Pix pix...

We took riesia to the Pasar Malam at TPY after her jab on Tuesday...She wanted to sit the train, so I thought let her try..

Who knows, after going just 3 rounds, she yelled for me and the auntie stopped. Sigh..$3 leh..so expensive...No more rides next time. Reyes has learnt how to sit up on his own, so I can relax relax abit liao...Here's reyes wearing the new bib I bought for him online at just $2.50(cheap right?) and the toy rabbit that mum bought for riesia...

The cheeky two....

I was trying to make reyes laugh and this riesia thought by putting her finger to reyes's ear to tickle him, he would laugh...sigh...

And after 4 days of training, riesia is now potty trained! Hurray!!!! It was quite an easy task lah, I must thank my parents for training her at their home, so it was quite easy for me to just train her at home...Hb is exceptionally pleased, coz that means savings on diaper $$$...muahahaha..

But now, what about night training ah? Must go and read up how to do it.

Rie's jab....

Yesterday night rie had her first dose of Hep A jab...Wah, at first she was very steady, let dr check her, took her weight and height, everything seemed fine..

Then when we laid her on the bed, she started to sense something was wrong....so scary lor! I think I was more terrified than she was and I can actually sense her fear.

This time we decided to jab her butt, so I had to lay her on my thigh and bluff her...When the needle went in..wah, she yell like hell and I know how it feels!!! So scary leh!!!

At least she stopped crying not long lor..and she knows she had an injection on her butt. ahaha...

Now I'm thinking 6 mths later dwn the road, she has to go for her 2nd dose..cham lah. how to bluff her.

Sigh...

The time has come...I'm starting to drop hair like crazy! Like nobody's business, like it's the end of the world!!!!

I can just simply brush my hair with my hands and out come a bunch of hair...so upsetting..and hb is grumbling all over again. (coz he's the one mopping the floor daily)

When will my hormones get back in tune....

2nd day training...

Today is day 2 of training diaperfree.

Today is a great improvement from yesterday! I wonder if it will be like this from now on...Out of the times rie peed, only 1 mis-Q. The rest, she tells me whenever she wanna pee and I would rush to get her potty and voila....I'm pretty happy with her performance.

Yesterday she only used 1 petpet diaper for her afternoon nap. Come soon, I think we can save diaper $$ liao...

There was a funny incident at the busstop last week. I brought rie to Novena Square, so while waiting for the bus, there was an Indian lady who sat beside us and she started to talk to rie. Rie understood a little and had a mini conversation.

Then the Indian lady asked rie if that is mummy's ezlink card, where is rie's card?
Rie didnt understand, so the Indian lady added on : You put shilings is it?

Then rie did the hand action of this song she learnt from school! ahahahaha, I laughed man. Coz the song starts off with shir-ge-ling ge ding ge ding and rie must have thought the lady was asking her to sing that song! ahahahaha

Scary...

The day that I dread has come....which is today.

Today marks the day that rie has to take her Hep A first dose jab. Coz of me lah, itchy backside. Went to order the jab for her when she was about 1year old, then drag and drag. then tot maybe can escape this jab, but then the Dr remembers and keep asking me when gonna let her take?

So I have no choice, gotta have to let her take. First dose at 2 years old and 2nd dose at 2.5years old. The last time when it was reyes' turn for his jab, rie refuses to go inside the room and kept crying, coz she tot it was her to be jabbed...This time, I dont know how to bluff her man..sigh....

I'm just so worried and scare for her. Not easy to deal with toddlers.

Yesterday was the first day that I start to train rie diaperfree. She is trained diaperfree at my mum's place and I was surprised. When she wanna pee, she tells and then rans off to the kitchen to get the potty and she knows where it is! All we have to do is help her pull down her panties and voila!

So I tried. Out of the number of times she peed yesterday, haiz..only 3 times were in the potty. Yes, the rest? Sigh....I dont even wanna say. But at least now she is conscious of herself more and will tell. I think hor, sometimes she purposedly dont want to tell me coz she is mad at me for scolding her. ahahaha...

