Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Recording Hyzyd's conversation with his dad

Hyzyd has his chickenpox vaccination last Saturday. It may be the reason why he got fever last night. We tried to stick on his forehead the fever cooling patch we bought but it's useless. Even he's in a deep sleep he knew when you stick on the patch and he'll readily grab it and throw it away! He also got runny nose and cough. He doesn't have a good night rest. Poor baby... I don't get enough sleep too because I was checking on him every now and then and let him drink water every time he ask for it. I was hoping he would eat the food and drink the milk I prepared for him but you couldn't force him to eat...*sigh*...

Early this morning he was so cranky and wanted to be carried all the time. I couldn't be absent today because we have our examination and I'm not yet through with my flash cards and visual aids to be used next week. I need to prepare everything for my class next week only today because Thursday and Friday are holidays. I'm glad that my hubby volunteered to take the leave from school and takes care of Hyzyd. I'm at peace now that I'm at work though Hyzyd is not feeling well because his dad is there for him. I checked them every now and then and I'm glad Hyzyd is taking a rest and the fever subsided already.

Talking about Hyzyd, he's already 21 months and 3 weeks old. Other toddlers at his age could already name most of their own body parts now, for Hyzyd he couldn't yet name them but can point the parts of his face. Sometimes, when you ask him where's his eyes or nose, he will point his dad's eyes or nose and mine. He loves coloring and scribbling mostly on our matresses and chairs! He's fascinated with sand. In fact, he tried to eat them last weekend! He loves to pick up sand, pebbles and rocks and throw them to us! Fortunately most of them lands on his hair...LOL! This month, he has the patience to sit and look at a book by himself for a few minutes.

Hyzyd's current book before going to bed is theThe Berenstain bears and the Big Red Kite by Stan Berenstain. It's a rhyming Berenstain Bears book that tells the story of Papa Bear helping Brother and Sister Bear to make a kite. They enter their homemade kite into the kite flying contest. Despite criticism from those with fancier store bought kites, and initial set backs, the Bear family keeps trying and wins. This book is well worth buying -- it teaches a lesson and is a fun to read rhyming Berenstain Bear book. It's full of tiny details that Hyzyd love to seek out. As I read the story, I will ask him to find small items in the pictures such as the red kite, box kite, fox kite, kite with eyes, kites that look like butterflies or the kite that says "Save the Whale".

About a week ago, I videoed Hyzyd talking to his dad. He looked so cute and adorable with his "out-of-this-world language" . As parents we agreed with the experts to skip the baby talk and speak frequently, clearly, and directly to our child to improve our child's chances of speaking with clarity and having a large vocabulary.





I wish we got a camcorder or a video camera to cover special moments like this one. For me,though compact digital cameras are capable of recording videos but its result is still inferior if compared to the video recorded by a device having video capture and recording as its primary function. Though buying a camcorder isn't a priority at this moment but I just listed it as one of the items in my wishlist in case I have extra money in the coming days. I plan to read camcorder reviews in order to find the best camcorder that fits my need . I'm not a tech savvy , so it's preferable for me to pick a camcorder with very simple features- something that I could just pick up and then could start recording without much preparation or training.

With a camcorder at hand, it would be easy for me to cover Hyzyd's milestones and growing up , birthdays, , other personal events and even for casual use in the coming days .



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Monday, August 9, 2010

It's Mother's Day in Thailand!

The queen of Thailand will celebrate her 78th birthday on August 12. Because she's regarded as the mother of all Thai people, Thais celebrate Mother's day on this same day.

One of the activities launched jointly by several organizations to mark Mother’s Day is to take mothers to travel for pleasure. Thus August 12 and 13 were declared as holiday. The activity provides an opportunity for family members to spend time together, thus promoting the bonds of love and care for mothers.I wonder where would my hubby bring me-Samila Beach or Hatyai Muncicipal Park? I don't care where as long as we're together. In Thai society, a mother is accorded the highest significance as the giver of life and the person who nurtures and brings up family members. She is also someone who works for a living to help sustain the household and who teaches knowledge and skills until the children become self-supporting, all this without demanding anything in return.

