Tyler turned 18 mths

My baby turned 18 months (1 & half yrs) 4 days ago. I can't imagine how time flies. He's gonna grow older the sooner than I can imagine... Soon he'll be off to school, then uni, then get married and have children.

I'd say he has good memory of directions, for instance, he hates Kuching Specialist Hospital (that's where his paediatrician is) so if we were to use that road to go to Supermarket or to the eating place, he gets uneasy, and most of the time, he'd cry.

Then if we were to use the road from Foochow Road to our home and cutting through Tabuan Jaya, straight away he recognizes his grandparents home. IF we do not pop by (normally we don't as the traffic is very heavy from 5pm to 7pm) he'd cry so bad.

Even visiting my parents home once a week, he can recognize the road already. I'm not sure which landmark he uses to mark the directions, but I'm very intrigue with his sense of direction at such a young age. He can even remember where I usually buy his bananas (Everise-BDC) and he'd shout out NaNa and pointing to the supermarket.

Tyler is now learning to speak, but he'll just call out word by word. He can call everyone except ME =( He knows who mummy is, as when hubby asked where mummy is, he'll start looking for me. He can call "daddy", "mah mah", "kong kong", "chek chek" and "cho cho" so perfectly, but he just refuses to call me, but he'll kiss me most of the time la =)

His love for ELMO is still so deep that every morning, as soon as he wakes up, he has to watch ELMO on dvds, he no longer wanna watch Playhouse Disney on Astro. He insisted on wearing my Elmo T-shirt as showed in the picture above. Sometimes, I'd wear this Elmo t shirt to make his behave, normally he's quite naughty and sometimes he'd purposely go against my will. However, if I wear this Elmo T-shirt, he'd be more affectionate, hugging and kissing me, actually hugging and kissing the Elmo I'm wearing. Well, what can I say, I'm hunger for his affectionate :P

That's my baby... I pray and hope that he'll grow up to be a wonderful person =)

Tyler's First play date

Tyler had his very first play date yesterday with Emma. Well, Emma is my ex-Uni lecturer's daughter. We kept in touch from time to time so now we both have kids around the same age, thus we arranged a play date for them. Tyler doesn't have any friends around his age, lucky to have met Emma, so Tyler's circle of social network wouldn't only be grown ups :)

I guess Tyler really enjoy having friends around his age, he's more settled down and playing toys together with Emma, but occasionally he would grab toys from Emma's. However, if he's around adults, he'd seek for attention and ask anyone to bring him around.

I would hope to have more play dates in future to shape Tyler to be more confident in meeting people next time.

One Sleepless Night

We had a memorable "Sleepless Night" last Monday... it all began when Tyler cried non-stop when he woke up at exactly 12.44am (my digital clock showed 0:44) So usually when he cries at night, I will transfer him from his crib to my big bed and we'll both sleep in till the next morning. However, this time, his cry was different from his normal "switching bed" cry. He cried so loud that no matter what I do, he won't stop crying till I stepped out from my bedroom. Then he'll stop for a while, as soon as I bring him back to our room, he started screamming, and this time, he won't stop at all. I knew something was wrong... He kept screamming without tearing, since he couldnt stop crying, he kept pointing to the main door and said, "there, there, there" meanning he wants to go out. So we had no choice but to bring him for a car ride. As soon as we stepped out of the house, he stopped crying. We drove along the neighbourhood, and went back once he was more relaxed. When we reached home, he started to get sressful, but we calmed him down with ELMO on the tv and hubby and I slept in the living room with ELMO on, because he refused to sleep in the bedroom. Tyler soon doze off at 2.30am, so we all slept in the living room, just like camping. Then he started to cry again at 3.45am... still the same cry, like he was scared of something, I didn't feel anything at all, but seeing him cry like that made me scared instead. So we brought him out for car ride again. This time we drove all the way to the city, bought Mac D breakfast at 4.30am then went home, this time he was sleeping while I was carrying him in the car, when we reached home, I put him to sleep in our room, which he managed to sleep till 6.30am, while hubby and I had our first early breakfast and we both didn't sleep afterthat. We just watched Desparate Housewives on DVD's. Btw, we've been watching Desparate Housewives from season 1 through season 7 in one month! Anyway, Tyler seemed better in the morning, so hubby brought him to the temple in Batu Lintang and prayed for him. Appearantly, they said there were some "supernatural" stuff that were bothering him. hiakss... but that very night, he slept all through the night.

