Tiny Steps, Cutest Smiles

We’ve been reading to Jae before bedtime since he was 6 months old?(can’t remember exactly). As he grows older, he had been demanding to be read more often. Many times, we had to read the same book over and over again.

Recently, we bought a new book by Dr. Seuss, “if I ran the zoo”. It’s quite an interesting book which I enjoyed reading too. Most importantly, it’s a very useful book in putting Jae to bed night after night. Before I get to the end of the book, he’ll be off to lala land. Lol.

His current favorite book is a Mickey book with several short stories. He’ll demand us to repeat the whole book several times a day. Sometimes, he’ll sit quietly and flip the pages by himself and reading them aloud. When I say read, it actually meant that he is saying out loud whatever he had memorized after we’ve read to him hundreds of times. How fast my boy grows… From tearing pages from books to reading by himself…

Had a follow up at the ortho last Friday. His right clavicle had a through fracture but was not displaced. The ortho did not take any xray to check but advise to wait another 6 weeks to heal before xray. He told us to keep Jae home for another 2 weeks before going back to school. This means that he is missing 4 weeks of school!!! Anyway he is not in pain now when he uses the right arm for normal activities. I might send him back to school need week for the sake of my sanity and his!!! Lol.

Yesterday, Jaeden had an accident at home. While i was not watching, the cabinet and CRT TV fell on him. *gasps* He was playing in the room when i suddenly heard a ping pong pong piang, followed by his screams/cries. When i found him, his arm was pinned down by the TV and his leg was pinned by the cabinet. I nearly had a heart attack. He kept screaming and crying until he fell asleep. When he woke up, he kept complaining of neck pain on the right side. Whenever he uses his right arm, there’s pain.

I brought him to the GP and he ordered for an Xray the following day since it was late. But hubby wanted an xray immediately, therefore we brought him to KKH A&E. It wasn’t a long wait for the dreaded results that showed a fracture on his right shoulder. Its going to take about 2 weeks for the pain to fade and another 3 months for the fracture to heal completely. Now we had to make sure that his arm is in a sling at all times except when sleeping.

Haiz… my poor boy. Who would have thought that he will be strong enough to topple a cabinet with CRT TV on top? I had wanted to shift the TV days ago but it was too heavy. Maybe i should had done it anyway, now he will not be injured. I hate myself for letting him go through this pain. Maybe i should had fixed my eyes on him every second of the day. Haiz. Couldn’t sleep well last night. Hope my darling Jae will be better soon.

Updating live from Disneyland Hotel, Hong Kong. Our SQ flight was delayed for about an hour and by the time we reached Disneyland hotel, it was already 12.30am on Sunday. Upon checking in, we realised that the room given to us was a smoking room. Hubby went to the concierge and requested for a change to non-smoking room and we were given a free upgrade to a kingdom club room. The room is slightly bigger with a separate bath-tub and shower area, there’s an additional dressing table and also its located on the highest floor (7th floor) which requires a key card to get on when one uses a lift. On top of that, kingdom club includes complimentary breakfast, high tea and beer/wine. Lucky us!

We slept for 8 hours before heading for the breakfast at the kingdom club room. Then we headed for Ocean Park. The weather was pretty good with occasional sun and light drizzle which last for less than 1 minute each time. Like before, there’s a lot of walking up slopes and down slopes. We took the cable car, the ocean express train, to the atoll reef, caught some performances and spent some time at the kids play area before leaving for Citygate outlets shopping mall. Because Jae seemed really tired, we had a quick dinner at the mall before heading back to the hotel. Hopefully we’ll have time for shopping on the last day.

Today, we were at Disneyland. We managed to do everything at Adventureland, caught the shows and parade at Main Street and some rides at Fantasyland. We’ll try to finish up the rest tomorrow. Later, we will catch the fireworks at the Kingdom Club balcony after dinner. Jae is still napping now, i wonder if he is going to wake up soon… hmm..

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the much anticipated Universal Studios Singapore. When we were there, the most popular rides “Battlestar Galactica” were closed! Its okay though, Jae cannot take those rides and Daddy and Mummy don’t enjoy the thrill. With the rides closed, the crowd seemed to be thinner despite going on a Sunday. We spent the whole day there and Jae enjoyed the rides and shows. But we will not be visiting anytime soon as that place caters to older kids. Jae doesn’t know who is Frankenstein or the Kungfu Panda. Disney is still a better theme park for him.

Luckily Jaeden managed to escape the hospital stay and recovered in time. But he didn’t manage to go back to school during the last week of the term. Had a really tiring but fun week with Jaeden, tomorrow is back to school again! Hope he is not going to cry.

Haiz… my poor baby is sick again. Bad stomach. It must be me, the bad mummy who fed him the wrong stuff. Good thing is, this time round, he didn’t vomit. Bad thing is he kept having tummy-ache, high fever and diarrhea. Hopefully by the end of today, the diarrhea and fever will stop, otherwise we will have to admit him to hospital again to put on drip tomorrow. This morning, he woke up looking really tired/weak. I hope he’ll have a better appetite when he wakes up later. It makes me so sad to see him like this. Really have to pray that he gets better. I don’t want to see him on a drip sleeping on a hospital bed again. My poor baby.

Finally, Jaeden started jumping! Compared to his peers, he is considered late but we can’t really blame him. He is much heavier and bigger built than his peers and he started walking later. Now, at 2.5years, he is jumping! Yeah! Another milestone for my precious boy.

There was a CNY party in school today and all the kids were told to dress up in CNY clothes. I managed to borrow one from SIL. Here is my funky boy in a 唐装.

*cheeky and cheerful early in the morning getting ready for school

*walking towards school

Jae had been surprising us with many Chinese words and sentences. Just now, before sleeping, while he was looking at the newly installed mirror, he started saying “恭喜发财，新年快乐。祝福大家新年快乐呀！”. It was so shocked! This is the first time he spoke in such long sentences in mandarin. He continued these sentences until he fell asleep. That is so cute.