father & daughter thing

lately, Hailey has taken serious actions to have the same or similiar outfit as her papih. as a mommy proud of  her little princess, am put off!  for the fact that she is a GIRL and what she choose are for BOYS like papih...there is still no room for negotiations - at the moment.

happy 3rd birthday!

after 100 helium balloons, one big chocolate cake, and many more hiccups & bustles of our little 3 year old's birthday party...I watched her as she rested her head on the pillow (with her new aviator sunglasses from uncle pete). She wished there was more...her mind is still at play, but her body is forcing her to sleep...at 12.20am!

our little girl has turned 3 year old. though people still find it unbelievable for her to only be 3 looking at her height and all, she can move on to be 3 moving on to a 4. (A more fitting age for her body size. =)

I thank God for her health, her kookoo character, her compassionate side, she is everything we wanted in a kid, and so much more. every day still reveals a surprise. how she thinks, how she reacts, how she offers solutions to our attempt to stop her from doing something....she amazes me. her laughter takes away all tiredness.

as a mommy, I still wish for more for my daughter. I wish for her good health, for her character to continue to evolve with compassion towards the people around her. above all, I wish she start her spirituality as she grows each day. so she knows the source of her strength and leap higher in life as it gets tougher ahead.

last but not least, I wish she she will sleep through the night! good-bye sleep deprivation for me!

happy sweet 3 year old Hailey Sarah Limin ..... muuuuuuuacks!!! we love you so dearly.

I have indeed been called blessed because I have you as my daughter.

xoxo

mommy

couz forever

happy new year.... ?

Talk about 2011 passing too quickly, I missed the crossover to 2012, the long weekend that I was looking forward to have a good rest, to find a quiet spot to scribble my new resolutions, to ponder my success & failure of 2011...Hailey had influenza A (bird flu) H1N1 just days before the New Year. High temperature of 39.8 yoyoing for a few days that kept me on my feet. I have accepted the fact that part & parcel of being a mother is sleep deprivation. I didnt want to close my eyes lest her temperature goes up without my knowing. Not to mention, besides this scary influenza, Hailey has febrile convulsion history. So that makes it as important to keep her fever in control. We went to the doctor again today, it is confirmed bird flu. But she responded well to Tamiflu. Now you'd understand why I can't say much to anyone who wished me 'Happy new year!' - ya right... =(

Lo & behold, 2012 here we are. I wished I had some time to sit down in the last hours of 2011 to put down my new years resolution in pen & paper. Maybe it is not so much of the resolution that I wanted to work on, but more of priority re-alignment for 2012.

So much has happened in 2011. Haileys growth spurts, her vocabulary is expanding. So is her wrath and mood swings. She has started pre-school a few months back. But with so much going on with her skin condition, she misses class most of the time! I pulled the plug today, withdrew her from school - for now. The skin moluscum is also a weary concern. It is not doing her any harm. But what mother wouldnt be worried about the aesthetic of her little girl's.

I need to come forward to learn to accept - more of the many things that are not within my control. These days, I can see my character reflected on Hailey. My impatience. My nagging...she is picking up all the bad things to show me how I looked like walkng around with those traits. I need to change. Change is necessary. (Especially when you have a 2 year old mirroring you!)

No doubt 2012 has crept in on me (3 days now) I will decide to take care of me and find some time to put that pen & paper scribble into place. So that I may see all my priorities, my worries and my target for this new year which I somehow think it will come to past much faster than 2011!

So, please do not disturb me, I am out of my mind - temporarily. I will be back once I am re-aligned.

heyo papa!

today Hailey made her first formal telephone call to her papa. She asked me in the evening : mama...heyi mo call papa yok! Wow...talk about daddys girl missing the daddy.

its an international call to China, it lasted more than the short video actually shows. it was all her.

first day in school..booboo cried!

monday blues...

Hailey have been in school for about 2 weeks now. She is not crying anymore, in fact, only did the first 3 days.

This morning as I was dropping her off, she came and asked me for a hug. Well, I normally do before I leave but I was talking to a fellow mommy. She came over to interrupt my chat, as I stood low she held me tight and long. Hmmm...then she walked away suavely. Then I continued with my chat. After while, I could sense from a distance a pair of eyes was watching me. I was right. She looked at me fiercely and told me to 'Go!' As I was leaving, I heard a burst of crying. It was my baby! I didn't see that coming! Well, they all said its normal, kids have monday blues too.