Update on our little POO-bear

After almost 3 hours at NUH CED, we were sent home to monitor Dylan's situation at home. If vomitting or diarrhea persists, we will have to return.

The doctor would have preferred to admit him, but they are facing a tight bed situation.

We reached home at around 4am. The little one was so tired that he fell asleep easily. But the fever came back when he woke up at 8am and he had watery stools 3 times.

Got a feeling we will be going back to NUH.

See the little boy is taking his own temperature.

At NUH (again!!!)

Dylan's fever and diarrhea did not subside despite the visit to Dr Chong.

At midnight, he was running a temperature of 38.9 and was still having watery stools. He had been off milk for the whole day. His hands and feet were cold while the rest of the body was burning hot.

So, we packed and set off to NUH. Haiz~~~

Now Mommy, Yeye and the little boy are waiting to see the doctor at NUH Children's Emergency department.

Our Poor Poo-poo Boy

Very early this morning, I woke up to Dylan's poopoo smell. Somehow I can pick up this smell easily even from a distance away.

The little boy's stool was watery and he pooed again soon after I changed him into a new diaper. However he was still active and energetic, and was crawling around while I was washing his poo-stained romper.

After another round of bottom cleaning and washing, I was finally in bed with him. He chose to lie on my tummy and fall asleep that way. I welcome that position as it soothes my M cramps.

An hour plus later I was waken up by his warm body. Yes, he's running a fever.

Yeye and Ah Mah had to bring him to Dr Chong. Seems like he's down with stomach flu. Poor baby. Mommy's on the way home to give him big hugs and kisses.

Little Photographer

Tessa has been snapping away with Mommy's phone and the iPad. She's getting better at it.

Mommy just found out that there's finally a blogger app for iPhone. Great! Now Mommy can upload Tessa's photographic masterpieces with her phone (it also means we'll probably get more updates to the blog)!

Here's a sample of her works!

Tessa Says

Today when Mommy was showering Tessa, she asked, "Mommy, can you do me a favour?"

"What is it?" Mommy asked.

"Later can you please look after Dylan have to do something?"

Mommy asked, " Why do I have to be the one looking after Dylan?"

Tessa replied matter-of-factly, "You are his mother, so you must take good care of him when Daddy and me are busy."

By the way, the little boss and her Daddy were busy in their silly pretend games.

Adding life to their years

This is one of my favourite quotations of all time by Abraham Lincoln: "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

True enough, as parents, we are always striving to add life into our kids' years, hoping that we have instill strong values, a tenacity to fight life's adversities, independence and confidence, love, compassion and passion in them.

Hubby is not good with his words, but he is a wise man. He knows the kind of father he wants to be to his kids and it shows through his parenting style. He is a doting father and never fails to lament how fast his kids grow up and how much he wants to be there when they are growing up. He envisions that his kids will grow up to be strong and talented individuals. When that happens, he hopes that they will look back fondly at their childhood and realized how much he has been present and how much he has added life to their years, just as much as they had added to his.

This one strikes a cord

As I was reading through the 50 Rules for Dad of Daughters, a particular one strikes a cord and I found my eyes watery.


Let her know she can always come home. No matter what.

I remember there was once when I was very angry with Tessa and in my fit of anger, I said that I am going to leave her outside the house. I told her if she wanted to scream and cry, she can get out of my house.

Then Hubby told me this (privately, of course): Never ask our girl to leave home. There may be just one day when she really will.

Thanks baby for reminding me to be the kind of parent I envisioned to be.

50 Rules for Dads of Daughters

Dads for Life shared a wonderful article on Facebook titled "50 Rules for Dads of Daughters". I read it and was very touched by it.

Because of it, I chanced upon this wonderful site lifetoheryears.com. Do check it out, it's wonderful!

We are still in business

Dear Readers

We hope you are still following us. We are sorry for the lack of updates for the past month. Mommy has been very busy at work and last week, she fell, sprained her ankle, tore her ligament and was bedridden for a while.

Thank goodness she's better now and is back at work (erm.. so will probably take a while for updates to come in).

We celebrated Dylan & Daddy's birthday on 18 August. Dylan has a little celebration at Lao Ma's place on 14 August where he has a 3D cake. On his birthday, Daddy brought him and me to Polliwogs at East Coast Park to play. Polliwogs is a very fun indoor playground. Wait till you see the photos we took there.

So, stay tuned!

Cheers,
Tessa

Happy birthday Dylan-boy (Part 2)

Today is Dylan's birthday - the REAL day! Not to forget, it is also Daddy's birthday! We have TWO birthday boys!

Daddy and Mommy took leave from work to bring Dylan and me out. I was "excused" from school as well. Yeah!

Since we had so much fun at Polliwogs the last time, Daddy decided to bring Dylan and me back there.

Before we head to the playground, we had a sumptuous breakfast-cum-lunch at Waraku.

Happy Birthday Dylan-boy!

Today wasn't Dylan's birthday. But since it was the weekend, Mommy decided to do a small celebration for him at Lao Ma's place.

The goofy birthday boy

Pauline godma also joined us in this little celebration. Shihan and me helped Dylan sing the birthday song, make a wish, blow the candle and cut the cake. Shijia is unable to help as she is still a little baby.

Happy birthday my dear baby Dylan-boy!

Fun at Polliwogs!

Happy National Day!

Today is our country's birthday! And to celebrate this special day, Daddy brought us to this wonderful indoor playground at East Coast Park that he got to know from the internet. It is called Polliwogs.

It was a very warm day, so we are glad to be having fun indoors. Dylan managed to have fun as well although he was unable to run about like me.

After we left Polliwogs, we took a short walk at the beach. We saw tents everywhere! Daddy and Mommy said we can try camping one of these days! I can't wait!

Kids Kampong @ Pasir Ris

Daddy brought me to the Kids Kampong at Pasir Ris today to feed the fishes.

It was a very very warm day. At first, I was reluntant to do anything. But Daddy was very encouraging. All thanks to him, I had a lot of fun!

There are also chickens and rabbits waiting to be fed as well!

Building Sandcastles

Daddy and Mommy brought Dylan and me to the East Coast Park to build sandcastles today! Yippee!!!

It was erm... sandy and messy, but a lot of fun!

Congratulations to Siao Mommy & Michael!

Today is Siao Mommy and Uncle Michael's wedding lunch reception at Sheraton Tower Hotel.

Mommy and Daddy took Dylan back home to Sengkang last night because Dylan is needed to open the bridal car door for Michael. I stayed back in Clementi with Yeye and Ah Mah, and will make our way to the hotel the next morning.

I heard that Dylan has to wake up early in the morning to be at Lao Ma's house. I missed out on the fun at Lao Ma's house as well as the couple's outdoor photo shoot at Katong.

I arrived early at the hotel with Yeye and Ah Mah, and there were no one around! It's so boring at first. Luckily Mommy arrived soon with Daddy and Dylan-boy.

There were many relatives and family friends who joined us at the reception. It was quite fun throwing flower petals at the couple when they marched in. I even joined Mommy on stage as the emcee!

Shihan and I had a lot of fun dancing and playing around.

Siao Mommy is so pretty. She looked like a princess. Shihan is a princess too. I am a ballerina.

Don't we all look great?