Not Done Yet

Lil Isaac's bday bash is about 2 weeks away. Other than booking the function room at Centris, I am almost at ground zero. *panic, panic*

When jiejie had her one year old bday party, I even baked her cupcakes. Poor Lil Isaac. I haven't confirm the number of guests coming, haven't order the buffet, haven't confirm the toys, haven't order the cake and haven't prepare the goody bags. Boo! Mummy is really busy at work and both at home. No time, no time. I better start doing something soon. This is afterall a last bday party for a long time to come. With 2 kids, parties are the last thing on my mind. I think family dinner and cakes are good enuff. Hoho.

Mummy Lim

Growing Up

Daddy Lim had to work late tonight and mummy has to tuck jiejie to bed AND latch didi. Luckily, didi wasn't too tired and I get to tuck jiejie to bed 1st while auntie entertains him. This reminds me of a grumbling post that I put up a few months back while still on maternity leave. Then, I was lamenting about how the 2 kids cannot take turns and me wishing to have a clone or a switch on the kids. Things are so much different now.

Jiejie is much more cooperative now. When I need to attend to Lil Isaac, she is usually willing to wait. Daddy Lim is normally the one who tucks her to bed now and she has very much become a daddy's girl. Daddy Lim definitely pampers her. While trying to tuck her to bed just now, she gave me her foot and ask me to give her a foot massage. Win liao.

They are both growing up and I must remind myself to enjoy them more. For record, Lil Isaac shows us that he can sign "no more" and do a flying kiss today! Who taught him? He picked it up from my SIL! So proud of him.

I am so looking forward to Lil Isaac growing up a little bit more and we can have a slightly easier overseas family trip. Oh boy, I need a holiday.

Mummy Lim

In Denial

Jiejie is in denial. She wet our bed again last night. I set my alarm clock at midnight and had intended to wake her up for the toilet but she beats me to it. She woke me up before midnight, mumbling that it was wet. Poor bed.

This morning, I told her that she wets the bed last night but she refused to admit.

ML: Jiejie, you shh shh on mummy's bed last night leh.
LS: No, the bed is not wet.
ML: Yes, you touch here.
LS: No, not wet.
ML: It is. You smell, got shh shh smell.
LS: (sniff sniff) No, don't have!
ML: (????, also go sniff sniff) Have!!!!! So smelly lor.
LS: No!!! Don't have!!

Jieje is obviously in denial. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim

War Against Constipation and Allegric

Yday was day 4. Lil Isaac only managed to pass out a little bit of hard stool on day 3. To prevent another bout of extreme constipation, we gave him a dose of lactulose and he was closely monitored for allergic reaction.

Again we don't know what helped but he moved his bowels 3x yday. The first time, he passed out hard stools. There was no hives but he was busy scratching in the night and woke up 2x instead of the usual once. Is it the lactulose? Nobody knows. Well, we are just glad that he poo poo.

This constipation problem must be resolved soon. His appetite for milk has suddenly increased and my supply is unable to meet his demand. He is clearing the miserable stack of frozen bm. At the rate that he is going, I think we will need to supplement him with fm pretty soon. Not that i am against fm but fm is well known to cause constipation for full bm babies. Round 2 seems to be starting soon. -.o"

Mummy Lim

Congrats Ah Yee

Ah yee finally graduated from her masters. If my dad is still around, he would be so proud of us. Our parents are not highly educated and worked as hawkers for most of their lives yet their 3 kids all graduated from NUS. Both my brother and sister have a master degree. Moreover, ah yee was his favorite child. He would be so proud of her.

Ah yee invited us to her convocation. I had wanted to attend but decided otherwise when I realize that I have to sit in the hall for 4 hours just to see her for that 30 secs. So, we brought Lil Shauna to take pix with ah yee after her convocation instead to show support.

Daddy Lim and I were on half day leave and also took the opportunity to have a quiet lunch before we picked Lil Shauna from school.



My brother and his family were also there. Popo stayed at home with Lil Isaac and my youngest niece. We decided to leave Lil Isaac in Centris just in case he terrorise us all during the long car journey. He is so capable of that and the car journey is uber long. The convocation is held at expo. Coupled with the rush hour jam, we were more than happy when Popo offered to help us take care of Lil Isaac instead.



