My husband caught a cold last Sunday. He had a fever and headache whole day long. He couldn't make anything much, just stayed in bed and slept. He didn't want to eat or make anything else. Few days later, he got better and got back to normal stage.

Then, I was in the same situation as his. But I had high fever!! I took medicine and it could help me get better only few hours , then I would get fever again. I would wake up only to prepare food to my family really.  I got better on the third day.....

While I'm getting  better, my Phatty 's begun to be sick. When adult is sick, we know how to react and face it. But if kid's sick, that's problem.  Phatty caught a cold last Thursday (26/11/09). The first few days, she has symptoms exactly same mine. She drank a lot of water but eat almost nothing.  She's getting better on the third day and everything seems to go well. She wakes up good, drink milk little more than the first few days. However, I am happy that she's hungry and trying to eat.

The difference is she gets better and play well in the daytime, but she will have high fever (39-41C) in the night time every day.. Then, I give her medicine , her body would be cold down to normal.  The next morning comes , she plays and eat  as much as she could and drink a lot of water....  I don't understand why the fever's not gone and  why it goes like this either?? I wait to see the sign if something went more wrong, but nothing further happened.
We went to Grandparents' home on Sunday. Phatty was well at the beginning. About 4pm (darkness arrived), Phatty began to have fever. Her Grandmum checked her temperature, it was 39.5 C ...Grandmum said it was not good as Phatty was sick almost 4 days, fever still high and it was dangerous!. She told us to take Phatty to hospital as urgent case . Then we did. Once we arrived the reception area about 4.30pm, there were about 3 family on the waiting line..

Finally Phatty got check up, doctor said there was nothing's serious. She has got some virus, and it would be cured soon. I just needed to take a good care.

I would like to say that Phatty is healthy kid. She hardly gets sick. Last year, she caught a cold only once....The problem is just if there is someone in the family  sick, the other one in the family will get sick sooner or  later.

This was the first time and longest time that I have to see she's been sick. Her face turns to be very red when she has fever. Once she feels  that she has a fever, she would run to bed and said that I must prepare cold napkin to put on her forehead.  She knew that it would make her feel better. I just hope that this sickness could come to the end soonest...

Doctor said it is normal, yeah it is easy to say. I could understand his work though. But I'm sure that all the mums could not say that it is normal because  it is not easy to accept if you can't do anything to get your kid feel better faster!
We can't wait to see Phatty to be lively and naughty whole day long once again.. Be Strong Baby, we are always on your side!!!

Time in Europe's just changed last week. The weather has changed to be colder and colder. The surrounding's changed to be more clam and quiet. Daytime is shorter and night time comes faster in the autumn and winter. Everything around us changes, but our small family still moves on .......

Happy Birthday to Papa one more round. It's like every year that we would celebrate birthday event within our family. This time was more special, and Phatty is bigger girl so I asked if Phatty wanted to make something special for her Papa . Once I asked this to Phatty. Guess what?! She said birthday gifts were for kids , not a big one so why she needed to give a present to Papa..

So, I told her that she got birthday presents every year from her parents, her grandparents and from others. I told her to ask herself how happy she was on that day. She said she liked to have her birthday presents... Then I asked if she liked it, and if Papa got present from Phatty  whether he would be happy or not. She said her papa must be happy too... Then, she smiled and said she had no money to buy a present. I said no need to be big thing, no need to use money. She could give whatever she could make by herself, just made it by herself and gave it to him.  She smiled again and she said  what she must do. She proposed to give one doll to her papa...hahahha I said her papa didn't play with the doll, it would be funny  to see he's playing with the doll though... She thought and then laughed loudly. She asked  what she could give.....  Therefore, I suggested she could do drawing/painting similar to what she does in school.. She said yes, she could do that... I helped her to make some practices before making on the real one.. 

The heart below would summarize all the things/activities that she wanted to make  the gift for her Papa, with the help of me as her mama surely.
Some might ask why I need to do this, whether I am too free??!!.  I would like to reply this way. I like to make this for my husband and my kid because I love to do. Even I have lot of work to do, I will spare my busy time to do such a thing still.  My husband never asked me to do such a thing. But I know  deep down inside he was happy to see that we did something special for him.

My husband was happy, so did Phatty. When 2 person that I love most happy, why I would not be happy... Right?  So I will keep doing happy moment then .
 

Winter has just begun, not so long after this it will be so clam and so quiet. There is no kid in outdoor playground ; no laugh, no cry and no fun.

One more round, we have to welcome windy and cold weather.

So it's time to say good bye to summer yet?  Boring winter will make me lazy to take Phatty out.
If sunlight is not so strong, I hardly make a move. I hate to walk on snow on the road, hate to get wet and hate to wear overcoat. hurrrr..  Sorry to have a lot of complaints, but that's real feeling.

Kids like to play out on snow things only 1-2 hours long then they get bored and need to warm them up, but they can enjoy whole afternoon in summer without problem... I guess you have answers for this.

Bye Bye Summer, we will have to wait one year more to see you once again... Sad but true....
 This might be the last video outdoor for this summer. .....
        
Remarks* : Actually there are 4 seasons in Switzerland ;
Spring Season - 21 March to 20 June
Summer Season - 21 June to 20 September
Autumn Season - 21 September to 20 December---->Now<-----
Winter Season - 21 December to 20 March

However, I prefer to call it as beginning of winter. Cause it begins to be cold really... Tree dropped its leaves & flowers. Later on the whole mountain would become brown, no more flying birds and noisy animals. What a boring to see thing changes this way...

Life must go on.... That's just part of routine seasons of the year!

We will be fresh  and feel green again when spring and summer come back then,  Just hardly wait!!!!

*Info source : http://www.vtrip.info/Europe/switzerland.htm#timetovisit

I ever wrote Part1 : Ready to go School? . That was when I thought that Phatty had to go school when she was 4 yrs old. However, Switzerland has rules applied for each city differently. Kids begin to go school at 4 yrs old in some provinces. But some province as ours, kid begins at 5 yrs old.

Anyway,  we've decided to send Phatty in nursery school before her time to go real school next year. We've expected that she could adapt herself to school's environment well, before her real time comes.
Actually I ever took Phatty to join Kindergarten in Chiang Rai Thailand while we were on holiday in May 2009. However, the trip was short and my Thai family wanted to spend time with my kid rather than sending her to school. So She went to nursery school in Thailand only 4 days. :) But she seemed to like it cause she could play with other kids and she could get some snack from the sellers after school.