So, should I continue?

Holiday??? I wanna go...

Mum and dad are going on a holiday again. This time during the Good Friday and they have already made the booking to Penang, 3 days 2 night and I wanna go leh!!!

But....as usual, the problem lies with hb yet again. Last time when he was at his old job, he said he cannot afford to take leave. Fine. And now with his current job, he has to go back work on weekends at time to do system testing and there goes!!!

Ever since he started work, he has been back to office on weekends like thrice and there are more to come in April and May. I dread it lor....and so "heng" that good friday, he say boss ask them go back to work on that weekend. xian half leh. That means I can not go on a holiday.

I told him, it has been 2 years since we last went on holiday and is always the same old excuse and I'm so sick of it...sigh....I need a break!!!!

Reyes...

Now that reyes know how to flip backwards, I see many sleeping pattern every night.

Just taken during his afternoon nap. He was sleeping on his tummy and one hour later....tad-dah! He is sleeping on his back!

I have taken a notice he doesnt like to cover his legs with his blanket too! Just like his sister. I wonder why. I have to keep waking up in the night to cover him up whenever he kicks it away..scare he catch a cold...I find that he seems to be like a grown up boy. At night, when he has nightmare, I used to have to carry him and then sway him to sleep. But now, all I have to do is pat his back or thigh and he will go back to sleep! Hurray...

I must say, I am enjoying my night sleep with him. That is because he doesnt stays up awake after drinking milk! Unlike his sister, I was so deprived of sleep, as she stays up awake and refuse to go to bed until 2 hours later. So often, I wake up at 3am and goes back to sleep only at 5am...yawn..And thankfully, reyes hasnt poo-ed in the middle of the night since he turned 2 months...

right now, he is such a bundle of fun...he can interact with us, play with us and laugh and giggle...of course, he can throw his tantrums too! haha..He's becoming an expert with the walker too and takes interest in whatever his sister plays or do.

And.....he loves watching this cartoon Raggs on okto and I think he knows who is barney now..all thanks to his sister.

Weight taken at 5 months old : 8.15kg

The 2nd attack...

Last night was a terrible night to end off the day.

Riesia attacked Reyes the 2nd time again. Yes, she bit his thumb this time. I really have no idea what is going on! And when hb confronted her and try to reason with her, she just slapped hb's face across and he got so mad, he slapped her back really hard lor!

I was in shocked and I was trying to coax and calm reyes down. He was crying in great pain, tears just kept flowing and his eyes were red..aiyo, so poor thing..then riesia started to cry also lor. Peng leh.

And today, I asked her.
Me : Where did papa beat you?
Rie : (use her palm and slap her cheeks gently). Papa beat.
Me : And why did papa beat?
Rie : Bite didi thumb. Fight papa.
(Translator : as in riesia bit reyes thumb and slapped papa's face)

She really remembers. But why does she still do it? Shrugs.
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I love listening to her singing rhythms. I think only I can understand what she sings! An example of her fav :
Jack Jill Up Hill
Fetch water
Fall down Crown
Thumbling After.

ahaha.

I wonder when will she be able to sing in full....

Photos photos...

Finally managed to upload the photos in mum's camera...

here's riesia with her new swimsuit the little mermaid that I got for her...

Here's Reyes and myself...See, reyes can actually fit into riesia's swimming float meant for 1 year old!

He's enjoying his swim....LLook how happy he is..

I hope there will be another sunny day so that we can all go for a swim again.

Feeling the squeeze...

I was pretty upset last evening...feel so torn apart.

I had wanted to try to put reyes at mum's place so that hb, riesia and myself can spend some time together. Also, I wanna test out to see if mum can cope with reyes so that next time, we can bring riesia out instead of bringing reyes out all the time.

