growing up and plans..

V is turning 4 years old.. how fast is that?

Its amazing what a pregnancy does to perception.. I woke up one day and saw that V is all grown up.

During pregnancy I stopped carry her and that day found that I now longer can lift her hahaha. Manz... She just exploded in weight and height! LIFE.... we just have to move forward isn't it?

Anyways she has been asking for new toys "Mummy can you buy this or not? you know ha I'm sick of  my toys at home" I want a Unicorn, Barbie makeup can tie hair one, 1 puppy that talks." So was after no thanks to Mr Toys r us who send this super duper big catalog to the house. It got her excited  and started choosing her toys for xmas. Trev brought her to buy a pony, and came back 2! Retarded husband who succumbed into her tricks, he came back happy too! Both smiling and bragging how special that pony was! like I freaking care? zzz anyways... so she started bugging for the puppy 3 days later, after the fiasco. nagging at me to bring her to the shops.. I gave up and put Fluffy on a leash and told her "Na, puppy that walks"

I finally found something useful for this blardy noisy dog whom I think is a Pomeranian trapped in a maltese body

This thing about children growing up.. their attention span is so short it is not funny. V started on Happy train for 3 terms coz we stopped her from her enrichment school for about 1 year. Initially it all great with her listening and going home to do her worksheets, she liked it mainly because it is accompanied program. Me and Trev needed to do something with her before the 2nd one came and this suited us well... She excelled, I got her worksheets to trace, dots to dots, tangram, maze... everyday she would sit down and do her work. Until she finished everything I mean all the books I bought! and then bam.. boredom. Since then I decided no more such worksheets and its off to play... I mean if you read children right, there is a right time to do things and if she can finish a thick maze book 38 pages :( in a day and not sleep coz of it.  At about the same time , she was obsessed with colouring and just did colouring daily. No tv, no play just pure colouring.. Most parents will be proud but to me? This to be is a sign of trouble and I don't think its something I want to brag about. 

So she is off all these stuffs and its playground daily *try to. I have been sourcing her year 4 stuffs to do, its swimming and music. She hasn't decided on her instrument  and nope I am not choosing for her.. all I do every now and then is to "practice" types of instrument and the sounds they make and actions. That day she told me she wants to play the harp! I was like for heavens sake, so heavy! Trev was hilarious when he "you know that time we went to Baby SSO? daddy pointed to you the harp? you saw the whole session, the harpist only played  ONE NOTE! " Please spare Daddy from the misery and not waste time on something so unproductive" I seriously doubt V understood what he meant but she gave up the idea hahhahaha!!!

Something V is obsessed now is baking, she watch youtube videos of baking. ALOT of them, in fact she was the one who introduced me the rainbow cake just before it became a hit in Facebook. So I was really happy when our friend Marie decided to do a baking workshop for the kiddos. I sux in baking ... hate the slimly things I have to wash after  and also psychologically I feel fat when baking. It takes out the luxury of enjoying that cake coz you see that amount of butter/sugar that goes inside. 

very serious baker

up to mischief this 2

the kids had a blast eating it.. and it was before LUNCH!! 

This reminds me of her dec workshop! She is going to a fellow mummy blogger house for a drop off 1.5 hours session on 4 fridays! Yea, mummy who organize it is SAHM *respect ... This is why I always believe even if you chose to SAHM, you must make anything an opportunity! Of course I have to support mummy... (traits of an entrepreneur)  this time  for me to a fellow mummypreneur. 

Now to get that private swimming coach... and we are set for something next year.

Mayhem .. sort of

its all worth it!

Trev has left for a biz trip

The thing about motherhood is that despite having loads of help, at the end it still boils down to U!

I couldn't work at home as I had deadline project(S)  that needs to be completed by end of this month and it has been procrastinated since the birth. Its been real tough trying to work from home, too much noise and I hate to be interrupted as its disrupt my train of thoughts. Mundane works stuffs are not a problem but this time this one needs quick and peace. So I packed all my stuffs and came to Trev office to work on it, this is after I bathe Kate, pick V up from school, lunch. So it leaves me 3 hours to seriously get things done. I drive back at 6pm, play with V - colouring, ipad games. Latch K...

My silly helper decides yesterday to put V to nap, which literally screwed my plans as V will sleep LATE. Ya my this helper as steady as can be but damn bloody forgetful la! Before I left, my instructions were - let V eat at 5pm, go to the playground, come back shower and we sleep her at 730pm. She says okie and when I came back? all was done except she included a nap .. like wth? I spoke to her nicely and she was "oh ya hor, actually I tot meant K" FML, like my newborn can have dinner and go playground. I didn't get upset but explain my case. The person nagging was my MIL to her... until my helper told her "mum, its done already, I'm sorry" hahhaha I found it funny, maybe is the way they squabble.

