Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Grace's Favourite thumb

Grace loves to suck her thumb. We tried stopping her by giving her pacifier.. she sucked so hard for a while but spitted it out. I guess she was thinking.. stop kidding me, there's no milk coming out from this thing! so, it didn't work. I also spent few days sitting beside her and took her thumb out when she tried to put in her mouth... but it didn't work. Although many people asked me to stop her from doing it, however, it's a very convenient 'pacfier', now, she would suck her thumb and be very happy about it. I don't have to sterilize it. It's her favourite thumb.So I just let her do it. I gave up.

This morning, mummy had tummy ache. It was soooooooooooooooooo painful. I told girl girl that mummy is having tummy ache, and i guess she understood. I was lying beside her and she started sucking her favourite thumb. It definitely looks like she is enjoying it so much and it is so delicious. So i asked her, Baby, is your thumb delicious? it must be delicious ya, it looks so yummy, can u let mummy suck too? ok, now mummy opens mummy's mouth, you put in mummy's mouth and let mummy sucks ok ?
she paused for a while......................... then she took out her thumb and put her hand in my mouth ! Gosh ! i was shocked! and I was sooooo touched! my tears rolled down my cheek again. I wasn't expecting that as i didn't know she could understand and could do what i asked her to. I don't believe it's a coincident as she never put her hands in our mouth before. I appreciate my 5 months old daughter sacrificing her favourite thumb for mummy. Baby! Mummy Loves you ! It's definitely God's grace to have given you to us! Thank you God!

Monday, April 27, 2009

You Can Do It

Hope You'll be encorgaed by this:
The inspiring story of a two-legged dog named Faith, as seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Sunday School - He Prepares

Our baby Grace is now 5 months 5 days old. Time flies. It is like yesterday that she was born. Before her arrival (the arrival of her majesty Grace- my little Princess), I told God, God, please give me a baby that is easy to take care of. As you know, I don't know how to take care of baby, and if you give me a difficult baby, it's hard for me to go back to teach in the sunday school. So, Please, give me a good baby. And, sure enough, God is faithful. I'm so thankful that my girl girl is a quiet and good baby. She seldom cries (unless she is not feeling well), she is easy to be entertained, sometimes i just put her on the bed she would just play on her own and fell asleep, and she is soooooooo cute ( yes yes, i know, all parents says their baby is the cutest when their babies are actually very ugly) hahahaa.. i used to rank no. 2 in my husband's heart. (No. 1 belongs to God) now, no. 2 belongs to both Amber and Grace. but i really don't mind. i guess the feeling is mutual. hahaa..
We had hard time taking care oof her, learning how to take care of her, and my huusband even have to pray to God for me to be good in taking care of baby as i totally sucked in this. She had oral thrush as my confinement lady didn't sterilize her bottles, and her buttock was scratched bcos the confinement lady was too rough in wiping her small little buttock, you must be thinking that she tried to wipe it so clean that's why? no, i saw with my own eyes she proceed to wrap the diaper while there was still shit on her buttock !! Dirty confinement lady ... anyway , that's another story .. and she had jaundice, and she had the yeast from oral thrush at her bottom for weeks. The oral thrsh was especially annoying and heart aching which happened repeatedly in her mouth. I just found out recently it was due to the antibiotic i took as I had fever during delivery. Even with all these, she didn't complain much, she wasn't too difficult. How could i complaint having such a baby?

I applied 4 months leave with God. Now it's time for me to go back to teach in Sunday School. God is so great and nice and wonderful to me, how could i stop serving Him ? I hope i 'd not give all kind of excuses to stop serving Him. The first week, Thomas do not have church visitation activity so he took care of Grace and i went teaching. 2nd week, school had replacement so there was no sunday school. last week, Thomas got to apply leave and didn't go for visitation as we've no idea who can help to take care of Grace. But, Sister Mary came to my mind, i remembered her saying it's good to have baby at her place some times. But How could we even ask for this favour from her? We prayed to God saying, God, We've sure you would prepare someone for us since we're going to serve you and let us know if it's Sister Mary. so, we went to visit her with Grace last saturday. The first sentence she said when she sees us was, ' ohhhhhh I was wondering when are u going to bring the baby over for me to take care' .. I can't believe what I heard! We've not even asked. and yes, today I'll be bringing Grace to Sister Mary while I teach at Sunday School. We'll see how it goes. God is Great isn't it. Yes. He's is such a great friend to have.

Grace's New skill - rolling and crawling

If Grace moans in the middle of the night, I'd suspect she is learning a new stunt in secret again. When she was about 2 months old, she woke at 5+am in the morning and started moaning and complaining while she tried hard to roll over. Then, it's learning to roll over to the opposite direction at 5+am as well. Now she can roll almost everywhere. She has started her lesson on crawling these 2 weeks and today, she can move from one corner to the other slowly. Couple nights back, i woke up and was left with only less than 20 cm on our king size bed as she rolled to my side AGAIN... mummy hardly has any space to sleep.















This is the way she turns..

















and ops.. she dropped to daddy's bed.








and mummy got to build up walls to prevent her from falling.




Friday, April 24, 2009

Babies Part II

I had hard time sleeping last night due to a news i heard 3 days back on Taiwan News Channel.

The summary of the news is a baby was thrown into a boiling pot of water during a domestic dispute by her father and she was suffering from 84 % of 2nd and 3rd degree burn. The news showed clips captured from cctv showing her mother rushing the baby to the hospital and how panic she was in the hospital when she arrived with the baby.

Yesterday, the baby died after 3 days , you could check out the news in the following link

Taiwan baby dies three days after father throws her into boiling water
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/featurestory2/baby.html

How the baby screamed when she was thrown into the hot boiling water came to my mind when i was trying to sleeping last night, and also , how she was picked up from the boiling water... the news didn't say that neither of her parents suffer any burn, so perhaps they delayed by pouring the water out of the pot and causing further pain to her? the journey to the hosital must be hell for her.. i think the news underrated her pain as thousand knife cutting her. The pain would be like more than a thousand knife cutting her.

it was all due to the mother challenging the father by saying, if you're daring , you throw her to the pot. '你有種就丟丟看'... and the father was really 'daring' and 'brave' and crazy enough to really had thrown his own baby to the boiling pot of water. By the way he was drunk , but that doesn't mean u can kill someone when u're drunk. The mother was not drunk, but challenging your husband with such a thing ?? the baby was only 10 months old.. and she was very adorable..

That's why i was saying... Accident like this happened ... if parents treat their own flesh and blood this way, do i have to convince you again how would a maid treat your kids? What if she did something wrong and you scolded her till she cried? or mad? or .. ??? How then would she be treating your kids when you're away? Would she revenge on your kids.. how would they destress?? babies couldn't talk. Even if they could.. some do not know that they could complain to their parents !

Today, I've received another child abuse's clip. The Maid kicked the kid and jumped on her and ... I feel so sorry for this kid and i know there's more out there. Dear Parents, if you couldn't take care of your baby on your own, please... do something to make sure your kid is not the next victim. Try to treat the maid nicer. Hopefully they would treat your kids nicer too, you've put your kids in their hands.

May God bless all babies. May Jesus's love be in your family. Jesus Loves YOU!