My Child World!

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...