Hip Hop Baby!!

Last Sat, baby mui went for his 2nd musical concert. The first one was a Chinese Orchestra and the second one is the Classical Orchestra by SSO. This concert has a Xmas theme and most of the musical pieces were familiar tunes that we have heard during this festive period for many many years.

However, the first 20 mins of the concert, they were playing Nutcrackers by Tchaikovsky and baby mui was sleeping away. But after the intermission, they started to play cheery xmas tunes and baby mui decided that he should hip hop his way through the pieces.

I sat through the concert with a grin on my face......both from the cheery music and the very fact that baby mui is tickling me to death....

Zzzz...

I have been deprived of my sleep lately.....sleeping at 11pm and waking up at least THRICE in the night by the kicking/ punching/ tickling of baby mui. Not that i am complaining, but each time i woke up in the night and i turned around and see pa pa mui sleeping so soundly...the evil thoughts just creeped into my mind. Here are some of the scenarios:

1) Wake up pa pa mui, i want WATER!
2) Pa pa mui....i think my left leg just twitch and i am having a cramp soon.
3) Pa pa mui, i cannot sleep, do u wana talk?

But on last Sunday, i really shook pa pa mui up and 6.30am to ask him to bring me out for breakfast...which he gladly did so. I felt bad but the hunger pang just refused to go away....and yes the stomach is showing now.

Story Time...

Last night, Pa Pa mui was all ready to read to baby mui a story book. Cos they said now its the best time to read or talk to the baby so that baby can identify with the parents and they will be able to recognise you in a crowded room by the voice.

So i passed pa pa mui a book, a book called - Let's Celebrate Father's Day. But pa pa mui refused to read the book, he said its absurd to read such a book to the baby. I was puzzled so i asked him why. He replied "Look at page 2".

Here's how the story went......

Page 1 - Tomorrow is Father's Day, let's make a card for our father.
Page 2 - Boy 1 said "But i dont have a father"
Page 2 - Boy 2 said "I have a father".

Did we go on??

Our Son - The Exhibitionist

Last Thu, we were finally cleared off the special clinic list as the developement of our baby mui seem rather favourable to the doctor. After 2 rounds of scan, we were finally back to our own gynae again.

During the 1st scan, the first image that we saw was our son with his legs opened and exposing himself to the whole room to see. Usually i would hear people saying that they have a hard time knowing the gender cos the baby usually will keep their legs tightly closed or they would turn and keep their gender view out of sight. But not our baby mui, almost in every view, we were able to see his gu gu bird....gosh.

People has commented how my tummy looks like for a 5 month, but the doctor has assured us that our baby is normal, in fact its between a medium and a large baby. However, we are unable to upload any more picture of baby mui as the doctor said that the baby has grown too big so they will concentrate on measuring the dimensions of the head etc instead.

FIY, a baby at 5th month should be able the size of a banana, thats abt 6.5 inches.

Ouch....

Ouch...this morning at my work desk, i felt a sharp pain just under my tummy and the pain seems to travel. I quickly refer to my bible www.babycentre.co.uk for reference. Apparently i am at my 19 week now so this is what they called the round ligament pain, and it's caused by the stretching of the muscles and ligaments that support your growing uterus. But secretly, i think its the baby happily stretching around in my tummy.

And....my feet size has just gone by 1 size. Luckily i bought a size 38 shoes last week, usually i am a size 37, i have hindsight leh.

On diet.....i can now eat ice cream as they are pack on the calories and saturated fat but it's also a great source of calcium. And of cos hamburgers which can be high in saturated fat but they're also a great source of iron.

Who's heading to Macdonald's with me now?

Finally.....

Yesterday must have the weirdest day in my life....i have stranger asking me to be careful of the bus door as it was opening, and i was standing at the steps of the front door. Those damm people just refused to move in. And i have a lady who gently knocked into me and she apologised and i didnt even have to tsk at her.

These are things that wouldnt happen on a Thursday morning....because its was a working day and everyone seems to be in a rush. But i was feeling really Zen about the whole thing.

In the evening, i took the train to Lot 1 to meet up with my sister and family again. As i caught into the train at City Hall, realised that there was no seat for me, took out my magazine and became to read for like 5 seconds when i realised a strange aunty staring at my tummy. She came over and whispered to me "You can have my seat" and she gave me a big grin like she won a prize in the science quest and the question was - Guess who is pregnant in the mrt.

Ahh...finally, my stomach is showing and hopefully will get more people to give up seats not just to me but other pregnant women. People in Singapore are still generally very insensitive when it comes to giving up seat to pregnant women and old folks.

Perhaps a cabin in the mrt just specially for the preggie and old folks will do the trick.....

Twinkle Twinkle HONEY star

Last night, i asked my youngest nephew to sing to my baby. As he was the height of my waist, he cupped his mouth behind his two hands and started singing....Twinkle Twinkle HONEY star.

Sweet yeah? But strange enough, i felt that he was using my belly button as the mike, and yes he is that tall.