Dental caries...

my dear sweet little girl that doesn't like sweets and loves to brush her teeth has dental caries. What a nightmare. i noticed a small hole on her front tooth so took her to the dentist yesterday and it turns out she has not just one but two little holes.
She's never been to a dentist before but she was and ANGEL. my wiggly running about little girl sat perfectly still with her mouth open and didn't bat an eyelid when they scraped the hole and filled it and set it..seriously she was perfect.
They tell me they don't add any fluoride to water in Taiwan...so she painted some on her teeth. Ten mins later Sarah puked up over me (into a paper towel mostly)...it turns out that this happens sometimes...a heads up would have been nice!
I feel like a terrible mother that can't even look after my own daughters teeth, so now we are super alert during brushing. i even brought disclosure liquid so i can see if i missed a bit. it's bright pink and she thinks it's great fun.

The weekend

To start i should say Happy birthday to Heather and her daughter mia...they have the same birthday so heathers just disappears...poor thing. hope you have a good one.

So the weekend went well, he is a good little thing that loves just crawling around the floor chewing on lions,frogs and cheetahs...very cute.
Sarah loved having him around and the five flights of stairs weren't too bad...well they weren't great the first night as i had lots of stuff to carry too.
so i said things went well..and they did until Sunday night..
On Sunday night Sarah picked up Asher's bottle, by the teat, which isn't really a problem but it dropped on the floor...they gave us glass bottles due i guess in part by this stupid bispheonal A stuff (plastic leaching into the milk and causing all sorts of problems with...in fact they haven't found out what it might do, they haven't even found out if it really does leach if you don't boil it for hours)...but they changed just in case, i guess!
So of course we have tiles and of course the bottle smashed really smashed, glass splinters were EVERYWHERE, Sarah was standing there and i could see her feet were bleeding. I told her don't move DO NOT MOVE, and for once she listened and didn't. Praise the Lord, as i just kept thinking if she moved we'd have ended up in hospital.
i had to put Asher down somewhere that he wouldn't get hurt (of course he was screaming his head of as he was hungry and annoyed I'd dumped him.)
Sarah looked at her feet and started screaming too, i picked her up and showered her feet checked for glass in the cuts (thankfully there wasn't any). I ask myself why does this stuff always happen to me, Tom would tell me that it's because i do too much, i personally think that's rubbish but maybe he is onto something, or i have the worst luck...and i don't really belive in luck.
Sarah's cuts were bleeding a lot but were small and only one needed a plaster. Asher was safe.I dumped them both in the bedroom and went to work cleaning up the WHOLE of the living room.
I haven't felt like a cigarette in a long time but boy i thought that would be nice..i ate chocolate instead (a poor substitute).
Sarah was good and obedient and i am so pleased as if she wasn't it would have been a trip to the A+E (ER) for us. It scared me and it made me wish i wasn't on my own..(as in the only adult).
That night was a nightmare, after i cleaned up, i fed the kids (in the bedroom) and put them to bed. Asher screamed and screamed...he did not want to sleep. Sarah wanted to sleep but was upset by Asher...
When they finally went to sleep i cleaned again checking every inch of the living room on my knees! night mare!
So i will take asher again this weekend, minus the glass bottles! sarah likes him and is very cute to play with him, she even asked about him when we pray (if i don't say his name or i don't say Heathers name..she reminds me!) She also reminds me to pray before breakfast...which i've never done before but she seems to think we should and i guess it's a meal like the others but i just never thought about it. She's funny with her little praying hands and saying Amen. Cute.

Weekend baby...

So this weekend i will look after baby Asher. Miss Heather, can't look after him this month as she is way to busy with two house guests and three children..and a hubby that isn't really there often (his job, not his lack of compassion).
So i thought you know what, i can do it...i can look after two babies on my own for the weekend...how bad can it be??
I think that i may find out how bad it can be when i have them both screaming their heads of at 3am.... but lets pray that this doesn't happen.
I have 5 flights of stairs to climb if i want to get in or out of my new apartment, Sarah's been great at climbing them, we sing she climbs...she has a strange thing that she does, she has to touch certain doors and then the one oppsite it..she has so many of these little quirks that are really OCDish...is that normal for a 2 year old?? she freaks out if i don't let her do it or i tell her not to get upset about it. one thing she does is stack up coins in her hand (between her finger and thumb) then when one pops out she freaks and gets really cross with herself and the world. So strange. I got her fake coins that stack more ready and she doesn't freak so much now as they stay where they should!
Anyway, if i am carrying Asher i am quite sure that she will want to be carried...so that will be joyous!

