Four Season at Jimbaran Bay

Day 1:

• Arrived at Four Season,
• Checked in,
• Arrived at our Villa 257,
• Change to swimsuit,
• Swim with daddy,
• and then enjoying the breeze from the sea before we all went to sleep.

Monkey Forest

We then went straight to the Monkey Forest which was located about 5 minutes drive from the restaurant before we checked in into our hotel.

I am happy to see Caden progress in encountering with things or animals that he used to be scared with. Today was Caden's first (very) close encounter with a wild monkey.

Bebek Bengil Restaurant

We arrived at Bali and went straight to Bebek Bengil Restaurant at Ubud, Bali [Daddy's Favorite Restaurant].

This would be the 3rd time Caden been to this restaurant. At 2 years 3 months old, he explore the area very curiously; asked me to bring him to pond and see the fishes and asked us "What is that" question all the time.

He especially curious to see the farmers that was quite far from our side. He was also the one who told me to take his picure with the farmers (left picture on the last row), but you can barely see the farmers.

We plan to have a great time here at Bali! ^_^

The four of us before we left for Bali

Noodles

Caden only like this particular noodles that I bought in Puri Market (near II Ani's house). It is a very nice noddles though. Very crowded all the time and all of us like it very much; but I am actually not too sure about the hygiene and how much MSG is inside.
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Well, it's holiday and I thought I should just be lenient for it. ^_^

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He ate a lot of the noodles and insisted to eat by himself!

Pacific Place Mall

We went there early. Thanks God the traffic wasn't that bad. Had a great time browsing all the children stores.

We had our lunch at one of the restaurant in front of the boats area. Caden has an exceptionally great time pretending to be a sailor that drove the boat.

Sasya was behaving really well today; She slept when she was sleeping and drank her milk when she was hungry. Yey...time to bring her out more often! ^_^

It came off

Today, after Caden showered, we saw that his nail was half way off from his toe but we didn't dare to pull it off.

When we told Caden that his nail was coming out, he curiously try to pull it out himself. And.. it came off!!

No pain at all and his toe looks much better than with the dead nail on top.

Doctor said it still a long way until his nail grew but there is nothing to worry about. It will look as good as before.

So wasting my timee!!!

...only took us 45 minutes to go back home!

At Changi

Jakarta and then Bali

We are going to Jakarta and then to Bali today onwards! Can't wait for new adventures there...

Still Scary!!!

It’s been a little more than a week since the incident but his big toe still look not much different.

Well, actually it looks a little scarier with the blood on the side of the nail.

No more blood is coming from it anymore, but I think it’s not that dry yet for the dying nail to come out.

Doctor said when it happens, it is not going to hurt. Ah…I really hope so!

For now, he is not feeling any painful anymore. He is not limping when we walks and he can run since a few days ago, but I am only let him wear his sandals for now.

He takes a bath just fine, but he asks more to ‘swim’ on his bath tub nowadays and show me his underwater skill in it. I think he misses his days when we go swimming almost everyday. I want to prevent any germs to go inside the wound for now; I am afraid the pool water is not that clean.

I can’t wait to go swimming again with him and see his happy face when he is inside the pool.

Maximillan Birthday Party

At One Degree 15 Club - Sentosa.

Spectacular view!!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Maxi!

With Yellow Digger

He insisted to take the photo with the nanny...

Zoo with Oma

We went to the Zoo again today and oma wanted to tag along as well! The last time we were here with Oma was on April 28, 2008 (Caden was 19 months old).

Wow I remember at that time when Caden was just able to run all by himself and his speech development was not very clear at all.

Now he is talking non-stop, telling you what to do and not to do. He is still not fluent yet, though but at least we could understand most of it.

And that red t-shirt that he was wearing is in our storage now. It doesn’t fit his much bigger body anymore. He was only 12.5kg and now he is 15.5kg.

He is really growing so fast!

Today we went to see the White Tigers, and Hippos and while we were in the tram, we saw Giraffes, Zebras and Deer.

But the most interesting of all was that for $5 we could get to feed the Kangaroos.

It was Caden’s first ever experience to be VERY close to any animal (other than cats and dogs). He was a bit scared at first but soon he was enjoying himself. This time, he even once feed them with his own hands. Wow…

He said, “nih..” to the Kangaroos which means “here you go”

I am so proud of him!

Limping but still playing tennis

Despite of his injury and him limping when he walks, I decided to bring Caden to his first tennis lesson this term anyway.

He is not doing much in his class yet. It’s still kind of the early introduction of tennis.

