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又收小禮物

這是奶奶在大女出世後的母親節送我的PANDORA手鏈,每個小吊咀都有其特別意義.最初只有一個小女孩(即嘉嘉),一個紫水昌圈圈(她的月份水晶)和兩個STOPPERS吊咀.然後,奶奶買了父母加一個小孩的吊咀(我們一家三口)給我加上去.在細女晴晴出世後,又送多我一個小女孩和一個父母加兩個小孩的吊咀.最近一個是加在鏈頭和鏈尾兩邊的小鏈,用作防止吊咀們跌出.因為她上次除去自己的手鏈時,全部吊咀跌到在地上,所以專程去買了這條防跌鏈, 即想到我可能會有同樣的問題,所以買了兩條,給我一條,留一條給自己.

還未加上細女的月份水晶圈圈,但好像沒有紅寶石圈圈賣,但有其他紅寶石的吊咀,但好貴呢!我最初以為這只是可愛的小手鏈,原來這個牌子要到大型珠寶店才可買到,每粒小吊咀由$35至數百美元不等.我真不捨得買呢.幸好這條手鏈是用來記念重要事,否則很容易破產呢!

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充實的一天

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今天是老爺生日前夕,我們提早一天慶祝.老爺選了我很喜歡的海鮮餐廳,呵呵.很久沒有吃豐富的海鮮大餐了,我知道餐廳在菜單新增了龍蝦,今天終於有機會試了.除了兩隻龍蝦,還有半斤蝦和蜆,意式大腸,兩個小薯仔和一支粟米.點菜的時候,待應小姐開玩笑地說,我希望你肚子很餓,因為你最少要坐定30分鐘進食.老爺和老公不斷笑我,因為老公看見餐牌就知道我會選這個菜,老爺向來知道我人仔細細,食量大大,但仍對於我要食這麼多感到難以置信.他不斷用手機影相,還笑說要把我吃的過程全部拍下…又說要待我全部吃掉才會離開餐廳.哈哈.

他們都以為我傻了,但我知道我真的會吃掉整個餐,至少海鮮那部分一定會全數消滅,吃到肚子裏.差不多上菜的時候,待應小姐帶來了超大口水肩,為我和老公繫在頸上,因老公點了一個蟹餐.很期待吃這個大餐,可惜並沒有上一次在家煮的那麼好吃,因為蒸得熟了一點,蝦也太熟.但我相信送回廚房再煮過新的機會,等同叫廚子吐口水在我的食物裏一樣,所以我待完餐後,回到車上才對老公說.一致同意,下次吃龍蝦,都是買回家自己煮最好.

吃飽飽後,我們去了教堂買南瓜,準備下星期萬聖節之用.今年她們只可以選自己拿得起的南瓜,這是家族傳統.她們都很有力,南瓜們都不小呢.另外,她們又選了幾個小南瓜,看著她們走來走去,摸摸這個,看看那個的樣子,真的很可愛.同時,我又驚嘆,小女兒也差不多能跑了,孩子大得真快,看著她們成長真的很滿足.

回到奶奶家,當然是吃生日蛋糕的時候.嘉嘉協助爺爺裝飾蛋糕,又送了禮物給爺爺,逗得爺爺很高興呢!

超大的海鮮餐

收禮物

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這幾個星期不斷收禮物,但不是老公送的,是奶奶送的.奶奶常常買禮物給兩個孫女,其實我這個媽媽都收好多,因為奶奶經常對我說,她沒有當我是媳婦,反而把我看作親女兒,很感動呢!其實她不用說出口,我也知道她待我如親女,她待我的好有時連老公和叔仔都妒忌.主給我的,較我能想像的美好得多,感謝主.

