School....

Just after Chinese new year break for me, I started the routine to send rie off to school again. And I wasnt informed that they have already started to integrate the N1 kids to the hall with the other older kids to join in the assembly.

This whole week doesnt seem good for rie. I dont know what's happening seriously. When I send her to the hall on Monday, she was alright, looking occasionally behind to peep at me as I was also curious whats going on during assembly.

Then out of a sudden, during prayer, rie turned around, shook her head and was cringing. And she started to tear! Thankfully her chinese teacher saw her and carried her to sit on her lap to calm her down. I then decide, perhaps is best for me to leave...

That night, during our bedtime talk, rie started to say : I dont want to go school. I'm scare of the black witch.

Black witch? I asked and prompt for more hints, but nothing came out, except that she kept saying she is afraid of the black witch. Tuesday came and this time, she refused to hold an Indian teacher's hand when she greeted her at the hall entrance. She cringed again and SIL saw her and held her and distracted her attention. I spoke to the teacher in charge and told her about the " black witch".

Came wed, dad offered to send her to school after I decline his offer on Tuesday. Told him what happen and he said he will take note. I didnt feel assured abt rie, so I took the public transport with reyes to school and peep at her. Dad said rie refused to enter the hall when the indian teacher wanted to hold her hand. So another chinese teacher came along to hold her and she went in. Haiz...So I spoke to the teacher again and said maybe she is afraid of Indians, so maybe the black witch refers to her?

This morning, rie again said I dont want to go to school first thing in the morning. Sigh. It's not a good sign. She refused to enter the hall. At the corridor, when the same Indian teacher greeted her, she cowed behind me and refused to greet until I had to repeatedly tell her to do so. Thankfully SIL was around and brought her into the hall to the Chinese teacher. She loves her chinese teacher and I was glad she has someone to look to when she is upset in school.

The teacher told me she tried to find out from rie yesterday and rie said there was a monster in school. But when the teacher asked where is the monster, she said rie laughed. So they concluded that rie is very smart, and full of imagination now. She actually performs well during class and is very responsive. So I guess I'm perhaps over anxious abt rie. It's only the parting part where she gets upset. I think she doesnt like being confined in the hall. they used to gather the kids in the big classroom where she gets to play toys, but not anymore.

I managed to peep at her while they were at the playground. A girl came along and tried to snatch her cup as she was pouring sand. I wished I was there. But thankfully rie stood firm and held her cup tightly.
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Now that I have more time with reyes, this week is a fun week. On Monday, I decided to skip home and headed to TPY to shop with reyes. It tired him out and so was I, but he was happy running at kiddy palace. Most importantly, airconditioned!

On wednesday, I ventured out again. I feel that I"m happier outside with time well spent rather than heading home and cooping up at home till rie is back. Having no where to go, I brought him to the library to enjoy the aircon and for him to develop some loves in books. Wah, he was so happy and excited over the books and he likes me reading to him. BUt har, he is only interested in vehicles books leh. Sigh....

I also achieved feeding him a quick lunch at the foodcourt while asking this kind lady to watch over my items while I rushed to get food to share with him. Was so worried he will refuse to sit in the babychair or create a din, but he didnt.

He is very adorable now and fun to play with. Sometimes when I ask him where is his car or what is this in books and he doesnt know the answer, he will say " dono" with his palms facing upwards. The first time I heard him, I thought I heard wrongly. But that's really what he said. Haha. Dont know to bang wall or not sometimes.

I'm trying to toilet train him now, but is not easy. He will say "shee shee" when he ALREADY pees or pupu. And when he farts, haha, he will laugh and say " fart". So funny. There was once rie came home seeing a mess of the living room and said" Oh man." and reyes repeated her. I think with rie around, he certainly picks up words faster as compared to when rie was alone with me.

Now that reyes is past 16 months, I'm thinking back when rie was 16 mths, I was in my 3rd trimester with nowhere to head out as I couldnt carry rie. And now that I can enjoy this moment with reyes, it's really wonderful, not cooping up at home and spending some quality time outside. I"m hoping to bring him to gymboree one day or some nearby gym. But with just 3 hrs, it's really a rush for time..sigh...

想握你的手

If you have been catching the drama series on channel 8, 想握你的手, I'm proud to anounced that the kopitiam 899 is actually at our neighbour nia!