Easter photos

so here are some Easter photos, i said i'd get them up...lets hope it works this time

I'm alive!! just not online...

so i don't have internet i don't have a phone...i feel very very isolated from the rest of the world, however living here in my new place i am the most in touch with my friends here that i have ever been, as i can just pop over to peoples houses without have to plan the whole day. It's so nice to be able just get up walk out the house and be in the city, i mean before i had one shop that was open when it felt like it...and that was it. I had to get a bus or a lift to get anywhere, now Sarah and i just walk to the mrt and can be anywhere in the city without an hour wait for a bus that may or may not turn up.
Saying all this i really can't wait till i can get some sort of internet here, then i would be well happy.
Sarah's been really screaming everytime i left her a the new nannies since she started, it was breaking my heart to leave her she was clinging to me like a little monkey, and the nannie and i had to prioy her off me. However on wednesday we had a break through, she cried just a little bit, then thursday she didn't cry at all, and again yesterday. So i guess she's finally getting use to it now, and knows i am coming back. i guess that she had so much to deal with in these past couple of weeks, we've moved house, moved nannies, changed routines, and she's been sick with broncitous...so you know she has every reason to scream i guess. She's also be so darn grumpy..why do they throw a fit about every little thing, it drives you crazy. Like seriously she wanted to give something back to tom ( a lid to a can..) which i happened to think is a little too sharp for her to be picking up so i say no...she flips out really screaming fits over a lid....of course i give her a time out, where she contiues to scream for about 10 mins. Sometimes i just don't know what to do about these fits of screaming, i guess the best thing is to ignore them, not give in to them, and give her time outs to calm down...any other suggestions??
What do you do when your kid isn't feeling great and you don't want to give in to every wim that they have?
Today Sarah's been feeling better i guess as she's been being really sweet, laughing, joking, and being a little sweety pie. She's taken to pretending a lot, so she talks and feeds her toys (regardless of if they are animals or objects!). she was in love with my yoyo card (which is a travel card) she was sleeping with it, talking to it, kissing it...yes i said kissing! she's so funny. she's now back in love with her plastic coins, she is back to sleeping with one of them now...whcih i have to say is far harder to find in the bed than a card....She like to put it between her toes (Ms Heather showed her that one), tonight she was trying to put it between spot's (her toy cat) toes..he doesn't have any toes but she still played the game like he did. so cute.
she also has started to put more words together, she says i love you, which sounds more like i lurloo. she also said Jesus loves you tonight for the first time, very cute. We pray every night and she aways says Ahem at the end, tonight after the prayer she said again and then prayed by herself...but it was just laarlarr...Ahem. Cute none the less, i am sure God knows what she's on about even if i don't!
Ok so i've written for ages, i have much more to say, so many things have happened...so i will just back date my posts a bit...

Easter

Easter,

On the Saturday, we went to a little Easter fair that was in the park, it was rather nice with lots of little games to play lots of little things to see, and all for free. A local church put it on, (local to the Hammonds not to me), we got candy floss (cotton candy) but Sarah didn't like it. I love it so i got to eat it...yummy.

On Easter day we went to church to find out that we were an hour late...i forgot it started at 9 not 10 like it normally does...opps...

Then we went to the Hammonds and spend the day with them, there building had an easter egg hunt so Sarah went on her first egg hunt. It was so cool. She loved it, i loved watching her. Before the big event Chad took the kids to practise with some eggs, and Sarah was taught how to do look for eggs...she go the idea and before long she need what to do.

So then the big event, and she collected a basket of eggs, that were all blue...i don't understand how she did that but they were, then someone put some more out and the blue trend was lost but she had about 10 blue plastic eggs...strange.

She open them and inside the plastic eggs were sweets, she open the sweets put them in her mouth and spat it out. some of them she licked and then said bo yow (don't want) and handed it to me. My little girl really didn't want any of them, she wanted to open them but then didn't eat one single sweet, not even skittles...i got a chewed up one to eat spat into my hand...

Can i ask when did that happen, when did it become ok for me to get a chewed up sweet in my hand and just eat it and not bat an eyelid. Its SO gross, really gross. She does it a lot but what else am i meant to do with it other than eat it. I remember my mother doing it for me and for my kid sister, but it seems to have just happend that i am the one that gets to eat this glop!

Here are some wonderful little shots of the easter egg hunt, she is such a doll.

On Thursday we went to the amusement park that i in Taipei i've never been before but its great for little ones. It was free to get in as they are moving, but it would have only been 30 nt if we did have to pay (about 50p, or 1 dollar). Inside you pay 20 nt for the rides we went on 3 rides so it didn't cost more much at all. there are lots of playgrounds there so there i little need to go on the rides...

