My worst Xmas Day!

Isnt Santa Claus suppose to distribute presents on Xmas day and make children from all over the world happy? Why did my Santa Claus gave me 4 alphabets which I detest the most on Xmas day??

Having placed the girls in childcare had always been my last option. Due to some Chua family issue, MIL can no longer take care of my girls. Maid also chose to leave us for a higher pay (just $20 higher!) with another employer. Everything happened close to each other that caught us unexpected!

My mum will be the caregiver for Andre & the girls will be at childcare near my mum's house. This is the best (but not our ideal) option we could think of.

My greatest fear of putting them w CC is them falling sick frequently and passing the germs/virus to little Andre. He's too young for medication! Ofcourse, the most dreadful thing will be HFMD.

And after entering the school (this school only open in Oct 2011) for 3 weeks, there is 1 case found and that boy was in their class! Damn it, KNN, TMD, @&$?"@)$!!

Parents were invited to attend the Xmas party on 22nd Dec. Parents were to bring some food to share. We were so looking forward to it as the children will be performing a play - The Happy Prince. My girls had been learning the dance steps for 2wks and we had some sneak preview at home. But the party was cancelled due to 1 case found on 21st Dec. Parents were not allowed to attend the party anymore but the kids would proceed among their own class.

The girls skipped class on 22nd & 23rd with fear they might caught the virus from the 2nd/3rd n so on victims incase they managed to escape from the 1st one.

But...No no no...on Xmas Day night, Chloe was having fever. We checked their mouth/hand/foot everyday since we gotten the news but there was no signs. But to my horror on that night, we saw many tiny red spots n 2-3 ulcers poping out in her mouth! What a present Santa Claus gave!

Elsie definitely couldn't be spared. She either get it from that boy in school or from Chloe.

This morning (28/12/11), Elsie got hit too! She's now running a fever @ 38.4.

Hui & I were really exhausted. I had fallen ill too with a bad flu n cough. Hui & I had been trying hard to quarantine EC and not letting them into our MB room because Andre is inside. Poor Andre had never step out of the room since Xmas Day till now. We had to wash our hands with soap so many times throughout the day and whenever stepping into the MBR. Mask had to be worn whenever we carried Andre or go near him. It's very tedious and we had to keep enforcing EC to wash hand as and when until they kept asking us "why need to wash hand again?"

Seeing Hui working so hard juggling on the household chores, taking care of ECA, lack of sleep and neglecting his work breaks my heart too. I went to see doctor yesterday (27/12) and the medicine from Dr Chua is so strong that kept me sleeping for 5hrs+ during the day, with in between 30mins awake to pump milk and concuss back to bed.

I'm feeling really down with all these and I indirectly vent my anger on the girls whenever they misbehave. After the scolding/beating, I feel terrible and breakdown infront of them that day (26/12). What a bad mother I am that my children had to comfort me with "Mummy, why you cry? Because we naughty huh?"..and sat on the bed keeping silent and see my tears dripping and dripping....

Hope all these will be over real soon and everyone will be back in good state - healthy and happy. My wish to end year 2011 will be Andre be spared from HFMD!

I'll be officially back to work really soon. It's another challenge ahead of us with all my night conference calls and kids at Clementi. In Canto: 真还没眼看了!

I should blog!

So many things happen for the past 2 mths. Wish to blog down every single of them but no time!

A flash back recap:

- Maid gone on 17th Sept. Maid-less now for coming 1mth. No intention to engage a new one at the moment.

- Sis & family back for home visit from Texas from 17th-28th Sept. Went out almost everyday with her & family. Adults were very tired but the kids enjoyed themselves lots.

- Poly friend, Evelyn's wedding on 8th Oct. I'm one of the Jiemei & had to reach her house by 7am. Damn tired that day but it was a fun day, especially during the tekan groom session in the morning.

- 15th Oct, our 5th year wedding anniversary. Received a bouquet of blue roses delivered to the house in the morning. Hui told me to count the number of stalks but I refused. Too many...Later he revealed...99 stalks!!

Hopefully I have time to blog in more details about each individual items stated above.

Welcome Baby Andre Chua Jia Zhe!

On 2nd Aug morning when I did my first pee, I saw blood! Plenty. Guess it might be the mucus plug. The night before, I was having a hard time sleeping because I had painful contractions. This is it!

