Thursday, May 24, 2007

Baby G infected with HMFD?

Tuesday evening, Aunt told us that Gavin is having fever and to pick him up early. Gave him paracetamol and he slept through the night ok. However, his fever did not subside yesterday morning and we decided to bring him to see the PD. We told him that he has been drooling a lot for the past few days and when looked at his throat, he said there are a lot of ulcers in his throat. It was then he told us baby G is having HFMD. He started to question us where he might have caught the virus. Our minds were blank for a moment before we gave a thought and we could not really recall who he might have caught this from as he is not attending any child care and other kids that he played with since Sat have not gotten the virus. So we were skeptical that baby G has caught the HMFD but then again, the symptoms he is having are indeed symptoms of HMFD. We just have to trust the PD's diagnosis.

It has been tough past 2 days as baby G feels very irritated with this throat as he kept drooling. He could not sleep properly always seeking assurance from us by wanting us to always carry him. To couple with that, he is required to take different medication at 3-hr intervals. He is already having phobia with it, grabbing hold of us tightly whenever we bring the medicine towards him. It has been really heart pain and tiring to see him in such pain. Up till now, fever has subside but throat is still having lots of red ulcers. Thus far, no rashes have developed. Hope he gets better soon.

Poor Gareth, we had to isolate him from his brother and thus he has to stay with his "kim poh" since yesterday. His mummy called and told him that we not bringing him back as his brother is sick. He disappointingly said ok. This morning, when Gareth's aunt went to pick him up, he kept asking for mummy. His teacher told her that Gareth has been moody the whole morning in school and cried a few times. Poor boy can't come home today as well. We are also missing him already.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

He said a full sentence!

Yesterday, mummy bought Gareth's favourite fruit, Grapes. Came back home and Gareth asked to eat 水果. He followed mummy to kitchen and then emerged from the kitchen calling out to me, 爸爸要吃水果吗?I was baffled initially so did not respond and he asked again the second time. This time, I said delightly 要! We then have grapes together and he will once a while put one into my mouth and say 爸爸吃. You can imagine how extra sweet those grapes are ;)

Today, when mummy brought Gareth to school, Ms Lee (One of Gareth's teachers) asked Gareth to say bye bye to mummy. He just waved. Ms Lee then said, "Gareth, you must open your mouth and say bye bye to mummy". Hahaha... kids are kids... he then opened his mouth wide and waved to mummy! I was not around to see it but I'm sure they enjoyed that funny moment.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Is this a month for knocks?

Poor Gareth has joined his brother in the list of casualty. Today he 跑.. 跑.. 跑.. like he usually do to the carpark and towards the car. Unfortunately, he lost his balance and crashed onto the wheel rim on his right forehead area. A big big "bao" then came out. We were really stunned and quickly brought him back up to his kim poh's house to apply Zambuk. I can tell it was very very painful as he struggled very hard not to let us touch it. I was both angry and hurt to see him in such pain. He is always very active and always like to run about so was not easy to control him. Can only blame myself for not reacting quicker to prevent him hitting the rim. :(

Monday, May 14, 2007

Gareth made gift for Mummy


Gareth made this in school for his mummy for Mother's day!

Baby G had a knock


Last Wed, poor baby G tripped and knocked onto the corner of the bed. We were not around when he had the knock but from the bruise on his left cheek area, we could tell it was very painful. He was like groggy for the rest of the day. Did not have a pic of the bruise when it was "fresh" but then again, even if have also may not post it, else we may get tomatoes thrown at us.

In any case, I think Zambuk ointment really good! Have a look at him know. The bruise may not have gone away but I guess it is not as painful now. How do we know? We test by poking a little lor. Don't worry, no harm done :P

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Gareth turns three on 9 May

This year there is no big party for Gareth. Mummy thinks cannot have parties every year else it will become very common and nothing special. Nevertheless, Gareth gets to cut three cakes, one at his Kim Poh's house, one at school and last one bought by his Ah Yee.

His birthday starts at school where the first thing was when all students gathered at the assembly area, he was made to stand at the front and all the students sang the birthday song for him. He looked stunned and stood quietly until the song finished. He then breaks a shy smile and ran to Mummy to show his delight.


9am was the class break time when they will have something to eat and thus here I am with the cake and goodie bags. Yes, we prepared goodie bags for each of Gareth's classmate. Bought this cake from Bengawan Solo as we thought the Pooh bear looks great and easily identified by all the kids.




Classmates singing birthday song for Gareth


After school, we then asked Gareth if he would like to go to the Zoo or go swimming. He chose the latter and off we went to Jurong East Swimming Complex where he likes the lazy river. He loves having his arm-floats on and letting the water pushes him round and round the pool. He was so tired after that as he knocked off in the car on our way to Autobacs before heading to IMM for dinner. Before we left IMM, we gave him an ice-cream treat. Did not find any special ice-cream there so just a cone from McDonalds. As you can see, he enjoyed it just as much!



The cake we bought for Gareth on his lunar birthday

Gareth with cake given by his Ah Yee

Monday, May 7, 2007

Past pictures of the boys

Since I have started this blog only now, I will start off by posting photos of the boys together for the past one year or so.