Discovered that long before the series was released, but I kept forgetting to blog about it. We caught them in action many times but it was always in the car drive passing them. Last week, we saw the whole gang in action outside the kopitiam table. Spotted chen li ping, belinda, that bald headed actor, the mother and cant recall who else.

So drop by my neighbourhood, pop by the famous whampoa hawker center and you may just catch a glimpse of them.
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Happy birthday dad.
This is my first time planning a surprise for him. It's nothing big, just ordered a cake from awfully chocolate and have it sent to the office and sent him an sms this morning.
It happens to be rie's chinese birthday today too! Makes this day even special.

Rie is looking forward to her birthday next MOnday and although she is still too young to understand, we are having 3 birthday celebration for her in 3 consecutive days. Sigh, long story lah.

This Sat will be her special strawberry shortcake 3D birthday cake that I ordered. To celebrate with my parents.

Sunday will be with my PIL, SIL ordered a strawberry shortcake for her from Prima Deli.

And come MOnday, she will have her actual birthday celebration at the school. Ordered a hello kitty cake from Polar Cakes.

So there you go lah. Original plan was to have a small gathering at my place on Sat, but then due to big prob with MIL, (inviting her to head out as a family is never easy), hb say just forget it lor.

Water pad mattress

This is for Kim.

The ntuc branch at my place has sold out all the water pad mattress, so I wasnt able to show u to actual thing how it looks like.

But the pattern of the water pad looks agar like this type of clothing. Inside is water, so is very cooling one. Adults like to buy and then sit on it, so ur butt wont feel so hot. haha.

But kim, pls note, this is NOT the one that I am recommending, but just to show u how it is like.

It is much bigger in size, like a square, with many tubes of water one.

An early birthday present...

Dad jio-ed us to Red house at robertson quay this evening for dinner.
This time dinner's with bro, to lao yusheng. Pity no photos, coz I need to lao and no one was able to help out.

Reyes loves to lao yu sheng too!

My parents really dote and spoilt rie overboard. As expected, she received an early birthday present and it was something that I had mentioned earlier in my blog. A DS lite. Is that what you guys call? I'm so IT obsolete liao with all these stuffs. They bought a pink one for rie, just like the photo that esther put up on her blog when she was shortlisting which to get again.

It's a lovely pink. Rie sure knows how to use it fast and she can tell me she wanna play the "mama cooking" game, and I dont even know what's that! She must have watched my cousins played that time during reunion dinner.

On top of that, there's another gold necklace with a small dolphin to add to her jewellery collection. She is a rich rich babe man. So funny lor, I think she likes diamonds more, coz in the car, she saw the gift wrapper and she said : "that's my diamond?" haha.

well..and as expected, reyes is snatching her DS lite too. I really dont wish to intro such things to her at such a age where she should be learning more rather than indulging in games. Sigh. And my parents still dare to say hb and I are the ones who spoilt and overdote on reyes. Tsk tsk.

I'm always the one caught between. very xian. Every alternate sundays at mil place, she is sure to grumble when my kids ask for delrosa to drink. To her older generation, the best quench is always plain water and she always will say : my kids last time always drink plain water only. blah blah blah, also so healthy, so strong blah blah.

But to 12 years younger their generation, ie, my parents, they perceive delrosa to be high in vitamin C and is good for us. I drank that growing up. So naturally my cousins and my kids drink it too. For me, I have no choice, coz my kids dont like to drink plain water from their avent bottle, so I have to provide delrosa. If they drink from normal sprout, they are fine with plain water.
**In case I havent mention before, MIL and mum both are tigers ; FIL and dad both are piglets.
(their age gap is 12 yrs exactly, and I think coz of that, they arent the most getalong distance relatives)

Then comes another problem. how much of syrup to amt of water. Big hoo haa again. To please hb, I add little when he is not home. If he is the one preparing, it's as if he hardly adds any to it, perhaps just 2 drops and my kids know immediately the taste difference. And if we bring the kids to my parents place and they spot the water, they will nag. Say why so diluted, might as well dont put. Or my kids are always falling sick, coz no vitamin C, and yet I still dont give more delrosa. Faintz.