My helper felt really bad coz she "suddenly" realized that MY husband is not around and it means I have to deal with both myself. Anyways thank god for my MIL, who took K from 830-10 while I try to settle V. Its not that I can't put them to sleep together, but V has a tendency to want to play with K in the room. Then they both don't sleep and I DIE STANDING.

ohh the legs!

So I put V to sleep (30-45 mins with chatting on why she doesn't want to go school coz she gets beating from her friends and she has to eat horrible tasting food and that aunty teacher forces it down coz she takes too long to eat) Then go down to pick K up and latch her, then she plays tummy time with me, decides she  doesn't want to sleep, then gets cranky coz she likes to be carried. So I have to carry and dance with her (my exercise) then my back and neck aches coz she's got some weight. By then she wants to sleep and realized she is hungry and I latch again. If days she gets fussy she gets a bottle and I have to BURP HER 3 x coz she has too much wind. If I skip this she will be a non stop engine making machine for her sleep and THIS drive me mad!

After all the hullabaloos..  I still have to pat this princess to sleep coz she doesn't fall asleep at the bottle anymore *yawns. Pat pat with some motion, then I get to lie down.. when u look at the clock it is 1 am... and I can't put her down coz she hasn't gone into deep sleep. So its just me and hp, surfing....

Finally got to put her down at 130-45am, wake V for her pee and suddenly there is surge of energy and I cannot sleep *sianz.  its finally ME time. Did a bit of shopping and fell asleep. but what is great is that K allows me to sleep till close to 6am before she stirs and I just latch her. Simple. So the mayhem is just 9-1am.. oh so tired la.

                               

                        my space no more... it doesn't matter how many beds u buy.. my children sleeps terribly

I repeat the same thing today... just that before I left I reminded the whole house - NO NAP for V!

6 weeks KL

Oh I haven't blog about her name!

It started off as Elizabeth coz of the 50th jubilee shit that we were watching, then I kinda like Amber, Lauren. Trev loved Elizabeth but somehow it didn't rub off well with a lot of people coz it was too long. We googled the nicks and got liz, eliz and they all sounded like lizards - trev hates them! So we took the name off. Amber was pretty but sounded fiery, had enough of temper from V so thought its time to tone it down. Lauren was my favourite, but T tot it was Laurent and asked me y a man's name?

Finally we settle on Kate, coz it was in tune with Victoria and its a real pretty name. Although she may have issues with "late, cake" but then again all names will be made fun off in school... So no fret. We had her chinese name calculated, Huang Si Jia 思佳, very much in tune with the sister name on wisdom. Its cute as their names are matched to mine, not the father's. That I didn't know, it was counted from my name and V to K's. Apparently she has a fiery temper just like the sister, and that we have to cultivate calmness and zen. What's new? so its music time for this one too... she is of no problem from now till 19 years , from then till 32 is trouble... when I heard, I told Trev aiyo boys and love la, what else can be of a problem at 19-32 years old right? The grandfather heard and told us to buy a big dog to guard her then hahhah. My 2 girls have no problem in school and will excel and will need loads of money for education. *somehow its a singaporean problem isn't it?

Kate is 5.5kg and 58 cm. 90th percentile.

Victoria 14kg and 99cm

Its odd I ever get to write this, for with V was 25th kekeke Yea this one is bigger mainly because she sleeps alot. I think at 6 weeks, she is awake longest at 30 mins or so... fussy little queen coz she gets carried alot! When I say alot means alot! She goes into the cot she cries, have to blame that wind- we got the meds today so hope it works better for her. But she is easier to calm than V, but then again I cannot compare coz with V, I was the sole care giver. Its a different ball game altogether... this one whack the milk, shake shake in her favorable position and K/O. She like us to stand up tap her, guess the wind again, guess can only be sure when she gets better on her behaviour.

With this one, she gets to go out only once a week to church and lunch. We hardly bring her for shopping, coz I prefer to chop chop and get it done. If there is a choice, me n Trev rather go out ourselves as things gets done double fast. Today we brought the 2 girls out for PD checks, abit back breaking coz I forgot my sling! She's got some weight ...

What I was up to

Remember I did mention that I was busy? Yea it was with this!! I was using the Mary Kay toning lotion before birth for tummy (on and off la) and liked it coz its tones the tummy. But I decide to put it to a test for this pregnancy and woot woot, amazing right?

I sold about 60 bottles of toning lotion!!! to date- to the mummies of my thread, they were just as amazed as me and this was less than 2 weeks after birth. Even Trev and nanny was like "huh so fast?" Nanny even wanted to sell this to her customers next time! Trev started using more diligently when he saw the effects of it!

