Rule #1. “Put your hands together, close your eyes and pray…” before meal and bedtime. (But he doesn’t close his eyes but bow down his head instead. Sometimes I’ll do a spot check by peeping at him if he curi makan or not. He didn’t! Amen!)
Rule #2. Have meals always on the high chair and not in front of the TV.
Rule #3. Buckle up when you are on your high chair. (more of Daddy’s rule)
Rule #4. Wipe your dirty hands and mouth with a hankerchief and not your clothes. (Do you wipe your tongue too? He does!)
Rule #5. No wasting of milk and bring the bottle to the kitchen after you had finished it. (But I wonder why they always left 1 or 1/2 oz milk unfinished)
Rule #6. Keep the toys before you go out kai-kai and before leaving the living room for bedtime. (But not all the time coz sometimes I don’t have the patience to wait for him or when we are short of time)
Rule #7. Abide when daddy or mommy says “Let’s go”. (Else there comes the “magic stick”)
Rule #8. Wear your shoe when you are out from the house and make sure you wears it right.
Rule #9. Sit in the shopping cart always and no running around the supermarket.
Rule #10. Stand up by yourself when you tripped/fell.
Rule #11. Put your dirty clothes in the laundry basket.
Rule #12. Take and eat the biscuit one at a time. No eating like a Garfield.
Rule #13. Always on your car seat. Cry and fuss will not release you from it.
Rule #14. Clear your toys that are in the bath tub after bath. (He sticks the fish foams on the wall and put the rest in the basin)
Rule #15. Comb your hair after bath. (I used to comb for him but beginning to let him comb himself now. Of course I still have to complete the job for him)
So, how well did he scores? I’ll give him 95%. What happened to another 5%? Well, that goes to his tantrum, temper, laziness and not paying attention.
While I’m still drafting my next post, I would like to post this up on my Cyberhome as a gesture of thank you to someone out there.
She was the first mommy blogger that sent Jonathan pressie on his 1st birthday. That year, we exchanged gifts on our son’s birthday and Christmas. It so happen that both our boys’ birthday falls on the same month and just few days apart.
This year, I reminded myself to send pressie to her son before his birthday. But that never happened because the pregnancy hormone made my memory gone wild and made me restless. And so her boy’s present is still sitting on my desk…unwrap even. Nevertheless, she still remember us. I was happy when she dropped me a note that she’s sending over a pressie for Jonathan’s 2nd birthday. So sweet and thoughtful of her.
My dear friend, I thank God for you. May God bless you and your family with happiness always.
The Almighty One above has planted a “seed” in our family and we will be harvesting the “fruit” in March next year.
This time was so much different from the first experience. I get all the symptoms and taste buds gone wild. It’s either the hormones is making up or age is catching up.
God has never failed to bless me with the good things. Having all these discomfort, I am thankful for Darling. He took over most of the responsibilites. Washing up after meals and taking care of Jonathan from bathing to his meals to cleaning up his poo poo and making his milk, except putting him to sleep because this little boy only wants Mommy’s sweet smell. 🙂
I just need to pen this down…for our family journal and sharing with other parents out there. This gonna be a long one.
It has been 2 years now…Two years ago of this day, Jonathan boy was diagnosed with Pyloric Stenosis and went through a surgery.
It all started when he was 2 weeks old. He started to vomit forcefully (projectile vomitting) after each feeding. During the first visit to the paediatrician, he suspected air in the stomach and so gave us some colic medicine. Two days later, we went back to the paed and he said it could be reflux or allergy. But Jonathan boy was fully breastfed and breast milk has never been not safe to a baby. Nevertheless, we listened to him and I stopped BF temporary and gave him anti-regurgitation milk as recommended for the reflux by paed. We were told to monitor his urine and bowel movement too.
Despite all these, his condition persisted and worsen. Still vomit forcefully, no intake of milk and his urine and bowel movement reduced. He was restless and slept most of the time. Losing weight and had sunken eyes. My mom, sis and MIL didn’t know what was wrong and had never experienced such condition in our family nor heard of it. Seeing him like that, I have the feeling of losing him and kept praying to God for mercy.
I looked through all the baby reference books I have and searched through the Internet but couldn’t solve this mystery puzzle. Every time, day and night, I was never at peace when feeding him as he may vomit anytime. It had became phobia. I had to be prepared with container, clothing and mop. I lost my appetite and lost weight during my confinement.
I looked through again at Dr. Spock’s baby and childcare book, page by page and word by word. God hears me and fix my eye on a subject called Pyloric Stenosis. I later confirmed this medical term on the Internet. Jonathan boy had exactly all the signs and symptoms mentioned. But to confirm the diagnosis, he may need to go through X-ray, barium swallow or ultrasound. The first two is too much to bear for a baby and so I was hoping that the ultrasound alone can confirm the diagnosis.
The next day, we brought him immediately to the paediatrician and told him if Jonathan could be suffering from Pyloric Stenosis. He was not convinced of that because he didn’t feel any abnormality during his physical examination as usually, you can feel an “olive” at the abdomen. And usually, the symptoms only showing when baby is 3 weeks old. Moreover, it is unlikely to happen among the Chinese, based on the statistics. No wonder he didn’t diagnose this earlier. Good thing the paeditrician was compassionate and he was willing to schedule for an immediate ultrasound to rule this out.