BUT THEN...I received rejections from hb and my parents...so upset. Hb msged me to bring reyes instead.

Then later, I spoke to mum and she asked dad and dad say he wanna look after riesia, coz hb treats reyes like his precious! See lah!!! I dont know what to say. But my parents are sensing that hb is very bias lor.

You see, we dont have maid, I dont have extra helper.
I look after riesia while hb has to help me with reyes.
My parents handle riesia then I will have the chance to handle reyes.

Otherwise is mainly hb who looks after reyes, carrying him etc. and that resulted in my parents judgement of him being bias. I know who they say that lor and I know, coz I listened to them saying this before about my own bro too when they had their 2nd kid, my nephew. Dad kept commenting they keep carrying my nephew lah, etc etc. And they are seeing that repeating history with hb this time.

I can dont bother. I can dont care. But I cannot stand it when they say he is being bias, or even say that I dote and spend more time on reyes than riesia. So unfair for me lor. I try my best to divide my time for riesia. When reyes is up, rie sleeps and when he sleeps, I spend my time with her, until reyes is up again. When hb is home, then I get to spend time with riesia again.

Then reyes? See, I lost my time with him lor...and now he very smart, he will look for me especially towards his sleeping time. I walk where, his eyes never take off me. Hb said next time we will both hold hands to sleep. hahah

Note...

To moonlight :

Your blog no comment to put, so I'm putting my comment on my blog to you. muahahah..

Applause applause to you and the husband! I'm so happy for kaelyn as she can now snuggle up tight to sleep with mummy and daddy every night....Trust me, you will appreciate it when time to come and you will look back giving yourself a pat that you made it.

Full Month Celebration

Yesterday evening, we attended blur's son Wilber full month celebration...

It was a wonderful event to attend. Wilber is growing up handsome daily...I'm sure he will be no lack of girls next time.

Check out the photos at blur's blog...

Am planning to do up the passport for reyes..tried the first attempt, but it doesnt seem nice.

The IT show...

Yes, is all my fault, push it to me. I die die just want to go and join in the crowd and be stucked inside...sigh...

I wanted to see the handycam and the digital camera. Thought is time for me to upgrade our camera mah, but then after thinking, I dont really see a need to have 1, so I went to see the handycam. But then after seeing, I think I might not have much use, so I left.

I wasnt happy leaving empty handed, and I recalled to buy ink cartridges. I "dumped" the husband and son outside and went in jostling around the crowd. It was packed, really packed with people. Families with kids, families with PRAMS and kids in the pram????, some chee ko pek, some aunties, some army guys, some stinko people...eeeeee...

So there I was at the Hp booth, bought my ink cartridge and left to get my goodie bag. I had this feeling there would be something missing in 1 of the bag and I just scanned through before rushing off to pick up the husband and son.

True enough lor, there was something missing. Just a pen lah. But there, my gut feeling was right!

Left feeling so depressed and frustrated with the crowd..Didnt even get to go Taka babyfair either. Stormed home feeling so angry...wasted my friday.

Riesia's Term 1 Graduation....

Well well, the last week of Term 1 was party day for all the kids and parents...

There was a mini graduation too, and all the kids were presented with a little folder with their artwork and the class photo which we took at week 6...

Can you spot us?

Here's riesia's teacher presenting to her..but alas, she wasnt looking at me leh.

Riesia admiring her work...

Flash cards...

I secretly hid behind the pillar and film riesia reading the flash cards on her own...She was already half way thru before I took out my hp to film...

In case you are not able to understand what she is saying, I have typed it out.
"Apple. Pumpkin. Apple. Apple (again??)Mato(as in tomato). Egg. Cherry. Apple. Mango.
Apple. (thinking if that is apple again..)Grapes, many grapes, many grapes. Grapes. (alamak, my dear, that is papaya lah!)Many grapes. Orange.
Apple (AGAIN!!)

I'm not a difficult neighbour.

