teeth for her, after that she sighed. Joshua asked her "is it long day?", she replied "yah long day".

5th Sept, I hugged her before I go to work, she told me "I will miss you today".

Doctor wants her to stay home for 2 weeks before going back to school. So our plan was 1st week stay home with Ah Yi, 2nd week stay home with home owners.

So her first day home with Ah Yi, they went to Aeon Big (windy castle no. 2). They bought chicken, she asked Ah Yi why, Ah Yi said to cook it. She asked why want to cook. Well because we want to eat.
Lunch time I came back home with food for Ah Yi, and while we eat our lunches together, I read Fox in Socks to her twice until she finished her lunch. She loved the book I was surprised, because I myself didn't quite like it. Then I said I was going back to work, she said no, and why I cannot work at home. Haha. Also she asked where are her friends since it's her birthday. Yeap, it's the actual day, but birthday party is not until 8th September.

That evening, I took back the flower girl dress I ordered from Lazada Tao Bao. It fits her!
She made popcorns with Ah Yi after her nap, and she ate a lot even before the pop corn making was over. And when I came home, she was still eating them, and when I join her eating, she told me with evil smile "we finish itttt"!

Joshua went to buy her a slice of chocolate cake slice, where we sang birthday song for her to celebrate. She blew off the candles by herself. 
Cut the cake and ate it almost half by herself. She loves it because it's chocolate but dislike the sour from the strawberry.
That's the cookies I bought for her from Ikea. She wanted because it's pink.

Here she is mouth stained with chocolate and pretend to be working on a computer.

Natural poser.

Another lunch time, I bought some sugar cookies for RM2, she likes it at first but the next day she doesn't like it anymore, because it is too sweet. 


We let her practise her biking at the back, trying to let Jasper use the scooter but always end up Jasper will cry to ride on the bike. 

Can't remember it being which night, where she couldn't eat her dinner. We didn't force. But before her bath time, Ah Yi was reading a book that has a rooster in it to her, she said to Ah Yi "I feel like eating the chicken". During bathtime, she told me she wants to eat chicken, so I went downstairs microwaved it and brought it upstairs to feed her.

Ah Yi tries to do some workbooks with her at home, she taught her how to count beyond 10. When comes to twelve, she explained it as "Two Elve", then when comes to 13, she said "Three Elve". Another time was she counted as twelve, threeteen.
Other perks with having Ah Yi around was she did mani pedi after nap, sitting comfortably on the bed while listening to worship songs. She get to pick her own nail polish colour and decide which goes where.
When Ah Yi do nose sprays with her, after 2 days she said she is big girl and she won't cry during nose sprays. And she said confidently, "I can do so many times!". Such a strong girl.

Finally is 8th September! Her outdoor snack party. I came home after lunch while Joshua took half day off. She was having her nap in living room and it was raining. We had plan B to have the party indoor but that didn't stop us from inflating all the balloons I had in the house. Can't even recall where I got them.
She woke up to see balloons and immediately was happy. I was a bit unwell so when Joshua went to pick up Jasper and Kara, we waited together in living room, while I try to rest with eyes close, she watched videos on my phone. And she asked me why her party not yet start.
It's quite stressful when you plan party for your kid, because they have certain expectation and you just keep praying and hoping that everything will just turn out fine...

Kara came together with Jasper home after LL. And for very very long it was just the 3 of them at the back. I was so worried that they will be bored!

They eat, they talk... Jasper was just eating non stop.
I serve the nicest ribena drink to them.




All sort sof snacks, pop corns, donuts, poky, oat cracker, sugar cookies etc.

Then they were done eating and had to find some things to do! So I quickly took out the chalk for them to draw on the floor. Got to have better planning next time.... must take into account most people will come late!

After drawing and drawing....


Only last minute I was informed Lisa was going to come. I told her about it and she remembered that we need to give Lisa the party pack! She remembered us making the party packs together and she wrote names for Eli, Isabel, Kara and Kayleb. So, I quickly made one party pack for Lisa.
When the other kids and parents start coming... phew.... I feel much much much better. 

