Coming 2 Town

today attend a briefing in town.. decided to stay back here instead of going back to office. so long never come down to main office, so much changes and renovation, i almost cant recognise the place..

last time when stay in redhill always come here with boss as he knows i can go gym then go home from here.. but now stya too far le.. so never come down anymore..

lunch with yong and get Jia out to join us..haven been seeing her for some time.. still mei mei la..skinny skinny still haaaa..

now waiting to knock off only.. nothing much to do.. heee.. good working life ya. people like me can be workin mum cos relax.. some mum cant work n have children cos they work very hard by the time they reach home is late night.. how to be close to baby ? so sometimes, work or dun work and have baby or not.. depends on your nature of work and of course if you have good boss la..

tmw D&D happy!! anticipating !

Workout

so..i try to hit gym once a week.. today i go gym during lunch.. cycle/jog for abt 30 minutes.. then grab a sandwich then go back office.. ngam ngam 1 hour.. muahahhahaha.. so precise.

been eating more than exercise, very unhealthy and LGG always have excuses not to go jogging with me !! blekkekekekek.. so i've got to exercise on my own else later lost control.. haaa.. woman must always be fit !

phewww.. last week after gym, jen & i felt so fresh hopefully today the same. feel happy after exercise.. must be the hormones.. endorphine or something .. release more .. more.. then again.. happy mummy makes happy family...

Live to exercise ! or the other way round ! heee. yum.. subway sandwich nice nice..

Lalalalla Thursday

I noticed that i posted the wrong photo for pizza.. haaa.. but nvm la..
saturday will be my company D&D again.. yipeee.. haven decided what to wear.. last week weigh myself.. i've lost 1kg.. sob after so long only 1kg.. i still have 5 more kg to shed to go back to pre-pregnancy weight..long process.. Jen worst she now still 70 +kg.. like never drop.. but she reached 80kg during pregnancy so i guess is an achievemtn liao that she lost 10 over kg ?? she c-sec so takes longer to lose weight..

natural birth is easier to lose weight, i lost 12kg in the first week of giving birth..but i din out on as much as she did.. cos her appetite din reduce from the moment conceive.. but i have morning sickness till 4 month plus.. maybe tt's why..

k k.. what should i wear? black dress ? or colourful dress... decide this sat haaa.. will take photos.. compare last year and this year..

i had muffins for breakie.. yum nice.. i like it

Check-up

Well.. all smiles today...we finally gotten our MCU report and see the nephrology specialist today..there is no reflux meaning no urine flowback in bb's urinary system.. so, it's just the extra partial tissue in her kidney and the extra urethra.. that may be giving problem.. which the doctor said if recurrent UTI, we will remove this extras..

Phew.. she can be off antibiotics.. but we are worried as she is less than 1 year old.. doc suggested 4 more months of low dose antibioctics..which we decided to go for it to protect her from any potental infection to her kidney..there is no side effect as the antibiotics prescribe is dissolved via urine.

so, what we can do now is to be vigilent in cleaning her, she can still go swimming.. yipeee.. bb can wear her swimsuit le.. and watch if persisten fever have to quickly ward her...

we will have another test.. DMSA which will see if there is any scarring in her kidney.. pray buddha to protect this little innocent girl from any scarring..

for now, she is doing fine.. 9kg plus.. im carying a bag of rice each day.. muscle building up ! heeee..

bb cute cute

She now likes to show off .. always standing in her cot.. ahem..'action'.. her nephews been a good company to her.. playing with her .. she has never been so happy i guess.. laugh n laugh.. squeek and squeek..

happy gal.. makes happy mum.. haaaaa

Pizza

today made pizza .. heeee.. nothing special.. just to make more food for little tykes at home.. so our food pile up.. haaa..

nvm, we can during breakfast tmw.. and one more 'tong sampah' at home.. whom we suspect steal food.. mum said she missing one piece of prata..

muffins

so, i baked muffins yesterday for the two monkeys.. but too bad cos chenn is heaty.. so cant eat.. and neighbours gave us a box of doughnuts.. we are overloaded with my steam cake/doughnuts/muffins now.. fridge so big but overloaded.. when open up, cant see much light cos blocked by food.. haaa

again the photo so dark.. btu dun care la.. let jia see.. she said must always tempt her with food.. haaa. all o lulu..

the muffins i use blueberry and topping using mecadamia nuts crumble..i think it is nice and the texture is not as hard as my last year's muffin batch.. improved.

Steam cake

today i made steam cake .. second time i bake this cake.. actually is not bake.. is steam.. haaa i told jia.. flourless cake.. use only marie biscuits.. the recipe in my previous blog last year..

the photo is so dark.. no choice. camera is still loaded with in-laws vacation photo..my camera always seem to take darker photo..


three layer of cake with cocoa flavour in the middle.. very easy to make.. n not so sweet as i reduce sugar

Father & daughter lookalike

heee.. found this photo in my bb's photo folder..cutey..she really look like her father..cutey.. this photo taken when she is five month plus..

weekend #2 - Workin

Pheww.. DR exercise again.. this year i was attached to HA to do swift.. lallala more meaningful than doing atlas..

i went to work in the morning till 3pm.. mama helps to look after bb lor..papa so happy cos bb keeps smiling and talking to him comparing to crying when see him one month back..