Hui did an emergency call to MIL to ask him come over our house to look after EC so we could go visit the gynae. As expected, Dr Chua wanted me to admit for 1 day for monitoring of contractions.

Stayed for 1 night in Thomson Medical Centre and during the day, the contractions seems better and bleeding was reduced. But when night came, bleeding came back and contractions was at 10-15 mins apart. It was damn painful lor! I never had such contractions pain during my first pregnancy with EC as they were born premature without the real labour contractions. I had E-Csec back then due to placenta problem. So I guess this time this is how the so-called labour contractions feel! Everytime it happen, I almost wanted to tear!

The next morning, Gynae came for visit and say I am still in the early labour stage as contractions is not so intense yet and bag is not burst. She asked if I wanted to be discharge and wait for waterbag to burst itself then admit again or straight go for csec. She expected baby should be out within these few days as head already engaged, mucus plug out and contractions started. Hui's concern was what happen if we went back home? I have to monitor closely that the baby is still moving and all the bleeding and contraction, will it cause distress to the baby since it already started and we are not in hospital to monitor?

I have the options of VBAC (virginal birth after Csec) or go via elective csec. This 2 options had been in our mind since my wk34 term and Hui & I simply can't choose which option to go. VBAC has it's risk especially the wound ruptured thing which happen to 1 out of 200 mothers. If that happens to me, it's a danger to both mother and baby. And also the uncertainty of natural birth where I might ended up E-Csec again which will choked up a hefty hospital bill.

So end up we choose 11th Aug for the csec date but seems baby wanted to come out earlier. During gynae ward visit on 3rd Aug, she asked again if I wanted to consider VBAC. But after a serious discussion with Hui and also thanks to my best pal Gek Eng for some advise which supported my concerns, we decided to skip all the risk and uncertainties of natural birth and go ahead with elective csec via Epidural. Also because I had gone through a scary labour during my first pregnancy, it kind of gave me a phobia of going through natural birth and entering the observation ward again.

So we push forward to 3rd Aug since I was already admitted on 2nd Aug. So last minute the OT room was booked for my csec at 2pm.............

Within 10 mins or so, I've heard Andre's first cry!


Fresh from the oven! Weighing 2.72Kg, Height 49cm.


Before cleaning up


Gift from DiDi to Chloe


Gift from DiDi to Elsie


Taking turns to sayang DiDi. They are very protective towards this little brother. Doesnt allow others to get near besides Hui & I!

Joke of the night on 25/07/11

Lights were off at 11pm and we were ready in bed to make EC to sleep. 4 of us had some conversation in the dark as the girls were talking non-stop and refused to keep quiet.

Some cute & funny conversations we had:

Elsie: A is for apple. Apple makes the sound 'Aaa' and 'ple ple ple'.
Chloe: Papa, what sound does Elsie make?
Papa: Elsie makes the sound "I want mummy, I want mummy!" So what sound does Chloe make?
Chloe: I want papa, I want papa!

* Hui & I burst out laughing *

Elsie: Mummy, my face itchy!
Mummy: Dun scratch huh, papa say itchy must use beat, wait scratch got scar.
Elsie: Papa, can I beat my face?
Papa: Cannot! I beat for you!
Elsie: Dun want! I beat myself. Thank you!!

* It was the last 2 words that made us LOL. Didnt expect she will add in 'Thank you' and said in such a polite tone. Funny! *

And the following conversation took place few nights ago...

Mummy to Papa: Oh, I forgot to eat my iron pills again!
Elsie: Mummy, you say iron huh?
Mummy: Yes, iron.
Elsie: Iron cannot eat wan! Iron is auntie use to iron the clothes!

* Speechless *

Birdnest! Cordyceps!

Had been having my weekly dosage of birdnest since I'm about 5months preggy. As there was promotion on birdnest and mum knows that supervisor quite well, Hui got soft and bought almost $500 supplies of birdnest that could last me right up to the day I give birth (with intake per week) after syko by the supervisor. It's not the best grade, it's not the lousiest grade, at least it's under the average grade.

So every sunday when I went back mum's place at clementi, there would be a bowl of birdnest waiting for me to enjoy at night after my dinner. Sometimes I do share with Hui...He only can eat 1/4, the rest are mine!
Sometimes I do share with Elsie, but only let her take a few mouths coz heard young kids cant take too much.
Sometimes I do want to share with Chloe but when she saw the birdnest, she says "Eeeeee" and ran off! This girl don't know how to appreciate Ho Liao!

