Chinese New Year Part III

When I was younger, the SHSS girls will arrange for CNY visitation. However, when work and family set in, we started getting busy and we stopped for a few years. With a few new babies around, I suggested for us to go visitation again. I think the girls' parents will be happie to see us and our little ones. :)

We started off from J's place in Woodlands, in the afternoon. Then we proceed to Mr W's place at Toa Payoh. After that, we headed to Mummy L's place in Tampines. Finally, we ended at D's place for dinner. Her mummy is as generous as usual. We had a lot of good food.


Fortunately, Lil Shauna was cooperative and didnt fuss as much as I tot she would. I think she has grown up already. :) The last time we visited D's place was in last August, when Lil Shauna about 3 months' old. Then, she fusses so much that we had to leave early. However, D wasnt too kind. The moment she sees Lil Shauna, she said that Lil Shauna is pui pui and heavy. -.o" Win lor. Now I cannot say that Lil Shauna is ideal weight bcos she's 75 percentile liao. Never mind, got "fu qi" mah.


Lil Shauna and Baby C both in pink.

The other people. :)
Oh, many people start to say that Lil Shauna looks like girl. Hohoho, must be the pink stuff. :)

Mummy Lim

The Icing Box

There is this new shop at JP2 by the name of "The Icing Box" that sells really pretty cakes. I have seen people crowding around, decorating their own cake too. I have never tot that I would join in the fun, until today.

Daddy Lim and I had our dinner at JP today. We had a little time and decided to window shop when we saw the Icing Box. Realising that it wasnt as expensive as I tot, I asked Daddy Lim to buy me a cake.

Daddy Lim was caught by surprise when he had to pay $11.20 for a tiny cake. Wat's more, we actually have to decorate the cake ourselves. The amount that we paid got us a white cream cake + some flowers decoration + icing.

We both had our hands at decorating the cake. I kept telling Daddy Lim to not spoilt the cake (with his decoration), but was surprised that he is quite good at it. In fact, he is better than I am. Well, not that I belittled him. You will understand my worry if you have seen his art. Hohoho.

Viola! Our finished product.

After we were done, Daddy Lim complained that the cake doesnt look professional enuff, that the decoration was too simple. Halow, if I can decorate the cake properly, I wun be in HR lor. -.o"

I tot that the cake wun taste good but surprisingly it is pretty nice, other than the thick layer of cream, which Daddy Lim absolutely loves.

Wat's left when we were leaving my mum's place. I bet someone will finished it off.

Yummy, yummy.

Mummy Lim

Mark 14:24

Mark 14:24

"This is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice for many".

Covenant - in its most general sense, is a solemn promise to engage in or refrain from a specified action. In certain religions, a covenant is a formal alliance or agreement made by God with that religious community or with humanity in general. (source: Wikipedia)

Jesus' blood was poured out as a sacrifice for me. Bcos of that, I am included in the covenant with God. PTL.

Mummy Lim

Chinese New Year Part II

The 1st 2 days of CNY is over! We survived 4 days of looking after Lil Shauna. But in fact, I went over to my mum's place to seek help on the morning of all 4 days. Hehe, I am a lazy mummy.

Lil Shauna is a little richer while Daddy Lim and I are a lot more poorer. Then again, we never tot that we will "earn" from this CNY. If we can, we will give a little to family and friends. I remember how please I was with the extra income that I used to receive before I was upgraded to give ang baos. All of Lil Shauna's ang baos will go into her OCBC savings account. Dun play, play ok, she got bank account liao.

I was happily parading Lil Shauna in her new clothes. She has 3 sets of new clothes, especially for this occasion. Daddy Lim & I only get 1 set each. -.o" On eve of CNY, we had an early reunion dinner at my mum's place before going down to Daddy Lim's Gugu's place. Lil Shauna was in her sexy sleeveless top and cutsy bottom. Of course she stole the limelight. Who would wear until so sexy to eat steamboat??

She totally charmed Auntie Eunice. She even let down her spaghetti straps to show off her beautiful shoulders. Hehe.

On Chu Yi, Lil Shauna don a blue halter neck top to woo the crowd. Bare back, ok!

