Little Cherry

Lil Ariel is finally going to be a big sister... after so long. We have been trying since during the days when we were staying in Depot till we shifted to Cantonment. (Hmm.. Actually there were breaks in between.) There were loads of unanswered prayers and disappointment every month. From trying very hard to trying halfheartedly to on the verge of giving up. Finally... God is giving us another blessing right after I quit my job. Told Darling that he should have let me resign earlier. Well... God will make things happen in His time.

Ariel is very excited about it. Actually Ariel is the one who told me I'm pregnant. One fine day on the way to school, she suddenly put her ear next to my stomach. I asked her what is doing. She said she is trying to hear if there is a baby inside. So I asked her if there is any. She answered yes. Though there have been past incidents whereby her intuition is not very accurate, I suspected that she may be right this time. I noticed that there were some unusual symptoms happening on me too. 

So that evening I bought a test kit and it gave the confirmation that I'm pregnant. I sent the picture of the result to Darling immediately and he replied who does it belong to. -_- So typical of him. Why would I send other people's test kit to him right? Tsk.

We waited 1 more week to visit Dr See Tho. Now it is more that 9 weeks old and supposed to be the size of a cherry. Hoho.

However this baby is giving me a very hard time. I do not remember Ariel did that to me except making me dashed to the toilet the moment I reached office just to puke out my breakfast. I'm having morning sickness, afternoon sickness, night sickness and middle-of-the-night sickness on different days. Appetite is very bad and I've lost around 1 kg. I'm experiencing weird mood swings; feeling happy for a while and crying for no apparent reason the next moment. Dr See Tho said it is a good thing cuz the more symptoms I have, the more healthy the baby is. I suspect it to console and pacify pregnant women so that they will not bug them. When a pregnant woman is having the minimal sufferings, people will just say "Oh you're one lucky woman". See my point. Hoho. 

Anyway 2nd trimester is coming. Totally looking forward to it because we can start shopping for baby stuff like cot, prams and some other stuff. LOL. Lame Darling asked why my stomach is not showing yet. Actually I hope it will not show too fast, cuz I do not want spend too much (if possible, none at all) on maternity clothes. 

Oh yah! Darling said since I am like so poor thing, suffering for the pregnancy, he will get me a gift after I gave birth. Noting it here so that Darling cannot deny next time. YOU know what is it ah. Yay!!

Alright! Time to sleep my morning away as usual. :)) 

We had moved!

Yes, finally we are staying all by ourselves again! We moved in on CNY's eve. We wanted to make use of the long holiday to let Lil Ariel get used to the new place. Keeping my fingers crossed, she is adapting to the new place quite well. She is sleeping by herself now! I will tell her story and tuck her to sleep. In the middle of the night she will still call for me. Then I will run to her room and tuck her back. Thank God I am a light sleeper.

It is definitely busier now, but I am enjoying it. My daily working-day routine (so far, actually 3 days only) will be:

5:30am: Wake up, bathe, wake Sam up, put make up (continue to wake Sam up till he is physically in the bathroom)
6.30am: Wash up whatever that was left in the sink (by Sam)
7.00am: Wake Lil Ariel (if she hasn't woken up yet), get her ready to go school (sometimes with some fight)
7.30am: Leave the house.

---Me At Work, Lil Ariel in School---

6.30pm - 6.45pm: Reach home, switch on the TV to keep her occupied, get the food that was prepared the night before from the fridge and dump into the steamer/water oven, making sure Lil Ariel is still on the sofa at the same time.
7.15pm - 7.30pm: Dinner time.
8pm to 8.30pm: Convince Lil Ariel that it is time to sleep.
9pm: Finally got her into her bed, imagine whatever story I can come up with (she wants a new story every night -_-) and tell her.
9.45pm: She is finally asleep. Wash up the dishes (Sam already cleared most of them. Love you darling!), prepare the dinner for the next day.
10.30pm: Wash up and get ready to end the day.

Here are some of the dishes that I prepared for the past 2 days.

I cooked pork belly using my Healsio Water Oven. Thank you Darling for getting it for me. I really love it to the MAX!

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Some pictures of her that I took some time ago, at HortPark.

Last but not least, 万事如意，心想事成！

My forever baby

I've always thought that my little girl is still like a baby and is not ready for a lot of things. However, recently I realized that I am the one who is not ready at all. Seeing her everyday, I did not notice how tall she had grown, how much she had developed. Suddenly she do not need me to put on her shoes for her, do not need me to change her diaper. She starts to talk back at me, throwing my words back at me. She is longer baby, she is a child.

Sometimes after I scolded her, she'll say, "Mummy, I don't like you anymore." Though she don't really mean it, I still feel a little sad to hear that. Soon she will really not need anymore. Her friends will hold a higher priority in her heart. Soon her own family will be all that she thinks about. My own parents went through this. I'm going to miss the baby her when that happens.

Still I want to give the best to her. She is my baby, forever.

My Lil Ariel has grown up and getting married!

nah... I'm exaggerating. but she is really growing at a very fast rate until I having some hard time adjusting to it. at the same time I am proud of her. As a very lazy mummy, I had been procrastinating to a point of don't-intend-to toilet-train her and teach her to wear her own shoes.

Few months ago, when I was helping her to wear her shoes, she suddenly told me she wanted to do it all by herself. I was like, oh.. okay. she put the shoe one the wrong leg, so I told her that it is the wrong one. she changed it to the other leg and she wore the shoes all by herself! I did not teach her!

Then when I wanted to wear her pants/skirts, she insisted to do it all by herself.

just last week, she suddenly told me she don't want to wear diapee (her way of saying diaper) anymore. I had my reservations about that, but she insisted. So I gave it a try, she managed to stay diapee-less for 1/2 day without accident. Then 2 nights ago, she told me she don't want to wear it to sleep and she really did it. she did not wake up to go toilet too!! still keeping my fingers crossed.

I love my gal!! I thank God for her.

Ariel has started her potty-training... finally

I had wanted to start putting her on potty quite some time ago, but by the time I placed her on the potty, she had pee-ed in her diaper. last week, she suddenly told me she wanted to pee in the potty. as usual I thought there would be no output. I WAS WRONG! she really pee-ed. I was so happy. then the second time she told me she wanted to do it was at night. being a lazy Mummy, I told her that she can pee in her diaper (I was lazy to carry her to the toilet when I was nua-ing on the bed). however, she insisted on going to the toilet. I guess when she see her classmates do that in school, she wanted to follow as well.

anyway, I found myself screaming at Lil Ariel very often, even at little mistakes. a lot of things I my mind which I cannot get definite answers. then poor Lil Ariel get it from me. I must keep reminding myself not to do that again.