Last Friday, we packed up for our fortnightly stay over at my mum’s. As usual, with me reaching home from work, packing last minute things and getting the kids ready to go, I reached mum’s place quite late… I think it was around 9pm. After having dinner, the kids proceeded to play in the room while the lazy adults lie on the bed and watch TV.

Sometimes, kids being kids, they like to play rough and from my lying position, I shout my orders at them *LOL*. Only God knows what happened (coz the kids ain’t telling) in that split second moment when we heard a bump against the bed’s headboard and then whining from the clumsiest one of all, Izac.

I thought it was something mild (mind you, he didn’t cry) and asked him to come over so that I could inspect his lips and gums. When I pulled up his lips, I was horrified to find a tooth missing! Instantly I felt heartache, and then anger at Haslina for her rough play (although to this day I don’t know the full story, and Izac can’t be spinning the chair so hard by himself!). In the spot where his tooth used to be, there was bleeding and his gums were blue and black. I used to lampin for him to bite on to stop the bleeding and asked him if it was pain. Surprisingly, he said it hurt just a little.

The bleeding stopped quickly and the hole was quickly covered up by dark gel like substance… probably nature’s form of a cork for incidences like this. When Ivan came over and kepoh-ed (he was playing computer), I told him to go over to that spot and look for Izac’s tooth (Izac told me he swallowed it, but I decided to try looking anyway). Ivan brought back that tooth and I was shocked that a healthy tooth like that can so easily be knocked out whole (root and all) and the child felt little or no pain.

Even now after 4 days, everytime I think of that tooth (which I now keep in my drawer), I feel heartache. Heartache that the poor boy have to go with a gap in his smile for another 3 - 4 years. I am also worried that the impact will cause his future adult tooth to come out crooked, if at all. SIL#1 tried to scare me saying that since the whole root is out, he might not even have an adult tooth (milk teeth which comes off at the right time are usually without root). But thanks to Google, I found this:

Q : Does a first set of baby teeth molars have roots?

A : Yes, all teeth have roots. But when they fall out naturally they don’t have them anymore. The “big” teeth below “disolve” the roots by pushing the baby teeth out.

I guess now I’ll just have to wait and see when his adult teeth comes, and hope that more of his teeth won’t get extracted before their time.

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Turning
Just a short one on little miss Jolie.

At 3 months, she’s learnt to flip over completely without knowing yet how to lift her head properly.

At around 3 1/2 months, she surprised me yet again when she could flip over to her belly AND lift her head.

At 4 1/2 months old, she’s done a flip-to-belly, and then flip-to-back and another flip-to-belly! She’s practically a pro already doing multiple flips (proud mama typing here… teehee!)… Now I just hope she doesn’t fall off the bed in split seconds.

I wrote the above yonks ago, thinking I would have time to do some adjustments and post it. It’s been lying at the drafts area collecting dust. I thought I would just post it up now, since it is a major milestone for Miss Jolie here. She can flip well and prop herself up, but as of now still not able to sit unsupported.

Teething
Like her brothers, she’s not given me much problem when she’s teething (or is it just me who didn’t notice :|). Her bottom 2 teeth started sprouting at 5 months, the top 2 started at 6 months, then another 2 at the top started at 7 months and now at 8 months another 2 at the top seems to want to come out too! So careful if she bites, it painful! (Duh~)

Eating
She’s started taking porridge twice a day at a little over 6 months and she’s lovin’ it! This means she’s taking less milk (2 bottles of 4.5oz less) but I’m still a pumping mama at work and and a cow when I’m home. I’ve also started giving her some fruits, mainly bananas and papayas. This girl just can get enough of food, she screams her lungs out when the spoon leaves her mouth and doesn’t go back fast enough.

Hmm… there are actually endless things to write, mostly with regards to the habits of these young flers, but I’ll leave that for another post. Gonna end this post with a picture of the 3 kiddos.

I notice that these days there are more and more drug rehab songs on the radio. I wonder why someone would want to write songs about drug rehabs, more so listen to it. But then again, I guess these days songs don’t really mean much, they’re just sounds. They just sound nice, but when you really listen, they don’t mean much. I remember when I was younger, songs have a meaning to them, and they really do tell a story. Ahh… I miss those good old days.

Finally, after years of hoping to get the house renovated, hubs have finally agreed to have it done soon. I guess I will have to pop over at the light fixture store and have a looksee. The current lighting at the house just makes me sick coz they’re certainly not bright enough and I’m such a person for brightness! I hope when the house is thoroughly done up it will be so brightly lit, there won’t be any dark corners left.

I find that I have a huge appetite these days, and needless to say my weight gain is darn healthy too :(. I haven’t done much to reduce my food intake but wonder if doing a herbal colon cleanse will help get rid of some unwanted oils in my body. Hmm… on second thoughts, I think it might only help to reduce water retention in my body. Have any of you tried it?

With the economy this bad, it’s a wonder if people are still spending money starting business. So many businesses are closing down, would you invest if you’re offered a very good franchise opportunity? For myself, I’m certainly spending less and trying to save up some money. A trip to the local hypermarket can make me end up with a few hundred ringgit less, and the trolley isn’t even full! I wonder when the economy will pick up again, and prices start going back to their un-inflated state…

Sometimes I kinda wish I can just knock (literally!) those 2 boys out by 9pm so that I can have enough time to finish all my daily tasks. Those two night owls just cannot go to bed like other little kids. They’re awake even now! I know it’s due to the late naps they always have but it’s really out of my control since I will be at work while they create havoc in the house during the day.

I think until I start making some changes to their nap time or something, I won’t be able to kick start this ole blog and get MY things done

Who would’ve thought 2009’s zooming past at a speedier pace than 2008. It’s already March and I did say I was going to do some backdated posts about all that’s happened during my MIA days. It’s a roller coaster of things… Christmas, year end and working my ass off clearing shit before the new year comes, the new business, New Year, Chinese New Year, changing host for this old blog of mine and now finally, I think it’s safe to say that this blog can finally be revived!

More to come tomorrow.

I recently got the news from a friend that her child got cerebral palsy. It came as a shock to me and not knowing much about this at all, I went online and did a search on it. I really didn’t know that cerebral palsy can be caused by medical negligence. I know it must be so tough on my friend right now who had to quit her job to care for her child. I just hope she has enough support from her family in this matter.