My 26 months old

Sorry for being absence for the past 1 week...juz getting lazy to update my blog. Actually have lot in mind, but my body really need a rest after taking care of Ryan 24/7. Okie *** let's go back to the topic. 1 April'09 is marked as Ryan's 26 mths old.My boy has grown up to be toddler ... alot of new things happened around him and he is catching up with the surroudings.

Weight + Height : never measured,but Ryan is getting taller & taller.

Eating pattern :
- Still like any kind of vegetables (esp.long bean - tonite he juz finished up whole bowl of long bean by himself.
- Show no interest on banana (whole bunch of bananas hang in the kitchen,he never ask for it at all.But when he sees other fruits like apple,plum,pear ... he will ask for it.
- Like to eat fast food (mcd n kfc). I have been making own burger for Ryan with egg+cheese+burger meat+tomato sos.
- Like to eat cake (not all kind of cake), ice cream, barley water(no sugar added),green bean(with sugar added), titbits.
- Like to drink RIBENA lately. Ryan will say ' gape gape gape',then run to the kitchen,the place where the ribena was put.
- Like to eat kaya roti, no kaya applied,sure will cry.

New Speech development :
- can recognize different kind of animals and able to tell its names.
ie : dog, cat, sheep (Ryan will sing bla bla back sip when he sees a sheep),cow( Ryan will say moo moo),monkey (called as key key),snail(nail nail),butterfly,elephant (be be be)and etc.
- can sing a little bit of Barney songs(not clearly yet) : bla bla back sip, twinkle twinkle little star, the elephant the elephant.

Other development/changes:
- I noticed Ryan is more demanding and stubborn nowadays. He will make a fuss if not being given what he wants.
- Difficult to call him for shower and nap...juz like to play n play. Sometimes when ask him go shower, he will say 'sit sit sit' , it means ask me sit at sofa n watch TV. Pengsan ***
- Can eat nonstop. Good apetite.
- Can understand every single words that mummy/daddy instructed him to do.(conversation is mostly in Mandarin + English).
- Have a good memory. Ryan can remember what he play with before he went for his nap and once wakup, he will ask for the same toys again.
- Like to talk on phone...Ryan will say : alo alo alo....then dunno what he is nagging on the phone,I can't understand his baby languages.
- Crazy of cars...no day without playing with his cars.Some of his cars even brought back from Medan coz he really like it.Even sleeping time, sometimes must bring his cars to the bedroom and put at his bedside.
- Stil demand to put on pamper during nap time (Ryan will say : pe pe pe for pamper)...Any idea how to get rid of diaper during nap time??? Plz Help Help...!!!

- Still remain on his old habit...always will cry while having a hair cut.No way to pujuk him at all.
- Like to put on a hat,even at home sometimes also want to put on a hat.
- Never wear pamper during outing (jalan-jalan at town). Of course, mummy got standby a small bottle in the car in case Ryan have the urge to pee in the journey.
- Can recognize and can say Pooh(as poo poo), Mickey( as e key), Garfield (as cat), Tweety bird (as bird).

Happy 26 months old to My boy Ryan !!

100 Truths Tag

Thanks to Mummy Gwen for passing me this tag...a long list to complete,but I just love doin it.

001. Name → Merywaty
002. Nickname(s)→ None.
004. Zodiac sign → Virgo
005. Male or female → Female.
006. Elementary → Sutomo Kindergarten,Medan.
007. Middle School → Sutomo Junior High School,Medan.
008. High School → Sutomo Senior High School,Medan.
009. College School → None
009b. University → Singapore Institute of Commerce & Singapore Institute of Management.Both UNI are in Spore.
010. Hair color → Black.
011. Long or short → Long.
012. Loud or Quiet → Bit talkactive,depend on mood.
013. Jumpers or Jeans → Jeans.
014. Phone or Camera → Phone.
015. Health freak → No.
016. Drink or Smoke? → I don't smoke ,used to drink when I was young.
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → Happily married.
018. Eat or Drink → Eat.
019. Piercings → Ears.
020. Tattoos → Never.