This is the full attendance of her birthday party. :)
They liked the swing so much until it shifted a little due to the huge impact of them swinging it.


After outdoor, she suddenly took all her friends to living room to play. 
Joshua quickly play the video where the kids laughed and said Jasmine was on TV. 

She also took them upstairs to her room.
Once she was suddenly angry and told Joshua this is different from last time and that she's disappointed. -_-
She made angry face when she's in her room. I asked her what she wants, she said want to eat cookies. Ok so I took her downstairs and gave her cookies. 
The kids played dress up upstairs, I helped provide nice fabric and tied for them to pretend it's either a robe or a dress. They also play with the balloons, each kid get one and then they also play hide & seek. 

Not just upstairs, they continue to play even when they're downstairs.
Birthday cake!! :) 

During the homes ice breaker, she said out loud & clear that her favourite animal is a butterfly! Although Kara said that it's not an animal, but we are still proud that she said it out loud.


Next morning open birthday presents. Only 2 presents. One is a Princess Sofia figurine, another one is a white board and magnetic maze, 2 in 1. 
I didn't like the white board part because she draw the market on her pyjamas and that black color cannot be washed away. It's my favourite mothercare marshmallow pyjamas. :(
Elijah added in his home made puzzle.... took us some time to put it together.

Our last day in Sunway Lagoon.
Compared to exactly 1 year ago when we first entered the park... how much she's grown... oh my baby girl. :) 
She's such a sweet girl. When I screamed at her to smile at camera, she just smile so sweetly at the camera. :)

It rained so both kids had to wear rain coats.
The red one was purchased from Lazada for Taiwan trip but never got used. The blue one from I think from Giant, disposable rain coat, obviously too big for little Jasper boy.
Walked the bridge in the rain and then waited for the cup ride.
I needed this ride so I can sit and just rest under the fan...

Bye bye Sunway Lagoon... 

Dinner with Daniel & Jade, Rayson & Yee See. The 3 girls sat together to do colouring activities.
Then ate sesame seed together. 
And a happy photo together.

Sunday we went to SS12 park for a picnic and ride the balance bike, and that day we opened the new bike that we bought for Jasper. 
Tong Kee egg tarts and some ribenas.


I took the leftover birthday balloons there and most of it broke after touching the grass. The remaining ones I tied to her bike and she pretended they are her hons, so many. She's selling ice creams.
Jasper's new bike finally no more fighting for the red one.

She went around freely and happily selling pretended ice cream!

Role play in the kitchen with daddy.
Joshua caught a spider and busy showing both of them. It tried to escape but letting more webs.

Beat the egg with Ah Yi.

Workbook time with Ah Yi. See that this corner still does not have direct fan coverage and that the lights are yellow. We are going to add a wall fan and replace the existing yellow light to a warm white kind of light.

So after staying home with Ah Yi for 1 week, we took her to see doctor for follow up, and doctor said she could return to school. 
Means we don't need homeowner to come.. but they already were coming. So first 2 days she was there full day, and the other 3 days was just half day. I think they fed her half boiled egg and lots of digestive biscuits there. 

She was very happy to be back in school, she told us Wei Wong is her best friend and she wants to invite him to Jasper's birthday party. 

17th Sept, she woke up and was in very good mood, because she had a ballerina dream where she dance while painting our faces. Later after Acts Kids she tried to spin on one leg like a ballerina. 
That night, she asked for prayer, that she wants to dream of all he LL friends. 
Birthday presents from Teacher Joan. She's not that into the pretend make up stuffs though I realised.

Movie night again at our room.

Helped to encourage Jasper to poop into potty, but success rate still zero.





Wants to use training chopsticks since I put it in the diaper bag.

We went to Courtyard Book Xcess to buy book for Isabel's birthday party at Homes. Took their bikes along.
Both of them hold hands in living room and got few people finding it really cute & sweet.

Here's at car park, she was encouraging Jasper to keep going.

That weekend, she started sneezing since Saturday night, all the way till Monday. Even when we feed her vitamin C twice a day, nasal sprays twice a day, she was still down with running nose. Sigh.

