Jedi Loves Jesters' Pies!

Krisal and Jedi's Mini Room Makeover

For Jedi, his room was converted to a "Big Boy's Room" 2 weeks back so Mei Mei's playpen that she was sleeping in got an upgrade! They are both quite happy with the swap!

Jedi's Pee Star Chart

Ok I know. What a name! hahaha! but this was a great way to motivate him to keep peeing into the potty. After the ordeal of the hanging underwears last week, things are much better with the occasional accident here and there. He's finally able to stand and pee. The turning point was when we went out with my sis-in-law, Lynda and her family to IMM. Jedi hadn't peed from 4pm till almost 9pm! And everytime we asked him to pee he would say "Don't have.". Finally when Dan brought him to the toilet to answer his own call of nature, Jedi felt inspired and peed into the urinal! From that night, he was proudly standing and peeing! The only problem now is getting him to poop in the potty....but we are proud of him for now..

Pee Pee Everywhere!

Now I know why I put off toilet training for so long and kept procrastinating!Its ALOT of cleaning!!! I finally decided to pluck up my courage literally and told myself "OK Jedi needs to start learning to pee before Mei Mei gets too mobile and quick and starts meddling with the mess on the floor.
Day 1 (Monday):
Once Jedi came back from his playgroup and had his lunch and bath, I bravely gritted my teeth and told him that he was going to be promoted to Big Boy Pants (alias briefs!)! I think I was more exicted than him! Anyway I told him that from now on if he needed to pee, we would go to the toilet bowl where he had his own toilet seat to pee! Once again, I sounded and looked even more excited than him! So the diaper was whipped off his butt and the Big Boy Pants was on....
Well, I have never washed so many little briefs in a day in my life! Hung them out of my window and by the end of Day 1 there were 7 little briefs of different colours and happy faces of Batman and Barney dangling from a pole. These were the testimony of my ordeal of the day!! So you can guess how many times the floor had to be mopped! The amount of pee that had to be cleaned! And you know with toilet training, Mummy should try her best not to show an angry or irritated face when pee splashes on the floor instead of the toilet bowl! And with little Krisalyn crawling everywhere, it was really hectic!
Day 2 (Tuesday):
Given the previous days events, I was feeling really apprehensive about what the day had in store. Decided to change strategy. Believe it was divine wisdom from the Lord. Out came the pee pot. Its more portable and at least he can reach it faster than having to run to the toilet and climb to the seat. So the pee pot it is for now.
Had 1 success! And I have never felt so happy to see pee in my life! I can't believe myself! Its as if I won 4D or smth! Jedi was so happy too and he was rewarded with lots of praise, stickers and his favourite cookie! Can tell this Mummy was esctatic!
So the number of little colourful briefs went down to 6!
Day 3 (Wednesday):
Today was so much better. Jedi peed in the pee pot 5 times out of 7! But he still cried when the sensation of pee was coming so it was a good indicator to ask him to "fly" to the pee pot! Each success is giving me much encouragement as I was on the verge of flying the white flag after Day 1!
He's still not there yet but I pray the underwear line out my window will slowly get less. Toilet training is tough man! And for some strange reason, Krisalyn is very attracted to Mr. Pee Pot and keeps crawling there! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Krisalyn's Hospital Stay

Life is really full of ups, downs and unexpected and unpredictable moments. But the comforting thing is the knowledge that the Lord is in control of it all!
We were planning and getting ready to go the Perth this Saturday to visit my folks. Jedi and Krisalyn were still recovering from thier bout of bronchulitis that had gone on and off for abt 2 months! So this set of exhausted paretns were looking forward to a good break! Went for a review to the PD to see if they were ok to go. Jedi was given the green light but Krisal was advised to be admitted to the hospital as a chest X Ray showed that there was signs of infection in her lungs as the phlegm had been there too long! PD advised us to postpone the trip as Krisal was in no state to travel even if she had just recovered!
On the bright side, it felt like a mini retreat! Hubby took leave from Wed till the end of the week. I had to stay with Krisal in the hospital so it felt like I was giving birth again! haha! So hubby and Jedi came to visit Mummy and Krisal in the hospital. Was a good bonding time for us as a family. I also had more one on one time with Krisal and Dan had father-son time with Jedi. Coincidentally, our good friends Clement and Soann were also at the same hospital as us as she was deleivering her second bundle of joy! And another good friend of ours who had also gone to the same PD as ours, was also there as her one month old baby had a slight fever so she had to warded for observation. It was really funny as we are all from the same cell group so it was like having a mini cell gathering there!
But the Lord is good and Krisalyn has fully recovered though she has to finish up her antibiotics. Jedi has also fully recovered so I'm praying hard that this flu virus doesn't come back!

Little Wars Beginning....

guess it is inevitable. I realise that the older my little sweetie grows, she is becoming not such a sweetie at times to her Kor Kor. She just loves to bite her Kor Kor's precious die-cast Hot Wheel cars as her mouth is really quite itchy coz of the munchers that are preparing to explode from her gums! So this is the scenario:
Mei Mei crawling around. Suddenly stops and lunges forward to a shiny hard thing!
"I must really try this" she thinks "hmmmm....its cold and hard! Cool! The PUUUUURFECT cure for my itchy gums!"
Kor Kor playing happily but suddenly realises his favourite blue 77 die cast car is gone. Looks high and low and finally sees it. Its even more shiny as its now glistening with a coat of saliva from Mei Mei's mouth!
"Oh No!!!! Mummy! Dirty!!' and in an instant the cure for the itchy gums is grabbed out of the satisfied mouth!
Wails ensue!
So this is a perfect situation to teach Sharing right? But not so easy when you see both parties equally upset at not having the toy that met their own need!!! Patience Mummy Patience!
I am now trying the 'Exchange Policy"...still works for now as Mei Mei is satisfied as long as her itch in kept in check!

Thanks Hubby Dear

Just a word of thanks to my "pillar" (other than the Lord of course!)
Thank you for.......
being my partner and best friend
being my partner "in crime" to bring up our two little ones
being a God-fearing man who covers us in prayer daily
being a wonderful playmate wth Jedi and playing the "boys' games" that Mummy can't play as well
being always there for us as a family despite your work commitments
being my cheerleader and encourager when I'm feeling down and lousy abt myself and coming with the Ben and Jerry's Ice-cream or anything chocolate to give me that sugar boost!
being calm and sane in the midst of the madness of life and knocking sense into my head when I need it
being a loving father to the two kids
and....
for being with me in this journey of marriage, parenthood, and someday grandparenthood.
Thanks dear.