Friday, July 30, 2004

That was the most tiring two weeks of my life! Friday is finally here and I thought it would never come! I need a good rest this weekend. Dozed off in the car going back home earlier in the evening, around 8pm+. It was drizzling in Kuala Lumpur and traffic began to pile up as early as 5pm. And it's Friday -- doesnt make it any easier.

My thoughts have been with both Balqis & Adam since morning. I missed them a lot today but I was lucky that today was not too tight thus I allow some time to think about both of them quite a bit.

Today though, I guess because of the cooler weather and perhaps they are both plain tired too, both were cranky thus we all make up to be the crankiest family today! All I could think off was just to go to bed as early as I could. Both Balqis & Adam, thank God they are not picking on each other but their Mom is definitely ready to face any consequences.

I played with them some while watching TV. My darling husband had no difficulties in putting them to bed tonight. Great!

Me ... I am so tired. Going to sleep now before my forehead touches the keyboard! And I think I could just sleep standing too -- A 5 letter word plaqued me -- TIRED!

signing off..Hazelinesnow at 10:11 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Balqis has recovered! Thank GOD Almighty! Been away from my blog for about what ... a week? Not sure. A lot have been happening at work. What with the moving to the new offices, business seems to be set to sail. But then, sailing is not easy. You've got to know the know-how to be able to survive. I've diversified the business a little bit somewhat. But I can feel, in my guts, how and where I would like to steer the company's direction.

Tired to the power of infinity. Working on some stuff I brought back from work which started pretty late because I normally will wait until both Balqis & Adam are in deep sleep before starting on anything else be it the house work or the office work.

Balqis & Adam are growing to be two beautiful kids with a mind of their own. You can see two very distinguished characters between these two. Quick-witted and oh so smart.... I've been outwitted by Balqis numerous times. The distinct differences of course include the different characteristics of a boy vs a girl.

Tired ... oh so tired... I cant hardly opened my eyes. Think I'd better join both Balqis & Adam ... and I am sure ... another person would be in too, shortly!

Take a deep breath .... Sigh ...



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 11:05 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Saturday, July 24, 2004

On Friday, at 12.45pm, I received a call from Balqis's school. Balqis is having high fever. 12.55pm I was already hitting the road. From Kelana Jaya, I hit the LDP going through SS2, Damansara Jaya and Damansara Utama, cutting through 1 Utama and hitting the Middle Ring Road, my prayers for Balqis never stopped for a second. One male chauvinist pig decided to take on the race, thinking perhaps this lady driver is picking on the other drivers on purpose, driving at 100 km/s, at times 120 km/s, the slowest she managed at 80km/s. Little did he realised that the particular lady driver couldnt care less -- mind, body and soul was just arriving at Balqis's school in one piece to see how Balqis was doing. I arrived in Melawati at 1.20pm. Swerved into my driveway. Parked. Off the air-cond. Off the ignition. Put on shoes, locked the car. Ran to the door, unlock the lower lock, unlock the upper lock, ran to the kitchen, open the fridge, grab a Voltran Supp just in case and ran back to the sitting room and towards the door, grabbing the thermometer on my way out. Stuffed all of that into the pocket of my black checkered skirt. Locked the upper lock, locked the lower lock. Ran to the car, unlock the door, open my shoes, start the engine. Swerve right back on the road, hitting the air-cond while I turned right towards Balqis's school. 1.25pm I was ringing the bell at her school, anxious. I heard Balqis's friends calling her -- your mommy is here! I ran to the other gate nearer to the classes and saw Balqis bounced out of the classroom! A sigh of relief but as soon as the gate was opened for me, I rushed to her, took out the thermometer and checked her temperature. 37.8. Mrs. Law had administered Nurofen 5ml and sponged her. Balqis smiled and beamed upon seeing me. Looking up to me innocently without even realising what her mother had just went through, racing through the Friday afternoon traffic overtaking every single vehicle in sight, worrying about her.

I brought her home. Changed her into something more comfortable and watched helplessly at her temperature rising to 38.6. She slept. All I could do is now administer the Voltran Supp 125mg and sponge and sponge and sponge. She laid down on her cold gel mat and I had the cold pack on her head. She was shivering with cold due to her high temperature. Curled up in a ball, I stayed by her side until the fever finally broke at about 4pm.