Then over at MIl place, she will grumble lor. I was so fedup last week, coz it was the CNY and we were at mil's place on consecutive days and I had to hear her grumble. Grumble during day, then night my parents turn to nag. So fedup that I purposedly say out loudly for my hb to hear.
and it pissed hb off lor. He didnt like it when I mention abt his mum nagging not to give so much. So what, I had enough. Hb tries to save $ by giving little, coz not cheap when they are consuming like 1 bottle of delrosa per week. But then my parents seem to see through him and so they do sponsor like 3 bottles or more sometimes. Sigh sigh sigh...

Even the NTUC auntie asks us why we purchase so many bottles at one go? We took all the bottles off the shelves when they were having promotion. Haha.

I've yet to even go to the milk powder issue man. I grew up drinking nespray and so naturally my parents, the grandparents of my kids wants them to drink nespray too. This I wont give in, coz I rather go for more popular kids milk powder than just nespray which is a general milk powder. So there, this I've a say in it.

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Okay, little sidetrack..

just saw the pix from moonlight's blog.
That reminded me abt reyes. He burst out crying all of a sudden. My guess was that he must have been terrified of kae's daddy. Probably some staring, coz reyes wanted to drink from kae's water bottle and I told him no, and still hold on so tightly, so I had to threaten him that "uncle is looking ah.." and JH gave a terrifying stare! The killer stare. hahaha..

So I think reyes got a little frighten and burst out crying after that while I was not looking. I was laughing, coz it's so funny lor and blur had to come running asking why my son is crying and yet i'm still laughing.

Aiyah, this reyes is a timid mouse lah. totally different from his sister lor. I think partly maybe coz rie when young was looked after by my parents and she spends her day at mum's office and gets to see all the uncle and aunties and delivery man at the whole office. Everyone is so curious to find a baby at the workplace and so everyone knows where this baby belongs to. So in a way, I think she is exposed to the outside world since young, but for reyes, he's sheltered by me.

So he tends to be quieter and shy and timid lor. There was once we were having dinner at Boon tong ke and he refused to sit on the bbchair and hb threatened that auntie is angry and looking at him ah. Then he burst out crying and refused to be seated and insisted on being carried by hb to go out of the shop! Each time he came back, he will cry and point to the door. So how?

End UP i had to sit outside the shop, put him on my lap and feed him dinner outside lor.

Sometimes when we are lecturing rie and he thinks we are scolding him, he will burst out crying too. I think he is very sentimental and according to the feng shui guy, he said reyes is very very sensitive. And yeah, at this point, I do agree. The SNAG?

A day at the beach....

Twice in a row, we are found at ECP. *He loves Oreo cookies. Looking how dirty his mouth is after munching...

This is what I see how a beach should look like! Deserted, quiet and not tons and tons of people like during the CNY. I was telling hb it looks like we are in India, and there was hardly any other chinese around.

I love the day today. nice weather, cooling. it started off drizzling, but stop soon after and was cloudy for us to play with the sand. I'm surprised that rie no longer fears the sand. Probably coz she's been playing sand in school.

Love love this shot of rie...And I simply love trying out the effect of blur background.

But sidetrack. In order to take blur background, I had to zoom 12x, stand as far away from my subject and aim. Ridiculous lor, but then I dont know what other ways to play with my cam other than this method.

Trying my hands on getting blur subject, but clear background...like this shot too.

And reyes too! He simply just plong his butt onto the sand and starts digging..

*Aeroplane...It's so hard to see myself in photos, coz I'm always the one trying to take pix of the kids. It's so hard persuading the man to help me take photos with the kids and he always take lousy photos.

*My legs look so fair in the photo! gaspe...Reyes insisted on trying my sandal, so I had to let him wear it to get him "happy" to pose with me.Not a great shot, but I thought it's meaningful.

*(L to R) : Reyes / Riesia / Mummy / Daddy 's footprints

And yeah, she's still doing the one eye jack thing - read my post about the one eye monster.

Then for dinner, I managed to persuade my parents to drop by ECP to have seafood dinner. Hb's treat, since today is everyone's birthday too, the 7th day of CNY.

It was our first time having our seafood dinner at Jumbo restaurant. Wah, super duper crowded lor, but lucky we were there early and have seat. No need to wait. Hb looking at the Q, he didnt even want to ask if there's seat, but I insisted, coz want to try mah. Afterall, we've been visiting red house for so many years liao, think to try out new places.

We had yu sheng, chilli crab (yum yum yum), yam ring with scallops, you tiao, sambal kangkong, claypot tofu, 300gm prawns(for me), crispy chicken(must try). total bill came up to $216, 10% off for CTB holders. Not cheap, but it was alright on the whole. Mum seem to still prefer Red house, was complaining abt the kangkong being overcooked. Tsk tsk. I dont know, coz I dun take veg.

