Shern and Co.

Here's to terrible twos and six!

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:20:00 +0000

It sure feels quiet now that the kids have gone to bed. ::breath in-breath out:: I definitely need some quiet time to cool down and call it a night. My little barbie, she really knows how to stretch me to my limits nowadays. OK, girls are usually more whiny, I get that! But I'm sorry sometimes my nerves just cannot take it. Before she goes to bed, she whines for her puppy-nose ( her bolster), her Chloe (her bear) and her soft pillow. Fine, I give in. Then, she wants her milk bottle cover! Then she whined she's not getting the blanky cos korkor pulled it all away! That was the last, because before another word comes out from her mouth, I yelled, "enough!" She turned her back at me and lie down speechless motionless, scared as shit as mommy never yells at her before.

The lights were off, I can hear her breathing heavily, as if she's trying to crank-start a cry. I could care less, I closed my eyes and pretend to be asleep. I think she get it, no more crying for attention cos mommy's asleep. 5 minutes later, both dozed off into their night.

I really feel like I should make it a point to keep blogging for the kids. looking back at Shern's growing up, I actually can't recall half the things Shern did or said when he was little until I read the blog, it's actually quite interesting eh, what dya think? Even my mom asked me, 'why nowadays you hardly blog?" So I guess some people still appreciate and takes time to read my blog. Thank you :)

Well well, Maine is 2y 5 months old now, in her terrible twos now, that explains all the tantrum, whining and attention seeking act! Up to date I think i've only written a few post on her updates. She's a lot more chatty now. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what she's saying, especially if you are not her mother! LOL! Mom knows best! She still can't pronounce her W>S>F>L.

There was this one time when we were out shopping, she kept saying 'tauway'! We scratched out heads off trying to figure out what she said. She kept saying "tauway!" We can tell she was like super frust that we do not get it. "TAUWAY AH!" Still doesn't ring any bell. And finally my sister said, "Oh, Sunway!" That was because my sister suddenly recalled teaching her how to pronounce Sunway Pyramid! We laughed so hard can!

She can really make words sound so funny. Ipon pie, poh you, pay, teah ver, tea-vid. one-to-tea-for-teven-eight-niey-ten, didida. Go figure.

Here's what she really meant to say: Iphone five, for you, play, clever, seaweed, 1-2-3-4-7-8-9-10, Shichida. That's my girl!

I can't remember if I ever blog about her sleeping habit. But for the record, ever since I stopped breastfeeding her, she has this habit of touching my nipple to sleep! I must say that it's so so annoying sometimes. Don't ask me why but come on let's be honest, after 2 kids, nipple is the last thing that can be sexually arousing to me so don't you even think about that :P

Alright, I'll let you know why Maine, cos eventually one day when you have grown up, you'll be reading this I know. That's because when you want to touch my nipple, you won't let me sleep with my back facing you, you won't let me sleep on my tummy and you won't let me hug your brother to sleep. You cheeky thing, aren't you just a clever little pumpkin. All attention on you, even at bedtime.

I guess that's about it for now. Talk again soon, precious Maine and Shern.

Shern's first trip without us

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:56:00 +0000

My babyshern has really grown. He'll be in Standard One next year. Gone were the days I call him baby :( On the happy note, he has grown so much! A big brother and also a big bully to his sister, sometimes loving and caring but sometimes not so. One day at bedtime, his sister asked me for milk and I was so tired I didn't want to get out of bed, Shern went over to the table and made his sister a bottle of 4 ounces warm milk, oh yes he did. These little actions warmth my heart :)

Tonight, Shern is away. He flew to Singapore with my sis and Marcus. I miss my darling Shern. This trip is Shern's first trip without mom and dad and also without his geegee. They will be there for a couple of days, I'm sure they're having a blast with Baby Aidan and Ezra.