The bottoms were a little too bog, but she still looked uber cute.

On Chu Er, Lil Shauna appear as Miss Lil Ballerina.

Now, who can look cuter than her? Hohoho. I am one proud mummy. Suddenly, CNY appears pretty fun when you can dress up your pretty little girl.

Mummy Lim

Daddy Lim is Finally Sick

After tahaning for 2+ weeks, when I and Lil Shauna have almost recovered, Daddy Lim is complaining of a sore throat and persistent sneezing. He woke up to a sore throat this morning. Looks like this flu bug is not dead yet after infecting more than half the population in the family. Poor Daddy Lim. He has to forgo all the bak gua and chocolates. Lil Shauna is too young to eat such stuff. Looks like I am the only one left to represent the family. I shall so sacrifice myself. How noble I am. Hohoho.

On a different note, Daddy Lim said that he will pass back the virus back to my SIL to complete the cycle. It started with her and so it shall end with her. Haha. Maybe we can play this passing-virus game again? Choy!

Mummy Lim

Chinese New Year

I know CNY is 3 days away, but I dun feel that CNY is coming. When I was very younger, CNY is full of fun. All the meeting up with relatives, new clothes, good food, chocolates and bak gua and most of all ang baos. As I grew older, the "feeling" of CNY loses its intensity. Some years, CNY is even boring bcos all the shops are closed, the TV program is lousy and there is simply no place to go and not much to do. Last year, I totally skipped visitation, bcos it would merely be an ang bao giving exercise and I dun think I want to go against my pocket.

This year, nobody will be visiting our house. So other than bak gua, there are no CNY goodies. We didnt even buy mandarin oranges. I had to ask Daddy Lim to bring back some from the office. I tried to do spring cleaning but only managed to put the stray things back to their original places. At least I try hor. Hmm.. I will at least try to make my bed for CNY eve, chu yi and chu er lah.

However, we will be doing CNY visitation. Well, there will be some returns bcos of Lil Shauna, but the main aim is to parade Lil Shauna. During her full month's bash, no relatives (from my side) were invited bcos my mum didnt want the hassle. Thus, none of my relatives had seen Lil Shauna. Lil Shauna is sooooo cute, of course I must parade her. Moreover, I have bought her some super cute clothes and I think she will look uber cute! Mummy dun lie to their kids ok. When my mum told me that I am fat, I noe she meant it. -.o" So when I say that Ll Shauna will look super cute, you know it is true. Hohoho.

Actually, at the tot of that, I do look forward to CNY. I can picture myself giving ang baos. I feel like Santa Clause.

Mummy Lim

Money Minded

My mum knew that I would get my bonus sometime now. She had been asking me how much I will be getting since a few months back and I told her I have no idea then. Some 2 weeks back, the Company declared and she happened to ask me again. I didnt want to hide from her and I told her truthfully. However, Daddy Lim and I had plans to keep a large part of it as buffer in view of the recession.

In my family, I am always known as one who can really save. When I was younger, I felt that my parents will always and only come to me when they need to loan/ take $$ from me. Even after I am married, I continued to give my mum her allowance. Whenever big festival, I will also give her additional ang bao. That is bcos I know that she no longer has any source of income (other than the allowances that we give her) and $$ has somehow become her security. What I ask in return is simple - keep the $$ for herself, spent it on herself. I dun even mind if she uses the $$ to go on a Genting trip and loses a few hundred bucks, so long as she enjoys herself.

Back to the bonus story. I know that she expected me to give her additional allowances when I get my bonus and I intended to do so, as per usual years. Moreover, CNY is near and she will definitely have additional spending. However, the bonus will only be given out 2 weeks after declaration and I tot that I will give her a big, big ang bao, together with the CNY share. Who knows, before the ang bao reaches her, she went to complain to my sister.

She complained that I never give her additional $$ and never treat the family to a nice meal. She asked my sister is I gave her anything or treated her to dinner. She thinks that I should give her additional bcos she's helping me to take care of Lil Shauna. -.o" So money minded.

Just in case she vent her anger on Lil Shauna, I gave her the big ang bao the next day. I might be over-sensitive, but I tot that her attitude changes almost immediately. I told her that it is inclusive of the CNY share and she went "huh", but she willingly took it when I told her that I could simply split the amount into 2.