I must have received just over a thousand phone calls that afternoon and the same amount of missed calls. I missed 2 meetings that afternoon. But I went back to the office arriving at 7pm, with my darling husband and Balqis in tow. Had a quick meeting and left for Adam at about close to 9pm. Poor darling Adam!

Balqis was still having fever today and you could have imagined our sleep the night before. I was dead tired and my darling husband kept on and up to monitor Balqis. I had my rest. By 4am, he surrendered. Not feeling very well, he was already a zombie as he started with his sleep for the night or rather morning. He was away within seconds. And I was up until about 7.00am and only after Balqis's fever broke that dawn and stabilised that I crawled into bed again, tired, thinking about my puffy eyes and an impending throbbing headache. A possible flu coming up. Just as I was about to doze off, something tugged at my shirt. Opened up my eyes with all the effort I could master. Adam was up, beaming, his dimpled smile greeting me and cutting short my thoughts of wanting to continue my slumber.

It's 11pm now. All 3 babies are asleep. Adam had just cried for his feed. Touched all 3 babies and confirmed that there were no fevers in all three. Balqis had had her Nurofen 5ml, anotibiotics 5ml and flu medication 5ml. Adam had his 5ml of panadol syrup too. The big baby, well, he is gone with the wind tonight. He had cough drop, flu tablet and panadols.

And me? I am just too tired to go to sleep! Anxious at the thought of my Monday media training that I will be conducting at the client's premises (because I am yet to do up the presentation powerpoint) and anxious (plus worried) about Balqis's fever tonight (I pray that it'll be better for her tonight) and about Adam too. Am scared that Adam might contract the same thing as Balqis. Hopefully not. Nevertheless, all precautions have been set into place.

All of us will be in the living room tonight -- camping style. Oh ... and I just realised. Unlike other nights, it'll be me tonight waking up to do the night feeds -- so help us God!

Will catch up on my beauty sleep soon -- probably when both Balqis & Adam are in college. But then again, that time it'll be a different kind of anxiety and worry plight. In the meantime, we'll go through things as they come, gradually. Will go through tonight first with a simple note to myself -- let's not wake up until they cry for their milk! But will do their milk before hitting the sack.

Ooops... excuse me, Adam is interrupting my thoughts now... must be tired of sleeping in that rocker of his. Will have to put him down.

Some plan!







signing off..Hazelinesnow at 10:46 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

It's almost midnight and I am still at it with some work I brought home. My darling husband is not home yet thus I had to put both Balqis & Adam to sleep, which was a difficult task. They finally slept, Adam first and after their third quarell resulting in Balqis giving one kick to Adam and a slap on the head with a coloring book. Poor Adam stood strong not a tear was shed perhaps because he knew he started the brawl!

Balqis was quietly minding her own business concentrating on some coloring project when Adam pulled the book from right under her nose! And one smack from Balqis would do it. There are times when he made it a big deal although he started it first. But then again, Adam is just a baby and he doesnt know that he's not supposed to that, was always my message to pacify Balqis. There are certain times when I said ... It's OK Balqis ... if you dont want to accept Adam's apology, tomorrow I'll give Adam away ... And Balqis would be so mad at me screaming 'No! You dont do that to Adam'. Oh so .. you do love Adam, I'd say only to be replied back in total silence from Balqis.

This morning, I found Balqis developing a slight temperature. And this evening when I got her from school, the slight temperature has become a major concern. But she just got better from fever just recently was my lament! I do hope that it will not be developing into something worst. Am monitoring her tonight.

Life at work has become a major chaotic uproar! Of course as usual everything need to happen at the same time. This morning as I sat in the presentation, waiting for my turn to present, I felt like running out of the board room in the middle of the presentation to place a call to Balqis's school to find out how she was doing. It seemed be drag on and on and on. Somebody must stop this! As soon as it ends, I ran to make that call. I was fidgeting and was unable to fully focus towards the end of the presentation wondering about Balqis at school.

GOD please help me with Balqis. Please dont make her sick again. She just got over a bad fever. Please get her well.

