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A day after visiting the Zoo bb fell sick, not because of the zoo, I hope not. When he came back from Mil’s house, he was perfectly okay except he slept extraordinary early at 9pm. I thought may be bb is tired and wanted to rest early.

I then went down to watch some show, after a disc, I headed back to the room and checked on him. OMG! He was like a pot of hot kettle. I grabbed a thermometer to check, it showed 38.4 degree, freaked out, I called hubby to help out with medicine while I sponged him. His face was rosy red, eyes still closed. As usual refused medicine, cry out loud but settled with a bottle of water and as active, played with the thermometer. He then purged watery stool. I monitored him the entire night just to make sure he was okay as he has history of fever as high as 40 degree and was admitted to hospital for 3 days in 2004. I was worried sick.

I took a day of on Wednesday to send him to the pediatrician, just to make sure he was free of any ulcers or infections. He was as active and as mischievous as usual, trying to communicate his baby words to strangers, smiling all the time with nurses, running around non-stop, kicking the Christmas ornaments on the tree with his powerful leg.

After chatted with the lady Dr, I brought bb back to mil house to grab some porridge that she has cooked before she went out for her weekly entertainment – “Mah Jong”. Sri fed bb the porridge in the car. He took a few spoonfuls of them. My maid called “madam, tengok (See)”, she was giggling, bb fell asleep with porridge still in his mouth, hahaha! Sri and myself giggled non-stop, bb must have heard it, he opened a bit of his eyes, gave us a smile and fell back to sleep, his head was hovering around before it rested on the car seat.

Bb spent the entire day at home watching his favorite show my neighbor Totoro, his current favorite “kipper the dog”.

I am back to work today. I hope he is better already; I don’t like that butterfly in the stomach feeling. Now, I am down with flu and sore throat pula.

Bb mommy loves you a lot! Lots of Kisses….mmuuuuuuaaaahhh, get well soon.

Hubby wanted to go for shopping but I was so very sick of it. I prefer some nature outings. I suggested the butterfly park as the bird park in Lake Garden was quite good the last time we went.

We drove all the way there. When we arrived at the entrance, the butterfly park did not look all interesting and it was a bit small. Hubby made another suggestion to head to the zoo. Bb was sleeping at that time, so eventually we decided zoo it was. It was a second trip to the zoo this year alone.

This time bb has more awareness, he could recognize more animals. He fed carrot to the deer, wanted to touch the camel badly, climbed up the ape man signboard like an ape, calling out the bus in the zoo, running loosely like a wild cat. There was this one instance when we were resting at one of the bus stand in the zoo. A 5 or 6yr old kid was having his Mamee snack, the kid was making some sign to bb and bb took out a strip of Mamee and put it in his mouth. OMG! When did he have a strip of Mamee with him? It’s too late to stop him and I don’t want to be seen as rude in front of the kid’s parents. When the bus arrived, he waved bye bye to the elder kid without me telling him to. Kids do have their way of communicating, it surprised me sometimes!

Malaysia zoo is still pretty much a third world one, sorry to say that but I really hope one day they could be on par with the Taronga zoo in Sydney or any other better zoo in the world. Parents, let’s keep our fingers cross.

Nevertheless, it was quite a satisfying trip as we sweat and exercise a teeny bit. At least it’s much much better than shopping in a congested mall.

May the New Year brings you lotsa love, joy, health and wealth.

Bb was not around when I reached home. Fil brought him out to grab the evening newspaper at one of the near by sundry shop.

When he reached home, he called me and kept pointing his fingers to his teeth and relating his story to me.

Oh…poor boy, he has sweet stuck in between his two front teeth.

Here is BB, the little chef.

“Cling, clang, cling, clang….”

BB what are you cooking?

“Egg…….” ^__^

I had to send bb to mil house today as Fil is not able to pick him up this morning. There is this lovely Mr. Sun shining on his face and body. The little fellow called his kakak, “kak, Sun” asked her to cover the sun with his little security blanket while his head bent down a little to prevent the sun from hitting his face directly.

He definitely got this from me. I hate to be hit by the sun directly too. It’s just so uneasy, I reacted naturally. If I recalled correctly, when he was in my tummy, he would move away rudely creating commotion in my tummy when there was sun hitting towards my big tummy. Weird hah! Wonder does this happen to other baby and toddler too?

He grabbed his milk and a “Totoro” VCD that I just bought for him while sitting in his car seat. He loves this Totoro bear so much that he kept calling Totoro, Totoro, Totoro as if he is calling his best pal. Surprisingly, he loves this show and able to sit for quite some time concentrating on the story.

Few weeks ago, I stumbled upon my long overdue project in the store room.

Know what is this?

Hehe… It was my first attempt to make soap from scratch. It’s been almost a year ago. After finishing them, I just left it there to age. Little did I know that a short period of age turned out to be a year? This is best described with the Malay proverb “Hangat hangat tahi ayam”. *Embarrassed smile*

I was very excited over this project. It took me quite a while to get the one very important element for the soap saponification process. That’s Sodium Hydroxide.

Earlier on when I was working in KL, I used to frequent KLCC’s Kinokuniya for soap making book. After reading them for a while, I started experiment it. After a long period of searching, thanks to Ah-li my friend, who directed me to the right person who is working along this soap making line; she gave me some sodium sample, of coz it’s the diluted version, I had to play around with the water amount. It’s not easy to come by this sodium coz one needs to apply for a license from Ministry of Health in order to use it.

I started with a basic three oil soap.

Coconut Oil
Olive Oil
Shortening
Sodium Hydroxide.

It was very fun seeing it forming harder and harder becoming soap. I didn’t add in enough fragrant for this batch as it was my first attempt. It turns out to smell like “ah-ne-ne” soap. Hahaha!

This is how the final soap looked like after packaging.