"Kiasu" mommy

Since Eeanne was a baby mommy had been looking for the choice of DHA for Eeanne as a brain booster, the most commonly bought, established brand and even recommended by Dr is NeuroGain. This brand even has the special formulation for pregnant ladies called NeuroGain PB which mommy was taking during the whole pregnancy.

But due to the fishy smell of Neurogain when squeezed, Eeanne reluctant to consume it since few months old, then mommy started to look for gummies or chewable type but can't really find one in the market. So Eeanne has stopped taking it since then. Until the age of around 2 when Eeanne starts to swallow solid food, mommy started back this NeuroGain but still Eeanne not really like it.

Until beginning of this year during CNY, Eeanne's ku che bought one DHA gummies from USA which Eeanne really likes it, but mommy is not really keen on this type of gummies as you can see the layer of sugars on the surface which look really not so healthy. After that market just available on the other brand which is Nature's Way DHA burstlet (actually Eeanne tried before where it was available in S'pore during that time when Eeanne was few months old but mommy can't find it in M'sia, now finally available here).

So what are the differences between these 3 DHA?


1) CVS DHA
- 60's gummies
- RM 75++
- contents: DHA 200mg, vit C 6mg, Vit E 1.5IU, Sugar 3g, total carbohydrate 4g


2) Neurogain
- 30's vegicaps
- RM 36.90
- Contents: DHA 125mg, EPA 10mg, AA 9mg, OA 15mg, natural tocopherol 1.5mg
- contains 3 types of flavor inside: cherry, lemon and strawberry


3) Nature's Way DHA
- 90's softgel capsules(burstlet)
- RM 89.90
- Contents: DHA 133mg, EPA 28mg
- great taste of fruity flavor

So in term of content, obviously choice no.2 will be the best, but in terms of taste, choice no.3 is fantastic while choice no.1 is good on both contents and taste for kids.

Strangely now Eeanne sometimes will purposely choose the Neurogain and so enjoy with the process of swallowing a capsule.

Conclusion: does DHA really help in boosting the brain?
Answer: Actually there is no scientific proven on DHA to make a smart kid. DHA is just the essential fatty acid that is important for brain and eye development.

Think nowadays manufacturers have make a big commercial publicity on the wonders of DHA for brains, and sadly this has causes the DHA-contained milk powder price piling up and up...:-/
And so many kiasu mommies will be the victims of this marketing publicity and mommy is also one of them...:-(

What is Eeanne doing at home on weekends??

Besides the routine Saturday muzikgarten and ballet class, every Sunday, mommy would try to spend some times with Eeanne on her academic learning such as writing, drawing, reading and doing some IQ book exercises.

Sometimes Eeanne can be over active on the whole weekend until mommy was really exhausted. When mommy was drain out of energy, then the best way of keeping Eeanne entertained was to let her doing her movie action while mommy help her on the video shooting, then only mommy had the chance to rest and let Eeanne continue her acting...

But it is really fun to just sit down and watched Eeanne funny, daring and innocent childish acting characters..:-)

1..2..3..count with me...

Once mommy had checked with the Enopi center when Eeanne touched 2yo., not that mommy would like to stress on Eeanne, but it is more on giving Eeanne more activities rather than sitting at home watching movies whole day. Enopi center will only accept children 4yo and above or exceptional case in the condition the children master well in wrting 1 to 10. So during that time Eeanne was not qualify for it.

Few months back, mommy starts to expose the number writing on dotted line for Eeanne, surprisingly it only took about a week that Eeanne able to write well on 1 to 5, when came to 6, it took a little bit longer times for Eeanne to master it, the 6 is alway out of shape, then 7 and 10 are pretty easy. Now Eeanne can write 1 to 10 all by her own!! hooray!! but the 8 is totally out with some scratch that you are still able to recognise it, then 9 is the combination of zero and 7..haha

Well done Eeanne, this is indeed a great achievement for you and mommy..:-)

When come to counting, we always play using the matching flash card on number and objects. Eeanne is kind of impatient toddler, whenever come to counting, her finger will move across the counting object faster than her verbal counting, so it ended up many times there must be one number more counted. This happens usually after counting more than 11, then the impatience mood surfaced.

Mommy is glad on Eeanne's this weekend achievement, Eeanne is able to match well on the number and object up 20! Mommy jumbled up the numbers, giving Eeanne a object card, she counted and then found the numeric number to match with the object!...It is kind of home fun games that she really enjoys...