Tomorrow's another challenge. Moving into the new office slowly but surely. Stuff are finally coming out of the store room therefore I am hoping to be able to clear the room soon. The store room happened to be the second room in the house which has been turned into a store room temporarily.

Need my rest. Need my sleep. Not just any kinds of sleep... but my beauty glorious sleep!





signing off..Hazelinesnow at 11:30 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Monday, July 19, 2004

Yesterday, Adam fell down three times! Sigh ....
He was playing in the drying area while looking at Mommy doing her washings and wanted to look into the washing machine, lost his footing and fell down somehow head first and his forehead hit the unused dish holder resulting in a small cut.  Later, he decided that he should be let into the kitchen no matter how and was hanging on to dear life shaking the Safety Gate with all his might.  And the gate flew together with him to the floor.  He hit his head with the gate on top of him!  Later, he bounced on the sofa, again lost his balance and toppled over to the floor, head first.  I flew to the sofa in a dive that would have made Jackie Chan mad with envy.  Half of my body on the sofa, my feet dangling trying to balance my maneuver and hands outstretched holding on to Adam's feet.  Although the Jackie-Chan-maneuver managed to catch on to Adam's feet,  it wasnt fast enough.  His head had already reached the floor resulting in a few scratches on the forehead again but this time on the right side.  So help us God!

Me working from home this morning to finish off a few proposals.  The sms-es have been coming in steadily since 8.15am from all over and would not let me be in peace.  Meetings will start in the afternoon today and am working on 3 separate proposals and 1 presentation simultaneously.  My specialty -- multi-tasking.  Arent all mothers?  Special message to future employers -- if you need somebody with multi-tasking capabilities, chances are you have to hire mothers!Now, come up to my face and tell me that you disagree!


signing off..Hazelinesnow at 8:45 AM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Thursday, July 15, 2004

I went out of the office right after the simmering down of the afternoon thunder showers in Petaling Jaya. Roads were clear, the highways were a breeze. It was just a few minutes to 5pm I believe and I swerved the car right onto the driveway of Balqis's school. She was still having her afternoon nap. The first thing she said to me was ... 'Mommy, saturday (she meant yesterday. She cant pronounce yesterday and always describe yesterday as saturday) so late you pick me up. I wait I wait I wait.' So naturally she was pleased that I was real early today. She had on her a perpetual small satisfied smile. I asked her why she was smiling. She said 'Today Balqis go home already now'. So I got to spent the early evening with her, watching her Play House Disney Channel on cable TV and playing the playhouse disney.com on the internet. She watched The Lion King for awhile before abandoning it to go see what I was doing in the kitchen. Today I was cooking their macaroni, potato, carrot and chicken ball soup.

I am hoping that I will be home early tomorrow too. My target is to reach home by 5.30pm to get to spend some extra time with my Balqis & Adam again tomorrow.

They'll be happy, I hope. I know I will be.






signing off..Hazelinesnow at 6:04 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

I really really hate working late. I will only work late if necessary and I do my best not to. If it is a meeting, all throughout the entire meeting it will be *Balqis* *Adam* *Balqis* *Adam* in my mind until the meeting ends. For the past few days beginning Monday, my schedule has been erratic and hectic. My new agency is finally up and running, searching for office space and meeting people are the majority part of the activities. Majority of my time are consumed with meetings and meetings and then more meetings. My partners and me are going full throttle and with a few contracts secured, we are, to describe it with a four letter word, BUSY.

Since Monday, I've been picking the kids up on the average 9pm! And I wished I could fly back to get them after those unavoidable meetings that dragged and dragged! My darling Balqis told me on Monday night that she waited for me so long. On Tuesday, the maid at her school told me that Balqis complained to say that Mommy is very late. And today she was already asleep! Sigh ... And only if Adam could talk!

So far this week I only get to spent a few waking hours with them at night before they dozed off so naturally I missed them a lot. But I've scheduled my time for both Thursday and Friday so that I will be back early at home! I pray that there will be no last minute urgent meetings to attend to. I hope by next week as my work load eased off a little bit, I will be able to leave office even earlier to go home to be with the kids. I will also be able to not go to the office and start work from home first before going off for my meetings outside.