Yesterday afternoon was a sunny afternoon. I have tons of baby clothings to wash and so I took the opportunity, or rather the risk to sun 2 bamboo outside with R & R's clothing.

Everything seem fine. 14th Floor wasnt hanging any laundry and I was hoping it would remain that way. Coz they often hang dripping clothings and got my clothing wet in the event.

Mid afternoon, I checked again. Darn! I heard dripping sound on my window pane!!! It wasnt the rain since it was so hot! 14th floor??? I peered out and spotted 15th floor instead with this wet dripping trousers! TMD... and by the time I discovered, riesia's blouse was already half soaking wet! How inconsiderate leh!!!

I sarong reyes, held riesia, took that wet blouse and off I marched up to 15th floor, all ready with what I was gonna say in my mind.

Pressed the door bell and it was the maid. In a way also good. I said :
Me : You didnt dry your clothes ah? (looking stern)
Maid : (remained silent and just walked off to the kitchen)
{I thought she didnt understand what I was saying and so she was getting her Mdm to come to the door}
Maid : (returns back) Sorry sorry.
Me : All wet you know. ( showed her riesia's blouse)
Maid : Sorry sorry.

Why do such inconsiderate people exists? They cant see that the water will drip down onto other people's cleaned, dried clothings???? Now I'm waiting for the chance to attack 14th floor.

At this point, I was hoping that 14th floor was hanging their clothings and let their clothings be wet by 15th floor..haha, give them a taste of their own medicine.

Period.

First Attack..

Reyes has his first taste of attack from his sister 2 days back...It was ouch and he burst out crying till his eyes were red swollen.

I was expecting it, but before I can stop riesia, it was too late. We were in the bedroom and both of them were happily playing. Reyes kept disturbing riesia by using his hands to touch her face. Before I notice, reyes 3 fingers - mainly his pointer, middle finger and ring finger were in riesia's mouth!

And before I can even ask her to take them out, she had bit on them and poor reyes cried like hell lor and there was even the teeth marks on his middle finger...I felt so heartpain!!! How? Should I be angry with her? Haiz...

Just now, I really lost my temper at her. My biotherm facial wash, was all emptied into the bath tub within 10mins of me watching the Perfect 2. I just lost it all lor, coz I'm very sure that facial wash still has more than half of it filled!!! So mad at her. Sometimes I really wonder. She knows that there are certain things that is out of bound and cannot play, but yet she still choose to take the risk. Why?

Example :

The desitin cream. This is my 3rd time catching her squeezing every bit of the desitin cream and applying them onto her 2 thighs. Resulting in the "whitenening" of her fatty thighs and red smack marks compliment from me.

The tummy oil. Told her many times that the oil is not meant for play and yet she still chooses to take the oil and attempt to oil herself all over.

Powder. Powder are so dangerous when inhaled and she thinks she looks damn pretty with the powder smack right on her face, making her look like a monkey with white patch over her nose.

Shampoo. She knows shampoo are meant for the hair and yet she choose to squeeze out and apply all over her body! Darn...

Soap. She actually bit off a part of the soap! And hubby discovered it. We were thinking gone case, must have swallowed it, but heng it was found at the bottom of the bathtub. Told her cannot eat soap and she remembers. I sure hope she keeps that in mind!

Some pix...taken on a typical afternoon with the 2 kids up. I notice that reyes loves watching this doggy cartoon show call Raggs in the afternoon at 1pm. He would often stop whatever he is doing and just stare at the telly. I sure hope he understands...haha. He's learning to know who is barney now, all thanks to his sister.

**Riesia is attempting to shower the toy parrot in the food warmer container...

On a happier mood while bathing...
Just taken at Miramar hotel while having buffet with SM, hb and my parents...

Riesia...

My dear riesia is starting to show her emotional side and can be quite drastic and we are still trying to learn how to cope and educate her.