奶奶曾告訴我,在老公和叔仔十多歲的時候,曾想過收養一個中國女孩,但最後打消了念頭.因為她知道,將來兩個兒子娶妻子後,她變相有了兩個女兒.所以,我就成了她的"第一個女兒".還記得頭幾年,奶奶送了很多很多聖誔禮物給我,見到滿地禮物的第一次,我嚇得目定口呆.隨著兩個女兒出生後,禮物的數目當然減少了,因為大部分都去了兩個寶貝那裏.但我還會每隔一兩個月,就收到不同的小禮物,節日和生日就當然不會少.很多時候,我都很不好意思,但老公說,若我不收下的話,會令奶奶很難過.所以我現在學會了欣然接受,不再覺得不好意思了,只感恩我真的很幸運.

最幸運的,除了有個愛我的奶奶(其實老爺都好好),就是奶奶的口味與我很相似,所以每次收到的禮物,都是非常合心意的.最近看中了一對金耳環,但金價之高,當然沒有買.奶奶知我一直喜愛銀色飾物,平日送我都都會是白金或銀;但她見到這對金耳環,覺得和我很合襯,於是買了送給我.神奇在,奶奶送我耳環前一晚,我才對老公說,金色好像開始與我相襯了,我打算開始買一點金飾.誰知翌日奶奶就送我一對金耳環,我不肯定是否我看中的那一對,但設計很相似.老公取笑奶奶道:媽,你和我老婆心靈相通嗎?她昨晚才說想開始買一點金飾,你今天就送她.

一星期後,奶奶又送我五支深淺不同的粉紅色,蝦肉色和紫紅色指甲油,全部都是我想試和買的.另外還有Bare Escentuals的眼影,她知我最愛七彩顏色,所以時不時都會送我幾盒胭脂或眼影,有時連Primer都買給我.今個星期,她又買了一整盒不同顏色的Mary Kay礦物粉底給我,讓我選出最接近我的膚色,如果喜歡這個牌子的話,她會買其他產品給我,她付賬.她竉我的程度,有時過份得難以置信.

最新的禮物是iPhone4S,上周五,奶奶著我們晚上到她家來個Pizza派對,原來是要送我們剛出售的新iPhone4S,還要是我想要的白色,很興奮呢!一直想試試SIRI功能,準確度逹95%,較我想像中準確得多,很驚奇呢!

很喜歡的金耳環

五色指甲油

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MaryKay VS BareEscentuals

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MaryKay 礦物粉底,奶奶買左好多俾我試色

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呢兩隻算係最近我用緊的BE

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令孩子乖乖吃藥水方法

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晴晴濕疹好轉了很多,最近已經很少復發,偶有輕微的小疹子,但只要噴多幾次泉水就會消失.

上周六到奶奶家,在吃午飯前為她換片,竟發現她的手和腳,出了很多像被蚊叮的紅腫小點.老公,老爺和奶奶前來查看,估計是皮膚敏感,奶奶又問晴晴打了水痘針沒有.我查看記錄,她剛在兩個月前打了水痘針,所以即使是出水痘,希望也不會太嚴重.但我一直在想,她和姐姐只會在星期四才會和我與嫲嫲外出食午飯,周六或日才會到嫲嫲家,又不會與其他小朋友接觸,怎會感染到?我就只有今個周四買冷球的時候,第一次沒有放自家造的購物車保護套就讓她坐上去,不是這樣"幸運"吧!而且看著嘉嘉,她一點也沒有,兩姐妹也沒有發燒,所以機會應該不大.

由於剛過了診所的診症時間,唯有小心觀察,待周一帶她會診.但我心裡一直希望,小紅點過一會兒消失.可惜小紅點一直沒有消失,我待回家後就為她噴了幾次泉水,晚上好像好了一點,但早上又好像嚴重了.這次我也可以9成肯定,晴晴是敏感,但我們不知道她到底對甚麼敏感.可能是塵埃,又可能是奶奶給她的芝士餅(唯一的新食物),因為我們還未開始食午飯,所以排除了很多因素.

我以前也患過"風難",奇怪的是我一點也不覺得痕癢,只有風吹到紅腫的地方,令紅點變成大紅斑才會痕癢,所以我知道不要被她吹到風.幸好的是,她好像也沒有痕癢的情況出現,沒有見到她在紅點的地方抓,不然被抓出血就麻煩了.

