Personalize

My boss commented that my office's wall looks empty. Well, my office is indeed empty. I didn't have too many stuff (other than work stuff), not like when I was in my old workplace. 

I had leftover of the kids' pix and they are put to good use.

I already have 2 people who commended the pix. Hehe.

Mummy Lim

The Boy is Down

Popo told me in the evening that Lil Isaac is down with a fever. I sort of expected that ever since Daddy Lim came down with a throat infection. The boy was already sneezing away yday. Luckily, we weren't too adventurous yday and didn't run around in the sun or swim like how we usually would. Else, maybe he would be worse.

He looked ok when we picked him up but grew lethargic as the fever peaked. He measured 38.9 degree just before bed and willingly went to bed after the medicine. I gave him bufen. Poor boy. The little monkey who would go to bed in his singlet and diaper is now clad in long pj pants and asked to be wrapped in blanket. 

I wonder if jiejie will go down next. Lil Isaac probably cannot go to school tomorrow and Lil Shauna is complaining that she's coughing and needs to skip school too. Win already.

Mummy Lim

Pet

We were watching documentary. It was about a herd of elephants and one of them is a baby elephant. Lil Shauna said that the baby elephant is so cute.

LS: Hmmmm... I think, if I can, I want to keep a baby elephant as a pet instead.

ML: ?

LS: When it is still small.. When it grows bigger, then I will throw it away.

ML: What??!! You cannot throw away your pet!

LS: Ok, then when it is bigger, I will sell it to somebody else. Hehe.

ML: ...

Mummy Lim

"Police"

Last week, Lil Shauna asked to cycle at the mini park downstairs. Lil Shauna has a pink 4-wheeler bicycle. She doesnt really ride in it, opting to scoot or rollerbalde most of the time.

Lil Isaac inherited her pink tricycle that is starting to rust and appears to fall apart too. We didn't want to buy another tricycle, since we already have one, even though it is pink. We had wanted to buy a bicycle for Lil Isaac too. However, the last 2 occasions that we tried him on a bicycle in the shop, he didn't peddle very well.

Last week, we saw that he seemed to be able to peddle the tricycle and he proves us right. He was so excited and peddled really well at Kiddy Palace when we tried out the bicycle. Some thing really do come with age. So, we finally got him a blue bicycle. He was over the moon. He rode the bicycle to Centris from Kiddy Palace and then a bit more beside the pool in Centris. The bicycle has "Police" written all over and Lil Isaac decided to call it "Police".

In the late afternoon, we headed to West Coast Park with my bro's family and the kids cycled. Lil Isaac loves to ride his bicycle. I  rollerbladed after the kids. My blades are disintegrating too due long period of non-usage but still usable. It was so much easier than walking. Daddy Lim had to quick-walk after the kids and looked at me with envy. He kept saying that we should both buy new blades and do this more often. Hehe.

We had dinner at Mac and ended the day with some more cycling, scooting, playground and sand digging. It was a great way to bond. Supposedly cheap too if we already have the gears in place. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Brightens My Day

Lil Shauna asked for the iPad this early morning.

ML: OK, but you have to do your phonics first.

LS: Huh? Then I don't want the iPad already.

ML: But you still need to do your homework. Haha.

LS: O.o"

Daddy Lim sent the doctor on Thursday night for a suite of flu symptoms and was given plenty of medicine. The doctor said that he has a throat infection.

He is definitely feeling better and told me this morning that he is hiccuping from the medicine and über irritated. 

Hiccups??? Never heard such a side effect from medicine! Poor Daddy Lim but so funny.

Mummy Lim

See the Doctor

Daddy Lim is coming down with a flu and wanted to see the doctor that the kids always visit when they are down. The doctor is fairly kids friendly and gives out stickers freely to sick kids after consultation.

Lil Shauna asked Daddy Lim, "can you help me to ask the doctor for stickers when you see him?" Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

It Finally Happened

It finally happened. The phone couldn't work for a while and suddenly it was alright again. By then, it had decided to wipe out all my contacts. My iPhone is a simple communication device and camera to me and I have not attempted to sync and back up and duno what else with the home computer. So, all are gone.

 I don't have that many contacts to begin with but I felt the pain to have to re-key whoever's contact that I still have base on the conversations in the watsapp and sms history. There are quite some guessing game to do. I can also imagine the pain of those with a full book of contacts. Then, there are contacts of friends, whom I have not contacted for a long time and their contacts are all gone. Daddy Lim said that these "friends" probably aren't that "important" since I haven't contacted them for such a long time. Win liao.

I did the fb thing, declaring about my lost contact. Then again, I am a hermit on fb and have only that limited pool of friends. 

I heard this happen pretty frequently to iPhone users. A friend commented on my fb post that it happened to him 3x! Another friend watsapp me to identify himself and asked when am I switching to android. Haha. I will, when my contract expires. I have actually been toying with that idea recently. I am sick and tired of iPhone's limited memory and thus the need to constantly do housekeeping. Hmmm.. Maybe my iPhone read my thoughts and took a revenge on me before I could change it. Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

Longkang Fishing

We have no agenda on Sunday. I suggested USS but Daddy Lim was lazy. After much discussion, we decided to go to the Bottle Tree Park at Yishun for some longkang fishing.

Basically, children are given a simple net and small plastic fish tank. They then go into a shallow man-made pool where small ornament fishes (like guppies) are put in from time to time. There is no time limit. At the end of it, they can bring whatever fishes that they have caught home.

I don't really like fishes or waddling in a fish pond. Thus, I left most of that to Daddy Lim. I chose to skip on the man-made rocks in the pond and managed to "scoop" some fishes. It is quite fun. I personally didn't catch longkang fishes when I was young. I think that is a playtime more for my parents' era (??). I did enter the pond towards the end and realised that the pond isn't slimy as I thought it would be. The floor was rough to prevent slipping.

Lil Shauna said that she didn't want to enter the pond. However, she thoroughly enjoyed herself once she got in and caught quite a few fishes on her own. Lil Isaac went into the pond and fell soon after. He was wet throughout. When he was in the pond, he felt stinging pain and complained that the fishes bit him. Then, he refused to enter the pond, until towards the end. Just like mummy, he is über scared of fishes. 

We bought 2 fish tank full of fishes home at the end. Popo was in disagreement but gave in bcos Daddy Lim insisted. He is the man. 

Today is day 3 and all the big fishes were dead, leaving the really small ones. I think there isn't enough oxygen to go around.

I was worried that the kids will be affected by the dying fishes but I am quite wrong. They don't quite remember about their fishes, having only peeped at them once since they were brought home. They also didn't quite seem affected about the fishes dying. Hmmm... I am right to delay pets in the house. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Growing a Molar

Lil Shauna said that her gum hurts and she has a tooth growing right behind on the right side. I thought she was kidding until I checked. She indeed has a molar breaking out on the right side!

Is this the right time? She's a big girl already. 

Mummy Lim

Colouring

Lil Shauna needs to color her school homework after all the writing. She hates such coloring and I normally have to help, just like what I did this morning.

After the 1st page of colouring, she asked me to color all of page 2 on her behalf. I told her to do at least one picture. She replied, "teacher not here in our house, she won't know."

Win already.

Mummy Lim