My Green Lunch

Last week, im trying to extend my detox sessions to my lunch.. so, i have been eating salad for one week.i feel fresh after my lunch and i dun feel hungry until dinner, which is great.

I bought some salad green like romanian and lettuce, then cheery tomatoes, black grapes, celery, carrot (shreded), purple cabbage (shreded), steamed corn (peel out freshly from corn), then i use organic vinegar+estra virgin olive oil+whole grain mustard+honey to make dressing.

I keep my salad in fridge until lunch time. i usually have them after my work-out about 2pm.

I change a bit on friday, by adding some plum and apples as i have finished my corn, purple cabbage, carrot.




i have also been drinking vegetable juice early in the morning as breakfast (tt's one thing good abt having maid, as she can help me prepare all these), the ingredients are (5 greens)

1. small bitter guard
2. celery
3. green pepper
4. green apple
5. cucumber

i add carrot, and sometimes one orange. i dun feel anything special, as i drink it on alternate morning, as i try not to do it everyday, cos worried too cooling for the body.

So, next week, i shall start my wholemeal sandwich week. shall post my lunch again :)

Didi has thick hair

little boy has so much hair compare to his sister. sometimes we just like to tease him, by tying his hair.. his sister will come to take away his rubber, as she is stern to point out " didi is bot, not girl, cannot tie hair"

opps.. she is right. haa

some photos taken when we tie didi's fringe.. he just coundn't stay still for few snaps..so the photos turned out very blur..

My 8 month-old Bundle of joy

little baby boy already 8 month-old now. how time flies..

didi has shown some progress in his motor skill, he can now crawl/move forward using his tummy , he will push forward with his body on the floor, but use his hands and legs to help him move forward. This is a great achivement !

When i check back my blog, missy already can stand up holding his cot when 8 month-old. so it's true that boy is slower !

He can grab toys with both hands or one hand and pass the toys from one hand to another.

His favourite games is still pee-a-boo..and he will go to whoever with food..and he starts to drink plain water more and more. Since i have stop breastmilk, so i have to start to get him to drink plain water. he refuse in the beginning, but gladly he started to accept the taste.

now, didi is drinking similac follow-on, 120ml to 180ml, with two porridge in between. we have started giving him porridge after he turned 8 month-old.

i haven been doing flash cards for didi.. got to start doing it.. been very busy with my own work-out , after the exercise, will be worn-out at night. sob

didi now, will get up at night once to drink milk. am trying to wean him off the pacifier. since he is teething, his gum might be very uncomfortable, thus, i delay it for awhile.

Happy growing up my boy !

My Babies.My love. My life

i buy clothes online again, this round, i got some children's clothes from gmarket. my cols keep recommending saying the price is reasonable and reliable. so i tried, i bought some korean Pjs for my two babies.and they look absolutely adorobale together ! Simply love it !

See how the sister wanting to hug the brother to take photos..didi still blur blur..must be wondering why mummy again take out this black colour square thing and look at me again.. haa cute

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Kick.Box.Sweat

Today i went for kick boxing class which i have not attended for 4 years long. and i only survived the class for 30 mins.. it really require much more stamina than i have.
I have decided to join weekly till i can complete the whole 1 hour class. It was so exciting and so much power. But given my body that has been resting and not moving in that fast pace for so long. i cant even continue to kick and punch like and auntie in the class.. she can even shout louder than me at every exucution of a kick and punch.. Oh mine.. i feel so lousy ! haa..

determination is the key. I know i can be better than the auntie.. i take her as my benchmark first.. slowly go up to the chio bu in class.. heee..

Happy working out in gym ! i love sweating it out !

Chinese Poem

This is the first chinese Poem that missy recited recently. she actually sang it, i was so happy. cos i thought wow.. she really remembered what i have taught her.. but how come she sings it..then i ask her teacher.. they actually learnt it in school.. ohh..

we shall learn some others then.. shan zhi jing ? hee..

Writing at the age of 3 ??

I'm amzed when in witness Missy's classmate who is just one month older than her.. being able to write.. yes write number 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 even 11,12,13,14,15,16... can you imagine that ? my girl can only scribble and i was so amazed when missy is able to darw circle and do cross, and zigzag lines.. but not proper writing.. as i feel 3 year old is still sucha tender age to be able to grasp the concept of writing.. as their hand muscle may still not matured as yet ??

