updates.. virus virus go away!

Have not been blogging for a long time, cuz I am too stretched and swarmed..

1. the kids have been sick for like 3 weeks.

Both of them, fever, cough, running nose, the full works.. En had it worst, so bad that he finally gave in to antibiotics this feb. We alwas advocate letting his body fight the germs and never sought out antibiotics unless it is the last option available.

So when his fever came back again and with fevour along with the bad nose, the doc recommended antibiotics..

Xuan was slightly better, he only has wrecking cugh in the middle of the night.. my heart wrenches when his coughing fits starts…

So it has been a distracting month..

2. hubby been busy working..

Morning, day, night, weekends, NJ has been working..
En always ask where is papa..
And he also knows must dial “999 to catch bad man, bad man is naughty”..
Stability only returned recently…

3. I have been hectic socialising with ppl coming to our place, catch up etc etc…

And planning for the future.. and stuff... so too tired to do anything else..

But the kids' development has been amazing..!!

Xuan xuan is amazng though.. he has not walked, but he is riding his bike, within 1 day he knows how to ride backwards and forwards! And he know how to turn corner to navigate.. and he climbs up and down the bike by himself.

He is one cool chap..

I started calling home now to chat with En En regularly, it is very enjoyable. He will tell me what he eats, and what he does, and i feel more in touch with him.

He is also exercising his mind more.. when I ask him why he keeps crying 1 night because he started wailing and cried the netire trip hme when I did not follow him home, and only Papa went with him, he says he is sad. I thought he was sad because I was not around.. he thought for a ong while, and said “I am sad becoss…. Papa is angry at me”.. and I was like.. “Wat!” I suspect husband must have said some stern wprds at him and he translated that to mean hubby was mad at him..

On another occasion, he wanted to bring 3 books out for dinner. I told him to bring only 1.
He continued to take 2, and I thought he did not understand me, turned out he asked Papa to take 2, and En takes only 1 as per what I requested.
I have to grant that to him, he is quite resourceful sometimes..

Howrver, when I went with him to his N1 outing to watch the musical "the little red hen", the teachers were telling me how clumsy he was last year, that he will fall and spill things or bump into things or people etc but this year, he is managing better.. all the other kids in his class seem so smart! And I ve to chide myself not to be a kiasu mum. And that I can't compare.. but it took some rationsaliation instead..

But he feeds himself very well in school and so long as he has fun, I try not to be too worried..

I am very happy to be with them, it is a joy to see them play and learn and well, fight..
the fights are bad, and I am putting all the theories into use..
they dun always work, esp. when Xuan is so young, so even when I ask En to use words to say and not use his hands to show what he wants, Xuan does not get it.. so i have to time out them sometimes so that they are both doing different things!!

days like this, and work like this, i wish I am a stay at home mum!!!!