Window Blinds

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I always like to do some little home improvement thing from time to time. Little things like changing the cushion covers or the curtains can make me feel refreshed. The curtains at my home have been there for two years and I've been thinking of changing it to blinds now. Washing and hanging the curtains are quite tedious because my curtains measure about 10 feet long. I can only wash one piece at a time and I have four pieces to a room. It collects dust easily and both hubby and Ethan have sensitive nose. I have been thinking about wooden blinds. It's easy to maintain, looks neat and elegant.

I found out that this company, Terry's Fabrics, offers a good range of blinds including wooden window blinds. I have seen many types of wooden blinds but I don't know about their quality. The good thing about Terry's Fabrics is they take their time selecting the blinds to ensure that the wooden blinds are of the best quality and best value for money. They will also be offering a blind cutting service on selected products, where it will be possible for you to order wooden blinds in any width to fit inside your window. It's cheaper than ordering custom made blinds because they will trim their wooden blinds to your width and not make to order.

I think this wooden weave blind looks great.

Conversation with Ethan

I wonder if Ethan understands what we say now. This morning, he woke up at around 6a.m. and we fed him milk. After finishing, he refused to go back to sleep, so I played with him for a while when natures called. I asked hubby to keep an eye on Ethan and I went to the bathroom. Ethan started crying when he realised that I was gone. So, I have to let the bathroom door opened and talked to him. He saw me in the bathroom but refused to stop crying. Daddy was sitting next to him and talked to him. Tears rolled down his cheek. After I'm done I went back to him and he stopped crying. Fine.

Then, it's time for me to get ready for work. So I tried to talk to Ethan. He was playing with a toy by himself while I was sitting next to him on the bed. The conversation was like this:
Mummy: Ethan....
Ethan: (He turned and looked at mummy.)
Mummy: Ethan, mummy go shower there (I point to the bathroom). Ethan plays here with daddy (pointing to daddy) ok?
Ethan: Wuaaaahhhhhh! (He abandoned his toy and quickly crawled to mummy and hugged mummy).
Mummy: (Can he understand ar????? Nevermind, try again.)
Mummy: Ethan, mummy go shower, you play with daddy lar.
Ethan: Eeeehekhekhekkkkk...........

Seemed like he really understand what I said wor. Then, I asked hubby to take him out to the living hall and play so that I can go shower lar.
Daddy: Come, we go play outside. (He was sitting on the bed)
Ethan: (No response)
Mummy: Bee, you stand up lar.
Daddy: (Stand near the door and held out his hand) Come Ethan, we go out.
Ethan: (Quickly lean towards daddy)
Daddy and Mummy: (Looked at each other)

(He knows his toys are in the living room)

A Little Accident

I received a call from the day care owner, M, last Friday morning. As usual, every time I receive her call, my heart beat will increase by double in split seconds. You know, they won't be calling to tell you that your son was crawling for the first time or your son enjoys the music class. There must be something....something not desirable that have just happened to your son.

So, M told me that there was a red spot on Ethan's left eye. She said it's not very serious but advised me to bring Ethan to the doctor. I wasn't very sure of what happened to Ethan. Being the usual me, I cannot wait until the evening to find out what happened to my baby. I zoomed off to the day care and saw the red spot, more like a blood spot. That worried me. I quickly called the clinic to make an appointment and off we went to see the paed.

The paed said the blood vessels burst and it was caused by trauma. Either Ethan was rubbing his eye too hard or he knocked on something but he's ok and can see things as usual. What a relief. He said the red spot will go away by itself within a week and medication is not necessary. He was perfectly normal that morning and I'm sure he didn't knock on anything at home. So I thought he must have either rubbed his eye too hard or knocked on something at the daycare. On Sunday, we noticed that there was a little greyish area under his left eye. I think this confirmed that he knocked on something lar.

I've been telling myself that kids do get bruises from time to time especially when they start crawling and walking and 'please don't be panick'. But when things like this really happen, I guess I cannot just be cool about it.