Yeah...I make it!!

My Junior Photographer

Eeanne has develops the fond of camera shooting recently, she will just asked for mommy's digital camera and then simply shot on objects around the house. There is one thing good about digital camera, it is idiot proof for all ages, even Eeanne also knows how to get her focus point..haha.

See here are some of Eeanne's shot, some are quite good but some are difficult to understand what is her picture story:-P


Shooting when kakak is doing her work or cooking...


What is so interesting about this air-cond remote control? :-/

Aiya, the flash is not turned off...

This one is out of focus, dear...

mommy finds above two are unique and quite a professional shot...

Hey...we have a junior photographer now, mommy and daddy can take more couple pic, yeh..

Daddy has miss interprete Eeanne's interest on photo shooting, daddy thought of a toy camera will fulfill Eeanne's need. So daddy have get Eeanne one real manual toy camera with film, it looks cute and feminine and we thought Eeanne will like it.....

Eeanne fell in love at first sight on this toy camera...but the love fades once she tried on the button...er...it is so different from a digital camera!! The button is so difficult to press and Eeanne got agitated after a few try. Haha...daddy, Eeanne is serious into photo shooting with real digital camera and not just a play fun toy camera lah....

We have underestimate Eeanne's talent...

see this toy camera...no fun no fun...Eeanne can't see the shot immediately after she snapped.

Eeanne's new breakfast

It has been almost a month mommy didn't update Eeanne's blog, maybe due to mommy's increase work load recently and also mommy was terribly not well for a week last month. Mommy has lost track on Eeanne's recent milestone, mmm...guess we have stop after the CNY post.


Ok...let's start with the CNY gathering with mommy's friends.


Eeanne was eagerly anticipating for her new friends' arrival a day before and when finally the day came, Eeanne was really enjoying herself. Recently mommy could really feel the loneliness of Eeanne playing alone, there were few times that Eeanne told mommy:"I want a ti ti(brother)" and sometimes she would say:"I want a mei mei(sister)". As a single child, mommy is glad to observe that Eeanne is not so attach to her possession, she is performing well in sharing her toys with her new friends!



Eeanne and auntie Chee Hoon's 2 children(嘉恩and ?? sorry mommy forgot the name)


Eeanne is having fun with Ryenne (auntie Pang's princess)

Think it is good to have once in a while of mother gathering to share our experience, to learn new tactic to handle our kids, to get more info on our kids' academic progress and many more stories to share.


After knowing from Auntie Pang on what Ryenne takes for breakfast everyday, then only mommy realises that Eeanne is lack of healthy breakfast. Since Eeanne started on solid food, she is a very choosy baby, everything that we introduced to her, she will only tried for the most 3 times and then rejected the same food. All this while mommy was concern on Eeanne not having a good healthy balance breakfast, but gradually after a few trial on different meals, mommy gave up and then just gave Eeanne her daily milk as breakkfast. What we had tried were:
1) bread with kaya (Eeanne doesn't like bread much)
2) bread with sausage
3) just sausage (after a while get bored)
4) boiled egg (luckily Eeanne still like this until today)
5) Nutrifresh (doesn't like it at all, ended up mommy finished the whole box)
6) just cookies (it is too dry)
7) just milo (take ages for Eeanne to finish, mommy is too rush to wait for Eeanne to finish every morning)


So after hearing that Ryenne is having nutritious breakfast every morning, mommy really feel so bad and ashamed, think it is time to try again new thing for Eeanne breakfast.


So the next day, mommy went to the organic shop to look for Eeanne's breakfast, these are what we get....

Organic Soy drink + Juvo (60 healthful natural ingredients from vegetables and fruits)

Wau...mommy is so happy that Eeanne likes this breakfast, to avoid her from getting bored again, mommy only gives Eeanne in alternate morning. Slowly mommy found out that Eeanne doesn't like much on the soy drink, then we alternate it with Horlicks. Luckily Eeanne likes the Juvo! We even tried to sprinkle Juvo on the porridge, she likes it! yummy....

And it is so silly that mommy now have to buy this Juvo from the organic shop, it is one of mommy's pharmacy merchants few months back and no one treasures its value and mommy returned it. Now think mommy has to reorder and introduces it to mothers whose children do not have a balance diet of greenish food.

Mmm....mothers out there, think we need to meet up more frequent and sharing info, it really lessen the unnecessary stress that we went through....:-)