Babysitting Jaiden and EL consecutively

What a luck...

The aunty that babysits Jaiden fall sick. Not only her, but the whole family. All the family members experienced vomit and diarrhoea at the same time. The 2 other kids that she took care of experienced the same thing too. Not only that.... the whole family of these 2 kids also having the same sickness! Some of them were hospitalized. Yes, it is that serious!

We sent Jaiden to Ngo Jeh on last Wednesday (after the Raya holiday). When we reached her house, her husband came out to receive Jaiden as always. Uncle told us about the 2 kids' family's sickness. The elder brother (Ivan: 2 years +) were hospitalized due to dehydration. My husband was very worried, and decided to take EL and bring Jaiden home. He babysat Jaiden on Wednesday, me babysat him on Thursday. Since both of us are short of annual leave count, we took half day each to take care of Jaiden. On Friday evening, I called up Ngo Jeh to see if they have recovered. Ngo Jeh told me that she has recovered, but uncle is still quite weak as he has very high blood pressure. Since we are unsure how did this “disease” being transmitted, we have decided to get help from my sister for the next couple of days. We “migrated” to my sister’s house at Sg. Long on Sunday night. Since Jaiden has to adopt to new environment and new “babysitter” (my sister), I took another day off to accompany him meanwhile hoping that he will get himself familiarized to my sister and her house. It was quite tough for Jaiden on Monday. Whenever he sees me, he cried badly and showed his pity looking face to me – as if mummy is going to abandon him. No choice… the next day, me and hubby went to work. Luckily, Jaiden behaved on Tuesday!!! My sister was tired looking after him, but her daughter is very happy with Jaiden around. She helped her mother to take care of Jaiden. She is really a good helper.

However… my sister told me today that Jaiden began to show his true colours. He was quite agitated today. We suspect it could be due to 2 reasons: -

1) he gets used to the new environment and my sister, hence he become less reserve.
2) He was frightened by an old lady yesterday evening when sis brought him out to the nearby park. According to sis, this old lady looks quite scary – even my niece said she looks “hung bou”! This has led to Jaiden’s agitation last night as well as today. I really wonder how horrible does this old lady looks like….

My sister is going to surrender soon. Probably we have to send Jaiden back to Ngo Jeh tomorrow. Let see how it goes…

Bad luck comes with a consolation prize

Bad luck hits us on the 28th August 2009. Hubby met with an accident when he was on the way to meet a friend at about 7:45pm. Me and Jaiden was at home, suddenly received a call from hubby. He asked me to help to phone up the friend that he is suppose to meet up with, and at the same time informed me that he met with an accident. His voice was trembling, and he hung up the call very fast. I was so worried after that. I do not want to record the details of this bad thing here in my blog, hopefully we could forget this incident one day. Anyway, my hubby is not hurt, but the car is quite badly damaged. The front part (bonet, "sarong", skirting) was badly damaged. Estimated repair fee may be at least RM4-5k. No choice, we have to claim insurance..

Following the unlucky incident, I received a letter a day after from Today Publishing. Jaiden has won a consolation prize as "Star of Pureen" in Parenthood magazine August 2009 issue. We were extremely excited, and went to scout for this magazine. Too bad, August 2009 issue cannot be found anymore. It's already end of August now, September issue is already out. Sigh... Luckily I still keep the record on which photo I had submitted for this contest.

Here presenting "Star of Pureen"

Finally....

After this blog has been abandoned for months, at last I'm able to blog in the office. I guess it should be the outcome from the Employee Satisfaction Survey that they have just conducted that makes our VP decides to open the port for us. But messengers are still no no...

What is Jaiden's development so far? He is able to stand and cruise with help. He is getting more and more naughty nowadays. He is just like a worm (we often call him cacing now). He many times irritates me during his feeding time. Once I lie him down, he will immediately roll and crawl away. That makes me extremely difficult to feed him. Since I'm a hot tempered person, I find it quite hard to control my temper nowadays.

Apart from being naughty, of course he at times melt our heart. He started to talk now. The 1st word from him was ba ba ba ba ba ma ma ba ba... Few tricks that he knows now: -

1) pau pau (full) -> palm on his tummy

2) shake hand

3) where is your leg? -> he'll lift up his leg

4) gong xi gong xi

5) bye bye

6) comb hair

7) dim chung chung

8) call mummy -> he will respond ba ba ba ba....

