Daily Massage

Andrea and Ben enjoying 捏脊. At first they feel pain i think, after they got used to it, they would lie down and let me finish it, for ben - he let me do at least 5 times. first i will just 捏 for 2-3 times then will proceed with 3 捏 1 提.

It depends on their condition, if cough then i will massage the 肺穴, back and front. Like ben, i will massage the heart, cos he might be scared - i scream too much at andrea and sometimes i will scold ben too. I massage the tummy for andrea too, as she always says she has stomachache and also her foot chakra. She complain the foot chakra is painful, i wonder WHY. However i still press it until she really do not want it, just hope the pain there will go away. Andrea has alot of internal problem i think :(

Maid will be here tomorrow

Maid is gonna be here tomorrow, I feel that i have not done enough preparation. Things that i need to prep her, sigh .... All i have is schedule for the house chores, i have briefly wrote down what i should tell her & make  a recording so that i can goreng her sotong if she cannot perform next time. That's all i have. There are many things i want to tell her and warn her, but i guess it's too much for now, I will tell her what i have and observe, will add in if necessary in the future. I'm really afraid that this is another trouble maker! I cannot sleep .... supposedly to take afternoon nap with the kids, why i'm so nervous! Siao .... Relax

This is the 1st time i handle new maid alone! Previously i dump to my mum .... How independent I am now :)

Update:
I'm not sure if she is lucky or I'm lucky. The maid has Conjunctivitis with pus. We picked her up and sent to my mum house, i just hope it will not spread it to andrea or ben. It's good that she can stay away with the kids for a few days, I'm still afraid of the chicken pox that the training house has. About the maid's eye, i think her cleanliness is not very good, how on earth she gets that, sigh .... Mum told me just now she smells bad after sweat, aiyoh... Need to ask her to loose some weight, but how to tell her? Gosh ... 

Teacher's Concern

Hubby told me that teacher in summer academy asked him about andrea at home. Teacher Natalie (english) and Teacher Mazlin (malay) both comment that andrea pretend like a baby at school for almost 2 weeks, they are wondering if andrea is doing the same at home. My oh My .... what i have done to my girl? Why is she hard to control and is such a rebellious girl, i thought reasoning is a good thing but she turn a deft ear many times. I don't know what to do with her, i just hope miracle will happen, one day when she wakes up she feels happy and loved all over again.

Since ben is born, andrea has been very naughty, i know she does not get the attention she wants but she got to adjust and live with it. Daddy and Mummy is trying our best to give her time, moreover we do not have a maid, some time has to be given to do housework as well. This is really a difficult time for all of us, why can't andrea be good? She cries all day long, every single little thing, which drives me up the wall all the time.

I even try to stop andrea seeing the grandparents because she will become crazy when she sees grandma, cry and cry and cry when they want to leave and makes many non-sense request. I hate it when she does not obey to what i say and only grandma makes her crazy, i don't know why. We move back to our own home and andrea does not get to see grandparents everyday because grandma hate us and wants us to live on our own, she is tired in helping me to take care of my kids, forced me to quit my job and forced me to handle my 2 problem kids myself and tell me drinking my damn maid saliva is OK. Thank you very much ..... This lesson i will remember it FOR LIFE!!

When eating andrea eat very slow, currently i'm so sick of calling after her - "andrea chew, andrea eat, andrea faster, andrea swallow, andrea big mouth etc", i reduce the rice to the same amount that ben is taking. I don't know what to do with her, she is such a problem child. I just hope she will recover when my maid arrives later. This is really a bad milestone that i have recorded so far.

WORST ATTITUDE she has for the past 3 years. Everyone at home is emotionally tortured, how to HEAL? sigh... GOD pls HEAL all of them. Thank you for my mum to contribute such sad event to all of us at home.

Weekend escapade!

Wow, it has been so long that we did not stay in hotel after ben is born. for this 9 months we only went to Westin & Hilton once and that's about it. I'm glad that we had a chance to go shangrila again this time before the new maid arrives next week. When andrea was born we went very frequently, maybe because i hate to see my old maid's face, lol, always showing black face ... cannot tahan!

Andrea is really cute, she pack her own clothes, pillow & soft toys. I asked hubby to bring out the big bag this morning, when andrea saw it, she quickly put her stuff inside the bag! haha... this shows that she loves weekend stay in hotel too! I just hope everything goes smoothly because ben and andrea is currently sick. Andrea has serious cough, non-stop type at night, scary scary scary... i don't know if she is recovering or the massage is helping, she cough less last night. Ben having flu, i'm worried again, worried that he has stuffy nose and could not drink milk. Sigh... whatever it is, let it be a smooth holiday.

Update:
The executive room given was not up to our standard, maybe it's on the lower floor. We had made an upgrade for the second night for the Horizon Club room. Phew... it's so so much better. How can we live without money, I think i rather die if i i don't have any. All the while we stayed in Horizon club room, only this time we stayed in executive room, the voucher we had has downgraded, sigh, we need to pay 190++ for the upgrade. Whatever it is, we all LOVE it. We had 24 hours free drinks/ fresh juices, breakfast, afternoon tea, cocktail. Locitane toiletries, canggih coffee making machine in the room, etc It's pricey to stay in shangrila, i think we will opt for westin next time. We love pavillion too!

Lateral incisor - Ben

Ben's teeth is out very much faster than andrea, however talking/ signing is way too slow if compared to andrea.

