Ashlynn at Birthday Party 29 Aug '09

We attended Renise's first birthday party held at Bakerzin at Millenia Walk. Ashlynn was kinda grumpy as she missed her morning nap, so she was not her usual self. In fact, she didn't want walk on her own, kept demanding to be carried. She was entertained by the nice balloon decor though.

We rushed off for her LNT class shortly after the cake cutting. Cannot afford to miss another lesson as she has already missed last week's lesson due to her fever.

Entertained by Gabriel gorgor
Restless girl

Water break. Daddy ensuring that she drink up.

Mummy and Wendi - good friends of 14 years

The Wong family

She is happily practising self-feeding with the combi fork

Managed to pick up the bread on the plate

Lesson was good as she could follow most of the activities. We brought 3 presents for her to give to her 3 teachers at LNT for Teachers' Day. After the class, we shopped around for my student's brithday present as I will be dropping by at his birthday party tomorrow. We settled for dinner at the Kopitiam foodcourt. I ordered a bowl of porridge to share with Ashlynn but kenna rejected. I ordered a bowl of white rice to mix with the porridge (which she takes sometimes), also kenna rejected. Lucky I brought her cereal along so had to make that for her to eat. She is really a picky eater. Want to introduce her to a variety of food but she is not ready to accept. Yet she seems to be sick of her usual porridge at times.

When we reached home, she also drank a few sips of her milk and then drifted off to dreamland. Recently, we wonder what happened to her milk intake. She seemed to be totally swtiched off in drinking milk. I guess it is yet another phase.

Mummy

Ashlynn has an MC 22 Aug '09

It is confirmed that Ashlynn has not contracted Influeza A. Instead, she has the fake measles, otherwise known as Roseola. She has started to develop rashes after her fever subsided. Although the forum mummies have told me that it is ok to leave the rashes alone, what worries me was that she was on antibiotics and the doctor told me that if she developed rashes, it might be due to drug allergy. So we called up the clinic and the doctor advised us to bring her down for a check.

The doctor also told us to stop the antibiotics as it is confirmed that it was a viral attack and like any other flu, this is contagious. So we got a MC for her LNT lesson today. I thought we could get a 50% refund only to realise that the refund is made on the next term's fee (we will not be continuing next term! arrggg....). We will not be going for my friend's birthday dinner also as there are 4 other kids attending.

Another update. Daddy has decided to transform her cot to a toddler bed. We have yet to let her sleep on it. If she is ok with sleeping on it, we may consider shifting it to the MBR.
Mummy

Get Well Soon Darling 19 Aug '09

On Sunday before the high fever hit her, she was so active. Insisted that we pushed her around in her doll pram. Our backs almost broke.
Taken this morning. She looked so lethargic. Her eyes also become so lifeless. She seemed to lost weight already as she didn't eat much.
Ashlynn, get well soon. Daddy and mummy will bring you to MacDonald's to eat your favourite french fries ok?

Mummy

40.1!! 18 Aug '09

Ashlynn's temperature broke a record of 40.1 degrees celcius last night. She vomitted the whole of her dinner out. Her usual PD does not do consultation on tuesday evenings so we had no choice but to go to Kidslink at bedok. We went there once when she was a month old for eczema but didn't like the PD there.

PD checked her and concluded that the fever should not be due to the 18th mth jab as what we thought. Reason: It should not persist for so many days. It shouldn't rise so high. Her mouth and throat looked infected. As her temperature was soaring high, she was given a suppository. She cried so badly that I nearly cried with her. She was given 5 kinds of medicine. Scary. Cough and phlegm, running nose, vomitting, brufen, antibotics to fight the viral infection. The scariest thing is the PD mentioned that she will not rule out H1N1!! Chances that she might catch it from the polyclinic when she went for her vaccination. I will not dare to go the polyclinic again!!

We will monitor her for 1-2 more days. If her fever persist, they may check for H1N1 and administer Tamiflu. Omigod!! I have heard of the side effects of Tamiflu on children below six years old. I hope it is not this dreadful virus!!

Anyway, daddy is also down with flu and slight fever. So we left her at granny's place. I am on child mc, so I am going to fetch her soon so that granny can rest.

Get well soon my 2 darlings!!