Little sister get spoilt at home with all the attention from daddy and mommy. She's so manja with daddy (like she always does). Tonight we went to Shern's daddy's cousin sister farewell party. She and her kids will be migrating to US, they're really nice people, we're going to miss em'. Maine was cool as cucumber and took so so long to warm up to all her older cousins. She's like the youngest cousin ever and everyone adores her but she refuse to let anyone carry. Funny how those big jie jies tried to make her smile, and when she finally did, they were all so excited as if they strike a lottery. That's how cool this lady is.

Christmas is a week away and no, I haven't bought a single present for the kids. The thing with me is that ME and LAST MINUTE we're kinda best friends :P Got what I mean? If you know me well enough, i bet you'll laugh reading this.

It's late and as much as I try to go to bed early, I always feel like I can wait, I'm not that tired or whatever. So in this recent months, I also befriended PANDA and inherited PANDA EYES :p

Enough said, I just kinda miss the boys at home. House is as quiet as a library without them. Hope they're having the time of their life there, with Science centre, Universal Studio and all, I bet they're not missing us at home. Good night everyone. Sweet dreams...

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:26:00 +0000

Oh well, last post was published on July 10, 2011. At this rate I'm going, this blog will definitely be dead before Maine starts pre-school. So in my effort to keep this blog, this is it! My first blog post on my iPhone!

Just want to note something interesting the kids said lately.

Shern asked me. "mommy, you still need the palmdrive?" He wanted to unplug my thumbdrive so he can connect the USB mini fan.

Over lunch, he asked his daddy "why yesterday's news is in today's newspaper? Why can't they publish today's news in today's newspaper?"

Maine only started talking in sentence shortly after she turns Two. Ever since then, it's very entertaining to hear her speak.

At the store, Shern asked if he can buy a painting set, she said, cannot buy! Rubbish!"

I tickled her, and she said "geli-la"

As usual, the boys monkeying around the house, climbing, jumping, yelling tearing the house down. With her finger pointing at them, she said,"korkor, stop it!"

On days like that, my life is oh-so- fulfilling. Thank God!

Little Fashionista

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:50:00 +0000

This is Maine, at 1 yr and 10 months old and I must say she's oh so vain! I don't know if a girl her age starts picking her own clothes and shoes, but she does it all the time now!

Say for instance, we're going out for a party and I want to dress her in a tiered dress, she'll go rummaged through her chest of drawers and pull out a jeans instead! She even insist of wearing her Mickey Mouse Pj's one hot afternoon.

Today, she wore a tutu skirt paired with her bling bling light Dora shoe! How unglam is that! Sometimes I let her pick, but sometimes mommy insists on wearing what's nice, not what she wants. Who cares if she wails, hell need to break loose once in a while. So then only she'll know Mommy's IN Charge! Yeeee hhaaaaa!

Seen here, wearing her favourite gumboots my sister bought from Vietnam, and her cutie rara skirt with tights, her top from FOX, and bag (originally a pencil box case) from Sasha and Myra. I reckon if I were to keep a journal of her fashion, we'll have an interesting summer collection. She's my cake topper!

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Shern sucks at Mandarin

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:36:00 +0000

What a pity! One post for the month of June. Only one! Is that bad or what? Oh well, I've been pretty occupied with making accessories and in fact, very occupied with the kids. Shern will be in Primary One next year and I don't know if he's well prepared for it.

His last term Chinese exam, erm, was errr...quite bad. His Mandarin teacher was very disappointed at him, when she showed me his Chinese exam paper, I had a shock! WHAT!! 67! Like SIXTY SEVEN ONLY! I couldn't believe my eyes! I knew Mandarin hasn't always been his favourite subject, so I wasn't even expecting 100 marks, but I expect nothing lower than 90. Seriously, for the past 2 years in kindergarten, all his exam marks were no lesser than 96. So this is really really super duper bad.

Teacher's comment goes something like this, "Oh well, he kinda score the lowest in Mandarin exam, that is, if you put the Indians aside! Inside my mind, I was like "OMG!" She continued, "I did extra revision with him before the exam, knowing that counting strokes is not his strongest point, but still he didn't do well in the exam".