周日一早,老公就到藥房買過敏藥,但找了兩間也沒有適合2歲以下適用的.於是我致電on-call醫生,希望確定一下她真的患了"風難",又問一下可以用那種藥物.誰知又一次沒有回電,真的很過分.我下個月帶她去見醫生,一定要投訴.這已經不是第一次,老公和我也有心理準備醫生不會回電,於是老公一直在網上找資料,幸好找到醫院網站有相關資

料.原來還是上次的藥物回收,到現今也沒有新藥物上架,難怪找不到.幸好有藥物成份和幼兒應服用的份量,老公於是再次到藥房,為晴晴買到抗敏感藥.

當我們為終於買到藥而高興,希望囡囡服後會盡快痊癒.誰知藥水的味道太濃,晴晴吃了全吐出來,爸爸扮喝了她的藥,裝出很高興的樣子,然後她也喝掉所有藥.直至今早凌晨一時,是第二次服藥時間,已準備了要用點辦法才可以令她喝藥水,誰知她怎樣也不肯,灌進去的都被吐出來.爸爸最後混了些少提子汁,希望她會喝.她只喝了兩口,又怎樣也不肯再開口.我裝著喝得很高興,希望她會相信(媽媽很天真),卻真的喝了一口.完全明白為甚麼她這麼固執了,喝時很甜,但一秒後藥味停在口腔內不散,真的很難吃.

我告訴老公,於是他回到廚房去,將藥水由果汁盒的飲管口注入,混合在內的大半盒提子汁,放回原盒飲管拿回來.這是她最愛的果汁牌子,一見到爸爸帶了果汁來,她就笑著用手接,立即把飲管送到口中,一口氣將全盒果汁喝掉,爸爸和我很高興,堅持了45分鐘,終於找到令她乖乖吃藥的良方了.今天我們不再嘗試迫她用藥杯喝,混了藥水的果汁盒令她開心又吃到藥,她肯吃藥就好了.果汁混藥的方法是上一次醫生教的,但用杯她還能聞到藥味,加入果汁盒用飲管喝,就解決了視覺,嗅覺和味覺的問題,老公好叻仔.

如何令孩子不偏吃

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今天外出用膳的時候,我們後面坐了一家四口,兩個男孩大約一歲半和4歲左右,父母一人陪著一個小孩坐,母親由坐下的一刻開始不斷的打量著我和晴晴….完全不明白她在盯著甚麼.

午餐吃了一半,嘉嘉要上洗手間.我帶她回到餐枱時,老公告訴我,我們不在的時候,他協助晴晴進食,那後桌的母親詢問他如何令到晴晴吃得這樣好.她說已經觀察了一段時間,我們的兩個女孩任何食物都吃,還很有規矩;她的兩個兒子卻甚麼也不吃,又跪又求也不能令他們吃食物.老公回答說,她們一直都是這樣,甚麼也吃.

這令我想起上周,姨母和我通電話時,也問我如何令她們吃得這樣好,任何食物也吃.因為表弟由小至今也很偏吃.我很直接了當的告訴她,因為你容讓他偏吃.我還記得未夠十歲的我,見到表弟揀飲擇食的程度,令我很好奇為何他會這樣,又很好奇姨母為何會容讓他這麼樣.最經典的例子是到美心快餐,點了炸雞脾飯,要走汁轉豉油,豉油要同白飯分開,雞脾亦要分開放,這是唯一他在家以外會吃的食物,因為他只會吃姨母煮的東西,還要是他喜愛的才會吃.

姨母聽到我的答案,很驚訝又很快的回復過來,知道我一矢中的.她明白這是她縱容他,才令他這麼偏吃.我告訴她,由兩女進食固體以來,我們甚麼也讓她們試,每天吃甚麼都是父母決定,她們從來都不偏吃,即使有時會對新食物有懷疑,但我們也要她們最少試一點點,試了不喜歡可以告訴我們,但進了口就要吃到肚子裡.若然她們真的不喜歡,我會讓她們那餐不用再吃新食物,待一段日子後,用新煮法煮同樣的食物再讓她們試.

