Its September??!!

Princess Amelie is officially 1 month old today. It seems just like yesterday when we first laid our eyes on her cute and dimpled face :) Our wish for her to grow up healthy and well, be a good girl and give mummy and daddy a break once in a while and not drive them up the wall together with sister Princess Ashlynne LOL HAPPY FULL MONTH AMELIE!

Its crazy that we are already in September. The past 2 months had been really hectic for me and I found myself heading to bed as early as 9pm every night. That's how tired out I am. My day starts at 6am and I get busy the entire day (yes, including time when the boys are in school) and doesn't end till 10pm when the boys are sound asleep in their bed and me in mine, ready to complete some personal work. Throughout the day I'll either be in the chauffeur mode, maid in waiting mode, teacher mode, playmate mode, parenting mode or simply entertaining mode, all around my boys. More so recently, the teacher/educator mode has been more active as I am learning more from Hao's trainer in his enrichment school. I came to realise there are a lot more I can do to help the boys in their learning and am trying to pick up as much as I can and testing out on them at the same time :P Hope they benefit from that.

The one good news is that we've finally found our next family home and will be targeting to move by year end so that the boys can start on a fresh new routine by the new year. That would mean we'll be really busy in the next 2-3 months on our home. Other than that, I've given myself some goals to complete by year end, and I hope to start on them and finish on time before we move into our new home and the new year too. As for what goals, maybe I won't disclose yet, just in case I can't finish them LOL

Busy time again!

Been real busy these days. Busy in a happy way :) First of all, Amelie Kan arrived! Pretty Princess Ameline with 3 dimples! She's the only one among the kids with dimples. So cute and adorable! Aside from that, she looks so like her little big sis Princess Ashlynne! We've been visiting them almost daily and helping out here and there. Now is the time for mummy and daddy to manage with sibling rilvary and jealousy. It seems like so far so good!

Besides teaching Ash not to be jealous of her little baby sister when mummy is attending to baby, we also brought her out to play with the boys. Just yesterday, we all went out to Explorer Kids, where they all had a good time jumping, running and climbing around. Even Min played with Ash and did not quarrel at all LOL Guess we have to plan more of such activities so mummy can focus on bb while we make sure Ash doesn't get all lonely :)

When will you come, Baby Amelie?

We are all excited that baby Amelie will be arriving anytime :) the only question is when? Waiting is always a boring game for us, especially sis, who is getting bigger and clumsier by the day, and cannot wait for baby Amelie to arrive and she can have her agility back. Princess Ash might not really know the meaning of having a sister but the boys are really excited. I guess they are bored playing with boys (among themselves) and longed to have another girl in the family to play with. Sigh...when will you come, baby Amelie? We can't wait for your arrival so we can all cuddle you and play with you!

Back to School!

Can't believe its already 3 weeks into the new semester! Wondering what we have been doing the past 2 weeks as everything seemed to pass in a blur. Finally this week Min officially went back to school *yay*. I had intended to let him resume classes after the first week but unfortunately, he had a bad cough and caught a flu at the end of the first week, and I had no choice but to let him stay home for another week to recover from the flu. He also went for his review at KKH last week and the doctor concluded that the surgery was a big success and she's glad Min is sleeping and eating better. Now we are hoping that he'll gain some weight (and size) as he's really petite in size compared to his classmates, so much so that the other parents are making comments to me!

It's finally done!

Min's surgery is finally over! I can't believe it was such a breeze and Min didn't have any side effects nor was he traumatised by the entire thing. The only thing left now is his Donald Duck-like voice, which will go away once the swelling goes away in the throat and nose.

Thankfully for the efficient ENT doctor, the surgery took less than half and hour and there was minimal pain and discomfort for Min, except that he lost his appetite the day after the surgery and we had to coax him to eat and drink so that the doctor can discharge him. Now that he's back to his old self, we are all so thankful. I am also constantly reminding myself to be more patient with the boys and not scream at them all the time so we won't start any scream fights with Min :P

Hao, unfortunately, came down with high fever the day after Min came back from hospital. I was so tired out looking after both of them. Luckily Hao's fever had subsided with the help of antibiotics. Poor Hao has to put on the mask at home most of the times to avoid spreading germs to Min and Ee. Crossing fingers that neither will catch his virus as the doctor told us that it's highly contagious. It will be disastrous if Min catch the virus and end up with throat infection and running nose. Touchwood!

This has been an eventful June and I am quietly glad that the school holidays are coming to an end. Desperately need our daily routine back when the boys won't be asking me what they should do everyday :P

家家有本难念的经!

人说家家有本难念的经。。。果然没错。风风雨雨这么多年，我真的有些时候有些想放弃，不想念这个经了。不知道为什么，我总觉得别人对我的要求特别的高。是我太敏感，还是我这么多年总是要求自己尽量做得别人不会对我太挑剔，反而害了自己。慢慢的，我觉得越来越不能胜任，越来越累，甚至有些时候，想要放弃。唉。。或许我该放轻松，别去在意他们说我什么。必竟我没法达到每个人对我的要求，而我也没必要搞得自己那么辛苦。如果他们要骂要责怪，就让他们去吧。儿不听，眼不看，嘴不说，也是一种学问。就让我慢慢的去学习这门学问吧!

1 week down, 3 more weeks to go!

Ah...school holidays are here and going away fast! It's already the end of first week, and in 2 days' time, we'll be heading to Phuket for a short trip with in laws. Not exactly the kinda holiday I am expecting but better than nothing. Will just go and enjoy ourselves with the kids. We will celebrate Hao's birthday at Phuket as it's becoming a tradition that we will travel overseas for his birthday nearly every year since it's in the June holidays. Convenient for us :P

Next week when we come back from Phuket, I will need to bring Min to KKH for his blood test prior to surgery on the 15th June. By then 2nd week of holiday will have passed, and 3rd week will be his surgery, which will leave us home bound as he will need at least 2 weeks to recovery and likely I'll keep him at home for another week when school reopens again. That's to let him build up his health again and minimise the chance of him catching on any flu bugs and other illnesses in school.

This holiday seems to be a short one, as I hardly have time to bring the kids out. Hope Min's surgery will turn out well. Keep him in our prayers.