Happy Birthday Dave.....

It's Dave's Chinese Birthday today... Not much celebration... Just had cake in the evening after my class. Father-in-law doesn't like people celebrate their birthday, except for the first birthday. He is against thing like buying cake or people talk about birthday. Well in this case, I insisted to buy the cake. It's like once in a year time and hey.. last two years I were in pain laid in the hospital.... but then the pain worth it...^^

Dave's can recognize and read it out from 1-20 fluently, recognize 26 alphabets, loves to watch Barney, always tell if he needs to poo, and sometimes he will tell if he wants to pee.
Loves alphabets, especially number 2. Loves to play with calendar or calculator and read out the numbers, understand words better.... doesn't like go to barbershop, that's why granny is the one who cut his hair. Everyday, before he went to sleep and after he wake up, he'll find his number 2 first. When we turn off the lights at night and he still wants the light on, he will tell lie that he needs to poo... ^^

Red eggs....


Misua for birthday boy ^^

Dave's excited


Family's members.... ^^

He loves to arrange numbers, and put 5 upside down.

How Long Do You Want to Live on this Earth...??

I went for my haircut this morning. It's Saturday, it's the only free time that I have. It's quite rushed as again I need to pick up Dave at 11 from his school. Durind the weekdays, I have classes, I usually pick him at at 12 something after my class, so I always do my best to be at school early on Saturday.

Back to the topic, I went to this saloon, there were already a couple of people inside, but luckily they were not having their hair cut. I were the first so I can just pick Dave on time. However, while I were waiting for the hair-dresser to come down, an old granny walked in the saloon with one maid and one grand-daughter (13 or 14 years old). She's quite old, I guess in her 80s. Her hearing is not that good, and she's very impatient, looked blur... She needs to her hair cut done also.

It's quite a dilemma for me, if I let her had the hair cut first, then I will be so late in picking up Dave. If I had mine first, then that poor granny has to stay there for quite a while... Finally, after half an hour, the hair-dresser just came down... and he's extremely slow in doing things... (it's my first visit)

Finally, the hair-dresser cut the granny hair first, and he couldn't cut the hair as the granny keep moving his head. Then the granddaughter like keep saying... granny, do you want your hair cut done, so that you can look prettier... The granny wanted to cut her hair also, as she said like, Yes... a little... However, the granny can't stop moving her head around.. So, again and again, the grand daughter said, Granny, please stop moving your head around.. or granny the hair-dresser is going to cut your hair, but you cannot move... or granny.. please stop moving, we are done in few minutes.. then you are going to look beautiful...

Seeing this granny reflects me to think of my own granny... She were sick for couple of months and she's like in her early 70s... so suffered for a couple of months... Meanwhile, dad suddenly passed away (heart attack) during the Christmas trip... Feel no pain at all... These whole things make me think if I really have a choice to choose how long I can live on this earth... I really will not request to live longer like hundred years... if were not healthy... ^^
Maybe I will choose to live like as long as I am still healthy and able to do things... not a burden for other people.. Hm.. not sure also... ^^

Prize or Discount Motorcyle....??

Yeah.... Mr. won the prize from Brastagi Supermarket in Medan. It's the annual celebration to share the joy with the customers; giving out prizes. This year, it gave out 1 car and 10 motorcycles. Mr. is the lucky person number 9 who won the motorcycle. ^^

Hm... sometimes I wonder if this is called as prize or buy motorcycle with 50% discount. Since we need to pay for almost 5 million rupiah for the license and the tax. If we sell it, the price is about 10 million.

Dave on the new motorcycle

Recovering from HFM...

For the first time since he was diagnosed with HFM on Saturday... Dave had his first solid food, mi sua... Misua is a very thin variety of salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour. I just simply cooked the misua with some pork ribs for the taste. He didn't eat the pork though...

Today is Thursday, and Dave was willing to drink milk by himself yesterday. So, it's like 4-5 days since Saturday that he was not drinking unless we forced him to... and it's only a glass of cold milk every 6-8 hours...

Another pity thing to see is... he loves to drink "yakult" or eat "ice cream"... since he's not able to eat... he just hold and looked at them for minutes.... if we didn't take it away from him.. mayb he'll hold them like hours...

He's also off from school... I plan to send him back to school on Monday if he's doing okie...

Misua that u can find in the groceries stores...


Misua making... Quite impressive right... ^^

Hand - Foot - and Mouth Disease

I were quite shocked when I picked Dave up from school last Saturday. His hands and feet were very cold, so I thought it's the air-con. Then I felt his forehead, and oh gosh... fever... The last time he had the fever were in March, so it's about 7 months ago. I hate it when he's not feeling well...

Then I gave him paracetamol and the fever is not that high anymore. However, his appetite was gone. He normally eats a lot during his lunch and can finish the whole bottles of milk (200 ml) 2 times before bed time. That night, he only drank for about 100 ml and didn't want to drink anymore. Well, I thought the fever and lost appetite were from the molar teeth growing...

On Sunday, I suddenly checked on bottom lips and it's full of ulcers. I remember a friend's once told me that it's the symptom. Then I checked the buttocks, but no ulcers there. So, I thought it's the heat from inside. He's still reluctant to drink. Later on, in the afternoon, after all the attempts to make him drinks, he's still not able to. We decided to go to the doctor. The doctor said that he's having hand - foot- and mouth disease. Poor baby...

There are symptoms of the disease that you can find further from the following website. Dave might have shown the symptoms earlier, but we just didn't notice. In Indonesia, it's called as Singaporean Influenza. The doctor said that it's in trend. In a day, there were at least 5 patients with these kinds of symptoms.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease/DS00599/DSECTION=symptoms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

Or you can just simply go to uncle Google and search for it.

Hm... another unpleasant earlier birthday gift for Dave....

Well, we are not sure where did Dave get this from. It might from the school or the wedding party on Friday that we attended. If it's from the school, again do you think early education is suggested?

Early Education

Is that true that early education will cause traumatic or stress for the children...?? A friend told me that issue, he claimed that he read it from a book. Well, I didn't find anything like that though. Then, I link this back to Dave's behavior that is still reluctant goes to school after a week. Every morning, when I am about to help him change his pj to uniform. He'll cry and say no...

I assume that he cannot take long break. Every time after the long break, he is unwilling go to school. He'll cry and try if by crying it can make him free from school... He's just doing fine on the way to school... and when we reached school, he'll cry again. At school, he's back become a good boy again.... ^^

Well, what I wonder is will that cries in the morning cause him stress that will lead to other effects...???

Btw, Dave is having his second molar now. The second molar should come out in between 23-31 months. He's just in time...