直至目前為止,只有雞蛋黃要用不同的方法煮,因為醫生說6個月開始要讓她們吃蛋黃,一歲才可以吃蛋白.烚蛋太乾,她們只會吃一半就停吃,最後老公建議用些少水炒蛋黃,她們就全部吃掉,還要求多一點.

我亦告訴姨母,假若她們不喜歡我們提供的食物,她們大可選擇不吃.但我告訴她們,如果現在不吃,將不會有小食,她們要等到下一餐.即使她們哭著說肚子餓,要求一點小食,我也絕不心軟.幸好,這只出現過一次,嘉嘉亦完全明白媽媽是認真的,從此以後也沒有再胡鬧了.看似很狠心,但為了她們的健康著想,從小養成不偏吃的習慣是必需的.

Labor day weekend

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Three days long weekend has been spending on playing with the girls and cleaning the house up. Finally we could play outside with them since the Tropical Depression was hitting the State next to us. It brought us some clouds and cooler temperature so we can go out without melting.

Grandpa sent the girls some bubble mowers last week. Now they could try it out in the front yard. It was so much fun for them to run in the yard and look at the roses. The only problem was the mowers needed to be going really really fast to generate bubbles. So the girls weren't really able to make it happened by themselves. Alexis was quite upset about the fact nearly no bubble came out when she pushed it herself. Eric told her the machine was kind of broken and she thought it was her fault. Silly thing, I had to explain to her what the real problem was and there was nothing to do with her. So, we ended up brought out the Elmo Bubble Machine to play with them. They had a much better time chasing and dancing with the bubbles, looking at Elmo blew the bubbles and poked at the bubbles until they popped.

After a fun day yesterday, Eric and I talked until 3am this morning trying to figure out how to rearrange the furniture again so they will have more room to play. I couldn't believe we talked for 3 hours since mid-night to discuss rearranging the house for the 10th times (at least).

Having kids and all the furniture from the condo were not helping things. I got the house just right after moved in for a year. Then, my first little angle came along and things needed to be moved around. Her stuff was like a major explosion in a short month, it got much worse after her 1st Christmas. After that, I got it almost right again when she was 1. A few months later, my second little angle came to join the explosion party her sister already started (It was actually grandparent and daddy excessively buying stuff for them). With two kids, everything had to moved around again because we needed baby and toddler stuff at the same time.

A few months later, parent-in-law was planning to sell the condo where we lived before. So almost all the furniture were moved to our house (their house was so full). This wasn't really a problem, I though I would have more than enough room for all of them. They stored in the house without a problem, but not really blended in with the rest of the house. I tried very hard to arrange them to make it work. But Eric keep changing his mind on how he wanted his office and the game room to be used. Including this time, we has been making his office a temporary storage room for the 4 times.

With all the toys and activity table, my living room started to look like crazy again and they are not playing with most of the toys. I started to remember there were some big size toys upstairs didn't even been play for a year which Alexis loved. Now Lily is bigger and more mobile, it's time to move things around so they can play them again. And I would love to used the game room more. So, after our long talk last night (early this morning), we moved things around a little while they played upstairs. Hopefully it will be done tomorrow so I can pull out the crawling tunnels and roller coaster for them to play. Lily should have a good time with it and Alexis will definitely be thrilled.

Apart from the inside of the house, we did some cleaning up at the back yard too. It was nice out and windy, a good day to get some outside work done. Eric cleaned up the planting beds and the weeds in between the beds. I rolled up the bird net and scooped up all the dogs poo. He was planned to mow the yard too but it was getting late. We have to let the dogs out and go for a late lunch. Good choice picking the salad bar, the girls loved it and got compliments from a school teacher sat nearby. I am so proud of them and like the culture of giving compliments to people you don't know while they did something good. That is just a nice thing to do and Hong Kong people should really learn from it. There was so much complaints and people always take everything for granted. So rude and so mean.