Oh my oh me, what can I say? I'm speechless.. That kind of like makes me think whether we parents idea of putting him in a Chinese school is the best decision afterall? I know Kebangsaaan school sucks big time, but what if he sucks in school all because he cannot score well for Chinese. And the thing is 80% of all subjects are all in Chinese.

I cannot possibly handle the stress of having a truckload of homework of a 7 years old E-VE-RY SIN-GLE DAAAAY, especially if I have to literally search for every single character in the dictionary myself! Just to let you know, funny how Shern asked me why he needs to study Chinese? He thinks he's English just because we speak English all the time. "I'm not a Chinese, I'm English". Haha boy, very funny! (mommy's just being sarcastic :P)

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Time flies..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:18:00 +0000

In a blink of an eye, the children have grown so much. Shern will be in Primary one next yr! Maine will be 2 yo in 3 months! I feel bad for not updating the blog as often as I intended to, not that I have ditched blogging for facebook, I just haven't got time to go online as often as I used to.

If there's anything I want to say now, it's that Maine has grown more and more like her big brother, everything from her look to her attitude, oh my! how can two different human be so alike! This is seriously scary.

She's learning to speak more now, slow in her speech comparing to her brother (well, not that I'm comparing notes :P) but anyway, she's a bright girl, knows her thing! I don't know if it's a girl thing or what, but this girl is already starting to pick her own clothes and shoes! Sometimes even totally refusing my pick, it has got to be her pick, and I must say she has a Dior side of her, good fashion sense. Are your girls like that too? Come on, please share.

Shern on the other hand, is enjoying every bit of his holiday, wishing the holiday can be forever. Oh well, one can always wish. Another week to go and it's back to reality. I was supposed to collect his exam result on the last weekend before the holiday but I totally forgotten about it. He was anxious to know how well he did in the exam ( secretly wishing for an ipad) if he scores well. Kids nowadays, they do really dream big, don't they?

The day I almost lost my brother

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:28:00 +0000

Life is fragile, you might heard it a thousand times but never gave it a serious thought until something happened, someone died or someone you love almost lost their life.

Back in November 2010, on my birthday, I almost lost my brother to an accident, he had multiple fracture on his body, a major fracture on his skull, it was so serious that the doctor at the goverment hospital said there's nothing they could do but to wait for him to die. It was really that bad that the specialist hospital refused to accept him as the doctors said the chances of him surviving the accident is next to impossible.

We asked that he be transferred to a better equipped hospital but the doctors was against it because they said there's no way he can survive the trip!

The other hospital is an hour away. Taking a step of faith, we requested for a transfer,at our own risk. 15 minutes away from the Ipoh GH, my aunt who was in the ambulance with my brother, called me and asked that we pray for my brother, the oxygen tank ran out of gas! For my brother who was in an unconscious state, that was again another bad bad news. He was on a bike when he had a head on crash with an oncoming lorry.

Putting our trust in God, we sent him to Ipoh GH where he undergo 3 surgeries in 10 hours. He had air bubles in his brain and if you know, that's a bad thing. Both his palms were fractured a few fingers were fractured, the surgeons had to amputate his right middle finger.

Half way through the surgery, one of the surgeons rushed out from the Operating Theater asking us to sign a consent form for them to operate him on his abdomen as they suspect he has internal injury, they can't afford to wheel him out of surgery for a CT scan and back into the OT, there's no time to waste. The surgeons just don't get it why after pumping in 4 pints of blood into him, his blood pressure is still very very low and very pale. Our heart dropped when the surgeon told us to be prepared-for the worst.

I believe God hears our prayer and he survived. He regain consciousness after 2 days which was a miracle itself, and after just a week in the intensive care unit, he was transferred to the normal ward where he spent almost a month to recover.

All doctors that attended to him said that if he ever recovers from this accident, he'll either be retarded ( from the impact of the fractured skull) or unable to walk, as for the first few weeks after the accident, his right part of his body, arm and legs included, are not able to move at all, like a paralyzed person.