7 months - start sprouting bottom central incisor
8 months - start sprouting upper central incisor
9 months - start sprouting upper lateral incisor

drink so little & eat so little also got chance to grow so fast. Not bad at all ...

9 months, 3 weeks, 2 days old

推拿手法

1。揉法 － 按下然后揉动［每分钟240 次］
2。推法 － 最快， 力最大 （轻快）［每分钟 220－280 次］
3。掌摩法 － moderate 力， 速。 和要放松 ［每分钟160－180次］
      指摩法 － 指一定要直 和要慢
4。按法－ 跟这次须 ＝ 轻，重，轻。 然后揉动叫按揉法
5。运法 － 最慢 ， 力最轻 ［每分钟 60－80 次］

Linking Memory Method

Andrea & Hubby has been struggling to get a perfect score for almost 1 year, when schichida started to do 50 pictures for linking memory. Me being the lazy mum, because i have other things to keep me occupied - ben, neglected andrea for this long. One fine day i kick myself in the butt and take over the responsibility of teaching andrea again. I observed the method shichida used - telling stories, i listen to the cd and tried to learn it myself 1st .. i find it very hard to memories it myself too. Suddenly, i remember some memory method i learn from secondary school, telling stories too, but you make up your own stories. So despite we follow the stories in the CD, i make up my own stories that relates to andrea. VIOLA! She did it in one day ... all 50 pictures - forward & backward. It's so amazing! I'm so proud of her :)

Ben can do ... August 2010

1. Ben can clap

2. Ben can do high five

3. Ben can stand without holding on to anything for more than 1 min (consider very long)

4. Ben loves to play with daddy - all the dangerous stunt like riding horses, flying, sometimes they will play hide and seek

4. Ben loves to play with Andrea - they love to chase each other, laugh and scream together, love to climb onto andrea's bed

5. Ben loves to open and close the curtain, on and off the table lamp, chew on all the sockets, chew on remote control

6. Ben loves to eat everything we eat for breakfast, for fruits - he prefer to hold and bite on his own, does not like me to scrap for him now. When adults drink from a glass, he will snatch the glass

7. Ben can crawl very fast, learning to walk - likes people to hold his hand, he can walk very fast too (always feel very excited, dunno why)

8. Ben kiss pocoyo & the Goldilocks and the three bears book (the bear). I was shock when he does that... Why never kiss mummy... naughty boy ... 

9. Ben likes to disturb andrea while she is sleeping .... climb on the bed, pull the hair, use both hands to wake andrea up, scream or make many noise like calling her to wake up, take andrea pillow and put his head on it, buried his head beside andrea. 

10. Ben shows sign of wanting to follow daddy / grandparents when they are heading to the door

9 months, 2 weeks, 2 days old

ben shichida - July 2010

Ben had attended shichida for over a month now, i would say he is still adapting to class like activity. He can sit on his chair for above 70%, the rest of the time just want to stand, get down from the chair & fussing. Overall his concentration is not bad. Honestly, i should wait until he turns 1 or like andrea - 1 year & 3 months only start shichida, at 9 months old is abit too early to enjoy the whole program.

There are a few parts ben enjoys :-
1. The abacus (most enjoy - watching sensei sing the song until counting on his own)
2. All the songs sang in class (he will sit and will not move)
3. All the activity which has small boxes (he likes to pour the content out from the box or shake it)

I don't know if he benefits from:-
1. ESP - most of the time he got it correct, however many times i feel that he does not know what to do when sensei asked him to choose. (correct then can lah, lol, shows that the right brain is functioning!)
2. flash memory - i don't know about this too, most of the time correct too. I doubt he knows which one sensei showed him just now... lol
3. all the left brain activities - like numbers & alphabet. Just play with him only lah, but i feel he doesn't know anything ... whatever ... but he super love ABC song!

All in all, it's good for a lazy mum like me. Once a week input better than none :)
I do not have time at home to teach, all my time has gone to feeding ben. He is not drinking 10oz from 6am-6pm till now. I don't know when will this improves... Oh MY...

Screaming Baby

Benjamin loves to scream .. just like his sister. When it started? one fine day (last 2 weeks), andrea shout once, ben followed, andrea shouted another time, ben followed. Andrea says: "ben, don't follow me". Andrea shout again, ben followed... Mummy sit and watch both shouting babies! Many times ben will scream when he is excited, agitated & when i left him alone. Many times i will say: "ben, that's very noisy", at times i will just laugh when he does that. I don't know if i still able to enjoy these development moment after i have start working.

Ben likes to SLIDE [crawling but hand holding on something to slide], he will use his wooden shape puzzle to slide, one hand each. It made me laugh ALWAYS. Sometimes he will use andrea's chopping board to slide. Once i saw him using andrea's pillow.

Ben is able to stand without holding on anything, when he wobble, many times he won't fall. When he holds my hand walking, i can feel that he can walk very soon, as he does not need me to hold him very firmly now, he only uses my hand to support if he stumble. However, he is not confident when i ask him to take only 1 step without holding me or any object. The best he can do? Hold on a table, turn 90 degrees to me, let of of hands from table, hands and leg simultaneously hold on to me.

currently his upper 2 incisor is sprouting, he doesn't seems to have any appetite, drink less & cannot finish his porridge now. almost a week now. poor boy

9 months, 1 week, 1 day