The 6pm meeting ended at 8pm tonight. To top it all off, majority of the traffic lights going to my house was down due to a blackout. Thus the chaotic traffic causes major halts at several points. Darn! Darn! Darn! And all I could think of was *Balqis* *Adam* *Balqis* *Adam*.... If only I could fly ....

Everybody seemed to want a fraction of my time since I was gone for the whole of last week from work and that situation does not help. My assistants are having a very trying time to accomodate everybody and I must say that I am thankful that they were on top of things while I was gone.

Time for my slumber. We are all sleeping together tonight with me in the middle holding both Balqis's and Adam's hands. Balqis on my right and Adam on my left. And before long, I know Adam with turn over and placed his head on my chest. And Balqis will put her leg over mine, not letting go of her hand in mine.

Sweet dreams my little sweethearts ... Mommy is here to chase away all the bad dreams ...
and keep all the pretty ones for both Balqis and Adam.







signing off..Hazelinesnow at 10:49 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Sunday, July 11, 2004

I can give a good sigh of relief. They are confirmed to be 98% healthy and definitely on the way to full recovery. We all went to Carrefour today to do some minor groceries shopping. I think everybody at Carrefour would have known us at that point. Not because we are popular public figures but because we are the most chaotic family around. It was also too impossible to miss us because Adam kicked and cried and screamed (For the first time an ultra moody Adam)and wailed and scratched and wriggled. His head, ears and nose were red with all those crying. Balqis on the other hand, decided that she must be seated in one of those car-look-a-like cart or else ... So, I had to go and get the car for her. They were asking for a RM30.00 deposit and I digged my wallet to find that I only had RM20.00 with me! My darling husband, of course had to forget his wallet! The groceries shouldnt be any problems coz they are online with Maybank and I can always use my ATM card at the counter. The most pressing problem then was I had to go to the ATM machine quick to get some money for this darn car. Walked. Queue. Get money. While I was gone, my darling husband had to control and look after a wailing, kicking and wriggling Adam who also wanted to get in the car-cart thingy and Balqis of course, would not want to share it at all!

When I arrived there was already a queue forming up with Adam crying and screaming and Balqis looking so contented with herself at having the car-cart thingy to herself. I paid the deposit and I tried psychology with Balqis. She bought it and jumped out of the car-cart thingy and I went on to find my dear darling husband. Adam was placed in the car and all is well..

All is well until they decided that they wanted a drink right there and then. We grabbed a pack of cultured drink of which both Balqis & Adam drank and left nothing at the end. So I kept the plstics covering the drink together with the bar code so that it could be scanned for us to pay at the counter.

Finally we reached the counter and queue up to pay for the groceries. The person in front of us didnt have enough money with him resulting in us having to wait. Once the next counter was free, I transferred all my stuff over and queue up at the new counter. By this time, Adam thought that the waiting was a bit much and wriggled and screamed and cried and kicked to be let down. We were scared to let Adam get down from my darling husband because we would be chasing him everywhere and he is faster than any one of us!

We paid and walked as fast as we could to the car. Adam has not stopped crying. He only stopped crying when the car moved and when we allowed him to sit on my darling husband's lap.

Dinner was spaghetti and meat sauce. My darling husband's recipe. He did all the cooking and I did all the cleaning up. He also helped me cook Balqis & Adam's macaroni soup.

That was one tiring afternoon for all of us. Yeah and Balqis helped me blow candles on my birthday cake. Adam had fun smudging the cake with his fingers, on his mouth, it was also on his forehead. He did a big mess on the kitchen floor. Well ... as long as you are quiet and happy, I will willingly clean your mess up later. Just do not cry anymore.

Does anybody else's kids behave like ours? Or maybe what my darling husband said is correct -- our kids are special. Very special they are of course to our hearts! And dont anybody take that away from us!





signing off..Hazelinesnow at 10:20 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Saturday, July 10, 2004

It's finally Saturday and I thought it will never come. I am in a state of aching body, limbs and my waist is killing me. Cant get good spare parts nowadays so I am living with what I have! And today, as I turned a year older I thought I could feel the age creeping in ... with style (not giving in!).

