Chen Xi & Mama's Blog

Some Updates About Chen Yi at 16Months+

2011-12-13T22:07:00.000+08:00

At 16months old...

..... He has started to sleep through the night, it happened since last week, it was a month after he fully weaned of from breastfeeding. His last milk at night at around 9pm, and he sleep through till 6am or 7am in the morning.... in fact, I should feel relief cos finally I got chance to have a good night sleep too after 16months of "sleepless" night, don't play play.... he could wake up up to 4times at night to cry for milk!! But, I feels like something was missing.... the feeling is weird. I think I miss breastfeeding, I miss the bonding moment between me and my Chen Yi baobei.

..... He has got 10teeth now. I just noticed his first molar(right upper, and left lower) was erupting.... don't know since when it sprouted, I've noticed the lower molar one week ago, but the upper one I just realised last night when he yelling during bath time, I saw two little white thingie, and it is really sharp! Ouch!! it must be very painful, now I know why he keep drooling lately... and he's cranky too.

..... He started to walk on his own!!! This is surely his greatest achievement so far... When he started to stand up at 10months old, I thought he will be walking soon... waited, and waited... no sign of walking, but in the other way, he preferred crawling than walking. Then at 14months, he started to walk few steps with support, by that time, I really thought he's ready to go! But still, he preferred crawling.... so eventually, at 16months and 1week old, he started to walk more often, he want us to hold hands and walk together, soon he started to walk 3-4 steps on his own, then sit back and stand up himself and walk again.

My boy, he has grown up so much...

Yes..He can walk now!

He can also ride this little Tolocar now.

给宝贝宸毅的话：：

宸毅，

在你人生的第十六个月里，你好像一夜长大了许多。。原谅妈咪一直没注意到你因长牙而承受的痛，还在你闹脾气的时候对你大声，甚至打你，每每妈咪向你大声的时候，你都不哭，只是睁大眼看着我，然后扁嘴。妈咪开始觉得你越来越听得懂我们说的话，我应该慢慢跟你说道理才对。是妈咪做的不够好，但你一定要相信，妈咪爱你，爸爸也是，姐姐也是。。如今，你已迈向人生的另一个里程碑--你会走路了！你知道吗，很多人说你慢，但妈咪从未把它放在心上，因为妈咪实在享受看你爬的各种花招动作。当你跨出人生的第一步时，我们一家都为你感到高兴，尤其是姐姐，她一直用很自豪的眼光看你然后给你鼓励“来，来，走来姐姐这边”继而跟我报告“妈咪，你看弟弟会自己走路了！！” 妈咪想要对你说的是，未来你要走的路还长着，希望你沿途一路都是好风景，妈咪会一直不断地给你加油！

妈咪上

Chen Xi's First Makeover

2011-12-02T14:37:00.000+08:00

She has done her first ever makeover photography in early November, here are the outcomes ;) quite satisfied with the result, it was a cheap package anyway... kekek. RM38, 3pcs of 4R picture inclusive of hairdo and makeup.

配合宽中校庆筹款义卖活动，我购买了两张义拍券。
三十八块的配套包括了两个造型，三张4R照。
是划算的。。。;p
拍照当天宸希很乖，很合作。
拍到第二个造型才warm up起来。。
满场跑，搞得造型师姐姐一直追着她弄头发。:D
嗯，幸好效果出来还算满意。
只是稍显那个口红不够自然。哈！

Her School Holiday's Program

2011-11-29T15:28:00.002+08:00

I enrolled Chen Xi to a of play camp in the first week of school holidays. She get involved in different activities like arts and craft, music and movements, smart sensory games, science and discovery and story telling during the 5days play camp, in overall, the class is all about to PLAY! No ABC, no 123... It was a total brand new learning experience for her, I was glad that she enjoyed herself very much from day 1, I could see her happy smile every day when I fetch her in the end of the class. Apparently, she benefited a lot from this school holiday program. ;)

Her happy smile :) I forgot what she's holding, a play-dough if not wrong ;)

Story telling time. Err....《会飞的箱子》, very thoughtful teacher, let children have the real experience in the "flying box".

Make new friends... I was glad that she can mix well with other children.

Gross motor activities to create their body awareness/balance.

More pictures from FB here, here and here

He Decided to Self Wean!

2011-11-21T22:20:00.005+08:00

At 15months & 2weeks old, he has decided to reject mummy's boobs completely! I didn't want to stop though, but I guess the tiny bit of milk left were not enough for him anymore...
So now, no more "human pacifier" for him in the middle of night, and there ends my breastfeeding journey.

I'm grateful that I was able to bf for this long, and now I really missed breastfeeding!!

Me and my Koalas

2011-11-15T23:15:00.003+08:00

Love being clang by them like this....

就是喜欢像这样的“左拥右粘”，感觉自己特别被需要！

晚安，宝贝！

He's Almost There

2011-10-13T22:03:00.007+08:00

At 14months and 2weeks old, Chen Yi still doesn't know how to walk by himself yet. Many peoples told me he is slow, his leg is not strong enough that's why he cannot walk, and the blah blah blah goes on... All those comments can be quite irritating at times, but then I don't mind... I believe he will start walking once he is ready. I still enjoyed watching him crawl at the moment, I know one day when he had mastered the walking skill, he wouldn't crawl that often anymore!

Take your own pace 宝贝，慢慢来！

He crawls most of the time at home now, he will climb up the sofa/bed or stand up along the object for few minutes and then sit back again, he walks only one or two steps with support. So today, I was quite surprise seeing him walking thru and forth the sofa for so many rounds while he playing excitedly with Xixi.

Our Merdeka Raya at Desaru

2011-09-12T22:03:00.001+08:00

We were off to Desaru for a 3days 2night stay during the Merdeka Raya holidays. It was such a wondeful trip with the companions of all wonderful peoples... my dearie parents, my grandma, my lovely aunties and cousins and of cos hubby and my 2kids!! Altogether 14 of us travelled in 3cars!

The newly opened highway has definitely shorten the distance from Senai to Desaru. But certain parts of the highway are narrow and it's not so "highway" though :( It was a rainy morning and drizzle on our way to Desaru luckily the rain stop when we arrived our destination!!

This is the view from our apartment. We checked-in Lotus Desaru Beach Resort, the apartment is conveniently built with a living and dining area. We brought all our ingredients there and we had our steamboat in the apartment!

Besides the steamboat we had in our apartment, we also dined at this seafood restaurant called Jade Garden in Sungai Rengit. This restaurant is very famous, it's always packed on weekends and public holidays. We waited for 1and a half hour for our dishes to be served, chilli crabs and lobster are two dishes which we wouldn't miss to order everytime we dine there. =)

So being stayed in such a resort, the happy girl of mine wouldn't miss any chance of splish-splashing in the pool... she was super enegertic throughout the trip, she even skipped her naps for 2days!

Enjoying her sand plays at the beach. She was a clean freak at first when we picnic at the seaside... she complaint that her slipper got sands and she want us to carry her... haha ;)

who knows she adapted to the sand so fast.... she ran towards the sea and "chase" the wave! Thanks my cousins who help me to look after her... Xixi really loves her yi-yi, she clang to them all times!

Didi didn't really has chance to "soak" in the water yet this time round, but he was very excited all day long too... how nice if he can walk and play together with jie-jie =)

Enjoying the breeze and watching jie-jie playing while mummy taking pictures =) The kids were enjoyed themself to the max during the day times at the beach and the pool... even the manja Didi doesn't that manja, and he allowed my auntie to carry him.

And the best part was... they dozed off as early as 8.30pm at night, so me and hubby could sneaked out to the beach front for a short stroll... it was a windy night and we enjoyed our cocktails!

On the last day of our trip, we visited the Ostrich farm. Hmm.... actually nothing much to see, and it's kind of dissappointment... the place is quite "ulu" and it's smelly!!

There're not much photos taken at the farm, cos Xixi afraid of the ostrich... and so she reluctant to take photo with the ostrich! This is the only photo that she smile ;) stepping on the ostrich's egg!!

随笔

2011-09-06T00:31:00.001+08:00

我，最近，
词穷。
上部落格，
只看，
不写。。
生活中许多点点滴滴，
不知从何写起。

然而，

还是希望能把美好的回忆

都记录在此，

我尽量。。。

最后，

送上一张我家宸毅的近照，

看了叫我微笑的。。。

Alternative

2011-08-15T11:08:00.002+08:00

It wasn't easy at all to expose Chen Yi an alternate's milk, he has not been introduce to any formula milk others than breast milk since birth. I would say it was the toughest job in my parenthood journey so far, I was in big dilemma during that period of times.... a lots of crying and screaming happened in the very beginning but I was grateful that finally we did it!! The switch over wouldn't be success without my husband's helping hands, too... thanks dear!

We started introduced Chen Yi to baby's formula since he was 11months... many brands we've tried, we also tried different flavour, but sadly.. he rejected them all. Apparently he doesn't like the taste of dairy's products, icecream, yogurt and cow's milk included! So we try our luck on soy based formula instead... fortunately!! This is the only formula he will open his mouth willingly and ask for more! You know how excited we were when he finally finished the 1oz milk during our first few attempts?! Then we increase gradually to 2oz, 3oz... and amazingly he's taking 6oz now!

We took about a month to introduce him to formula, let him familiarize with each different formula, so up till now, it has been 3weeks since he accepted his new formula(Isomil Plus), he rely merely on his porridge and formula milk during day time. I breastfeed him on bed time, he still wake up frequently(up to 4times) look for my comfort. But anyway, I'm satisfied enough as long as he's taking formula cos my breast milk supply was running low... I hope he gets sufficient nutrition from the milk and his daily meals.

He rejected bottles and straw cups, though he can drink from his Mag-Mag cup pretty well now but he decided to be spoon fed! It can be challenging as he moves a lot and he just wouldn't concentrade through out the feeding times.. so I will normally give him a toy to play with, sing nursery ryhmes for him, talk to him... do whatever I can to distract him until he finish his 6oz milk!! It's really tiring... but all worth it after all!! =)

Preparing For Her JMC Primary 1 Concert

2011-08-12T14:57:00.001+08:00

After so many times of teaching and practicing, finally.... Chen Xi can play "Happy Day"!! This is her last song in her JMC Primary 1 course, and this also means her graduation concert is coming. I'm looking forward to her performance in the concert on 4/9. She still needs lots of practice now to familiarize with the rhythm and the correct keyboard location.

Nevertheless, she requires someone there to give her some moral support. If she could play the song well, she wants us to clap hands for her. So the rather obedient Didi will never fail to do his job, whenever asked to clap his hand, he will clap non-stop! He really know how to make jie-jie happy!

So here's the very supportive Didi...

...and the very happy Jie jie here, playing "Happy Day", the song she had practiced for sooo long!! Enjoy! ;)

宸希，你知道妈妈有多么为你高兴吗？教了你无数次，你终于学会弹这首歌！接下来还有很多很多的歌要学，妈咪会陪着你，我们一起学！加油！！

Chen Yi's 1st Birthday

2011-08-01T15:00:00.001+08:00

He is officially ONE on 28-July-2011.
Time really flies...
I still remember vividly the feeling of his punches and kicks in my belly,
till the moment I was pushed to the operation theatre.
Everthing seems like just happened yesterday....
I still miss his baby days so much,
and now he is already a toddler!

宸毅，你一岁了。。
已不再是个小贝比，要更听话懂事了！
愿你身体健康，平安喜乐！
欢笑多一点，哭闹少一点！^.^

爱你的爸爸，妈咪 & 姐姐上

The birthday cake.

The birthday boy. It's difficult to snap a proper picture of him nowadays... he is way tooo active!

No big celebration this year... just a cake cutting session at my parent's place.

Cake cutting... Xixi insist to cut the cake and blow the candle on behalf. She is such a loving sister... she kept wishes her Didi "Happy Birthday" and keep reminding us to wish Didi 生日快乐too! =)

Last but not least, Mama and the kids. ;)

玩~伴！Playmate

2011-07-07T15:14:00.006+08:00

I'm grateful cos they can get along well...

I'm grateful that they are playmate for each other...

I'm so blessed to have their laughter accompanies me...

It's simply heart warming seeing them chasing each other in the house =)

They play like this in the house everyday. It's something interesting for them to kill time this way, and for me too... at least I can take my bath for a good 15minutes (in peace)!! ^.^

Chen Yi at 11Months Old

2011-06-30T21:24:00.001+08:00

Just 2days ago, Chen Yi eventually turned 11months old! Very soon he will be ONE! Just another one more month to go.... that's how fast time flies!!

In the past one month, he definitely had achieved quite a number of important milestone in his life. It was like just recently he can sit up firmly, and now... he can sit up on his own and slowly stand up with support!! So now, he's no longer that eat and sleep baby! He wouldn't lying down for more than 5seconds(Can you imagine how hard when comes to changring time?)! Whenever he is awake, he just restless!! He will crawl and crawl searching for things that he's interested and sit up exploring(makan-ing) and sometimes he stand up lean on the sofa and starts adventuring! He is getting more and more mobile, more and more curious now... he has got his first cut on his lip two weeks backed when he attemps to climb over my leg to reach a food container! He climb up to reach the window and also trying to reach Xixi's toys container nowadays.

I could see his upper laterial incisor is sprouting soon, and maybe due to this, he drink very little milk these few weeks. At times, I only nurse him 2-3 times during the day... he refuse to latch on any longer. Guess what,... he prefer to wake me up 3-4times at night for nen-nen! :S Though I've tried to give him formula(my supply is getting low), but he rejected very very firmly! *HELPS!!* But then one thing I really grateful was, he loves the food I prepared for him. He is not as picky as his sister... and he also more willing to drink plain water nowadays, 5-7oz a day.. that's consider good already. ;) He likes fruits and snacks... just recently I introduced him to rice rusk and he simply loves it!! That's his very first snack!

Besides Mummy, his most favourite person will be Xixi!! Did I mentioned that both of them can now play together?? I feel so heart warming to see they can get along well... They used to play together before nap/bed time and it's truly entertaining seeing them cuddling and playing with each others. The manja boy of mine, he calls Xixi as Deh Deh and hubs as Ah Pa. He loves calling them so much!! LOL :D

Can stand up with support already.

Get ready to perform stunt! Climbing up the sofa and continue adventuring!

He still loves to put everything into mouth. He's more interested on the "real toy", things like cordless phone, remote control, calculator... noticed he prefered those "toy" with many buttons! :S

Holding his rusk carefully then self feed himself happily!

Her Conversation with Teacher

2011-06-24T22:56:00.005+08:00

I went to fetch Xixi this morning, I reached her kindy 10minutes before her class finished. While waiting outside the gate, I overheard a conversation(sorts of chatting) between a teacher and students(in Xixi's class). The conversation goes like these:

Teacher asked: "Children, what you want to be when you grow up one day? Who wants to become Doctor?"

I saw my Chen Xi raised up her hand, standing up and told teacher: "I WANT TO BECOME DOCTOR!!"

Teacher: "Ok, so you will be a Doctor. We will call you Doctor Chen Xi!"

So the children were so delighted and calling her name... "Doctor Chen Xi". I saw Xixi was talking to her friends too and followed by her "signature" laughter... "WAHAHAHA!" *faint*

Next, teacher continues to ask: "When you sick, you go to see Doctor, isn't it? What did Doctor give you?"

Again, Xixi stand up and answered teacher: "SWEET!"

I was like... *OMG!*. To her, her medicine is all like sweet, she likes taking medicine all these while, because most of it taste sweet! At home, she is one real chatterbox, she talk and talk non-stop! However, when we were outside, she was quite a timid/gentle/shy girl. So, what amazed me the most was, she dare to talk loudly, somemore laugh loudly in front of her teacher and friends!

Chen Xi, my cheerful talkative girl! ^.^ I just love her that way! ;p
By the way, can you roll toungue like this? I can't!

Chen Xi's 4 Years Old Birthday Celebration

2011-06-20T22:00:00.001+08:00

This is another backdated post. I have been late for almost two months! *blush*

Xixi's birthday falls on a public holiday(in lieu of Labour Day) this year. So, we have decided to celebrate her birthday in advance in her school on 29/4(Friday). She went to school happily in the morning with her birthday cake. She choose the cake herself... a 3D cake from Secret Recipe. =) Nice deco, nice to eat... but the icing was very thick! haha ;)

Her teacher tooks the photo of Xixi, posing with the cake. She loves the cake so much!

Make a wish before blowing candles... I asked her what's her wish, she told me "Just a wish lor". obviously she doesn't really understand what's the meaning of making wish. haha =)

Make sure she blows all the four candles! Haha... she still remembered her friend blow her candles last year when she celebrate her birthday in nursery!

Enjoy her piece of chocolate cake. I know she not really eat the cake, she fancy the decoration of the cake only. She was amazed her name "Chen Xi" was printed on the cake and she told me this is "Chen Xi's cake".

When I go to fetch her after school, her teacher told me Xixi was very very happy that day. =) Ya, I can sense that too...

Here are her birthday pressies.
Clock wise:
Meal Making Play Doh Set from us;
Nike Shoes from my brother (she has been wearing this to school now);
Cheongsam from my dad;
The pig. She decided it is the "angry bird" and pestered my mum to buy this for her!
Piglet plush toy from Sharon ;)

The birthday girl in her pinky Cheongsam. My mum bought this for her from Vivo City. The sales girl was very good in dolls Xixi up! The matching necklace and the headband are not cheap, in the end we only bought the dress which already cost S$60!