But, i was wrong, i suppose, that her shichida classmate is abe to do this already and she was taught by her maid. i ask her maid , how she teach her to write. she said she taught for nearly 1 year already and everyday pratise kinda thing.. trace on the numbers on dotted line and slowly slowly she (Megan) just able to write.. wowo.. and her writing looks like someone who is already 5 or 6.. simply amazing !

am thinking i should start teaching didi to write by the age of two.. i missed this as i think writing should be taught only at 4 onwards.. haaa.. basically, SM is always one year in advance in the things they expect from the students.

So, on Sunday, i teach missy to write number 2.. oh well.. she is not there yet,, but i determine to continue until she is able to write..

It's an eye-opening to see how much a young toddler can do if we push their limits.. i believe i can start to form words with missy now.. since she knows all the alphebet's sound and recognise them.

I hope im not stressing her out, as i think at her age, she is having fun while play and learn and not feeling pressured.

Milking my way - Part 3 - Finale

I have reduced milk pumping from 3 times last month to 2 times in last 2 weeks of September (after didi turned 7 month-old)

once in the morning before i go to work, once in the evening.

7am -730am -150ml
730-8pm - 150ml

The supply is enough for didi , since he eats rice cereal twice , and i just feed him FM at night and in the early morning.

Then, staring from october, i have then reduce the pumping to once a day (evening after i come back from work), i can see significant drop in my milk supply now,., i can only pump out most 120ml..
so it has been goin on for abt 2 weeks.. then my supply dropped further.. i can only squeeze out 50ml.. at times. only 30ml.. so pathetic.. so i pumped for the last time on Sunday (17th October)..for 50ml. didi had that in the morning, for him, it's like drink water.. cos so little.. haaa

then, i stop pumping milk. i feel somehow nostalgic over the whole experiece.. yes, it seemed like just yesterday i started the breasfeeding journey.. endure endure endure.. then once im accustomised with the routine and im fine with it.. staying at home for 4 months helped a lot too.. as my job is just to feed baby..i really appreciate the bonding time with my baby through breastfeeding..this is very very priceless..

now, i think it;s time for my little boy to depend on solid and formula milk.. mummy got to take a rest and he has to go on without meas his source of food. mm.. hind sight.. im already thinking abt travelling .. alalalalal..

I hipe the whole 8 months of breastmilk really benefit my boy and of course myself.. i feel proud of myself for al the hard work to insist on exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of my boy's life.. i also feel thankful that the support i get from home and from work.. else it wont have happen that easily ..

and one thing abt the whole experience.. my boobs which expanded to E size.. now shrink back to my A+.. sob.. but i feel myself.. the lighter me.. hahahha..

Didi and his teething days

Didi now officially has 4 teeth.. two more is coming up.. as we can start to see the teeth from the gum..




His gum is very itchy as he keep biting and salivate a lot.. but he is doing fine so far..Good job my boy ! Bear with it.. u're gonna have ur teeth all ready for your food soon !

Noddy Fun Book

Last month, i have added one more new game for missy.. which is one of the thing sold in SM. But i got it from fren who started the spree for half of the price.

The noddy fun book. It's quite fun, and it covers many topics, i have started the numbers and capital letters with missy, which she can do them (first few pages).. will continue to have fun on the noddy fun book while learning in the process.

Didi's meal

We have been adding more and more variety into didi's diet now.. we have been cookin ght brown rice cereal for him, but besides that, we have added vegetables.

we use the pork big bones and yellow beans to boil the soup, which makes the stock for didi's rice cereal. mum will sometimes make ikan bilis soup. today i made the big bones+yellow beans soup, to stock up for his daily rice cereal.

First, buy the pork big bones, ask the uncle to break into half, as we want the bone marrow 9the brown coloured inside the big bones). then boil a pot of water, once the water is boiled, dip the washed big bones into it, for 3 mins or so, until the blood on the bones turned brown. the take it out.