The first date that Phatty must go to Nursery school in Switzerland was 31 Aug 2009. I was quite worried at the beginning because nursery school here has more standard system and more rules than in Thailand. If she got bored too fast, what would I do?   A lot of question ran into my head! the more I thought the more I was worried.  I calmed myself down and told myself what ever will be, will be... Just wait and see..

While waiting for that day, I began to show videos of kids in school. She likes to watch it..If there is any carton related to kids in school, I would talk to her ... I was not sure if I gave her too much information or not.. She began to ask questions like following...

Phatty : When kids go school, where is mum?
Me : Their mums go working, cleaning home etc.
Phatty : Mum can stay with kids in school?
Me :  Yes, little in beginning after that mum must go working... etc.
Phatty : Must I go school?
Me : Yes surely, you are kid same like others. Kids must go school to learn /to grow up well. Look  the videos how they loves to go school... etc..
Phatty :  ummmm I will go school only  if mum stays with me!!!
Me... errrr.. !!??!?!??!?!   You'd better try one time, maybe you don't like me to stay with you all the time in the school later... You see other kids have no mum with them.. ?
Phatty :  No, I want to be with mum... I love to stay with you...
(then she began to make bitter face, tear's formed up in her eyes....Then I  must change topic so she can focus something else).

The conversation went like this for several weeks and the result at the end was same; that's she would cry if I didn't change topic. It made me worried how she would act and behave at school at the fist day.

Phatty actually ever went to this nursery school when I went to sign her name to join in. It was about 2-3 months before her first real day came. She stayed near me all the time on that day. If she wanted to play some toys, she would take my arm to go with her...But she would repeat that she wanted to go home rather than staying  here..

When it's the time to go, I didn't tell Phatty that I would take her to nursery school. I knew that she would cry and said that she wanted to stay with me rather than going school. I told her only that we would go to the big park and there were lot of kids that she could play with. She loved to hear that and prepared herself to go out quickly.

When we almost arrived the school, she began to recall the place and asked where we went and why we came here. She didn't want to go big park anymore, she would rather go to a small park near home.. I said to her that she'd better try  this one and I would introduce some new friends to her... She began to refuse, everything I said ... Then she began to cry, her tears dropped make me nervous. I asked myself if I could continue or turn my backed  to home!!  Anyway, I selected to continue..

Finally I opened the big door. She began to scream and tried to go down from her stroller. Thing was kind of out of control. I stopped everything and talked to her quite loud that I must go inside because I had appointment. If she wanted to stay alone here, I would let like she wanted.  I said like that because I was more than sure that she could not stay alone.She's not familiar to the road and the people,so she began to get hesitated and asked if I had to go so long... I said I didn't know. If the lady wanted to talk to me long, I stayed long. I asked again if she wanted to go with me or stay here. She didn't reply , so I told her  better go inside if she didn't like we went home.. She thought for a while then nodded her head. She told me that she would go home with me when I finished talking.  Hurrrrrrrrrr.... I was kind of tired at that time...

We walked passed the big door, and we got inside the school. Phatty stayed near me all the time, she held my hand tightly.
Teacher told me that it 's always hard on the first few days.. I must be strong and let it be..  Really she told me this way!!! 

About 10 minutes later, other kids began to come in. Some kids cried loud and some kids kissed their mum to say goodbye. Phatty kept her eyes on me. There was one girl cried very loud and yelled out that she wanted to go home.. Then Phatty began to cry and asked me not to let her alone. I tried to show her new toys, however, she had no more interested. Teacher came in and took Phatty in her arms. Teacher told Phatty that she must know that mum couldn't stay with her in school. After that Phatty screamed out loud, she said "No , No I wanted mum!!!!".. etc... Teacher told me to leave now, and confirmed that everything would be Ok!. So, I must  turn my back and I still heard her crying even I stepped out off the big door. It was not good feeling at all to see that reactions.

It was only 3 hours long to wait to get Phatty back from school. But it seemed very long to me. When it was 16.00h, I almost ran to see Phatty. There I was, Phatty played with the toys while waiting for her mum. I asked the teacher how she was after I left. teacher said Phatty was crying only few minutes after I left. Then she stopped and played well with other kids. Teacher said she was good girl and understood that I would get her back home later.My stress was released... 

On the way back home, I asked what she made at school, what were her new friends names, etc. She replied happily and she tried to tell me everything she made. she showed me her first drawing/colouring at school. She seemed happy to show her paper to everyone she knew.
The second day to go school was not so hard even her right arm is in plaster cast.  When we went there she didn't cry at all, I said her good bye and she waved her hands.

When I took her back from school, she told me her story at school. She began to have  more new  friends. 

Now there is no problem at all to go school, she loves to be there. She loves to talk to friend and her teacher. She has a lot of stories to tell me after her school-time. Some stories, she repeated again and again I must remind her that she ever told me already about this..

She goes nursery school twice a week : Monday and Thursday at 13.30h-16.30h.

Today (12th August) is Mother day in Thailand. Phatty didn't know how important it was yet. I told her, she just said , Oh ah, err.. It meant that she was not interested much.
Today she saw me playing with my camera as usual. She asked me if she could try to make photos by herself. I said why not, and I said that she should begin with mobile phone first... Hahahah... I love her surelly, but I know her well too. She thought camera was just new toy! But I can't buy camera everyday , if she breaks it. Mobile phone is small and easy to use. If she breaks it, that's no problem cause I got this phone free of charge..

I taught her for a while. Then she began to have fun.. She ran around home, took photos of her toys. And she wanted to be her model, cause I always asked her to be model too.. She took a lot of photos ; some was bad, some was Ok, roughly percentage is about 50/50. 

Ok I wanted to show the first photos that she made for me.. I was happy to see it, I would consider it as her 1st gift for Mother day.. I said to her that she made me really happy today and give her a big hug and big kiss. She asked why I was so much happy. I said because today's Mother day. She smiled and nodded her head, I think she saw me happy so it's good then.. Mother day or not is not yet her problem...

In summer time, I always take Phatty out everyday. She's always happy to go out and playing around with other kids.

