Tummy Tummy Tum Tum

It is amazing how baby can grow just by drinking breast milk....as illustrated by Ray. This top that he is wearing was abit big for him 2 weeks ago but now...its too late cos this is the second and also the last time he will be wearing it.

And the amount of poo he generates everyday seems to be getting BIGGER too. And it got pa pa mui so excited that he insisted on taking pics of it. YUCKS!!


And look at Ray's peaceful face....nothing beats a great poo!!

First Separation - 28th May

Time....7.17pm, i left the house and dashed to the hair saloon for a haircut. The last time i had my haircut was like 7 weeks ago and i just felt like sh*t so decided to do it. I fed Ray to the max and asked pa pa mui to look after him while i am gone for max ONE hour.

7.30pm....Ray started crying. And of cos i didnt know as pa pa mui wanted me to enjoy my "ME time". And since i didnt know, i sms pa pa mui at 8pm to tell him that i will be doing highlights to my hair as well so should be done by 9pm. Wrong move....i got a call at 8.30pm and pa pa mui told me that Ray has been crying since 7.30pm. I got panicky and wanted to run out of the salon with foils in my hair but i took a deep breath and told myself that Ray has just been fed so he is not crying for milk, its more for cuddle from me as he wants a familiar smell.

I reached home at 9.13pm, puffing as i ran all the way home from the salon. And when i opened the door, Ray was still crying. My heart ached and i felt i was being a terrible mom for leaving Ray and pa pa mui at lurch.

Here's a pic of Ray's crying....crying buckets and if u look carefully, there is actually tear pooling.


And by the way...the hair cut and highlight was a disaster.

Freak Out!

Zzzz....lack of sleep can seriously caused alot of anxiety. Almost every night after Ray's 4am feed (thank God it is only ONCE in a night these days), i will change him and place him back into the cot. But there will be days when i woke up in a startled and panic as i wonder whether i have place Ray back into the cot or....could he be buried under our blanket!!

And there will be days when i placed Ray next to me on the bed and then realised thati might have pushed Ray down the bed. Or i might have accidentally roll over him!!

Even pa pa mui is suffering the same fate. Some days, Ray makes a lot of noise when he sleeps but there will be days when he is all quiet and we will stare at his tummy just to ensure that he is really still breathing *cold sweat*.

Discharged!!

Yipee!! Ray has finally been discharged from KK for his jaudince. His level is now 82 and we do not have to go back to KK again for this. And Ray now weighs....5.4kg. Whoppe!! Well done!! Even the doc who saw Ray was impressed with the weight gain. Hey hey....i feed him on demand of cos he has to put on weight. And here is a very good example. While waiting to be seen by the doc, Ray was hit by hunger pang. The nursing room was full and he couldnt wait so....


To celebrate this ocassion, we decided to head down to Cafe Cartel and as well as to get my caffeine fix. Thats when Ray also decided that he wants to "dine" with us.

Crazy Moments

Baby baby......Bullocks to the experts who wrote that baby should build a routine. I have tried that but it didnt work. U see, there are times when u will be out of the house and u wont be able to make it back to the house for baby's bath time. And by the time u reached home, the baby is all grouchy and angry because he missed his bath time and he started crying non stop cos his last feeding time was different from yesterday.....Arrggghh.....i mean even adults can't keep a routine so let alone a baby. And there are crazy moments when we put Ray down and he cried expecting to be picked up. And on other times when we picked him up when he was crying, and he just went all quiet when we put him down again.

So to the To-Be moms out there, just take it easy.

Of cos there will be moments when u wish the baby would just smile and sooth themselves to sleep. If all fails...try this as demonstrated by pa pa mui - feeding baby BEER!! I mean its never too early to start learning how to drink right?

Ok ok, just kidding before the children welfare sue me for abusing my own child.

Grow Baby Grow!!

Ray has a healthy appetite so it is no surprise that we see this being reflected on his face i.e. the double chin. And some said that is the only resemblance
between me and him.

Ray has gained quite a substantial weight and now he weighs abt 4.9kg. All thanks to mother's best given gift to the baby - Breast Milk. And he is gettin quite a handful to carry as he now knows how to kick his legs real hard plus with the increased of weight from 3kg to 4.9kg, its only natural that our arms ache at times.

And some of his clothes are getting smaller and especially mittens that he once wore is now too small so its time for new clothes - SHOPPING time!!

Our First Mother's Day

11th May 2008....2nd Sunday of May and its mother's day. And this year i have been promoted to the status of M-O-T-H-E-R. Hee hee..sometimes when i called myself ma ma when talking to Ray, i still giggled abt it.

Today we went to a restaurant to celebrate this occassion and Ray was whining away so i took him out of the pram. It was a very noisy restaurant and i was talking to Ray trying to calm him down and amazingly, he turned his head and looked at me.

A first for Ray as he is beginning to recognise my voice and his ability to turn his head while "sitting" up.

Famous T

Remember the first piece of clothes that pa pa mui bought? Here's Ray modelling it out, not bad aint? The shrunking of it actually wasnt that bad at least Ray gets to wear it now.

Here's Ray who has inherited not only his dad's look but also the cool dude attitude enjoying the car ride as we ventured out to Coffee Bean to celebrate the end of confinement.


And here's me.....going to pig out on the cakes and sip my ice latte after a 30 days separation from Coffee Bean.

Full Month

Yipee....it has almost been a month since i was "imprisoned" in my own house with crime mate Ray, where we spent everyday cuddling each other even when the temperature is 31 degree!! We just love it HOT!!

Today marks a special day as the chinese believe that we have to celebrate the baby's 1st month milestone. why? From what i read, ancient china has very high infant deaths so when any surviving babies live past the 1st month, it calls for a celebration. And there are a few traditional stuff that we have to perform like shave the hair and brows of the baby. We opted to just symoblically cut the hair and spare the brows. I mean its Ray's big day and i dont want him to freak people out with his browless face.


And we also ordered some traditional cakes for our relatives to mark this occassion. The red eggs (which must be given in pairs) symbolise completeness and fullness; the ‘Ang Gu Kueh’, also given in pairs, symbolise sweetness and happiness. ‘Gu’ which means ‘Turtle’, is also a symbol of longevity.

Spilled Milk

Pee...poo....milk. That is what i get on my clothes on a daily basic and if that is not horrible enough, there will be days when Ray decided he wants to go on a massive milk drinking sessions and when his tiny stomach cannot contain the milk and 5 mins later, whatever he drank will end up on me!! Nice and warm still.....

Motherhood has indeed changed me, for better of cos. Now i am more patience and more tolerant of why things are the way it is. Being the head strong taurus, i can never understand why some things cannot be done my way. But that is the past and now i know things happened the way it was meant to be. So why push it? I might as well look at it from a different point of view and understand it, instead of dwelling on it, right?

Hmm.....motherhood is really a 24/7 job - sleep, long shower, hot meals, entertainment, girls night out etc all DEPRIVED. But i am so glad i applied for this job.