6 weeks baby not Pooping

Djoanne is exactly two months old tomorrow. Will go for the immunization tomorrow. From the previous immunization, she was not gaining too much weight and it's below average. It's totally different from Dave ^^.
Hopefully this time it will be on the average.

She enjoys to take bath so much. The only problem with her is the white tongue. Tried everything to remove the milk, but it's still there. Dave was having this problem also, but then I forgot how we solved it.

I am still breastfeeding her with addition of 60 ml - 120 ml of formula each day. Since she was 6 weeks, her poops were not regular and I were worried when she didn't poo for 3 days. I browsed the Internet and it says that it's normal for baby who is on bf not to poo everyday. When I were about to bring her to the doctor for consultation, she pooped. The stools were not hard. Since then she only poo every 3 - 7 days. Today she pooped and the last time she pooped was exactly 7 days ago.

Djoanne 1 Month 5 Days

Djoanne 1 Month 15 Days

A Question from Three Years and Five Months Toddler

Dave sees lots of pregnant women these days. These women always tell him about the baby in the stomach. Some of the women with early pregnancies, the tummy are not that big yet, and some are really showing already. He is aware that there is baby in the tummy. So, I were pretending to tell him that there is baby in mommy's tummy. Then he will really show his love and talk to the "baby" in the tummy. This morning, he was kinda pointing to my breast and asked "So, who is in there?"......... ('coz he thinks that everything big has baby inside... ^^)
Honestly, I were quite stunned and I didn't know what to answer. So, after a few seconds, finally I told him that there is nothing in there. The babies are exists only in the tummy.

When is the best time to educate him about human anatomy? 

Dave's Music Lesson

When a boy starts a music education at his young age, will this turn him to be a sissy man later in life? I searched around that music can actually makes someone smarter, relieve stress, or control emotions. If those are true, then enroll your children to music education should be a good thing right?

As a mom, I would love to raise my children in certain ways. I cannot say that the outcome will be perfect or not. However, I would love my children to have interests or skills in both music and sports. ^^
Music will make him able to express better and sports for defensive himself?

Anyway, last week me and Mr. brought Dave to have a trial music lesson in Era Musika. They offer the class call Music Wonderland where it needs 40 meetings in a year in order to move to the next phase. Meanwhile, in Lembaga Musik Murni, they will only accept children above 5 years old.

The registration fee is Rp 300,000 (we had 50% discount since there's an offer on that day) with the monthly school fee Rp 300,000 and book price for Rp 480,000. Expensive? Yes, I think so and it's only last for 50 minutes for each session. ^^

Dave Developments in Writing Numbers and Alphabets

Isn't it interesting to find out a 2 years 9 months toddler can write?

The Bonding with My Son

The water always flows from the top to the bottom naturally; similar to the loves of the parents to their children. I feel the bond with Dave is getting stronger from day to day. I have been really observing him for these couple of nights. The way he sleeps, very peaceful, nothing to worry about. He is really growing and I think that in the few months time, I won't be able to carry him anymore... (too heavy.. ^^) He is growing like extremely fast without you realize it.

It makes me think again, will I be able to let him further his education overseas one day? It's like let him alone by himself out there. Then I think again, there must be time to learn this. We also pursued our education overseas, it must be tough for our parents to let us go also.

Another thing is, some of the children are always complaining that their parents do not love them. I mean, is this true that this kind of thing will happen? Maybe when the children peace off their parents in the degree that is not tolerable again.

Dave's Last Day at PG A

Today is Dave's last day at school and he's having mild fever early in the morning. He still has to go to school as it's the exam week. He's been doing the exams for the whole week and the report is given on next Wednesday. The so called "exam", which I don't have to worry yet until he's in his primary 1. Based on his teacher's reports on each day of the tests, it seems like Dave is doing quite well in most of the fields except arts like folding or pasting.

So far, his activities at home are things related with numbers. He's very into numbers since he was a lot younger and now in his 2 years and 8 months he is able to read from 1 to 110 perfectly and do spelling of the words. Absolutely this won't be a surprised as everyone will know how to spell if they know alphabets. Other achievements from him are the ability to write 1 to 10 by himself except 5 and 8 and count properly.