I spend most of days on the laptop trying to do a BP coz I an a noob, sort of got the hang of it :) its pretty fun. Its always exciting to try out new ways of earning money.

Oh email me if you want it $70 per bottle, I suggest getting 2 bottles for a start coz when u use diligently 2x a day, it depletes pretty fast and then u are stuck with none when effects are showing lol.

How this product works:

It has double caffeine to help with water retention and papaya enzymes to help u poo. There are also antioxidants to help u refine your skin tone with anti aging properties. It works like a normal moisturizer, not like those that burns or cold to application. Simple to use and yet effective.

Now I'm working hard on the bum and thighs ... they seem to have grew after this pregnancy .*sigh

email me at florindatay@yahoo.com

5 weeks

man... how time has passed

I absolutely am enjoying the whole process, baby has been an angel. Besides this last few days of wind and the zero ability to sleep on her cot, all is great! We have been taking turns to carry her, like bopian, coz if not there will be more wind. Its a phase all parents go through, so...

We have sort of gotten into a nice routine, V goes up to the room at 8pm and I go up at 830-845pm with K. Yea its amazing for V, coz she sleeps at 815-830 daily ... like can die right!! hyak hyak... k/o for 12-14 hours, God loves us heaps. He decides that with a new baby, life gets tougher with the balancing act and tells his angels to whisper to V to drop her nap in the afternoon and sleep early. Woots... if Trev is overseas, the grands will deal with K when I put V to sleep. But most of the time, Trev and I will put V to sleep whilst they play with Bb. Its an amazing journey to be able to have so much time to each other as an couple with 2 kids... just not outside but in our room.

K is almost tbf now, I do give FM for the last feed and the lunch feed.  Y? coz she didn't poo and was wincing a lot... to save her from pain, we needed FM for the bulk and it is working till her system gets functional. I mean yea BF babies don't poo daily and all... but to see her suffer with wind and poo issues ain't fun.

We have been lax with the 2nd, guess at the end whatever works. K drinks water, gripe water, fm or bf- whatever is available... something V din. I suck at pumping, we bought a new pump and it was fun when it arrive but now its in the cupboard *opps. I still maintain no pacifier or yaolan, we discuss about it and decided to brave the storm instead of having to wean it off - loads easier. I have been strict about the latching too, coz V took it as habitual for a long time. So I alway latch and Trev pats K to sleep, since he claims he feels redundant when the bb is a newborn. The only time K latches and I have no idea whats up is of course the graveyard shift hahha. Most days we sleep till 10am, ya its just me ...

Tomorrow is the 1st day I'm going out on my own.. serious- we have been real good or rather me, I stayed at home the whole confinement besides Dr visit & i enjoyed it!!! Its gyane app tomorrow for postpartum checkup..

alone with 2, this time with help

every time I am inspired to blog, I can't. Then the day I get to sit down, suddenly my mind is blank arghhh

Today is peace... my mil is out of the house. I mean she is a AWESOME help but when she is around its "Fluffy, Miko, Gin, Gemma, Victoria" Then she repeats... she makes everyone so busy at home. Today its just me n the helpers n my girls... so peaceful. We sit around to eat cake and chit chat .. lovely.

Trev came home today after his biz trip... nanny left on monday and on tuesday I was left to look after the baby by myself. It crazily odd to say I actually panic a little coz I was so afraid of BB missing nanny. But all is well.. I did my 1st bathe and actually wash the bum 1st then the face :0.. u see simply actions like this can make a experienced mummy confused. There was loads of latching after nanny left coz I took the lazy route by giving in to FM and latching only 3 times a day *opps. But we are catching up with BB, she is on FM at lunch, tea... the rest of the feeds is me. Man I have been lazy this round hehe, but I'm waiting for week 6 growth spurt to match her feeds.  I took her 3rd week growth spurt to catch up which is pretty good. By the way this one is the ultimate guzzler... u finishes everything u put at her mouth. We have been blessed with the ultimate sleeper too! Before her 1st month, she drinks at 1am and 4am and the last few days, she has been sleeping 5 hours straight- waking up for her latch at 3-5am window.  From the looks of this, she should be sleeping through after her week 6 growth spurt. AMAZING! Think god loves me.. after the mayhem I had with V.

I never knew that such baby exists..  I mean I hear of those who drinks loads and sleep. Always though they were pulling my leg, but this round it actually happen to me! She is what I call a Gina Ford baby.. so routine man. I had to pull out the book to read. This one actually sleeps!!!!! like she gets sprinkled with magic dust... I put her on the bed and bam sleeps, drink milk, bam sleep. of course day time is slightly tougher coz the weather has been insane!!! So loads of carrying coz its cooler ... *sighs.

okie milk time.. gtg