For example, last week, we watched the Unexpected Access which was showing the Abattoir and the slaughtering of the pigs. And riesia actually feel so sad for the pigs and nearly burst into tears leh...Aiyah, also partly our fault lah, coz we see liao so er xin also and kept saying aiyo eee and u know, so riesia also got affected by us.

And till today, she still remembers about the pig show when we switched on the telly in the room. She will say pigs poor thing. ahaha.

And on Thursday, while watching Lifewatch on the baby delivery, sigh..so sad that show for the babies in the nicu. Coz the babies had many tubes linked up and riesia ask us why baby cried, so we said the doctor had to poke needles so that babies can get well. ( I know that's not a factual reason lah..but heck.)

So now she will lift up her tummy and say " Baby, doctor poke. Pain pain"

Last night, it was the same. Unexpected access was showing about kids in critical conditions in KK. And there was this 4 year old boy who got so badly burnt...I feel sooooo upset watching it and I nearly cried. Riesia saw liao and also like want to cry, so we had to you know change our mood lah, tell her is alright blah blah.

Then next 2 babies were up for corrective surgery. I couldnt bear to watch the raw footage and neither did hb for some. And i told him, riesia is the bravest of all! coz she sat there and watched quietly!muahahahah

Swimming....

This afternoon was just HOT HOT HOT! I couldnt even have my nap peacefully with reyes waking up just 30mins from his nap twice! And riesia slept only 45mins too!

I guess they feel the heat and I got so frustrated, told hb to head to United Square at 4pm. Then it dawned on me, perhaps we sld all go for a swim at RTC in this hot weather! Good idea.

So all of us hopped onto dad's car and off we went at 5pm. Wah, so many kids leh, so many family. Good day for swimming indeed! Riesia was soooo excited about wearing her new swimming costume, the little mermaid Ariel that she refuses to wear any dress on top of the swimming costume at home. So, yes, she went off to RTC dressed in her swimsuit from home. haha.

And I was very determined to let reyes try swimming today! I let him wear the swim diapers and a tank top..Will upload photos soon as they are on my mum's new camera. Reyes was initially showing fear, and whenever water splashed onto his face, he pout and wanted to cry! haha, it was a funny sight...

Then I let him fit into riesia's swimming float and he can fit leh! haha, so cartoon...cant wait to show the photos..

There was another couple who brought their 4 mth old bb to swim. The mother had bought the neck float for the baby and was trying hard to fit into her bb's neck. Apparently, the father still didnt feel safe, so he still had to carry his son in the water. They were in there perhaps just 15mins or less and out they went..Aiyo, then play what water?

Reyes warmed up and had so much fun! He was even laughing..hahaha and he learnt how to kick in the water too. Cant wait to head swimming again.

Pix pix...

This riesia all of a sudden is so camera shy!

I like this pix, but then it was blur, coz she just couldnt stop moving!!!!

Reyes loves to spend time alone with me. He loves his sister as much too and often looks forward to seeing and playing with her. I am glad riesia no longer feels so cranky and jealous towards Reyes and each time she wakes up, she would often ask me " where is didi?"There was once I just lost my temper at her. so guilty. Reyes slept only 30mins in the day and so when he finally went to sleep at 530pm, I was happy to be able to cook dinner, have some time with rie. But while in the kitchen, she went to the room and asked Reyes to wake up! I was so angry, I went in, dragged her out and smacked her. And of course, it was all too late. Reyes was up by then.

This boy recognizes his sister's voice and loves to look at her while she talks to him. Once, we were getting ready to head out. She then went to the bbcot and told him : "didi, hurry hurry! Go gai gai." Ahaha. Hb and I stood outside the bedroom door and watched her as she communicate with her bro.

I sure do hope there will be no sibling rivalry next time and they will be close. I cant wait for reyes to grow up so that he can play with riesia. And of course fights are unavoidable...

Rest in Peace..

