Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

This evening we had the pleasure to sit Ally.  The poor girl is recovering from an ear infection and runny nose.  Could hear her snorty nose.  She was quite stuffed up when she took a nap at our place.  And she was kinda holding her hand up to her right ear.  Poor girl.  This little girl surely knows how to fight her sleep.  She only took a 15 minute nap for the entire 3 plus hours she was with us.  She was tired, rubbing her eyes, yawning, and rubbing her eyes more but refused to sleep.  Instead she was babbling and talking to us.  Really cute.  Took some pictures, of course, but a lot of them turned out blurry.  DBs was carrying her and he was bouncing her up and down, all the pictures turned out I had a few when taking the pictures.  Finally able to take some shots that are decent.   Ally does not like the camera very much.  She frowns most of the time when she sees the camera, or maybe it’s just my camera. 

Grandpa and grand daughter: 09-23-2008: Look at those big blue eyes

Ally watching Baby Einstein but looks like she is dozing off: 09-24-2008

Me and Ally: 09-23-2008

Ally turned 3 months on Sept 6th.  She is growing like a weed.  She growing tall and can now lay on her tummy and if you give a boost on her feet, she will crawl a little for us.  So cute.  She is so smiley, too.  I love to see her coz she will be smiling when you look at her.  She is 16.5 lbs and is taller now. 

I watched her for a little bit couple of days ago.  She was a darling, very easy peasy kid and easily contended.  I guess it’s not mine, so taking care of her for a while and so happened she was good, it was easy for me! 

Her smile is so addictive.  I will make her smile so I can see her smile.  :D  Grandpa and grandma here love this little pumpkin.   Oh, we think she is teething.  Her mommy said she has been very cranky, nothing satisfys her.  My coworker, Ms E told me the old wives tales that if the first child is growing up so fast, that means he/she is making way for a second one!  Really????  Anyone heard of that? 

Maybe it’s true, coz my sis’ #1 was doing a lot of stuff sooner than a normal baby did: crawled, walked and talked soon before he reached his 1st bday.  Right sis?

Today, Malaysian time, September 6, is my Dad’s birthday. He is 79 years old.  The  below picture is my dad and myself taken last year December on the night I left Malaysia to Singapore enroute to Minneapolis.  It’s almost a year since I last saw my family. 

Dad, loving wishes for you on your special day.  May love, happiness and good health be with you at all times.  Love you very much, Dad.

DB and i went out to the store and pharmacy yesterday afternoon.  Yes, DB is pretty much a last minute kinda guy.  He needed to get a procedure done for today, he only called the clinic nurse to ask about combining his prescriptions and what he needs to take for the procedure.  He also had to read the other instructions from his doctor and whatever others that were given to him in the packet. 

We went to the store pharmacy and guess what he had to get for today’s procedure?  Anyone know what the below Rx was for?  It’s a concoction.

After he got his Rx, we got some stuff for his meal for the rest of the day.  Taking this Rx for this procedure his last main meal has to be 2 pm and after he down the stuff of the Rx, he cannot take any solid food except for clear liquids and jello.

We got some cartons of Swanson’s chicken broth and for his last treat of the day before he starts his concoction.  As usual he wants some good old ice-cream and we found some Haagen-Dazs scream since they are 2 for $6.  He got a Banana Split and I got a Green Tea scream. 

This was my first time Green Tea scream and I really like it.  Even DB liked it too.  I ate a quarter of the scream and how much did DB eat????  He ate the entire contents of that little carton.  That was a lot.  After and hour plus or around 2 hours eating the scream, my stomach was just aching like when you have diarrhea.  Yep, it was a really bad stomach ache.  Think I overloaded on ice-cream.  Whatever scream I had were all gone and DB started on his concoction in the evening.

Did y’all figure out what that concoction was for?  That prep that he had to take, according to him tasted like chemicals.  It was very nasty to a point where he almost puked drinking it.  His mother and BF took the prep before and they puked, too.  The concoction was for his today’s colonoscopy procedure, where his guts and whatever else needed to be cleaned out.  That guy was in and out of the bathroom for quite some time.  He had no food in him the whole evening and night and was fasting this morning till after the procedure which was all completed and out of the hospital at 11:45 a.m.  I was his designated driver coz he was sedated for this procedure.  He is now back to his normal self and eating his solids.   

