jadeyloves ~ fabulous

The past few days have been of great happiness & also some unhappiness.

Happy part - It’s D1 birthday. So happy to see her happy every single time. The 3 days of celebrations. Day 1 - Our little family of 4 & a gathering with her grandparents and uncle Alex at our place. (P.s. D1 it’s a wonderful day but you have gotten gastroenteritis from our neighbour & had thrown up a couple of times.) Daddy bought you the PJ mask tablets, lots of surprise eggs, a couple of small toys such as slime and a TOP that lights. Grandparents gave you a red packet as Grandma is feeling under the weather to go shopping as well. Uncle Alex bought u a frozen cake & a big Elsa doll whose dress lights out when pressed. We all enjoyed a zhichar dinner and the yummy cake.

Day 2 - Our little family celebrating with you in school with the m&m’s cake you chose. You being dressed in a Elsa dress handmade by your paternal grandma. It’s a sweet little celebration.

Day 3 - Our little family went out to Sentosa SEA Aquarium as per your request D1. Both you and D2 had lots of fun. You are running around and we bought the most expensive cotton candy ever for you! Lol $8 cotton candy!! But looking at the colourful led light stick on your candy and your happy face all is worthwhile. D2 on the hand was totally engrossed in looking at the fishes. After the SEA aquarium, we went to Vivo and there you shopped for more presents. Oh how much do we spoil you sweetie pie?

On the unhappy part- Aunty Nok is leaving and Aunty Thany came to replace her. But Aunty Thany cannot speak English at all and is really rough. Mummy dare not let her handle the 2 of you without monitoring her. End up Mummy had to do most of the work and it’s burning me out. I am so exhausted. It’s like paying money for no help. Hopes she improves in time or that Aunty Nok will return after settling her family issues. Aunty Nok is really sad leaving. She teared while leaving our house.

D2 u are more than 8 months already. Let’s recap what you have learnt!

* you can hold your own milk bottle

* you can flip very very fast

* you can sit steadily pretty much

* you can crawl quite a fair bit

* you babble much more

* you will ask for hugs

* you pushed yourself up from the floor & attempted to stand by yourself leaning your weight against the sofa

* you like to jump in your walker

* you have 6 teeth already

D1 finally recovers from fever since Friday. So tired, don’t dare to sleep because D1 fever keeps spiking till 39.6 especially in the night. So glad she is ok now.

This week D2 so constipated. Cried so badly while trying to push the poop out. And thus mummy introduced prunes to the diet. Worked like magic thereafter. Happy. D2 also tried organic banana apple porridge. D2 you are gonna be introduced to all the wonderful flavours bit by bit.

D2 u are so adorable and chubby chubby. My little ball.

Just some updates:

- u have started to scream & babble since 4th month

- u now can kinda eat those grinding teething biscuits

- u stare at us eat

- u know how to push and slap away the bottles

- u tried brown rice cereal, barley cereal, applesauce and pumpkin

- u can flip here and there

- can sit for awhile

- has 2 teeth

- flaps your hands

- smiles so much that we all love you so much

So fast, it’s the month of July. First 2 weeks have been pretty exhausting with many trips to the doc. D1 fell sick with fever & rashes, hubby fell sick with fever & flu, D1 revisited the doc after a week as she had not fully recovered, D2 started to sneeze & cough, me started to develop ultra sorethroat, fever & cold. Even the helper started falling sick. Thankful that mummy & daddy came over to help on so many days.