My 爱心 birdnest - brewed by mum, paid by hubby!
I had also had my 2 dosage of soup that consist Cordyceps, chicken, red dates and other ingredients (which I don't know call what!). This is to be taken once a month after week 32 to strengthen the baby's lungs and immune. But because cordysep is very heaty, I only took it once a month.

I'm so blessed, isnt it? Or is it because this time round it's a boy so they are all willing to spent and feed me with all the very nourishable food?? Biased?? Hmmm....

Less than a month to POP!

Water Retention!

Water retention starts kicking in few days ago on my leg and feet. Today I could feel the pain when walking and driving. Compared to first pregnancy where I had swollen feet starting week 20++, this time it's considered late as I'm into week 34.

All I can do now is drink more water, walk lesser and try to lift my leg on a pillow while sleeping. My concern now is sending EC to MIL's place every morning and drive myself back home. If Hui send them over, he will be super late for work and it's expensive for him to park the car in his office carpark. So hope I can still drive for short distance until I deliver.

Hopefully the water retention will subside soon and not come back till my delivery. Few more weeks left to POP! Looking forward to my long maternity leave & very curious to see who this boy will look like!

My "Elephant" feet! :(

I Can Read

After stopping wkend class with Julia Gabriel (parents accompied class) in Dec 2010, I had been wanting to start them with another school that required NO-Parents accompanied. I hope to get them prepare for Nursery next year where they will enter the classroom themselves without the parents around since they are not attending any 2 or 3 hours playgroup during the wkdays.

E&C had started their first lesson with I Can Read on 2nd July. Before attending the class and get enrol, they had to go for a diagnostic assessment to see if they are ready for this school and to determine where their standard are. I booked an appointment with them on 25th June for the assessment with Hougang Green branch.

The tester/teacher was an angmor and it was a very simple test showing them a piece of paper with 29 pictures on it. The teacher will go through every single of them and E&C had to tell her the name for that picture (eg, boy, girl, apple, tiger etc). Chloe was tested in a room with Hui around while I was playing with Elsie in another room. After Chloe was done, it's Elsie's turn.

Chloe did better with a score of 19/29 while Elsie was 17/29. The teacher tried to test them on phonics sound but they didnt do well at all since they are not exposed to phonics yet! I told the teacher they do not know any phonics, so the teacher just strike off that page and put N/A!

Anyway, after the assessment, the teacher said they can straight go to the TCS (THINKING AND CREATIVE SKILLS) class and skip the first level (LITTLE LEARNERS). The assessment is not really about how well they do (if they can answer all questions, what for I still send them to school!) but whether they can speak and pay attention to what the teacher says. Luckily E&C did follow all instructions by the teacher and I felt they did pretty well. At least not running here and there while the teacher was asking them questions. We can really see how the girls had grown compared to the classes attended in Zoophonics and Julia Gabriel!

Since Hui was not in Singapore, his elder sis/BIL were very kind to send us to school and later back to Clementi (my mum's place). This big tummy mummy had problem driving long distance now so I'm glad they offered this help. If not I would have taken a cab.

First day of the class was great and better than I expected. I thought they would cry and insisted that I go into the classroom with them. Instead, they took off their shoes and walked into the classroom themselves!

After they went into the classroom, I quickly left the place before they changed their mind and wanted to drag me in. Went lunch with SIL/BIL, chit-chatted and 1.5hours just zoomed passed.

No crying or misbehaved for the whole 1.5 hours class according to the teacher. Their teacher is another angmor which I like about this branch (not sure if other branch teachers also angmor?) because it means no singlish (all the lah, leh, lors!) will be heard and I would think they can learn proper english through a foreign teacher compared to the locals.
* The teacher who teaches my girls class at Zoophonics doesn't leave me a good impression due to her spoken English. *

Their class are all the same age group (the 2008s) as they try to group the same age students together in 1 time slot. So cute to see all the little ones of their same age walking out of the classroom happily and waving goodbye to each other and the teacher when I went to pick them up after their lesson.

I think they enjoyed the lesson with this school very much as they kept talking about it after school. Asked them if they wanted to go to this school again, they shouted "YES!". Hopefully by end of this Term, their phonics skills will improve and able to pronounce words better. Let's see...