The next day, I asked my sister if my mum was "feeling better". My sister said, "Of course... she proudly told me that you gave her $x."

I was a little upset over the incident. Not bcos my mum demanded $$ from me, just that she should know that I would give her, just like how I usually did. Well, at least it made her happie. Like wat Daddy Lim always say - if the problem can be solved by $$, then it is not a problem. I have fulfilled the monetary aspects of my duties.

Mummy Lim

New Meimei

Daddy & Mummy brought me to KKH yday. Mummy was all excited, saying that Aunty S has been upgraded to Mummy status. I am not sure wat does that mean but I hope that it means yummy food.

We entered this room and there were so many adults in the tiny room. Luckily, I am a small baby and doesnt need much space. Oh, Aunty S has lost weight! Her big tummy is gone. The adults are always so worried about us babies losing our chubbiness, I think Aunty S is in big trouble. She better eat more to gain back her big tummy to gain favours. Tsk, tsk...

I saw the adults going oooooowwww and aaaahhh over something crumpy and wrapped in pink. Mummy says that she is Aunty S new baby. Her name is Genvieve Chan and she weighs 2.77kg. She was born on Saturday early morning at 0043 hours.

She is soooo tiny, not at all like me. But I can see that she's a hungry baby too. See, she eats the cloth like how I used to. I think it is probably yummy. Makes me feel hungry. Mummy, milk!!!!!


We were there for awhile and I started getting bored. Afterall, the baby only lie in her box and cries every now and then. No fun at all. Luckily somebody gave Aunty S a floating balloon and Mummy let me play with it. I think the balloon is more fun that the baby.


Finally, Mummy says that it is going home time. G meimei, not that I dun like you, but I think you better quickly grow up, so that jie jie, me, can play with you. Since you are new here, let me teach you a few tricks.


1. If you want a nice and perky butt, cry as loud as possible the moment you poo poo. I can confirm that your Daddy and Mummy will coming running and wipe you clean.


2. If your mummy makes you angry and you want to take your revenge, do it during milk time, especially in the night. Scream loudly for milk. Once your mummy latches you, suckle a bit and quickly fall asleep. The moment your mummy wants to unlatch you, quickly suckle again, so that she cant. Repeat this for 200 times. Then take eternity to burp. Repeat this cycle in half an hour's time. I can tell you, your Mummy will beg you to cooperate the next night. It works for me every time.


3. Do something new every other day, like raise an eyebrown, stick out your tongue, catch their finger. They will be in awe with you and will worship you like Queen.


Ok, enuff for the day. I will teach you more new tricks when I see you the next time. In the meantime, practice ya.





With lots of love & saliva,
Lil Shauna

10pm

I am supposed to be outside St James now with Mummy Leong, Mummy Pei & Santarina Aunty Valerie, but I am here typing away all bcos of the darn flu. The stuffy nose, sore and itchy throat seems to be applying for PR. Sob!

Dear girls, sorrie for not joining. I would be if not for the persistent virus. This bug had left me sick and tired, disturbing my precious sleep for the past few nights. I have to work tomorrow morning too, then it is a weekend of taking care of Lil Shauna. I foresee myself limping by and zombie-ish if I were to join you girls tonight. Really, really sorrie.

On the other hand, Daddy Lim had been looking forward to this night too. I know he was disappointed when I told him that I dun feel up to it. He tried to cover up but did brighten up when I suggest for him to go out with his friends. Daddy Lim hoped to go cheong with his friends, but all his friends are old men liao and I cant even imagine them in a disco setting. ;p So, I was right to guess that they will be drinking Tiger beer at some kopitiam. Daddy Lim is driving down to meet his friends at some Yishun kopitiam now, after we managed to tuck Lil Shauna to bed. Hohoho.

Bb, dun "cheong" too hard ya. You old man liao. ;p

Mummy Lim

Dream

One morning, Daddy Lim told me that he had a dream. In the dream, we have 3 kids. Lil Shauna is already a toddler, walking on her own. He is carrying a baby boy and I am preggy with another boy. Then a dog was following behind us and we are in a foreign land, happily strolling.

