one of those days...

didn't manage to sleep well last nite since lil one was pretty restless. cud smell the haze even though our room is air conditioned n the air purifier was switched on. poor gal kept waking up to cough. sent her to sch anyways n bumped into the owner. she mentioned that lil one has been missing sch quite a bit. yeah..well..can't b helped. april/may was such a blur. we got hit by 2 rounds of bad cold/flu. didn't send her to sch on mon since she was sniffling the whole nite. think she is allergic to the mosquito patch i placed on her earlier that day. one good thing that has come out of this is that she much prefers warm water now..phew! its been ages since we have tried to get her to stop drinking cordial. we were quite sly since her cordial was usually very watery:)

can't believe she is already 32 months now. very chatty. sometimes can't get a word in edgewise.very argumentative. she fell asleep on daddy's shoulder yesterday while i was doing my weekly case review session. came home n tried to take over fr daddy since he needed to go back to work. she just screamed her head off n totally refused.she spent the next 45 mins ordering me to go fr room to lounge while screaming n shouting off n on. didn't help dat i was soo tired n wanted a short nap. 1st day of my period n it really felt like the 1st day of my miscarriage minus the contractions.in the end, i gave up n stayed put in the room. she slept for 2 mins on me n rolled off. 5 mins later..she woke up. fed her some milk w she guzzled down in no time, all that wailing must have made her hungry n thirsty. let her play outside earlier. we ran out of bubble solution so can't play w her bubble gun. wasn't keen on letting her play w our neighbour since she is coughing so wanted her to have an earlier bath.
daddy had to go out for dinner. she had her dinner n then wanted some milk. gave her milk 45 mins after her request. she guzzled it down n guess wat? she vomitted it out. m so tired of this. she looked so tired since she only had a proper 45 mins nap in the afternoon. so, we went to bed at 9pm. amazingly, she dozed off almost immediately.
right now, i cud do w a nap but can't. waiting for washing machine to finish its cycle. then need to start cooking. b4 i know it, its time to pick her up fr sch. picking her up a lil earlier since she woke up at 7am today.
i really salute single mothers..gosh! wonder how they do it....i doubt very much i can!

haze...smoke..open burning

we have been waking up to a smoky house since may. Alhamdullillah we went for a holiday during the gawai-agong's b'day week..treated to nice fresh air for 5 days. on our way to the airport, our cab driver informed us that the plantations have been doing land clearing /open burning every nite. no wonder we tend to start coughing in the early hours of the morn esp lil one. even with our room air conditioned n the air purifier switched on, it still did not manage to filter out the smoke.

we had a fantastic time in KK. didn't manage to have some seafood as there was no point since it was just the 2 of us well 3 plus lil one. also the fact that we can't enjoy the seafood since we wud b bz chasing her. since the lil one arrived, our holidays are geared towards her. went to the aquarium n marine museum in UMS on the 1st day. was pretty impressed. altho the aquarium is small but they had posters about the research UMS is carrying out. highlight of the day was the dolphin statue :) lil one was happy to see the huge hybrid garoupas, seahorses, clown fish,star fish n a few others which i can't remember. UMS has a nice campus....

after the aquarium, we headed out to 1borneo for lunch. lil one must have been so tired that she slept as soon as we reached w/out her lunch. well, she had a good breakfast. it was the 1st time in yonks hubbs n i had a quiet lunch just the 2 of us. did some shopping n went back to the hotel after. on the way back to the hotel, i remember that i wanted to visit the rainforest area..well, too late. hopefully we can go back there esp after the seaworld is up n running.

2nd day, didnt do much. went to the pool n stayed at the hotel mostly. lil one had nearly 3 hours nap which we didn't want to disturb. later, we ventured out to the waterfront. had a fresh coconut drink n bought some snacks.

off to Lok Kawi wildlife park the next day. lil one mentioned that she wanted to see elephant, zebra, cow,tiger n bear. she was lucky they had it all. there were also orang utans,deers, otters, parrots, hornbills, monkeys and many others. we managed to catch the show w she enjoyed esp when they brought out the bald eagle.we skipped the reptile house n aviary since it was very hot.

all in all, a very good trip Alhamdullillah. hopefully can persuade hubbs to go for a weekend once the seaworld is up n running :) mount kinabalu, karambunai will have to wait till lil one is much older. doubt she can appreciate it now. hopefully by then we can all go snorkelling, wud love to sneak in a dive or 2 as well :)