Their school polo-shirt. Looks so cute on them!
The back comes with a very nice print too!

His N number of business trip - Day #1

Hui left for his N number of business trip again this week. Took the 2355 flight yesterday and had received his SMS on 12.50PM that he had touched down Paris airport.

Again yesterday I had a hard time settling that Daddy's girl to sleep. Always crying for Papa and insist Hui must sleep with her. We told her Daddy is taking the plane today to go buy toys for them. Chloe accepted and even bid goodbye to Hui happily at the door. But she didnt know that this goodbye will last for 1 whole week!

When I was pacifying her to sleep, she started crying for Hui and even told me "I want to wait for Papa come home with the toy then I sleep". During the midnight, she also woke up crying for Papa and caused me to have disturbed sleep in between the night coaxing her back to bed.

The next morning when she was awake, she woke me up and said "Why Papa havent come home!". And this conversation goes on and on throughout the day time today...

I hope she can get settle down within these 2 days without Hui around and give me back my sleeping hours during the midnight! Elsie on the other hand, well...she's the Mummy's girl so as long as I'm around, she will be fine. Luckily I only had to handle 1 of them. If both also clinge to Daddy more, I will have a very busy 1 week!

Hui will be back on Sunday, 3rd July with my LongChamp bag & presents for the girls! Heard from BIL (who is there few days ago) it's having sale now everywhere in Paris! If not for the big tummy, I would have followed along! :(

The countdown begins today.........

Happy Father's Day

Ever since chan 8 showed the variety show "Drypers 絕世好爸", Hui is motivated to be one too. There was a part where the contestants (the Daddies) had to cook a meal for his wife and kids. Hui had then shown interest in cooking and was seen in the kitchen preparing lunch on Saturday for the family when we had the time. He said he wanted his kids to proudly mention infront of his friends that "我们是吃爸爸煮的饭长大地!". So far he had tried to cook Nasi Lemak, Fried Bee Hoon, Green/Red bean soup, barley and mee sua (with all sorts of ingredients in the mee sua soup).

I don't mind giving him this honour since I don't like to cook. I prefer to be the discipline mistress in the house looking over the kids education and disciplinary matters. :)

I don't like to cook because I hate the aftermath - WASHING! After whopping up a spread, the kitchen cabinet, table top and floor will be so oily. And I hate the washing part too of all the oily plates and untensils. During home econs lessons during my secondary days, my partner was usually the one doing the washing while I did the cooking/baking. Of course I wouldn't mind cooking some simple stuffs that would not make the kitchen oily. Like spagetti, maggi mee, porridge/mee sua for the girls etc. But definitely not dishes that needs plenty of oil especially deep frying! Even baking, Hui is always the one doing the washing of the damn oily buttery tray while I do the baking. He said I had no skills in washing as the tray is still oily after I wash! Well, fine!

Anyway, I had plans to get cookery book for him as Father's Day gift but there are too many cook book out there that I'm not sure which to choose. Yesterday while shopping with Hui at Popular, Hui picked up 2 cook book. It comes with book I and II. While he was still deciding whether to buy and which one should he buy, I grab BOTH and head towards the cashier. This is the perfect gift for him on Father's Day! It also benefits me as I will have scrumptous food to eat on wkend cooked by my hubby. Well, practice makes perfect and I don't mind to be his guinea pig. How can I still complain when I don't cook and there's someone who is willing to cook for the family, isnt it?

The 2 cookery book for him - from Mediacorp with receipe from the show "3菜1汤".

And this is the Mother's Day gift from him to me in May. Compared this to the 2 books I bought for him, I can buy 10 of that cook book!
It's not about the price, but the thoughts that counts, right? *wink*

Elsie & Chloe's 3YO birthday

E&C turned THREE!!!

28th May:

We had a small celebration with my mum on 28th May as it was their lunar birthday. Mum bought a pretty disney birthday cake for them where they get to have their first birthday song sang, cut and eat their first birthday cake. After that, we went out for dinner at Xi Men Ding(Taiwan Cuisine) @ Vivocity and later shop awhile at Toys'R'Us hoping to find something to buy for them. End up couldnt find any suitable present but we did left the place with 2 swimming vest to use on their birthday party the next day at the chalet swimming pool.

