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 :)

missy and her tutu

when u have girl, u can never resist the temptation to shop for cute cute clothes. I have been buying not only toys.. i like to shop for clothes and accessories for missy. maybe cos i always see how other mummies are dressing up their little live doll. so when missy come to this age, automatically i will do the same.


We are going to a wedding next week, so i will let missy to wear her tutu, which i have bought last year, it's for 4 yo, so mum helps me to tighten the waist for missy. else it will slip down if missy move too much heee.. then i went to BloomB to get her the white lace sleeve shirt, simple, but the little details is what im looking for. and i got her some accessories like necklace and bracelet. cute cute. and and i also got her a new shoes.. which i love it. this is the type of shoes i like to wear.. but of course i wont buy pink for myself.. but for missy pink is her colour !





the complete look with the shoes. and also the ribbon clip.


shall take more photos when she actually wearing it next week.

by the way, she is now weigh at 16.5kg 96cm and she is wearing size 27 shoes.- at 35 months 2 weeks old.

Missy and her lantern

missy was born one day before mid-autumn, we always say, just in time to carry lantern :0)

last two years her popo bought her battery operated lanterns. this year i bought her paper lantern which i remembered carrying it when i was younger. i wanted to let her see the traditional lantern with candle inside.

i bought one pack of 5, as i thought, missy surely will burn some as she may not know how to handle it. but hey, i was wrong, she is able to carry it without burning until the candle burnt completedly.

we have our lantern walk at home with lights off. next week, i shall bring her out at night to carry it.


Happy mid-autumn !

missy and her green bean plant

last week, SM sensei gave us a image play on plant, to see how plant grow. and we were given one small clear container with two green bean seeds, we are suppose to moist the cotton and give the seeds sufficient sunlight and see it grow into a plant.

and so we did. actually, i just get missy to moist the cotton, then leave it at our balcony, remind maid to shift it under sunlight during day. and i forgotten all about it until wednesday.. when i revisit it, it has grown into a plant already.

tt's quite easy actually. so i explain to missy on the process. and she is quite caring to the plant.. cute.

there is a spree selling the same concept items to grow a plant from seed, come with pot about 8 dollar plus. i almots bought it but mum said missy might not appreciate it. so now with simply green bean seed, we already learnt the seed grow into plant lesson. cheap and hassle free.




so, we shall bring the plant to sinsei tomorrow.

didi on potty

is it too early ? yes, of course. but to mum, she thinks it's cleaner to poo in potty than in diapers. so each time, didi make the poo-ing sound, she will quickly put him on the potty .. she did the same for missy last time, maybe tt's why missy is toilet trained quite fast. some of her peers, at 3 yo still on diapers. i guess these are those with parents who dun bother to toilet train their toddler? no wonder the diaper size can go up to XXXL.

didi and his potty. well, that particular day, didi din poo a lot.. just that tiny bit.. heee.. now didi is on rice cereal and one or two feed of formula, so his poo is more solid.

missy also ecited when we talk didi's stool on the potty..

didi on walker

didi likes to stand on us when we carry him.. his leg is quite strong, so we thought maybe we can try and let him exercise on walker..and hey, he indeed is ready but we still think it's too early to use walker, his back might not be ready ? so we just let him on once ot twice a day for 5 minutes or lesser.. he will move by kicking and the walker will move backwards each time.. he seem quite happy with the new "toys" as he will smile and appeared very excited each time we put him on.

but he still cant stop exercising his mouth.. he bite the chair too.. mum have to sew a piece of clothe on it so that it's not too hard to bite.

didi happily on his walker..

My precious

i love to see them together like this.. wont get tired seeing these photos.. they have become my handphone wallpaper, screen savers.. i printed it and put it on my notice board, it's everywhere that i can see.. love them so much !

Babies and Sesame Street

i wanted to keep this ..this was taken sometime in early august.. when the two were caught lying side by side watching sesame street on Sunday. cute.

Didi likes to see sesame steet too, as he will turn to look at Elmo whenever his session starts.. haa.

Sand Art- Barney the purple dinasour

Few weeks back we saw the sand art in shopping centre, it is is $12 per piece, which we thought is super expensive. Lucky we did not proceed on that day, as missy is crying, wanted to play with it. the sales pady keep pertering us.. which i hate.
most !

Today i saw the sand art at ntuc at just $2.90 so i quickly ask misys choose the pattern she likes, of course she chose parney over Dora..

so we had our first sand art with her favourite charatcter- Barney !

Here we go..

Missy is so excited and curious on how to get started, i guide her along, get her to help me to peel the sticker.. then pour the coloured sand onto it.. then clear the sand after we completed one portion..



She is following me throughout till we completed the whole picture. the final product was fantastic .. the background colour was a mixture of all colours we have left over. haaa.



i have showcase her work on her art area. she loves her barney !

Toys and more toys

I've added more and more toys for missy lately.. i've stop buying toys for some time,during the period when i was carrying didi. now im back to work and i have time during lunch break, so i shop and shop.

Usually i will only buy from toysrus, kiddy palace and ELC. i wont buy from heartland shops or grocery shops, which mum will do that. as i somehow think bigger shops carry safer toys.. i may be right though, as the recent news about toys having too much lead causing health hazards to children surfaced. most of the problematic toys are those sold in smaller shops. ELC is said to have safer toys eventhough they charge higher.

k, last month, i got missy this cash register, well, i saw some blogger mummy got this for their kids and i wanted to get this for missy for some time. so finally i found this nice one and on offer some more. great deal. from toysrus. it has the converyor belt, credit card sweeping, calculator, cash keeper, the scanner with beep sound.. very real. and of course notes and coins. missy keeps them in her pink bag.
she really engrossed in this.. for that 3 days.. after that she only take it out for awhile then ignore them.. well..i think she will revisit ? at least she will tell me "mummy, same one " when we went to supermarket and she observed the cashier with the cash register.