Educational iPhone or iPad App reviews (Highly Recommended)

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Little Panda Mommy: Educational iPhone or iPad App reviews (Highly Recommended)

Panda Daddy found a few educational iPhone and iPad apps that work quite well with the little pandas, there are some of the reviews for them.

Cheeky Panda is 2.5 years old now, here's her favorites apps:

Monkey Preschool Lunch Box (monkeypreschool.com)
Cost: $0.99 (Highly Recommended)

What the app do: It teaches the children shapes, colors, numbers, alphabets, matching, counting, problem solving and motors skill through little game tasks.

Why it works: Cheeky Panda has been playing with the game for 2 months. From the very first time, the colorful app with cute little monkey capture her attention right away. She tried to play with it all by herself since the beginning. With successful and fail attempts, she learned the shapes, colors, numbers and matching (which I tried so hard to teach her but failed) very well. Somehow she just figured out all these complicated concepts through the game herself without me explaining much. She can match and find the different object from a group easily now. At the same time, her motors skill and problem solving skills are clearly improved since she need to use her little fingers to drag and place some puzzle pieces to form some fruits' shape. Therefore, she is learning different kind of fruits also.

Monkey Math School Sunshine (http://monkeymathschool.com)
Cost: $0.99 (Highly Recommend)

What the app do: It teaches numbers, pattern, counting, concept of more or less and simple calculus (sum and minus)

Why it works: It shows the pattern along with narration, which have a blank in between, for the kids to pick 1 out of 3 objects to fill it. I found out the narration of the pattern actually help a lot for her to understand what is going on.

For counting and numbers, she has to connect the numbers dots from 1 -14 (more or less numbers) accordingly, so the turtle can cross the sea. She can count from 1 – 14 now, thanks to the turtle count along every dot he through.

There are four groups of sea creatures or objects to choose from, she has to pick the one with the most or the least.

天然泉水令BB濕疹消失

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晴晴由三個月大開始就被濕疹困擾,轉眼她已經13個月大,現在皮膚終於再次白滑,真的感謝神.

晴晴初發濕疹時由於只是在臉和頸部,我估計是熱痱,於是一直為她不斷抺汗,小心地為她塗爽身粉(醫生說不要用爽身粉在初生嬰兒身上,因為吸入微粒會對嬰兒肺部有不良影響).誰知痱子沒有轉好,反而更多更紅,最嚴重的時候頸部會有白色油脂積聚在頸紋,而且開始蔓延向身體各部分.

當我帶她去看醫生時,她立即被診斷患上濕疹.天啊!我一直在害她不是幫她.為甚麼平日事無大小都打去問醫生,偏偏這一次自作聰明.濕疹最重要保濕,我卻一直在令她乾上加乾.醫生開了類固醇藥膏給她,每天只可塗兩次,頸部只可以一次(因為會頸部皮膚薄,塗太多會令皮膚變色).醫生又重複提我緊記每連續塗上十天,要停止兩天才可以再為她塗,不然會令皮膚變薄,又會令皮膚太依賴.若十天後她沒有進展,醫生提議可能要服食口服類固醇,指大部分病人服用後會有明顯改善.

當我一聽到要塗類固醇,心一下子沉了.心想她還這麼小,真的要塗這種重藥嗎?自己也不想用,何況是年紀小小的她.更可怕是可能要服食它.雖然是醫生建議,應該是安全的,但我頗肯定對她會有一定不良影響,想想已經很怕.於是決定努力為她保濕,買了醫生建議的淋浴皂和潤膚露,努力地為她塗,希望可以制止擴散和避免塗類固醇的命運.但努力了兩天,可能她的情況太嚴重了,甚麼成效也沒有,見她紅紅的樣子,真教我心痛.最後雖然極不願意,但還是為她塗了類固醇,怕再不用藥她要出血了.然後不斷地禱告,希望她會塗一次就好,不需再用藥.