FIRSTS:
023. First piercing → about 17 yrs old
024. First best friend → When I was in primary school.
025. First award → can’t remember
026. First crush → ehm…no comment
027. First pet → don’t like a pet
028. First big vacation → Australia,Hongkong,Macau
030. First big birthday → 17 yrs old…sweet 17th..

CURRENTLY:
049. Eating → None.
050. Drinking → None.
052. I'm about to → Sleep after finishing this tag and surfing net.
053. Listening to → Nothing.
054. Plans for today → Mop my own bedroom.
055. Waiting for → my Dec’09 vacation..back to Medan on 2 dec and stopby KL on 27Dec-30Dec’09.

YOUR FUTURE:
058. Want kids? → Already have 1 prince,Ryan Wong
059. Want to get married? → Already married.
060. Careers in mind → I wish to work if hav chance.

WHICH IS BETTER IN THE BOY/GIRL YOU LIKE?
068. Lips or eyes → Eyes.
070. Shorter or taller - Taller.
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Romantic.
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Nice arms.
074. Sensitive or loud→ Sensitive.
075. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship.
076. Trouble maker or hesitant → Neither.

HAVE YOU EVER:
080. Lost glasses/contacts → No.
081. Ran away from home → Never.
082. Held a gun/knife for self defense → Never.
083. Killed somebody → Never.
084. Broke someone's heart → Really no comments.
085. Been arrested → Never.
087. Cried when someone died → Yes, when my grandmother & grandfather passed away.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. Yourself → Yes.
090. Miracles → Sometimes.
091. Love at first sight → No.
092. Heaven → Yes.
093. Santa Claus → No.
094. Tooth Fairy → No.
095. Kiss on the first date → No.

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → Juz wan to be alone now.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → I’m satisfied with my life now,but hope can back to Singapore one day.
099. Do you believe in God → Yes.
100. Post as 100 truths and tag 20 people→ Let’s me pass this tag to my dearest friend as follows :

Agnes,Caroline,Doreen,Esmeralda,Kristie,Liteng,YeeLing,Nicole,Peiwun,Joanne Tiew,Sha,Shiok Funn,WanChin,YenPing,Yvonne,Ummi,Slavemom,Rachel,Alicia

Friendship Award

Trust, kindness, honesty and caring… These are the crucial 4 recipes in a good friendship.

Thank you so much my dear Esmeralda for this very special award, and thank you for being such a wonderful friend to me...

Now, I am passing this award to all my blogger friends...feel free to grab it from my blog.

Friendship ForEver !!

Tag with Awards

I receive this wonderful award from my blogger friend Caroline and thank you so much for passing me this award :) What’s so special of this award is it comes with a tag too :) So here it goes

*start copying*

Name 7 things/persons that you love and then pass this to 7 other bloggers.
1) My dearesthubby
2) My Little Boy Ryan
3) My Family
4) My dearest friends
5) My shirt,pant + dresses
6) My books and magazines
7) My handphone

*end of copying*
Now I am passing this award back to my 7 selected friends :
Agnes
Doreen
Joanne Tiew
Linda
Jennifer
Peiwun
Serene

A snow ?

Lastnight, when I went upstair after finish tidying up the kitchen, Ryan was playing at MIL's room (of course MIL was not at home, so he can play happily there). He took out a white boardfoam from the thermopot's box that I kept at MIL's bedroom. The whole floor was in a mess..look like a snow is falling. His daddy agreed to tidy up for him...so we just let him play with it while me & his daddy was busy surfing net searching for some interior designs stuffs. Ryan was playing happily,using his small fingers to dig out the foam into a white snow.At first, he stood up...I guess he started to get tiring and at last he sat on top of a box. Is it a new creation by Ryan?? I better stop him from playing it..or else next time he will dare to do it again & I have to clean up the mess.