Thinking back, he wouldn't have survived it not by the prayers. We believed it is God that has healed him, not only that, after the accident, my brother has totally changed. He's so much more humble, obedient and nice to people. Retarded or paralyzed, you ask?? Praise God, he's totally fine and jumping, even fit for a marathon (oh well, not yet but soon I hope!)

My brother's memory is still recovering from the accident, he can't remember exactly how the accident took place, but doctor said that's normal and it takes time for him to regain his memory. I wonder if we should file for compensation from the other party with the help of motorcycle accident attorney Austin, as least get some compensation to pay for my brother's medical bill.

9th day of CNY..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:39:00 +0000

9th day of Chinese New Year but it feels like CNY is so over already. I don't feel that atmosphere anymore, even in the malls, they hardly play the new year songs anymore. I don't know about the rest of you, but to me, it felt like every year is a step further away from those good old days new year celebration. People nowadays make lesser effort, unlike those days where people will religiously bake the kuih kapit (love letter biscuit) under the burning charcoal, decorating their homes with everything ang ang (red), hanging Chinese New cards all over the house, lining them up from wall to wall like fashion garlands! Oh, those were the days.

I remember those days when we were little, mom will bring us to the emporium to buy new clothes. At least 3 sets of new clothes for her 6 children, that makes 18 sets! Not forgetting new shoes! As long as her children are happy, mom didn't mind she was broke, and boy, we were! Can't wait for new year to put on the new clothes. Those new clothes were to last a whole year!

But kids nowadays get new clothes so often we can hardly see the excitement on their face anymore. i wonder if they get excited if people buy gold coins for them instead of giving them any pow (red packet money).

So this is the year of webbit

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:10:00 +0000

..I mean..rabbit!

Oh, so I actually didn't wish everyone Gong Xi Fatt Chai and today is already the 6th day of the Chinese New Year. Oh, bad me. We balik kampung on the eve of Chinese New Year, just in time to see the fireworks. Shern kept himself busy playing fireworks with his cousins while Maine just cling on to her daddy like a koala bear. Can't blame her, the fireworks were super loud, like it even got my heart thumping out of my body.

It was great spending time with family back home, feasting and all. I haven't got any photos to share yet, but will do if I get any. Now that we're back home, Maine is down with a fever, I think that because she's teething. Did I mentioned her teeth are sprouting out like mushrooms! Told my aunt about it, and she said that's because Maine didn't want to miss out feasting for CNY, and thus the mushrooming. LOL. Hope she gets well soon.

That aside, she's such a darling. At 1 year 5 months old, she's still not talking much. Words she says are quite limited compared to Shern was he was her age. Bad mom, shouldn't even be comparing them but can't help it la. She calls daddy (Papa), and me (Mama), calls kakak (tatak), call my sis (Meme), calls granny (popo), grandaunty (ma), calls Linda (dada), says (ball, bird, wow-wow as in dog, bowl, peh for please, thow for throw), and she says the cutest Oh-oh.. Love to hear her say that. She fights a lot with Shern, pull his hair, scream, pinch and bite, all because Shern always refuses to give in to her. I don't see Maine fighting with Marcus because Marcus is always the Mr. good guy and always giving in to the princess. At this rate Shern and Maine are going, my guess is there'll be more drama between them once that girl starts talking. Oh, boy! I can't wait!

Shern is now in Six Years old class, and next year he'll be in standard one already. How time flies. He's super chatty, super bossy and super manipulative. He cheats when playing UNO, but makes it all sounds like it's part of the rule! He made my brother 'draw 4 x 4 wild cards', and after my brother did that (16 cards at one go, how is that even possible), he took all the wild cards back so he can throw it on someone else later, and he told my brother "it's like that one". Oh well, my brother who was recovering from a bad accident, in his state of bad memory, actually believed him! Oh my boy..

And I don't even know where to start mentioned the other hundred things he said that sounds so real but not. Should really update this blog more often, so one day he will read it and know how cheeky he once was. Erm, I so need my blogging mojo back.

