The Clan

Wow, time really did fly – I can’t believe Matthew is one year old now. We were celebrating his birthday in Singapore with both family members from my side and from Lina’s side are there.

We had a good time and certainly very good food! On that day, we also celebrated Coco’s 75 birthday.

Tiup lilinnya – seperti biasa koko yang paling semangat. The cake was huge and tasted really nice.

Too much delicious (and traditional) food in addition to the huge cake..

So excited – oblivious to the fact that he has turned one today.

Matt enjoying the bling2s given as present for him.

Son, my wish for you is to know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and that you will be used by God for his glory.

Jet gayanya very confident sebelum masuk kolam renang – all gears in check! Lengkap dengan mini AFL ball (ga dipake akhirnya).

Tapi setelah liat air dianya jadi cold feet – ga mau masuk – mau duduk2 doang di pinggir kolam renang – setelah dibujuk2 akhirnya mau masuk tapi gw mesti gendong-in.

Setelah 1/2 jam-an, dengan agak dipaksa2 dan Jetnya teriak2 akhirnya dia mau juga agak dilepasin cuman pegang tangan doang dan dianya splashing around freestyle – mission accomplished!

Matthew turning 11 – has grown bigger and bigger every day:

In a reflective mood – we caught him “ngelamun” sometimes.

Fun times with Koko.

Well, the first week of my mini retirement was really good. Lina is preparing for her L license Driver Knowledge Test – so she asked me to get Jet out of the house on certain times of the day (mainly in the morning) so she can concentrate and study.

So as a consequence I have been spending time quite a lot with Jet. On Monday – we went to the new Randwick Library, Tuesday – we went to Unigym Pool – trying to get him comfortable with water as he’s still afraid at the moment and then today we went to play basketball/soccer together.

One thing that me and Lina noticed is – Jet’s behaviour has improved dramatically this week. So it seems me being around more has a positive impact on him.

I also get to know him better, I noticed his conversational skills have gone up to another level, I noticed how good he is looking after Matt, there’s a soft side of him that I never really pay attention before. There’s just a lot of things that I would never know about him if I’m not having this break.

Lina is also less tired and less tense, so she can relate better to me and the boys as well.

Furthermore today we started to read the bible together again, hopefully we can keep the rhythm going. We used to read the bible every day before, but then busyness of life kind of kill the good habit.

  Passionate love.

Obviously Matt is not a big fan of Diego – although Koko is.

Wow – 9 months already! It has been a joy watching both of my boys growing up – I really thank God for them (and for my wife too) – I am so undeserving (I guess that’s the story of being a christian anyway).

Matthew has been crawling ke sana ke mari – walaupun merangkak masih kaya ulet – alias perut masih nempel di tanah. He also like to gangguin kokonya – kalo si koko maen something dia pasti mau ikutan – sampe si Koko sebel juga sometimes – but they love each other and that what matters.

Matthew gigi atas muncul 2 – GEDE banget!! Jadi kurang cute deh dia – but still adorable anyway

On the less happy note – for the past few weeks Lina had been a hard time to sleep not entirely caused by the kids – but she just couldn’t even when the kids were sleeping. And needless to say with her having very little sleep – it did create a stress in our family relationship – we bought some insomniac medication yesterday thank God she’s been sleeping not too badly without having to use the medicine.

We celebrated Jet’s 3rd birthday today at Taronga Zoo. We had fun with Chenny, Oma, Grid and Sui, Thankfully Jet was really enjoying his time there too. We loved the seals show.

Matthew has started to intentionally pronouncing mama and papa (although more like baba) – this the result of Lina teaches him these simple words. Calling me (papa) really take him a lot of effort – he needs to practice for few minutes first before pronouncing the word correctly. At last he can call us if he demands attention (not just by crying) – sometimes if he’s lazy he’ll just say “heh, heh”

Pake topi oma.. kayanya si koko yg kasih pake..

Belepotan. Berdua serius maen Nintendo DS ( note to self, sembunyiin DS dari Jet.)

Looky looky

Matt has been sick for few days, starting from Sunday. We thought he just caught a cold, as me and Jet and then Lina have caught it.

But last night, it was getting worse – his breathing was heavy and his cry was softer. So this morning Lina took him to see the doctor at Uni.

When the doctor examines him – she was very concerned – she couldn’t hear Matt’s lung sound (is that you hear when you use stethoscope?). So she took him to another room in the clinic that has respiratory equipments in it – she put a mask for Matt to inhale and she put some medication through the mask. She then checked the lung again – this time she could hear things – but it was very noisy she said. So she quickly decided that Matt needs to go to the hospital. She called ambulance, Lina offered me to drive him to hospital – but the doctor said she doesn’t want Matthew to get out in the cold weather outside – as his sickness could get worse quickly.

And it did get worse, moments before the ambulance came, Matt was shivering and getting pale. When the ambulance came – the officers were concerned about him too. They immediately gave him adrenaline and steroid injections. During the ambulance trip, the officers were in constant conversation with the emergency hospital as the hospital guides the officers on how to keep Matthew in check. They were told to keep Matthew awake as much as possible – he was very drowsy. Matthew was on oxygen mask all the time.

When he got to the hospital, there was a team of doctors and nurses await him (which means they think this is serious) and they looked after him immediately. Thankfully when I came to the hospital about 1-2 hours later – Matthew’s condition has improved a lot – obviously whatever medication and treatment they gave him works. Of course everything is as it is, by God’s grace as well – it could’ve been worse .. life is so fragile especially these little ones’.

Thankfully Matt doesn’t have to stay overnight. Lina needed rest badly as she could only managed to sleep about 1 hour since last night – hopefully she can sleep well today.

Oh, Matthew was diagnosed with Croup – respiratory disease.