New Dish - Fish Maw Tauco

Fish maw is actually the air bladder of large fish, the function of which is to regulate water and oxygen flow so that the fish can ascend or descend in the water. The fish maw is also regarded as a nourishing tonic that helps blood circulation and beneficial to the general health.

Today, apart from cooking the Beehoon Miding, I cooked another dish : Fish Maw Tauco. All the while I always cooked FishMaw Fishball soup. Never try to cook it with Tauco. Since my sis told me ,it is nice to cook with tauco...so let's give a try.

Lastweek, I did cooked FishMaw Tauco with prawn, but today fridge has no prawn,so I mixed it with long bean. Hope hubby will like this dishes......see what comments he is goin to give me tonight when he eats.

New Dish - MeeHoon Miding

In my previous blog, I did write up about Belacan Miding...Today I cooked another version which is called BeeHoon Miding.
The ingredients and method are exactly the same. I just added BeeHoon (soaked in warm water) and some sliced ginger. By adding some sliced ginger, I found the smell of the dish is even better.

Happy Cooking !!

New Dish - Belacan Miding

Have you ever hear of Paku Miding ( a kind of vegetable )?? Actually I never eat this vege till I married my hubby and move back to Sibu. One day, MIL cooked this vege, I found it so weird...looks scary to me. But then I saw hubby and MIL keep eating, so let's give a try. At last I fall in love with this paku miding.

It is nice to cook with Belacan, add some chillies and the taste is yummy. This morning I went to wet market and I saw this Paku Miding vege. Bought some and tonight I cooked it as one of the dishes for dinner.

And here is a recipe for Belacan Miding :-

Ingredients

-About 500 grammes of paku miding (pluck tips only)

-About 20 to 40 grammes of belacan

-5 cloves garlic

-5 cloves shallots

-About 30 grammes of dried prawns (pre-soaked for 15 minutes)

-5 red chillies (remove seed if you prefer it less spicy)

-3 tablespoons warm water

- 3 tablespoons cooking oil

Method

1.Pound or blend belacan, garlic, shallots, dried prawns and red chillies.

2.Heat 2 tablespoons oil in wok and saute belacan mix till aromatic (approximately 1 minute). Add another tablespoon of oil if belacan mix too dry or begin to burn.

3.Add miding to belacan mix and stir-fry briskly. Add water and continue stir frying till water almost dried up (but miding is moist).

NB: Can also cook this paku miding with beehoon. Soak the meehoon before frying together with paku miding.

My New Guitar

Ryan has been fancied about guitar lately ... he watched BJ playing a guitar at one of BJ's song (from Barney VCD-Rock N Roll Star). When he heard that song, he will put his hand at his tummy and pretend playing a guitar,shaking his head left and right.

A few days ago, MIL bought him a guitar. He was so happy, playing around with his new guitar. He tried to hang the guitar at his neck...then walk around and around happily in the living room pretending that he is BJ too.

You see ... a little BJ sit happily in the sofa with his new guitar. Just hope Ryan will takecare this guitar properly(sometimes he likes to bang and anyhow throw his toy).

Let's make a Guess ???

Why am I posting this 2 pictures ?? Lastnight when I was busy preparing dinner for Ryan, he took out his colour pencil and start to put them into the red stool. When he saw me walk to the living room, he showed it to me and said 'kek kek kek', I was thinking awhile and looked at the stool....Oh, then I knew that he was trying to tell me he make a cake by using the colour pencils.

Then he started to clap hand and sing la la la la, he also asked me to sing a song ... since he was so happy, I sang a Birthday Song while he was clapping his hands.

I called his daddy to take out camera and snapped this pictures ... Ryan also made a pose in front of his own self made birthday cake. Do you think it looks like a "birthday cake"????