Complimentary Diapers AGAIN!! ;)))

2011-06-03T22:06:00.006+08:00

My letter is being selected as one of the Star Letter in Drypers Parents' Circle(issue 1, 2011). This is my second time of winning, actually. =) As a token of apprecition, SCA Hygiene(the manufacturer of Drypers and Dypantz) sent me some prize.

So, somewhere around last week I received a parcel. I was surprise because the parcel was quite huge! It contains 8packets of Drypantz(20pcs, size L), plus 2 mystery gifts inside! Seriously, I would say SCA Hygiene is one very generous company. Those diapers can really save me a lot! Thank you so much SCA! I will certainly keep writting. ;)

These are the complimentary Drypantz. It can last Chen Yi for almost 6months! He wears only one piece disposable at night. I cloth-diapering him during day time.

The letter that I sent in.. =)

2 mystery gifts - Photo frame, which I already have 3 at home, ;P and the activity book. This book come in just in time for Xixi to kill her time on this school holidays.

Sweet Little Gesture from Sweet Little Her

2011-06-01T21:52:00.005+08:00

**This is a backdated post**

Xixi brought back a craft flower for me as Mother's day present. She passed the flower to me with a bright smile and she greeted me "Happy Mother's Day" with a sweet kiss on my face when I fetch her from her kindy on Friday(6-May-2011). Her sweet voices and her little gesture sure had brighten up my day!

The flower is made from those fruit wrapper thingy and the branch is made from a disposable chopstick. Very nice.... I like it very much! (Though I know most of the part were done by teacher, but then is the heart thats count... heheh) I should thank the kindy teacher because they are so creative. I didn't know the fruit wrapper that we used to discard can transformed to be a beautiful flower! And also thank their effort by teaching the kids to treasure mother's love.

Chen Yi at 10months+

2011-05-31T20:40:00.000+08:00

Here are some updates of the little "King" at home. Time flies, he is at his 10th months now, 2 more months to his big ONE!

His 2 upper central incisor erupted. Err... don't know since when its erupts but I only realised it two weeks ago, on 17-April(Vesak day holiday) morning when I brushed his teeth. So, more teeth means can bite more food and he was trying to bite my hands and legs too @.@ More new foods like brocolli, cauliflower and tofu been added to his menu. So far, he enjoy his daily meal very much.. am thankful that he is not as picky as Xixi. =)

He is getting more and more playful for sure! He likes to interact with Xixi, chasing Xixi on his walker from one end to another end at home. Nowadays he can "fly" really really fast on his walker! He still stick to his army style crawling, but he can crawl even faster now! He also start to "ransack" my drawer now, everything he is able to reach on the table, especially remote control... He loves to bath, playing with water and refuse to get out from his tub... This little rascal of mine, I just love cuddling with him, smelling him, and tickle him. His "kakaka" laughter is forever music to my ears! How I wish he don't grow up that fast! ;)

At 9months+, he has learned something lately... hahaha. (Finally the lazy mum taught him something)He can waving his hands for goodbye. He knock his head with mine when he is happy, when he know it's meal time. And now every morning, he will come and knock me/hubby's head, his very own way to greet us good morning... hahaha. After a long wait, finally..... he can sit up firmly on himself for more than 5minutes now!

He will babbling non-stop when he is in the mood. He makes the sounds like "Ah-kak", "Deh-deh-deh", "Ah-Ba", "Ba-ba-ba", "iey-iey", "chie-chie", Xixi and hubby were so happy because he sounds like calling them "chie-chie"(sister) and "Ah-Ba"(daddy). LOL ;D Till now, there's no sign of calling "mama" yet.. haha.. which is good!

We brought him to saloon for his first hair cut some times ago, some peoples comments he looks like a girl already with the hair so long.... so hubby decided to cut his hair short. As expected, he cried very badly in the saloon. At times, he can really cry until very very pitiful. He can't separate with either one of us. If we just leave him alone in the living room and we walk away for a while, he will cry his lung out and crawl everywhere to look for us! *helps!! I would like to know how to deal with this kind of separation anxiety!!* My koala bear.... he still very very manja!

She Can Read

2011-05-20T14:33:00.006+08:00

To be honest, I was quite surprise to know that she can read the whole "Paul and Mary Book 1" (A progressive reader she brought back from school)... We're mandarin speaking family, I never thought she's so keen to learn new word from her english reader... Futhermore, the school not really expose them to the reader yet and I only taught her few times at home.

Two days ago, she told me she read the book for her classmate in class... and after checking with her teacher, her teacher told me Xixi was appointed to be the "lil teacher" in class to read the book to her classmate every day since she can read very well now!! (So hard for me to believe that!) *double surprise*

This is the short video clips of Xixi reading ;)

On Her Birthday... (Part 2)

2011-05-16T23:45:00.000+08:00

After some shopping and had lunch at Vivo City, we continued our journey to Sentosa Island. We checked-in Hotel in Resort World, Sentosa which we have booked months ago.

We stayed here for one night. =)

A very nice room, I would say. The room still in very new condition, and we were giving a room facing swimming pool! Hubby and Xixi occupied each of the single bed.

This is something I really like about the room... this is the sofa which can be transformed to a queen size bed as well. I and Chen Yi slept here. So it's very suitable for people like us... a small family of 4... with baby, especially! Hubby comments that the sofa bed is even more comfortable than his bed @_@

Look, we just entered the room for less than 5minutes, the birthday girl already starts pestering us to bring her to the pool. :S It was still drizzling outside, but how can she resist the swimming pool outside our balcony? So, hubby brought her to have some splashing fun while I pat Chen Yi to nap. Thanks Joanne for the swimming costume, it fit nicely on Xixi!

While Chen Yi in his la-la land, I left him to my auntie and I sneaked out from our room. I took some pictures of hubby and Xixi's happy moments in the pool. =) Xixi has been anticipated this day for long!

The weather was not good, and it's getting cold. So we leave the pool and Xixi taking her afternoon nap together with Didi.

While the two little rascals taking their nap, with my auntie's helps, I and hubby went out for a short stroll. I also met up with Sharon, a blogger friend from Singapore. Nice to meet up with you again, Sharon!! It was a nice evening spending together with you... and thank you for everthing.... the Happy Meal, the mini cake, the birthday pressie, the candylicous and I almost forgot to tell you,.... that the cake you baked is really yummy!! :D

Then, we had our dinner at baits by Ding Tai Feng 馀铒，鼎泰丰。It is normal the restaurant was pack during public holidays, we waited for about 20 minutes only we got a table. Needless to say, it is worth of waiting, their 小笼包 is ever tasty!

After the hearty dinner, we took some pictures in front of Candylicous. The pictures can tells how excited the birthday girl was! Haha... even the baby get curious on the M&M chocolates!

On the way walking back to the hotel, I took some pictures of the resort. Hubby and I found this chandelier nice! Actually the overall interior and ambience of the resort are very nice, contemporary!

The fountain. It looks nice with the lighting.

The Casino. I'm not interested in gambling so didn't enter though. Hubby also didn't enter cos he rather spend the $100 levy on somewhere else. haha. Btw, can you spot the Lamborghini at the main entrance? It's so very eye-catching!

We had quite a heavy dinner at Ding Tai Feng earlier, so we didn't buy a birthday cake for Xixi.... thanks to Sharon, she is so thoughtful to bring a small birthday cake for Xixi. We had a simple but nice cake cutting session in the room together with my parents, my auntie and Sharon. This is the birthday girl and her birthday cake and the birthday pressie! My happy girl!

It was nearly 9pm at night, and we walked down to the Waterfront to watch the spectacular Crane Dance, a magical love story between a pair of mechanical cranes and how their love for each other transforms them into real birds. A nice show indeed, and best of all... it's FOC! Here are some of the pictures taken from the show. So that's how we ends our super long day!

So the next day, a bright sunny day.... we're going home on this day. After the buffet breakfast at the hotel, (Hmm... the breakfast was not up to expectation though... and we still got to pay $28/pax! :S ) Xixi and hubby go swimming again. As usual, I nurse Didi to nap... I managed to take some photos from our balcony while Didi's nap. This is the view from our balcony, can see Crockford Tower and the swimming pool.

Actually the pool is just beside our room. That's why I could capture pitures of hubby and Xixi clearly from our balcony. Daddy and girl pose for the camera!

Backed to the room, get her bathed and changed. She was hungry and while munching her bread and I was doing some packing, we have some chit-chatting. She told me she doesn't like to live in our home back in JB, she want to stay in Resort World. Hahaaa... I told her, we will come back one day, and we have to go back to our home swweet home, this is hotel. Then she begged me to stay for another half an hour more.... haha, my easy contented girl!

On Her Birthday... (Part 1)

2011-05-06T22:33:00.004+08:00

This year, Xixi's birthday was falls on Monday which is also a public holiday in lieu of Labor Day. We were actually planned to visit Jurong Bird Park, but too bad.... it was drizzled along the highway, so we canceled the plan and we headed to another destination - Vivo City instead.

We reached Vivo at 10am+, quite early... I think. We easily found a parking unit and there's lots of shop lots still haven't in operation yet. We checked out the kids play area and we found out this kiddie car ride, which Xixi normally will pester us to let her has a ride. Not cheap.... 5mins ride, S$5!

Then, she continued to explore a lil at the place... the children's playground, the gym and the fountain. Apparently she was attracted by the fountain... because she saw some other kids were playing water there. And it happened that she has a pair of spared clothing in my back pack, so I gave her permission to play water too. =)

When seeing other kids having fun with water, she was so tempted to try too... she asked my permission.. haha. She asked me: Mummy, can I wash my hand? Haha :D

So there, she starts her water play.
Starts from washing hand first...

And then the face...

the feet.... still playing very gently...

The birthday girl... She truly enjoyed the fun!!

Start warming up already...

And this time, she asked me: Mummy, can I wash my hair also? hahaha. And there go, she really wash her hair like how she bath at home every day. @_@

Oh my.... whole body wet!

She was sooooo thrilled!!!
She was fully enjoyed the water for a good 20minutes and still asked for more!!

But then, it was drizzled and it almost lunch time, so I change her clothes and we headed to the food court for lunch. As for the lil bro, Chen Yi... the cozy weather makes him napped a lil longer in the stroller and he was all refreshing after woke up. Though he has no chance to enjoy water likes Xixi, but he still happily watching jie-jie playing. Also, my manja boy, as long as someone carried him.

Look, Happy grandma + Happy boy!

And the Happy boy happily in Mama's sling. =)

It was a happy trip after all, and we headed to our next destination at Sentosa Island.

To be continue....

Chen Yi is 9 Months Old Today!

2011-04-28T14:19:00.005+08:00

How time flies, my little darling pumpkin is 9months old today!

Chen Yi has been very very demanding and cranky lately. He wants to be carried most of the times. I hope it's just a symptoms of teething, because he was having diarrhea these few days, and he used to behave like this last time when teething.

At 9months old, he still has to sit with support, but he can crawl very fast nowadays. His favourite past time lately was "swimming" on the floor and exploring the door stopper and floor mat at my living room. He likes to grab and throw the toys and then if we didn't give back the toys to him, he cries furiously! He was super active now.... at times, he can really drive me up the wall! (Boy will be boy?!) And ya, he still wake me up 3-4times at night for nursing.

Apparently, he is so different with Xixi in terms of chacracter and personality. All I wish for him is growing up happily and healthily. Happy 9months old, Chen Yi!

Here's a video of Chen Yi "swimming" in my living room. He was all excited when he saw Xixi's keyboard... haha. He loves everything with music... but normally I prohibit him to go near to the keyboard, because I worried the keyboard will being flooded by his saliva! Haha =D

She Can Play a Simple Song

2011-04-25T15:49:00.003+08:00

Practising diligently every day...The keyboard is a free redemption gift from bank, if not wrong =)

Xixi has been attending Yamaha JMC class for 2months(since 20/Feb) now. So far, she has progress quite well in the class. Now, she can recognise Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So notes in G-clef and she can locate the correct fingers on the keyboard.

This is the video of her playing her very first song in the Primary 1 course book, "Hot Cross Bun". She supposed to play and sing at the same time, but she doesn't. Although it was just a simple song, but she practiced several times before she could played it completely. I'm so glad that she took the initiative to practice every day after she came back from school. Good Job, Xixi!! 加油，加油！！

Chen Xi @ 3years 11months

Video taken on 20-April-2011

Chen Yi's First High Chair & Mc'D Experience

2011-04-17T23:25:00.000+08:00

We brought the kids to Mc'D for breakfast over the weekend morning. It has been quite some times we didn't dine in there since most of the times we ust drive thru. Xixi was curious too how come we didn't "da-bao" this time. Haha, no why... just simply not feels like eat at home. :)

So this time, Chen Yi got a chance of sitting on high chair for the very first time! Yes, all these while hubby carrying him whenever we dine out. I can't do the job because I just couldn't eat with only one hand! Chen Yi uses to be veryyyyyy manja boy, he refuse his stroller whenever he knew we were makan-ing... :S He feels insecure maybe... However, I still insist to let him sit on high chair this time and surprisingly he looks so enjoyed in it. I just settled him with a plastic spoon and he was happily sit down there exploring his "new toy" for a good 30minutes! No fuss, no cry! Thank Godness, a peaceful breakfast...

Besides the high chair, he also experienced his first fast-food ever.... the Hotcakes! Hmm, he likes it!! He can eat quite a lot actually, but I only allowed him a few bites, I think my home-cooked baby food is still the best for him at the moment. =)

Chen Yi's Babbling

2011-04-16T22:51:00.000+08:00

This video was recorded on last Friday night(8-April), before Chen Yi's bedtime. Only me and him at home that time... I falied to take a video of him babbling before, so this time when he started to babble, I ran real fast downstair to take the camera! Luckily I did, because now he seldom babble anymore... even I tease him.

He likes to babble a lot that few days. He makes the sounds "da..da..da..ta..ta.." or "ba..ba..pa..pa..." and some times he call "ahhh... pa". Hubby was so excited that he heard his little darling calling him. ;p I like his babbling... it is indeed interesting!

Xixi, My Little Photographer

2011-04-08T15:45:00.001+08:00

Xixi likes to play with my compact camera, since we seldom use compact now, so it has become her new toy nowadays. She was quite good in snapping photo now. Whenever she was in the mood, or at times she saw we were taking photo, she would take out “her” camera and ~~force~~ asked us to smile and pose for the camera as well!

It was very funny seeing such a young photographer taking photo of us, and YES! She looks so SERIOUS and she did looks like a PRO! Don’t play play….Hahaha! ;p

Little Photographer in the making.... ;p She also has a camera toy from Mc'D and it makes the "Ka-Cha" sounds... She really loves camera to bits recently!

Ahahahaa.... she looks chubby in this photo. She taking her self picture!

The busybody Didi would follow her closely whenever he saw Jie-jie holding a camera... and here is the picture of Didi taken by Xixi too.

Papa and Mummy were also her "models"... kekek. This picture was taken on hubby's birthday. Thanks to Xixi, it has been ages I and hubby never took an "US" photo together. =)

Xixi is Fully Diaperless

2011-04-05T10:46:00.004+08:00

I’m so happy because she has achieved another great milestone just one month before she turned 4!

Before this she was wearing diaper to bed every night, but most of the time she woke up dry in the morning. It was a sign that she is ready to go diaper-less, I think… so I give it a try to let her sleep without diaper. At first, she was quite reluctant(not confident I guess), but after few days, she easily get used to it. She either sleep through the night or she will wake us up if she has the urge to go toilet. We just kept reminding her to wake up if she wants to pee.

Till today, it has been 2weeks she goes to bed without diaper… and thankfully NO ACCIDENT happened! *wipe sweat* I do hope no accident will happen next... Nevertheless, the mattress protector already lying underneath for standby.

Chen Xi at 3years 11months old.

爱你们！！

2011-04-02T23:21:00.000+08:00

这照片摄于上星期老公的生日。

觉得这是难得大家都笑得很自然的一张照片。

特别钟爱。。老公脸带那一点点腼腆的微笑；

希希那咬牙切齿的笑；

还有我家弟弟那天真“无牙”的笑！！

宝贝，看到你们的笑容，我的心也跟着笑了。

你们快乐，所以我也快乐了。

Some Updates about Chen Yi at 8months+

2011-04-02T22:50:00.000+08:00

Just a quick updates about Chen Yi at his 8months old. He grows up toooo fast, I think I better jot down his progress before I forgot.

-His two lower incisor was erupting and basically he just like to put everything to his mouth and then have a good bite!

-He starts to take porridge twice a day. I cooked pumpkin and carrot porridge with meat/fish/dried scallop for him most of the times. That’s his favourite!

-He loves fruits. He eats papaya/ apple/ prunes/ pear daily. He doesn’t like water! He starts to drink from bottle, but only very little of plain water.

-He adores his Jie-Jie veryyyy much! He will be very excited every time he sees Xixi come back from school. He loves to follow Xixi, and some times disturb Xixi too… He tears off the height chart on the wall and happily munching it; till jie-jie came and complaint to me while crying badly!! He also loves to munch Xixi’s book, toys and even school bag!