Start to boil another pot of water, add in the yellow beans which was soaked overnight. After like 10 mins, add in the big bones and turn the fire to slow fire to slowly boil the soups for 2 to 3 hours. then off fire, let it cool down.

When the stock is cooled, portion it out on few container according to the amount required for daily usage, then put them onto the freezer, take it out the night before we want to use it. and label it with dates.



so far, i have introduced few types if verge, most common is brocolli, spinach, carrot, i have added brinjal today. and also "huai san" which is very good for children. but all in small portion. After boiling, i will use the boiled water together with the big bones soup to cook the rice cereal, then pureed the vege then add them into the rice cereal.

as for fish, i have only introduced small portion of salmon to didi. maybe next week will give him some cod fish puree.



here didi being put into the toys basket, with the jiejie. haa

Didi sitting up

Didi has shown sign that he is strong enough to sit on his own, but we still quite wary abt leaving him on his own, as he is still not that stable. Today, we just let him play with his sister on the cooking sessions, he is very eager to play with his sister's toys.. and luckily this time, his sister "allows" him.. taking abt sharing toys.. really shake head. the sister still very relcttant to let his didi touch/play her toys..all hers.. sigh..but she seems to have no problem sharing in school.. *headache*




didi is so happy when we let him take and taste the toys..



See how many stickers on didi's forehead ? well, these are the sister's job ! she pasted them onto didi's foreheads and didi seems very ignorant abt them.. never even use hand to take it off..we find him funny and took the photos



now, i let didi sit on jiejie's high chair, but i adjusted it to lowest level, so that we can sit down and entertain him, but he usually wont sit longer than 20 mins.




Our weekends was over just like that.. looking forward to a more fun activities weekends !

LGG Birthday

We had a small celebration at home for LGG's bday. I bought a mango cake, yes for a change instead of the usual chocolate cake/ice cream cake.

Not bad, quite refreshing. Happy Birthday, my dear hubby ! May you stay healthy and happy always! Muack !

I am Amore. I am More

Last week, i signed up fitness centre membership for 3 years and this week, i signed up 20 sessions of massage sessions. Do i love myself ? Yes, i do. and i think it's time to pamper myself for all the sacrifices for the past 4 years. I have not done a steam bath for 4 years. yes, 4 long years. The last time i went for steam bathed was when i have not have children. in Y2006. After that, i have been devoted my life with pregnancy and child-birth.

I always enjoyed gym sessions and classes like pilates/yoga/kick boxing... but haven got time to do all these anymore since missy's arrival into my life. i would want to spend all my waking hours with her and now with little boy too. But i think about it.. I have decided to not giving birth anymore.. i should start to look good, at least feel fit like last time.

So, i signed up those packages.. which i can do it during lunch hour, as amore just opened a branch near my office, perfect i must say. But i cant guarantee for the next 2 years as my office may shift soon. sigh.

So, i shall get my butt up and get moving.. hopefully i can stay fit and healthy. as i always feel i am. used to be.. haaa

didi is 7 month old

mum has been training didi to poo in potty since 2 months back and he is getting better.. as he wont poo until we put him on potty.. how's that ? potty train already ? haaa i guess not that lucky la..

see his "kek sai" face.. and he likes to shake leg when sitting on potty very cute. i even video him when he poo on potty.

his usual output of the day.. quite a lumsum. haaa



didi is now eating rice cereal + big bone/ikan bilis soup +vege (brocolli/spinach/xiao bai chai) + salmon(small little piece) twice a day on weekday , once on weekend.

mum is very hardworking on feeding didi, i just cook once on weekend. my bm is enough for him one the day. now only have two bottles per day. the rest, he will drink similac follow-on. the most 180ml usually cant finish that much.

he gets up once in the night to drink milk. last feed usually around 730pm or 8pm. morning around 630am /7am.

so far he is doing well. next month will go for the 9 month-ld development assessment, shall see his weigh/heigh.


Happy growing up my boy !