He don’t have to get another colonoscopy done for the next 5 years.  Some of his family members already had theirs done due to one of them had a polyp in their rectum.  Scary thing which might lead to colon cancer.  Yikes. 

Sometimes I wonder does the medical check requirements are the same in Malaysia, like this colonoscopy has to be done when a person reaches 50 or earlier if family members have polyps found during their procedure.  DB said it does not hurt and was watching the whole thing on a screen.  He felt something in his body and that was it.  He was very groggy when I went in to see him after the procedure but after 3 BP checks, he was good to go home.  His BP was good.  Thank God!

I received a very early Christmas present yesterday.  It came in a DHL package, asked DB what’s in there, he said it was for me. Saw the returned address from IBM Corporation and then…..my bro’s name, the bro in Boston.   Opened the package and box which was so light, as if there is nothing in there.

Then korek-korek the paper, I saw this…….

What it is???  It’s an iPod Nano.  Holy schmoly!  I was beaming from ear to ear.  I was going to hook it up to my PC to download my music and podcasts, but was too busy dinking with DB’s Blackberry.  He needs me to customized his phone…..i guess he thinks I’m more efficient with these sort of crap.

Ok, back to the iPod, I’m sure shocked to received it.  Never mentioned an iPod to him before.  So is it becoz he got one for my sis last year, he got one for me, too?  I had to call him today to thank him instead of writing him an email.  Unfortunately, the call went into his voicemail.  You know how it is talking to a machine, a lot of ahs, ers, and mhms.  Hope he gets what I was trying to say.

So, now, I’m gonna go mess around with it…….

DB ordered new phones for us last week since his phone fell into the toilet and has gone haywired.  Funnily, the phone can still received text messages but it cannot send any calls or text messages.  He purchased a Blackberry Smartphone for himself and a LGenV2 for me through Verizon Wireless. 

Yes, the LGenV2 arrived on Tuesday and of course I was spending most of my spare time dinking with the new toy.  I was going to transfer my contacts from my old phone to the new one before activating the new phone.  Well, tough luck for me,  DB had already activated the new phone for me.  This LGenV has an internal QWERTY keypad with a bigger screen when the phone is opened.  I forgot to take a picture of the phone opened.  Click on the above link and you will be able to see the phone from all angles.  I totally love the Qwerty keypad coz I can type faster that way although I am still using my two thumbs.  I can receive calls both ways: from the front where I just have to hit Send or flip open the phone and put the call on speakers.  Suhweet!  The screen is so clear where it actually is capable of downloading pictures and videos for viewing.  And there voice activation where I can record my commands like say call home and the phone will call the number for me and this voice activation is also used in the the VZ Navigator, a GPS for the folks with no sense of direction like me. 

New toy and treating it like a baby.  Oh speaking of baby, which is out of subject, just heard from DB that Ally has already rolled over.  She was over at her grandma’s in Rochester, she rolled over.  Man, this little missy is so advance.  She was already half grown when she was born.  Can’t wait to see her again.  DB will be sitting her on Monday.  I’m wondering if we need to get a pack and play for her when she comes over our house.  Will have to discuss with the grampie. 

Back to my Olympics men’s swimming competition now and will be staying up for the  women’s gymnastics individual rounds .  Happy weekend, folks.

DB had Ally yesterday and today.  She turned 2 months old yesterday, August 6.    She is pretty much a good baby, fusses when she’s tired and with dirtied diapers.  The boys did good with her.  Chase, the licker, licks her non stop, her feet, hands, legs, anything he can get a hold of.   I have to say this kid has a sensor on her head or body.  Each time we put her down after she falls asleep in our arms, she will be wide awake.  She is 15 pounds and I have to say, I have sore arms today.  DB said I need to lift weights so I can carry her.  I’m sure after a few times carrying her, I will be building muscles.

Sleeping on grampie’s shoulder.

The “Little Buddha” after her short nap

Thanks, sis, for the cards.