-He can’t sit without support yet… but I consider he can crawl now…. Crawl as in “army style”, on his tummy! He crawl pretty fast especially he saw an object attracts him… hand phone, remote control especially!

-He can respond to his name now. We called him Chen Yi or Didi. =)

-He is very mobile now… He just mastered how to control the wheel on his walker recently, and I would say he truly enjoys the fun of “Driving”! Due to his mobility, nappy changing time is a headache…as he keep rolling, crawling and moving non-stop!

-He likes to look at his on image either in mirror, photo or video clips!

-Nevertheless, He is still very much a crying baby...... and we have get used to his super loud crying already.

Here are some randoms pictures of Chen Yi taken in March-2011.

He was actually crawling towards my camera, as I calling his name... "Chen Yi, come, come...." hehe =)

Nothing to makan, so he sucks his finger! He finally know how to "drive" the walker now... and he enjoys driving together with jie-jie(Xixi on her tricycle).

Very cheeky... this one.

Opsssss.... this is how he cries when no one entertain him!!

Bubbles Bubbles

2011-03-19T18:51:00.000+08:00

It was school holidays but we didn't go anywhere... except staying at home and go to the shopping mall near our house.

Luckily she never complaint anything and apparently she spent her school holidays at home with lots of fun! Besides the coloring and tracing worksheets I print for her, her masak-masak game, puzzles and blocks; her new past time this time round is the bubbles... She requests to blow bubbles every evening, which she know I will allow her to do so if the wheather is good. She is such a sweetie to me.... She has grown up so much that she will help me to look after Chen Yi when I was busy with others chores.

She just discovered the fun of blowing bubbles.... In fact, she wants me to blow bubbles for her during bath time also.

She has two battery operated bubble blower. She called it "Gun".

At times, she asked me to stand still so that she could use the "gun" to shoot me.... LOL.

She adores those bubbles very much...

His First Tooth Erupted!

2011-03-16T16:42:00.000+08:00

After a looooong wait.... finally, Chen Yi's first tooth popped out!

I didn't really noticed it till Monday(14/3), when I put my finger into his mouth, I could feel a little tiny thingy was touching my skin. What an exciting moment for me to jot down here... Even Xixi was all excited about Didi's newest development! Ya, she told me: Yay, Didi no longer "Boh-gey" already, he can eat chicken now!" LOL

We have been waiting his first tooth since month ago... He use to fall sick frequently though he is a fully breastfed baby. *sigh* So each time he sick, we thought he must be teething, but nope... His gum looks swollen since few weeks ago, he also very loves to bite my finger whenever I clean his mouth during bath time.

This is the "Must-Do".... whenever there's something in front of him.

His gum seems to be very "itchy" that he just like to bite everything on hand. Hopefully he wouldn't bite my (.)(.) next....

A brand new tooth chart for my little boy, Chen Yi. The right lower incisor is erupting, while the left one should be on its way to erupts soon. Let's wait...

Gifts From SCA Drypers and Enfamama Club

2011-02-24T15:35:00.001+08:00

I received a huge parcel from SCA (Drypers) today. My sharing letter has been selected as one of the Star Letters in Parents’ Circle October-December 2010, they send me some prizes as a token of appreciation.

Let's look what are the prizes...

I got 1pack of Drypers (Size L, 24pcs); 1pack of Drypantz (Size L, 20pcs); 4 baby learning books; 1 Coin box; and 1 photo frame.

Thanks SCA!! You're indeed very generous! I'm going to save some $$ on Chen Yi's diapers now... since he only wear one piece disposable at night during bed time. Hooray....!

The Star Letter which I sent in.

At the same day, I also received a Touch & Feel book from Enfamama Club. This handy book came in the right time. I was just thought of buying some book for Chen Yi recently. =) Thank you again!

My silly girl was all delighted for the prizie... When I was opening the parcel, she keep on asking... "Mummy, what is this?" I told her it's prize from someone. Then she continue asking... "prize huh? who give prize? prize for me huh, Mummy... Mummy?" "Wah... Wah... Mummy, so many books eh... you buy books for me huh?? Mummy..."And then she grabbed a pack of Drypantz telling me, that's her's! Okie.. Okie... all are your's... My dear!

Then the silly girl was so happy and she starts "lecturing" her beloved Didi... "Didi, look... look... this is TOY! This is book... Okie"

But then the Didi was not even want to bother his teacher. "Ooooo... the books is so yummy yummy!" He just like to put everything into mouth. *Headache*

And there,... he continues munching.... Haha ;D

Chen Yi is 6months Old!!

2011-01-28T23:21:00.001+08:00

My little boy turns 6months old today.. Here are some updates about him:-

He weights 7.2kg & 67.7cm in length as of 31-Dec-2010.

He starts his first solid food at 5months+ (30-Dec), he has tried sweet potato puree, carrot puree, apple puree, papaya, rice cereal mixed with pumpkin/avocado so far. He likes pumpkin and apple and he hates avocado! haha...

He is in the stage of bully mummy and jie jie now. He likes to pull our hair, scratchs our face, neck... grasps mummy's specs, shirt etc. Very rough indeed...

He grasps everything to his mouth, toys, pillow, hankerchief and even jie jie's puzzle. He also like to sucks his hands and toes.

He cries very very LOUD when mummy leave him alone and do her house chores. He cries when nobody entertain him. He cries when he is sleepy. He cries when he is hungry. He likes to cry for attention... my super manja boy! I called him 哭包。

He is a light sleeper, a little noise could wake him up. He prefer side sleeping. He likes mummy carry him to sleep, I only can put him to bed when he sleep very soundly... otherwise another crying episode will begin. He doesn't like sarong nowadays...

I think he still not ready to sit in his walker/bumboo yet... his body use to lean forward. But then whenever he is awake, he like to be carried, he doesn't like to be alone, lying down alone... he enjoys jie jie's singing, mummy talk to him...

He just fall sick recently AGAIN! Suffered from throat, nose infection and constipation for 10days(luckily his poo was soft one), consulted Dr. Chum, Dr. Catherine & Dr. Harbans for "N" times! Luckily he is slowly recovering now. Still on Singulair... hopefully will fully recover before CNY.

Happy 6months old, boy!!

Makan time... "肮脏猫 dirty miao"

"I can fly!!" His favourite action when he is awake.

He like to curl himself up like this.

Side sleeper. He hardly nap more than an hour during day time. :S

Not ready for walker/bumboo yet... He loves to be carried only.

My crying baby. He is sure more manja than Xixi! Probably younger one more manja?

When he is happy... He can really lough out loud! Oh ya, I noticed he likes to smile with old auntie/young lady. Probably another 师奶杀手 to be =)

Yummy Yummy!!

2011-01-27T15:02:00.004+08:00

When he had finished his portion of apple puree while Jie-jie still happily munching her piece of apple in front of him, he starts sucking his toe...

Same thing happened when we are having dinner while he got nothing to do on the mattress, he sucks his toe too =)

"My toe is so yummy!"

Finally....

2011-01-27T14:42:00.002+08:00

At 3years 8months old, my Chen Xi finally know how to pedal! ;p I know she is a bit too slow in her motor skill... but I believe every kids are unique, it's okay to be late... =) Hahaha... 我跟老公说，我们的女儿终于开窍了！

So, lately her favourite thing at home was the tricycle... her 1st birthday pressie given by my brother. Happy cycling at home every day, at least some thing to keep her busy. It's fun to see her cycling around the house... I think I should video the precious moment for remembrance.

She was so delighted for her new achievement! She told me she wants to drive me go shopping and send Didi to school... LOL! Ya, ya... I will be happy to be her first passenger. ;P

"Come, I drive you to Singapore... ^.*"

Mini Icecream as Reward

2011-01-25T18:41:00.001+08:00

It has been 3weeks+ since Xixi schooling. She still cries occassionally in the morning when we send her to her kindy. She not allowed me to leave, and when I wave goodbye to her, she shed her tears most of the days. Today, for the very first time she go to shool without any hesitation. She let the teacher hold her hand and lead her to the classroom. When I about to leave, she said Bye-bye to me with a happy smile.

I gave her a mini Cornetto icecream as a reward after she came back from school, she was all surprise when I told her I want to give her ICECREAM! Yes, she hardly has chance to eat icecream, I only let her has cold drink, cold snacks once in a blue moon :) as she easily get phlegm and cough.

Look at her expression, you know how happy she was... She told me: "Mummy, Icecream very cold eh.. 很好吃！"

宝贝，希望你从今以后都是带着笑脸上学的。加油！

Comfortable School Shoes

2011-01-06T14:36:00.002+08:00

I was headache when I was told by Xixi’s class teacher that she will need to wear proper covered shoes to school, although any color will be fine, sport shoes is acceptable too…but then the problem was… Xixi already so used to her sandals, to be honest she hardly has chance to wear covered shoes when we were out, she even wear her pair of Crocs shoes to my cousin’s wedding function last time. ;p

I started longing for a proper school shoes for her one month before the kindergarten re-open. But too bad, most of the time those shoes she like was either not comfortable enough or out of size. So one fine day, I stumbled upon a very nice sport shoes in my friend’s online store, luckily the shoe size and the design I was longing for was available. So after getting the green light from Xixi and hubby, I placed my order. Xixi was so thrilled when she received her pair of new shoes. She wears it in and out our house, running… jumping. She told me “Mummy, I want to wear these shoes to school”. Haha! Luckily she never reject wearing it, at first I was worried if she will feel uncomfortable, as her foot use to be sweaty and sticky in the covered shoes, but so far so good, no complaint from her…

I think I have bought a right shoes for her this time round, the quality was good and it was very comfortable and soft. I have just placed a new order to my friend for another sport shoes, bigger size of cos… as Xixi outgrown her shoes pretty fast. ;)

By the way, I found these very informative videos on how to measure children’s feet. It helps me a lot especially when I order shoes online due to fitting problems. Have a look =)

Xixi’s First Day Schooling

2011-01-05T15:34:00.004+08:00

3-Jan-2011 marked a very important day in Xixi’s life, yes… her first day schooling! She was anticipated for this day to come since months ago, she told us, she want to go to “new school”; probably because she doesn’t like to go to nursery anymore. I have stops sending her to nursery since last week; she went to nursery reluctantly since October… due to new teacher… I think.

We reached her “new school” before 8am, their first week of schooling hours was 8am-10am. She feels uneasy when we stepped into the classroom, there were about 7-8 kids there, she was the first one to cry! She shed her tears immediately when I asked her to sit down with her friend (a friend from her ex-nursery), I told her I was not allowed to stay, I go buy some foods for her and will return to fetch her, but she very insists me to carry her…. She crying badly while begging me don’t go. “Mummy, 你不要走，我不要吃。。你不要走”. So poor thing… But luckily after some pacifying and “bargaining” (I told her I and daddy will stand outside the classroom) then only she allowed her class teacher, Mrs Koh to carry her (reluctantly). She never stops crying when she saw us around, I and hubby just had some peek on her outside her classroom, finally Mrs Koh managed to bribe her with some toys then only she stops crying.

Well… it’s quite heart broken seeing her cry every morning when I send her to kindy. Today already her third day schooling, but she still cries so so badly! And still she asked me to stand outside her classroom. Though she already has the experience of attending nursery, I really have no idea why she so scared of school, maybe due to new environment or separation anxiety? Anyway, it’s still a long way to go… hopefully she will adapt schooling life soon ;)

So in love with her new uniform. Her eyes swollen because she cried the night before, didn't has a good night sleep, hopefully she not over stress!

给宝贝：看见你每天早上哭泣，妈咪的心很痛。。你已经不再是个小贝比了，要学习独立，上学是你人生的必经之路。妈咪唯有放手，你才会长大。希望你很快能适应新的学习环境，妈咪期待每天听你讲学校里的故事给我听。加油！

Xixi Loves Music

2010-12-29T14:41:00.004+08:00

Both of my kids love music, especially the elder one, Xixi. Her class teacher told me, whenever there’s dancing or singing session in the class, Xixi will be the most excited one. She can sing very well and dance with the music, she even performed Indian dance during Deepavali Celebration the other day.

At home, she loves dancing with her favorite nursery rhyme. At times, if she saw any TV commercials with delightful music, she will surely shake her butt and singing together with it… Most of the times, she would ask me: "Mummy come, sit down and watch me dance!" Okay… there must be someone sit down there to appreciate her performance! =)

She has many musical instruments toys at home which we bought for her since her baby days, and guess what… she still playing them till now! Musical Instruments like drums, xylophone, tambourine and piano are her favorite. Now, I’m planning to get her a Teddy Bear musical boxes. A baby musical boxes that not only for her to adore but also to keep her bangles, hair accessories well organized. I also planned to send her to musical class next year if time permits. Hopefully she will maintain her love to music till she grown up one day.

Xixi mimic one of the kids dancing from TV.

The musical box that I planned to buy ;)

Look Who's Facebooking

2010-12-26T23:04:00.003+08:00

That's normally how my hubby baby sit Chen Yi while I was busy with other stuff.

Luckily the little fellow didn't make noise, he enjoyed it instead... I guess. ;p

BM Diminished. :S

2010-12-20T21:18:00.003+08:00

I’m worried now. I noticed my breast milk supply has diminishing over the pass one week. I didn’t know what happened, but my breast suddenly seems softer and I hardly feel a let-down sensation or engorgement or any leaking now.

Actually my milk supply was diminishing all these while. During my confinement month, I pumped 5times a day and I could get total of 40+oz of milk each day. But then after baby full moon, and with my busy schedule, I cut down to 3 times, then slowly cut down to 2times, and now only once a day. I used to get 6-7oz from each pump, but I was shocked that, now the most I could get is only 5oz! Sometime even worse at 2-3oz only! The other reason I cut down the number of pumping was because Chen Yi reject bottle and he prefer latch on.

I have no idea why my milk supply decreases so tremendously. My daily routine and diet still remain unchanged. In fact, I eat quite a lot and drink plenty of fluids everyday. Or, maybe I should try some supplements like Fenugreek or nursing tea to boost up my milk supply? Chen Yi can latch on very well on my breast, but one thing is, I only offering one breast per feeding because he uses to be small eater. Will it be the cause of diminishing milk supply also?

Recently, Chen Yi suddenly need to be nurses more frequently at night… he used to wake up only twice at night for nursing, but now he wake up almost every 1-2hours! Pacifier couldn’t sooth him at all, and he will end up crying until I nurse him. Confused… I'm worried if he getting enough milk or is it a sign that he is ready for solid food?

Hubs and my relatives asked me to try another bottle (Tommee Tippee) and try formula instead before my breast milk totally dried up *touchwood!!* Yes, I agreed… it is to play safe, because if my miik supply totally stopped, there will be no back up for baby anymore… but that only if my baby Chen Yi willing to drink from bottle, and till now he still not accepts formula milk as yet. Though we tried very hard to feed him from bottle, we even tried syringe; but the result was still the same. He reject firmly!! Big headache for us…

I read through a lot of information from the internet and some says it is normal. As days goes by, the nursing mother will not feel engorgement anymore, because the milk supply has adjusted to baby’s needs... Even the amount of milk from pump is not accurate measure of milk supply. Is it true? I’m not sure, when I breastfed Xixi last time, I didn’t experience these at all…. Breastfeeding mama, can you share with me your experience?? How to boost up milk supply? I appreciate your comments. Thanks in advance!

从二十几到三十

2010-12-19T00:01:00.003+08:00

感慨岁月真的不留人！今天以后我就正式地三十没得找。

一个女人最珍贵的十年已经悄悄地从我的生命中划过。。

十年，人生有几个十年，二十年，三十年？。。

我的二十几到三十，交给了这个男人- 我的老公！

恋爱，结婚，当妈咪都在这个十年里一一经历过了。

从念书，毕业，到社会工作，转到“幕后”当全职妈妈；感谢有他一路陪我。

从甜蜜的二人世界，到如今的四人小家庭。。

当中少不了人生的苦与乐。

我感恩，我珍惜现在所拥有的一切。

今年的生日，没有特别的期待。

也许是因为数字（年龄）上的升华，人长大了，也就没有想大肆庆祝。

跟往年一样，有生日蛋糕，有我家宸希的甜美生日歌，

一家人一起吃餐较丰盛的，那就是我期待的了！

生日愿望有很多！我是贪心地。。

就祝我每一个愿望都实现吧！

十二月十九，这一天是属于我的！

也是属于老公的。六年前的今天，我们注册结婚了！

大大声地说：生日快乐， SERENE！！

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, 老公！

Sick Baby

2010-12-13T21:52:00.004+08:00

I really think we shouldn’t bring the kids to Bukit Tinggi/ Genting Highlands last week. In conjunction of school holiday and public holiday (Awal Muharram), these two tourists’ places were so crowded. It was seriously a tiring journey. Baby Chen Yi get sick after backed home. Imagine, we were given a smoking room in Genting Highlands, the room was stuffy with cigarette smell, for non-smoker like me, I really cannot tahan; moreover my two kids, both have sensitive nose… the air circulation was poor though we’ve opened the windows to let the fresh air come in.