The first one we went on i didn't really want to go, i was sure i would feel sick...and i did. I can't handle any spinning around it makes me want to chuck my guts up. Sarah, and all little kids, love to spin, i put it down to an underdeveloped inner ear..and that mine is just so developed it can't handle being spun. We went on a little train that was way better, Sarah wasn't overly impressed...see photo. but when it stopped she wanted to go on it again, so i guess you can't always tell from the face she's pulling. The train was funny, inside the tunnel (which lasted about 1 1/2 seconds) there was a topless mermaid...really very topless and very out of place. I couldn't quite belive it, they are rather prudish in Taiwan and this was toddlers ride. SO strange. Taiwan is full of these miss matchs. Like the fcat they think its really dangerous to let a kid play with chopsticks or climb a ladder to go on a slide, but it's fine to pop them on the back of a scooter with no helmet on and ride around the city in rush hour...

we went to the amusement park with heather's niece, Eleanor, she had just arrived in Taiwan and never been before, she reminded me that this place is a bit strange. We also went with Gemma, so there we were 3 adult foreigners with 2 very blond kids and one little Sarah bear. The blond girls had people coming up to them wanting photos, of course..i say of course as i've seen this happen countless times. its really quite strange and sad. They bring there kid and ask to have a photo with the strange blond kid..what are they thinking?? i mean they get home look at the photos and show friends oh this is some stranger that i don't know with my kid, but look she's not Taiwanese! Its sad as the girls really hate it, Gemma says no touchy no touchy, and Lilli says bo yow (don't want). poor things. people try to touch them like they can't believe what they are seeing, they ask dumb questions like...is her hair real?? did you curl it?? err yer heather spends hours curling it every day...

like i said i don't know what they are thinking. I guess i am just grateful for growing up in a mixed country, but i think even if we did see something really strange we wouldn't act like they do, as we know it's not the done thing.

As for unpacking, its all done..but not all my stuff is here...so i guess it's not all done. how do you manage to accumulate so much stuff, stuff that you still really want. i came her with a couple of suitcases and now i have half a ton of stuff. Cooking stuff, clothes and toys are the main things. clothes are the biggest by far, i don't even buy many clothes i think i've brought a handful of things since being here. but my dear daughter has been given, brought and handed down, a lot of clothes. plus the things that i have brought her still fit her. She can wear things for so long that really she didn't need any more clothes. Ok so they are short on her but they still fit. She was wearing 3-6 month old trousers yesterday, and they just look a but short. Dresses have just turned into tops, it's nice. she gets a lot of mileage out of her stuff. i do worry a little bit that she's too skinny, but she's doing alright. She's 10 and half kilos now she was bit more before she got sick and i hope she getting i back soon. She’s all muscle i have to a say, she has seriously defined calves, they are like a cyclists. Amazing.

my folks send some me three parcels which was so great, one for Sarah full of clothes and crisps for her (healthy crisps..well healthier than normal ones), then a parcel for my birthday, with licorice in along with some nice tops but the licorice beats the tops hands down, i miss it a lot and love it so nice to get it again. Then we got a Easter egg parcel with three big Easter eggs in, one for me that is vegan, one for Sarah that wasn't and one for tom that wasn't either, but they liked them. Sarah will just have to eat a tiny bit at a time..which is fine as she isn't that bothered about them so you know its not a big deal.

post photos tomorrow..

We've moved!

So we've moved...well just over half the stuff.

Tom was able to move me on Saturday which was wonderful. He helped me (did most of the work) carrying all my stuff up 5 flights of stairs...which i can tell you isn't that much fun...plus on Saturday it was hot (which it isn't now and hasn't been for ages).
My mate Maddy came over and took care of Sarah, also carried stuff up the stairs. That was great or I'd never get anything done. She hang around and helped me unpack a bit and get some dinner too..there is a vegi place just across the street from me...how handy. 　There is also a subway just around the corner, and the real subway/underground/tube/mrt...what ever you want to call it, is also just there around the corner..
This is a big improvement on where i was living, there was a single bus that came every hour...if your are lucky, and stopped running at 730 at night...not good.
The new place is about 15 mins by bus from the nanny and work so we get home just after 7 every night rather than 830...
We moved (well Tom) moved the stuff in two goes so i guess i have another two trips to do this weekend to get everything there. It's so strange waking up in a new place, in new bed (which is very Taiwanese and as hard as a rock..) In the night i went into the second bedroom thinking it was the bathroom...i was awake so i quickly realised that it wasn't (so no horrible mistakes!...that happened to my cousin when she was young and use to sleep walk..she went the wrong way and sat on her sister chair..and you know did what you do on the loo...funny...i guess not for my aunt!)
Sarah seems less unsettled then i thought which is good but i have a feeling its due to the fact that she currently has a cold and a bit of a temp. My mate and here kids have all been sick with this cold, so i was in no doubt that Sarah and i will get it soon enough. i have the fortune of not getting it yet...i am waiting. i hope Sarah is better before i get sick, or that i don't' get sick at all.
So, i don't have Internet at the new place, i don't have a land line ( or even a mobile as i left the charger...did i tell you i am a tad dippy?), i don't have any spoons ...why i forgot them i don't know i have knifes and forks and teaspoons..just no normal ones...so i ate porridge with a fork and Heather at it with a teaspoon...
(She came over this morning to see the new place, with lilli. so wonderful that she can now just pop over, before it was a whole day trip now its just 20 mins to my place. nice.)
I do however feel a bit like a student again as i am boiling water to make tea or to drink in a sauce pan...as i haven't got a keetle yet...so i need to go and get one.
Ok i am at work so i better check for spellings...and post.
Just so you know i am not dead, just moving house!