First birthday cake cutting at my mum's house.
29th May:

As it was a Monday on their actual day (30th May), we hold the party on 29th May, Sunday. We booked a chalet in March at Aloha Loyang Seaview Bungalow 1 for a 2D1N stay. Initially wanted a 3D2N but the Saturday (28th May) was full house. We've got a pretty good rate compared to the public rate because Hui's dad is a civil servant. But still, it was not that cheap because it was a super peak period (Sunday + school holiday).

Hui & I were really busy for the past few weeks preparing and finalising the party items. Now we're glad the party was over, but I had more parties upcoming for me to prepared! It's my Boy's Full month party in Sept and my niece's 3Yo birthday party in Sept too! My sis will be coming back Singapore from US and she wants to hold a BIG party for her daughter's 3YO. So I am responsible to help plan the party - from venue to buffet to cake ordering to party favours to invite card and many many more!

Ok, anyway let's come back to EC birthday party...It was a great fun for the girls as they got to cycle and swim on Sunday after we check-in. We reached the chalet at about 2.30pm but we could only get the key at 3pm (actual check-in time). So we walked around the premise, while the girls cycle around the premise. Their cycling skills had greatly improve and able to maneuver around freely.

Size of the bungalow is really big with 4 bedrooms come attached with bathroom each, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a balcony.
Having fun at the pool with Hui & SIL while the other adults stayed in the chalet to start decorate the place.
After the swim, both concussed in bed for 1hour+ while the rest continued to decorate up the place with balloons and banners. Buffet and birthday cake came about 6+pm. Guests tuck in at the buffet spread around 7pm and we had cake cutting at about 8pm.

Decoration is up!
Self-made backdrop done by Hui. He burnt 2 days of midnight oil to DIY it. I only contributed the birds & grass :p! This year theme is PLAYGROUND!
The buffet spread.
Everyone raved about the birthday cake. It comes with 4 lamp post that lights up! See how it shine on the cake when the lights are out (right bottom corner pic)!
Some family shots.
At night after the guests left, the girls kept nagging that they wanted to open up the presents. So after clearing up the place, we went into the room (with aircon!) and started the Open Presents Ceremony! They had fun tearing up the wrappers, shouting, clapping and laughing away!

Last few shots before leaving the chalet.
The next day (30th May):

Had breakfast before we check-out and left the place at 10.30am. We brought the girls to eXplorerkid. Since it's their actual birthday today on Monday, Hui & I took leave to accompany them. :)
Among all the indoor playground, I liked eXplorerkid and Polliwogs the most. It's very spacious and the obstacles courses are big enough for parents to climb together with the kids. We've tried Fidgets but it was horrible. I had a hard time squeezing and climbing with the kids! Anyway, Hui and the maid were responsible to look after the girls and play with them while I took photos from outside.

After 1 hour, we left the place and head to Pastamania for lunch. The girls were so hungry by then! Later, the girls wanted to sit on the Ferris Wheel ride and of course we obliged since it's their birthday! Hui took the ride with them while I took photos again. It's not cheap lor, just 2 rounds cost $6.50 per ticket! Adult and kids same price!

Hui with the girls in the Ferris Wheel ride
On the way to carpark, they saw these machine and insist wanted to get 1 of it. Hui immediately dig out his coins as he feel we should not reject them on their birthday!
We decided to call it a day and head home to take a nap for everyone. The girls fell asleep in the car on way home and were still sleeping when we reached home and placed them on their bed. Hui & I also took a short nap for about 1 hour. Extremely tired!

When everyone's awake, we left the house at about 6pm to return the Helium tank which we rented for the party, followed by dinner at Swenson@City Square Mall. FIL & SIL came along to join us for dinner.

Complimentry 2 firehouse ice-cream for the girls from Swenson on their birthday.
After dinner, we quickly head back home to open up their last present. The Haenim Big Block which was delivered to our house on Sunday morning. We didnt had time to open it up and play with the girls when it was delivered as that time we were preparing and rushing for the chalet. So guess the final finale for their birthday was to open up that big box which they wanted to play with since it was delivered!

Hui's initial targeted present was the Grow'n up Scramble N Slide Play Center which cost $299.95 and he requested his siblings to share and purchase it for EC. Smart guy, ask his sisters to pay for such an expensive toy!


Due to space constraint at home and we do NOT live in landed property, I seriously don't want such a big toy to take up so much space in my living room. So we asked the sisters to hold on to the purchase while we think about it first....