Major announcement -- Balqis is good! She's back to her normal self... I thank GOD! Adam is on the way to recovery ... the cool dude is now happily opening up his mouth to take in the medicine as opposed to Mommy having to strap him down in between the legs, holding his hands and feet together! Major hurdle. Major disaster area before as it will normally take all my might to just feed a medicine. Coming from a 148cm person (and growing so fast), that was some maneuver petite Mommy has to do. My darling husband would always be the feeder because I will never be able to go through ensuring that medicine is in the mouth. Then ensuring medicine in throat and swallowed. Medicine in the mouth does not necessarily means that it will be in the throat and way way down in the stomach. One twist of fate, the medicine will be on Mommy instead of landing itself in Adam's vein!

We were always wondering whether this is a major world phenomenon or is it just happening within our world. More statistics is needed and major research is under way. Will not be able to share report with anybody at this point of time.

All my 3 babies are napping at this point (remember that I have 2 small babies and 1 big one!) and that leaves me with quality time to myself -- reading a book bought by my darling husband (currently reading Adik Datang written by Pak Samad and the book is autographed by him), putting clean laundry into drawers and in the wardrobe, visiting blogs while sipping peppermint tea.

I had a blast from the past yesterday. A theatre friend from Singapore gave me a surprise call to see what I was doing this weekend. He will be up here getting his script from Pak Samad and he needed to touch base with me because he needed my support for their upcoming theatre project with Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka (DBP). I have left that part of my world (Theatre) quite a while back -- as soon as I got Balqis. I had no more spare time to either write, produce, be involved, act (which I seldom do) or whatsoever anymore. I left it where it was too. Am on hiatus when it comes to theatre. Those days, I used to travel down to Singapore invited by Theatre Kami (most of them are dear old friends) on several special occasions. Now, although I dont do theatres anymore I am looking for some time to go see one with my darling husband -- and when we find a babysitter who is willing to take care of Balqis & Adam. And you know, I will always be the worry-wart. I will think of them most of the times I am away from them and wonder whether they are OK, what they are doing etc. Thus, we seldom go out nowadays. But as they grow bigger, I am beginning to gain more confidence and feeling more comfortable at leaving them behind with babysitters. Thus, I think I will be able to do my own things slowly as they grow older.

It's Saturday -- It's my birthday -- It's a wonderful day thus far!



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 6:10 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Adam is sick too! When I got him back from the babysitter yesterday evening, he already had a temperature going. The poor darling is also having flu and I reminded myself that I shall take a look at his tonsils with the Disney Princess torchlight, of course belonging to Balqis.

So, today is day 4 of me at home looking after Balqis. Adam was with me most of the morning and I'd sent him off to the babysitter since he was doing much better than Balqis. Adam has always been a strong boy. This morning, Dr. Norliza had to chase him around to get his temperature. He hated for the thermometer to be in his ear. He fan it off like fanning off a fly! Made a face and screamed making a crystal clear statement: Dont touch my ear. Dont you dare touch my ear. The doc got it finally.

Last night I brought Balqis to see Dr. Rayney Azmi Ali just to get another opinion. He's always been something like a family doctor but he is always away from his clinic that we are forced to be the loyal patrons of Dr. Norliza ever since. He is mostly in on Wednesdays and these are the times when we will get in to see him. Dr. Rayney was also the receiving doctor when I gave birth to Balqis ... so Balqis and him kind of have a bond.

He prescribed Balqis with a strong antibiotic. Her lungs seems clear. I was so scared that it might be another Broncho Pneumonia case (Nauzubillah). We spent 5 days at the Peadiatrics Ward of Gleneagles when Balqis was about 2 years plus because of Broncho Pneumonia. 5 days and 4 nights. And I was pregnant with Adam too at that time!

Last night Balqis had a fretful sleep while my darling husband had no sleep and me, an interrupted sleep. Her nose are bothering her so much and she is having difficulties breathing through her stuffed up nose. Her temperature soared and dropped but not to normal, just kind of dropped insignificantly.

I piled up pillows for her so that she could be rested all through the night almost sitting down but real comfy like so that her stuffed nose would be clearer a little bit for her to breath. That did not help much actually so she continued on her fretful sleep crying, whining and irritated. She didnt get a good long rest but interrupted ones too, the poor baby.

