K's drawings and personal dictionary

This is what her next birthday cake will look like.

Here is her personal dictionary. I love the illustration. I like the animals best. Especially love the multicolored elephant, long-legged frog, multicolored horse, one-eye monkey with pointy limbs and the beautify owl. Special mention also for the details that went into the key, paint and pencil.

一张口 (Eeks! Decaying teeth!)

一张照片(I think B just had chocolate ice-cream)

两只眼睛

两只毛毛虫 (This is my favorite)

卫生 (I guess hygiene would make a person happy)

B says

We are teaching him his name. I realized that when he goes to school, he would probably not have a clue what his Mandarin speaking teacher is saying. I am desperately trying to start to teach him some, starting with his name.

And I'm waiting for him to say this on his own accord. For now, he would respond when we say that we love him.

LASIK-ed Day 2

It's the second day. Eyes are not so dry and uncomfortable but vision is still not 100% but I can already see P across the room and his face isn't just an oval with smudged facial features! Yay! But the after-care procedure is a bit of a pain but all worth it considering the long-term benefits. Can't wait for the vision to improve.

LASIK-ed

I finally gathered up my courage to go for LASIK.

Over the decade, I've witnessed one by one of my friends being set free. I blatantly drooled over their state of specs-lessness and had deep admiration for their courage. I dreamt of the day when I'd be awoken in the middle of the night by the children and wouldn't need to fumble and feel my way around blindly for my specs. Or to awake and could see the world clearly.

When I got P's blessings to go do it, everything was set in motion very quickly. From the first assessment (Mon) to the day of the procedure (Thu). I was concerned about the logistics of the hospital visits with B in tow. Thank God P was able to come along on Thu for the procedure. He and B watched the procedure through a glass panel.

The right eye went ok but during the pressure bit where a suction disc holds onto the eye to keep it still for the flap to be cut, it was rather uncomfortable for the second eye. It was literally a 10min procedure so that went by quite quickly enough.

The few days before the procedure, I wasn't really feeling too nervous or anything but I decided to make something for K and B "just in case" anything went wrong.

I was at Spotlight and I saw these quilt kits! I couldn't resist. I mean I was never into making quilts nor was I ever inclined to make one but the kits were really cute.



See? This one was for K. I was too excited to make the second one that I forgot to take a before pic.

Here are the completed quilts.






Well, these are completed now and I feel almost ready to make a larger quilt! Almost. Maybe when I have completed the long list of to sews.