Baby Chen Yi start to have runny/block nose when we were at Genting, he vomited once in midnight when I tried to feed him flu medicine. Reached home, I thought his condition was better so we didn’t bring him to see doctor. Who knows, Sunday night at around 2am, after nursing, I noticed he has a mild fever, so I tried to feed him some Paracetamol. He only took few drops of the medicine and he start crying and coughing again…. In the end, he vomited everything out! Since he was so reluctant to medicine, I then paste the cooling adhesive for him; and let him lies on a very soft/higher pillow hopefully to make him feel more comfortable.

The whole day of yesterday, he was very cranky. We take turns to carry him all day because he will get choked by his thick thick phlegm easily if he lies down. He almost lost his voice due to over crying and coughing. We brought him to the Paed yesterday afternoon, and we thought he must have very serious sore throat, but according to the Paed, his throat was fine. Paed told us, Chen Yi’s vocal cords might get infected by virus, and that’s why he lost his voice. Antibiotic and some other medicines were prescribed by the Paed to sooth Chen Yi’s flu, cough and phlegm. Paed also warned us, if his condition doesn’t get better, we have to admit him to hospital straight away. Sound serious right?! We were so worried and keep monitoring Chen Yi’s condition after that.

My poor boy… He HATE medicine! He either keeps his mouth very shut or spilt out whenever we eject the syrup. But luckily, we still managed to feed him a few drops after much effort ~~force~~! Today, he vomited twice, once before nap and once before bed time, both he threw out thick phlegm together with his milk. I can still hear the very phlegmy sound from his breath, but thankfully he is much better now, at least no more crancky. The medicines works! (very strong perhaps?)

So heart broken seeing him fall sick. He didn't smile but keep whining the whole day.

He turns his head left and right, refuse to open his mouth. He hate medicine and usually he will spilt out the syrup. Feeding medicine was such a torture job for me. :(

By the way, just to share some randoms photos of our trips for remembrance. It was our first time travelling as a family of four! Traveling with two kids was really tiring, but luckily with my parents' and auntie's along, they ease our headache! Haha :) I enjoyed being together with my family. :)

With my family at Bukit Tinggi. Err... the place has nothing much to shout about, the building was getting older and dirty I think ;P.

But it is definitely a good place for photo shooting. We didn't bring the SLR along though, too many things to jaga.

Chen Yi's first time to Genting ;)

Xixi on many kinds of rides. Happy girl ;)

Chen Yi’s First Roll Over

2010-12-10T14:41:00.005+08:00

Chen Yi is getting more and more active nowadays. He was trying to turns his body and twist his leg over this morning when I change his nappy, but I pulled his leg back so that I could wear the nappy on him nicely. I guess he was almost there already…his first roll over!

After that, I continue my chores, and then I leave him alone in the room. When I took a peek on him, he gave me a big surprise! Guess what, he was on his tummy with his body rolled over and head lifted up! When I called his name, he gave me a BIG SMILE! ;D He must be very happy watching his surrounding from a different angle. I quickly got my camera ready and snapped this very precious moment of him.

When I took a peek on him, I saw this... He rolled over steadily and lifted up his head all by himself! I was glad that I captured this picture. It is indeed a very important milestone of Chen Yi.

He rolled back to his original position again after a short few minutes. Frown? must be getting tired! Haha.

宸毅，妈咪很开心得以见证你生平第一次翻身。前方的路还很长，妈咪会一直在你身边陪你走更多的第一次。

Chen Yi @ 4months 1week

New Coin Bank for Her

2010-12-06T22:11:00.002+08:00

Xixi is so into saving lately, or should I say she was in love with the kitty bank that she got a month ago and she really enjoys the fun of slotting coins. She has been collecting coins from her beloved grandpa (My Dad) every time we visit my parents place. My Dad, he really adores Xixi very much, he will ask for small change every time he pays at the grocery shop in order to get the coins for Xixi, to make the girl happy! He even told me he intends to buy gold coins for Xixi since the global gold price will only goes up and hardly goes down nowadays.

Believe or not, Xixi’s kitty bank is almost full by now, the silly girl told me, “Mummy, I’m rich now! I can buy you birthday cake!” Yes, mummy’s birthday is coming… =) So, to continue her good habit of saving, hubby decided to buy her another new coin bank. Coincidently, we came across a beautiful coin bank from KFC yesterday. It is worth buying at only RM7.90 each. The little girl of mine was so thrilled again when she got her new coin bank, she just couldn’t stop admires it until she go to bed last night!

A "castle coin bank" from KFC.

Haibao, His First Pal

2010-12-03T22:56:00.005+08:00

This Haibao was supposed belongs to Xixi, which my Dad bought for her from World Expo few months back. I was glad that she is generously enough to share her toy with her little brother (at least for the time being). I was glad too this toy comes to the rescue most of the time when Didi gets cranky. It happened many times, Haibao managed to calm him down when he cries, and then the crying baby turned to be smiley again. At times, when he was in his good mood, he will hold Haibao’s leg/hand and babbling non-stop, as if he was talking to somebody. =) Funny!

My happy baby with the happy Haibao.

Haibao will be his first favourite toy ever!

Look, he was holding Haibao's hand and smile for the camera ;)

Watch the video, Chen Yi was admiring his pal! Haibao not only a plush toy, it sings and sways as well. Xixi and I love the song, very cute and nice..

Some Updates About Chen Yi @ 4 Months Old

2010-11-28T00:08:00.003+08:00

Another month has passed, my little boy turn 4months old today! He just had his 5 in 1 jab (2nd dose) on 25-Nov-2010; he had a mild fever the very next day. My bravo boy! He hasn’t cried when the needle poke in. He was 6.8kg in weight and 65.6cm in length as of 25-Nov.

Chen Yi is still on breastfeed exclusively. He is not a big eater though; he only latches on one side of mummy’s breast for each feeding and another side next feeding. He doesn’t like water, he doesn’t like bottle. Just recently we noticed he refuse to feed by bottle, he likes to push the silicon teat back out. He rather starves…, no others people can babysit him, except mummy only, which make me really worried!! (Helps!! Anyone?) He never has a proper feeding schedule, whenever he was hungry, mummy will 24hours standby! He wakes up 2-3times at night looking for nen-nen. His poo-poo still watery and yellowish in color due to breastfeeding.

He is very “manja” compared to Xixi at his age. He easily cries for attention and get frustrated especially when he was sleepy, he can really cry his lung out till mummy and daddy feel so helpless! (Xixi seldom cry so fierce at this age) He is also very playful, he likes daddy to play with him. He will turns his head left and right looking for Jie-jie’s voice. He can laugh hard when tickled! (I enjoy his laughter the most!!)

Just finished crying. He was sleepy but mummy still snap photo. ;p

He can sit with support now, but he still can’t hold his head steadily. He makes many new sounds every day; he babble non-stop when he was tired. He can grasp small object now, handkerchief, pillow, toys and mummy’s fingers are his favorites; then follow by exploring those objects by mouth. Besides sucking his own fingers, he lifts up his shirt and has some taste on it. He was attempts to roll over, but failed.(Never mind, take your times, boy!) He can “blow bubbles” using his saliva and make the “blooo blooo” sounds.

Put everything into his mouth. Thanks Joanne for the teether ;)

Sit up with support. I love this picture ;)

He has out grown most of his 0-6months or S size baby clothing, and M size cloth diaper now. Most of his shirt/pant getting shorter because he grow taller very fast (average 4cm each month) He also going to outgrow the “basket” soon that we used to place him in our car.

Hair is getting longer. Many people comments he resembles Xixi and hubby a lot, but no one comments he resembles mummy :(

He sleeps on bed with us at night. Day time, I hardly rock him in the cradle net, because he will easily awake if I stop rocking him. Unless he make fuss, otherwise he will just sleep on bed.

Hardly sleep soundly in the sarong, that's why I prefered to let him sleep on bed.

Have some taste on chicken drumstick when he turns 4months on lunar calender. And the elders says he is now officially "buka puasa", that means he will be taking solids soon. Hopefully he wouldn't be another picky eater just like his jie-jie.

She wants to buy everything

2010-11-25T12:54:00.002+08:00

I’ve got Xixi a new coin bank recently, a free gift courtesy of SCA Hygiene (A diaper company). She was thrilled when I gave the coin bank to her. She enjoys slot in the coins and also she like to open up the coin bank to see how much money she have had. Since then, she started to collect excess coins from his daddy and also his beloved grandpa (My dad). :)

At age of 3, she is now understands the concept of money. She knows that she needs money to buy toys, cloths, or books she likes. She can use money to exchange foods, for example, her favorite croissant. She needs to slot in coins in order to operate a kiddies ride. However, one thing she doesn’t sure is… she only has ten over dollar in her coin bank. Haha.

So happened one fine day, my aunties bring her out for shopping. My shopaholic Xixi used up her pocket money, she even used my auntie’s money to buy a pair of sandals! I was not happy with that, and I told her she not supposed to do that. Guess what she told me back…? “Mummy, I have money in my kitty bank, you can take my money to pay back grand-aunt.” My silly girl… she really thought her money is enough to buy everything!! Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprise if one day she told me she wants to use her kitty bank’s money to buy gold!

My girl and her "kitty bank".

Deepavali Celabration at Nursery

2010-11-10T14:50:00.002+08:00

Xixi's nursery had Deepavali Celebration on last Tuesday(2-Nov). Both of her class teacher are Indian. So when I told Xixi, Teacher Sue will celebrate New Year soon, and guess what she told me? Xixi: “我跟teacher Sue讲恭喜发财，红包拿来!” She told me she will greet her class teacher Gong Xi Fa Cai and ask for Ang Pow. hahaha... Pengsan!

Her class teacher told me Xixi will be perform some Indian dance and asked me whether she has Indian costume. Too bad.... she don't have. But never mind, the teacher is creative enough to do decoration on the kids. The hand painting, bangles, and hair decorations. So when I fetch Xixi from the nursery, she was excitedly show me her beautiful hand with painting and colorful bangles and told me Teacher Sue do for her, only girls have! Her teachers really did a great job by teaching the kids about Indian's culture. Appreciate their efforts!

The hand painting. It lasted for about 3days before it can totally washed off.

She like it to bits! And not forget the colorful bangles.

The hair decoration. Her teachers DIY the ribbons, very creative right?

Flying kiss from my vain pot - Xixi ;D

宝贝，妈咪最期待每天傍晚到幼儿园接你回家的那一时刻，你总会飞快地跑向我，叫我；然后跟我分享你在学校的点点滴滴。你一定很喜欢你这一身打扮，因为从你的笑脸妈咪看得出。。

Xixi the Model

2010-11-02T08:07:00.002+08:00

I was trying to take pictures of Didi wearing some cloth diapers. However I didn't suceed, guess what? The jie jie just couldn't resist those colourful/yummy printed CD, and she started to tell me “妈咪，我要穿！拍我，拍我！”(Mummy, I want to wear! Snap me, snap me!) So here goes, she took out her ex-Drybees CD and poses for me non-stop.

She is diaperless for afternoon nap since she started full day childcare. At night, al lthough she will wake us up if she has the urge to pee, but I still let her wear diaper, just to play safe.. because accidents did happens. And this heavy wetter of mine, once she peed, the mattress will seriously being "flooded"!

Trying to be very lady.

However, just few seconds of being "lady", see... what she doing again!

By the way, she is turning 42months old today!! Hope she will be growing healthier and cuter each day!

宝贝，虽然你很吵，但妈咪的世界如果少了你的叽喳将会变得无聊许多。

爱你!!

Chen Yi is 3 Months Old Today

2010-10-28T17:25:00.003+08:00

How time flies, my cutie baby turns 3 months today.

Happy 3 Months Old Boy!

Just a brief updates,
Chen Yi is 6.3kg as of today; 61cm in length.

幸运与不幸

2010-10-27T12:55:00.005+08:00

这几个月来发生在我身上的倒霉事还真多。先是因为剖腹产遗留下来的后遗症使我在上个月再次被推进手术室进行一次内窥镜手术，因此而住院两天。平白无故又动了一次手术，住院，花了一笔钱，幸好有保险赔偿。破财消灾就好，只怕最近身体的不适是否又与手术有关。这是我长这么大以来，遇到最最最倒霉的事！此事甚至可以触及官司，所以在此不愿多谈。

再来，老公前阵子买了台新手机给我，结果还用不到两天就进了“医院”！瘟神找上，家里一直在用的两台手机也先后种了毒！结果搞到老公必须用回那台N年前的古董手机，希希还嘲笑我们说，“还是我的电话好用吧！”不说你不知，那台古董已是她玩腻了的玩具！就这样，三台手机先后坏了，我现在是无手机之人，如果你联络不上我，你知道为什么。。

衰事接二连三，这还不止。最近发现储存在我电脑的好几个录像竟然不翼而飞。最令我耿耿于怀的莫过于那些很有纪念价值的镜头。。这包括了，宸毅刚出生时在医院拍的画面，满月时剃头的难得镜头，冲花水的画面。。等等等。

心痛到。。。非笔墨能形容！

然而，在经过了种种阴霾后，终于有件事让我能够大声地安慰自己说。。。 “我是幸运的！”记得我在七月份参加的一个giveaway吗？很荣幸地，我是其中一名幸运儿！因此为宸毅赢取了价值RM159.90的布尿裤和wet bag ！期盼已久的奖品，昨天终于到手了。开心！一收到，便马上拿去洗，已经等不及让我的小宝贝穿上它！

Thanks Mummy's Review and Tiny Tapir!

Love His Funny Expressions...

2010-10-13T22:22:00.002+08:00

Sometimes, juggling between house chores and taking care a baby can be really tiring. However, by just looking at his cutest smile, I forgot all my tireness. Chen Yi is the baby who love to smile, he started to smile at us when he was 1month old. He love to response to us, he love to make sounds like "enguguuu..., ahh, ohh" and I can forsee he will be another chatterbox just like his sister.

My happy baby... He can easily smile if we tease him.

More smiley faces...

He was attempt to reach his hands to the mouth before he turns 2months old. And now, he had mastered the skill!! We can hear the yummylicous "xoxo" sounds every now and then; after that, saliva all over his cheeks, fingures and neck!

He love to raise his hands up and start exploring it. It's really funny because sometimes he did looks like Superman! ;D

Cheeky!! Cheeky!! It's really amusing to see his cheeky faces after all...

宸毅，因为有你，妈咪的生活变得不沉闷。能无时无刻陪在你身边照顾你，看你成长。。那种满足感可以超越一切！

New Look of Chen Xi and Mama

2010-10-04T21:26:00.001+08:00

Deng Deng..... So this is our new look!! We trimmed our hair short yesterday.

Wanted to bring Xixi for a hair cut since long ago simply because her hair was getting longer and messy and worse she use to sweat a lot! Hubby has been nagging non-stop every time Xixi perspire even we're sleeping in the air cond room. So we have come to the decision, to cut her hair short... real real short! As for me, I was not intends to cut my hair initially, but to make Xixi happy, I decided to cut it short also. Hence the "mother and daughter" hair style. Haha..

I snap these photos before we headed to the hair saloon. She was excited and anticipated when I told her she will has a new hair style soon. But then, when I view back the photo above, I still prefer Xixi in long hair, sweeter. She looks boyish and rough in short hair.

Her beloved teacher loves to tie her hair like this.... She was the only girl who kept long hair in class previously. Her teacher is great! I do not have the luxury to tie and decorate her hair now, that is why we decided to keep her hair short eventually.

Our Mid Autumn Festival 2010

2010-10-01T22:39:00.006+08:00

Just a simple and brief updates about our Mid-Autumn festival this year. I really do not have much time for blogging these days.

We have not been spending much quality times with Xixi lately, so since it was Mid-Autumn festival, we played candles and lanterns with her 3 nights in a row. Can see how happy she was in the picture. Carrying the paper lantern my mum brought back from RW Singapore. Xixi was no longer fancy on battery operated lantern anymore. Or I should say, she like candles more than lantern. Haha... See the candles behind? She sang "Selamat hari Jadi" and then blow off each candles one by one later.

I placed Chen Yi on his bouncer while we were busy playing. Haha... very bad huh... He was sitting there without making fuss for a good half an hour. Luckily no mosquito attack... o_O

On the actual day, we celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at my parent's place. We light up some lanterns. Heheh... Again, Chen Yi was well taken care by my Dad while we were busying at the yard.

We also light up the "KongMing Lantern" with lotsa of wishes.... Hope everyone in good health.

We ate quite a lots of moon cake this year. Baker's Cottage（麦可斯) moon cake is nice... However, this is the MUST HAVE! I love durian... and how can I resist the ever tasty Durian Mooncake from Good Wood Park? Made from real D24 somemore... *Drooling*

Gifts from Shanghai

2010-09-21T11:53:00.001+08:00

My parents were just backed from Shanghai last week.

Their purpose of travelling to Shanghai was to visit the EXPO 2010.
My parents are very thoughtful.
They wouldn’t forget to bring back some souvenir for us whenever they go traveling.
Xixi is the blessed one.

She got most of the souvenir this time,

whereby I got a watch and hubby got a t-shirt.
Didi got nothing…

my parents said baby is too young till they don’t know what to get for him :(

She got her first gift. My mother bought this Hi-5 bag from Changi airport.

The day before my parents depart, Xixi told my mum she wants an aeroplane. My mum was panic. Luckily she found this at one of the EXPO exhibition hall.