Adam was immediately fine when I administered the voltran supp and gave him plenty of fluid to drink. He has no problem in that department thus this makes my life easier to manage when it comes to Adam. But, you need to use his built-in straw winnie the pooh water tumbler. I guess he finds it exciting drinking from the tumbler and he continues on sipping from time to time even on his own accord. Balqis on the other hand is refusing to take in any fluids especially water. That has been the challenge since day 1. But then I had this game of 'cheers' before drinking with her and for a good one day drank water voluntarily so that she can 'cheers' with mommy's water glass to drink. Although she wasnt drinking as much as I would have liked her to, at least she did. But then after that she got bored with the game and stopped drinking - except for her milk which I prepare with half the normal formula as opposed to the normal 4 scoops of milk powder to 9oz of water.

This morning, eventhough he was having fever, Adam decided to help Mommy brush her hair. So he took her hair brush and he went to work -- brush, brush and then Tuk!Tuk! *grin* brush, brush, Tuk!Tuk! *grin*. He grins every time I screamed because he was hitting my head with the hair brush in between the brushing of the hair. He loved doing that and is thrilled to have caused me or anyone to scream like it's his reward for being naughty.

Adam is asleep according to the hourly report I'm getting from the babysitter -- my calls and I know .. she must be thinking ... get me of off this Mom!

Balqis is also napping at this point infront of the TV on her comforter hugging her butterfly Aussino pillow while borrowing Adam's grasshopper Aussino pillow, watching Playhouse Disney Channel 63.

Time for Mommy to take a deep breath close to Balqis, to monitor. I hope tomorrow will be a better day for both of them. As for me, once they are recovered, I am flying off to the Fiji Islands... in my dreams ...






signing off..Hazelinesnow at 12:21 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Today is the third day I stayed at home to take care of Balqis. I thought perhaps today I could go back to work considering the fact that Balqis spent most of yesterday sleeping! She woke up at 8.30pm or so, and temperature rises up again. Okay here we go. Thermometer under the armpit. We only have a digital one. I guess it's high time to invest in the thermometer that you place in your ear for your temperature. Will wait for one of the pharmacies for sale because it cost around RM170.00. And so we noticed Balqis's temperature rising reaching 38.5. Hit the showers to cool her off. Voltran supp. to her anus. And sponge, sponge, sponge and sponge some more. Temperature. Still high. Sponge again and again. Temperature. And on and on and on... that's what I've been doing since Monday!

The doctor had ordered us to stop feeding her antibiotics because she developed diarhea which according to Dr. Norliza could be one of the cause for the high temperature. It was quite a long explanation - so okay, we'll take your word for it.

This morning I woke up to Balqis calling me. I touched her and she was hot. Thermometer. When it finally beeped, my eyes almost dropped to the floor. 39.2. I rushed her into the bathroom. Showered her. She wanted out of the bathroom. 'It's cold! Stop it! Stop it Mommy! I'm cold'.... she screamed in between shivers. I took her out and dried her and started the whole entire sponging episode again. My darling husband upon seeing that it will kind of take a considerable time for the temperature to drop, fill in the tub and put Balqis in it, much to Balqis's joy! She spent a considerable time playing in the tub squealing. Out she came. Temperature dropped to 37.0.

And so it goes on and on for Balqis since Monday. Her fever does not subside for long. Then back to high temperature again. Showers, sponging and more sponging seemed endless for me these past few days. Sigh ... poor Balqis. Although she is still the active girl but you can tell that she's not feeling too comfortable when her temperature is high. My baby Balqis. Hope you will be fine tomorrow.


signing off..Hazelinesnow at 5:53 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}

Sunday, July 04, 2004

This is one tiring weekend. I need another weekend to recover from this one. I had to work on Saturday. The meeting lasted from 9.30am - 2.30pm. Darn! Lucky it was at Starbucks Amcorp Mall so at least there was some elements of lepak-ing in it too, although the meeting was of a serious nature. Me and my business partners normally trash stuff out at these kinds of fad coffee places. Less bureaucratic atmosphere.