Mummy

39.9! 17 Aug '09

Ashlynn's fever following her 18mth jab reached an all time high of 39.9 degees celcius. We were all worried sick. We planned to bring her to KKH if it went any higher, so daddy and I camped overnight at granny's place. I even smsed my colleague to inform that I may be on child mc. She was still having that high fever at midnight.

Luckily at 5am, granny woke me up to ask me to go home to prepare for work. Ashlynn's temperature has dropped. I will go ahead to work, but on standby mode. So I will go to school and prepare some work for my classes in case I need to rush off.

This jab is really scary. Ashlynn has never developed such fever after her jabs before. I really hate is when she is sick. She is suffering and yet I can't do much. I guess she is going to lose weight again as she looks so tired and frail now. Sob...

Darling, get well soon!

Mummy

New Way of Tying Hair 16 Aug '09

Nice hair?
Happily playing with my laptop

Engrossed with what is on the monitor

Looking at daddy

Act shy

Felt that she resembles mummy so much in this pic. Daddy also kinda agree.

This is baby mummy! Besides the hair, both faces are quite similar.

Mummy

18th Month + Crossing the 10kg mark + 5-in-1 Booster Jab + Fever 15 Aug '09

We brought Ashlynn to the polyclinic to take her 5-in-1 booster jab today, exactly on her 18th month. She also had her assessment done with the doctor. She finally crossed the 10kg mark!!! She is 10.2 kg and 81.2 cm tall. Weight is in the 50th percentile and height is in the 75 percentile. At 18 months, she

• speaks more than 3 words other than papa and mama
• eats well (hard to feed her at times so we don't consider her as not eating well)
• drinks milk
• sleeps well
• does not rub her eyes when she is not tired
• responds to sound from sources which are out of her sight. e.g. telephone ringing, her name being called
• picks up tiny objects with her fingers
• stack cubes
• point to her body parts without prompting
• imitate mummy doing housework
• walks steadily
• happy and contented most of the time
• not often irritable

The next appointment is when she is 3 years old. The nurse told us that she will receive a certificate after her 3rd year assessment. Daddy and I felt that the cert thing is a joke.

After we reached home and she had taken her lunch, she started to feel warm. But temperature was still within acceptable range, so we proceeded to bring her for her LNT lesson. We foresee that she might be send home if her temperature shoots up. Luckily it was 37.1 degree celcius when we reached there, so she went on with the lesson. Could tell that she was tired and not as energetic as usual.

After her lesson, we brought her to visit my grandma. She fell asleep before we reached. When she woke up to see so many unfamiliar faces, she went into a crying fit and was sobbing pitifully. We left shortly after. We had dinner at EastPoint instead of our intial plan of shopping at Tampines. Her voice is hoarse from the screaming and crying. And her temperature rose to 37.9 degree celcius.

What a way to celebrate her 18th month.

Mummy

Fun Time at East Coast Park 09 Aug '09

We celebrated National Day at East Coast Park. The day started with breakfast at MacDonalds. Wanted to let her try hotcakes but she rejected. She took the hashbrown happily though. Before we reached MacDonalds, I asked her "Ashlynn, you wanna go MacDonalds?" Immediately, she did the eating french fries action. We tried several times and she did it. So she knows that MacDonalds is the place where she eats her favourite food.

We started off with cycling but she appeared to be quite scared. So we decided to find her place for her to play with the sand. She enjoyed playing with the sand very much. She played on her own for very long. Scooping the sand it the bucket, pour it out and fill it again. I told daddy that next time we can ask our friends for gathering at the beach since she can self-entertain.

It was time soon for her lunch so we rode back to the bicycle rental shop to return the bikes. It was a waste of $ to rent the bikes as she did not enjoy the ride. Next time we will just go to the beach when we visit East Coast Park.

Now she is taking her nap so I can quickly update the blog. We will be having Sakae Sushi for dinner. Will give the NDP parade on tv a miss as I never enjoy watching it (though daddy seems quite keen).

She is now on auto-gear. Will do this pose as soon as she sees the camera.

Some pics from my camera before the more professional pics from daddy's camera.
Look at her barang barang. Got this beach set for her yesterday from Giant. Good investment.

Sulky girl on the bike. We were quite surprised by her reaction. Prior to putting her on the bike, we asked her if she wanted to cycle, she responded by doing the cycling action excitedly.

Nice pics from daddy's camera. Ashlynn at MacDonalds.

She was in a cheerful mood. She kept both daddy and I entertained by her cute antics.

Mummy