They just came back from SF few days back and bought so many things for us.. it's a wonder they can bring all those stuff back.. bb now has a very cutey swim suit and many ang mo baby clothes..heeee..

soon, we shall go swimming, at home la..

WeekEnds #1- National Museum

mum with her three grandchildren..complete..
bb is go excited to just see her cousins drawing.. happy gal
see how my nephews engaged in the activities

Nephews are here in town ! last time i used to be pretty excited each time they visited us in Singapore.. this time round, mum & i feel "busy" cos u see =, now there are 2 boys, age 11 & 5 each.. and one more girl 8 months.. our hands are definitely full with them all..

so, saturday sis needs to revise for her upcoming exam, so i decided to bring them to have a tour at our Singapore National Museum.. heee.. lots of kids' activities to choose from.. you dun even need to pay a cent to enjoy the activities..

We started with the Mummur Playround in the basement:

the two boys seem to have so much fun, while we adults and bb just stay aside watching them and taking photos..

then we moved up to level 2, (level 1 young cinema second show is 4pm, we missed the 2 pm show), we went to the drawing sessions, where the two boys are given paper+colour pencil to draw whatever they want.. bb seems to enjoy seeing her cousins drawing.. she laugh and squeek..cutey cutey

then after they are bored with the drawing, we moved on to the giant snake on the same floor, they get to play the game with snake+ladder.. they managed to complete the whole game obediently with other kids.. amazing.. haaa.. cos they never seem to be able to stay put in one thing for long.. boyssss..

After the giant snake, we wanted to catch the story telling at level 3, but the long waiting (they altered the time from 3pm-330pm).. and Yann found out the min age group is until 8.. so we tot forget it.. we just moved on to young cinema at level 1. while waiting we stay at level1 and play the guant puzzle.. matching game & the worker's tool magnet..

Our last stop--> the young cinema started at 4pm.. well.. the setup is nice, cushioning and all..but the show is really.. bored.. bb even sleep while watching her very first so-called cinema.. hoo.. LGG too almost doze off.. after the 2 show, we went right home..

shall post photos when have time as these few days need to be nanny.. muahahha

Reading/playing corner

I've decided to take the area in the living room near our altar for bb's playing corner as there is where we can see her while doing our chores.. heee convenient la..


so i've pasted the poster for her.. bought a small book shelf, yet to assemble..

Bb can stand le..

heee..must quickly record down.. else i forget again.. she has been showing sign of climbing up.. but not successful each time as she will fall backwards.. so to prevent any faling out from hr cot, we have raised the bars on her cot..

today, she finally stand up on her own without any help from us.. she just hod the bars and push hrself up.. it's so natural.. no one teaches her how to do that.. so amazing..

anothe milestone completed.. so we shall wait for her to start walking..

Speed typing

I find this quite fun..my speed. fail to be secretary i guess


59 words

Speedtest

238 points, so you achieved position 200302 of 738817 on the ranking list


You type 329 characters per minute
You have 59 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

Sewing project

Mum n i busy with our sewings this weekends.. we manged to complete the baby pram cushioning.. we bought thge material from spotlights few weeks back..



will post photos after it is washed and dried. the pinky one...the safety belt are taken out from the button holes


we still left with cushion covers.. and my quilt.. boo.. my singer sewing machine can make button holes.. not bad huh..cushion cover completed.. lalallaa..

Bread Making - Failed

Gesss.. my wholemeal bread just refuse to bloat up.. after product is so "kemek" like not enough energy to puff up.. so compact ... bored !

but i shall not give up.. will try the dough method this weekend !

Lazy to even take picture cos of the stupid outcome.. LG said tasted like kuih lapis.. this is not the first time he commented this way le.. why all my bread turned out to be like this ? my bread machine is not helpig much @_@

Toys.. More toys

yesterday went to Kiddy palace to get some more toys for bb.. since we thought she already bored with her existing toys..

get some to develop her motor skill ..and also with some music.. i bought big puzzle play mat for her too to form her playground.. heee..

taken using my phone, the lighting not so good.. wasted.

Looking Forward !!

Cutey

taken series of her photos in this cutey clothing mum bought for her.. i find this angle makes her look mature.. haaa.. she always very babyish.. some infant has adult face.. cute...

She Sits..

she likes to sit now.. whenever she has chance to roll about in her cot, she will just sit and grab her toys.. her sugarcane arms is stretching..not so sugarcane now.. heee.. she is now 71cm and 9.1kg.. hoooo...

Thinking of getting more toys with sounds for her.. she aleady fed up with most of her old toys.. but she seems to still like flash cards and her animal bathing book..

Fun growing up.. against all odds..

WeekEnds..

mm..what have i done during weekends ? heee.. spend most time playing wirth my girl of course.. sat we went to do some marketing.. bring loads of food back..

Sunday, i bake one cngel choco cake which turned out so hard.. shake head.. i really don't have much talent in baking.. then bake bun with pandan filling.. wanna finish it.. so i've finally cleared the filling..

bb is doing fine.. really happy to see her progress as now she can sit up effortlessly.. so clever.. muak muak.. my little hebi..

