I am baby crazy again!!

There's been some baby news here and there recently, plus with Ashlynne getting cuter everyday that I see her, I've been a little baby crazy :P Asked hubby if he would like another kid, but the answer is NO. I totally understand where his stand is...not that he doesn't love kids but that financially we are totally stretched and cannot think how to feed another mouth. His work is getting a little unstable and he's very likely to be losing this current job in a week's time, so we really cannot afford to have another kid right now. Sigh I think I'll just have to settled with Ashlynne baby for now! It's ironical how some people who doesn't want kids can get preg so easily while others who wants one or more kids cannot have their way due to their circumstances. I must say fate is a really mischievious little thing who always play jokes on people.

Not sure what kinda state of mind I am in right now to be craving for a baby again, knowing that my kids were really a handful when they are little things as compared to others who can have babies who are so angelic that they sleep through the night at 2 months old and don't even cry or whine when left alone. Maybe it's better I don't have any more kids to make my life crazy again since I've already 3 making my life difficult at home :P

Toothless Hao and more..

Last week Hao extracted his front left tooth as it was wobbling badly and affecting his chewing. That tooth has been shaky for a while and we waited for nearly a week plus praying that it will drop off on it's own but alas, it didn't. We decided to bring him to the dentist as we were worried that the new tooth will not have space to grow if the stubbon milk tooth wasn't going to drop any sooner. The whole episode turned out to be less dramatic that the first extraction and the dentist managed to loosen it and took it out in less than 5 secs. She actually recommended that the other front tooth to be extracted at the same time to prevent stressing on the tooth from the biting but Hao refused to let her go near the right front tooth. Anyway, here's how he looks right now.

Few weeks ago, I had some leftover blueberries from a family gathering and thus I baked some blueberry muffins for the family and neighbour. Surprisingly the review is not bad and I had request for them again. Maybe I'll get the ingredients tomorrow and bake another batch :P Here's the pic of the muffins I baked the last time

This week's grocery day was on Tuesday and we brought the kids to the supermarket to get our groceries for the week. Hubby was having some problems with the height of his pillow and decided to get a new pillow on the way. All was loaded into the trolley and Min decided to make good use of the pillow....

Busy Busy week

It has been a very busy week so far. Has been an advisor to sis and helping around a little to help tame the little princess. So far she's been rather "normal", sleeping most of the time in the afternoons and getting all cranky in the evenings and nights, just like what all newborns do LOL. Anyway it's only like Day 3 now and its a long long road ahead! I was telling mum that its really shiok that I have a newborn to play with and love and at the end of the day, it's the parents aka my sis and Kevin who get the sleepless nights and all the whole package of crankiness instead of me. No wonder my in laws keep asking us to produce more...so they can play and throw them back to me when the little ones act up keke...well, it's final for us and no more babies so I can say BYE BYE to the endless shit and sleepless nights! Ok at least for now since Ashlynne won't be with me till sis' maternity leave is over in Dec. Praying that she'll be a little gem and get used to a routine so it'll be easier to take care of her.

Enough said, we still love the little princess!!!

Big Welcome to Baby Ashlynne!

Just as I was blogging about Baby Ashlynne last night and that my sis decided not to wait any further and made an appt with the gynae to induce her tonight, baby Ashlynne decide to play against mummy and came out earlier!

Early wee morning at 4.30am sis sms me that she had her bloody show but with no regular contractions or discomfort. I told her to take a nice warm bath, pack up her last minute stuff and eat some breakfast before heading to the hospital. This morning when she went to the hospital, she was only 1.5cm dilated and thus was put on drip to fasten the process. I don't have the full details but in the late morning, she was started to get contractions and by noon, she had to get the epidural on to cope with the contractions. By 2.15pm, I received the very first picture MMS of Baby Ashlynne, who looked at peace wrapped in a white towel. She's an exact replica of sis, with big round eyes and chubby cheeks and a lovely look. At last the wait is over and both mother and daughter are doing extremely well. I must say I fell in love with Baby Ashlynne at first sight with her chubby cheeks! I can't wait to visit her later in the evening and carry her!

Another Lazy week...

Ok, I've passed another lazy week. This week sis officially started her maternity leave since her office is moving and they are forced to clear a week's leave for the shutdown. In that way, she need not waste her 1 week leave and can start to prepare for Ashlynne's arrival. By preparing, we really meant to wait for Ashlynne's arrival, since there's nothing much we can do except wait for her to be ready to come out of her warm and fuzzy "home" right? Anyway, there hadn't been any signs that she's coming out any sooner, so instead of getting all stressed up and second guessing when baby Ashlynne will arrive, sis finally decided that she would go in and induce instead. So tomorrow at this time, she'll be in hospital for induce and baby Ashlynne will probably arrive Monday morning. We are all very excited that the final moment has finally arrived, and by Monday we can see what baby Ashlynne looks like LOL

It's another week to Hao's CA2. His progress in school hasn't been comparable to the earlier half of the year, and that's quite worrying to me. I've been getting him to revise his work for a week now and this week will be some intensive revision for his CA2 in a week's time. It's scary how much stress kids (and parents too!) are under even at Pri 1. I wonder we are too gan cheong ourselves or that the kids are catching on so much faster that the school cirriculum has to be so intensive now. I don't recall having to memorise the multiplication table when I was in Pri 1! A little part of me wished that my kids can learn in an environment that wasn't so emphasized on the importance of grades but more on personal development and their individual competency....

Lazy Week

Had a pretty lazy week and didn't feel like writing again. Hao was sent back from school on Thursday with a fever of 38.1degC and I brought him to see Dr Low in the evening when his fever didn't subside after the second dose of paracetamol and started vomiting out whatever that went in. Was pretty impressed by how the clinic handled us since Hao was with fever ~ SOP for H1N1 precaution. Anyway, the doctor concluded that either Hao has a bad inflamed sore throat causing his fever or that he's down with H1N1 flu. It's unlikely he's getting normal flu since he has gotten his flu jab. Sore throat doesn't come with blocked nose and chest pains that he was complaining so it might be a mix of both. I was told to isolate him as far away as possible from the rest of the kids and not to share a room or even a table just in case his germs spread to us. So, the good side of this is that Hao gets to have his own room and toilet and no one will get near to him to irritate him. Sad thing is that he was invited to his classmate's birthday party on sat and that means he could not attend it now.

Hubby was pretty amused by the doctor's diagnosis but upon my insistence, he agreed to go along the rules till Hao got better. Fortunately, Hao recovered by Friday morning altho he was still a little warm to the touch. Other than that, he was well and up and running. As I couldn't keep the rest of the gang away from him, I had to insist he put on the mask at home when he's with the boys, unless he's in his own room alone. He also could not go out for the time being, meaning that the whole gang had to stay home with him till he's ok to go out.

Now he seemed fully recovered altho I am still giving him the anti biotics prescribed by the doctor. I might just bring him to the doc again tomorrow morning and see if he's ready to go back to school. I wouldn't want him to miss too many lessons since CA2 is just around the corner. He had his 3 days big break and plenty of food, drinks and games during these 3 days at home and should be ready to go back to school. Now I am just praying that the other boys don't get sick after he's recovered!