Macau trip - Such a resilient and brave girl!

I broke my own record this time round for not updating Karis' blog for more than three months. Probably that's because the toddlerhood phase seems to be physically more demanding, and Karis has reduced her day-time nap to only once, so that accounts for my time spent in updating her blog to be reduced by at least half :) Nevertheless, all the fun, with the very sweet and heart-warming gestures from Karis outweighs the energy and time required!

The three of us set off to Macau for a five-day trip on 2 Oct. Lo and behold, our barang-barang amounts much (of course, our sweetheart is the princess so she's the most barang of all) - one gigantic luggage bag, one luggage bag, two big carrier bags carried by hubby and I, and lastly one Dora bag that is carried by Karis, who demonstrates great accountability towards this responsibility :)

Some of the barang-barang:-
- Clothings, blanket, towel, jacket
- Half a big box of diaper
- One tin of milk powder
- Doll-doll (it's a MUST!)
- Bolster
- FP laptop
- Barney videos downloaded in Ipod
- Books for bedtime story
- Small bottle of olive oil
- Panadol, pamaforte and nurofen and other essential medicine
- Thermometer
- Dora bag containing numerous stickers, colour pencils, pencil and an Elmo colouring book!
- Canned tuna, instant cereals, bread, yogurt bars, rice bars (ha! seems soo much food that we've brought, since it's not as easy to find food in Macau, and we are just typically kiasu to play safe than sorry)
- many more!

Thank God that Karis has been such a strong and brave girl throughout the whole trip and coming back. She had fever and had high fever for a while during the third day. Her milk appetite dropped by at least half for two days while we were overseas, and does not have appetite for food except porridge.

Once we are back to Sing, we were glad that we sought advice from a pediatrician who said that Karis had been infected with HFMD. We had visited our family doc downstairs before that, who confirmed that Karis did not have HFMD. It really seems that the outward signs of HFMD may not be that obvious for Karis' case, or probably for most cases? We are really proud of Karis as the ulcer must be really painful, and throughout the ordeal, our sweetheart had not fret much, and has been very bubbly, happy and active. We were also thankful that the fever lasted less than a day.