She asks me every morning whether it is good day. If I say " yes", she will ask whether we will go outside or not and where we will go. Whether to play at the park or go to the lake in the afternoon. She will be the one who choose where to go, but it depend on weather also. It it 's sunny and hot, main choice will be the lake. The lake is not far from our home, it takes less than 10 minutes. Her papa will drive us there and let us play till I call him to take us back home. :)

 

Last year, she was about 3 yrs old, I took her out to this lake. Once she saw the lake, she was hurried to tell me to put her in swimsuit so she could get in the water. She didn't know how to swim at that time. Once she was ready, I told her that I would change my clothes so that I could take her in the lake. Guess what!!? I turned my back, she went down directly into the water very fast.... She walked and walked, she didn't realized how danger it was. Then I turned myself and saw what she did. I jumped out and ran to take her with my normal clothes and my phone was still in my jeans' pocket. The lake was deep down on the side that she walked into. She walked faster when she saw me ran to take her, till her face was down under the water in a second really, I took her out from the water.. Once she was in safe place, she cried very loud and still frightened! Shesaid that she hurt her nose cause she couldn't breath. I thought she breathe the water in her nose, that's why.. However, she got to play with her friends and made like nothing happen not so long after that. That's kind of accident that I never want to have again. Good luck enough cause Phatty still likes the lake even her first time was not so good experience. Some people could get scared and never touched it, I guess you know what I meant.

This year, she is little bigger. Still the same, she likes to be water same like other kids. This year she could understand things better. I talked to her how dangerous it is to be in the water if she doesn't know how to swim yet. I told her to wait till we were both ready to go in the water. We went swimming together. I told her not to go too far from my eyesight.
When she was in the water, I told her where it was the maximum she could go. At first she didn't understand what I talked about. So I showed her by taking her in the lake, I let she walked down into the water hand in hand. Then I told her to notice if her feet can touch the ground or not. She said " yes".... so we walked and walked, then she began to get scared and said that water were too high and it got in her mouth and she couldn't walk anymore. She continued to say if there was no my hand that she held she could not move alone.. I guess she know what insecure level is, it is kind of common-sense. It is like when kid meet stranger and they begin to scream or cry, etc.... So I said that the maximum was when she felt that it is insecure to go alone, when her feet can't touch the ground well, and she couldn't talk well, that means she couldn't go further. She nodded her head. I thought she understand it well.

This is to continue to my previous topic Updated News : Developments and Behaviours .

Phatty likes to eat candies a lot, especially fruit favour ones such as Sugus. I know candy is not good for kids. But how can you say "NO" and refuse to give  if your kid likes to eat a lot. I use my rules to let she knows anyway. let me list down as follow:

• I will give her 3-5 pcs if she wants and she couldn't ask for more. First time, she would cry and try to get more ..That's normal! I don't mind to see that behgaviours. She could cry as long as she wants, but she could not gt any more!
• No candies before haveing a meal! Normally I would give only after meal. or 1-2 hours before having a meal.

However, these rules could not be applied strictly if Phatty is with her grandparents. I guess you know why little kids love to stay with grandparents. Have you ever heard some statement even stated that grandparent will love grandchildren than his children!??? From my little experience, I think this statement is so true. My mum could buy whatever my niece wanted if she just made little cried. With her kid like me, my mum would give me a spank if I cried out loud to get a thing! So I could understand grandparents of Phatty. I'm happy to see that they love Phatty. And Phatty meets them only 1-2 times a week, I don't make that a big deal so I just think that is kind her enjoyful time to get a kindly feeling from her grandparents. Good luck enough that grandparents also set limit for giving candy to Phatty too... They are scared that Phatty would lost her teeth before the real time comes. So they would push Phatty to do something else, or eat fruits instead if they think that is too much for a kid like Phatty!

Besides my push to let Phatty learn about eating behaviours, I would like to give big credit to Grandparents that they are also the ones who made Phatty enjoys eating vegetables and fruits. They are old but still very healthy because they take care themselve very good, especially regarding to their food. The way they prepare food and the way they think about healthy food was given and transferred to Phatty little by little till she feels familiar to eat vegetables and fruits...

Also, Phatty like to drink soft drink, like Coca, Sprite. yeah!! Softdrink is not good. But I could not just say No cause I would like Phatty to know and test it. And she likes it...it could be my fault yeah! But I like to drink softdrink when I was ver youg too. So I think it is normal if kid likes to drink softdrink, isn't it?? .. Anyway, I have applied the same rules as above to softdrink to Phatty. 

Candies and softdrink are both bad to kid's teeth. However, Phatty has not yet problem of this yet! Luckily enough that she can brush her teeth alone now. I told her if she wanted to have nice teeth she must brush her teeth everyday. If I see TV show and those kids have dental cavitation, I would tell her to watch their mouths/teeth when they smiles. Then I will ask if she thinks it is nice to have teeth that way. She will say No. After that I will say that those kids doesn't brush his teeth that's why their teeth come that way...Phatty seems to understand. Whenever she refuses to brush her teeth, I will remind her about kids who have no teeth or kids who have dental cavitation. Then she will take her time on brushing teeth. I will let her brush her teeth so she could have little fun. Then I would help her to clean to be sure that she doesn't miss any step!

Phatty is 3 years and 9 month old now. It's time to write down her developments and behaviours before I forget what she's done through this period.

I wrote her previous topic regarding to Developments and Behaviours (Age : 2 yrs - 2 yrs and 3 months old). So it was more than a year ago.

Anyway, I tried to summarize all what I could recall and I would try to be more specific and be in details as much as I could. You know! This blog would be good resources to remind me about her young ages!

Phatty's getting bigger. She enjoys eating as usual. She could eat several more kinds of vegetable and fruit than before. To be more specific, photos below show her most favourite vegetables.
When I cook for her, it is very easy.  I cook meat and vegetable and then add some Thai sources to make better taste. And yes, she could eat without problem. I need to change menu every day cause she gets bored easily.
When kid eats well, you would be happy to make a cooking. I think all the mums  know what I mean. I am not good in cooking as I ever said many times, but I tried to do and give her good and healthy food as much as I can do.  

For the fruits, she likes to eat all fruits which is little sour. I like to eat fruits, so I try to give her to taste all available seasonal fruits.  She dislikes to eat some fruits like watermelon, jack fruit ( I guess because of its outstanding sweetness), durian (because of its strong smell).