A pair of slippers for Xixi.

This is the Shanghai EXPO Mascot "Haibao". It can sing and dance.. very cute. Since Didi got nothing this time round, generous Xixi said she will keep the Haibao for Didi. When Didi grown up, then pass to him.

A Haibao cap for Xixi.

Haibao head band for Xixi also.

This is the stool my parents used when lining up to enter the exhibition hall. Heard from them, everywhere was long Q, they got to line up at least half an hour to enter each hall. This stool is very useful, portable somemore... Cheap at RMB10/ea(approx RM5). Again, Xixi said she will keep the small stool for Didi, so next time she will pass to Didi when he can sit by his own.
2 watches. Blue one is mine, and pink one belongs to Xixi. She doesn't know to read the clock yet, but she like to wear watch.
Hubby's T-shirt.

My mum also visited their local market at Shanghai. According to her, their fresh veges are selling cheap. She bought a big packet of Endamame at only RMB4(approx RM2)!! Xixi likes endamame very very much! She can sapu one big bowl by herself, she like to peel of Endamame skin herself and feed me the bean one by one. Haha...

适应中。。。

2010-09-03T12:13:00.003+08:00

好快，距离满月已一星期多。CL 也已离开了六天。
我还在很努力的适应没有CL 的日子。
你知道吗，我想我真的是被宠坏了！
有她在的那段期间，我可以说什么都不用做。。
三餐有人准备，衣服有人洗，家务有人分担，贝比有人照顾（尤其是晚上），
现在想起来，坐月子其实还蛮享受嘛！
这几天，由于还在“适应期”，每天都窝在家里。
哪儿都没去，忙这儿忙哪儿，一刻都闲不下来。
试想想，一个晚上要起床四五次喂奶换尿布，我已经快要变zombie 了。
连有心的朋友跟亲戚要来探访，都被我一一拒绝。

不好意思哦。。

老公也跟我一样，还在慢慢适应中。。
但他比较惨，白天要工作，晚上得帮头帮尾，还得应付我家公主。
他甚至苦笑地对我说，“属于我们自己的时间已经越来越少”。
是的，无可否认。。。

至于公主希希，最近咳嗽伤风得厉害，手也起了湿疹，

看了几次医生，还在吃药中。
星期一起让她上全日制，她好像还适应得不错。
每天看到我们去接她，都会兴高采烈的喊我们！

然后告诉我们在学校里发生的事。
在家，偶尔耍耍公主脾气，挑战我们的忍耐极限，哭闹。。
不过一会儿，又好像什么事都没发生过，

玩耍，听我们使唤，帮忙拿尿布，手帕，奶瓶等等。。
这三岁的孩子，就是那么爱玩，时而要我们注意她。
不得不承认，我陪她的时间少了。。
反而是我父母会常把她带出门，逛街，游车河。
总好过让她在家无所事事，谁知道她哪一刻想耍脾气。我不能招架！
说真的，我们都不想对他大声，她。。吃软不吃硬。

弟弟宸毅，不知道是不是受姐姐传染，还是本身抗体不够，
自出生以来不时能听见他鼻塞打鼾生。
开始我们以为是新生儿肺部发育不完全，
但一个月过去，他伤风闭塞的情况反反复复，
连医生也说，怕他在这样下去会成为“过敏儿”。
没有鼻塞时，他是个乖巧的宝宝。
吃饱睡，爱跟大人“恩咕”。
鼻塞时，不但不能顺畅呼吸，连喝奶，睡觉都很爱闹便扭。。
小小年纪就得吃药，我们看了都觉得心痛！
而我，唯一能做的就是把他照顾好，给他一个干净的环境，
还有，坚持喂母乳！
真的希望他不会成为“过敏儿”，能够快快乐乐的健康成长！

周末来临，好像出去走走，跟老公带着两个小瓜。。
我们可以应付吗？祝好运吧！

大家周末愉快咯！！

Baby Chen Yi is One Month Old!!

2010-08-28T00:19:00.003+08:00

How time flies… Just a blink of eyes, my baby is one month old!!
We had an early full moon ceremony for baby Chen Yi on last Sunday (22-August-2010).
Yes, we decided to name our baby as “Chen Yi”. I almost forgot to introduce here…
宸(chén): 北极星所在，后借指帝王所居，又引申为王位、帝王的代称
毅(yì): 果决，志向坚定而不动摇

We shaved his hair on his full moon... haha.

And now this is how he looks like. My little Botak Head!

We brought Chen Yi for Hepatitis B second injection on Wednesday(25-Aug).

His weight at one month old is 4.6kg. Length: 56cm.
He was suffering from mild fever and blocked nose after the injection.

So heart pain seeing him on medication at such a young age.

Luckily he is okay now.

At one month old, Chen Yi is still very much a sleep and eat baby.

He is exclusively breastfeeding baby.
He drinks every 1-2 hours, either direct latch on or from bottle.

He loves to be carried very much!

I'm amazed that he could give us response when we talk to him.

For once I heard he mumbling "engguguuu" o_O

He love to smile.

He has a strong neck, he was trying to lift up his head

when we carry him.

After the confinement month,

I feel so relief now that finally I‘m “out of jail” again,

can do everything like normal; haha…
Wash my hair every day, drink plain water like every normal people do;

no need to wear socks, slippers and sarong at home anymore…. Etc, etc.
But I'm worried too because my CL is going to leave today,
That has also means I got to take back all the house chores,

cooking, laundry and most headache one:

take care of one small and one big baby all by MYSELF!!

Yes, I was over pampered by my CL for the pass one month...

This is part of my confinement food.

I'm drooling already by just looking at the picture.

That is why I will miss her cooking for sure!!

As for Xixi, she adore Didi very much.
But one thing...
she want our attention all times.
She is very demanding lately, throw tantrum for nothing sometimes.
If we never give in, she will make fuss and cry...
It makes me feel annoying.
And after much consideration,
we decided to send her to full day nursery on September.
Seriously, I rather she play and learn at the nursery
instead of make me headache at home.

What I can say is,
being a mother of two is not easy,
I salute those mother with more than two kids!

供过应求的。。。

2010-08-17T12:44:00.003+08:00

母乳。

我想，我是幸运的。
不但有能力全哺乳我的宝宝，而且还有很多很多的母乳。。
在此先声明，我绝非有意炫耀，

只是想把哺乳的过程和一些难忘的回忆记录在这里而已。
我支持哺乳，因为宝宝可以长得壮，妈咪也瘦得快！哈哈哈。。
感恩！这一胎的母乳比上一胎多很多！！

记得生希希的时候，还得喂配方奶。
这一次完全不用，而且还有多余的奶在冰箱，奶多到可以送人！！
我妈甚至还劝我把多余的奶丢到。。但我不忍心啦！
但虽然说奶多是好事，殊不知那喂奶和挤奶的过程其实蛮累人的。。
初生宝宝其实喝得不多，我每隔一至二个小时给他喂奶一次。

但奶还是涨得不行。。
所以我一天得挤五次奶，一次平均能挤9oz 的奶。
算下，宝宝一小时平均只喝1oz, 我一天挤的奶就足以让他喝上两天！
累的不止如此而已，
刚开始喂母乳的第一个星期，

也许是左胸的乳腺比较细，

每天涨奶但怎么都挤不出。。。
什么冷敷，热敷都试过。。

结果喂母乳这差事把我跟老公折腾了好一阵子。。很痛苦！
还曾经想过就此断奶！还好我们没有就此放弃。。。
结果让我们发现了。。只要不断地给宝宝吸，

什么问题都解决了。。。

所以现在我已成为了名副其实的母牛！

我家的freezer. 你看到的只是一部分。。。

部分在解冻，还有些给人了。

一次过可以挤的奶。晕不晕？？

Introducing Our New Bundle of Joy

2010-08-03T22:20:00.006+08:00

I have so many things to blog...

But only have very limited times...

So I will just do a brief updates here

and I think the better way is to let the pictures do the talking.

Introducing our Baby #2

Baby's Name: (Not yet decided, will announce once confirmed)

Born on: 28-July-2010 (via C-sect)

Weight at Birth: 3.5kg

Length at Birth: 51cm

Circumference of Head: 36cm

Tadaaaa...... Fresh from oven! Not even bath yet...

When the nurse put him on my chest for the very first time,

I was like... OMG!! This boy looks exactly like his sister!!

Hubby was the photographer while I still in the Operation Theatre.

This photo was taken on my discharge day.

Xixi was so excited seeing me and Didi home.

Especially after we gave her the bag...

(Can you see she was actually carrying that bag?)

She kept telling us Didi gave her present... LOL.

Btw, when I looked at this photo,

I almost can't believe I'm MOTHER OF TWO now!!!
Ok, here are more pictures of Didi...

He eat and sleep most of the times.

This is when he sleep soundly....
When he is happy, he will awake a while longer to entertain us.

Give us many many different funny faces. ^.^

When he is tired, yawning...

When he is hungry...Crying out loud for milk!

So far, I'm coping well with my confinement

with the help of my dear husband and my kind CL.

So I just rest whenever I can.

I'm fully breastfeeding my baby...

feel so blessed that I'm able to give the greatest gift to my baby.

Xixi is very cooperative.

She would just play her own toys, self entertained when we're busy.

She is really sweet and thoughtful that

she will ask me to be careful when she knew I have a wound on my lower abdomen.

Last but not least,

I would like to thank all your well wishes,

either through sms, phone calls, comments in my blog.... etc.

I'm truly appreciated!!

Bouncy Baby Cloth Diapers & Wetbags Giveaway

2010-07-23T11:57:00.002+08:00

Here is another cloth diaper I wish to add to my CD stash - Bouncy Baby One Size Cloth Diapers!

Picture courtesy of Tiny Tapir

Bouncy Baby diapers are proudly created and manufactured in Malaysia, so I was very excited to try it out since most of my cloth diapers are manufactured overseas. The diaper is well-known for its super soft Alova sue-cloth inner (the stay-dry layer), despite most cloth diapers use sue-cloth, micro fleece and bamboo; alova sue-cloth is really outstanding!

Currently Mummy’s Reviews is hosting a Bouncy Baby One Size Cloth Diaper Review and Giveaway. Two (2) lucky readers will receive a Bouncy Baby Value Set and one (1) hemp insert. This means each winner gets three (3) One Size Pocket Diapers (Pink or Blue), Six (6) Microfiber Inserts (3 large + 3 small), one (1) hemp insert, one (1) matching colour zippered wet bag with handle. The giveaway ends Friday, July 30, 2010. This giveaway is available to subscribers with mailing addresses worldwide.

Gift For Sibling

2010-07-20T17:03:00.006+08:00

I didn’t know about “Sibling Gift” till Kylie told me in one of my previous post. I think it is necessary to have this sibling gift for Xixi, because we notice that since I was pregnant, she has become very emotionally. Yes, she used to have lots of attention from us, and now with our coming new addition, I hope she will love her sibling and at the same time she wouldn’t feel being neglected by us.

Meaning of "Sibling Gift"

A Sibling gift is a wonderful way to help your older child prepare for the coming of a new baby. When that new baby arrives, your firstborn may experience a lot of new emotions that may be difficult for her to deal with. She won't want to lose her place in the family, and she may become jealous of all the attention that the new addition is receiving. You can encourage her to feel better about these new changes, however, with some sibling gifts that can be exchanged between her and your new bundle of joy."

Backpack for Xixi. *Angel wing*

Backpack for Didi *Batman*

I bought this pair of little backpack from Fabulous Mom last month when I purchase my nursing lingerie online. I supposed to buy one only, but with their clearance sale, I can’t resist myself from buying a pair!! So one for Xixi and one for Didi… We tend to give Xixi surprise so we didn’t show the gift to her before the big day arrived; we bought the gift box from Daiso, folded it and placed the backpack inside. So now two gifts pack are sitting nicely in the cabinet waiting to be opened by the siblings… Can’t wait for that moment….

@ 36weeks Pregnant

2010-07-14T12:11:00.002+08:00

Heheh… have been MIA for 2 weeks… Some of you thought I already delivered. ;p Not yet lah, actually I have a planned caesarean end of this month. Only things is that I’m not in the mood for blogging lately, call me lazy…. Clumsy as belly continues growing which makes me feels kind of uncomfortable. Can’t stand, walk and seat for too long, I walk like a penguin… easily get tired; not to mention bed times, I have to keep changing my sleeping position, and rushing to the wash rooms few times every night. Every day after sending Xixi to nursery, I will clean the house, it has been quite some times I never cook as I can’t stand for long due to back bone/ previous wound pain(stretching pain)… thankfully, I have a very caring mum who catered my meals every day, and my husband who did almost 60% of the house chores for me!

My appetite was still as good... however I got to eat lesser nowadays. Not that I purposely want to diet, just that the feeling of heart burn can really makes me go breathless… I can easily get heart burn after a full meal; I even got gastric pain and diarrhea two weeks ago! As what Dr. advised, my digestion system is getting slow now, better to eat small but more frequent meal. I have stop taking Chinese herbal, Anmum milk and start drinking coconut water since 2 weeks ago. I still like Durian, satay, burger and fried foods too bits! (aduh… All the junk foods….)

I had my usual pregnancy check up (36weeks) on last Saturday (10-July). Dr. asked me to rest more and don’t do any chores at home if possible, because she scared baby tak sabar to meet us early! *scary* (In fact, hubby forbids me from doing any house works also, which is impossible for me! haha.. I can’t stand living in a dirty messy house! ) Baby’s weight about 2.5kg at 36weeks pregnant, head dimension about 86.4mm. We’re getting ready to welcome our new bundle of joy anytime now! We had signed up with Stemlife for cord blood banking, the nursery shopping done and my maternity thingy all prepared.

While counting down for the big day to come, I’m quite worried for Xixi too…. She used to be the only kid in our family, and she is my super glue… at times she is such a loving girl who will take care of me when I was sick. But recently, she was making me blue again… demanding, mischievous… her behavior change a lot and it really drives me up the wall! She is quite stubborn and very firm for things she wants. Dealing with her have to be very very patient, I’m worried hubby can’t handle her during my confinement month and I also worried that I can’t cope with two after my CL left after full moon! Haizz…. Pray hard!

The last trimester really sounds unpleasant right? But in overall, I still enjoy this pregnancy though… many peoples comment that I still look good if only view from back will never know I’m pregnant! *Blush Blush… really ah??* However some said my belly is very huge already. Anyway, think back when I pregnant with Xixi last time, my last trimester was even the worst one! Rashes appealed all over my body… I can’t stop scratching those itchy rashes for a second! My weights shoot up to 73kg in the full term, and seriously I looked so terrible last time… I used to call myself "giant preggie mama". LOL. Thank God, I didn’t have these problems this time round, though minor stretch mark and rashes still can be seen, but it was not as obvious as last time, and till now my weight is still less than 70kg (65.3kg as of 10-July)! Relief…

Thats all about my updates this time. These are the photos taken at my 36weeks pregnancy.

Silly me camcording again... kekek. Side view, front view and the growing belly. I have trimmed my hair short again, scared I can't stand the oily hair during confinement month..

My cheeky Xixi. Sorry for not able to post up her photo here for quite some times...

Hopefully she will be a loving jie-jie.... Love she kiss my belly this way... so sweet!

My Wish List: Pupsik Baby Pouch Carrier

2010-06-30T17:41:00.004+08:00

I was so into online shopping lately… I made quite a several online purchase this month, most of them are baby stuffs, and also not forget to get something for myself too. However, being a stay-at-home- mother (SAHM), I opts for great bargains that I can afford to buy; of cos the best time for me to shop till drop is during SALE time. Besides that, I love to hunt for free giveaway contest from the internet as well.

*Picture courtesy from Mummy's Reviews*

Coincidently I came across this giveaway when I surf the internet the other day. The giveaway is sponsored by Pupsik Studio based in Singapore. One lucky winner will win a Pupsik Baby Pouch Carrier worth S$45.90 each! Yes, Baby Pouch Carrier is definitely something in my wish list now… I can use it to carry my small baby while go outing with an active kid (Xixi) next time!

If you’re interested to get yourself a stylish baby pouch too, come and join this giveaway! What you need to do is just as simple, hop over to Mummy’s Reviews for more details!

Her Favorite TV Commercial

2010-06-18T12:26:00.006+08:00

I’m curious if your kids like to watch TV commercial?? For me, I will rather quickly get myself a glass of water or rush for toilet during the TV commercial breaks. Xixi is opposite from me, she LOVE TV commercial, her eyes will glued on the TV especially when her favorite TV ads being broadcasting. We use to watch Singapore drama series from Channel 8, and lately I found there are quite a few interesting TV commercial being broadcasted.

This is her top favorite, Cadbury “Eyebrows” TV Ads. Very funny indeed! I have no idea at all how this ads was done! My funny Xixi was trying to copy the little model, but of cos her eyebrow can't "dance" like that lor... LOL.

Second favorite, Silkbath TV Commercial. Xixi simply hooked up by the cute silkworm and nice music! Even myself like it

And, this is OUR favorite… Hahaha! Gatsby Facial Wash TV Ads. How cool... an ordinary face could turn to Kimura Takuya's after using this facial wash. hahaha! The song "I can give you Gatsby" is so classic... even Xixi sing it loud whenever she watch the ads! :D

@ 32weeks Pregnant

2010-06-15T14:38:00.000+08:00

...My weight: 63.2kg. Gained another 2kg+ in the pass one month. I’ve gained a total 10kg so far in this pregnancy!

...Feels like hungry all the time… ;p I eat whatever and whenever I can! My favorite this month: Durian and dumpling（肉棕） maybe because there are in season. Hahaha…

...This pregnancy is so much different with last time, I never outgrown any of my maternity clothes, pants, panties even till now :)

...Belly continues to grow…. Bigger and bigger. I noticed my belly grow faster during my 2nd-3rd trimester…

...Baby still remain active, especially during night time, I was getting kicked and prodded during bed time!

...I enjoy watching the movement over my belly; perhaps the tiny foot just moves across…

...Get shocked in the middle of the night about getting jabbed by a tiny elbow!

...Itchy skin seems like under controlled now. Stretch marks continues to grow but still under controlled.

...I’m getting clumsier… hard to breath… hard to move… means I’m getting lazier! Hahaha…

...I sweat a lot!! Even in these rainy days and in the air-cond room…

...I wake up 3-4 times middle of the night to run to toilet.

...The back bone ache continues to kill me, muscle sore in hands and legs.

...Can’t stand for long, walk for long… means less shopping and house chores for me. Poor hubby... he gotta take care of the house chores part plus entertain Xixi during weekends... ;p

...Feels uncomfortable to dine at certain restaurant as my growing belly would gets “stuck” in between the chair and table and hence I have difficulty to eat. *_^

...70% of the nursery shopping done. Bought a new Avent breast pump, BM storage cups, feeding bottles, few cloth diapers, baby’s toiletries and many many others...

...Baby’s clothing which handed down by Xixi and baby Hong Jie are all washed. Cloth diapers are in the progress of pre-wash (need to pre-wash 3times at least!)

...More storage spaces/ boxes for Xixi’s and baby’s stuff prepared.

...However, not really prepare the things for my confinement month yet. My sarong, maternity bras, nursing pads, confinement herbs etc are not yet buy….

...Xixi jie jie and Papa are getting more excited to meet Didi. They talk to Didi every night, but disappointingly Didi didn’t really respond to them. o_O

...We have scheduled a caesarean date with Gynae during my latest check up on 12-June. Through the ultra scan, every thing is normal. Baby covers his half face using his own hand, so cute… Baby estimated weight is about 2kg. No ultrascan picture taken this time... Opss, I also forgot to ask.

I love this picture.... I think she is almost ready to be a Jie-jie. She like to ask us question about Di-di. Eg: When is Didi coming out?; Can we bring Didi go kai kai next time? She still love to sing to Didi, and sometimes disturb Didi... heheh. The funniest part, she wants Didi to claps for her... LOL!

Left: Me at 32weeks preggie. So very sorry for my Ah-Soh look. It's nearly bed time and we were still photo shooting.. hahah.
Right: My huge belly(Some say not really huge) at weeks 32. Can spot the stretch marks right?... I applied macam-macam oil, cream, gel to prevent already... but the stubborn marks still grows like nobody business!

I Want To Win a Knickernappies Pocket Diaper!

2010-06-09T17:21:00.004+08:00

I was busy for the pass one weeks; busy because of the preparation for my new born. We headed down to IKEA last Saturday to purchase some storage box to place baby’s stuff; and I also made my purchase on baby’s feeding bottles, baby toiletries, and diapers on last week. Talking about diaper, I have actually planned to cloth-diaper my new born, and hence I have spent most of my time recently in front of computer searching for the most suitable CD for my little one.

Just yesterday, I found out a great giveaway when I hop over to Cloth Diaper Malaysia website. This giveaway is sponsored by Baby-Mel and Knickernappies. Three lucky winners will win a One Size Pocket Diaper worth RM89 each!! This is definitely an opportunity that I don’t want to miss…

These Knickernappies pocket diapers are side snapping, and comes with 2 inserts. They are 100% Made in USA. They are also One-sized! The unique side snapping feature allows more flexibility for baby’s movements. It also provides baby a smooth tummy appearance and the material is very soft. This doesn’t bulk over the stomach and creates comfort for tummy sleeper baby.

So wish me luck!! I really hope I’m one of the lucky winners… and I can’t wait to see my little baby wearing this very cute and sweet nappy!

Her Little Handprints

2010-05-25T15:21:00.007+08:00

Hubby was not around, and it’s kind of boring for me and Xixi just sit at home doing nothing. But I really not feel like go out during the scotching hot Sunday afternoon. Since we were out for lunch, I drove to Carrefour to buy some stationary as well. I tend to do some art works with Xixi. I notice she is quite interested in arts after the recent sands art and the Mother’s day apple handprint card.

So backed home, after she awake from nap, we started our art session. I’m not good in art at all, and thanks to this lovely mommy, I got inspired by her through her craft blog.

This is our first attempt, the handprint flower. Completely forgot to snap a picture when Xixi in progress of doing her printing; my hands full of wet wipes, colors, tissue papers etc…. no hands for the camera!

Xixi enjoyed printing her palms to the max!! But when her palm being painted with color, she said “yeee…. So messy!” hahaha.. My clean freak girl! Overall she enjoyed doing it, she was so contented looking at her masterpiece and kept saying wanna show the flower to Papa.

She was very keen for another printing, so I told her we will do it next day. So this is our second attempt yesterday. A handprint fish… Can you spot the fish? It does not look like a fish though... hahaha....

I think this is a good past time for both me and Xixi, at least it can keep her busy for a good 20minutes. And it is not that messy after all... I think next we're going to try handprint strawberry.... Strawberry is Xixi's favourite!!

Our Saturday without Hubby

2010-05-23T22:48:00.000+08:00

It was a beautiful Saturday, but hubby was still outstation and only will be back on Thursday. Without hubby around, my life is quite miserable… hahaha… as he used to help me a lot in my house chores especially now I’m pregnant. Xixi did ask me where Papa is going and why he “disappears” for so long. Obviously he started to miss Papa already…

Well, I and Xixi have been staying at home the whole week since Monday. It was quite boring… So yesterday, I tag Xixi to Jusco for a short "kai-kai", actually nothing much to buy, I just want to bring Xixi go out jalan-jalan while I can sneak out for some fresh air as well.

We reached Jusco quite early where there are still plenty of parking lots available… haha. I rented a kiddie car for Xixi straight away after we reached Jusco. Good thing to have this kiddie car was that I could have peace of mind shopping without need to chase an active kid around, ;) moreover Xixi was more than happy to be seated in the car! She told me “I can drive leh!” hahaha…

I went to buy some kitchenware from Daiso then after that we passed by an art and craft stall, Xixi was fascinated by the sand art and the coloring, but too bad that stall wasn’t opened yet. So instead we went to settle our lunch first, I ordered a set meal to share with Xixi, which included rice, chicken in ginseng herbal soup, braised black beans and braised pork. I ordered extra rice because the portion is too small for us. Xixi walloped her bowl of rice, chicken, black beans… too hungry because she only has milk in the morning.

From clockwise: Xixi, our set meal, marinated guava and chrysanthemum tea.

After lunch, she finally had her first try on sands art… she spotted the stall has opened and she informed me! I asked her to choose a design she want, and then we sat down together. First time doing it, so we were a bit kelam-kabut, heheh... but very fast she mastered the pouring skill. I help her to peel off the sticker, and she pours the sands all by herself…

Works in progress... She was so concentrating!!

The outcome. She was thrilled with her masterpiece and kept telling me “我做的叻！”

We spent a good 20minutes for the sands art session, and after that we went to Jusco to buy some snacks and Lavender to buy some bread before we headed home. Xixi was very tired already, and almost fall sleep in the car after kena scolded by me! She jumping in the car while I was driving!

Sleep like this in the car... use her comforter (nappy) to cover her face.

After reached home, she continues her nap and I do my chores. Later in the afternoon after she awaked from nap, I showed her something new… a musical instrument toys that newly bought; she instantly get fascinated by it.. haha, was even playing it while doing her business…

Weather yesterday was so nice, so I let her cycling in the car porch while me practicing my EOS.

While the two of us happily playing our toys, someone came and visit us... heheh... We have good time playing with the little boy, he is just toooo adorable and chubby!! So photogenic of him, so young already know how to smile for the camera!

From clockwise: My nephew 泓颉；my cousin, Xixi and the handsome baby; Xixi and baby.

At night, we went over my parent's place for dinner. Reached home about 8pm++, I was exhausted after a full day babysit Xixi! Have my bowl of double boil bird nest and went to bed straight away after bath!

Makan Makan at Hikage A-la-carte Japanese Buffet

2010-05-21T14:41:00.013+08:00

** This is a backdated post **

Last Friday (14-May-2010) was my 4th wedding anniversary. Hubby was on leave that day, and Xixi was on full day program at school to celebrate Teacher’s day. Since I have craving for Japanese food lately, so off we went to have buffet lunch at this one of my favorite restaurant, Hikage. (We visited this restaurant before on hubby's birthday last year.) This restaurant serve ala-carte buffet; there have hundred over variety of dishes for your choices and it’s definitely worth the price at RM39nett per person. Needless to say, their foods are simply yummy!

Here are some of the food we ordered. Oopssss... I still took raw salmon and sashimi though I'm pregnant! ^_* Ya, I just couldn't resist my itchy mouth.

More foods... heheh. Out of 100++ choices, we only ordered 20+ dishes... not very big eater actually. haha ;p

More and more foods... I think some of the foods we ordered didn't come, ya.. their business is too good, though it was a normal weekday but they're full house!

Lastly, a picture of hubby indulge in his icecream...

And me eating my desserts.

We were happy eating till the last order which approx 3pm! Tummy fulled till the evening... haha. That's how we spent our anniversary day.

Weekend is here, wish you all a very Happy Weekends Ahead!

Xixi’s New Outfits & Shoes

2010-05-19T11:45:00.007+08:00

May is Xixi’s birthday month. I’m glad to say that our relatives and friends will always remember her birthday. This year, Xixi has received some very nice outfits as birthday present. The first batch of outfits came in as early as last month. My auntie 小姨 who travelled to Shanghai mid of last month she didn’t forget to bring back something for Xixi. Thanks for your sweet gesture, 小姨！

These are the outfits flew all the way back from Shanghai, China. A T-shirt, skirt and a fluffy dress. We love them all....

I’ve just recently received a parcel from Mr Skynet… guess who was that sweet sender? Yes… is Angel, my forum friend who is always so thoughtful. Thank you so much Angel! Angel sent Xixi two lovely t-shirts and one long pant, both are very nice… I especially love the “I Love Dad” t-shirt; it is very soft and comfy… Hubby has yet to see this cute tee, because he is outstation (Dear, we miss you….) I’m sure the word will make him proud!

Xixi modelling her new outfits. The skirt and dress looks big on her.. my skinny girl! She was fascinated by the butterflies on the shirt. Hahaha.

Modelling again... she love to pose with her new outfits, and refuse to take it off after that. She said she want to wear “美美”！Vain pot... hahaha! I guess hubby will smile from ear to ear when seeing her princess wearing this... "I Love Dad"!

Last but not least, we bought 2pairs of imitation crocs for Xixi last month. Haha, I don’t mind buying imitation, as long as wearable and, kids… they outgrown it very fast! I think no point to spend hundred over dollar for a plastic shoe. (Sorry, no offence to those Crocs supporter ya… ). We bought these from a street vendor outside a bank. First time seeing such a huge pile of crocs shoes on the floor, of cos it caught out attention lor… Most importantly we found the pattern we like and after bargain, it only cost us RM30 for both shoes! Cheap and nice!

Xixi is currently wearing this Dora crocs (also imitation, kekek), i bought from a shopping mall, it cost me RM25 per pair! She is going to outgrow this soon...

@ 28weeks Pregnant

2010-05-17T16:18:00.003+08:00

... I’m weighted 60.9kg now. Gosh…. I gained 4kg+ in the pass one month!!

... My appetite was extremely GOOD! I eat almost everything.

... I craved for baked potato, durian, steamboat and Japanese food, and I had them all in the pass one month.

... Surprisingly I still can wear my normal outfits, t-shirt, short pants and L size undies. Maternity clothing is more comfortable to wear but looks bulky on me… hahaha.

... I can feel baby’s hiccups, and by placing hands on my belly, I can feel baby’s movement. I can even see his movement visually some times.

... Baby kicking, punching, stretching and twisting become more frequent now, no matter in what position, day or night.

... I can feel my old c-sect wound was stretching/pain if I walk/ stand/ bend my waist for too long, according to my Gynae, it is normal…

... Due to backache, I got to wake up or stand up and walk in very slow pace.

... My gum bleeds badly whenever I brush my teeth. According to Dr., it’s not lack of calcium, but Vitamin C instead.

... But I did take varieties of fruits everyday… papaya, apple, grapes, guava and watermelon; these are the fruits which helps my bowel movement.

... The feelings of “heartburn” still continue if I eat too full, so Dr has prescribed Gaviscon for me.

... Still taking New Obimin as supplement every morning; and 2cups of milk daily on weekdays; bird nest every week.

... Xixi seems like starts to accept the “fact” of mummy pregnant now. Haha… She willing to let Papa bath her, play with Papa… etc. Not as clingy as last month.

... When I make the "Ouch" sounds, she will thought Didi kick again, and she will come and check if I’m ok… Haha.

I’m going to enter my last trimester now, but have yet to prepare for new born, things like feeding bottle, breast pump are yet to buy…. Luckily we can save on most of the items like baby’s crib, bath tub, stroller and baby’s clothing which handed down by Xixi.

During my last pregnancy check-up on 15-May-2010, everything was fine… baby grows very fast this time; more than 50% grow… Baby’s estimated weight is about 1.1kg (grow 400grams+ in one month). Gynae showed us baby’s face, hands, legs… etc through ultra scan as usual, but I couldn’t see it very clear lor… The only part I could clearly see was the bird again… hahaha. Thought go for 3D scan, but too bad, the appointment was full that day. We have decided to go for cesarean for this second baby, and Gynae advised that operation can be done after 38weeks, so my baby’s birth date will be falls in between 23-July – 6-August. =)

Baby's ultrasound scan at weeks 28. This is the face according to Dr. But I really can't figure out where is the forehead, eyes, nose and mouth. T_T

My belly picture at 28weeks pregnant. This picture purely for remembrance, pardon my not so radiant belly and hands.

Belated Gift

2010-05-11T18:33:00.004+08:00

Finally, Xixi had brings back something for me today….. Wahahaha! What a long wait! Yes…. I’m talking about this belated Mothers Day gift – An Apple shape card.

I and my mum went to fetch Xixi from school this afternoon; as usual we will chit chat on the way home. Suddenly she took out an artwork card from her school bag and showed it to me.

And these are our conversation:

Xixi: 美吗？(Nice or not?)
Me: 美！这个要给谁的？(this is for who?)
Xixi: 我的咯！(this is mine)
OMG! The teacher must have forgotten to teach her the gift is for Mummy! Hahahaa… Nvm, I continue to tease her again…
Me: 老师没有说这个是给妈咪的么？上面写”Mummy I Love You” wor… (Teacher didn’t tell you this is for mummy? Is written “Mummy I love you” wor)
She smile and think for a second…

Xixi: 这个送给你的！(This is a for you)
Me: 那你要跟妈咪讲什么？(Then what you should tell mummy?)
Xixi: Thank you very much! 红包拿来！(Give me Ang Pow!)

Me: LOL!

Proudly present her artwork. She colored the small hearts and thumb prints the apple and leaf. She traced the word "Mummy I Love You"

She kept on saying “Thank you very much” and kept on telling me that she makes the card with teacher in class. She even refuse to show my mum the card and she told my mum “cannot… this is for Mama!” Backed home, she still repeats and repeats the same words… “Thank you very much” and told me don’t show the card to Papa, because the card was “strictly” for Mama only…. Hahaha… what a funny girl!

I think she is still young to understand the real meaning of "Mothers Day", but I was extremely surprised that she kept emphasis to everyone the apple is for Mama.. haha. Though she didn't greet me those sweet words like "I Love You", but I'm truly appreciate with her little artworks, afterall... this is the very first gift she presented to me!

My Latest Crave…

2010-05-10T15:24:00.006+08:00

I seem have not much craving for any special food in this second pregnancy.
But lately I was craving for baked potato badly…

the one that my mum’s friend used to bake.
Aunty Li Zhu was generous enough to share the recipe with me… thanks Aunty!
And this simple looking baked potatoes actually required lots of preparation,
It took me about 2-3hours to finish all the necessary jobs

from cutting, steaming, mashing to baking.
It was a beautiful Saturday and luckily hubby was there in the kitchen for help. Haha…
Both of us love this dish very much…

It taste very much like a pizza.

But of course we didn't finish all, it can be very high calories.

As usual, I gave some to my mum and my auntie who live nearby.

Xixi.... she is one typical Chinese, she don't fancy any western food at all!

Filling:

Mashed Potatoes, Onion, Tomato, Carrot, Bacon, Egg, Cheese.

Seasoning:

Oregano, Salt, Mayonise, Black Pepper Powder.

You may refer here for similar recipe of baked potato too,

but in Mandarin version.

She Fell In Love With......

2010-05-04T15:10:00.004+08:00

These two little fellows… Chip 'n Dale.

She will screams and call out their name whenever she sees them in her Clubhouse Choo-Choo Express.
Though they only appears as guest stars in some of the Mickey Mouse clubhouse episodes,
but I’m amaze that Xixi really love them even more than Mickey and Minnie.
So happened on Sunday,

I saw these cute little Chip 'n Dale plush toys displayed at one of the toy stall at Giant,
I quickly told hubby...

but thinking that she already has many soft toys at home,

we took a consideration whether to buy or not.
However,

hubby still paid for it because we just couldn’t resist seeing she hug the toys in such an indulging way…
And since it was her birthday, we treat this as another birthday pressie for her.

Posing proudly with her chip n dale. She prefers Chip (the left one with black nose).

While me and hubby prefers Dale (the right one with red nose and ruffled hair).

Hugging her babies thightly, as if we will grab them away... hahaha.

Celebrate Xixi’s 3rd Birthday

2010-05-03T00:44:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was Xixi third birthday. This year we didn’t bring her travelling like last year; no big celebration but just a small cake cutting session at my parents place. My dad insists we wait for him to celebrate together… Haha. We ordered an ice cream cake from Baskin Robin and let her choose the design all by herself (again); to our surprise she choose an animal drawing cake, and we simply have no idea what that animal was??... To me, It looks like a dog, a cat, a lion or a tiger… Hahaha…. But again, as long as she happy, we are happy too! Hmm, the cake doesn’t taste nice though, it melts pretty fast… It’s made of one layer of candy cotton ice cream and one layer of vanilla sponge cake as a base. The sponge cake taste a bit salty, I and Xixi don’t quite like it… we still prefer those cake from local bakery shop.

The ice cream cake. Xixi choose this herself...

Ok, back to the topic… Xixi doesn’t really aware yesterday was her actual birth date. When I greeted her “Happy Birthday” in the morning, she was a little bit blur and she questioned me back “又生日？”(Birthday again??) she must be wondering how come she celebrate birthday for so many times this year… wakaka, actually beside the birthday celebration she had in school the other day; my cousin Min also celebrate her birthday on 1-May, one day earlier than Xixi; and we were at her place to celebrate together and thus this was the third cake in the row... However she still anticipates the simple celebration session when knowing there’s a cake waiting for her in the fridge. Heheh.

Birthday girl make a wish... Wow, looks so serious! My parents really adores Xixi so much, especially my dad... Not forget to thank Gong Gong & Popo for the Ang Pows!
We knew that she missed to blow her candles at school the other day, so make sure she blow off 3 candles all by herself this time. Hahaah.... happy girl!

Last but not least... Our family photo.

“希希，转眼间你已经三岁。我感恩老天把你赐给我们！

你是我们的宝贝女儿，公主，天使，家里的开心果。。。

我享受每一个你带给我们的欢笑，快乐！

虽然偶尔你会不乖，爸妈责骂你，惩罚你都是希望你能学好。

在这里要对你说，你永远是我们的宝贝！

爸爸妈妈爱你！生日快乐！！”

First Time Celebrate Birthday with Teacher and Friends

2010-04-30T11:09:00.006+08:00

I have come out an idea that let Xixi celebrate her birthday at school to let her has different birthday celebration experience with her friends and teachers. However this year her birthday falls on Sunday (2-May), and in conjunction of her lunar birthday, we decided to make it a celebration yesterday(29-April).

Ordered a fruity birthday cake for her 3days ago, because she told me she want a strawberry cake at first, and we let her choose the cartoon printing all by herself.., haha, there’re actually quite many cartoons like Mickey, Hello Kitty, Barney for selection, but she choose Chicken Little in the end. No idea why…. She still in love with her bed sheet and pillowcase, I think. Ok, well… expensive cake it was…. But as long as she happy, we’re happy!

Parents are not allowed to join in the party, so no choice, I pass my camera to the teacher and ask her to capture some pictures for me. Xixi was very very happy by just looking at those pictures taken at school... hahaha... actually the whole day she was in very good mood. :) Indeed an easy contented girl.

Her birthday cake. Full of fruits... her favourite is strawberries. She insists the Chicken Little printing.. hahaha, funny girl.

The birthday girl, singing birthday song, I think. See... surrounded by all boys. Out of 14kids, they are only 5 girls in her class.

Doing the victory hands somemore... kekek. Oh ya, she kept repeating to us that the candles kena blowed off by one of the boy standing beside her (see the boy whom aiming on the cake?), hahaha... never mind, girl.... next time you blow faster than him, okay?

These two kids are her best friends, and Indian girl, Tarishrini; and En Lai, one very adorable boy.

Her New Past Time

2010-04-28T14:58:00.008+08:00

Bought 2 boxes of LEGO for Xixi last week during Jusco Member day, with 30% discount on LEGO toys, we bought it without any hesitation (Not really cheap until I found out an online store selling at better price!). Since Xixi birthday is coming, these will be her birthday present, furthermore her teacher told me she has been very imaginative in playing bricks(Lego Duplo) in school, so we think it’s a good time to buy her some LEGO.

Though we were quite worry of the mess caused by the small part/components and I never ever thought of introduce LEGO to Xixi initially because I thought only boy will fascinate LEGO.. as it’s all about building constructions, vehicles, airplane, ships, pirates… etc. haha…. oh dear, I was WRONG! She was very excited and interested in her LEGO! With Papa guidance, Xixi can make varieties of things likes gun, house, robot any many others. Yes, she is very creative, she even uses the “gun” to shoot me and wants me to pretend mati! She can play the Duplo bricks all by herself now without disturb me for a good 30 minutes… haha. Of cos for the smaller bricks, she needs help from Papa. And I’m glad that she would keep her toys nicely in the box/ container after playing, as we always tell her if she keep it nicely, then we will buy her more LEGO.. haha, and it works!

These are her Lego set that keep her occupied most of days now... She has been abandoned her coloring for few weeks. The top one(5899) is her first Lego set, hubby bought from Singapore few weeks ago. Ya, better to buy toys in Singapore because it's much more cheaper! Second set (5586) and third set(6187) we bougth from Jusco last week, cost RM69.90 & RM111.30 individualy after discount. Do you think is cheap?? Haizz.... not really, I found it much MUCH cheaper at Bricksworld, for the third set, they only sell at S$29.90. Difference = approx. RM42!!

Her latest craze - Lego. Happily playing every day and night.

Of course it will be more fun with Papa's accompanying. Actually it's good father and daughter bonding time, cos Xixi used to be very sticky to me, and now at least I can ~~shake legs~~ watch my fav TV programme while the two of them busy with LEGO.. oh ya, hubby seems like fall in love with LEGO lately...

She keep the bricks in box after playing...

Some of the Lego creation. Mostly are Papa's creation. Got tractor, truck, airplane, house and etc... Xixi was funny, she will pretend herself as driver, and tell us Papa & Mama seat behind and Didi seat besides her.. haha.

赴一场有意义的约 – 当今孕妇的传统信念

2010-04-26T11:48:00.008+08:00

几个星期前，收到一封来自Mead Johnson 的邀请卡。
于是，昨天起了个大早，把女儿寄在妈妈家，
然后我跟老公两人就去出席了这场很有意义的讲座会 –“当今孕妇的传统信念”
很荣欣能被邀请，据说这是一项独家邀约，
只有幸运的八十人被邀请到这个讲座会。小孩一概不能入场。
活动由 MyFM DJ 林德荣 (Jack Lim) 及 Astro 主持人林佩盈 (Lynn Lim) 一起主持。
整个讲座维持三个小时，两位主持跟大家分享他们初为人父/人母的经验，轻松，幽默，有趣！
除此之外他们也跟大家玩游戏，讨论当今孕妇的传统信念，送奖品。
一向跟幸运抽奖无缘得我，昨天竟然是五名幸运儿之一，赢了个礼蓝！里头还有燕窝的喔！
托baby 的福，感恩！！上台领奖的那一刻，超紧张的！
不单是面对台下数十对眼光，接受两大名嘴的简单访问，也使我双手发冷！紧张地。。
除此之外，会场也请来了一位妇产科医生为大家解答我们华人一向来对怀孕，坐月子的避忌。
我跟老公真的从中学到了很多。。
相信吗？这么一个好的讲座，是入场免费的。还提供茶点和午餐。
衷心感谢 Mead Johnson Enfamama Club 的邀请！

邀请卡

两位非常能言善道的主持人：林德荣，林佩盈。三个小时的讲座，绝无冷场！

我们跟主持人的合照。两位名嘴一点架子都没有，非常亲切，随和。

礼蓝，里头有两罐 Enfamama A+ 奶粉，一条毛巾，一件孕妇t-shirt, 一盒燕窝！

主办单位也送给每位准妈妈一件孕妇t-shirt,两本健康怀孕指南和100分kitty points!

够贴心吧！

3 Months Old V.S. 3 Years Old

2010-04-21T12:31:00.002+08:00

We’re going to bring Xixi to update her Passport picture on this Friday.
Her current passport picture was taken when she was merely a 3 months old baby.
Can’t believe my tiny baby has grown up so much now!!
Looking at both her passport pictures,

I really can’t help myself from comparing them.

She looks so much different when she was a baby...

I really miss her chubby cheeks!!

When she only a 3 months old baby,

I love cuddling her with lots of kiss and kiss whenever I can.
I love to smell her from top to toe,

watching her toothless smile was such bliss for me!!

3 years passed, the little baby is now big girl already...

she will be celebrate her 3rd birthday in less than 2weeks time,

I still love to cuddle and kiss her…

however as she grows up every day,
She is getting more independent and defensive now…
Occasionally she refuses to let us kiss or cuddle her anymore…

Xixi, My Little Vain Pot

2010-04-19T11:57:00.006+08:00

We were at my parent’s place last night.
My mum was applying her night moisturizer before she went to bed

and her action really caught Xixi’s attention.
As usual, Xixi asked for some cream to be applied on her face too,

like what she used to do at home when I apply mine moisturizer.
I told my mum Xixi was indeed a little vain pot even though she is just a 2 year old girl.
She used to disturb me too when I apply make up.
My mum, after hearing my words…

she go and dig out her make up kits and starts “coloring” on Xixi’s face.

(I was away by that time).
Few minutes later,

Xixi happily ran to me and shouting “Mama, Mama… see see my face so pretty!”

OMG! I was in big SHOCK when I saw her colorful face appeared in front of me...

Looking at her thickish eyebrown, her reddish cheeks and her glossy lip...

hahaha....

Seriously I don’t know to laugh or cry...
But after all, she still looks so princess to me....

I didn’t bring my camera along,

so only managed to take a picture of her with "Popo’s masterpiece" after reach home

as you can see the blushers colour has started faded away.

New Face Lift Is Finally Up

2010-04-15T16:25:00.004+08:00

Finally… hahaha! Our new facelift is finally here… the old header picture has been staying in this blog for more than a year now, and it’s definitely time to change it. Since our look is quite different now, especially Xixi, she has grown up so much… The last picture was actually taken on my birthday year 2008… way too long ago! And the new picture was taken on my birthday (December) last year. Hmm, ya... we hardly have a nice family photo taken except during one of our birthday.

Our new facelift. Only change the photo, because the lazy me already forgotten most of the steps in Photoshop already T_T, so you might notice that the outcome may not as radiant... *Paiseh*

The old header which has been here since March-2009. It's time to say bye-bye...

@ 23weeks Pregnant

2010-04-12T18:35:00.007+08:00

… I’m weighted 56.7kg now; gained 2kg++ in the pass one month!!

… My appetite is good, but I can only eat till 70% full or else I will feel so bloated till can feel the food stuck somewhere at my chest… haha. Sometimes I even feel so difficult to breath....

… I don’t have special craving. But I definitely prefer noodles or porridge than rice.

… I’m still can fit in my normal t-shirt and pants though a bit thight. Starts wearing maternity clothing as more comfortable.

… Belly continues to grows, as well as butt and breast, but of course the growth is not as obvious as the first pregnancy.

… Baby kicking and punching became stronger and frequent each day… especially when my sleeping position not right, or when I was hungry, or when my belly was near to the gas stove when cooking.

… I only can sleep in certain position, sleeping side-wards most of the times.

… I couldn’t sleep through the night, have to wake up at least twice to pee middle of the night.

… Suffering from body itchiness again, rashes and red spots appear on my hip, breast and belly areas. The itchiness is so unbearable…. even the cream prescribed by Dr. couldn’t help.

… Stretch marks also start to appear on my belly, hip and thighs.

… Bowel movement not that good compared to last month. Constipation did happen if I didn’t take fruits…

… I can easily feels muscles pain after doing house chores or even a short shopping. 手脚酸痛。

… Xixi was still very clingy to me at all times… Lately she was showing some signs of being a good jie-jie, she will climb to me and sing for Didi, talk to Didi and sometimes when baby kicking, she will “scold” Didi don’t be so naughty. However, when I asked her whether can share her toys with Didi, she will reply me with BIG NO!!

I think my pregnancy “honeymoon” is going to end soon, as all sorts of body discomfort already starts appearing now (body itchiness, muscle sores, backache…).

During my last pregnancy check-up on 10-April, everything was normal; baby growing well. We can see baby’s face, bones, backbones, hands, legs… hearing his heartbeat is so much excited for us! Dr. once again confirmed baby’s gender is boy.. seems like every check up, baby will open his leg widely to show us the kuku-bird. Haha… boy will be boy hor…. Baby’s estimated weight is about 771grams and the head dimension is about 63mm.

Baby's ultrasound scan at 23weeks. Can spot the thigh, leg and foot?? Baby was happily kicking during the scanning.

My not so big belly.... but rashes and stretch marks already started appear :(

Last but not least, hubby took a picture of me and Xixi yesterday. Xixi just like to cling to me like this.... hahaha.

Exploring My New Toy

2010-04-08T09:55:00.008+08:00

Was busying exploring my new toy recently…
Reading the user manual was not enough and still trying to find some tutorial online.

Trying to shoot and shoot in order to practice...
Honestly I have zero knowledge about this thingy…
But was admired those beautiful images captured by this blacky thingy for long...
Of course the purpose of getting this toy is to capture the precious moment of my kids growth.
I really hope I can fully utilize this toy to the max….

and please, hopefully I can master at least some basic skills as soon as possible.

And tadaaa...

this is my new toy…. the newly launched Canon EOS 550D.

*wink* love it too bits!!!!

Got it at very reasonable price, must thanks my cousin, Yau Yee for the good lobang…

Thank You!!

2010-04-07T14:12:00.002+08:00

*This is a back dated post…. Long back dated!*

Early March, I received 2 parcels from Pos Laju. The first parcel was sent by this pretty mummy, Cath J. As a lucky winner of highest voter for “The Best Recipe Contest” hosted in CathJ’s blog, she was generous enough to send me a Body Shop product that worth RM50!! Thank you so much!!

After received the fabulous prize from CathJ, I received another parcel on the following day… It was an unexpected parcel from Mead Johnson. It was a pack of Enfagrow A+ (650gram) that worth RM30++ I think. As a privilege member of MJ Parenting Circle, they sent me this Smart New Look of Enfagrow A+ as appreciation. New packing of Enfragrow A+ is now available in the market. Thanks so much MJ!! Will definitely continue to support MJ product!

看她背诵三字经

2010-03-31T14:33:00.005+08:00

在希希还没学习三字经之前，我也不会三字经。

为了教她，我把自己那已经半生锈的脑袋重新polish 一下。

背呀背地，真的不得不承认三十岁的脑袋真的比不上那正在急速发育的三岁脑袋！

往往自己需要背上好旧的几段字，听在小瓜耳里没两下功夫她就能朗朗上口。

我不想认老，倒还要感谢女儿使我有机会跟她一起学习。

最经她也老爱爬到我肚子前，跟弟弟打招呼，念三字经给弟弟听。。。

In case 你听不懂她在念什么经，这是他在video 里背诵的一部分三字经，也是她目前仅熟略的。

人之初，性本善。性相近，习相远。
苟不教，性乃迁。教之道，贵以专。
昔孟母，择邻处。子不学，断机杼。〉〉 “断机杼”常说成“非所宜”
窦燕山，有义方。教五子，名俱扬。
养不教，父之过。教不严，师之惰。
子不学，非所宜。幼不学，老何为。
玉不琢，不成器。人不学，不知义。〉〉常常忘了这一句“人不学，不知义”
为人子，方少时。亲师友，习礼仪。
香九龄，能温席。孝于亲，所当执。
融四岁，能让梨。弟于长，宜先知。
首孝悌，次见闻。知某数，识某文。
一而十，十而百。百而千，千而万。

看他似模似样地指着书本朗诵，不知道的人还以为她真的几“劲”一下。。

没有，她其实只是很爱演罢了！哈哈哈。。

Video taken on 29-March-2010.

Chen Xi @ 2years 10months old.

Unforgettable Birthday

2010-03-29T16:23:00.004+08:00

Last Thursday (25-March) was hubby’s 30th Birthday. Unfortunately he doesn’t able to celebrate his big day as he was down with fever (approx 40’C) though after consult Doctor and taken medicine but his fever still not subsided. So eventually I only bought a small birthday cake for him, as his situation really not allowed us to dine out furthermore Xixi was just recovering from HFMD. It was indeed an unforgettable birthday for hubby, I could see he really suffered… he was lying on bed for the whole day. He told me he feels so strength less and ill that he can’t even smile for the camera when I tried to shoot a few photos of cake cutting ceremony.

