Party Preparation On The Go

5.7.2013

Jayden's 2nd birthday is just around the corner, so preparation time is getting shorter and shorter. Gee, sometimes I just I wish have 48 hours in a day and more energy to keep up with my hectic life. By the time I reach home from work and spending some quality time with Jayden before putting him to bed, and clearing up some housechores, I am already like a zombie!

Well, time flies! Party preparation is on the way! And today I've got a little helper- Jayden who tries to keep me occupy with his 101 request e.g. Mummy, make hot air balloon for baby; mummy, Barney ley?; mummy, make juice- juice etc.....

Gave him a paper bag and glue, cut out some hot air balloons templetes and took out some candies from the shelf. He's a happy little boy playing with his new project while mummy gets to prepare some party banner!

Oh, I just love my simple life!

P/s: Jayden is very excited for his upcoming birthday party and has been telling me those guests that he wanna invite.

A Trip To The Saloon

Happy Father's Day 2013

Happy Father's Day to my darling hubby cum daddy! We love you always!!

Emergency Ward Diary

8.6.2013

Viral attacked Jayden again and his fever rose up to 39.5 degrees at midnite.

Rushed him to Prince Court Medical Centre again at 12am, doctor did a quick check and transferred him into the emergency monitoring ward.

Jayden was still very active and kept requesting to wear his shoes so that he could explore around, and kept showing me his 'chi chak! Chi chak! ' camera sign when I told him that medical equipment hanging on top of the bed is a camera( hahaha, I know I've taught him wrongly, but at least I get to distract his attending from running around). The doctor monitored his breathing , then had to check his mouth/ throat and he obediently open up his big mouth. The doctor and nurse were impressed and praised him for being such a good boy! Good job, baby!

Bad news for Jayden when he was given suppository into the buttock then followed by nabuliser. Screamed his lung out and cried nonestop, kept screaming 'mummy' and 'daddy' for help. Is nabuliser really that scary? Everytime when he's given that, he will cry out loud. I'm sorry baby, that's for your own good. But deep inside mummy heart, mummy feels the pain more than u do- it's called heart pain.

After completed his 10 minutes of nabuliser abuse, he finally dozed off and we had to stay at the ward for another hour to monitor his condition.

Good news that his fever, heartbeat and blood pressure were all fine and we were able to discharge at 2am. Then home sweet home we went.

Jayden, please be strong and you will recover soon. Mummy promise to bring you to Kai kai( shoppig) after you have recovered fully , ok? Mummy love you!

Banana

On our way home from nanny's house tonite and the conversation started....

Mummy: "baby, let's see whether any stalls selling nana(banana) or not ya."

While pointing to the stalls located along the roadside.

Then Jayden shouted out loud: nana! There!

Mummy: where?

Jayden: there! Na na! Na na na na!

He pointed everywhere cheekily, trying to trick me with his imaginary.

Both of us giggled non stop and our banana fun continued.....

What a beautiful and simple life I have....

Homemade MeeSuah Soup

Hubby and I hardly eat meesuah as we are not a fan of it. I remembered the last time we ate it was during my confinement month when the confinement lady would cook that for us as breakfast. I once cooked some for Jayden when he was ill, but he didn’t like it either. So the left over packet of meesuah has been lying in the fridge since then.


Recently a dear friend of mine, Ling Nee, shared this homemade recipe with me and I’ve tried it during the weekend with slight modification (the BB’s (my nickname among whatsapps group) way!). Hubby finished the whole bowl and even drank up the last drop of soup. So I thought I must share this great idea with you all, especially those who dislike meesuah-just like me!

Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30-40 minutes (including preparing the soup base)
Ingredient:-
Meesuah
Anchovies
Few slices of ginger
Minced meat
Few drops of sesame oil
Xiao Xin rice wine
Green vegetables

Instruction:-

1. To cook the soup base, put the anchovies and sliced ginger into a pot of water and boil it for at 15-20 minutes(or longer if you have time)

2. Discard the anchovies from the soup base

3. Add the minced meat into the soup to cook

4. Add in meesuah when the meat is ½ cooked

5. Drizzle some sesame oil and Xiao Xin rice wine(or any rice wine)into the soup

6. Add in some green vegetables of your choice and cook for few second just before serving (don’t overcook the vegetables as you will spoil its nutrients)

7. Add some pepper to taste + spring onions(optional- I cooked mine without these items)

8. A hot nice and warmly bowl of homemade meesuah is ready to be served!

Flower Pasta

When you are out of idea on what to cook or fed up of cooking for your little ones, how about trying this simple idea?

Recipe:

Cooked baby pasta

Variety of colourful vegetables and fruits which you can find in your fridge

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Result: a happy-tummy-full baby and a satisfied mummy!