Tiger year was quite a bad year for us, my prayer is that for this rabbit year, everything will turn out better. But seriously, I'm not a superstitious person, I don't freaking care if it's a rabbit or a tiger year, a ~~cat~~ or a dragon year, can't let an animal decide if my luck will get better or not. I'm putting my trust in my God, for that I know I'm now in good Hands. I've seen how he saved my brother, I'm sure he's keeping an eye on the rest of us too.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year 2011!

Little vain pot

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:05:00 +0000

Just as I was checking on friends status on FB, wishing people Happy New Year, my little darling girl rummaged through my handbag and found a tub of mini lip gloss, opened the cover and practically wipe clean my lip gloss and applied it on her face and a lot more on her hair! Oh, this vain pot sure knows a thing or two about grooming. I suppose she knows that's something to enhance one's beauty, so she just try her luck applying it on her, where she thinks is necessary.

The moment I looked at her, I freaked out. Grabbed a wet tissue within a split second and wipe her clean! When I told this to my sister and mom, they asked if I took any video of her doing it. What?? That didn't even cross my mind. I was too freaked out with her and her dirty finger, dirty face and hair on my white linen. Are you little girls like that too, A good future candidate for Regency Beauty Institute?

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Happy New Year 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:55:00 +0000

Hey world! Here's wishing you a very Happy New Year 2011. Can't believe a year zoomed by, and now that 2010 is history, I'd say that 2010 wasn't a good year for me. Pray that 2011 will be much better. Shern will be in 6 years old class when the school reopens on Monday, and my hectic routine will begin! Just thinking about it, I feel tired already. Got to enjoy this weekend to the fullest, got to have a good start for this year at least.

New Year resolution? Actually, I don't have any. Well, I did tried a couple of times, but even before January ends, I practically forgotten half my resolution, and by year end, that became the furthest thing on my mind, so I think I am better off without any new year resolution. Just taking one step at a time. Giant steps never work for me.

I pray that 2011 will be a good year for my family, good health, good wealth and as for the children, I pray that they will grow up to be obedient and love God. I'm glad that my brother is recovering well from the accident. At least we won't be needing any Accutane Lawsuit consultation any time soon.

31st December 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Well well, if I were to sum up my blogging effort for this year in one word, it's definitely- BAD! I'm sure I'm not the only blogger who feel this way. One thing I noticed, more bloggers are ditching their blogs and updating their facebook instead! Some blogger friends I know haven't even update their blogs for a year or so, some even decided to call it quit. Pheew, at least I'm still making some effort here.

In 2010, I do an average of 3 post a month, that happens mostly when I have a review to complete. Bad bad. So little update on Shern and Maine. The kids are growing up so fast, and as much as I wish to keep this blog as a journal for them, I hardly have the time to sit down, blog and post photos of them. Never enough. Perhaps 2011 will be a good start for my blog, updating more frequent, even short post is better than no post. What dya say?

Singapore Christmas Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:37:00 +0000

Funny how time seems to fly sooooo fast when we're having a good time. We were in Singapore for 5 days, endless shopping and eating, dragging my pregnant twin sister from mall to mall. Bless her. We even went to Mustafa at 1am to 5am! Are we crazy or what! Mustafa has a new stretch of building, and is now even bigger and cleaner, and also less smelly (no offence). Have you seen their gold department? It is WOW! You can literally buy gold bullion, all sorts of gold accessories of any design and patterns. This uncle Mustafa really has a gold mine :p

Anyway, Shern, all through the trip, annoyed the shit out of me, whining and all. Can someone please teach me how to stop a kid from whining? Sometimes he just want to push me to the edge for fun, so much so until I exploded! Seriously, when that happened, it's ugly.

We were back home at Linda's place one night and Shern wanted to eat his Nougat, of course I said NO. He knows the rule, no sweets at bedtime. But when I went in for a shower, he started whining and making a big fuss of how hungry he is and he really need to eat something- (something-refering to his Nougat).

Once I got out from the shower, I immediately dragged him into the kitchen, asked him what is the fuss all about, and as a mom, I know all his tricks and lies all too well, he's not really hungry, he just want to eat his sweets. Enough of tolerating his nonsense, I grabbed a packet of biscuit, opened it up and asked him to finish it off. All of it! Well, actually it's just a small packet of biscuit, 4 thin slices. Told him that he's not going to bed until he finishes it off.

