I believe in play for my child.

I chanced upon this video about believing in Play, which is important for our child's development in their mental and physical well-being. This video is by KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. I wonder is there such organization in Singapore since our children are so super stressed up!

I remembered that when I was young, I had lots of freedom to play at the playground near my house, playing hide and seek with my friends and sprained my ankle twice. Playing under the rain with my brother, splashing through the water when we were on our swings. I still remember the taste and smell of the mud water. Eeee! Making sand dolphins. Sadly, I did not have the luxury of having barbie dolls or I don't even remember I had much toys during my age, but was given the freedom to play outside.

Looking back, I really treasured those childhood moments though I did not exactly have a happy family back then. Faced with uncertainties and fear, freedom to play gives me to confidence to explore the world, courage to face the world and its challenges.

Cheers,
Deariebear Mommie

Claire is suffering from Yan Zhen

Hello everyone :)

This blog was lifeless for about 2 years plus. I guess life was kinda stagnant for us after a big milestone passed, our wedding honeymoon at Europe.On 30th Dec 2012, life changed after our baby Claire came into our life. I will talk more about it in another post. :)

For this very first post, it will be good to update my friends about little Claire's eye condition.About 2 weeks ago, I spotted a very very tiny red dot at her left eye lid. I even asked my father-in-law, who is one of the main carer, "Ah Pa, did u see something red here?" He replied "no leh, where got"? After a few days,  her eye became swollen, (pic). My mother-in-law said something must have bitten her, or was she allergic to egg? Immediately, we stopped feeding her egg, and rushed to see a pediatrician.

Our pediatrician said, "oh, she has a 眼针 (Yan Zhen), or our saying Zhen Yan." It was due to blocked sweat duct which caused bacteria infection. I then recalled we don't really clean her eye lids. Being first time parents, we are pretty anxious and kinda guilty too.

The doc gave us a antibiotic cream to apply on her eyelid. We will need to use a warm damp cloth to dap her eyelid first before application so the pores will be open and absorb the cream.

After a week, we noticed that there's a pus in her eye but overall her eye has reduced its swell. But this still kept us worried so Justin Papa and father-in-law brought her to see another pediatrician and gave another cream which will stay longer after application.

Today, the pus seems gone but there's still a tiny swollen thingy which I wonder is the pus still there? Let's see whether it will disappear. Now we are sure to clean her eye lids during her baths. We leant the hard way :( Poor Claire, Mama and papa are still learning.

 By the way, this is the cream that she is using for those who are interested to know :)

Cheers,

Deariebear Mommie

Is Birthday Month!

August is a month full of family members' birthdays, my mother, my brother and my father-in-law birthdays. Is full of fun and good food but it also meant quite a sum of money would be spent. But it is worth to see the smiles of our family members enjoying the food.

Yesterday just brought my family outside for a meal. We hope to bring my brother to whatever places or food he wishes to enjoy while he still is able to feed himself....

Tonight, we prepared a steamboat feast for 8 people (erm..is it a feast? well, we prepared quite a variety of stuff and we tried out our 1st time hand-made wanton dumplings). Ah Yong mentioned that it tasted not bad. Didn't manage to hear from the rest though. The thought of Justin and I trying to fit as much fillings into the small piece of wanton skin was kinda funny.

Justin and I mentioned that his brothers should take turn to organize all the different celebrations in his family because it is kinda tiring to plan for every events. I suggest if so, why don't each brother take turn to plan yearly. I wonder will that happen :P

Now, while I am lonely in the living room after finished the cleaning, Justin is driving his family back home. I'm happy that Ah Yong's girlfriend Joey helped out in the cleaning too, that's so nice of her :)

That's all about the bdae.

By the way...I don't think we are able to go Taiwan this time round because Justin mentioned he will be very busy at the rest of the year. I also will be busy too in planning a new module in SP.

*busy busy*