Up till now, she still drinks fresh orange juice made by me every day (normally I give her in the morning time). If I don't make or I forget to do for her, she will ask where her orange juice is! One more thing that I can notice is she would eat better if she has friend. If her friend can not eat or dislikes, she will show how to eat to her friend . And she will tell me that her friend can't eat this/that, but she can do.  What she wants to do is just to show that she can eat better...It is kind of show off style, that I sometimes can't stop smiling when she does so! Showing off too much is not great and it looks strange when adults do. But when little kids make it, I feel that it is funny and cute! When she eats with her friend, she likes to eat by herself. If no friend, she likes to ask me to help her!!! That's also her funny behaviours .
Phatty is kind of talkative kid. She could talk all day long and she could find any topic quickly to ask and want reply. Sometimes, I even think she talks too much really. I have to stop her sometimes, cause she wants to talk rather than going to bed... Anyway, this behaviour will happen only to the ones she knows. If stranger, she will be very shy and take some time to be in normal behaviour. She has no problem to deal with someone new which have kindly personality and smiling people, she will get back to her normal behaviour and talk to them faster.

When she does something, she likes to explain what/how she does. Easy example is about playing PC game. If she plays one game, she will tell me to stay near her and will teach me how to play or how she does to win the game. Yeah!! She teaches me step by step how to do/play. Guess what!??! she could explain correctly in some easy games. Sometimes I just became bored to listen to her game lesson, I just nodded my head and looked something else. If she knew, she would say " Hey Mama!, look at this and listen to me!". I have my little teacher at home, can you believe that!!!??? This teaching style is also applied to her Papa if he is at home too.

Phatty dislikes walking (I guess this behaviour she has got from me.. I don't like walking under the sun too long, I prefer to sit rather than walking. I don't like window-shopping too. Some girls can walk around 2-3 hrs just for seeing products in shop, but I can not really cause I am lazy to walk around and I dislike to do so. I will go shopping only when I need to buy something and I know what exactly I want!). Phatty will start to complain if she feels that she walks too long. Her complaints will be like " I'm tired, I can't walk any more", " Papa, why it is too long walking? where we are going?", " I am tired, Can you take me in your arms?" , etc.

She likes to watch cartoons same like other kids. Her most favourite cartoons now are Dora and Mickey Mouse. Especially when she watches  Dora,  she will try to speak out the words that Dora repeat.. Sometime she could make correct, and some she couldn't.

Ok I am getting stuck now... I will try to add up some more of her other behaviours later.. Above is all what I can recall right now.... See you later!

Again, it took me so long to write one story now.. Actually I wish I had more than 2 hands so I could make many things more.
I make myself more busier with study.. Yeah!! I've selected to continue study once again at age of 32. I love marketing field, so I selected to study in this  field ..Reason? I just want to do something that I like while I am at home. You can guess what I meant..? Yeah, I learn via internet. I 've chosen to study in  Master's Degree which 's organized  by Ramkhamkheang University. It will take 2 yrs to complete this course, if I don't fail in any subject!   I know what I do, I know I am busier. However, I don't forget my role as mother of Phatty.  I take the role of student in the night time, but I am her full time mother in daytime still. Ok I don't want to talk much about my story cause this is my child blog.. I told you this just to be an excuse that I could update my child blog much often...  It seemed to be good excuse, right ?? hahaha... So better go back to my kid news.

Phatty is about 3 years and a half now.. She has to go school soon around October of this year ( not so sure yet which month it is ....). I just wait  to get confirmation letter from the government sector to be sure she could go school this year anyway. Last year, her friend " Nicolas" began to go school. He is about 1 year older than Phatty. When Phatty knew that Nicolas went to school, she began to ask me when she could go school. She asked me what school was for, and what kids did there.. I told her that it was the place where kids went study... then she asked what study was... !!!!!???? then I tried my best to make her understand that it was about kid sat in the classroom,  talked together, played together  and learnt together... Phatty nodded her head and made noise like ummm ,oh....I assumed that she understood 10% of what I explained.. hahahha...What she understood what school was just there were a lot of kids and she could play with them etc.

Aunt of Phatty bought school bag for Phatty as a gift. I told her that she would take this bag to go school. The bag has "Kitty"on the front and it is in Pink color. Phatty likes it so much. She likes to take the bag around and tries to put on her shoulder...

When we watched TV and it was about kids in the school. I would talk to her that those kids was happy to go school. I tried to let she knew what they did and how they did. Since that Phatty begins to understand little by little.

One day, she ran to me and said that she needed to prepare her bag to go school tomorrow morning... I said.. really? I never said that she must go school the next day, where she got this information from?? Later I found out that she saw it on TV and she imagined that she was one of the kid on TV. Anyway, the game must go on. I said what she would bring with.. She ran into her toy room, then tried to pack up all of them to her small bag. Then she began to cry and asked me for help. I said to her to select some what she liked most, the rest she could play at home. She smiled again and began to make like I suggested.  Anyway, her bag was more than full, the zipper could not close well.. She said it was Ok now.. I could not stop smile when I saw her face and her bag. I let her anyway.. Then her papa was back home, she ran to show the bag to her papa and said that she would go school tomorrow... Her papa looked at my face, then his face showed question mark on. I said it was Phatty 's imagination, let she did the way she wanted to. He began to understand and asked Phatty what she would do in school, and what was inside her bag.... Then Phatty talked to her papa and explained what she would do with this toy , those toy....etc.... She seemed happy to talk about school really..

Ok that's good sign for me ..... At least Phatty has positive feeling about going school. I hope when it is the time she need to go in real, she will be easy to adapt herself to new thing and new environment. Phatty never goes to nursery school or kindergarten, she is mainly with me since she was born.. I don't know how she will act if she needs to go to school and knows that she has to stay there without me....

I talked about this topic to my family and my friend. They  warned me about the bad point when kid goes school was sickness.  If other kid is sick, Phatty will get sick too. I think it is normal, little kid is not strong enough, but she will get stronger and get better when she gets bigger. I ever was young, I ever was sick when I went school . School will be just one step that she must pass to go bigger..... Just wait and see whether she can cope it well or not !!

We just got back from Thailand. Actually, we planned to stay only 3 weeks, but we had to stay there 1 week longer than our plan due to political problem. As some of you might know that PAD team made political protest in Bangkok and they shut down International airports in Bangkok. That 's the reason why we need to stay longer than usual plan. We should have departured Thailand on 27 Nov'08, but we did 05 December'08 instead. Due to the problem of protest, Thai government had set special policy to help tourists who had stucked in the airport by offering free hotel and free meals during the extended stays. We were one of them. We had a chance to stay in Dusit Thani Hotel which we didn't expect that we could have a chance to stay in because of costly price.I thought to myself that I couldn't afford to pay this price by myself surely, I'd better keep the extra charge to pay for something else. However, we enjoyed our stay in this hotel surely, anyway we wished to go back to Switzerland as quick as possible. Luckily enough that Pad agreed to stop protesting in the airport, so everything got back in track on the evening of 04 December'08. On 05 December'08 (first official reopening airport day), we could finally left Thailand safely.