Riesia's TMGC went to heaven on Tuesday....Rest in peace..

then I itchy hand, go and reset it lah, now it is screaming again for food..Argh...

Fed up..

I was sun tanning my MIm sarong outside the window ledge as it had been raining for the past few days.


And then all of sudden, when I went to check it out, there was water droplets on it!!! And there was water dripping from above! KNs lor, whose the culprit but that 14th floor neighbour!


I was so fed up, I actually braved up my courage and went up to confront them. Thinking all my lines what to say to them, I pressed the doorbell once.


No one opened. Twice, I pressed. No one again. I knocked. I pressed the third time! No one again! What the hell and I got really mad and started to knock on the door and still no one came to answer.


My conclusion is, is probably the maid who is at home and she isnt allowed to open the door. If is the owner, I think he would have opened the door, seeing a woman with a baby in tow, we should be harmless. What the hell lor. This isnt the first time my laundry got wet and I dont even know what it was. It looks like a rug to me hanging, dripping dirty water...shit these irresponsible neighbours.

R & R

A very rare moment to capture both of them STILL!

Backdated photos...

Some backdated photos taken on 28th Feb in celebration of rie's bday at in law place..

Rie with her new birthday present from gugu...A journalist set from Toy R us and there is this toy lipstick. Look at her, so vain.

And the birthday cake that I ordered from awfully chocolate..in comparable to Lana's cake..delicious.

The birthday girl...

See lor, this blur father, ask riesia to cut the cake before blowing out the candle and making a wish.

Reyes on walker

I got so frustrated with reyes today. He kept on crying and yelling non stop until you carry him off the bouncer. And one of this days, he will learn to flip on the bouncer and fall off to the floor, so is not safe for now either.

How about the bumbo chair? Well, starting was a life saver for me to stop his yelling. BUT now, he has learnt how to use his 2 feets to push his whole body up and he will tilt his head backwards to try to get up! Dangerous of course! He is small, but har, he has ALOT of strength hor...So there goes the bumbo chair.

I tried the walker few weeks back, he likes it, but har, problem is riesia also likes it and is attempting to revive her childhood time as a baby!

So after I am still not able to take my lunch at 2pm, I gave up and took the walker out again. Put reyes in it and voila! He stopped crying, but riesia yell and yell, coz she wanna sit in it too. Darn...

Here's a pix of him...and you know what, when I took reyes out from the walker, he actually cried non stop! Dude...Sometimes women just dont know what these boys are thinking about.

Happy 2nd Birthday Riesia

It was meant to be a happy occasion, but alas, I threw my temper at hb early morning. Darn.
We were suppose to be out of the house at 1015am to Expo bbfair, but instead at 930am, he was still sleeping!!!! And I woke up at 830am hor.

Anyhow, we finally left the house 45mins behind schedule at 11am and arrived at Exp0 12 noon. While hb and reyes waited at expo platform, I had only 30mins to grab my items and go.

I bought the bbsafe mattress bedsheet, pillow case and bolster case and some gerber items and left hurriedly. It wasnt easy to manage shop and see and keep a lookout for riesia who kept wandering about! I was so afraid she would be kidnapped.

Sigh..so we rushed dwn to Changi Airport Swensons for our lunch. Rie was hungry by then, but she was also tired and end up didnt have much. Here's some pix taken at Swensons...

Glad there was kids activities, the colouring kept her occupied..but not for long lah.

And here's her Happy Birthday Sundae on the house....

She couldnt wait to taste it before blowing out the candle....And taking a cherry...but she didnt know how to eat and spit it out...wasted. And time to head down to Orchard...4 of us slept on the mrt all the way to City Hall, we were so exhausted...It then started to pour very very heavily leh...So end up we went to Paragon first before heading to Tangs to get hb's working shoe....And then we finally left for home at 5pm, dead tired..

All of us were so tired, we went to sleep at 11pm...except for me lah! I went to bed at 1230, had to do the laundry and pack up..yawn....