Something that starts bothering me and hubby now. Jaiden seems to like Ngo Jeh (the babysitter) and her husband more than his papa mama. When we fetch him after work, he will cry and lift his hands towards NJ's husband so that he could carry him. He prefers their house more than going home. Reasons could be: -

1) there are kids at their house who will play with him

2) NJ and uncle seldom scold him. Daddy & mummy always scolds him and everytime says "No" when he starts to hold or play something. If I were him, I will prefer NJ too.... Sigh....

I have no idea what and how shall we raise Jaiden. We can't follow his desire everytime as this may spoils him. We can't be so strict to him as well, as this will led him dislike daddy, mummy and home. How????

New car seat

Jaiden has a new car seat!!! Daddy & mummy just bought Jaiden a new car seat!! Nothing much to talk about, but I think Jaiden likes it very much. Hmmm... at least for the first 20 minutes ride haha... coz he started to complain after a while. Guess he needs some time to adjust to it ;)

Time to enter some contest??

We bought 2 magazines recently, i.e.: Parenthood & Mommy Baby. We don't buy these magazines for the sake of reading, but to enter whatever contests available in the magazines. In total, I've mailed 8 entries hoping to win at least 1 contest in each magazine. At least can keep a copy and show it to him when he grew up next time ;-)

Some of the photos sent for contest...

Fun bath time

Q Baby

Candid

Mummy Babby Look Alike

Abandoned Blog

Finally... I am in action again. At least for the month of February, 2009. I was asked by a friend during our CNY outing "Have you abandoned your blog?". Haha... yes I think I have. No time is an excuse (even though it is partly true). I was thinking, how come I have time facebooking but no time for blogging? I have to admit... I am just too lazy to write :P
Okay! Let's continue the story of my little angel Jaiden. He is reaching his 16 weeks (3 months 4 weeks) this Thursday. I have a question. Why does baby center address Jaiden's age as 3 months 4 weeks and not 4 months? How shall I tell others who ask? This 3 months 4 weeks old Jaiden is now starting to recognize people and places. I was told by his nanny that he cried when she brought Jaiden into her house the 1st day we sent him to her after CNY break (we've been taking care of Jaiden by ourselves for 9 days during CNY). He looked left right center, and started to cry. That clearly tells that he recognises place. Another incident where we are sure he starts to recognise people. My sister-in-law wants to carry him last night when we had dinner at her house. Once Jaiden saw my husband and me infront of him (means we're not the one carrying him), he immediately "bin jui" and cry out loudly. Once I carry him back on my shoulder, he stopped. So, can I say Jaiden started to recognise people? Seeing how they develop day by day is an amazing experience.
Oh ya.. besides, Jaiden's favourite sleeping style would be:
1) latching on his pacifier
2) 2 hands holding a pillow
3) daddy or mummy's hand patting on the pillow
He will fall asleep soon provided he's at home lying on the couch (he like sleeping on the couch than on his playpen).

Oral fungus

Jaiden has developed oral fungus, thanks to the confinement lady!!! Oral fungus is caused by unhygienic way of preparing milk. The paed asked us how did we prepare Jaiden's milk. We told him what the confinement lady does normally. She will boil the bottles once a day in the morning. THAT'S ALL!! After feeding Jaiden, she will wash the bottles with plain water and soak it back into the same pot of water that she boiled in the morning. Urrrrggghhh!!! I didn't know that's how she prepare milk for Jaiden. Due to this, Jaiden has to suffer from oral fungus. And due to this too, we have to change all the bottle teats and the pacifier.
Paed prescribed Jaiden Daktarin Oral Gel. We have to apply the gel on the pacifier and let Jaiden to suck. This medication is very effective. After applying once, we saw a major improvement in Jaiden's mouth. The fungus has reduced a lot. After 5 times, fungus in Jaiden's mouth has totally disappeared.

Now onwards, I have to take control on sterilizing all the bottles to make sure that they are clean before every feed.

Jaiden 2nd outing (both 1st and 2nd outing is going to see the paed): -

Not too clear, but some fungus grown on Jaiden's lips can be seen...