I don't want to get in details that much because this blog is not about political issue, it is about my child. So I will get back to our trip regarding to my Phatty..

During our stay in Thailand, Phatty enjoyed her days playing around with her Thai cousins. I mainly selected to stay with my relatives, because Phatty could play with my nieces. And that seemed to be good decision, Phatty never got bored. She could not speak Thai much, however she could play with other cousins so well. As she is the youngest one and they didn't see each other so often, so they wanted to take care her. What she wanted, they were wiling to give and share to her. Good luck to her .

We stayed in Bangkok about 2 weeks and the rest we stayed in Chiang Rai. As Phatty is half Thai and half Swiss. Her face is quite outstanding. You might already know that Thai people now like Look Krueng ( Half blooded kids), so other Thai people like to come to touch and play with Phatty. If Phatty was in good mood, she would play with them. However if she was in the stage of bad mood ( too hot, sleepy), she quickly turned her face and ran to stay with me and tried to hide herself on my back.

We took her and her cousin to the zoo ( Safari World on Ramindra road in BKK). The trip was great because Phatty likes to see animals. She could touch and play with some animals ( such as giraffes, elephants, monkeys, parrots, big fish etc). That made she was really excited. Even the entrance fee is quite expensive, but we thought it was worth payment. Personally, I would like to suggest Safari World to make price more cheaper, so all other kids can have a chance to make a visit. Zoo should be the place for kids to learn and have  a fun time. If the  price is too high, so the parents are hesitate to pay because they have other expenses to take care too.

I told Phatty that it would be her Papa's birthday on 29 October. The first word that Phatty said was " Birthday Present". I guess she understood what birthday meant in her eyes. She knew that she 's got presents from others. When she went to join Birthday party of Nicolas( her friend), she must give gift to him. So it seems that she knew how special birthday was.

Therefore, I asked her what she would like to give to her Papa on his birthday. She said she would make "Duck" ... Duck in her meaning was she wanted me to draw a duck on paper and she would make color on the drawing.. So I said let see... I asked this question occasionally on other days before his birthday, her answers were changed to Pig, Crocodile, Kangaroo, and other animals.. hahhahaha.. Never mind , at least she still had the answers..

Anyway, I asked her whether she wanted to make something for her Papa or not?. She said what special was... hahahahha.. That made me laugh loud. So I explained as easy as I could to her. So she seemed to understand later on. I told her that her papa would be very happy if Phatty would sing Birthday Song for him. I asked whether she could do or not, she said " yes".

Then I began to record her first single " Birthday Song". I took video more than 10 times of her singing, till she got bored and tired so I must let her do something else. Guess what??? None of them was perfect. All of them would have some little error in each tape. That's fine really. She tried her best already. At least she's willing to sing this song. Sometime, outcome is not most important right? What important is how you could do to get the thing you want. I was really satisfied what Phatty tried to do. At her age of 3 yrs and 3 months, she has still this attention to do something special for her beloved one. That's great sign for me.

Below video was the Birthday presents that Phatty helped me to make for her Papa.I made editing on the videos and selected only the good parts. This present him surprised because we hardly give any presents to each other on Birthdays. Normally we would say only " Happy Birthday" to each other.

        

This time was special as Phatty was big enough to understand more well. I want to let her know that she should learn to GIVE too, cause she has GOT a lot from other family members.

Her Papa was very happy to see this video. He said and made a joke that he would expect to hear Phatty singing HBD song in French next year..   That 's hard cause there are many words in French HBD song. Anyway, I will try to check it out if it is possible.

Phatty likes to see herself singing too, she will sing along when I play this video. She might be singer in the future who knows?  I guess she will sing till she gets bored.

We had celebrated Papa Birthday within our family. Phatty decorated the surface of BD cake for her papa too. She took time to make all by herself, what I did was just preparation of all things for her on the table. Of course the outcome was great (in my eyes!) always.

It was time again to see doctor when Phatty was 3 yrs old. I took Phatty to see doctor for yealy routine checking up around end of July'08.  This event happened several months ago, I began writing main ideas of this topic quite long ago but I did not finish it, therefore I could not post on the blog. Now it 's time to finish this story before I forgot !!!

As I ever said that we had problem every time to take Phatty to see doctor. Phatty was scared too much for no reasons and she cried very loud when doctor touched her body. I tried to do many ways to clam her down such as playing game like doctor and patient at home. She played very well. I told her processes what doctor must do , touch stomach , touch legs, touch face etc... There was no problem at home really, but she still made the same action crying in the real time with real doctor.Hurrr...

However, I tried one more time and expected to see different actions this round.............
I told her that she must go to see doctor because she is bigger girl now.  I told her that it is normal that every kid must be checked up by doctor about once a year. I told her that Phatty is good kid and she is big girl and she can go toilet, she doesn't need to wear diaper like a baby any more.  I asked her whether she could remember that she cried when she went to see doctor last time. She said yes. I asked why she cried , she said she did not like doctor. Every time when she could not find real reason she would say she disliked this/that.. . I asked what doctor made to her so she disliked the doctor. She said she didn't know... Then I asked whether she would cry to see doctor this time? She thought little bit and she said Yes and then No quickly. I guessed she confused herself . So I repeated my last question again, she got hesitated and she said she didn't know. So I said to her kindly  if she cried that meant she was just a baby, if she would not cry she would be a big girl. She kept thinking and then she smiled. Then, I asked whether she was a baby or big girl. She said she was a big girl. Then I said if she was a big girl so she wouldn't cry in front of doctor... She thought and said ummmm Ok! I asked whether she was sure , she said Yes! so I asked  for her promise, she said she promised.  This action was done and repeated several times in several days before we went to see the doctor in real.

Then it was the appointed date, it's the time to get an action. I dressed her up and told her that I would take her to see doctor. She began to get nervoused, then she made noise like she wanted to cry and refused to make a move. I thought to myself  " Oh god! Even she didn't see doctor yet, she began negative actions already!!! .. Hurrr I thought that it would be noisy again at clinic because of Phatty's voice ..  Anyway, I told myself whatever would be would be, the show must go on.