2 weeks ago, I was surfing the SMH forum BP thread and came upon the thread that was selling this Haenim big block. Suddenly I just felt this is the RIGHT present for them now at 3YO! It's educational, creative & FUN to play with at their age now!

This Big Block caught my eye when the girls were about 1yrs+ old. That time, Hui rejected this purchase because he felt it doesnt suits the girls' age and will end up being the adult playing with it. Soon I totally forgot about this toy until now it pop back into my mind again! It's much cheaper than the toy Hui wanted to get and since Hui's sisters did not know what to buy for EC, we decided they will purchased this for them while I do the ordering. :)

The Monday ended with 2 satisfying kids concussed into deep sleep by 11.30pm, together with the adults!

Happily opening and building the living room design with the big blocks, together with Hui & SIL.
Elsie & Chloe's 3 Years Old Birthday Full Set Photos

They are THREE soon!

Venue booked. Birthday cake settled. Left food and logistic. Again this year is only a small affair with Hui's family and relatives. Also specially invited TGE and her family to the party as their son is the same age as E&C. Every year without miss, the kids will attend each other birthday party to celebrate this special event together. And 2nd May, we will be attending Raphael's 3 yrs old party at his house!

One more month to go....

I am Thirty!

It's time for a change of NRIC and get rid of the old ugly Primary 6 photo which the people always laugh at question me when I showed them my IC!


This is more ME now!
*Nope, I am NOT gona show you my primary 6 NRIC photo. :P *

Books & more books

Since last year, we had tried to read storybooks before bedtime to E&C, but later it didn't continue as we were getting lazy. Later when SIL bought a fisher-price flap book for E&C few weeks ago, the girls started to enjoy the story-telling session again.

Now every night before sleep, they will come over to the study room to grab a book and walk back into the bedroom and insist us to read for them.

We also adopt the Julia Gabriel style of a short introduction before story-time:
1) Asking them to say out what is their name in full sentence! - "My name is XXX".
2) Asking them to cover their eyes and count to a specific number we request, then say "peek-a-poo".
3) Singing "Are we sitting down for story-time...Shhhh". So they will put their finger on the mouth and goes "Shhhhhhhh".

That's the pre-requisite to start the story time. Usually the story book I picked to tell have to be short stories with short paragraphy. Too lenghty makes the session boring and drag their time to get into bed.

The story-telling had to be very creative and funny. We will make funny noise, funny action and throwing pillow or whatever crazy things we can think of to match some parts of the story line. Guess that is why they enjoyed sitting down and listening to the story from start till end.

Daddy telling story of 乌鸦喝水 to the girls
Bought some books via the SMH forum today and total damage around $50!
12 books for $42. If buy individually will be $3.80. Heard retail was selling at $4.82 per book. So quite a good steal!

THE NEW READ IT YOURSELF - mini hard back (MHB)
1) Read It Yourself Level 1: The Magic Porridge Pot
2) Read It Yourself Level 1: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
3) Read It Yourself Level 2: The Gingerbread Man
4) Read It Yourself Level 2: The Three Little Pigs
5) Read It Yourself Level 3: The Elves and the Shoemaker
6) Read It Yourself Level 3: Jack and the Beanstalk
7) Read It Yourself Level 4: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
8) Read It Yourself Level 4: The Wizard of Oz


Key Words with Peter and Jane
9) 1a Play With Us
10) 2a We Have Fun
11) 3a Things We Like
12) 4a Things We Do


Following chinese story books cost $2.50 each. I feel is cheap with good quality of printing and the chinese wordings comes with HanYuPinYing. But maybe if I buy from China it might be cheaper? :P
Previously I've already bought 乌鸦喝水,龟兔赛跑 and 孔融让梨. Now 2 more to add to the collection!

Chinese story books
1) 丑小鸭
2) 渔夫和金鱼

丑小鸭
孔融让梨. Very colorful pictures

Summarise entries

New year, new blog url & layout which I started creating 2 months back. How? Like this new design? Tag your feedback at the tagboard!

Many things to say since my last entry. But I didn't want to go into any indepth details since it's over for some time already. Just a quick summary:

12th Nov 2011: Celebrated our 10th pator anniversary on this day where both of us took leave. Went to Kbox KTV, followed by dinner at following. No gifts to each other, but it's the quality time spent together without the kids around.