The dream seems like a perfect picture. However, we both agreed that it sounds like a nighmare. Haha. Seriously, I cannot picture myself going through pregnancy for 3 times. try as I might, another time is my limit. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim

Baby Girl

We were in the lift with an auntie yday and she called Lil Shauna "baby girl"! Then she asked us if she was right. I was so happy and excited and wanted to scream "yes" into her face. Had to restraint myself from jumping up & down and doing cartwheels. Hehe.

Daddy Lim says that this probably only happens 1 in 200x. But at least got that 1x mah. Hohoho. Lil Shauna is finally starting to look like baby girl.

Mummy Lim

Random Pix

Just need to post some pix that I have taken but no time to post.My younger niece. She just woke up and look so super cute + demure. Cannot resist and took this pix.

Our adventure at the Play Gym. Lil Shauna and I had been spending our recent weekends' afternoon at the Play Gym. I am waiting for Lil Shauna to start crawling/ walking to have more fun! The left pix shows a set-up for a princess bday party. Maybe Lil Shauna can have that too. Hehe.

Lil Shauna's little teeth. The culprit for the constant drool. Finally, Lil Shauna looking all smiley and cute after her bath.

Mummy Lim

Night Out

We left Lil Shauna with Popo last Sat so that I can sneak a nice dinner in town with my colleagues. Only managed to take pix with 1 though. I was very excited about the night's out. It feels like years ago that I had dinner in town and even longer since I last dress up.

After dinner, we went to Daddy Lim and my usual hang-out - Insomnia. We passed by the museum and I cannot resist taking this pix. So nostalgic! I remember seeing these figurines when I visited the museum when I was in primary school.

I was to meet Daddy Lim in Insomnia. A young colleague and her friend were denied entry into Insomnia bcos they were unable to meet the minimum age limit. They were turned away and I felt pretty bad bcos I forgot totally about such a thing call "age limit". I mean, when was the last time that I had to be worried about age limit? I cant even remember the last time that somebody checked on my age while trying to enter some clubs. I noe I look old. -.o"

My colleagues left pretty early and we stayed on until about 1am. It had been a long time since I last drank. The last time I visited Insomnia with Daddy Lim, I was still BF-ing and had to drink coke while he happily down 4 beers and got high. This is us after 2 Bacardi Breezer and 4 beers.

We are really old liao. Cos by 12mn, Daddy Lim became hungry and had to find food. After food, we simply feel too tired to party on. Sleep was too tempting and we had to end our night. Haiz...

Mummy Lim

Potent Flu Bug

I think Lil Shauna might have passed on the flu bug to me. I can feel a sore throat coming. Arrggghhh.. I dun want to fall sick, I want to go out on Friday night! I hope drinking lots of wter will help to chase the virus away. I hope Lil Shauna recovers by then too. If she doesnt or becomes worse, I will feel like a lousy mummy - enjoying while my baby jostle with the big bad flu bug.

I wonder if Lil Shauna has got the sore throat too, but unable to voice it out. Ouch, poor baby. But she appeared to be better last night. She slept thru' and her nose appeared to be less choked, after Daddy Lim and I fought with her to apply the nose application. Nightmare, nightmare... I hope she doesnt get flu anymore. If falling sick is part of growing up, then maybe flu can come when she knows how to blow her nose; or at least allows us to wipe her nose. Haiz.

Mummy Lim

Flu Bug

Lil Shauna is sick again. She has been caught by the big flu bug. I have never seen her so sick. The last time that she caught the flu from YingXuan, she merely sniffle a little bit. This time, she caught it from YingXuan too, but YingXuan appears to be very fine where Lil Shauna is constantly leaking mucus. My SIL says that maybe it is bcos she is off the BM. See lah, BM so powerful. The mucus has started to turn green. -.o" I will be bringing her to the PD in a little while.

She's actually quite fine, not particularly fussy, but her milk intake has dropped a little. However, she look super pathetic (oh, I just heard her cough). Her right eye is still swollen due to the blocked duct. Then her nose is mucus-smeared. We go into this tugging game when we tried to wipe off her mucus cos she simply hate it when we touches her nose (hmmm... maybe she's a dog and not a mousey). She will struggle, push our hands away and turn her head from left to right. So the mucus spreads onto her face. -.o" When we try to hold her down, she will start crying and we ended up with more mucus. Haiz, poor baby.