And to end off, here's rie wishing everyone " HUAT AH!"

Dont let cruelty act get away.

Read this piece of news today :

Singapore man jailed 10 weeks for killing cat
AFP - Thursday, February 18
SINGAPORE, Feb 17, 2010 (AFP) – A 41-year-old man was jailed 10 weeks in Singapore on Wednesday after pleading guilty to killing a cat by swinging it twice against a wall, a court official said.

A woman had seen ZamZam Ismail smash the cat against the wall before throwing it away on January 1 and called the police and the Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or SPCA.

"The SPCA supports the decision today by the Courts to impose a custodial sentence," SPCA executive officer Deirdre Moss told AFP.

She urged people to come forward if they witness acts of cruelty being committed against animals, adding that very few cases of abuse are solved due to lack of witnesses or evidence.
SPCA said that in 2009, it had investigated 864 reports of alleged cruelty to animals, up 13 percent from 2008.

Common incidents include pet dogs tied up or caged. But in an extreme case of abuse, 20 stray cats were found comatose or semi-conscious at a condominium in June last year and tests showed they had been poisoned, SPCA said.

"The SPCA stresses that cruelty to animals is a crime and one that should not be taken lightly," the welfare group said in a statement.

This man deserved more than just 10 weeks in jail!
I remember mum's place had many stray cats and many cat lovers too. Every night, the 12th floor neighbour's maid would bring a big big huge tub of food down for the cats for dinner. They were a lucky lots.

Of course with that, it attracted cats haters too. Many complained to the town council and the town council pinned up a notice board that says something like pls do not feed cats or whatever. But whoever listens?

I once told off a property agent at mum's place when I witness him kicking the cat's back, to get it off this shallow stand at the void deck. Dad was sending us home and I did not hesistate to shout back at him and told him off. He merely mumbled a sorry. Many times I should have just walk forward to speak up but I didnt. But hey, at least I said something rather than keeping quiet right? I think becoming a parent has built up courage within myself, since shouting and screaming at the kids are my daily chores. haha.

My current place do have cat killers too. Someone posted up a notice at the lift lobby about warning this killer to stop his act and that there are people watching. My place used to have few cats and kittens, but are now all gone.

My kids love animals. Except for hb who dislike or rather terrified of cats. I sure hope they will grow up being an animal lover just like me.

Dream...

I had a dream few nights back that I was pregnant. Yeah man.
The scene was at the hospital, where I was having very very bad contractions and I was like due in october and it was only in May. So I was worried sick why I was having bad contractions so early.

The doctor did a scan and I saw the bb's feets. Woke up abruptly by cries from reyes. Turned out I was having a tummyache. hahaha.

Mum was also asking me why does reyes keep crying at her place and each time he cries, he looks for me and is so sticky to me. then she asked : "Are you expecting?"

Haha, hb stared blankly at her and as usual, his auto reply message was sent across to her.
Oh well...I sure miss having a baby around, but thinking of those night feedings, the bf, the carrying, I can die. It wasnt so easy and I was so happy when reyes could sleep through the night finally. So am I ready? I'm not so sure.

Happy Birthday Wilbur....

Wow..shag man! It was definitely a wham bang birthday party of the year!


Rie was so looking forward the whole afternoon when I told her that she will be attending a birthday party and she will be able to watch magic show and have balloons to bring home.


3 of us knocked out for an hour nap before rushing down to the venue.


And I'm surprised that the kids ate their dinner without much persuading. Maybe they are hungry, maybe they listen to me if they finish their dinner, then they will be able to watch the magic show...Rie was very excited and I'm kinda embarassed by her outspoken behaviour.


She actually volunteered herself, without realising she is needed to help out! haha. Anyway, i see that she enjoyed herself. And that balloon flower is her gift for helping out..

Here's 3 of them waiting for their balloons to be transformed....

R & R refused to let go of their balloons even when it's bedtime. Reyes held on really really really tight to the string of his blue balloon until he finally slept soundly then I had to slowly open up his fingers to remove the string.

Rie's original red balloon flew up to the sky, so I had to head back asking for a 2nd red balloon for her. Thanks blur. It was a party well planned and great. Good job! Looking forward to seeing the photos soon.

