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My 13 months old girl was down with fever last Friday and as usual, we will let her wear the fish-net type of clothing and keep putting on wet hanky on her forehead to bring down her temperature.

She recovered on Saturday though she was still a bit weak. She normally likes to point at stuff when she wants something, but when she was sick, her pointing is also weak, the hand is outstretched but finger is still weak and pointing down. I'm so glad she was not fussy at all when we collected our Nissan LEAF car during the official ambassador launch event.

And on Sunday, it was my 3.5 years old boy's turn to get fever. I have been administering paracetamol to him every 4 hours when his temperature exceeds 37.4C

On Monday 8th Oct, his temperature at 3.30am was 38.4C and at 8.20am was 38.7C. I immediately bathed him in lukewarm water, change a new set of fish-net clothes for him, feed him his breakfast (oats with raisins) and then he pooped and continued watching his TV (guess it will be relax day for today).

Btw he was still active, alert and playful as usual though a bit more quiet when his temperature was at 38C-ish. And yeah, he kept taking off the wet hanky I put on his head so in the end I decided to do this:

Found an old hairband which I don't use anymore (my hair is short nowadays), wash and wet it and put it on his head. DIY at the spur of moment, as long as it works. His temperature at 11am is 37C, so I hoped it will go down and back to normal soon.

We do not celebrate Halloween but when I saw this app title, I thought of Ben. He is into spooky things on and off and I thought what better way to spook him more hahaha... At first, I was actually spooked after reading this story app for the first time without Ben as nowadays I prefer to vett through the apps before I let him have a go at the apps and was wondering whether my boy could take this kind of story. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: What was I Scared of? - Dr. Seuss
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Updated: 21 May 2012
* Version: 1.0.9
* Size: 13.8 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later.

Description from the product page:

"Perfect for Halloween or any time of year, this story delivers a timeless message about fear and tolerance. The tale begins with a character who repeatedly meets up with an empty pair of pale-green pants. The character is initially afraid of the pants, which are able to stand on their own despite the lack of a wearer. However when he screams for help and the pants also start to cry, he realizes that "They were just as scared as I!" Putting fear in the proper perspective, the empty pants become good friends with the character."

What's good?

* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* I like the storyline where it tells how the main character (I tell my 3.5 years old boy that it is a bear) met a pants that can move and how they both got scared of each other and in the end became friends!

* To my surprise, my boy loves this app! We go through this almost every day once! He likes to be spooked! Hahahaha! But seriously, what I hope to impart on my boy is there is no need to be fearful of anything, God will protect us and to remain calm in all situations, even find the funny side of things!

*** Update 8th Nov 2012: My boy can tell me back the story of this app (of course not word by word - but he got the storyline right!) Coolness! Also shows how much he goes crazy for this app! :D

You can purchase the "What was I Scared of? - Dr. Seuss" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"