I hope she doesnt pass back the flu virus back to YingXuan. Bcos they are about the same age and are constantly playing together, with the same toys, it is definitely a challenge to restraint the virus. Aiyo!

Mummy Lim

Updates:
We are back from the PD. Luckily we were there early, in fact even before the clinic was opened. We are the typical kiasu Singaporeans. We were 2nd in-line (yes, somebody else is even more trur-blue than us). Before the doctor arrives, there were at least 10 in queue. It pays to be kiasu sometimes.

Lil Shauna's nose is badly blocked up. We were given 3 types of medication. A nose spray, a nose drop and an oral drop. Lil Shauna struggled badly over the nose application. Haiz.. nightmare not only to her but to us as well. But she seems to enjoy the oral medication leh. I think it probably tastes sweet. hehe.

Lil Shauna's Update

Lil Shauna went for her routine follow-up appointment at NUH today. She's 3 days to 8 months' old. She weighs 8.4kg, 70cm long and has a head circumference or 42.6cm. According to the growth chart in her health booklet, she measures 50 percentile for height and head circumference, but is at 75 percentile for weight leh. Oh no, I can no longer say Lil Shauna is ideal weight when people say that she is fat. She is not only pui pui but a shortie. -.o" Ok, she has got Daddy Lim and my fat gene, but what happened to our tall gene?? Hmmm... It must be bcos she's constantly hungry. Even the bib tastes delicious. ;p

Her right eye is a little bit better but still bad. The PD had asked if we wanted to let her see the eye specialist in NUH. The down side is that the appointment will be in the day time and the waiting time is superb. That will mean that I have to take whole day leave whenever she is due for her appointment. The plus point is that this eye specialist that we will be seeing specialises in babies and kids. Since we have no plan for big overseas holidays this year, I will have lots of leave to spare for such stuff and so we asked for an appointment. Lil Shauna will be seeing the NUH eye specialist on 3 Feb. Bcos I was in B2 ward while delivering Lil Shauna, all follow-ups for Lil Shauna at NUH are at highly-subsidised rates. Thank God for His detailed plan. :)

I do hope that the NUH eye specialist will concur with the 1st eye specialist that we have seen - that it is merely blocked eye duct. We pray that the eye duct will open up by itself soon so that Lil Shauna can avoid the sound-very-painful procedure. Poor baby.

Oh, Daddy Lim and I went swimming today. We had planned to go swimming on Tuesday, then Wednesday, then Thursday bcos things keep cropping up at work and we have to delay our plans. Finally, we got to swim today. We started small, only 10 laps, but a definite good start. We hope to make it into a weekly affair. No choice, I still feel pregnant and Daddy Lim looks 5 months' preggy. Hehe.

Mummy Lim

Stuck in Office

I am working late today. I was targeting 8pm, but I am still here at 8.30pm. The chance of leaving at 9pm seems remotely possible. My colleagues and I are doing increment upload and the system is painfully slow. If it is too late, then we wun be able to bring Lil Shauna home tonight. Lil Shauna hasnt stayed over at popo's place for a long time. I hope she doesnt fuss and give popo a hard time.

Oh gosh, I am missing her. Sob!

Mummy Lim

Lil Shauna's Bad Eye

Lil Shauna's right eye duct is still blocked. her next review with the eye doc is about a week away. Basically, there is nothing that the doc can do (I think) but to advise us to constantly clean her eye of discharge and to make sure that it is merely blocked duct and nothing else. We will have to wait patiently until she turns one. If it is still blocked then, the insert-wire-to-clear-duct procedure will take place. Ouch. I do hope that her duct will self-clear by then.

Recently, the discharge has been bad. When I brought her to Joshua's bday party on 31 Dec 08, I had to keep repeating that it is blocked eye duct thus the loads of discharge. I felt like a bad mummy and a broken recorder. Haiz.