Pre celebration...

What a wonderful time for 3 of us yet again. Received a plesant surprise this morning via sms from dad. He offered to send rie to school today and that solved out headache last night.

I was still hesistating to drive rie to school with 2 kids in tow and was very worried about the heavy traffic jam at the PIE. And now, everything just falls into place, with dad sending rie to school, I can happily drive reyes to the clinic for his Prevenar 2nd dose vaccination. Hb took halfday as well as we had a very important birthday party to attend to in the evening...

At the clinic, the jab was fast and done with. I suffered too with a jab. Hb insisted that I did a checkup and had my blood drawn. Yucks man okay! I hate it so much. Withdrawing jabs reminds me of my pregnancy days.

So with that, we decided to pre celebrate our wedding anniversary which is tomorrow, ie today since it's past 12 midnight, without rie. At least, we can eat our lunch in peace. And so off we went to Shaw Plaza this japanese restaurant, Suki Yaki I think. It's our first time there. We often eat at Sakura, which is a sister company, just directly opposite this Japanese restaurant.

Yum yum yum. It's so cheap too! They are having lunch set at just $6.99. And all their coloured plates are going at just $0.99 only as compared to Sakae, it's $1.99 or they have already increased their price, I dont know. It's been years since I step in liao. I'm very satisfied with the $0.99, it tastes the same.

Was too hungry to take any photos of the nice food...Reyes enjoyed the food too!
Having an hour more to go, we dropped by NTUC for a walk.
Sigh..looking at the photo above, I find that he doesnt seem to resemble me abit, except for blood type.

I'm a happy girl today. Been sooo long since I had such food indulgence liao. Am aiming for at least once a month only 3 of us time, even though it's just a short 3 hrs.

CNY Day 1

On the way to MIL's place for lunch....

Rie in her red outfit...and that stupid barney sandals. She refused to wear her crocs and I was giving up trying to persuade her. And reyes all decked out in the blue outfit that I bought from united square. Thumbs up for the good material and price. I was hesistating to purchase off the net from some spree, but then luckily chanced upon the stall at united square. I love it!
Trying my hands on getting an artistic shot from the side mirror..Failed miserably.
And yeah, reyes has got an "upgrade" from economy class to first class. And he's really happy about it in fact! Some days, he can sit quietly throughout the journey. But other days, he monkeys around and decides economy class is better with 2 babes. Rie and me lah! Monkeying around at MIL's place. I hate it the most when I dont know how to configure my camera to capture the kid's fast speed of moving. I love this shot, but look. I ruined it.

Everyone's been telling me to trim reyes hair, but I refuse! And his hair is still not "falling" down after a year plus leh. I remembered rie took few months before her hair started to fall down too.

BIL is always never around during CNY. Ever since he returned from Sweden, he is always absent for reunion dinner and the CNY. I give up keeping track of where he goes to every CNY. He's just avoiding all the KPOs aunties who comes visiting.

We went home straight after that for a nap to recharge before heading to mum's place for dinner with my relatives.

Hongbaos are really really rare this year. I'm feeling kinda sad deep down. Because my kids will not be able to understand how boisterous and fun CNY is actually with a big family and all relatives so on to turn up for reunion and doing home visitings.

As the years goes by and all our relatives aging, I realise that we youngsters are no longer trying our best to keep up with home visiting anymore. If you ask me why? I would say " visit who?"

Sigh. Sad case lor. At mum's place, just before I could sit down and have my dinner after feeding reyes, my cousins are leaving liao. And just before I could even jio them for a couple of rounds of ba-lak. See. Sigh...All grown up, all want to go pai tor with their bfs, wanna go home and just hide at home.

Worst is my bro. Hides in the room and doesnt even want to come out UNTIL my SIL had to coax him out to show his face. If you had notice, reyes first birthday, he wasnt even in the picture! I dont know what's gotten into his mind. And last heard few days back, he was asking sil about NIE and stuffs like that. Change of heart again on what he is planning to be? Fickleminded as always. If he is reading my blog ever one day, pls, wake up your bloody idea. How old do you think you are? 21? How many more years is mum gonna still clean up and pack your smelly pigsty, cook and wash your laundry, serve and wash your dishes after you? Pls pls pls wake up.

