I Do Mind

I said in my earlier posts that I do not mind night feeds now that Lil Shauna is rejecting food. I think I lied. I do mind. Haiz.. the dear princess had been waking up consistently at 2+, 3+am for the past few days and will stay awake for an hour each time. Ah, my beauty sleep.

I could hardly open my eyes this morning. I had to brush teeth with my eyes closed and steal sleep while on the way to work and while in the office before work. I hope she doesnt do that when we are in HKG. -_______-"

Mummy Lim

Art is in the Air

Daddy Lim had to work late on Saturday. Popo was taking her little break from all of us, so Lil Shauna stuck to mummy. We had wanted to wait for Daddy Lim to come home and found it a little bored. Ah yee has kindly offered to let LiL Shauna paint.

Lil Shauna has never painted. It is a little too messy and luckily ah yee was around. I cant handle Lil Shauna and the mess alone. And I was glad that we gave her mahjong paper instead of the usual drawing paper.

Lil Shauna's masterpiece. Yeah~

Mummy Lim

Sickly Baby

The baby is still sick. Haiz.. She's running a temperature now. Luckily, she's willing to take her fever medicine after much coaxing. I hate it when she's down with fever or flu. She just rejects all food, including her favourite biscuits. She didnt want her milk just now and fell asleep after whining non-stop. Suddenly, I dun mind waking up to do night feeds. Haiz.. I bet she's gg to lose weight again.

Popo got it hard in the afternoon when Lil Shauna was running a fever. She's whine badly, throw tantrum and cannot decide what she wants. Secretly, I was glad to be at work when my mum called to tell me how difficult Lil Shauna had been. I noe, she had tortured me for the whole of Sunday. But the no. of hours of non-fever has increased, which is good cos it normally signifies recovery.

Oh, we saw 3 little red bumps on her. One on her arm and 2 on her face. I am so super scared that she gets chicken pox now. But she had both her vaccination jabs! She cannot have chicken pox. I want to go HKG. Boohoohoo... I am so paranoid that I kept checking her now. Pls continue to pray for speedy recovery and also for protection that she doesnt get the flu viruses. I think she sound a little nasal just now. Oh no!! And I have to try to give her the eye drop and eye lotion. -.o"

Mummy Lim

The Must-Fall-Sick Rule

Somehow, there seems to be an unspoken rule that somebody must fall sick before we go on an holiday. -__________-"

We are gg to Hkg on coming Wednesday and Lil Shauna has got sore eye from my SIL. I duno to cry or laugh. Haiz.. So Lil Shauna's left eye is teary, clouded with discharge, red and swollen. Today is the 4th day. The doctor says that it will take at least 5 days to clear and we must try to prevent spreading to the other eye. She was given some eye drop and oilment that contains antibiotics.

Lil Shauna is obviously uncomfortable. She hates it when we tried to clean her eye, unless the discharge and tearing gets too bad and she will actually ask me to clean her eye for her. Poor baby. She can actually tell me "eye pain, pain". Although she points to the wrong eye at times lah. And the eye infection actually comes with fever! She has been battling fever for the last 2 days, leaving her super cranky. Last night, her fever hit 39 degrees. She's still nursing a mild fever now.

And the 2 jiejies? They are leaking green mucus! Arrggghhhhh.. How come I got the feeling that they will soon pass the flu virus to Lil Shauna? Why is she always at the receiving end? Not only from the kids but even from the adults? OK, I am angry, I need to cool down. It just happened anyway.

I can only take comfort that Dharen is coming. Yes, Lil Shauna will still fall sick to the viruses that she's exposed to at school, but at least she doesnt need to face more viruses at home next time. Hmpffff...

Pls pray for speedy recovery and that Lil Shauna will not get the flu virus from the jiejies.

Mummy Lim

CNY Fashion Show

I used to fret over what to wear during CNY - how many new tops and bottoms and shoes to buy, what goes with what, etc. However, after Lil Shauna comes along, all considerations changed. It is now about what is the most comfortable to wear so that I dun perspired like mad and what attire is the easliest for me to move around so that I can dive to stop that baby from grabbing that whole handful of sweets and stuffing them into her mouth. Lol!

Somehow, the attention also turns to the baby and she was basically doing a fashion show this CNY. On CNY Eve, she was in a sweet pink dress that Auntie AZ bought from Bangkok. Heng ah, it fits her just nicely. It looks like we have to pass on the dress very soon. Lol!