This was a place we frequent quite often during our later stage of pator days. We like this venue because of the environment and also it's located very near mum's place (I am staying at Clementi previously!)
24th Dec 2010: Xmas celebration with Hui's family. Hui was able to book out from reservist on this day so he got to celebrate with us. Nice dinner with nice companion (too bad 2nd SIL kena dengue n was hospitalise, so she had to give this party a miss). Gift exchanged was usually the highlights of the event. Great thanks to elder SIL, I've got a Kate Spade bag for my gift which was way over our agreed budget! Love it to bits and will put into good use in few months time!

Their cutie little outfit on this day
My gift from elder SIL. We had draw lots earlier to see who was buying gift for who. Was quite surprised to receive this as my gift exchanged!
25th Dec 2010: Stayed home with the girls as Hui had to book in early morning and stayed in camp till next day.

26th Dec 2010: Poly friends boxing day party at my humble house. Again like last year, took many photos infront of my tall Xmas tree. This year we had full ladies force - the 4 ladies are present (TGE, Eve, LQ & me). Some of them brought their partners along and this group is getting bigger! Andrew also had his ROM today and joined us later in the evening with his wife. Happy for him! Gifts exchanged were only for the kids who attended.

CNY 3-6 Feb 2011: Only managed to go house visiting for first day. 2nd day onwards Chloe was having high fever (highest temp@39.2!) and we were confined at home for the rest of long weekend!

Chloe's CNY Day 1 outfit
Elsie's CNY Day 1 outfit
Their outfit on Day 4 - Sun 6th Feb. Chloe recovered and kept saying wan gai gai. So last day of the long weekend, we brought them out.
11th Mar 2011: My birthday celebration at MBS hotel. I have very good corporate rate at MBS, hence booked a 1 night stay. It's was a great day spent with Hui & the darlings. Went swimming at skypark after we check-in and followed by room service dinner. Hui's family drop by the room with a birthday cake at around 9+pm and we had a noisy (laughter filled the room) cake cutting session in the room :).

View from our hotel room @ 36th floor.
15th Mar 2011: Chloe had a fall! A bad fall! It happened at 11pm where they were getting ready to sleep. Chloe was jumping on the bed and singing away. Daddy had asked her to stop and just when Daddy was on the way to stop her, she slipped and fell off the bed. Initially we thought she only knocked her head but it seems more serious than we thought. She couldn't sleep that whole night complaining her shoulder was painful. She didn't dare to move her right arm much either and doesn't allow us to touch her.
So the next day morning we brought her to KKH A&E for x-ray. Indeed she had a fractured collarbone and was on sling for 1.5 week. Luckily this girl was still quite obedient and willing to put on the sling, even when sleeping. We told her not to move too much on her right hand she followed all our instructions. Whenever other people wanted to touch her right hand to take a look at the wound, she would move away and shouted at them.
We even brought her to the senior Orthopaedic specialist at Gleneagles the next day after visiting KKH. His consultation was really expensive, but at least we got our peace of mind that it's nothing too serious and the bone will heal and restructure back itself. At their age now, the bone heal faster than a grown-up adult so asked us not to worry.

24th Mar 2011: We brought Chloe back to KKH to see the specialist which we had made an appointment earlier on at the A&E. The specialist claims her bone is healing well and nothing needs to be done. She could even be off the sling and advise us not to restrict too much of her movement and let her move naturally. Just need to be more careful not to let her hurt the shoulder anymore. We were very relief to hear that and Chloe was very happy to remove the sling too. We kept asking her if her shoulder still pain and she always gave us a smile and commented "Not pain already lah!"

2nd April 2011 If you looked at the right column, you will notice a big news. Well, at least to those who didn't know about the news yet, it might consider big?
Yes, Mummy Chua is pregnant again! Tested positive in middle Dec 2010.

KiaSu me did 2 test to ensure it's not false alarm!
Went to see my Gynae on 18th Dec. Indeed, it was confirmed by Gynae that I am pregnant and this time she only saw one sac! Lucky me! At week 15, she had already confirmed with us the gender but Hui preferred to wait till week 20 detail scan to double confirm it. 2nd April, we went for our detail scan. Everything went smoothly and the baby is fine without abnormalies discovered. Gender is also confirmed by the Senior Radiographer - same as to what our Gynae had mention . Needless to say here, you should know what gender #3 is from the right side of the blog :)