Numbers written by Dave


I understand that those achievements are nothing at this age as the succeed in the later age is not determine from now.

However, he is still reluctant to mix around and he always complains that he does not want to do gym in the morning. During the gym in the morning, he just stands there. However his teacher said that when he's alone, he's able to do all the movements. He just simply does not like crowd. Again, this worries me a lot.

I would think that Dave is totally a left-brain person. This won't be good in the long run as I believe that the mixture of the left-brain and right-brain are always better than the dominance in only one part of the brain. Thus, I would love to introduce Dave to some instruments in his early age. Hopefully this will work out...

At this age, Dave always asks questions like why Mommy has to go to school and teach? Why don't mommy just stay at home and play computers? and things like that... ^^
Pretty much... lots of "why" questions.

My Boy Vomited "Kolang Kaling" Fruits

It might be great to live with a third-party who can help to take care of your children. Sometimes this can also be annoyed when you have different perceptions as what is good for your children and what is not. For instance, you might think that your children are still too small for certain foods, meanwhile, the other simply think that it's not a big deal. Your children are big enough to consume every things. In this case, you cannot stay with your will in not giving the food for your children just because of the word toleration or maybe respect to the other party. What you can do is just praying that nothing is gonna happened in the sense that not falling sick since some food can be too heaty.

Unfortunately, after certain time, you found out that your children started to get unwell and you started to think of the reasons if it's the changing weather or the food. I were shocked when I saw him vomited the "kolang-kaling" (sugar palm) fruit. It's the whole piece, not chewed. Then, the negative thought run through your brains, what if the fruit stuck in the throat? Some of you might think, come on it's not that big deal. It's just a fruit. Yeah, if you ever try it, when it's soft, it's really yummy. However, when you ate the hard sugar palm fruit, you will not be able to chew them.

Dave vomited this...

The Sugar Palm Fruit



Besides the food, it might be other thing of how they want to involve in your life in rising your children. Some suggestions are accepted as they have experienced in it, but not judging us as the parent in not knowing how to take care of our children. Setting limitation of what we can or cannot do, especially when we have to go for certain event like family gathering that is not happened frequently.

Sometimes when I really put a thought... Is there any limitation of giving in? In the sense that, is that possible not to "give in" all the time and stand with our own will though it might not make the other party happy?

Toilet Training

I guess it's time for Dave not to wear any diapers at night. He has been very good with the toilet training for a couple of months during the day time. He always stays dry during his nap. Thus, I started to let him sleep without wearing his diaper since last week. However, he's not that great at night time yet, as he always pees and gets wet. He didn't wake us up, thus I have to wake up for a couple of times just to change his pj.

Sometimes, if I feel it has been too long for him to stay dry; I will bring him to the toilet and ask him to pee. Sometimes he wants, and of course sometimes he will cry, refuse to pee.

Dave 2 Years and 4 Months

Apparently I am a bit worry of Dave's teeth that starts to decay. Especially the upper front teeth.
So far, he seldom eat candies or chocolate. He has started to brush teeth when he was a lot younger, though I don't remember on what age.

I kinda guess that the teeth decay was from the habit of drinking milk in the middle of the night. I just stopped his habit like about 2 months ago, but then I guess it is still too late to prevent the teeth from decaying. Dave is brushing teeth like 2 times in a day, before the bed time and after the morning milk. Does the tooth paste plays an important role in this case?

I read that the permanent teeth will take place when he is 6 or 7 years old, that is 4 or 5 years later. Is that really that bad to lose the teeth on his early age?

Boys Play Piano....

In my mind, it's kinda cool for boys or men to play piano. Not necessary piano, but knows how to play instrumental. Well, some people might against it as they scared that they are going to turn out like sissy or like a girl. What do you think...??

I kinda feel that when you play piano, you are listening to the classic songs indirectly. Won't this stimulate the brain? In addition to that, all the fingers nerve will involve in it also; which I heard that it can control someone emotion?