We were at Grandaunt's place for reunion dinner and that princess warmed up fairly quickly. Soon, she was running around, playing peek-a-boo, singing songs and responding to Grandaunt's request for hugs and kisses. She basically melts everybody's heart.

On Chu Yi, she don this super sexy halter neck qipao. So uber cute.

I know I am shameless, but she look so much cuter than the other girls. Hohoho.

On Chu Er, we went around Singapore visiting the SHSS' girls' family. Lil Shauna wore another sexy halter neck that nainai bought for her long, long time ago. However, it was too big then but fits nicely now. We were waiting for another family to come and ended up playing in the playground with a really happy Lil Shauna.

See, how to not love her? Hehehe.

Mummy Lim

Tortured

For some reasons, Lil Shauna had gone to bed fairly early for the past 2 nights. She was already asleep by 9.30pm when she used to still be jumping around at about 10.30pm. Little do we know that she was trying to store energy to wake up at 3+am and tortured us for a good 1 hour before she goes back to bed. The best part? She usually wakes up when we passed her to Popo at 6+am. For 2 mornings, she didnt even stir when she was passed to Popo and she even napped until 8am yday morning while her poor parents slogged at work. -_________-" Not fair. *Sulk.

We are not sure what cause her to wake up at 3+am. Bcos it was too cold (we had the aircon on) or maybe she was too hot (we kept her under the quilt)? Or maybe bcos she was hungry (last night, she took a 150ml milk and tis morning she took 270ml!). Anyway, we probably wun survive long if she continues this way. I am so tired. No strength to even post the pretty photos that we took over CNY.

Oh, and the baby talks non-stop when she's awake at 3+am. She talks to us, talks to herself, talks to the soft toy and even sings aloud. -.o" Not a nice thing to do at 3am in the morning. This morning, we even had a conversation.

ML: Baby, do you want milk?
LS: ......
ML: Mummy make milk?
LS: Mummy make milk
ML: OK?
LS: OK

Her reply has no intonation. I totally have no idea if she was replying me or parroting me. Anyway, I made milk and she finished everything.

Baby, dun torture us anymore, pls. Pappy & Mummy old already.

Mummy Lim

Lousy Counter

Spoilt liao! Why like that? My ego booster is spoilt. Sob. Lousy counter. It must be in a holiday mood like me. Chey! Dear Daddy Lim, pls help me change the counter. Anyway, you are gg night shift soon, should have alot of time at home. Hehe.

Before I forgot. Happie Chinese New Year!
I hope that this year will not fly by like last year. I am really chasing after time, so scary.

I am so looking forward to the good dinners this evening. We will have an early reunion dinner at Popo's place (if Lil Shauna allows us to eat) before rushing down to Grandaunt's place for a 2nd reunion dinner. No wonder people grow fat over CNY. Dun forget the Bak Kwa at home leh and all the CNY goodies. Hohoho. Then Chu Yi is visitation and ang bao giving time. Strangely, I do enjoy preparing and giving ang bao. I love the smell of fresh, new $$. I think kids will like me.

Lil Shauna has 3 sets of new clothes! She is gg to look so pretty and sweet. Hohoho, I am happy despite the stupid counter making me angry. Lol!

Mummy Lim

Sick Again!

Lil Shauna is down with gastric flu yday. Yday was supposed to be my dept dinner in town and I have already made arrangement to pick up Lil Shauna late. Just when I landed in Orchard, my mum called to inform that Lil Shauna vomited 3x, once in the afternoon, once after her dinner and once just mins ago after her milk (she requested for milk). She wasnt coughing or crying, thus the vomit was unexpected and unaccounted for.

Since I was already in town, I had to make arrangements for Daddy Lim to pick Lil Shauna up and send her to the GP instead. I went ahead with my dinner but was interrupted by calls and smses. Haiz, my dear princess must be upset that I am in Orchard for a good buffet dinner without her. So she has decided to spoil my lovely evening, which she was of course successful. -.o"

Lil Shauna was probably cranky, which resulted in a frustrated Popo, which either call me to nag or slam the phone down on me (many times) when I called to find out the situation/ get information to make arrangement. Arrrgggghhhhh..

The doc diagnosed Lil Shauna with gastric flu and ordered her off milk. Daddy Lim then bought her a 400g tin of soy milk at $17! And Daddy Lim wrongly bought the formula for 0 to 6 months old babies. -.o" But it doesnt matter bcos Lil Shauna just refused to drink the soy milk. We even tried adding organic brown sugar to sweeten the soy milk but it didnt work. I have to admit that it tastes and smells quite bad with or without the sugar. Lil Shauna was so insistent about not taking the soy milk that she even went to bed without her last feed yday.