The 3 girls were eventually having a better time running around and lying on the floor than to take pictures with ah yee.


Yeah, congratulations ah yee. You made it.

Mummy Lim

Blocked No More

Remembered about the bad constipation that Lil Isaac has last week? He poo poo on his own after I got the suppository in. I said "on his own" bcos the suppository came out whole with a pellet size poo poo. But he also managed to remove a lot of poo poo after that. And then, he continued to move his bowels 3x! Each time, the stools were hard. Goodness, he was really a crawling bag of sh!t!

The removal of those hard stools seem to have unblocked his system. He started moving his bowel everyday or every other day after that constipation episode. His appetite also increased, though I can't tell for sure that the input and output issues are related lah.

All the credits have to go to Popo. After all those constipation, she has taken all the efforts to feed Lil Isaac lots of fibre and lots of water. Lil Isaac has even increased his milk intake, from 120ml to 140ml. He still doesn't enjoy his bottle and Popo took the pain to spoon feed whatever that is left in his bottle. I think Lil Isaac can do with a little bit more fats. He is at the 50 percentile, weighing about 9kg at 11month. I prefer him to be chunkier, at least I don't have to worry much if his appetite drops when he is sick. Hehe. Silly mummy.

Yeah, he is poo-ing. Seeing his poo makes me happy.

Mummy Lim

Invaded!

There are many PRCs living in Jurong. I suppose quite a few of them are SPRs bcos they have their family in toll. When Lil Shauna was little and I used to bring her down to the park for walks, we see many PRCs grandkids with their grandparents.

The situation seems to have worsen. Lil Shauna's ballet class has so many PRCs kids, at least 30%! I am sitting in the LCentral lobby waiting for Lil Shauna to finish her class and I am the only SGP parent. I don't know where are the rest of the SGP parents but I am sharing the lobby with 5 other PRCs parents! Help! We are being invaded! These are only PRCs and we still have the Indians, Filipinos and Mynmese. Stop the foreign talents!

Mummy Lim

Surprise!

Somebody called out to me while I was in Suntec just now. I saw a familiar face and recognized that she is an ex-school mate but I couldn't remember which school and her name. I was really surprised when she mentioned that we were primary school mates. I lost touch with ALL my primary school mates. In fact, the only school mates that I am still hanging out with are the SHSS girls.

She told me that she is keeping touch with some of the primary school mates via FB and asked me for my FB. She mentioned that she will add me. She then went on to rattle some names of our primary school friends and it brought back memories. I mean, how long along was that!!?? 20 years??!!

I am excited and checked my FB for a few times already to see if she has added me. Goodness, I am again amazed at the power of FB. Maybe I should try to look for some of the primary school friends than to wait for this particular friend to add me.

Mummy Lim

Walking

I remembered that Lil Shauna started learning how to walk when she was 11 months old. She started her unassisted steps when she turns one. Although walking brings about new set of problems, I prefer her to walk than to crawl. That is bcos she always attempting to struggle free so that she can go to the floor to crawl, even when we are outside.

Lil Isaac is now at that stage. He is turning 11 mths but is showing no sign of walking. He barely cruises and doesn't attempt to walk assisted. Is it bcos boys are slower? I don't know but I do know that he is a master crawler and is everywhere on his fours. I was hoping that he would walk soon. It is a struggle now when we are outside. I am soon looking forward to him walking when we go for out next overseas trip, believing that it will be better and easier if he walks.

So, what can he do not? When he is in a good mood, he can wave bye-bye, clap and raise his hands when he hears "hooray". He can say "mum mum" for food and loves hide and seek and can go "ah-tah" non stop.

It is so tiring to chase after him now. I pity Popo and auntie. It is ok, time flies and he will grow up soon.

Mummy Lim

Kiddy Ride

If you ask me, the ride is pretty worth it. For $3, it kept jiejie happy bcos she gets to steer the ride and pillion mummy and didi.

Mummy Lim