Sausage rolls

Yesterday I had a day off so I thought of baking sausage roll, which I have not baked for a year or so, since I had Tyler. I was lucky enough that Tyler had been a really good boy, that he gave me an hour and half for me to get the rolls done :) which of course, he must have Elmo on the TV to entertain him.









I got the recipe randomly from the internet, which turned out not bad, it was easy to bake.

Homemade Hot Dog Rolls

- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 4 1/2 cups flour (unbleached, whole wheat, or a mix)
- 1 package instant yeast
- 1 tablespoons honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 egg, room temperature


- Heat the milk, water, honey and butter until butter is melted. Check temperature. Depending on the temperature, let cool to 120F.
- Carefully beat in egg.Mix 2 cups of the flour, yeast, and salt. Mix into the milk mixture. Stir in the rest of the flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Beat well after each addition.
- When the dough pulls together, (it will form a soft ball) turn it out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic.
- This should take about 5 minutes.Divide dough into 12 -16 equal pieces. This will depend on the size you want for the finished bun.
- Shape into smooth balls, flatten slightly, and place on a silpat covered baking sheet.Let rise for 30 to 35 minutes.
- When buns have almost doubled bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.If you are making hot dog buns I find it easiest to roll the dough out into a large rectangle and cut into smaller rectangles. Let rise with sides touching.
- You can brush the tops with egg wash and sprinkle with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, coarse sea salt, or whatever you like. You can add dry onion soup mix for onion rolls. These are very versatile!Makes 12-16


This recipe could give me 36 mini sausage rolls (cut 1 sausage into half). So, I freeze the un-baked ones in the freezer to be eaten later on.




This is Tyler's first sausage roll! and he loves it :)

With a face like that, all hard work is worth it =D

March 2011

This is Tyler at 17 months, and being more and more mischevious and his brain is like a sponge now! He'd immitate us while hubby and I were talking and we should watch our language with him around :P At 17 months, he likes going through stuff, taking it out and placed it elsewhere! It happened to my DVD, aircond or TV remote all the time, it'd be quite frustrating sometimes.

Making funny faces...

He enjoys taking on "toy rides" in the shopping centres, the pictures above showed him while he was HIGH on the rides :P

Both hubby and my birthday fall in March, actually I'm just older by a week hehehehhehe Last week, it was my birthday, but we didn't do anything much as Tyler wasn't feeling well and he gets moody when we're out, so we couldn't do much.

This week, Tyler was much better (finally..) so we could all go out to celebrate hubby's birthday. Hubby had the best birthday ever, as he got to celebrate 3 days in a row prior to the actual date, as he claimed :P First was in Holiday Inn, then the following day in Buntal and the actual day in Lok Thian.

He got his first Rolex at 29, given by his parents =)

Little Teacher

I'll let the pictures do the justice...

Tragic week

This whole week have been a tragic one for me. Exactly a week ago, hubby almost lose his right index finger while trying to fix a machine at work. It was rather painful for me to watch and the doctor described it as "near amputation" how scary is that?

The wound looks horrible so I shall not post any pictures here, or it'll ruin my reader's appetite. We went to see the doctor again today to examine the healing of his finger, hubby was actually scheduled to remove his stitches on Monday (3 more days to go) but I guess the wound has not dried up properly yet, therefore it was scheduled exactly a week from today. I cannot imagine the pain he is going to endure in 7 days to come.

3 days ago, Tyler came down with fever =( I noticed that last year in March, he had fever too, now he has fever in March again. I heard an old saying today, kids will have fever because they are growing taller. I don't know, this is the first I've heard, I was rather amused by it. hahahahha

Luckily Tyler got better today, but he's so clingy and my arms are really sore from carrying him, though he weighs only 10.6kg at 16 months, but it's tiring though. He's getting sore throat too, I can tell by his voice. I hope he gets better soon. Will update soon.