The room also filled with full Air-Con so his injury will not get wet or dirty. And I know I can tell the teacher to be lenient to him today.

Apparently, everyone still in a holiday mood; Caden was the only one in the class today.

In the picture Caden looks like he knows what he is doing with his fore-hand, but it wasn’t really the case. He was actually playing with the racquet and for some reason looked like his is in position to hit the balloon. ^_^

I am still waiting for his first time to hit the ball all by himself.

Scary!!

I am scared to see his toe now. It looks so scary, so swollen, so black and so baddd…

I decided to go to the doctor after his school today; I don’t want him to miss his first day of school.

We went to his pediatrician. On the way there, I decided to tell him that we were going to the doctor to fix his painful big toe, hoping that it would make him cry less at the doctor office.

WRONG MOVE!

He cried right away and insisted that I should bring him home. He didn’t want to get out of the car and cried all the way up the escalator.

Then I told Suster to wait at McDonald’s, while I go upstairs and see if I can find answers just by showing them the pictures of his toe.

The front desk nurse said I should go to a pediatric surgeon.

[Almost fainted when I heard that. I was hoping she would say something like, “Oh it’s okay, you don’t have to see the doctor…the toe will heal eventually”]

She referred me to one surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital and went straight there afterwards.

When we arrived at the lobby, then Caden realized that he was brought to another doctor office. So screaming and crying started right away.

It continued until we arrived at the doctor office, then he was rolling on the floor and screaming so loud, again insisted that I should bring him home.

Then the blood inside the nail burst out (I think it bumped into something). His left toes were covered in blood. I thank GOD that I could be calm and cool about it.

Then we had to wait for the doctor that was on the hospital to check on his patient. Caden continued his rolling, screaming and crying for a while, but when I assured him that he won’t be given any injection, it got better for a few minutes [I was praying so hard that he REALLY won’t be given any].

The doctor came about 15 minutes later, the screaming and crying started again and only lasted for another 15 minutes when the doctor was done examining him.

So glad that everything is alright. Doctor said, the died nail will eventually come out and new nail with grow. He assured me that everything will look like new, but it will take a while, about 3-4 weeks.

I have to covered his toe with bandage, apply a medicine on it and change it everyday. No swimming for now, at least until the blood stop coming out. I have to gave Caden panadol, too for the next 3-4 days as it would be painful to walk.

Ck ck ck…*shaking my head* All of this mess, and the plate is totally fine, it still look like brand new!

First day of school...

...with my favorite color t-shirt and cap.

Boz - The Green Bear Next Door

I introduced him to this character in early December. It’s a Christian based story that teaches children a lot of good values in life.

I bought him a few book about Boz like, “Let’s Say Thanks to GOD”, “Christmas With Boz”, “It’s Fun To Share”, “God Gives You Friends”, and “Count Your Blessings” at a local Christian bookstore.

Surprisingly, he fell in love with it right away. [Maybe it's because Boz is in his favorite color, green?]

Anyway, he was so into it that I went back to the bookstore again a few days after that and bought a few other titles.

I wanted to buy the DVD too but the price here is more than double compared to the US and they have very limited titles. Thanks to a friend of mine, she is willing to help me bring back some DVDs for Caden.

I bought him an excellent DVD about Christmas, too from the same publisher, "The Very First Noel". It is the best cartoon Christmas story for young kids I ever watch!

Caden now had found out that watching a movie is fun! He can sit down for almost 1 hour to watch a movie that he likes. I am surprised as only about two months ago, he used to be able to sit only for about 10 minutes before he run out to play other things.

I always try my best to be as careful as possible to filtered things that he watch at this young age. I am always looking for movies that has good values at the end and not to watch something that plainly just for fun with no moral of the stories.

I also limit his time in front of TV to about 3 times a week for less than 1 hour each time. I don’t want him to grow up to be a fat potato couch. ^_^

"Is pain, mommy..."

That is what he has been saying for the whole day today.

He accidentally dropped his melamin Thomas The Train plate right onto his left big toe.

We didn’t think of anything when that happened. But a few minutes afterwards, after constant crying from him, Suster saw that his big toe turned blue. [The plate is totally fine, by the way]

The pain is new to him. A few times he told me that his toe is itchy and asked me to scratch it for him, but I think what happened was it was the first time he felt pain that was coming and going with aching feeling every time it came.

I hope everything will be alright. I didn’t intend to go to the doctor just yet. Let’s see if it gets worst, then we’ll go on Monday.

Before ii Ani left

We went out for breakfast at McDonald and spent time at Borders afterwards.