All schools and other establishments will create a special shrine for the queen to honor her special day like the one made in our school. This shrine will be seen even 2 weeks before the queen's birthday:


The image of the queen is shaped just by using the japanese paper. It's so creative, won't you agree?

Each class offered special handcrafted flowers for the queen. This one with garlic bulb caught my attention. I never think that garlic could become an attractive decoration.

In our school, a special program will be hosted just to honor the moms this coming August 11. The students will bring their moms to school and showed their respect by offering jasmine garlands , personalized gifts, and bowing to their feet .

Yesterday in church, all mothers we're given special honor. Our family gave us beautiful roses and a jasmine plant were given to fathers to be taken care of. Its goal is to let them bloom with flowers for the mothers. What a sweet gesture!






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Rookie Tambourine Dancers

We started training for tambourine dancing for only less than 2 weeks and then we presented it during the church's 6th anniversary last August 1. You could imagine how tensed I am! There were 8 of us and only 3 of them are Thai youth. I'm the oldest among the group and the only married one. It doesn't stop me to join the group coz I really wanted to learn tambourine dancing and when this opportunity came, I won't let it pass. Thanks for hubby for supporting me. He's there to take care of Hyzyd while I'm on practice.

Since I started blogging, whenever there will be special things happening to me, I want to document them all. How I wish I have 2 digital cameras during that show so that the other camera will capture still pictures while the other one will do the videoing. My brother's digital camera isn't working already so he lend to me the batteries and memory stick just in case. Unfortunately, during our show the 2GB memory card that was used has 2movies downloaded on it. I forgot to delete them so it was filled for few minutes only and it didn't finish capturing the whole show. My bad!

Here's our show. Excuse the mistakes...he..he...I just wanted to post it here so that I could track how the rookie tambourine dancers are doing until the next show:


The church don't have a large stage so we just maximized the space provided for us and most of the time I'm not in the video coz the building's post is hiding me...he..he..It's ok for me so that most of my mistakes were hidden from you...LOL!



It's me taken by surprise. My hubby didn't tell me that he'll snap a photo of me. I forgot to tuck in my tummy...LOL! if you're familiar with tambourine dancing, you'll notice that I wore not the usual dress for tambourine dancing but we love this uniform with a touch of Thai culture.




In one of our formation executing the "ISAIAH" pattern



My baby ran to me even we're not yet finished dancing...LOL! I wonder where's the daddy? He's busy videoing the show...LOL!



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Friday, August 6, 2010

at Thanon Rajuthit

We still don't have our internet connection. My old account with TOT couldn't be transferred to our new place so we're advised to apply for a new telephone number in order to get our internet connection. They promised to have it installed to us after 2 weeks and that is TODAY! If we still don't have it today, what else could we do but just wait and follow-up our internet provider. I think we're doing OK without internet these days. I could do my household chores without interruptions...he..he...I could finish my laundry for few hours only and folding of our clothes and ironing them weren't delayed anymore. My hubby is also enjoying his time tending his plants, preparing Hyzyd's playground and recently painting our living room!


So far, we're doing real good in our new abode. We felt really at home and we have many plans for this place. Maybe we'll stay here as long as we're still here in Thailand. I love the neighborhood, our "Soi" , our lane. It's so quite and peaceful except for dog's barking at dawn. Well, at least I could wake up as early as 4:00 am. Thanks for those dogs posing as my alarm clock...LOL!

We felt lucky to find this place. My co-teacher who happened to pass by our place can't help but admire our new rented place. It's way cheaper than other available houses for rent in the city plus we enjoy having front yard , backyard and side yard..teehee... I'm grateful that though our place belongs to one of the busiest streets in the city, it's noises at night won't reach and disturb our rest. In this street you could find almost all kinds of establishment- entertainment, food, school , wholesale, retail, etc. We're near the market, inland resorts, hardwares , souvenir stores, car accessories stores that sells almost anything you want for your car- from the smallest rearview camera, tahoe to cargo liners, and almost all kinds of stores are available in our street.

So if you happen to visit Hatyai City, don't miss to drop by our street at Rajuthit. Don't miss their eat-all-you-can steamboat restaurant with band.


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