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Ian has been complaining of painful teeth since before CNY. I have been taking it lightly, because the weather has been hot and guess he was just being ‘heaty’ and probably had gum infection.

I used to brush his teeth every night and train him to brush himself in the morning, because I want to ensure that his teeth is absolutely clean before he goes to bed. I am quite particular about teeth myself, so won’t let go this evening routine.

However, the past 2 months, my job has been getting really demanding that I have been home very late. Maid has taken over this role, so I didn’t really see his teeth much – an oversight myself…

Last Wed night, as usual I was home very late. They were waiting for me, refused to go sleep before seeing me. DH was attending to them, when I reached home at 10+pm. I went straight to their room, and DH was examining Ian’s teeth because he complaint again.

Oh! To our surprise, we saw this:

So, congratulations to my boy, his as having his first permanent tooth!

This permanent tooth is popping out from his inner gum, behind the current milk teeth. There is another big one threatening to pop as well.

The milk teeth are still holding strong to their place, not nudging slightly at all, refusing to give space.

Well, this has taken us by surprise because we did not expect this to come so quickly.

I have a set of very ugly teeth, due to the small jaw and large teeth. I wore braces when I was young and did not complete the treatment, which took me 4+ years and I gave up due to the hassle. This uneven teeth of mine was very difficult to clean and very easy to cause tooth decay, so naturally I was quite worried lah…

We didn’t know what to do, so decided to ask our dentist. Dr. Yip has been a good dentist to us, and Ian visited him a few times for checkups.

So we brought him in last Saturday, and this is what the doctor said.

No need to do anything. Let nature take the course. Some dentists may recommend to extract the milk teeth, but he won’t. He said, if there is any ‘damage’ (as in not in the right place), it has been done. No point extracting 4 tiny good milk teeth to give space to that 2 huge permanent teeth that has already grown in a different position.

He said, the teeth will be pushed by Ian’s tongue naturally, and will cause the milk teeth to get loose and will fall off later. The jaw will expand, and will give more space for the permanent teeth to grow later.

I just have to play by ears. Doc confirmed that it is a bit early for Ian. He said usually firth tooth popped around the age of 6+ and it is later for boys. Ian is not yet 6, actually only 5 and a half.

Yeek! Looking at his permanent tooth size, which is double the size of his current milk teeth, I can roughly guess that he would inherit my horrible set of teeth. Poor thing, got this from his mommy. :p

Sunday morning, Ian and Isabel woke up at around 8am, but I still wanted to sleep a little longer. They came and lied down next to me. Ian hugged me from behind, then touched my tummy.

He said, “Mama, why are you so FAT?!”

I responded, “Because I gave birth to the two of you loh.”

Then, he touched my arms, my back, etc. And said, “Mama, your everywhere is 肥 (FAT). Why everywhere of you is so 肥 (FAT)?”

I was so sad already… then he added on, “I think you really need to go 减肥 (on diet/ reduce weight) already. Why you don’t want to go 减肥?”

WAHHHHH WAAAAHHH WAAAHHH! I am so sad ler.

After lunch, when talked about this, DH added more salt to my wound. He said, “Ya, Ian, Mama and Daddy are the opposite, Daddy is F-I-T, and Mama is F-A-T, hahahaha!”

I think I should have better off married someone who is FAT, so I won’t be intimidated like that.

I watched Avatar 3D on Tuesday. It was really, REALLY, great. Okay, the storyline is actually quite ordinary, a little reflecting our earthen war in the Middle East ==> a nation is full of rare and rich resource, another nation come to take. Those who refuse to cooperate, will be killed.

But the 3D effect was really good. I have tried other 3D movies before, and had the dizzy effect, the 3D effect wasn’t as great as this one.

With this movie (or the Dolby 3D glasses), the moment the glasses was put on, what I could think was “WOW!” The subtitles were like floating on the air. The ashes that fell down, felt like real and falling on us. The experience is something that worth the money I spent, as I know I can’t enjoy this on my laptop or on TV.

You know, I enjoy it so much I felt like taking Ian to try it out. There are 2 concerns here. It is 13PG –> I wonder what does it mean. I am Ian’s parent, with me bringing him, can he enter?

Another concern is, since he is colorblind, can he still see 3D? All 3D glasses are red on the left and green on the right. If he cannot differentiate green from orange, would that turn out that what he sees is still 2D?

I Googled and found this:

It depends on the color vision deficiency, and the degree of severity. A color vision deficient person can see recent 3D movies devised to be seen with glasses using crossed polaroid lenses, but not the old style 3D movies devised to be seen wearing anaglyph (red-green) glasses. Redgreen colorblind people do sometimes have difficulties with red-green anaglyph images since although the colors appear similar, the intensities are rather different – the red image typically looks darker than the green.

Not sure what glasses was provided by Dolby 3D is based on what kind of technology. Is it using that ‘crossed polaroid lenses’ or anaglyph. I remember the glasses I used, had the traditional red-left green-right lenses.

If I bring Ian, I will spend nearly RM40 for the 2 of us. Hmm… really wonder if it worth or not. What would you do if you were me? (not to argue whether this movie content is suitable for him to watch or not, pls)

Yesterday, the potential new maid’s existing employer came to visit, to discuss detail about the switch.

We chatted at the living room for a while, then with the corner of my eyes, I saw Ian busy climbing up and down using a stool, and I thought “Sigh! Play in my kitchen again, later you know!”

We continued our discussion, then suddenly, Ian appeared with a glass of water, and served to my guest!

Hey! He is only 5 yo, and he is even better than his mommy, me, know to offer my visitor a drink. His mommy, me, didn’t even think of offering a drink to my guest.

The lady kept praising him, made me so proud of him.

Lately, Ian likes to curse “shit”. He has been saying that so many times. First time he cursed, I jumped and scolded him.

He was puzzled. He asked why I was angry with him. I then asked him why he said “dah bian’. He explained to me that he did not say “shit” as in “dah-bian”. He said, “This ’shit’ is just ‘Oh My God’”

LOL! Then, I explained to him that it is not right to keep saying that, because it is called ‘cursing’. He answered back, “Why daddy always say that?”

See!!! I have been telling DH not to say this in front of the kids. He has been careful all this while, but somehow lately he doesn’t seem to be concerned or care about this!!

And another incidence…

One day, Ian talked to DH downstairs. When he was talking, DH was on the way going up. Then, somehow DH thought Ian was talking to Isabel and he ignored. For a while Ian talked, and then suddenly he paused, then raised his voice:

“Wei! Am I talking to the air ah? Are you listening to what I say?”

Hahahahahaha! DH quickly responded to him and apologized.

Ahem! Guess what? That is exactly the phrase that I always use, whenever I talk to Ian without getting any response. Hahahahaha!

Kids really know how to imitate us!! Must be really careful with what we do and what we say.