My house is about 5 minutes walking to the clinic. While walking to the destination, I  kept talking to her how nice the doctor is, how kind she is, how much she love kids. I also said that she would give delicious biscuits to non-crying kids when she finishes checking up. I repeated the previous sentence again to make sure that Phatty can hear well.   Then, Phatty asked me " Mama, doctor will give me biscuit if I don't cry?"  I said " Yes, surely". Then I kept talking again about how nice doctor is.... etc till we arrived the Clinic.

When we entered the clinic, the doctor was busy with other kids. So we waited in the waiting room. That's good cause Phatty could play around with other kids while waiting. About 20 minute later, nurse came in  and leaded us to the room. I undressed Phatty and the nurse began to measure the height and weight of Phatty. Everything went well, Phatty didn't cry at all . I was little surprised  because I compared this action with the time when she was 2yrs and a half. Even the nurse touched her at that time, she cried already .Hahahha.  You could say that my kid was not easy and untouchable by strangers at that time .

About 10 minutes later, the doctor showed up. Phatty was little frightened and she tried to hide herself behind my back. The doctor greeted and she was kind as usual. She talked kindly and softly till Phatty began to get relaxed and smile. Then doctor told Phatty to sit on the bed so she could begin her routine check up. I was really surprised cause Phatty gave very good cooperation to the doctor without crying. Doctor told her to open her mouth, lay down on the bed .. etc... Phatty did well till the doctor made a joke on me that Phatty was acting different and if I gave something special to Phatty before coming to see her or not! I just smiled ...

All checking processes ended up about 10 minutes later. Then we all sat on chairs having short conversation about progressiveness and developments of Phatty. One question that doctor asked Phatty was whether she still wore diaper now. Phatty replied quickly that she wore diaper only in the night.  Doctor said to Phatty " That's great, you are big girl now" . and yes Phatty smiled proudly. And yes, doctor gave biscuit to Phatty at the end of conversattion. She quickly showed me the biscuit, she was more than happy , I guessed.. Hahahhah Actually, doctor gave biscuits to all (crying and non-crying) kids. What I said on above was just to encourage her not to cry only. It was just a trick but at least it worked!!!!!.

It was Happy Ending really. I was quite worried in beginning , but things turned out different. So I was really happy.
Believe it or not, the next few days later,  Phatty asked if she must go to see doctors again. She wanted to see the doctor...
I replied her that she'd better just wait for the next turn which will be when she turns to be 4 years old then.....

Photo Source : http://www.curiosoft.com/images/screenshots/jr-doctor-fairy-tales-games-screen-shot-3.jpg

Last week, her face showed how proud and happy she was when we ( I or her papa/ her grandparents) told her that she was a big girl cause she could make pee/poo on potty.

Actually I wanted to wait for few weeks before trying to teach her toilet training. However, she was quite curioused and interested on new equipments ( especially equipment in pink colour showed in below photos)  that I prepared for her toilet training. She kept on asking what they were for. That was great sign. So I was not hesitated to give a try and told her what they were for.

I put the equipment on each position and told her that she must sit here when she wanted to make pee/poo. She smiled and she wanted to sit on. She just sat and played . She climbed up and down many times till I felt like she thought they were just new toys. .

Not so long later, she ran to me and said that she wanted to make pee. She went to the toilet. I helped her to sit..
few seconds later, nothing to say more just " Yeah!!!! Bingo! Hoorey!, Chaiyo!". She could do it, and she likes to go toilet now : potty is no more interesting in her eyes!!!

It was quite long time ago that I said I had problem to make potty training for Phatty.  From that time till now, it was almost 7 months long.

During these 7 months, I have tried to encourage slowly little by little to my daughter by several ways, such as talking and showing her how comfortable she would feel without wearing diaper, searching for Videos of Kids who could make potty training and let she see how happy other kids were after they can do potty training / toilet training; she likes to see those videos and smiles when she sees the kids can do those things. Occasionally, when we went out to the park, and there were a lot of kids playing around. I would tell her to notice that other kids didn't wear diaper and how fast they could run around. She seemed to agree. However, all of those activities did not seem to make her taking real action because she's still hesitated to use her potty. We (my husband and I)  were little worried but we had no rush and we could just patiently wait and see .....

Finally, yesterday (29 Aug'08) she put her potty on the floor and she said that she wanted to make a pee. I was surprised but I kept my feeling inside and told her what she must do. I helped her taking off her shorts and told her to sit on potty. Then I told her to call me up once she finished. I didn't want to make her feel shy so I made a move to other room.  About 2 minutes later, she called me in!!Guess what ?? Nothing was inside the potty. hahahha..  She said she couldn't make a pee and asked me why pee didn't come out!!?. Err ummm.. what could I say ??  I just told her not to worry, jut tried again when she felt she wanted to.

30 minutes later, her papa was at home for lunch. Phatty ran into her potty again. I guess she wanted to show her papa that she could make pee on potty... And yeah!!! This time she could do it, however, she didn't sit in good position. so it was spread out a lot on floor. I cleaned floor with smile and I had no anger at all. I told her that I would give her beautiful stickers when she made pee on potty. I got this tip from reading on Internet sites ( just search on Potty training on Goggle, you can see a thousand of parents who're willing to share these experiences). She 's really happy to get stickers and decorated them on her potty.  Then, she ran to show her papa that I gave her sticker. Her papa said to her that she was a big girl and she did a good thing. She smiled proudly and happily.

Later on, I told her that I would give her one sticker every time she made pee or poo on potty. Big sticker is when she makes well on potty ;  no dirty on floor. The small one is given if she makes dirty on floor. It does really WORK !! She tries to make better and better to get BIG sticker.


Now she can make pee / poo well on potty. I don't need to clean floor any more.  She helps me to take potty to clean in toilet. I'm so proud of her really I can feel and notice that she feels more comfort when she does not wear diaper.

However, I still select to wear her diaper in the night time. So she can have a good sleep whole night long, she does not to worry about wet pants.

Next step is just to teach her to use toilet.  I think she has passed the hard step, so to have toilet training should be more easier... Just need to wait and let her relaxed with her potty training first .

Her papa has promised to buy her a guitar as a present , if she could make pee/poo on potty. I'm sure he can't forget to buy it because she will keep on asking all the time till she gets what she wants.

Wow.. Time's passed by so fast... Now my Phatty is 3 years old now.