Look at the red spot on his left eye.
He was watching Barney at that time.


A little stunt that Ethan likes to perform

Teething Again

Ethan had fever twice last week. It was a mild one. I was worried that he will get viral fever again. Luckily he was ok after taking the medicine. A few days after that, I saw part of a tooth on his lower gum. It was his 7th tooth (the 3rd one on the lower gum). Wonder if the 8th is coming also. Normally he will have two coming out around the same time. He is drooling and still loves to bite.

Whenever I say 'kiss kiss' he will lean over me and open his mouth and then when he touched my lips, he will try to bite. Of course, I will quickly pull out lar. He also likes to bite my shirt, near my shoulder, when I carry him. Most of the time I will just let him bite but now I have to be more careful. Why? Because he accidentally bit part of my arm the other day (see the evidence below). It was more painful than anything else. I can only scream. Not too loud lar, I don't want to scare him also. I cannot slap him either. My tears were nearly rolling down or maybe it actually rolled down, I don't know. Luckily he let go after hearing my scream. When I checked on it, my arm was already bluish red with two bite mark, one up one down. I asked my friend once if her daughter bite when she's breastfeeding. She said it happended before but after telling her not to do so, she stopped biting. I just cannot imagine how to let Ethan knows that he cannot bite if I'm breastfeeding him.

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Go Holiday

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Whenever I'm bored with work, I will always dream of going for a vacation. The first thing I will do is to check out the destination, the hotel rates, packages, promotion, air tickets, etc. Of course, the easiest way to do it is to browse the websites. I will be also doing the same thing when I need to travel for official work, especially when we do not have local contacts. The only thing we can rely on is the internet. Sometimes, it's hard to find a suitable hotel because the information provided is limited.

Now, there is a good website that offers everything I need to know before making any decision. It's HotelReservations.com. I've checked it out. It's great. It's like a one stop centre for travel arrangement. Apart from hotels, you can also check out for airfares, car bookings, cruise packages and group bookings from this website. I don't have to visit a few websites to get what I want. Ju

The thing I like the most about this website is they give details of hotels like the map, photos and reviews. The most important thing to me is the photos of the hotels. I always want to know how a hotel looks like before making a reservation. At least, I will not be dissapointed with the room after I check in.

The Destination Guide offered by Hotel Reservations is really good. I can use the tool to do some research on the places I want to go. Sometimes, when I need to travel to a foreign place, I need to find out more information about the place like the best place to shop, eat and see. It's really important when there is no one there to bring you around.

When I look at the cruise packages, I was so excited by the destinations they offer. Hot spots like Bahamas! Caribbean! I always love tropical islands.

I will definitely go to this website the next time I need to travel.

Separation Anxiety

Ethan has been super clingy recently. I think he must be experiencing separation anxiety now. What puzzled me is how come he only clings to me? He doesn't even want daddy. He clings to me like koala bear and will cry if I'm out of his sight. It's even worse during his sleep time. That day, I went to shower leaving him and hubby in the bedroom. He cried and cried and cried until I came out of the bathroom and carried him. He sounded really 'kesian'. The same thing happened the next evening. My heart really melted when I knew he cried for me even when daddy was around. So I teased hubby and said that 'Ethan wants mummy, doesn't want daddy'....hehehe, so wicked. Hubby was like half agreeing half denying. At first he kept quiet and then he said that it will be easier for him. Hmmmm, true or not? No heart ache mer?

I read an article on this, here, and it says never leave a child by sneaking away as it will create more anxiety. Errr, I have been doing this because I thought that's the only way that can prevent Ethan from crying. But of course, I leave after saying goodbye and kissing him without fail everyday. Then, they will carry him (while he grabs onto my clothes tightly) and distract him while I quickly sneak away. Sometimes, I will stay for a while and play with him before sneaking out. At times, I just felt so bad that I have to leave him while he's crying. I wonder if men will feel the same as we mothers do or are we just too emotional. I still remember myself crying on the first day we left Ethan at the day care. I guess I was having separation anxiety too.