Her eye has been very bad these few days. I had to resort to using the strong eye drop containing steroid. Lil Shauna has also grown cleverer. She knows it when we come with the cotton and will squirm, turn left & right and hit/ push our hand away, making it difficult to wipe her eye. It gets even trickier when we try the eye drop. It takes alot of distracting and most importantly luck to get the eye drop into her eye. She even knows how to close one eye now. Faint.

The area around the eye has turned red and swollen. We are not sure if it is bcos of the discharge eating into the tender flesh or due to the constant wiping. It is probably not as painful as it seems cos she doesnt fuss or cry, but it pains us like mad. My Mum even suggested us to bring her to the eye doc today, but I dun see what the doc can do to make it better. Well, it is a wait and see game.


Her poor eye is all red & puffy. It looks much worse then the pix. Dear uncles and aunties, pls pray for Lil Shauna, for the bad eye to go away and that the duct will open by itself so that we dun have to go thru' the awful procedure. Lil Shauna will reward you all with her famous saliva-filled muaks.
Mummy Lim

Security Pillow

Security pillow/ blanket is common with babies and kids. I own one too. A little pillow that was fondly known as "xiao bao bei". I owned it for as long as I could remembered. I also remembered how I would wake my mum from her sleep to help look for the missing xiao bao bei. I would fuss until mission accomplished before allowing her to proceed with her disrupted sleep. Then, there were the countless "tickle-my-fingers-with-the-pillow-edges". I would drifted to sleep satisfyingly after tickling all my 10 fingers. As for the aroma... Daddy Lim can vouch for the powerfulness. :)


As I grow older, I would hug it less. The pillow also grew smaller as the cotton wasted away. So, I would simply hold the little pillow in my hand and drifted off to dreamland. After I was preggy with Lil Shauna, I hugged it even lesser for fear of inhaling toxic fumes that emit from the pillow, thus harming Lil Shauna. After Lil Shauna's arrival, there is simply no time to even count my fingers, let alone do the time consuming "tickle-my-fingers" act. I could almost fell asleep instantly.


Finally, just a week ago, I decided that the pillow will go, after its 20 over years of companionship. Yes, the pillow is that old. I no longer hug it and it is simply fighting for space with the rest of the soft toys, bought before Lil Shauna comes along. They now lined the top of the bed frame bcos the bed simply has no space for them.


So, there goes my xiao bao bei. Lil Shauna is not particularly attached to any blanket/ pillow/ soft toy now. I wonder if I should intro one to her... better not. I dun want to risk having to wake up in the middle of the night, looking for some darn cloth/ pillow/ monkey! Lol!

Oh, I managed to let Lil Shauna nap in her cot on Sunday morning. A pity that she was awaken by the HP merely 15 mins later. Good attempt though. Jia you!
Mummy Lim

New Year Resolution Part 2

After I read about how one determined mummy managed to wean her little boy off the yaolao despite his deafening screams and cries to attempt to terrorise, I have decided to add 2 more resolutions.

1. To make Lil Shauna sleeps alone in her room
2. To teach Lil Shauna to sit in her car seat while travelling

Woohoo! I hope Lil Shauna obeys like a little doggie. Wish me luck!

Mummy Lim

Happie New Year

Daddy Lim and I tot about our new year resolutions for year 2009. This is Daddy Lim's 1st ever set of new year resolutions wor. Last week, we managed to sneak some "us" time over dessert to share on the resolutions.

His:
1. Continue to love Mummy Lim & Lil Shauna more

2. Exercise 1x per week

3. Quit gaming (if possible ir at least become un-addicted)

4. Quit swearing at motorists

5. Bring Lil Shauna to West Coast for picnic once a month

Mine:

1. Pray with Daddy Lim & Lil Shauna at least 3x a week

2. Go for 1 overseas trip as a family

3. Lose weight: target 55kg (arrrggghhhh.. my constant battle. I actually put on some weight after I stopped bf-ing even when I cut down on my food intake -.o")

4. Take care of myself!

Common ones:

1. Find a church that offer evening services and attend church as a family

2. Spend at least 1 "us" time w/o the baby once a month

Yeah, let us work towards our resolution.

Pappy, can you pls add "quit smoking" as one of your resolutions? Hehe.

Mummy Lim