Missy in her baby pool

it has been months since we last let misys dip into her bbay pool at home. once again i let her go into her pool, hee.. hot day and we dun feel comfortable bringing didi to swiming pool yet. so just let the little girl have some activity at home and didi is looking so interestingly to his jiejie ..




lil missy put her animals into the pool to have a dip too. haa..have fun !

didi rub-a-tub time

didi now can sit with support, can move about in rotating manner on floor/mattress, he is not crawling yet. but his rotating is good enough to help him to get toys that we lure him..he is very good at his walker.. can move front/back/side ways..

he has 3 teeth coming up on top..and is biting anything he can reach

see lil boy is enjoying hsi bathing time.. he now can sit up to play toys..


we bath him twice now, once in the morning, once in the evening.

My Missy 3rd Birthday Celebration

Finally we have celebrated missy's 3 yo birthday on 3 separate occasion.

1. Home on her chinese calendar birthday -unofficial

Her grandma (my mum) cooked her birthday meal with big drumstick and egg.



then, we sing a birthday song for her with the polar fresh cream disney tiny cake.


2. School

we prepared the party goodies bag in advance, which include of the barney party hat, barney party bag, barney blower. then one set of stationary, one pack of M&M chocolates, one mini lollipop, one mini pack of raisin.

The last photo is missy getting her gift from neighbour, a dancing doll.


On that day itself, we bought 20 vitagens and one cake and one swiss roll to her school. why the swiss roll ? cos he cake seems small, eventhough it's 2kg, it's ice cream thus small. i worried the teachers might not have enough, but it turned out more than enough hee..

missy follow me to collect the cake, maid push her in ehr push cart. the below two photos are photos of missy learning to cycle on her new bicycle, gift from her daddy



we took some photos before going to her school, which is just below our block. didi is so cute when we get him to wear the party hat, he din reject.cute.he must ben puzzled at what is going on.







3. grandparent's home celebretion

I baked the marble cake, but what a disaster, my oven broke down on that day,. i have to steamed it. but it turned out not properly steamed, inside still have soft portion. sob . only found out when we cut it out.



evidence on the source of her fever/cough --> durian mooncake and lots of popcorn



Happy birthday my girl !

missy and didi

missy doesn't seem to like to share toys with her lil brother. she will take back whatever is hers whenever she sees didi tried to play/put in mouth her toys..

didi is very interested to see what his jiejie is doing, always turn around to see his jiejie doing her activities.. like drawing..jiejie when good mood, will entertain her didi.. else she will push didi's walker away saying "cannot touch" sigh.. but she is perfectly fine to share toys in school..

we keep on telling her must share with didi.. didi small cannot push hard or use force .. sometimes she will push away her didi's hand very hard..

photos taken when the two are in peaceful playing time.. with missy's latest sandart of baby bob.. in very different from the actual baby bob's colour.

Missy and ice cream

nothing much, just find it funny to see missy's ice cream from burger king is as big/long as her face haa..

She cant finish it all of course.

we went to eat ice cream cone at burger king after our SM's class. this was two weeks bfore her bday/sick.

Sesame Street Live show

We went to see Sesame Street Live in September 11. When i told missy that we are going to watch Elmo live, she din seem to understand what i mean, but she knows we are going to see Elmo and she is happy abt it..

Until we went to the stadium and Elmo appeared on stage that missy somehow understood what i mean. she is so engrossed in the show that she din seem to blink haa..



After the show, missy will tell me each time she watch Sesame street on tv that this one in tv is the same one as the one we saw that day. but she cant say the word LIVE or performance.

Good experience. next year we shall see Barney live maybe, since this year both show happened at the same time.

lil missy and her tutu -2

some photos from hubby's cousin's wedding.. with missy in her pink tutu..she looks so lovely..and she is the centre of camera that night..cos she is so cute. haa

the bloomB shoes that she wears is too loose, maybe cos she wears the legging..she ended up not wearing any shoes that night..


some photos with her grandparents and uncles..







her auntie said she is so "accessorize" with her necklace and bracelet.. haa till now, she will wear one whenever we go her SM class.

