I suppose I could sleep with Matt instead of Lina but whenever Lina left, Matt started to cry, and also related to his cough again – when he cries too much he would throw up.

And that’s what happened just now. He wanted Lina’s attention but Lina was busy so I took him to my room, he cried and threw up. Just the unexpected hectiness on Friday night before I have to go to Bible Study. So frustrating, especially as we are all sick as well. Sometimes it feels like we are being held hostage by the children.

Need to pray for patience and less selfishness and willingness to persevere.

Lina just said – no more children!

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.

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

Fun times with Koko.

  Passionate love.

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

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.

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

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

Looky looky

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.

Not much happening – except that doctor has confirmed that he got a skin infection, not as bad as the previous one (the previous one – the infection got into the blood stream).

He’s also currently sick at the moment – kasian banget tampangnya.

Yah telat 5 hari gara2 Jumba messed up my subdomains ya ga pa pa lah.

WOOT ! clear:both doesn’t work in WordPres??? layout looks so bad..

Well on his turning to 4 months, Matthew had  his first visit to the emergency. Thursday night Matthew was un-characteristicly hard to settle, he only had little sleep that night. We thought it’s just one of his hard to settle days. Around 5am Lina woke me up, as Matthew was still unsettled, she checked his temperature and it was high. When you have a child, you’d know the drill, never take risks just go to the hospital just in case. And so we did.

In the hospital, the team of doctor and nurses ran a few tests on Matt and unfortunately most of these tests require Matt’s blood. And the poor baby, he was crying and screaming for few hours as a result of the pain from his sickness as well as from the needles. The doctor noticed a bruise on Matt’s right foot and they think it might have something to do with it.

The tests came negative which mean nothing serious

However because they couldn’t worked out the cause of the illness, they wanted Matt to stay and the hospital. He stayed at the hospital for few days, he was allowed to go home on Monday. Needless to say, it was a very tiring and stressful time for everyone in the household (+Chenny as well). The doctor later told us that it’s very likely that Matt got a skin infection and the infection went to his blood stream – according to Lina this was very serious condition – so thank God that nothing worse happened.

Still health related, Matt’s skin is getting worse, he’s definitely got excema just like Jet.

On a happier note, Matthew had his first cukur rambut this month – see previous post on the video of the occasion.

Jet was pretending to be a Japanese tourist in front of a domestic tourist attraction – Matt’s first haircut. Jet was trying to make a peace sign but the wrong side of his hand LOL! – what a cutie!

Other than that, Matt is still a happy chap with the most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen..