Friday night - Sat morn :)

Am happily chilling out in my room while my 3 babies are soundly asleep. World peace... haha... usually that's what comes to my mind when JJ and Celeste turns in. I will be like \(-_-)/. keke... Celebrated my FIL's 66th Birthday today at Hung Kar Teochew restaurant at Poh Heng Building. Our family has certainly grown! Now with everybody in tow including 2 maids, we need 11 chairs and 2 baby chairs! Oops. such a big table! If my 2nd BIL gets married and have a family, we will need 2 tables. hehe.... It's pretty fun. If not for my MIL who always sulks at dinner. super spoiler. buay tahan. JJ - 33months old. Very talkative these days. Can narrate incidents to me. find it very cute. still as stubborn as usual. can climb up to 12th storeys. still likes to ask for pocket money from his ah-gong every day. rich boy. my sweetest boy. can recognise abc and read the phonics sound like "arh" for A and numbers 1,2,3, etc. Learning well from school. Will be able to take good care of his loved ones. Meimei - 9 months old Upper 2 front teeth have sprouted. Another 2 more upper seems to be emerging. Loves eating porridge. Is our happy girl. loves waving bye bye. simply loves her gor gor. likes to scratch her head. keeps on pulling herself to stand. still cries like mad whenever she poo. The 2 of us - 4years and 6months I am getting slimmer ;) Hubby is getting fatter... thou I don't see any upsize. :p new work challenges for hubby during this period. i just wanna say every change will need getting used to and to think of new ways to cope with the new environment. U can do it. I will always be here for you dear. Always thinking of each other whenever we have a moment. Hmm.. havent had our dinner date yet! Dear, we need to let go one night and have our own time. pls.... keke... No plans for No 3 (in case any of u is thinking of asking me. got few pple ask me liao) Looking at short nearby holiday plans. I got my bonus (70%). balance 30% in July. Hubby got a few more strands of white hair. Don worry dear, i like it and I want to grow old with you................................................... Ok ok, enough of the emo stuff. Nite nite world....................................................................

Lil updates!

Lil Celeste is turning 8 months soon! She can sit up, crawl around and still just have 2 lower razor sharp lower teeth since she was 4mos+!

Her diet is still cereal + seasonal fruit/veggies once a day. She is quite an easy eater and has tried apple, potato, carrot, pumpkin, broccoli, papaya. :) Gonna try sweet potato tomorrow. She has started to eat some porridge which she shares with her gor gor at times. Life is alot easier to make puree thanks to my friends' advice to get a handheld blender and steam at least 1 week's worth during weekend and freeze the rest for weekday.

JJ who still calls himself a baby seems like a big boy to hubby and me. :) He is very chatty now though his prounciation is not that clear. Teachers in school says they need a translator! haha.... but his teachers like him a lot. When I called school to enquire if he is naughty/beat people/sit thinking chair, the principal told me his mouth very "sweet", they loved him to bits n can't bear to ask him sit thinking chair. but generally he is well-behaved in school. :)

But his temper is still very bad. and gets agitated suddenly at times. Try to ask him to express his anger. If not we really have no idea what he is mad at.

He can't bear to see us go to work during the weekdays. With Ah-Gong's explaination that we need to work to earn money for his neh-neh, he kinda understands and at least doesn't cry that badly. And Ah-gong will bring him to playground and they go for roti-prata + teh breakfast! Hmm... he is lucky to have a loving grandpa who never fails to bring him to playground + bf daily. The roti-prata uncle now see them will automatically make an egg prata and he actually cut into small pieces for him while frying it. So it's bite-size. And the drink stall auntie will serve teh automatically! This boy loves TEH! *faint*

When June comes, all my babies are having their birthdays! Hubby - 33. JJ - 3 and Celeste - 1!!!
Haven't thought of how going to celebrate cos it's all SOOOO Near! Hubby- 10th, JJ - 15th, Celeste - 26th!

As for me, waiting for bonus until neck also long long liao. Grr.....
Patience!

Return to Work in 3 weeks' time!

I am returning to work in 3 weeks' time!!! RINNNNNNNNG! alarm is ringing. My babies are not ready to let mummy go to work.

Jayden is getting stickier to me. And when I asked him,"Mummy go office okay?" He says,"Cannot."

As for Celeste, she is used to me being the sole caregiver especially when helper went back for 3 weeks. Sometimes when passed to helper to take care these days, she will wail loudly till I carry her and there she just stopped the yelling. Am starting to get helper to take care of her in the afternoon for a few hours. But after the weekend, she is back to the "mummy mode" again. Teared the house down again today until I carried her and she stopped 3 seconds after I took over.

Mummy really MISSSSSS U babies! It's lots of adjustments for all of us. Mummy hasn't been working for 4months and has to revived her engines with turbo soon! I am treasuring every single day with u babies. Though mummy is quite tired these days from the previous 5 night saga from Celeste (kept waking up) + my Lasik + Jayden keeps asking to be carried, I feel as if I am going to faint sometimes due to exhaustion.

Managed to catch a nap to re-charged my battery. Need to get my energy level up again.

Still have about 400+ emails to screen through(down from 700). Now these emails are being archived. Trying to sort based on subject header. Can only read those important ones when I return to work.

Really don feel like returning to work. I am getting attached to my babies so much! love to see their every growth, their smiles, their naughty, cheeky little antics. sob sob...

Love getting morning kisses from my son. he now knows how to do the muack (used to just put his face close when we say kiss kiss).
When I pinch his nose in the morning, he pinches mine back.
Gonna miss my Wednesday dates with hubby (his off day).

EMO..........

Feelings of a Stay At Home Mom

Prologue:
P/s: I have 25photos to upload in this post but due to some technical reason, I can only upload these for now though I have been trying to do the rest for the past few days but still can't. If u r a blogspot blogger, pls let me know if you have no problems u/l ur pics. I NEED TIPS! :P

Main Chapter:

I have kinda got used to being a mum with 2 kids. I feel blessed to have a great hubby and 2 beautiful children. They are my EVERYTHING. Thou it is not easy to take care of young baby Celeste and Jayden who still demand mummy to make milk for his night feeds(if any). But I feel the tiredness is worth it. They disappear when I see them smile, see them reach new milestones no matter how little it might be.

Celeste smiling when she was few weeks old! I call her my little Sunshine as she is a cheery baby! like to coo alot too!

She enjoys taking her morning bath! Can see her enjoying her spa...keke...


At 6weeks old. Having eczema on her face... poor girl. It seemed like the rash is getting better though it is spreading. Could not take it anymore and brought her see doc to get cream.

1st visit to Grandma house. Oops, above pic also taken at Grandma's house...

Happy Baby in the morning! Seeing her Smile chases away all the morning tiredness!

Jayden taking pic with the cat at amk while we were waiting to c sinseh. He is NOT afraid of cats and likes to touch them! This cat scratched his face! luckily, just a mild scratch!

TRIP TO SUNTEC!

I am super happy to be out with hubby and Jayden!

It's hard to take a pic with J! He doesn't look at camera and keeps moving!

He likes the cold cold feeling fm the sausage chiller area!

My darlings!

We went to the Suntec fountain area and Jayden kept testing the limits of the security officer. He kept hovering around us as J kept standing to the edge of the platform ready to jump into the water!

Using all my might to grab J!

Celeste with her short army crew head. Now, her hair is much longer liao... keke... shall post soon.

Started bringing Celeste for morning walks since she is up at 7+ while Jayden and Allan are still asleep. Will push her to Joo Seng park, get the papers and read my papers in peace at the park if baby is asleep. It is a different kind of life that I see that. Children running around in the playground waiting for the PCF to open and saying hi to their teacher as she came to open the door. Elderly exercising in the park. A peaceful neighbourhood with its own start of the day.

I am cherishing my Maternity Leave days before starting work. Loving every moment.

My motto: Be Positive in every situation. :)

1st month jab!

Brought Celeste to Mt A Dr Ong for her Hep B jab cum 1month assessment.

She weighs 4.13kg and measures 53cm long!

Her birth weight was 3.19kg and measures 47cm.

Weight wise, it's normal for bb to gain 1kg from their birth weight.

This PD is kinda cute. He will tell u everything you want to ask once you go in. That is before you even ask him.

Here is what he said yesterday:

-Baby will keep making stretching sounds. (True, especially at night. stretching grunts i call it :P)

-Baby will poo lesser (This is what I noticed these 2 days. so it's normal)

-Baby will have some baby acne on the face. When weather is hot, it pops up. It will subside when weather is cool or after their bath. (True for Celeste)

-When baby vomit some milk, do not lift them up as it might cause them to choke on their vomit. Turn them to one side and pat their back. (ok, learnt something here)

These are the FAQs for 1 month baby bah. keke...

Yes, Sharon, will upload whenever I have more tips... :P next visit at 3months thou.

Hello Everybody, this is Celeste at one month old!

Life as a Mommy of 2!

Finally our Princess Celeste has arrived on 26-June at 2.08pm!
Weight: 3.19kg
Length: 47cm
Head circumference: 36.5cm

1st time giving birth via C-sect as Celeste is still breech as of 38th week checkup.
Hence, we decided to play it safe to go for Csect straight.

It happened so fast and before you knew it, the baby is out.

There was a false alarm on the night of 25-June (3am). I had regular contractions at 5mins interval for 1.5hrs. Thought that was it. Called for Dr Paul and was told to go to labour ward. Who knows after my 2nd visit to the toilet, the contractions stopped! Had to call Dr Paul to say that we are not going and will monitor how. We went for checkup the next day just to make sure baby is fine. Very embarrasing about the false alarm. He mentioned it is common for 2nd pregnancy to have strong braxton hicks. :P Allan said it's due to the Ben & Jerry ice cream which i ate the night before sleeping.

After deciding to deliver Celeste on 26th July (which is 15th of May in the lunar calendar)
We checked into Mt A at 11am. At 1+pm, I was wheeled into the waiting area of the Operating Theatre (OT).

Finally I was in the OT at 13.55.
I was still kpo enough to ask my anathetist (Dr Philip Tseng) if he and Dr Paul are brothers!
haha... he was candid and just said Yes! Ok, then I was put to sleep V V Fast.

The moment I woke up which is 3+pm, started to feel the wound. pain... and "suan suan" but still bearable. Then I was on the drip which had painkillers and that made me super drowsy till the next day. But I still got breastfeed baby. I think she also blur blur hence the latch not very good and strong.

I got down on my 2nd day to walk around, make sure can pee after cathetre is removed. 1st time stand up abit wobbly. But after that, it is ok. walk slowly... Will visit Dr Paul one week after discharge hence next Tues.

Thank god Celeste jaundice level is not too high hence we could go home together! Visiting Dr Ong tomorrow for her checkup. Next time, we will go to the Tampines one.

We have not received our hospital bill yet as we opted for the credit card payment which we will only be charged the final bill. Hope we don't faint upon seeing it!~

So currently working on breastfeeding but not giving myself too much stress. If don have enough bm, then give fm. It is the breastfeeding part which is really tough.

hmm... gg to rest before the lil one wakes up for feeding.