** While drinking water **

One afternoon, I was thinking snap some Ryan's pictures while he was drinking water before nap time.This is how the conversation going on :-

Mummy : Ryan, mummy snap some pics for Ryan.
Ryan : 'Ok Ok' (he can say quite clearly).... then he faster grab his water bottle, then walk here n there in the bedroom while drinking his water.
Mummy : Ryan, be good boy..
lie down, dun walk here n there...he then make funny pose for me.

Nowadays, I am having a hard time to snap good pic of Ryan as he can't stop moving & most of the pics not so clear.

Virus is COMING ........ Again

I have recovered from my flu the next day I visited doctor. Yesterday night I noticed Ryan kept sniffing, his nose is bit watery inside. Oh GOSH....*** don't tell me Ryan kena flu virus from me. I checked out the fridge for flu medicine...oh oh..... don't have. Since his condition is not that bad, he still can played the whole night actively. So I will see how his condition tomorrow. Last night he slept very late almost 12 midnite.
This morning Ryan woke up around 9am, he still look active and sometimes will sniff. So after taking his breakfast, I just use warm water to wipe clean his body and change clothes for him.
Everything is fine with him...he played as usual, his appetite also no change. But I still worry coz flu can lead to other sickness too. So tonight after dinner, hubby & I brought Ryan to Dr.Law's clinic. Same time I asked doctor about rashes appeared on Ryan's faces. I noticed the rashes appeared since chicken pox injection. According to doctor, rashes is caused by skin allergics..nothing to do with chicken pox injection. So I better pay full attention on Ryan's foods recently..wanna see what food that caused his skin allergic, will it be egg/peanut/titbits/french fries,etc....???

Dr.Law prescribed 2 skin creams + 2 liquid medicine (for flu + allergy) for Ryan.It cost RM48 for whole medication. Daddys wallet have another big hole again(within a week spent RM100 for Ryan + Mummy). After reach home, I feed Ryan the medicine. Lucky he did not make noise while taking his medicine. I pretend drinking the medicine and said: Ryan, it taste like Scotts Emulsion....you see mommy also eat lol. Then he opened his mouth and drink the medicine + water. Good Boy, Ryan!!

Hope Ryan will recover soon !!

Flu Virus Attack

Flu virus is coming again...this time it attacked Ryan's Mommy. I was down with flu since last Friday. Asked hubby bought flu medicine (HURIX) which I took last time & can recover. After taking medicine for 1 day, my condition did not any improvement. I have headache on & off, whole body is pain. So I decided to go a doctor for injection yesterday night,hope can recover faster.

Since Friday night, Ryan was taking care by his daddy(after he off from his work),so I can have a rest. Whole friday night, I can't sleep well. My nose is blocked and kept turning my body left and right,juzt felt uncomfortable. On saturday morning, my condition seem getting better, I tried not to sit closely and hug Ryan, to protect him for getting my flu virus.(Last yr Dec when I was back to Medan, I was attacked by flu virus and Ryan kena flu from me..poor boy). Lucky the whole Saturday, Ryan was well-behaved. He played by himself and I on 'Doraemon' show for him to watch. During noon time, I asked him to take a nap and I told him to sleep by his own ( I was lying on my own bed while he was lying on his own mattress). I couldn't accompany him at his side as my flu seem came back again. I took a medicine again, but still the same. At night, hubby tapao dinner for us. After dinner, my condition seem getting worse. My head like want to pecah....so I told hubby that I need to go for a doctor.That's the best way to cure my flu virus. Frankly speaking, I also have a habit to visit doctor when I fall sick,of course, have to spend $$ on doctor. Eating pharmacy medicine seem no cure for me.My hubby wallet have to poke out RM54 for the whole medication.(2 medicine + 1 injection).
The doctor told me that the injection will cause drowsiness...but the whole night I also can't really sleep well. Kept waking up in the middle of the night, but I can feel that my condition is getting better. No more headache and my throat,body and nose seem comfortable. I have to make sure I am fully - recovered before playing again with Ryan as kid's body immune system is weaker than adult.