I just bought this stamp set last week, i almost got all of the melissa & dough wooden toys now. This also from toysrus. i just let missy chop for fun . she already knows her alphabet from A to Z.. so slowly i shal teach her to form words.. now i show her how to spell hr name first. she somehow knows it's her name after seeing it, cos in school their things are labelled with their name.



i got didi two hammers.. these are hammer with sound effect.. just for fun la.. cos it's one for one.. pay one price get two.. hee..didi only interested in chewing..


I think there isn't any other toys i have in mind anymore..I always believe children learn through play.. so have fun buyh=ing great toys for our children !

Baby in Black

This is how they look like when they put on the gymboree sub glasses that i got for missy.

haa.. these photos make us smile..

Lil feet

Last week, sis and mum went back home town, so i was home with didi. what we do ? we just play together.. haa.. i will exercise his limbs by letting him pulling his socks sucking his socks.. wresling with his pillows and grab everything and put into his mouth..*eyey rolling*

see..he even pulling my hand and finger to his mouth.. he likes to grab his socks this way.. roll up like a ball.. and pull his shirt up high and expose his round round tummy.. see how happy he is



so, mummy just snap snap snap away .. he is curious with my camera.. no flash of course.. se how she show me his pigu




so, mummy and me.. not easy to snap this.. cos im holding my camera in one hand..i kiss him.. he looks like he is kisisng me.. but actualy he is licking my face.. shake head.. thinking im tasty maybe




CUte little baby..i cant wait to see him grow up !

Missy Happy Days in School

Pictures say it all.. her teacher is sharing their pictures in facebook. which i get to see what they do ins school. cool isn't ?
im glad to see how missy is enjoying her school activities with her friends.


Missy is doing the arts on clothes with her teacher..




missy on water play, story reading, cooking session and she is eating the product of their baking.. and her presentation on theme of the lesson for the week/month



Sand play, outdoor exploring ..check out the bus stop, see bus and recognise their neighbourhood. take a lift.. check out the void desk..


Happy happy days in school !

Happy Teacher's Day

Singapore they celebrate teacher's day on 1st September. it's a school holiday.

missy brings flower for her teachers..

Missy Arty Arts

It's been a month since my last post of missy's darwing and painting and we haven been doing much art work together..

So, here are her painting/drawing and our art work together in August

This is her flower.. actually im impressed with this.. it does look like flower with petals..



these are her another form of drawing.. she told me.. she is writing.. she like to write like scribbling the third picture on the left..on papers and calendar.. i ask her what is she sriting she said she is writing a b c..so imagine my calendar full with her "writing"




I get missy to do some pasting for me.. we are making numbers on stick..



missy very hard working on her tasks.. while didi busy playing on his play gym.. haa.. love to see them together


we have completed our numbers on stick.. missy matching each number to her block number.. she is very good at matching already.. now i get her to say the numbers out.. she is better now.. she can recognise most of them but confuse with 6 & 9 and 8 she keeps saying number 8 is letter B. mm.. quite similar wor..




SO, one useful activity completed on weekend.

Milking my way

now it's 5am in the morning and im awake, writing blog.. yes it's not insane, i just cant sleep after expression milk for didi. he is sound asleep after his 450am feed. lil missy is also sound asleep beside me on my bed, while the father on the floor.

recently, i again cant sleep after feeding didi in the wee hours..always lie there for so long..by the time i think i start to sleep, it's time to get up..so today, since it's weekend, i just get up and get few things done..

i like the queitness.. cool..

well, i have successfully breastfeed lil Jared exclusively for the first 6 months of his life. Now, i still continue to breastfeed him, but no more latching on, because just after he turned 6 month-old, he started to have 2 teeth (lower incisor) and he started to bite whenever i latch him on.

so, i just express the milk out and bottle feed him. eventhough forum/fren said baby should not bite when they suck milk, cos they r not using their jaw/gum, they r using the cieling of their upper mouth to press on the nipple.. and i should tell bb not to bite.

I tried many time, when he cry for milk, i latch him, he will stop and give me a good bite and when i tell him saying "no no, cannot bite mummy, else no more nen nen for u" he will smile at me.. I even tried when he is in good mood, latch him on, he still bite.. so gave up.. i have phoabia even.

i guess, it's good enough, 6 months of exclusiveness.. haaa. my pumping schedule as below now


7am - pump before go to work
11am-1130am- pump in the office
3pm-330pm - pump in the office
730pm-8pm-pump at home
2am-3am pump at home ,then bottle feed didi - i can pump up to 200ml to 240ml

Each time (except the early morning pump) i can pump out 150ml-180ml

my milk still enough for didi, more than enough. as now we gave him one feed of rice cereal, and i feed of formula milk.

didi is able to hold his bottle now, i still use glass botles, so usually i will help him hold a bit in case he drop and break it.



so, shall see how long my milk supply can last since im just expressing and no more latching. from fren's experience, this way, milk will reduce very fast and no more.

I hope i have given didi the best food of his life . the maximum i can accept for breastfeeding is one year. cos i think no point continue too long. he will need more iron than calsium.

Didi weight on 26 August is 8.5kg , almost similar to July's weight. but his chubbiness tells all. no worries !

Happy growing up my boy !