Moments in My Life

Thank you for all your concern.  Brandon is much better now.  He had diarrhea on Sunday and Monday.  It stopped after that.  But he still has loose stool but only once a day (twice if he had more to eat that day).  The area has also healed and no longer ed.  Wiping the area doesn’t cause any pain anymore.  He is back on consuming our local food, like dry pork noodles, chicken rice and others. 

I actually made some tuna pasta for him on Monday.  He ate it for the next two days.  He drinks the Dutch Lady UHT Low Fat Milk three times a day.  He eats snacks in the morning and in the afternoon too.  He also likes the Nestle yogurts.  I also giving him some Scott Emulsions (Orange flavor) because I heard him coughing a little on Monday evening. 

His sleeping pattern is also normal to our time now.  He naps once a day for about 1 hour, usually around 1pm to 2pm.  Like today we went to One Utama for lunch at Wong Kok, he napped after lunch until we were going back when I had to pick him up from his stroller, about an hour nap.  At night, if we are at home, he sleeps around 9:30pm.  If we go out, then it may be later.  We usually eat out for dinner quite late here compare to our regular dinner time.  This evening we went out at 8:30pm and returned at 10:30pm.  He didn’t sleep in the car.  I told him we were going home and had to brush teeth before we go sleep.  And we did just that.  He fell asleep after I washed him up.  I better go join him soon.  I rather tired myself too.

Upon our discussion last nite, my sister is like 80% confirmed that she and her family will be visiting us in LA next year. She wants to make sure the weather will be nice, so I suggested mid April to May. They are a family of 3 and we are a family of 3, so we definitely need a car that can fit 6 passengers. It is unlike in Malaysia where kids are allowed to sit on the adult’s lap. All toddlers and children in US are required to be seated on a car seat, which take up one space by itself.

I actually started to look around for a minivan (that can sit at least 7 passengers) about a month or two ago. I like to check around the prices and may decide to get one. We will definitely find a car loan as we can’t afford to pay the full in cash. Prices of a Toyota Sienna range from $20K+ to over $30K. We may able to come up with about 30% downpayment for this price. May be if I search around more, I may get a slightly used minivan for a good price. If the price is less than $20K, we may not need to get any used car loans for it.

At this time, we don’t really need it for our daily use. So I may end up renting a minivan instead of purchasing one. I am worry about the rising gas price. A minivan may actually consume much gas. My hubby had just told me the gas went up over $4.50 per gallon now. It is crazy. I don’t know if I will ever see the gas price to be as low as $0.99 per gallon again.