Pray for myself...Hope I will recover soon!!

Cooking Recipes

I have been surfing for some recipes recently... It just suddenly come across my mind try to cook some new dishes for hubby and I myself and Ryan.Here are a few websites I would like to share with my blogger friends : HoChiak , ChowTimes , Rasa Msia, Lily's WSH.

Yesterday, I tried to make Perkedel for dinner (forget to snap the pic). It tasted better than the previous time I made. The most important is after frying, the perkedel looks yummy (did not out of shape like previous time I made).

Tonight, I cook curry chicken with lady finger (no picture taken again..always forget).Eat with meehoon. The curry paste I brought esp from Medan (my hometown). It is very spicy..but the taste is GREAT.

Dunno what to cook for tomorrow.....ehm....Ok, I decide to cook peanut pork ribs soup, fried vege, cucur jagung.

Happy Cooking !!

My 25 months old milestone

It has been long long time I never update on Ryan's development. Times flies so fast....I still remember well 2 years ago, I was holding Ryan in my arm, now he can walk and run everywhere he wants.

Ryan has reached 25 months old ++ now. He has achieved alot of things month by month.

Height: about 90cm (measured lastweek)

Weight: 13.5kgs (measured 2weeks ago @Dr.Law's clinic -
took Chicken Pox Jab)

Speech Development
He can speak alot of new words (single words only).Most of the words are in English mixed with bit Mandarin n Hokkien.

• Able to tell the name of different kind of animals : bird (bid bid), elephant (make a sound like Barney's song-The elephant),tiger(ger ger),bear(can say accurately),monkey(key key),panda (da da),rabbit (bit bit), butterfly ( bu fly bu fly - try to make a sound like Barney's song-Butterfly Butterfly Happy all Day),fish ( yu yu - in Mandarin),snake (nak nak),bee (can say accurately),cat (meow meow), dog (can say accurately),cow (moo moo), sheep (sip sip), horse (will make a sound like horse is running - duk duk duk).
• Able to say some baby languages : gai gai (want go jalan-jalan), mam mam (want to eat), susu (want his milk), chi chi (want to pee), ek ek (want to poo poo), pei pei (want to cover blanket)
  
• Can call Akong, Ah Mah, Ciu Ciu, Mu Mu (supposed to call Ciu Mu), Ii, Thio thio (supposed to call I Thio), Jie Jie, Ko ko, Mei Mei, Di Di,kakak, bang (Abang - in Bahasa Indonesia).
• Can understand most of the conversation with mommy, daddy and other family members.
• Can say : hat, chair, sit, khu khu(pant),hua hua(flower), e e (shoes - in Hokkien), etc...
• Know where is his nose,ear,mouth,eyes,teeth,hand, finger,leg,hand,hair.
• Can say no no no (McDonald) and si si si (KFC) and Pisa (PizzaHut).
  

Physical Development
1. Able to climb up and down stairs by himself.
2. Able to climb up and down chair by himself.
3. Sometimes he can pull down his pant when want to pee or poo or change his clothes by his own.
4. Like to jumping & cycling around at home.

Sleeping habits
Still nap 1x in the afternoon around 2-3pm, can sleep for about 2 hrs (sometimes can sleep till 3 hrs - I noticed Ryan can sleep longer with mommy or daddy at his side)

At night, will sleep around 10.30 - 11.30pm, sleep till the next morning 8.30-9.30am.

Eating habits
1. Like to eat vegetables(ie.cucumber, green vege,etc),any kind of titbits,biscuits.
2. Like to use hand touch the food.
3. Like to eat Mcdonald and KFC ... everyday he will say no no no (for Mcd) and si si si ( for KFC).
4. Like to eat grapes,oranges,apple,papaya,etc...