However, that wasn’t the worse case as yet… remembers FEVER is always the first symptoms of HFMD?? There were some red spots appeared on hubby’s palm and sole on the next day morning though his fever already subsided. So he told me he was quite sure he suffering from HFMD as well, because besides the red spots, he also got several ulcers in his throat which makes him really uncomfortable. OMG…. I prayed hard that wasn’t the fact!! So again, he consulted Dr and this time Dr confirmed the sickness as HFMD! (Yes, no joke… adults also can suffer HFMD, although the chances are slim) Fainted… to play safe, hubby self quarantine himself and we slept in different room, separate our toiletries, tableware, use different washrooms and we eat separately, carries our daily activities separately, and he was responsible enough to wear mask whenever I and Xixi are around.

This morning I brought Xixi to visit the Pediatric again; to confirm she is fully recovered and thought can bring her to school today after long 10days break, but Dr. told me she still got another 2 small ulcers in mouth and better stay at home for another 2days. So for the time being, I have 2 patients at home, both also kena attacked by HFMD… Hubby is on sick leave till Wednesday. The clinic nurse even warned me, I was in HIGH RISK now… but how eh?? Wish me good luck!

Cake cutting session. Xixi always the happiest person no matter whoever's birthday.

I cooked Mee Suah soup with chicken drumstick for hubby on the eve of his birthday. 希望老公健康长寿！

Hubby's palm that full of red spot.

Coloring and Word Tracing

2010-03-27T23:12:00.005+08:00

Xixi has been practicing coloring since she attended school, and recently her teacher told me she can do tracing quite well as well. Actually I have bought her some coloring and pre-school exercise book quite some times ago but it has been kept in the cabinet because I know to make her concentrate coloring or tracing isn’t an easy task. Heheh. As an active kids like her, she can only sit still at her desk for less than 15minutes a day… however she really likes coloring and tracing…. Or should I say, she likes playing with the stationary… color pencils, eraser and sharpener.

It requires lots of ~~scolding~~ patience from me in order for her to complete one worksheet. This cheeky girl… she just couldn’t concentrate doing one thing at one time. She sings the Hot Dog Song when she coloring Mickey Mouse, she mimic the way Donald talk when she coloring Donald. She will talk non-stop when doing her coloring or tracing… LOL. I’m wondering whether she do the same at school?!... I really can’t leave her alone as she still rely on my guidance for the time being; or else she would scribble everywhere in her coloring book or the desk.

Some of her coloring worksheets. Spot the scribble on the top of Donald? She saids she writes her name. hahaha...

Just started tracing at home few days ago, and I think her tracing is even better than coloring. But of cos not for writting, she still can't write... I need to hold her hands to write.

She just couldn't sit still at her desk, she likes lying on the floor sometimes; but when she is concentrating, she look really serious!

She can grip the pencil in correct way now, but somehow still couldn’t control it very well... She prefer coloring bigger object, she only color those smaller part like nose, mouth when she almost finish colored everything.

Chen Xi @ 2years 10months old

A Visit to Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm

2010-03-25T17:34:00.005+08:00

When we were at Genting last Saturday (20-March), we also visited the Strawberry Leisure Farm. This place is located at Gohtong Jaya which took about 15minutes drive from Genting Highland. (Refer here for map.) I can’t wait to bring Xixi to this farm, because this little girl of mine is strawberry lover. Furthermore, she will have the opportunity to pluck the strawberries; so I am sure she would like the place. However not all section are opened for visitors, only certain section is opened and only 3 visitors are allowed in one lane.

Free Entrance for all visitors. There’s water fountain at the entrance; and we took a family photo there =)

So excited to see and touch the strawberry from the plant eh… funny girl!

Even I was getting very excited… haha!

Got ourselves a basket and a scissor. We were busy cutting those ripen red strawberries while Xixi busy collecting it. We paid RM28 for 350grams (RM8/100grams) strawberries. We finished eating all the strawberries in a day because some of them already start rotten not long after we reach hotel; these are so called freshly plucked strawberries without chemical. Heheh..

Xixi cutting the strawberry.

There is a farmhouse café selling strawberries beverages and pastries; regret didn't try the smoothie... it looks very tempting!

We bought a “strawberry bag” from the farmhouse souvenir shop.

There is also a long walking street with all kinds of booth selling souvenirs and snacks. Xixi was busy munching her snack given by my auntie. Haha…

We actually walked through the organic vege farm, flower farm and organic mushroom farm; but we didn’t have enough time to explore all of them. So just a few shooting of Xixi.

Suffering From Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD)

2010-03-22T16:24:00.007+08:00

We just came back from a holidays at Genting Highlands on Saturday (20-March) late evening, this was another exciting trip with the family however Xixi fall sick during the trip and was being examined as Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) this morning after consult the Paed. We travelled on school holidays period and hence there were packed every where at Genting, especially the theme park. We never ever expect Xixi could get the disease so easily as we don’t even aware the rashes on her cheek and fever were symptoms of HFMD! We didn’t know who the exact culprit was, but we are very sure that crowded public areas should be avoided for kids as nowadays germs are everywhere, who really cares for their personal hygiene??

Well, actually we didn’t quite aware the sickness of Xixi at the beginning, until the appearance of rashes and blister on Xixi’s palm and sole yesterday… we started suspect that she was suffering from HFMD which was quite common lately. Moreover the information I obtained from internet shows that Xixi has the exact symptoms of HFMD!

Symptoms of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease:

Fever:: Yes, she has mild fever on Friday (19-March) afternoon and it was subsided after awake from nap.
Sore Throat:: Yes, she complained her throat painful on Friday night; she tossed over the bed and we all couldn’t have a good sleep throughout the night.
Ulcers in the throat, mouth and tongue:: Not really see the ulcers in her mouth, but I can see her throat was sore and red. Paed also told us there were some small ulcers in her inner gums.
Rashes with blister:: Yes. Rashes starts appeared on the sides of the cheeks on Friday night; then blisters also appeared on the sole of the feet that she kept complaining itchy. Yesterday we noticed blister starts appear on her palms of the hands and diapers areas… All these rashes and blister really makes us sleepless night, as the pain and itchiness causing her uncomfortable and hence she wakes up every 2 hours at night, crying and throwing tantrum.
Loss of appetite:: Yes, she obviously eat lesser during the past few days. She can’t even finish her milk and been refuse rice and every normal meal. But I was glad her appetite seems to be back again after taken the antibiotics prescribes by Paed; and finally she finished a bowl of porridge and bottle of milk just now.

These are the meds prescribed by her Paed this morning. Left: Calamine Lotion, to helps to dried out the rashes and blister. Right: Antibiotics to be taken every 6hours.

Blister near her mouth which already dried out.

Her left feet after applied the lotion.... Glad that the lotion works well on her. ;)

Her right feet. Most of the rashes already gone after applied the lotion for few times.

Dorsum of the feet.

You may refer here and here for more articles about Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD).

@ 19weeks Pregnant

2010-03-16T12:18:00.006+08:00

… I’m weighted 54.5kg. Finally gained 1kg++ after approximate 5months pregnant!

… I’m still wearing my normal shirt, short pant and skirt everyday. Can save some money on maternity clothing this time! Haha…

… Some people still doesn’t aware I was pregnant. T_T I went facial last week and told the beautician don’t shoulder massage for me, she asked me why? And I told her I was pregnant. She then asked me again: 2months?? I said: No, going to 5months! Then she was like !@#$% speechless…

… I still drinking my favorite Kopi-O, but not exceeded 2cups a week.

… Starts drinking Anmum Materna every weekday morning; and fresh milk every weekday night.

… Starts taking bird nest and Ginseng Chicken every alternate week.

… Taking New Obimin as supplement every night before go to bed, but the Iron use to makes me constipate the next day morning… so got to make sure more fruits and more water for me everyday.

… My first trimester sickness all gone! I can eat and sleep like normal by weeks 15!

… I can cook and do house chores like normal.^_^

… My body itchiness gone after I changed my shower gel and body lotion to a new brand.

… Backache starts to torture me if my sleeping/seating position is not right.

… Don’t have special craving, but if I was hungry at night I will either ask for Ramlee Burger or Satay… ahahaa.

… I can feel the little one punching and kicking gently inside my tummy and I feel itchy some times.

… My Xixi was as sticky as super glue! She clings to me all times… Really worry she will get jealous after Didi is born. So how eh...?

That’s all I can recall for what I’m being now at 19weeks pregnant. In overall, I enjoy this trimester as I feel comfortable most of the times.

Silly me was busy camwhoring before my size getting bigger...

This is my belly at 19weeks pregnant. There're actually some ugly scratching mark on the belly cos the red spot grews and the itchiness was unbearable!

Last but not least.... My baby ultrasound scan during my last check up on 13-March. Can you see his head and five little fingers?? So cute kan?

On Sunday Morning

2010-03-15T11:53:00.004+08:00

Sunday morning, normally we wake up quite late… had our breakfast outside and I got to do some marketing. After reach home, I will start storing the food into fridge and starts preparing for lunch; whereby Xixi will sit in front of TV enjoy her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD. However, ever since I was pregnant (in my first trimester) I have no energy at all to do Sunday marketing moreover preparing lunch. I asked hubby to spend time with Xixi while I have a good rest. Heheh… I came out with an idea that let Xixi wash car with him since hubby will want to wash his precious car every weekend. So washing car on every Sunday morning has become a new routine for Xixi and hubby lately.

Xixi and hubby at works.. heheh =) While I was at the kitchen, I can hear hubby shouting "No.. No... Xixi, don't run.... don't do that!!" from times to times.

She just ignored whatever daddy say and continue splashing and playing bubble...

I can hear lots of laughter from her too...

My little Xixi at work yet enjoy herself playing water.

博友欢聚在元宵

2010-03-05T11:01:00.006+08:00

I was invited by Catherine to her house on Chap Goh Meh （元宵节 28-02-2010） to have a blogger gathering with Mary, QiuMaMa and Sharon who came over from Singapore. It is always nice for being remembered and invited by friends in the festive season. I feel so honored to know each of them through blog sphere. =)

I promised Catherine that I will arrive at her house after Xixi awake from nap, but that particular afternoon I only managed to put Xixi to nap at about 3pm++ after we backed from Jusco. So we wait till Xixi wake up and it was nearly 5.30pm already, we get ready everything and we reached Catherine place at 6.15pm eventually. Once we stepped in the car porch, we saw a long table with 2 steamboats together with many yummy steamboat dishes waiting for us! Wow, I was like so embarrassed because we were late and didn’t even help to prepare a single food!! Thanks to the host, Catherine and the family for being so nice and generous! The food was simply delicious!! I almost bloated and my stomach was full even till the next day morning… wahaha!

After the steamboats dinner at Catherine’s place, QiuMaMa suggested visiting my house. Of course they’re most welcomed to my house… We have a good time chatting and the boy and Xixi were playing excitedly during their brief visit to my house.

Photo taken before the dinner start, look at the dishes on the table, it's sure required lots of preparation! Thanks Catherine for email me this picture...

My cheeky Xixi, upon arrived at Cat's place, she got ready to pose in front of camera with her signature smile! She had a good time through out the evening! Thanks Sharon for the picture.... Xixi loves to Hi-5 with you ya =)

Lastly, not forget to take a group photo at my house too.

A Swensen Treat

2010-03-03T12:51:00.007+08:00

I wrote about Xixi refuse to go school after a long CNY break last week. A few crying episodes happened when she being asked to go school and I’ve found out the reasons that might cause her phobia of school was because there’s a naughty student who fighting toys with her and a “naughty teacher” that treat her quite strict in class. After all, I have communicate with the teacher and explained to Xixi what is right and wrong for her to do in school, but I doubt my 2yo girl will understand my words or not… 她听不听得懂我的苦口婆心？ However things didn’t turns well when comes to Sunday night, the night before her school again, she gave me kind of bitter face before she fall sleep, my tears drop seeing she so stress and sad. Monday morning, I wake her up as usual, you know… she greet me with the word “Mummy, I don’t want to go school…” how sad seeing her begging me again. But somehow I still drag her to shower, I was thinking instead of force her to school, I rather trick her to school. In the bath room I told her if she behaves good today I will bring her go shopping and treat her ice cream after school. Kids… when she heard about “shopping” and “ice cream”, she grinned happily telling me “go school and got ice cream ok!” I’m not sure whether my trick works?! But she has been stop whining for these 3 days now… no more crying and fussing; though she didn’t get very excited, but for me, most importantly is she wake up with a happy face everyday, go school without forcing and most most important one: Enjoy her childhood! I know I still have to monitor her behavior closely, I’ve told teacher to highlight to me if she got any “unusual” behavior happened in school. I really hope all these are just a temporary phrase she got to go through…

I promised to treat her ice cream, so I brought her to Swensen at Sutera Mall, one of her favourite shopping mall!! Look at her smile... you know how excited she was!

I ordered strawberry single scoop for her and I got a free scoop too, ya... they're having promotion, buy one free one. heheh... The ice cream was icy cold and hence her funny expression!

Oh.... delicious!

She didn't finished the ice cream though... haha. She is not a big fans of ice cream I guess but she was definitely contented of the ice cream treat. It was such a relief for me to see her smiling again simply because 宝贝，你快乐所以我快乐！

不解

2010-02-24T17:32:00.003+08:00

自女儿上学这几个月以来，一向很少让我操心的她，最近一提起“上学”两个字就猛摇头，接着眼眶通红，放声大哭已经是很普遍的事。看到这样的一幕，身为母亲的我心是痛的。。怪自己是否太早让她去学校。

女儿上学这四个月以来，唯一一次哭泣是在上学的第一天，那我能了解，毕竟小小年纪的她来到一个完全陌生的环境，心中难免恐惧，哭着不舍得跟我分开也是很正常的。然而，已经四个月了，这几天的哭闹实在令我很不解。其实早在农历新年前的最后一个上学日她已经开始显示她的不安，到了学校门口便一边大哭一边诉着“要妈咪，要妈咪”，当时的我不疑由她，心里头还以为这小瓜一定是被农历新年的气氛冲得无心上学了。于是便放纵她一天，让他在家陪我。之后更不用说，大伙儿庆祝农历新年，她就是那个最开心的人了。天天有好料吃，有姨姨们陪她玩，有红包领。很快，十天的假期过去了，我已料到她会跟我说“不要上学”，就这样几天下来，每天早晨赖床，哭闹，8点钟上课，我们9点钟才到。她甚至还给我种种理由说她不喜欢去学校，告诉我哪位小朋友naughty，连她的班主任Teacher Sue 也很naughty！荒缪吧。。心头真的很纳闷！虽然她之前上学没有表现得很兴奋，但至少进校门前都会跟我抱抱，挥手再见。但这几天的她，跟以往完全不一样，还没踏进校门，就已经开始扁嘴，眼眶湿红，完全拒绝让我抱她进校门，还想了很多借口不上学。

不解。。纳闷。。。心里头疑惑着为什么小瓜的举止有了这么大的改变？是她在学校让其他孩子欺负了吗？老师出了问题吗？还是因为她吃醋，知道妈咪怀孕所以更粘我？！为了想更了解她在学校的状况，想知道是不是每个人都像他所说得那样naughty, 今天早上我跟他的班主任谈起了她的情况。我向老师提起了那位希希口中naughty的小朋友，原来是真的，希希没有骗我。。据老师说，这位小朋友常爱disturb 人，那天两个人就是为了争玩具而闹得很不开心。也许是我那外表坚强的女儿一直把事情压抑在心上，所以造成心理上的恐惧，而逃避上学。至于那位很naughty 的teacher, 事实上老师向我坦诚，在教学方面她会比较严格。希希在学校算是比较文静的学生，唱歌跳舞是她的强项，一首歌重复唱个两三次她就已能熟背，而且还能大声大声地唱！和朋友之间的互动也很好，只要是游戏时间，就能听到她的欢笑声。这是好现象。。然而，这孩子毕竟是好玩的，来到上课时间就没有办法集中精神，当被老师叫到读ABC时，她便金口不开！所以老师有时会威胁她说，“没读书，就不能喝奶”之类的话，这样一吓，她也把老师想成很naughty了。说真的，经老师那么一说，我也该反省平时自己没有多督促她在学术上的学习，这小瓜在我眼中永远都还是个小baby, 我不想她那么小就承受压力，会不会读书的事对我们来说还相当遥不可及，毕竟她连三岁还未满。我希望我没有“慈母多败女”，我只是想让我的小孩在没有逼迫的环境中快乐成长。老师还告诉我，其实这小瓜记忆力好得很，我在想其实并不是她不会，而是她没有用心学习吧！这方面我得跟老师互相配合以便加强才行，或许通过一些教材在家以轻松的方式教她还是怎样吧。。

对我而言，育儿的路还很漫长。。以上这些也许只是开始而已，祝我好运！希望明天一大早起床站在我面前的是一个开朗跟我说，“妈咪，我要上学”的希希。人常说“养儿一百岁，常忧九十九”这句话，我现在领教到了！

我最怕看到的脸孔和投诉。。。