I still remembered the first time I saw her face.  Still remember my husband 's jokes. What the jokes were about? 
Let me tell you he said this little baby (Phatty) came to live with us without clothes, paper/passport. She could not talk. She cried a lot  and she made us less sleep in the night (when she was little baby, she loved crying !:P). We must buy everything for her. We've made every good thing for her without getting any single bath returned. How lucky she is to be our baby! (I want to add here that we are more than lucky to have Phatty as our daughter too!!). He also joked if there was any warranty if we wanted to return.....   My husband still makes these jokes to me occasionally and yeah that can bring our happily smiles and we have still a good laugh.

Once Phatty arrived in our world, we knew  that  this life wasn't so much about us, as it was about our daughter from now on! That 's the moment we've realized that our family world's been positively changed .....

It was quite long too that I didn't update any story on this blog. There are many reasons to support this ; laziness might be the main and i have been busy with something else could be other excuse.  .

Busy with what? Let me explain.. As we have firmly planned to go to Thailand early of this  coming November, so I have to do making Phatty Video (Part 2 : Started from  age 1.5 yrs -3 yrs) to give to my Thai family so that they can watch them if they miss us. I really hope that I can make this video finished on time.

What video will look like? Just take a look on some of my kid videos on the Top of My Space above (Youtube Window). However, it is not that short video cause all videos will be mixed together in 1 DVD. The whole video takes about 2-3 hrs to watch.  I think I will make like this every year. I promise to myself.

Last time I went to Thailand on May'07, I gave copies of DVD (Phatty Part1 : Started from age New Born baby- 1.5 yrs) to  my mother, my sister & brothers. I 'm not sure they could finish watching my DVD or not. That's not important for me as long as I am happy to give.

I accept that I like to watch those videos with smile on my face. I am not crazy. I think surely every mother will love to see videos of her kid too. My kid is the most lovely kid in my eyes. I am not over, I really feel so.

Phatty also likes to see her videos. She enjoyed asking who was that baby (when she was too little), why baby cried etc... That's kind of good encouragement for me too to do such a thing.

I still remembered I took about 3-4 months to finish editing, cutting and all processes. I took so much time to make because I never made video before so I  had to learn to make. My husband was good teacher/supporter/helper. He could help me and taught me when I had problem. The problem was just he couldn't stay teaching me whole day because of his work. So I had to learn it by myself; trials and errors.  If I had problem, I noted it down and asked when he arrived home. Other reason was I made video program only when my kid was not around, so that meant I made only few hours maximum per day.

Good thing to do those video is the more I play on Video program, the more I feel I have fun. I can control all videos such as I can add this message on that part of video, I can add up song specially on that particular part. I can remove some scene, I can cut unnecessary part off. I am kind of the director and the producer of my films.   I don't get bored to know more and I want to make more and more. Also, when I make finished, I show some part of them to my Swiss family here. They like it and they give me positive comments.Wow!, that made me proud of what I did. Therefore, I can't stop making and I won't.

I know I am not professional and I know I never will. Those videos are just my home videos. I've made them by myself. Those videos are for me and my beloved family and others who I want to share to. I don't make for Hollywood so I don't care.

"A picture is worth more than a thousand words". This sentence is really true!!! Photos can explain the events more well and more clear. Also they can remind us the past days that we'd shared good moments among each others. Thanks to all developed technologies which let me know how to keep good memories in better way than the past!

That's why I like to take photos and videos.   I don't mind if someone says I am crazy about taking photos.. I will accept with proudly smiles.. No kidding though!!

PS: Some part of this story were copied from My Family Space.   Just to make my story more longer..

Out of topic, below video is nothing about my family or my kid.
But I think it was very nice made and I would love to share to you. It was very amazing art. Please check it out by your own.

For me, the answer to above question is "Not me!"

When I was young, my mum had to work hard whole day long. We are big family. My mum had to take care 7 kids (I am the youngest one). When she made food for us, we had no choice to refuse. And all the food she cooked would be based on requirements of nutrients too. She never learnt in school, but she knew it from reading news/books. If we didn't eat her food, that meant we had to stay hungry! Therefore, we must eat what she cooked for us. She told me the reason why she had to made so only when I was adult. She said if she had to make food based on kids' preferences, that might mean that she had to make 7 dishes for 7 kids! That would lost more time and money for each meal. She'd better do other works than making many dishes. Thanks to my mum, cause that made me easy to adapt my tongue to any kind of food :) I love my mum!

I hardly make cooking in Thailand, I prefer to eat my mum's cooking when I am in Thailand. However, I am here in Swiss. If I don't make cooking, who will make cooking for me. Forget about dinning out everyday! Dine out sometimes is Ok, but we can't afford to go out everyday!

As I am full time mother, I have more time than my mum and other mums who have to work. So I've learnt to make some easy food for my daughter. Learn from where? It is easy because I have internet, I can search and find some easy food for free. Also, I can ask from my mother or other Thai relatives what they make cooking for their kids.

I am not really the type of mother who will let kid eats whatever she wants. I love to imitate my mum's style because I want to be the one who makes decision what my kid should eat in her early ages. I have set many rules for my kid to follow; such as no chocolate/sweets before meals because that will make her eat less. She can eat chocolate and sweet only after eating and only if she eats the food well. Why I need to set this rule? If she eats those sweet things first, she will not eat or eat less normal food. Also, if she eats food well before eating chocolate, then she can't eat much chocolate either cause her stomach's full :)

I am very easy with eating. So I want my daughter can eat any kinds of food ; meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits & vegetables. I don't let my kid eat only what she likes . I think making that way will make her feel familiar with only specific types, so she will be hard /refuse to eat other kinds of food later. If she has tasted many kinds of food, she will know that there are many choices on this earth. She can select to eat any that she likes to when she gets bigger.

I've tried to make food for my kid based on requirements of nutrients ( Protein, Carbohydrates, Calcium, Fruit and Vegetables).

• A source of protein to keep children alert  ----> My main focus for this groups is on any kind of meats.
  
• Complex carbohydrates for slow-release energy ---->My main focus for this group is on rice, noodle, spaghetti etc.
  
• Calcium for growth, healthy bones and teeth -----> My main focus for this group is milk, yoghurt etc.
  
• Fruit and vegetables for vitamins and minerals ----> Yeah, they are in  any fruits and vegetables.
  

I used the word "try" because she might not be able to eat all requirements of nutrients per meal. But I will do make sure if she eats anything less, I will give other type to offset in the next meal. For example, if she didn't eat much meat (protein) in the afternoon, I will make other type of meat for her in dinner and make sure that she would eat enough. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. but that's fine, I'll try again the next day.