While waiting for the ultrasound report, I was praying to God that the ultrasound could diagnose his medical condition and let it be Pyloric Stenosis so that our mystery puzzle can be resolved. Really praise God that the ultrasound report came back positive to rule out that Jonathan is suffering from Pyloric Stenosis. Immediately, he helped us to make arrangement to see the best paediatric surgeons at SJMC.
We thought things would be fine now since we know what was wrong with Jonathan boy. But not really. They had to put him on tubes and the worst was putting a tube through his nose to drain the fluid from his stomach.
We heard his suffering cries from outside the room. It was so heartaching. When the nurse brought him out, my whole heart fell and tears rolled down. We didn’t expect and wasn’t prepared to see him this way. There was another tube for the saline at his foot as that was the best place they could find after trying from his wrist.
The surgery was scheduled for the next day. That night, both of us couldn’t sleep. He was cranky because of hunger. I can only pacify him and wet his lips with water. The next morning, I was allowed to accompany him at the ops theater recovery area because of his age. Praised the Lord that the surgery went well and the surgeon confirmed once again that it was Pyloric Stenosis and he had fixed it!
That same night, he was cranky. He was not allowed to drink yet. He was only allowed to drink few teaspoons of glucose the next morning just to monitor his digestion. I was only allowed to BF him later in the afternoon. It was such a relieved then.
The above pic was taken one his fullmoon which was 1 week after the surgery. It left a scar on his abdomen. Just a thin and very light line about 5cm long. I didn’t apply any anti-scar oil. Let it be there as something to remember. Anyway, the scar is not so obvious and appear on covered area.
Now, whenever you watches him eat, you never lost your appetite. And he never stop eating. Praise the Lord!
Jonathan boy received something special and very personalised from Ethan’s grandma. It came just nice as his 2 years old birthday present.
See…beautiful and priceless isn’t it?
Another happiest person seeing this is me! Haha….coz I’m a patch work lover but I don’t sew. My ever faithful blankie and pillow case made from simple patch work by my mom many many years ago. And my CG members gave Jonathan boy a homemade patch work quilt on his fullmoon.
Although Jonathan boy doesn’t know how to appreciate it now, but he sure loves the pillow especially the cartoons and his name sewn on it. Each night, I’ll recite to him the spelling of his name on the pillow. At times he will show and tell me where is Mickey’s car, nose, ear, hat, etc. So this is not just a pillow or bolster but a pillow book!
Ethan boy, say thanks and give your Grandma a kiss on behalf of Jonathan boy. Not forgetting Aunty Merryn too. Jonathan loves you! *muaks*
Jonathan is 2! Like his 1 year old birthday, we have Aunty-Next-Door’s children to add more fun to the celebration. This year, Darling’s sis and brother joined in the celebration.
Last year, Mommy put the candle on his cake. This year, he tried to put the candle on his own cake but smudged the cream.
Last year, he couldn’t tell/show his age. This year, he tried to say and could show that he is 2 years old.
Last year, his cousins help him to blow off the candle. This year, he blew off the candle by candle all by himself but with multiple tries coz his blow was too gentle.
Last year, Daddy and Mommy help him to cut the cake. This year, he wouldn’t let go the knife but didn’t do a good job coz the fondant was too hard for him.
Last year, he ate the cake. This year, he ate only the sugary sweet little car and big airplane.
Last year, he face was full of chicken pox. This year, his face is as smooth as Mommy. 😛
Jonathan boy, the Lord loves you so.
He will be with you as you grow.
May He bless you in every way…
as you follow Him each day.
And may He keep you in His sight…
from the morning through the night.
Was there last month and our first time at Cherating. We love the beach. There were so many little crabby, clear and clean sea water. Better than our dear beach back in hometown and needless to say, far better than PD. Didn’t really took pics while we were at the beach. What a waste!
These are the places we visited…
The best place is the waterfall. The water is so clear and clean and the place is well maintained. They are doing some renovation work currently to upgrade the place into a tourist attraction.
Worth to revisit Cherating. Will be back there again!
Darling : I will sing this song for my daughter on her wedding.
Me : What if you don’t have a daughter?
Darling : I will modify the song to suite my son’s wedding.
I was thinking – What is so great about this song coz my Darling hardly sing?
“I Loved Her First” – by Heartland Look at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each others face
So much in love your alone in this place
Like there’s nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one
She told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go on
And I’m not gonna stand in your way
But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she’d find you someday
But it still hard to give her away
I loved her first
How could that beautiful women with you
Be the same freckle face kid that I knew
The one that I read all those fairy tales to
And tucked into bed all those nights
And I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of time
But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she’d find you someday
But its still hard to give her away
I loved her first
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
Someday you might know what I’m going through
When a miracle smiles up at you
I loved her first
Tears started to drop when I browsed through the 2nd stanza. This is definitely a great song with very touching lyrics. Now I feel like having a daughter so that her Daddy can sing this song on her wedding.
My aunties cried when they see their daughters being led away by the groom. Yet they didn’t cry when seeing their sons brought home the bride. Funny isn’t it?