Hb told me dad cooked bro a huge piece of cod fish and he happily finished everything, leaving hardly any meat left and just didnt want to clear it. What is this lor? Pls tell me how to get message across man. Hb said I am no longer staying in the house, so I had better keep my mouth shut tight. I cannot stand and watch man. When I complain to mum, she sides him. So?

case closed.

Reunion Dinner..

This year was a special reunion dinner for all of us. Because for the first time, we are having our reunion dinner out of home! Well, SIL organize, so must give face right?

And this year, we had reunion with SIL's parents and brother too. At Tampines Safra - Sakura. The location where we were sitting at was so warm and hot. Hb said, he nearly wanted to tear off his shirt. Hee hee...

I had a hard time trying to keep the kids seated on their bb chair. Nearly went crazy, coz reyes now refuses to be fed by hb and it wasnt easy for me to feed R & R when both arent co-operative. End up I didnt really enjoy my dinner either. I guess kids these days are all crazy over DS. Is that what they call it? I feel so old now. Everyone owns one and I'm surprised my bro would actually buy for his kids. I told myself I will not get for my kids, but let's just see how long my words will stay true. So I finally had some peace when bro offered to help me bbsit reyes. And yes, he's getting engrossed in it too...

See! Everyone is engrossed in it! As there are only 2 DS, the 2 older kids get to play with it. While the youngest one plays with her mummy's iphone lor. and reyes can only watch.

The 2 girls, ever so close like sister now.

Wanted to jio hb head down to river hong bao, but he said sure very crowded, so we headed back after a big cry from riesia refusing to leave....That explains why dad asked us to drive on our own, for fear of rie creating a din outside if dad sends us home.

Reyes finally home and happy with his Thomas the Train balloon, and watching the countdown on telly. We finally crawled to bed at 1245pm...---Poor hb did spring cleaning the night before until 4am. And I was woken up by his loud scrubbing of the toilet floor tiles at 3am okay. $^%&%*. I bet the other neighbours were cursing and swearing too...

And that reminds me to blog about this inconsiderate neighbour who lives on the 19th floor. I got into a short arguement with her the day before. It was hot and sunny and I wanted to hang my laundry out to sun, so that it will be dried fast. It's not my normal practice, after I notice the 14th floor often hang dripping wet laundry. But I did it, coz she wasnt hanging any that afternoon. Bad move.

Within 5mins after I hanged my 2nd bamboo, it was pouring. And I was like WTH! And there 2 bamboo laid, DRIPPING wet bedsheets and pillow cases. Imagine your hair dripping wet after you've just showered. Yes, that wet. Not one or two drops, but a shower of rain. I was like what is this man? Cant you just spin dry before hanging out to dry? I was not the only victim, those below all gena. But I think they didnt even realise.

And so, I marched up with 2 kids in tow. Pressed the bell twice no response. I wanted to walk off, but then I stayed on and knocked on the door. This old hag of another darker race opened the door.

Me : Excuse me, are you hanging your wet laundry outside?

Hag : Yes.

Me : It's dripping all over my clothings you know?
Hag : Sorry, this I cannot help you. I've been waiting all morning to wash and sun.

Me : But you are dripping all over my clean dried clothings!

Hag : I cannot help you. if you want, you can go to the town council, HDB to complain...

Me : (I didnt even bother to listen to the end of her sentence and shouted very loudly) Ridiculous!

I stormed off back and went online immediately locating the contact number and sent a feedback to town council and complain big time.

In fact, this wasnt the first time she was hanging wet laundry. It's so plain ridiculous right? I dont understand why do such inconsiderate neighbour exists in this society. And that explains why I stopped hanging my laundry outside since then.

I'm still waiting for HDB and town council to revert back to me.

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It's coming to about 1 month since rie started school.

I'm "on leave" this week to send rie to school. Seek help from dad to send rie as reyes wasnt feeling too well and I didnt want her to skip school because I cant send her to school. Dad was very nice to offer send her whole of this week. So after CNY, it's back to our routine.

Reyes cries everyday at the door after seeing jiejie goes off with grandpa. He says " Go school, go school". sigh.

Now that I have about 2.5-3hrs to spare each day after I send rie to school, I'm thinking how to spend quality time with reyes. Before rie started school, i was dying for dad to help bbsit rie, so that I can bring reyes out with me. But now that she is in school, I didnt know where to go, what to do. Everyday, my legs just automatically walks to the busstop, hops on the bus and then walk home. It seems so pointless at times. Reyes takes his nap, while I had2 hrs of break, then off to fetch rie back.

