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30 Dec 2007
An afternoon at the Mountbatten Children Community Library
We spent the afternoon at the Mountbatten Children Community Library because Viv found out that they had they a big collection of Ladybird books for kids. The Mountbatten CCL is located at ground floor of the Katong Community Centre.
We had lunch at Kim Moh Restaurant at Laguna Park before heading for the the CCL. When we got there, I was suprised to find that we were the only ones there, apart from the friendly & helpful librarian. It was a cosy place, with several kiddy tables and chairs, and best of all, lots of books for kids. Viv managed to find several Ladybird books for Ash, thus mission accomplished.
Ash reading her books

As the NLB was having the DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) promotion, we were entitled to a lucky dip for borrowing 8 books. This is what we got; a bag which will come in useful for our next visit to the library. Well, we didn't actually "win" the bag, what we actually picked was a paper-clip, but the librarian was kind really nice and she gave us the bag instead.
And of course Ash had to carry it.


From the NLB website :

Community Children's Libraries (CCLs) are located in the void decks of HDB (Housing & Development Board) estates, and are targeted at children aged 10 and under. CCLs offer books in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil in addition to multimedia terminals to make learning fun.

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25 Dec 2007

A Barely Merry Christmas

What a Christmas it is this year ! Was woken at 3am by Viv. Ash was running a fever. After administering paracetamol, Ash asked for milk and barely minutes later, she broke out in a coughing fit and vomitted. She continued to cough very badly, full of phlegm. At 3:30am, we decided to rush her down to KKH, worried that her Bronchoilitis might be back. We finally got home at 6am, after her chest x-ray showed no infection and the attending doctor did not detect any wheezing in her lungs. After putting Ash to bed, I managed to catch 2 hours of sleep, till 8.30am, afterwhich it was Viv's turn to catch some sleep.
That was not all. At 1pm, Ash tried to poo, which was the start of a very very long and constipated afternoon. After 2hrs of crying and trying, Ash fell asleep, exhausted from her exertions. She woke again at 4pm and it started again, crying and trying. At 5pm, I rushed out to the nearby Guardian to buy suppository. An hour after insertion, there was still nothing coming out. I knew that either the suppository had come out or I didn't insert it deep enough. At about 6.30pm, we took her diaper off and saw the suppository and her half out poo. She was crying very badly. We brought her to the nearest clinic that was open at Rivervale Plaza. We were 10th in the queue, thankfully, the nurse was kind enough to cut our wait by half. Lots of struggling, one Mircolax, lots of crying and 10mins later, the words we wanted to hear "Daddy, I done, done." Got home at 9pm, Viv and I were dead-tired. Ash finally fell asleep at 11.30pm, but not before several bouts of coughing.

In between fever and constipation, we did manage some merriness, about 3 hours of it. Ash had a nice time opening her presents when she woke at 10am.

Merry Christmas !!



Presents from Mummy



Present from Daddy

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24 Dec 2007

All decked out for Christmas morning

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24 Dec 2007
Some photos at Yu Guo
Not sure what happened, Ash's cough seemed to be getting better with the herbs and massages, and then it just deteriorated all of a sudden on Saturday afternoon. We are now wondering if she is allergic to tomatoes since she had ABC soup last Saturday. Similar thing happened a few weeks back, her cough got worse after ABC soup. So her massage sessions have been extended.
Ash has started enjoying her massage sessions and is now able to sit quietly on the bed, while her hand is being massaged.
So much so that she will now even lie on her tummy to have her back massaged.

Daddy needs a good massage too !!

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22 Dec 2007
Hair cut at Super Cuts
Ash needed a haircut, or at least mummy thought she did. Brought her back to Super Cuts at Compasspoint because 1) they've got hairdressers who can cut a child's hair 2) they've got a child seat in the shape of a toy car 3) they've got a TV playing Barney, Hi-5 VCDs.
Anyway, Ash got a super trendy (to me), really short at the back and nicely layered sides cut. All for the "cheap cheap" price of $21.40.

Hmm...shall I watch Hi-5 or Barney ?


Here we goooooo....



I hope it turns out well !


The final touches

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20 Dec 2007

Naughty Deeds

No. 1
Ash wanted to cut paper with her sisscors, so I gave her the sisscors and paper. I went away to wash my hands and went I got back barely 30 seconds later, Ash proudly said to me " I cut the mattress".

She had cut the mattress cover that ma-ma had brought over.

No.2

Maimi Ink again ! This time with a green highlighter and blue crayon.



Massage
Ash has been attending child massage sessions for her cough. Viv had found this place in one of the motherhood forums and it was highly rated in curing chronic coughs in children. The 2 lady sinsehs there see only children. We saw babies as young as 3 months, kids up to 12 years old there as well.


The initial visit, we were asked the usual questions, like how long has she been coughing, what treatment so far, checking of the pulse and listening to the lungs etc. So far Ash has gone thru 4 sessions and taking the herbs prescribed, I must say her cough has improved tremendously. It is no longer phlegmy, although she still occasionally coughs in her sleep, the difference is, she isn't woken up by it. The team of ladies doing the massage are also quite experienced in handling and reassuring the kids, or at least the other kids. Ash was fine duing the inital session, perhaps she was curious, but it got progrssively more difficult to get her to sit thru each subsequent session. Hopefully, we don't have to strap her down by the 7th session !!! Ha ha !

When your child is too quiet................

It usually means they are up to something that they should not be.
This evening, on the way home, Ash asked for my pen as she wanted to draw on the paper she had. Initially, she kept wanting me to join her drawing and I kept telling her daddy can't as I was driving.
I didn't notice exactly when she stopped asking me, but I thought, okay, she's busy, a little peace.

When we were about to enter Sengkang, I looked over to see what was keeping her so engrossed.
** FAINT** !!
I thought Ash had been on Miami Ink !

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12 Dec 2007

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Viv saw and ad in the papers last week, there was a warehouse sale of Xmas trees at Wing Tai Building. So off we went looking for our tree. Ash was pretty excited when we told her we were going to get a Xmas tree.

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5 Dec 2007

Christmas with Barney & Friends Show at Marina Square

Viv and I took the afternoon off to bring Ash to Christmas with Barney & Friends show at Marina Sqaure. But it seemed like everyone had the same idea as us. We missed getting into the seating area by I guess 2 to 3 families. But fortunately, Viv managed to find an excellent spot outside the seating area. We waited for close to 45 mins and by the time the show started, Ash was almost "zombiefied" since it was actually way past her afternoon nap time. It took a while before her "engine" started firing again.

Sitting on daddy's lap waiting for show to start

Barney's grand entrance


Barney, Baby Bob & BJ together on stage




After the show, we had lunch at Asian Kitchen. Some pictures of my two beauties.

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1 Dec 2007
Christmas Present

Ash got an early Christmas present from mummy and daddy....A Dora Tough Trike !

"I'm so happy"

I'll help daddy by holding on to this wheel first



Hooray !


Aren't I looking cool !

Spongebob Squarepants Meet and Greet at United Square

It's the school holidays and the malls were having shows and Meet & Greet sessions of the various cartoon characters. So happened that Spongebob and Patrick were scheduled to be at United Sqaure. Because we had purchased more than $30 worth of stuff (ie. the Dora Trike) we were entitled to a Meet & Greet session with Spongebob and Patrick.










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