The last time she LS, she was also put on soy milk, which she eventually took when she was desperate enuff. But that was awhile ago when she was still pretty reliant on milk. She's still a milk junkie, but is eating most solids already. Milk is only for comfort. In fact, some of her peers are already down to 3 or less feeds a day. I foresee her rejecting the soy milk. Maybe we can try milo-O or hot chocolate-O today? Hmmm... we are so innovative. Lol!

Mummy Lim

Updated @ 11 Feb 10
Just checked with Popo and understand that Lil Shauna has drank her soy milk for 2 feeds this morning. She must be pretty desperate for milk. Lol! She has also taken solids and no vomiting so far. Hehehehe.

Sleeping on Her Own

One of my year 2009's New Year resolution is to make Lil Shauna sleeps on her own. Well, a year has passed and she still shares the bed with us when it is too cold or too hot (then we will on the aircon) or when she falls sick. That is to mean, she still spends most nights on our bed. Lol!

Otherwise, we will coax her to sleep on our bed before transferring her to her cot besides our bed. But she might wake up in the middle of the night and I will then transfer her to our bed, where she will knock out almost instantly. Must be magic. Hehe.

Lil Shauna's bedtime has been pushed backwards too. We used to bring her to bed at about 8+pm or 9pm and she will spend the next 30mins to 1 hr jumping and monkeying, singing and playing peek-a-boo. But she will usually fall asleep by 9.30pm. Recently, by 10pm, the baby is still talking and walking on the bed, pulling pillow, etc. That leaves us little "us/ me" time. But I dun really mind. Actually, I quite like it and hope that she will maintain.

If she sleeps later, we will have more time with her after work. And she will wake up later too. In that way, she will sleep quietly all the way to Popo's place and put up little struggle when I hand the half-awake Lil Shauna to Popo. When Dharen is here, it would also mean lesser waking hours alone with Dharen before she heads for PG. Most importantly, we can all sleep a little later on days that we need not work. Hehe. Important leh.

Just yday, Lil Shauna actually fell asleep on her own. She was tossing and turning, crawling here and there, trying to find a comfortable spot. When she does that, she always remind me of Nono. Haha. Daddy Lim and I were both tired and Lil Shauna refused to let us pat us. So, when I was helplessly drifting to dreamland, I can still hear her talking to herself. When I woke up 20 mins later, the baby was already sound asleep.

Today was even better. She was again not willing to sleep until she wanted to be put in her cot. After finding the perfect spot and sleeping position (which took several attempts), she actually fell asleep on her own in her cot! Woohoo! Cartwheels! This is her 1st in her 21+ months of life wor. This is really good.

I hope she will keep it up. I am intending to let her sleep with Dharen in the future. :)

Mummy Lim

New Toy

We have been buying so many things and making so many changes in anticipation of Dharen. My mum has asked me to buy one of the cars/ trains for kids. Lil Shauna enjoys riding on one of those when she is at Popo's place. In view of the long hours that Lil Shauna will be at home (with Dharen) in the future, we have to stock up more toys/ entertainment. And so, we went on our search.

We brought Lil Shauna to ToysRus on Sat, before her class. Daddy Lim and I were trying to find the perfect (and not too expensive) car/ train while trying to control the baby, who was happily running from shelf to shelf, pressing this and touching that. I saw this particular one at $49.90 and fell in love with it. Daddy Lim wanted to get one super boring Little Tikes one. Eventually, I won. Hoho. And I got $30 vouchers from my colleague during Christmas and so the train/ car only cost us $19.90.

See, nice right? Lil Shauna loves her choo choo train too. For your infor, to her, everything that she can sits on is a choo choo train. From her tricycle to the kiddy rides and even the trolley at NTUC or the airport! So, this is now fondly known as the "Mickey Mouse choo choo train". :)

Close-up look. So cool, right? So many buttons to press. I think I will be happy if this belongs to me.

Heng ah, never buy the boring one that Daddy Lim suggested. Hohoho.

While at Toysrus, Lil Shauna was hugging and kissing this big bear and I tried taking some pix. But somehow, the pix didnt turn out right.

Lil Shauna: I am going to sit on you and squash you!

Lil Shauna: Strangle you!

Lil Shauna: Now, take this punch!

Lil Shauna: Finally, body slam!

Errr... really, she was hugging and kissing the bear fondly.

Mummy Lim