Ikea Trip

Before we went for the ultra sound.. last weekend we drop by at Ikea.. and they have this treat for anybody with can present receipt.. so we got this goodies.. dunno what it's called though.. which of course attract little Hebi la.. food is always fastinating to her.. heee

Insurance ! YOU & I need it!

I always believe we should buy insurance.. but im not sure how will it help.. cos i just buy when the insurance advisor said "good to buy"..either cover for sickness or savings.. i buy quite a lot for my self and i bought 4 for my baby.. THIS IS THE SMARTEST MOVE EVER !

Lucky thing i bought and already plan to buy even before she was born.. so now, with the coverage, at least we wont have to worry about hospital bill.. enough worries already.

With her condition, even after the surgery, insurance company may not let her get subsequent insurance without any exception i guess.. lucky thing i bought lifetime insurance for her.. so she need not worry so much la..

May Buddha bless my little Joelle with health and happiness..

Non bake cheese cake

My First cheese cake.. non-bake version.. i follow the recipe from a blog.. seems simple. But, i have to chill it for 3 days to be hard enough to cut one one piece like in the photo.. the very first day, overnight, still too soft to cut out one piece..maybe gelatine not enough ?

I kinda like the taste of the cream cheese cake.. but LGG said prefer harder version of cheese cake.. mum said ok.. maid said.. anything also can..

Not too bad for first trial... i bake bun too turned out too hard.. anyway.. maid said "anything also can" so she wallup most of it la..

will make more this weekend as i wanna clear the green tea filling we bought last year.. pheww..

Cooking/baking may cheer me up a bit huh.. i eat chocolate lately.. cos it seems to lift up my mood. heee.. i swim this week.. exercise can help me keep my head clear.. Life is such a challenge !

BB Feeding time..

each time i feed her when she is in her walker.. this is how she will end up to be.. shaking head..food stick all over.. cutey cutey...

Worried Mum

Been telling myself not to cry for this matter.. cos crying will not help in any way.. LGG is telling me this too..

so, i guess.. it's how testing and challenging life is.. cos i keep asking in my mind.. why is this happening.. everything is so perfect before this comes to us..

why ? why ? why? many whys? but no answer.. mum said.. we just have to accept the reality and find out the resolution instead of feeling sad over it...

Correct.. i will be tough.. for sure.. for Joelle.. i will

Duplex Kidney

I really sad.. cos my bb ultra scan detected that she has duplex collecting system in her left kidney.. when the doctor told us this.. we are really lost.. cos what is this ? what duplex ?

really never heard before. but after searching the web.. we are getting worried as it could be more serious than we could expect..

this condition is called duplex kidney.. meaning, there are two tract coming out from the kidney to the bladder instead of the normal one tract...if the urine did not flow properly.. if it flow back up.. it will cause infection to the kidney and damage the kidney.

so we will do another checkup which is called MCU to test if her urine flowing mechanism is normal. if it flow back, this will cause subsequent UTI that will infect the kidney..

So, pray hard for her.. i told my fren, being a mother is not easy.. wat's more being a mother of an unhealthy child.. the only consolation now is she is still active/normal and cutey...sob..

BB First Home accident -first duku

Really dunno how to say..thursday early morning..when feeding bb.. i use pillow to block her..while i go and make her milk.. she is sleeping with us in the middle.. there are still lots of space between her and the pillow.. while LGG sleep on her left...

usually LGG will awake and pat pat her while i make milk.. but this time round, LGG slept through.. din even hear bb's leg's bell ringing.. i dun feel good.. and quickly make milk.. the moment i walked into my room.. i heard "bok duk".. bb fall down from bed onto the floor.. my heart basically jumped out from my body... rushed to carry her up as she cry so hard.. trying to pacify her...feel so so heartache...

she rolled so much till she has enough strength to push the pillow onto the floor and herself onto the floor together with the pillow.. i guess the pillow somehow save her from serious injury.. she just has a "duku" on her left forehead.. small one..

geeess.. really scary lor... i've always worried she will fall down and always use pillows to block her.. still she drop down.. so we decided .. NEVER leave her unattended in places that can cause any accident such like this anymore.. when i make milk.. i will wake LGG.. we dun dare to take such risk anymore..

feel so sorry for bb.. lucky thing she is ok.. maybe a bit "gong gong" after the duku.. haaa...

Mother's day

we have long weekends this week so we brought mum to eat the dim sum at cross street..as
mother's day lunch.. we also bought her supplemets for her joints and all..really thank my mum for all her sacrifices to look after bb.. without her.. we really lost and cant concentrate on our work..


me+bb taken in the restaurant..she is wearing the minnie mouse pin,,, that suppose to come in pairs and when wind blow the mickey & minnie mouse will lift up.. but we wear only one.. her hair is too little to clip two now.. heee

before we go.. grndma +cucu.. feeding her rice cereal+ all the goodies..(vege)

Happy Mother's day to all mothers !!
It's never easy to be mother.. what's more to be a good mother.. we just try out best