Seriously, he need to know who's the boss! LOL!

Charlene's Fullmoon Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:10:00 +0000

Fabulous dinner tonight! Burp!! Excuse me... Today we celebrated Charlene's Fullmoon Birthday, dinner at the Darul Ehsan club. Food was great, of course we had a great time catching up with each other but still princess of the day gets the most attention. She looks absolutely adorable, though I really can't tell if she looks more like daddy or mommy.

Here's a photo of darling Charlene. Only one month old and already she's so alert to her surroundings, like she got back from her round the world trip. :P Maine finally has a girl cousin, someone to play masak masak and barbie doll with. Twenty years down the road, go shopping together, go on date together, or even buy gold coins together. ::Dream big:: Expecting another baby cousin sister next year! Yeah!

His and Her's Birthday..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:23:00 +0000

Just a quick update on us. Shern turned 5 on December 1st! Initially, daddy wanted a home-cooked meal but then the Birthday boy would rather spend it at the McDonald's playground with his cousins. So that was how we celebrated his Birthday.

Bad me, I have yet to even upload Maine's 1st Birthday photo, which was way back in September 4th. Shame on me. OK, will promise to upload it all before 2011.

Oh, it's Friday! Don't you just love Friday? Have a fabulous weekend everyone.

Oh Friday..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:16:00 +0000

While Shern's daddy and I accompany Maine to her Schicida Class, Shern went to Sunway Lagoon with his bunch of cousins. Daddy was against him going, but after much whinning, daddy finally gives in and let him tag along. Can't believe daddy actually give in to a whiny kid! Anyway, I'm sure they had lotsa fun.

Then in the evening, we went for steamboat dinner at aunt's place, she prepared so much of food for us, we ate so much and yet in the end there's still plenty leftovers. Over dinner, aunt told us if we have extra money and if we are considering on investing, then gold is one of the best investment nowadays. Property prices will fluctuate depending on the market, but price of gold will never depreciate. She certainly has a point, invest in gold bullion can never go wrong.

Kawaii Shermaine

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:38:00 +0000

Shermaine simply loves this hairband. See how cute it is, with curly wigs on both sides. Sorry for the crappy sort of blur photo, as I took this with my iPhone. Sometimes out of convenience, I couldn't even bother to snap photos with the DSLR, and make do with the iPhone. Maine has so much lesser photos compare to Shern. I should really start taking more decent photos of her. See her rosy cheek? Doesn't it look like someone brushed both her cheek with pink blusher? Erm, actually that's natural, baby doesn't need makeup. LOL.

Holiday sleepover

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:28:00 +0000

The school holiday has just started and already Shern is requesting for sleepover at his cousin's house. He simply loves to sleep over in my sister's place, with his 3 cousins, it couldn't get any merrier. He went last night, so when I called him just now, telling him that I'll come pick him up at night, he said a big NO! He wants to stay for another 3 days! Oh, it's only day one and I already miss him.

Now that he's older, he's alright without mom and dad, as long as he has his smelly gee gee with him. Ya, coming to 5 years now, he still need his softy to sleep. How can we ever get rid of that softy giraffe? He's so attached to it, has always been since he was 3 months old. Don't think he will ever trade it for anything else in the world, not even if we offer to buy gold bullion in exchange for that softy. That softy is more precious to him than gold. No question about it.

Kids Birthday Party..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:17:00 +0000

It's November already! I feel so bad for not taking the time to even upload and blog about Maine's first Birthday. I have lotsa photos to edit and to upload, but it's taking me forever. I've been very busy with my online store. Two sites to run is not an easy job, but I'm getting there. Like what my sister said, slow and steady win the race.