There was only 1 day where I brought reyes to TPY to buy the ezlink card for rie, then lunch, then to market to find his PJs and back home. It was warm, hot for both of us and didnt help that I had him strapped on me. I'm hoping we can venture out to the shopping centers, where perhaps we can have lunch with hb or have lunch just the 2 of us and hoping he can sit quietly in the babychair. He will miss his home lunch and afternoon nap. but the nap can be make up when rie is back right?

I regret that I wasnt able to bring rie out with me the last time she was reyes age, coz by then, I was already pregnant with a tummy and the dr advice not to carry so often. i didnt bear to watch rie walk either, and she always wanted me to carry. So we spent most of the time at home. I'm amazed how rie can walk long distance now. Now I miss carrying her.

So back to the topic, maybe I ought to start thinking and planning how we can spend quality time together. LIke say bring him to fidget since there's free transport at TPY to turf city. Or to town to shop shop. But then I dread the come back journey, dead tired and then I have to walk the long overhead bridge back home sweaty, smelly and tired. Maybe just take cab lor hor. haha.

I think I should do that, since reyes didnt have the chance to spend "only mama is with me time" since he was born. And yeah, I had better cherish my time now before I do plan to have #3.(that is IF i manage to persuade the man). By then, I think I wouldnt be able to handle reyes with a tummy.

Maybe should just start to find some enrichment classes for him for weekdays when its'cheaper. Looking at neurotree....or perhaps kindermusik?

What a start..

Didnt have time to blog for the past few days.

Reyes was down with sudden fever and very very very bad cough that was full of phelgm and runny nose. I think he caught the bug from me. I was down with fever last Wed, coupled with cough and runny nose and very bad sore throat.

Saw the dr on Thursday and I'm on the road to recovery within 3 days thanks to the anti biotics. But poor reyes. Sunday night, we came back from MIL place and he KO at 10pm. Dead tired. Woke up at 11pm coughing badly and was warm to the body and crying. Had to feed him paracetamol. Then at 4am, he woke up crying again. Fever was 38.6. Not a good sigh man. Fed Bufen and he didnt sleep well the whole night. Hb had to carry him on the shoulder to sleep.

Next morning after sending rie to school, we rushed to Aglow. The recept insisted us to walk in only after 330pm, but I told hb, would any dr be so heartless to turn us down even if there were no more patients? So we decided to take the risk and rushed down before they were closed at 1230pm. And guess what! We were just in time to be the last patient and Dr was so nice. Said gotta let reyes take the neubuliser, since he was already wheezing at night.

I turned down to bring the neubuliser home, coz I'm sure I dont know how to admister and I cant bear to see reyes crying for 5mins. It always reminded me of reyes suffering last year, on the first day of CNY at KK when the nurse had to insert the tube up his nostril to suck out the mucus. I regretted till this day, why I did not reject the offer. He was then only 3 mths old. So I made sure now, if I dont feel comfortable seeing my baby suffering, I will speak up and reject.

So anyway, off we went to Toyrus after that. I'm a happy mum and so is reyes. It's a happy day just the 3 of us, even though is only 3hrs. Reyes was so happy in the cars-trains-boys section of toyrus and didnt want to leave. We got him a vehicle set that has ambulance, police car and fire engine. He's so into such things now. I'm glad he has found his love in the boys toys.

Hb commented that :" so 轻松 with just 1 kid!" and Yes! I totally agree!
I told him when we had only rie, why were we even thinking it was so difficult and cham? And now that we have 2, it's even more difficult and cham than having just rie right?

But it's so different with reyes. I think coz they have different personality. Reyes is more subtle and guai as compared to rie, so that might have explained why we had such tough time handling rie...muahah.

I had the most wonderful sleep last night, even though it was just 6 hrs. But I slept so peacefully. Hb camped out with reyes in the 2nd room, coz we didnt want to disturb rie as she has to attend sch the next day.

gotta rush off now...

Mummy's sick, so no school...

Arh....last night was a pain in the back, in the head.

Been complaining to hb that our simmon bed is getting old and the place that I'm sleeping, it seem to have started sinking, no longer the hardy hard bed that we got. Afterall, it's coming to 5 yrs old liao.