When she was younger than 2 years old, she ate whatever I gave. When she was hungry, she would eat whatever it was. She was so easy about food. She could eat anything without problem. I guess her tongue didn't work well at that time.
However, thing's little changed now. She knows what she wants and she knows the taste better well. If she really doesn't like the food, she won't touch it for a second time. So what I have to do to make sure that she will eat?

In case I make new food for her to taste, as it is new menu, I don't know whether she will like and eat it or not! So my solution is I have to make her favourite food also. This is in case if she really dislikes new food, she can eat the other one that she like to eat. For my kid, this solution works fine for me. Anyway, I will remake the food that she dislikes again when she gets bigger. Maybe she will like it later... Who knows?

At her age of 2 years and 9 months old now, I have noticed that she eats lesser (than before) in each meal, but she eats more often. Also, she plays more. The way she plays will use more power and energy too. When she was 1 year, she just sat and play toys, walked to each room. Now, she moves very fast, she'll jump up/down, she can yell & run around. Digestion system of her body works better and I guess that's the reason why she gets hungry and eats more often.
Now there are altogether 5 meals a day;

-Breakfast : milk, cereals/biscuits and then orange juice.
-Lunch : big meal of the day, and then milk.
------> Taking a Nap about 1.30-2.00 hours<-------
-Fruit Break : seasonal fresh fruits
-Dinner : big meal of the day, and yoghurt.
-Milk Break : milk and little biscuits and then going to bed.

If she eat less in any meal, she will drink milk more. That seems fine for me. :) If she eat less and  she drinks milk less, that could show sign that she is not well.

Up till now, I still think that my cooking is not yet good. If my kid can eat my food, I think it is good sign. :) Hahaha I don't dare enough to cook for other adults, except my husband though!

Time's changed and technology is much more developed than ever! When I was young, just a simple video-game was amazing!! If I could play few minutes on that game, I felt like world was so nice to make this kind of game. If I show that video-game to kid nowadays, maybe they think why it is so outdate!

Yes, you can compare how the old style looks with the new model. You can see how they are different? No wonder if the kid now will refuse to play on the old style.

I loved playing game when I was young. Now I still like to do so, but I do it occasionally. Playing games make me relaxed and having fun. I guess that's the main reason why people play games.

Therefore, I would like to talk about technology for kid today. Main focus will be about PC Game.

The first time I touched PC was when I finished High school but kids now begin to use computer at very young age. I must admit that technology has involved and played important role in my life now. I can say that I can't live without internet. I don't overstating, I feel that way really. If there is internet problem, I would feel like there is something missing in my normal routine.

The idea of PC game for my kid I actually have got from Thai mother who has a son at age about 5 years old. She told me that her son likes to play game on PC and I saw that the boy looked happy to stay in front of PC. Therefore, I would like to see how my kid would react to PC games too. The difference is just my daughter is 2 years and 9 months old now. So I must select which game is matched to her age.

As my kid didn't know how to use mouth, she knew nothing about PC. She ever touch keyboards of PC and liked to play on keyboards when she was very little. She ever saw her parents stay playing /working on PC, but she never knew what this PC was for. Maybe she thought PC was just TV at that time. I took some time to teach her what to do with mouth, how to play.

The game that I selected to her was for kid at age of 18 months to 3 years old. The game named as " Lapin Malin" is nice and well design with colourful cartoons, and there are lot of short musics. Good point is kid no need to "CLICK"! Yeah, my kid can't "CLICK" correctly and she doesn't understand when to click and what she does just ignore "CLICK". How can she play then?  She can play by just moving mouth and point the mouth on the game that she wants for few seconds then new game will be started automatically. This game was well designed and made kid play easier really! I think the game developer has (maybe) made research and develop game time to time to match with kids' behaviours.

The first time I showed her the game it was like she watched TV. She just enjoyed to watch and listen to music. She hardly move the mouth, I had to encourage her several times if she made moving mouth this way, what would happen..... When she saw the difference, she began to move more and more. She tried to understand how it worked and how to play. Now she can play alone and she needs my help only sometimes.

Do you know the differences between kid and adult when plays game? I don't know for other kids, but this is what I noticed from my kid at this age.

I allow my kid to play game only one time per day. And she can play only after she finishes her dinner. If she doesn't eat well, that means no PC game. That is kind of incentive point for her to eat good so that she can play game later.           

I ever wondered since I first came to live here when my husband said time changed today and he told me to correct time on the clock. What was he talking about ?? I lived on earth (Thailand) so long, I never changed the time. Why I needed to correct time here?? European people had nothing to do, so they played with the clock!!!!

Curiosity made me want to know why and when time will be changed. So I would like to explain to people who don't really know why we need to change clock twice a year. Of course, all information I would list down is based on search engines.

"The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Daylight Saving Time gives us the opportunity to enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring".

"If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter. The closer you live to the North or South Pole, the longer the period of daylight in the summer. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is usually not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator generally do not change their clocks". Thailand is near the equator, that's why Thailand has never changed clock.

So when to change time?? Firstly, let talk about each European Time Zone. Even you are in Europe, your time might not be same mine.

There are three different time zones across the EU ;

Western Europe Time (Standard Time = GMT) : United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal

Central Europe Time (Standard Time = GMT+1) : Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Non-EU : Norway, Switzerland (This is where I live now).

Eastern Europe Time (Standard Time = GMT + 2) : Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania and Non-EU: Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, Ukraine

Here is Summer Time Rule:

Start : Last Sunday in March - End : Last Sunday in October

****Thailand time will be 5 hours faster than Switzerland time****

Here is Winter Time Rule

Start : Last Sunday in October - End : Last Sunday in March

****Thailand time will be 6 hours faster than Switzerland time****

There are are much more details (historical stories) before they have got the above fixed formulas, you can check out from these sites; Europe Summer Time and Day Light Saving.

I love Summer time in Europe most, it is real beautiful and the weather is not too hot. People begin to decorate their homes with flowers. Everywhere is colourful with flowers. No need to wear sweater, gloves, hat! 

Also, my kid can play outside longer and she can get natural vitamin D too. Playground is full of kids and family, time to have fun for all the kids.The most beautiful moments are when I see the family and kids playing together. They share their laughs & having fun& having a good time together. Those  are so lovely scenes. We are happy to be one family among them.