Monday, we forgot to inform teacher that we would like to cancel the birthday celebration, at 3pm I got a call asking whether I was going to arrive. We found out that it was already announced and there was for sure disappointed when it was said that we had emergency and couldn't come. We were so guilty so we promised to do the birthday celebration on Tuesday.

That night, Joshua took her along to buy birthday cake to bring to LL next day.
She wrote her own name on the paper, to write on the cake.


Finally on 19th Sept, we were there at LL for her birthday party. She was smiling while eating papaya sitting next to Judah.
Jasper kept wanting to be carried and didn't eat his papaya properly. Teacher Mickee had to bribe him with the fish biscuits.
When asked who want to pray for Jasmine, 3 boys (Zach Zach, Nathan & Judah) volunteered and a girl (Ann Ann) too. End up Jasmine picked Nathan to pray.


Ah Yi was there! :)
Teacher MicKee told us that Timothy asked where is Jasmine during her absence and that he's generally more gentle towards Jasmine. Haha.

Science experiment with mummy! I realised we have been slacking on this so I felt that we should just do something, although not great or not successful, at least we do to expose her to the idea of science.


Trying to explain the space taken up by air, something we cannot see but it's there.

Homes before going back to Muar. Celebrate Isabel's birthday.


It really breaks my heart to see sometimes when people snap multiple photos, she's not in the frame. I should say I really hate when that happens. Sigh.


Back in Muar and she was glad to meet baby Jolene.

Garden time with Ah Ma, on the famous stone chair.

She got this blue scarf from Ah Ma.

We took some professional family photos, in need for an update for our feature wall.

We took the balance bike back so they can cycle outside.
She was re-telling the mister wolve story that she saw herself telling in the 4yo birthday video.
Parks her bike here then go over to sit on the stone chair.
Nap time. This time we didn't bring back the inflatable swim pool.

Science experiment with daddy!
One is about the air again, pushing against the paper thus the water didn't fall out of the cup.
Another one was the swirling current in the water, with the tissue in the water and taking out the plug.


Back in Subang Jaya, she likes to squeeze with Jasper her to drink milk together. Note that she's using her sippy cup. She sometimes asked for it instead of using bottle. 

We went to black and white and again she was using chopsticks at own initiative.
This is her baby, watching her eat.

Another Science experiment with daddy on Sunday. I think this one didn't turn out quite right, so end up being more of a painting session.


Sending her to school one happy morning, she was in good mood. 
Paused to smile after removing shoes.
She hopped her way to sit with her friends for outdoor class. I had it all in video. :) I like it that she's so cool.

29th September, she caught the viral fever from school, we initially thought only Jasper has fever and I was going to send him to see doctor that morning. She was having fever 38 degrees and rejected by LL, so I took both with me on that raining morning to see Dr Koe. That evening after medicine, her fever was still 38, then at night dropped to 36.7.

We had movie night, to watch the new Despicable Me, she saw Gru laugh, she said cannot laugh too much later cough.

30th September weekend, Ah Ma was with us!! :D She was having fever 38.5 after nap, was tired & moody. We were so worried she would pass the Influenza bacteria to Ah Ma. LL confirmed it's not just viral fever but Influenza. However both of them took the vaccination more than a year ago and somehow protected them from the full swing symptoms.

At first we wanted to go to Mothercare after dinner, but we discussed over dinner probably we shouldn't go because she still need rest. She misunderstood us and started crying. She thought we were still going to Subang Parade leaving her alone at home! Haha. I assured her we will never leave her home alone.

After we bought balance bikes for both of them, we know we want to sell off this trike, but suddenly they were playing with it again... so we decided to keep it longer.
Wore the Hush Puppies skirt that Evelyn said it's a bit big for Jolene, so let Jasmine wear first. 
She was a bit miserable here due to running nose and blocked nose.

She has her eat stuck with air she swallowed saliva and fixed it herself.

That's all for September updates! It's getting harder and harder to write and catch up! I feel that I am almost always clearing backlogs.

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