Friday, November 21, 2008

Having fun at Explorer Kid Indoor Playground


We went to Explorer Kids Indoor Playground with Nicky, Alex and Beverly. Yuta had so much fun!!

Sweet dresses from Oma (handmade)


Oma's handmade dresses for Kailie. Sweet and gorgeous!! Thank you, and we love you so much Oma!!!

To the Zoo we go!


To the Farm and the Fish Farm!


We went to FarmMart to visit the farm animals, and the we went to Qian Hu Fish Farm where Yuta caught some small fishes from the Longkang.

Creating Christmas Tradition, Part 1



Our family is making Christmas tradition that we already started since last year.
This year, we started with Making Christmas Cookies at my friend's house. Yuta was so excited and he brought his train set cookies cutters. (Though because of the cutters were too big, we only could make one rocket cookie)
We enjoyed our time and we brought some cookies home. Yummy yummie :)

Friday Night Fellowship - Theme: God and Family

I went to my church Fellowship on Friday night. We learnt about family brought by Reverend Stephen Tong. Some points I got from the sermon are:

1. God is the One who created family
2. Family is the very important thing even compared to the society. Families are the ones who makes societies.
3. In order to have a strong and honored family, both parents have to maintain holy love ("kasih yang suci"). Husband and wife have to be faithful to each other, wife has to respect the husband, and husband has to love the wife. So the children will see their parents as a good example and they will not go to the wrong way.
4. Parents have to maintain good relationship with God, and during their daily life they nurture their knowledge of the Word of God, so what come out from their mouth when they speak to their children will reflect on their knowledge about God. Parents who do not build their knowledge of the Word of God will slowly reflect on how they teach and grow their children along their children's lives.
5. God's Holy Spirit is a Creative Spirit. We should not limit our children to only what we want them to be. Our children have many talents that even we might not know what their talents are. We should encourage them trying out what they want until they find out their strongest talent along with Holy Spirit guidance.

It is a blessing that I could have joined the fellowship yesterday night. Kailie was asleep all the way during the sermon so I could listen the sermon entirely from beginning through the end.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

My 2 kids got sick

We had two rough weeks these few weeks. First, Yuta had a fever and red rash on his face that I decided to bring him to doctor nearby. He was diagnosed with virus infection that was not dangerous but the fever would continue to go for 5-10days. It was true. What I did was only giving him tylenol to bring his fever down every 4 hours. His highest temperature was 38 C.
After 4 days when I thought he was recovered already, the next day his fever went up to 38.5 C. He did not want to eat and he threw up everytime we gave him food. For the whole day, he only ate few spoonful of porridge and 2 baby biscuits. It was really tough because it reminded me when he had the same sickness on April 2006. That tragedy was traumatic. But this time, as daddy was around we recovered it better. The next day Yuta ate more though we had to feed him every 3 hours. But he recovered slowly, and I cant thank God enough for that.

Kailie had diahorrea as an effect from Yuta's virus. She ate less and drank milk less. I did not have time to cook her homemade food because I was too stressed with Yuta's illness. She seemed to know that and coorporated very well and I thank her for that. She already recovered from her diahorrea and her appetite has grown now.

Never that your kids' health for granted that's for sure, and I thank God for giving me strength throughout these 2 weeks that Yuta and Kailie has recovered. :)

(Though it is now my time having a very painful sore throat now and cold sympthom. Hopefully I can recover soon. )

Saturday, November 1, 2008

10 months old and Mommy's haircut


A very short frinch. That was what happened when Kailie moved a lot when Mommy gave her a haircut. Should have waited when she fell asleep next time for the cut!

Cant stay still for diaper change

Like Yuta, Kailie also cannot stay still during diaper change at her age now. (9 months old). :) She has to hold onto something to break her movement during the change.

Kailie, 9 months old

She is 9 months old and she grows bigger and bigger everyday. Her hair has natural curl, so cute! She is wearing her Classic Pooh outfit in the picture.