In two weeks time, it'll be Shern's 5th Birthday already. This time, he chose not to have a party in the school, reason being he doesn't want to give his friend party pack. What an excuse. I haven't got anything planned for his party but he mentioned to me months ago that he wants to have a Transformers theme party. Tough tough! Transformers toys are expensive, same with all the transformers party props, darling please understand that dad and mom we don't have tonnes of bullion stored in our backyard. Unless mommy DIY everything, I'm afraid his dream of having a transformers party is not coming true anytime soon. We shall see how.

Prettipedia!

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:40:00 +0000

See the badge on the right? It says 'Find us on Facebook -Prettipedia'.. please 'LIKE' it. Thanks :)

If you know me well enough, then you'll know that I love craft, sewing and such. Then after Maine was born, I have this little obsession of buying her pretty stuffs, namely clothes and accessories. But seriously, in Malaysia you can't really find pretty, affordable hair accessories unless you go to shops like 'Accessorize', but then again, pretty things there cost an arm and a leg.

:) That's how I started making accessories for Maine. Everywhere she goes, people adores her accessories, so I thought why not make some for sale? :) Fyi, every piece of accessories is Handmade by me, I only use good quality material in producing them, so if you're thinking that those accessories are not worth paying for, think again. You can find us on www.facebook.com/prettipedia or www.prettipedia.com.

My little model

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Have a fabulous November!

Weaning Maine off boobs

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:28:00 +0000

Breastfeeding Maine has brought us so much closer, not to mention the very special bond we share when lying down side by side, touching her hair, hands, legs whatever. I love those moments. After 1 year and 2 months, I guess it's about time I wean her off. But I'm afraid this is not going to be easy for both Maine and I. It'll be more stressful for her, as she won't be sleeping with me for the next couple of days, and no booby call for nap time and bedtime.

Day One:

It feels like I've got ROCK implants! (if you get what I mean). Not a very pleasant feel, especially when carrying Maine, it hurts. She slept with my sister last night, woke up twice and leaned over to my sis's boobs! She didn't realized it wasn't mommy until my sis called her name and said it's ahyi. Sorry, no boobs for comfort sucking.

By night, my boobs feels like exploding, It's as hard as a rock. Ouch, so much to endure. Hopefully, I will successfully wean Maine off this time, so long as I don't give in and give up. Mommy always give in. Will update again soon.

Good girl

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:47:00 +0000

This coming from my mom, saying Maine is such a good girl. She behaves very well, she doesn't cry unnecessarily, isn't clingy to me or anyone for that matters, wow such a blessing! She's indeed a very independent girl, now that she's walking very steady, she's all over the house, she can even go in the kitchen and take out a container and asking us to get her biscuit! Oh, have i told you that she loves to eat! She hearts food! She can eat and eat and eat. But of course I'm try to give her the healthy food and not junk food. She can be quiet for a long time if we keep her occupy with food. We normally give her cereals, grains or oats bits for snacks if we're busy, keep her on her high chair for a while. That's better than keeping her running wild all over the house, climbing stairs and all. The last thing I need is to get help from Depuy Lawsuit to treat a broken hip.

When there are two..

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:44:00 +0000

I don't know about others, but to me, with two kids, blogging is something I"m trying so hard to keep up, I try to update this blog as often as I can, to serve as a journal for them and myself to look at, many years down the road. Shern as a firstborn, gets all the attention that he needs, but after the arrival of the little princess, I've got to split my time between the two. Shern, sometimes feel inferior that mom and dad don't love him as much as little sister. How is that even possible?

Of course we still love him just as much as before, if not more! He is our world, just like Maine. Just because Maine gets more attention, it doesn't mean that we love you any lesser, darling. Gosh, how did my mom managed to raise 6 kids alone? Bless her!

Pheeeew!

noreply@blogger.com (Shern's mom) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:43:00 +0000

What a record, 4 posts in under 20 minutes! Talk about working under pressure, I think I work better than when I'm not. ::sigh of relief:: I was given 48 hours to complete it but I always wait till the very last hour to complete it. Talk about being lazy. I'm not lazy actually, just that I've got my hands full with other things.

Now, time for a shower and posting some items in my shop for sale. I'll be giving away some freebies, so watch out for it.