Lil Missy falling sick

lil missy fall sick after her b'day celebration last Friday. we suepect too much un healhty food like chocolate, ice cream cake 9cookies and cream darn heaty) and also she ate one quarter piece of durian mooncake from goodwood park hotel.. imagine the heatiness all at the same period into her normally very neutral diet.


her fever started on 27th sep (monday) night. she is all ok in the morning, went to school and all. just a few sound of cough. which i felt the alarm. so we quickly get her to eat some porridge instead of rice and get her to drink lots of water and use barley water to make milk for her night feed. but all these cant stop the virus from attacking her system.. she started to have fever .. as high as 38deg this time (last time almost 39deg in July)..

her fever lasted for 2 days (phew..)but bad cough followed. she will cough and cough .. hardly getting any proper sleep.. me too cos each time she cough i will rub her back or apply vicks .. didi too cos he will turn whenever his sister cough.. lil missy insisted to sleep with me, so no choice, all in the same room, i leave it to didi's immune system to fight ..

it's coming to 1 week now, missy cough till vomit at night, for 2 nights now.. morning not so bad, but it's night time when she sleeps that she cough and vomitted. sigh.. but i observed that now, she will say, i want to spit, and only vomitted when i bring the basket to her. last time (2 yo plus), she will just cough and vomited .. cant control.

shall bring her to see doc again if not better, she din eat much medicine, cos she is just very hard to swallow medicine.. we are like fighting with her to get her to swallow the syrup.. she rather spit/throw out.. i very scared when she got sick.

hopefully her immune system work harder to fight back the virus..get well my girl !

Milking my way - Part 2

written on 28th sept

I have been replacing one of the breastmilk with formula milk since didi turned 6 month-old in August. and since i have pro-long the milk pumping time, and reduce the pumping from 5 times (4 hourly) to 4 times (6 hoursly)

7am - pump before go to work
1pm-2pm- pump in the office
730pm-8pm-pump at home
2am-3am pump at home

I noticed the milk amount has reduced pretty fast since i stop latching. and with the above schedule, there is no leakage or engorge. the milk suply has reduced to 150ml only. after didi turned 7 month-old in September, i then prolong the milk pumping even more..with the pumping schedule below, ( 7 to 8 hourly) and i have cut down on early morning pumping, just occasionally i still get up to pump cos didi wants to drink and i thought instead of formula , i just pump and give him instantly. then i would adjust the next pumping time.

7am - pump before go to work
1pm-2pm- pump in the office
730pm-8pm-pump at home

OR

3am - pump before go to work
11am to 11:30am- pump in the office
730pm-8pm-pump at home

the milk supply usually around 140ml or 120ml.. much lesser now, except for the overnight pump, which i still can get 150ml or 180ml..so each month i shall slowly reduce the expressed milk supply until completely cut off. feel a bit nostalgic but i guess it's time for my bb to be free from me as source of food. heee..

I've been eating a piece of cheese daily with bread and drink milk to ensure im not being depleted from Calsium. and i try to consume cod/salmon on weekly basis to ensure my milk contain healthy supply of DHA.. other than that i eat as per normal.

so, i have stopped coffee for more than a year now.. i dun crave for it anymore. im thinking should i just stop it for good ? haaa..

I have lost quite a fair bit compare to 3 months back ( the time when i started to go back to work ), but my tummy still protrude like a small mountain.. sigh.. got to do a lot of exercise to tone it up. and stretch marks on my inner and side of my thighs.. sad.

Morning Shock

Written- Sept 28th

this morning, i got to pump milk at about 515am, i was shocked at what i felt and saw.. blood blood blood.. in my panties.. Oh no.. i have some disease of something? why blood ? then slowly it dawned on me that my mensus came.. they finally are back after 15 months of resting.. and i have forgotten abt having mensus means blood stain in panties.. how silly..

then, i quickly finish up my milk pumping, feed lil baby boy then go and bath. I almost cant believe it that even i still breastfeeding i can have mensus. eventhough i know, from what i read that it is possible. well, i guess maybe it got to do with my reduction in milk pumping from 5 times a day to 4 times then now 3 times a day.. as i want to slowly wean off breastmilk to my bb boy.. with the rice cereal and eventually porridge and formula milk, bb boy is getting what he needs for his growth. and i wont be stressed up by what i consumed anymore and he needs more calsium than what i can provide to him.

another journey is going to complete.. and im glad i chose to breasfeed my bb boy as i see how happy and healthy boy he is now :)