The Christmas Spirit!

It had been raining for quite a few days. Not the kind of heavy downpour, but rather wet and drizzle and stop and drizzle again and stop again and drizzle again kinda raining days. It made the weather very cooling and warmish all together at the same time. Ironic huh? The rain is making the air very cooling and windy at some times, making me want to curl up in my warm bed with a cuppa tea and of course my laptop and tv remote control, surfing net or watching tv all day long...Of course, that's my own little wish! Reality is that I have 3 monkeys with me all day long and with plenty of housework and cooking to do! Good thing is that exams are over and we are more lax with Hao's homework now and just doing our regular reading. I am also starting to coach Ee on his chinese writing and hope he picks it up over the holidays and get a better headstart in chinese than Hao did when he was younger. We always learn from our mistakes and I didn't have time to pay more attention to Hao's work when I was working back then, so I am trying to make up for that and get Ee to start earlier.

Ee can be considered fully recovered from the accident. His scar is no longer painful and he's behaving like normal. Only paranoid mummy here constantly asking him not to scratch or rub his wound, so afraid that it'll tear. The truth is that it isn't going to tear again and it's not hurting him anymore. We remind ourselves to massage him after every bath and also prevent his scars from getting too dried or too much sun. We can just hope for the best now. So here's how he looks now...

Back to the December rain and Christmas spirit. Have I mentioned that Dec is my favourite month of the year and Christmas is my favourite holiday? Well, that's because Dec is full of rainy and cooling days which make me feel lazy and cold and warmish all together, and Christmas is the holiday season that you can feel the spirit of giving and receiving all around you! Everywhere, everyone is getting presents for their loved ones and it's just so joyous and warm. Of course, there's also plenty of holidays during year end, and a lot of anticipation for the new year, and a lot of shopping for CNY clothes, new school year stuff, bonuses to look forward to (not me anymore), making resolutions for the new year etc. I don't think I need to say any more LOL. It's absolutely my favourite time of the year!!

Survied Year 1!

Exams are finally over! I can't believe that we actually survived year 1 in primary school LOL. Hao scored quite well for his exams, although we felt that he could had done better, I think he did try his best. Now we are just waiting for his report book and the school holidays to come. But if you are thinking we are relaxing at home, you are quite wrong. He still has to do his daily readings of English and Chinese books and in school, class tests and spelling tests are still ongoing. So, everyday you'll still see him doing work and reading. Of course, his workload is much lighter than before the exams.

Ee is finally cleared of his plaster days. He had his doctor review on Monday and the doctor said that his wound/scar is healing well. Now he needn't use the plaster anymore and can leave the scar exposed. However, he will need to apply sun block to the scar whenever we are out so that the sun will not hurt his scar or darken it further. It will be quite ugly to have a scar that's visibly darker than his skin, considering it's a rather long scar. We also need to apply aloe vera/vitamin E gel to his scar and massage it so that the tissue below his skin will not harden as it heal and end up with a centipede like kinda scar bump. Must really do this diligently so that he'll become handsome again HEHEHE...

Will post photo of how Ee looks now later when I am free!

Something here and there..

I've got some time yesterday and managed to download some photos from my handphone.

Last month, we brought the kids to Downtown East for bowling. It's their first hand experience at the kids bowling alley and they had a great time. Unfortunately there wasn't any alleys left with the kids' gutters so we didn't had a chance to let them have a go at the real thing.

After bowling, we headed to the Xplorer Kids for a little fun!

Happy Birthday to Min!

It's Min's 2 year old birthday today. Last night we went to Roland's Restaurant with in laws and family for a birthday dinner. Was quite a nice dinner and the restaurant wasn't too crowded. Coincidentally, today is a school holiday in lieu of the Deepavali holiday on Saturday, so we took the boys out for a nice lunch at Ding Tai Fung. For dinner, I cooked a simple pot of pork ribs with crab porridge for them since the weather is so hot and they just didn't have the appetite to eat anything at all.

We are not avid fans of birthday cakes, but nevetheless, we went out after dinner to get the kids some small cakes for dessert. We put a birthday candle on Min's cake and sung him the Happy Birthday song. He happily blow out the candle and ate the chocolate cake all by himself!

Another week to go!

Hao's SA2 final exams are only a week away. Last week hubby give him an intensive crash course on his Chinese, and Hao is feeling very stressed out. Hubby is very much into the Chinese language as he was drilled into it since young, and thus had a lot of expectations for Hao on this subject too. This week will be better for Hao as I'll be revising his Mathematics and English in the day time and Hubby will revise his Chinese at nights. Think he'll do ok, just need him to be consistent and more careful in his work. Its no wonder they say it's the kids who are in school but it's the parents who are stressed out and breaking out in cold sweat.

Ee's wounds..

Ok, finally had time to upload his photos...it's a bit blurry but still can see the wound and scars..

The pics doesn't look as bad as you see it real. The wound is healing well, although the middle part where the eyebrow is, is more badly affected. Most prob the brow won't be growing back so there will be the middle section of the brow that's empty.

All is fine!

Finally Ee had his stitches removed on Monday afternoon. As I had expected, he didn't cry when the nurses removed his stitches, and only cried when they were cleaning the antibiotic ointment off the wound. They had to use the tweezers to scrap off the excess ointment and rub it clean with the gauze. That certainly hurt and it made him cried out loud. After that they applied a special plaster onto the wound that will supposedly protect it from splitting open again from physical activities as well as protect the scar from darkening under the exposure of the sunlight. We were told to apply force down to make the plaster stick to his skin tightly so that the scarring will be smoother and not bumpy when it heals. He will certainly feel pain for a while or so but it was for his own good. The good thing is that we only need to change that plaster once every two days, and now he could show as normal and not worry about getting the wound wet under the water.

We are quite happy that the wound is healing fast and all thanks to the plastic surgeon who did a good job in his stitches, I think it's not going to be that ugly afterall. Sure the scar is going to be visible but at least it's not going to make him look like a pirate lol Will try and upload some pics of his healing wounds later when I have more time.