當然,世上沒有這種一塗就好的藥膏,即使藥性強如類固醇也不例外.但明顯地,八小時後我觀察到皮膚的顏色有明顯改善,由深紅色變成淡鮮紅,身體部分不太嚴重的地方有些粒粒消失了.由於效果很好,即使仍然很不願意,但我還是為她塗了幾天的藥膏.她皮膚每天都有明顯的改善,在第十天,皮膚差不多完全好了,我就決定停用,希望努力用潤膚露保濕可以令濕疹消失,可惜這並不成功.停藥後第二天,濕疹又開始多了,皮膚又開始更紅,於是第三天我打給醫生,確定我沒有錯記用藥方法,因為我知道這將會是一場持久戰.

在這十個月期間,我試了很多不同方法.包括用金銀花水為她洗澡和莞茜片糖水洗澡,兩者都有少許效用,但並不明顯.兩者中,後者令她的皮膚變得滑滑,剛洗完澡的時候,皮膚觸感細軟,散發淡淡清香.於是為她洗澡後,我忍不住試浸了前臂,很細軟的皮膚,我很想也為自己煲來浸一下.她也明顯地喜歡莞茜浴多一點,每天洗澡時她都特別開心,很舒服的樣子.

最後記得幾年前在香港買了幾枝法國泉水,帶了兩枝來美國.這個叫AVENE的法國牌子,是出名的敏感皮膚救星.這是我當年四出尋找保濕面膜時,意外發現的一個品牌,一試愛上了它的保濕面膜,因而發掘牌子最出名的保濕噴霧.我還記得大女嘉嘉一歲前,頸部也出過熱痱(現在懷疑那可能也是濕疹),於是我找出這枝泉水,不斷地為她噴,差不多每隔十分鐘至半小時我就噴一次,兩天後"熱痱"不見了,亦沒有再出現.其實最初我也有噴過晴晴,但只噴了兩天,每天兩次,之後我就放棄了(如果當初沒有放棄,噴得密一點,可能她不需要塗類固醇…唉).

最後媽媽說可以試試加幾滴花露水為她洗澡,這是她在職的護老院護士教她的.於是專程到唐人街走一次,可惜貨賣斷了.隔了兩星期再去,終於買到了.從那天開始,我就每天都加幾滴花露水在浴缸中,為她洗澡.(老實說,我一直以為花露水是中國古時流傳至今的香水產品.看了產品用法後,才發現原來花露水是用來塗在蚊叮蟲咬的患處,有止痕殺菌的作用;更可以每天使用防止熱痱,很意外呢!)同時,我每天不斷的為她噴法國泉水,差不多一乾了就噴,讓她等同浸在泉水中一樣(這是AVENE在法國的診所提供的療法,讓皮膚病人浸在泉水中).

經過兩星期的花露水浴和泉水噴噴,晴晴由每三天要塗一次類固醇(我通常努力避免用藥,但每次停藥的第三天,疹子就發得很嚴重,會由頸蔓延到身體,所以被逼要塗),變成第五和第十天才用了一次藥.在這兩次用藥後,我隔天才用花露水為她洗澡,見到有疹子才用泉水.在過去的兩個月,除了上述的兩次用藥,她不再需要類固醇了.

現在,她每次一出疹,我就日夜不停噴泉水在她患處.試過好幾次,我在十分鐘內連續噴了她三次,然後我見到本來紅紅的疹子變了淡粉紅色,一小時後已經變成了原本的膚色,但仍是會見到肉色的粒粒.晚上,我會為她洗個花露水浴,然後塗Johnson & Johnson's無色無味無香料的嬰兒護膚露,效果較醫生建議的貴價潤膚露更好,更適合晴皘皮膚,亦更適合父母的荷包呢!最近的兩星期,晴晴皮膚已經是白白滑滑,沒有任何粒粒,花露水浴亦只是最多每星期一次,以防萬一.

願主保守濕疹從此遠離她,亦遠離所有被濕疹困擾的病人及其家人朋友.

晴晴開始講野,好快呀

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