evira talking

almost 3 years old now and she talks cute

"mom, can i have peekabooo mien? pleassss", "can you switch on peekabooo mien" ~ she meant can i watch 'despicable me' (the movie)

"dun say old lady, i tell popo wan"

"i go to taman tun school"

"my name is evira"

"i want lipstick mommy, put lipstick for me pleesss" (bring my bag - pout her lips all ready for some red hot action)

"you say sorry, say sorrryyyyyy" to any kid that push her around and they will have to deal with her "polite" wrath.


evi -did you eat the chocolate cake?

"no i di den, not me" (with a cute choc-straight-face and evidence smudged all over hands and face!!)

are u sure, you didn't?

"not me, i din, i diinn eat the cake"

ok, was the chocolate cake nice?

"yes, it was yummy, i like it"

loooong day for evi

i could not sleep today, evi too. maybe she knows she's going to go through something very major today.

me worried, asked the world to pray for her that all will go as smoothly as it should.

evi may sense the panic in my face this whole time but not know how to respond to it. so she had rashes all over, making me more panicky as i was afraid the docs won't help her if she is not perfectly healthy. i kept rubbing her with special ointment, massaging her, praying all the redness will go down and all the lil dots will subside within a few hours!! also thinking and wondering is it a sign not to bring her in? i really need a sign from god on this one.

was up at 3 entertaining evi and trying hard to distract her from taking even a single drop. going under g.a. is no easy task. finally at 7 took her to take a bath, she was in high spirits.

mah mah came to pick us up to the hospital...a bit of traffic but thank god we found a parking spot.

once we were in, to my relief we were immediately identified and showed where to go. my panic went up a few notches but try to put a brave front for evi.

1st lil girl went in to the o.t. came out screaming....oh no!! made me wanna tear up to see that...heartbreaking.

then i had to carry evi in, to my surprise she was so cooperative until they put the gas mask on her face. i can see a whole class of doctors were waiting to see the surgeons perform their work - that was quite weird.

she put up a fiesty and screaming fight...the hardest part for me was to leave her after she was knocked out. then my big prayer to god was to give those doctors the wisdom and a good heart to do all they can for evi.

much to my relief after 1 and half hours she was out...snoring and so peacefully sleeping...doctors came and gave lots of reassurance that they tried really hard to save as many tooth as they can, and took as little as they had to.
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evi was so cute, she said...in between tears "my front teeth lost ledi, mommy". thank god they had quite good pain management and the nurses were great too.

promise evi that we will be as good to the rest of her baby teeth and will help her keep them as clean as possible.


update 28 Feb ~ went for follow-up check and everything looks great...gums healed and all fillings intact. doc said no milk on bottle if possible (well not ready for it) so she said must be less than 5 min of bottle time to maintain good teeth. oklah...will do that and force her to brush anytime and everywhere. now her new bff is the "brush", which she hates!!

reward scheme

finish final exams for the year, time for results.

erika thought of an ingenious way to reward herself for all the hard and labourous work she did to prepare for the exams, so she propose this to kong kong over dinner (hoping to catch him in good mood and go with the scheme).

if i get no. 1 - then you pay me $1 (wah so cheap only ah....wait read on)
if i get no, 2 - then you pay me $2
if i get no, 3 - then you pay me $3
if i get no, 4 - then you pay me $4
if i get no, 5 - then you pay me $5

you can see where this is heading right? in the very, very "right" direction so that she will definitely receive a huge award.

she's hoping she comes out last!

wonder where she got all those "brilliant" ideas?

park play

celebrated malaysia day in malaysian style.

went to the park to play water and sand in the "longkang" stream and eat nasi lemak and drank teh tarik. laundryamah and her 2 darlings came to join bringing along hula hoops and a nice food container, in it was her freshly baked yummylicious orange sponge cake in a horsie shape and squares...so much effort on presentation.

evira was smitten by the container more than anything else. we thought she wanted the cake, so gave her a piece, she ate some but dropped more crumbs for the monkeys than hansel and gretel. actually what she wanted was to use it as a chair for her bum...but with her 16 kg...better not and obviously not on food!! so laundryamah told her nicely she cannot seat.

evi looked at laundryamah and keep saying "selfish!, selfish!"

potty

evira is finally on her way to be diaper free (i hope)

when she feels the urge, she will say in this order -" i wan to orr see" then "can you take out my diaper" then "u gotta move the stick to open the toilet door" (i have added my ol' fashion security feature since the break-in) then "help me sit on the toilet"

so once she is on the throne, she will say "go away mommy, go away"

she needs her privacy to do her business.

this poor girl does not have very good bowel movements, if it goes for more than 2 days....u can be assured that it's a painful crying affair with big hard rocks stained with a little blood being pushed out from my poor baby...she does look like she is almost delivering a baby! if that happens and those rocks still cannot make its way out, then its medication to the rescue. once its out, the relief is more for the mommy than poor baby.

chain drinker

That's what baby does...she chain drinks.

before knocking off to bed at nite, she sucks at least 2 bottles of milk plus a bottle of water. even in a new diaper - it overflows by 4am...then this talking 2 year old will start complaining "my shirt is wet and my pants is wet, take out my diaper" then after cleaning her up..."go make nen nen for me" "mom dun sleep wake up, go make nen nen"

if i don't or popo don't

"the police man come and catch you, eeeor eeeor, hurry up....you stooooopid....go make nen nen for me, stooopid, hurry up, sorry mommy forever" (for saying stupid). "pees mommy go or not i will scold you one"

if the nen nen is cold "this is no good, i dun like...this is rubbish!!!"


the "stoopid" word is learn from kong kong....

time to kill

now i realise being a mom makes me a killer too. it's so easy to be one these days!! it's just the opposite side of the same coin.

erika just told me in secrecy that a stooooopid tuition teacher in her tuition center (this one not teaching her summore) "touched her thigh sloooooowly" she was alone the most for a few minutes and unfortunate that no one was there....grrrrrrrr

fire came shooting out my eyes when i heard that....immediately called the center to make a humongous fuss.

told the girls i am going to buy a gun now.

they both say dun buy mom, the police will catch you if you kill him. (they still can think straight, while mom is going crazy)

i said i shoot him in the tuition center la.

erika said got camera in the center

(ohhhh - camera ah....maybe caught the guy red-handed) ...

still dunno how la...stopped her tuition until *&%$$@ is removed.

no place is safe for your children!!!!

viiiideo

evi loves watching video. everyday she begs to do just that.

so yesterday when i just returned home and was starting dinner, she came running and grab my hand saying "i wanna watch viiideo mommy". she kept pulling but i told her let me finish dinner then she gets to watch.

of cos that is not acceptable for her and started to throw her usual fit.

i said calmly "that will not work on me, stop it" (not expecting it will get into her head at all). to my surprise she stopped for a few seconds, then a light bulb switched on in her head and she changed tactic.

she immediately open up her arms and pout her lips and said "kiss kiss"

so i let her kiss la...not everyday you get free kisses.

but i still said after i finish dinner 1st.

she got MAD. started her tantrum and said "u stooor pit mommy"

i got mad too and said "did you scold me???"

she stopped, eyes looking guilty and shook her head and said "sorry mommy" with a kiss

then pulled my hand again...this time took her upstairs to my room and switch on the video (she wins - gotta watch her video while relaxing on my comfy bed)

moral of the story: love works!