Very easy to take the bus in and out of JB, as long as the trips are times properly so there isn’t a long queue to board the bus. We took 170 in and out. KL didn’t join us so this overnight trip was just me + boys + Kate. We went in on Saturday […]
Katelyn started drinking a soy formula this week. After we confirmed at the hospital that she is not allergic to soy. For now, she drinks either 60ml or 120ml per feed. I have offered her both a lukewarm version and a cold version – she is okay with both, so I don’t know what she […]
Katelyn finally went for a skin prick test at NUH. From today’s test, she is found to be: – Very allergic to egg white, egg yolk, dairy – A little allergic to peanut, almond – No reaction to soy, prawn, crab, scallop, cashew, hazelnut Different types of food allergies with K and T. We should […]
Jotting down Kate’s recent allergic reactions. Last Sunday, I baked chocolate chip cookies. Used some cookie mix from the supermarket, then added butter, eggs, oat flour, flaxseed, chia, and nutritional yeast. It was supposed to be a batch of lactation cookies for myself. She was interested to try. I didn’t stop her from eating. She […]
Doing at least one lunch run a week now. Weather is scorching hot nowadays, so can’t run too far. This was me trying to catch up with another colleague along the really steep Vigilante Drive. Baked lactation cookies for myself in March. Kate took two bites, then had an allergic reaction about 30 min later […]
Happy to munch on bread before school. She is eating Sunshine ultra fine wholemeal. Only Sunshine is dairy free among the breads at the supermarket downstairs.
First week of February. Many days of eczema flare ups. And we’ve already stopped giving her small amounts of formula. Also not eating soy and egg. Sighz, don’t know how to help her. Second week of February. Not much improvement in the eczema. She scratches her eczema more when she’s hot. So we started letting […]
One week since we stopped dairy based formula and dairy based Greek yoghurt. Her eczema looks a bit better. Going to do stop for one more week and see if the eczema clears up totally.
Happy on the way to the carpark on a Monday morning! Still has eczema on her face and hands and legs. Going to stop letting her try dairy based formula for a week. Switching to a hypoallergenic formula to see if her eczema will clear up.
Kate has a lot of eczema spots on her face, limbs, and trunk this week. Likely cos she consumed a few servings of a dairy-based formula over the weekend. It’s an allergy, but not a serious one. So I’m going to stop the formula for 5 days and then try again over the weekend. Kate […]
We squeezed in a short weekend trip to JB because K is almost done with his exams, and could do with a break. He took his work along with him to prep for his remaining 2 O level papers. On the first night, we had dinner at Oven Fried Chicken. For the record, OFC yang […]
Trying out new teething rusks because I’m too busy to make her hard biscuits. There’s milk within, super pleased that she doesn’t seem to have a dairy allergy, woohoo!
K is done with some of his O level exams. I do like to read through the exam questions. I thought that one of the English passages was really hard – about rehousing two giraffes in post war America. T enjoyed the Pony Fest this year. It was a day after his exams ended, so […]
Her allergic reaction to Greek yoghurt isn’t too serious. And because she really super loves the taste of it, I offer 1 to 2 teaspoons as an after dinner treat along with her fruits.
Tried Greek yoghurt today. She liked it enough to continue eating, ate one teaspoon. Has a small allergic reaction after that, one red spot in her nose (not super obvious from the pic) and eczema on the neck seemed to be acting up too. I don’t think the reaction is too serious, definitely okay with […]
First week of July. She is eating well at school. She sometimes takes two solid feeds – oatmeal in the morning and fruit in the afternoon. The school rotates between pears, apples and bananas. My eczema flared up, and so did hers. Second week of July. Since I started cutting dairy and eggs, she (and […]
She has been eating the same dinner everyday. Rice porridge, chicken, carrot (or pumpkin). Steamed and then blended. Lovingly prepared by her por por. Held off from introducing her to new food items because of last week’s diarrhoea. Intend to add greens into her diet soon. She ate a decent amount of porridge today. And […]
Baked bread today – ingredients are breast milk, yeast, salt, cranberries, sunflower seeds, chia seeds. No allergens. Cut off the crust and baked it extra hard so it’s rusk-like. Gave her the crusts and she did enjoy gnawing on it!
She had a big meal (1/2 avocado) and was smiling away at me from her play gym. Her face is almost free of eczema cos I’ve gone vegan. Doing this for at least two weeks cos it would help my own eczema too. My eczema was unbearably itchy over the past few weeks, am eating […]
I’ve been eating healthily! It definitely takes more time and effort to do so, but the meals are satisfying precisely because you know you’ve invested time and effort in the prep. Soups – I have been experimenting with blending different types of vegetables for my soups. Pumpkin, carrots, tomatoes, and cauliflower were the ones that […]
KL and T are in Bangkok! T made a new pair of specs, which I think is too big for his face but he doesn’t seem to think so. His degree increased by 100 per side, sad! They had boat noodles today. I suspected that T might get an allergic reaction to it, judging from […]
Met my uncle and auntie for a 5km walk at Bukit Kiara this morning. They let us tag along on their usual daily walk. I personally enjoyed the walk v much, cos had a chance to catch up with them while walking. Weather was great too! T was tired and lagging behind all of us […]
Boys played virtual reality games today. They totally enjoyed their afternoon! Hopefully with technology always improving exponentially, the price of such games will drop. We went to a food truck park for dinner. It was a relatively nice set up with a decent amount of food choices and plenty of seats (probably because it was […]
We transferred to a smaller day boat and travelled two hours out to Cat Ba island. It was raining on our way to the island but luckily the rain stopped when we reached so we got to cycle around for an hour and a half (quite a lot of puddles to get through though). We […]
No regular school last week. If there was no Covid, T would have gone for a Sec 1 stay-in orientation camp. This was converted to day activities and he had a week of cycling, races, and all. He said this particular activity was to create a poster with each group receiving unequal amount of resources. […]
Saw T and K playing games with each other. And chatting on the game app when they’re actually in the same house! I wanted to draw a bubble tea on T’s tracetogether token, but he didn’t allow me too. “Tattooed” his hand instead. It looked like autumn one morning on our way to school. Actually […]
Starting to clear my leave, so managed to squeeze in a short staycay with KL. Had a slice of cheesecake cos I really wanted to, and my eczema itched for 1 – 2 days after that. But the cake was nice while it lasted, so no regrets!
August was such a wet month! On two mornings when it was raining buckets, we took a bus to school. Even though the distance from home to school is less than 1km, we took close to 20 plus minutes to get to the destination simply because the roads were so chocked! Cold Storage recently started […]
I have been learning Korean on Duolingo for a year. Recently started learning Japanese too. It takes me 15 – 30 minutes a day, so the app is great! Caught a nice reddish sunset. Too bad couldn’t catch sight of the red moon this month, sighz. K continues to be interested in coding. He’s busy […]
T had a bubblegum ice cream treat one evening in May before the enhanced social distancing measures kicked in. The colour was ewwwwwwww ……. T is a little bit busy preparing for PSLE. He likes to keep his mouth busy when he studies, so he drinks and snacks a lot when studying. He said those […]
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