This is how Dave's gonna look like if he's a musician one day... LOL

Toddler Alone in the Car

It was quite an experienced for me. If I picked up Dave from school, normally he will sit beside the driver's seat. Once we reached home and ready to get out from the car, he would love me to go down first and closed the door and picked him up from the door beside the driver's seat. Then he will move to the driver's seat and pretend that he is driving the car. I have been doing this like months and of course with the engine off and the hand brake up.

However, yesterday, the car was sliding down and I couldn't open the door as he locked it up. I were so shocked, and I have to hold the car from sliding down from behind, and luckily there was a three-wheel cycled (becak) man passed by and helped me to hold the car. Then, I quickly open the car's door with the key and pull up the hand brake again. Luckily,

I just realized that he's growing and able to do so many things. He's been observing me driving for quite a while and look at me when I pull up or pull down the hand-brake. Dave is now 27 months and technically he wants to do most of the things by himself. He is also in the phase where he would like to imitate what we do. ^^ He wants to carry me now.... lol...

Just to add on... he's only wear diaper during the bed time and go to the wedding party. The rest of the time, he will tell when he wants to pee or to poo.... He can stay dry for the whole day.... ^^
The reason why we still make him wear diaper when we go to the wedding party is because he cannot seat down for 2 hours, then he will find excuses to go out, and the classic excuse is to pee... ^^

Dave 2 Years and 2 Months

Everyone says and asks the same thing... When are you going to give Dave a sibling? or It's time to give Dave a sibling! yeah.. those similar statement and question over and over and over....
Hm... Is that a must to have more than one child? Let me analyze and give a thought of this thing...
Maybe if you have your opinions, you can bring it up... ^^

At this age, Dave is able to sing a couple of songs completely and a few songs like follow the end....
He can sing ABC with weird intonation... but it's cute... hehe...
He kinda mix "Burung Kakak Tua" with "Topi Saya Bulat" (Indonesian's children songs...)

He can count until 40 and he can recognize numbers below 100.
He's getting determine of what he wants... stubborn... or maybe it's not stubborn but then we want him to do things just like what we want.. and he wants to do it his way... hehe....

He's not wearing any diapers except bed time.. and he tells when he wants to pee.....

Dave 23 Months

Another present for Dave in his 23 months...^^ Not a real present... he fell down and hurt his lips... Pooor Dave...


In his 23 months, Dave's front teeth are started to decay. Grandpa starts to buy him snacks, candies, and cold drinks. He is able to understand things and would like to accept negotiation. He takes condition and rewards things... Good for him and easy for us...
Well, there is time when he gets really stubborn and it's very hard for us to control things too...

He is able to make 3 words sentences like "home sweet home", etc. Besides that, he is able to remember and pronounce his classmates names.

He knows how to read and recognize numbers 1-12.. the rest is still in progressing.

His pattern is like taking nap from 1 or 2 till 3 or 4 or 5 sometimes. Then, the worst is, he is sleeping at 11 in the evening...

The evil face of him....

Until now, his favorite number is 2... ^^

Respect your mother... Remember the...

Respect your mother... remember the pain labor that she went through...?? It is either c-Section or normal... They are equally pain.... 9 months carrying in the tummy... take care of you from the first day you were born until today... You demand to drink every 2 hours... a few times poo in a day... tried so hard to make u stop crying... and so on....

Those are the common sense of what we should do rite...?? Well, I've seen people who are not respected their mom... or they respect their mom... but then... the mom is too demanding... or maybe the mom loves to gamble.... or maybe the mom loves to shop branded things... without looking or understanding her children situation... Keep asking money for entertainment... Said nasty words when the children didn't give her the money...

My question is... how should this child response his / her mom behaviors? Lets just assume that the children still give his/her mom some money for daily expenses.. not the entertainment though... and not for shopping... and not for gamble...

Will the children get the bad karma (if you believe in Karma)...???

Hm... this topic come to mind as I read lots of newspapers mentioned the delivery... 20 children in 1 day... ^^....???