Balqis was sick since last night! :o( It has been a habit with me and my darling husband to put our hands on the kids' forehead and neck to check whether they are OK from time to time. Paranoid parents, I know. Well .... Balqis had a temperature. We woke her up much to her annoyance to give her the panadol suppresant syrup. She took it in between her wailings. She was OK until about 7am. I woke up to find that she was lying down sleeping in a tight curled up position, shivering. Sigh .... I ran to get the thermometer while screaming for my darling husband to wake up.

She went into fits at about 2pm. We had her showered, administered voltran supp into her anus but her temperature was still not stabilised. Her fits ended some seconds but a long while to me when I was looking at her. Lucky we've gone through this and the doctor had advised us and taught us the first aid to the matter. Laid her down on her side to ensure that there was no obstruction to her breathing. I administered the (I forgot what it is called) something rectam pushed it into her anus and press the medication to stop her from jerking. Her jerking stopped but her face was ashen white, her body stiff. Her eyes still was looking upwards. I called out for her to look at me. Just look at me. Her eyes slowly looked at me but she was very very tired at this point. When we saw that she was about to recover, we went to the bathroom, sat her on me and showered her to bring down the temperature. Right after that, we went to see the doctor. It must have been her tonsil infection and as suspected, it was the cause. Antibiotics is imperative here! They didnt have the one that we were used to but were given something of the same effect and standard, we were told. Came back and Adam who was just wailing and pushing himself to us not too excited about all the attention and fuss given to Balqis before, went to sleep. One hurdle over. At least we can concentrate on Balqis alone.

When I wanted to place Balqis on my lap, Adam disagreed profusely! He stepped onto my lap first and sat himself down so that there will be no more space for Balqis. So, I had to give Balqis to her Daddy. And with a single bounce, Adam is out of my lap and into my darling husband's. So when he finally took his afternoon nap, that came as a big relief for both of us.

Balqis now is lying down on a cooling gel, the size of a small mat. A friend of ours got it for us from Hospital Kandang Kerbau in Singapore. When your baby's temperature is high, what you do is you wrap them in one of these. But it's kinda small you know, thus all we could do is to put Balqis on the mat to cool her temperature down a little bit more. Sponge her good. And about an hour after administering the antibiotics, her fever broke. 36.6 after continuous sponging and praying. That was a long afternoon for both me and my darling husband. And I bet for our darling Balqis too. She was not too excited about having to stay indoors because of her fever especially when she heard the neighbors' kids playing and laughing having fun outside. But I know -- she was just concerned about the fact that she couldnt play with her brand new bicycle.

She had her first ride on her brand new bicycle last evening together with Adam (Adam was on Balqis's old bicycle) and Mommy and Daddy. Although she's had her bicycle since Tuesday, she was OK for waiting until the weekend to have her test drive on it. Poor darling Adam, his first time playing with the bicycle outside and he fell down face first on the road!!!! I screamed the loudest scream that seemed to scare away all the birds. They all flew away. Adam too gave a loud shrill and my darling husband who was just a few cm away from Adam scooped him up also with a single bounce. Supermen in the makings. Adam had a cut on his right upper part of his eyebrow and some scratches on his sweet face! :o( But after a few minutes, he wanted to be let down and jumped on his bicycle and awayyyyy ..... (I rest my case).

Besides the bicycle, I also bought the two kids their table and chairs. It came in as a colorful set, blue, yellow, red and green. Adam was so excited about it the first night that he wanted to take his chair to sleep! And the next morning wanted to take it with him to the babysitter! Although he couldnt talk yet but his expression is enough to communicate his wants and frills. I turned around to look at the both of them while writing this entry. They are watching the new Playhouse Disney Channel 63 on cable TV. My darling husband is on the roll - he just showered them and changed them to their sleeping attires, made them milk and entertaining them. Balqis is just simply staring straight ahead watching Rolie Polie Olie. While Adam, who just got up like an hour ago, was standing on the sofa, also staring at the tube with his mouth jabbering gibberish. His hands pointing to the tube every now and then. Cant wait for him to know how to talk.

...... and then when it comes for the time for both of them to know how to speak... all I will say is .. so help me God!

Oh ... and tomorrow's Monday! Boooo Hoooo .....


signing off..Hazelinesnow at 6:41 PM [ | ]

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