And the cough started last night that I couldnt sleep well! Had to stuff tissue up the nose, and slept 45degree upright. Didnt help that reyes who is now sleeping next to me is an acrobat in bed! He flips and turns anywhere, anyhow he like. Once I found him over at my bedside when I went in the room to sleep. He once fell off the bed too, onto hb's mattress middle of the night! haha, woke both hb and myself and then reyes blur blur crawled back to his usual place and slept in his usual sleeping pattern.

Rie took over the babycot lor. It also didnt help that one kid puke one day after the other. Yesterday afternoon rie puke during her afternoon nap. She was coughing coughing, then when I checked her, she sat up and kaoz man. So frustrated, coz the day before, reyes puke all over the bed in the middle of the night. Fed up.

I kept telling myself, she's sick she's sick. Be more patient, but I cant when I have no helper and I'm sick myself and I feel so horrible when I cannot have anymore afternoon rest now.

So I decided to call it a rest day for us all. No school today for rie. I cant imagine walking in the hot sun, bundled up with reyes and riesia. I will faint. Dr said I am having mild fever, I hope I can pass through the gantry tomorrow with the temperature checking.

....

I received a piece of news yesterday from hb.

Sigh. What can we do. It's not our fault either.

Hb has a group of very close buddies. And we do meet up once in a blue moon and was suppose to meet up last Friday.

Unfortunately, not many people RSVPed, so it was cancelled.

and being nosy, he went to find out what happened. Well, one of the buddy said that if we are attending, he will not be going. Because seeing our kids, he will feel uneasy.

But then, how long can you stop yourself from meeting up and being with your friends?

I guess, i should try to be in his place. They have been trying to have a kid since they got married. They were the first couple to be married among the group. Followed by hb and myself.
Then, followed with us having 2 kids. And with them, losing one child after another. last heard the wife had a miscarriage last month. It was their 5th. Sad case. The 4th case, the water bag burst when she was just 4-5 mths pregnant and was diagnosed as cervix incompetence. I dont know about the 5th case.

My 6th sense was right on target at the last meetup when the wife didnt carry reyes at all. Normally both of them would fuss over R&R, coz they love kids alot. And also she didnt really talk much and was particularly cautious about what she was eating and I also heard the hb reminding her things like, " steps", "water" etc.

They kept it as low profile as possible. But unfortunately, it happened again.

So right now, they are avoiding all meetups with us. Sigh. so sad. I hope he will be fine and happy again.

Sick again....

I thought I could have ward off the flu bug and cough, but I failed.
2 weeks of fighting and I'm now down...That explains how I "tortured" myself this afternoon under the hot sun with reyes, idling outside, so that when rie is home, we can all have a good afternoon nap.

I sent rie to school and made my way to the market to get Pjs for reyes. Wah, market people are really market people. I wanted only Thomas the train pattern, and yet the sellers still kept promoting to me other patterns despite telling them my requirements. And that is because they have ran out of smaller sizes for thomas the train.

Tsk tsk..So sad reyes went home with nothing. That is before we headed to NTUC to enjoy the aircon first..Shiok man. Especially when the sun is so hot and bright in the noon. Both of us came back home so tan.

I think rie is so crazy about attending school. And I am happy she is happy to head to school too. Everyday, she will ask me "Mama, do you want to go school with me?" ie. asking me if I'm sending her to school.

Then today, she amazed me. After our usual goodbye kisses to me and reyes, she went in the classroom and said "Mama, you go home, wait for riesia come home." Aww!!!!!! My girl has grown up.

I love listening to her little stories of what happened at school. And whenever she sings a new song, I know she learnt it at school. The only drawback is, she is still not taking enough water and her lunch! Sigh....I'm starting to write letters to her about the special days we have. I do hope it will make a nice birthday present for her when she is all grown up. I wish my mother would tell me more about how I was when I was young. They kept saying rie is a duplicate of how I was! And that means how naughty and how I made my mum vomit blood everyday. haha.

With her being at school, I am able to spend more time with reyes. And because of that, Reyes is growing to be very sticky to me. So I've been telling hb to spend more time with reyes. When I'm home, reyes doesnt want his father to feed him dinner. Infact, he will look at who is feeding and look at his bowl to see what are the ingredients. He loves saying " fitball" which means fishballs of course. hahaha. n ho-log which means hot dogs.

With his sister around, his vocab, fighting skill, screamings, are highly improved. It's so fun to be with him when he's alone without riesia at times. Quality time spent.