Meeting the auties

My ah yi waited for janelle at my mummy place last Sunday fir her first appeareal. But Kogan arrange for a gathering for the unimates at our place so not able to make it.

Tonight there was a dinner gathering for the ah yis at yishun pinsi, after work I brought janelle over to says hello. We saw ah gong at the car park, n he requested to carry janelle. Ah gong carry janelle walked accross the restaurant from lobby b to lobby a proudly. Hee. Guess ah gong just enjoy the accompany of grandchildren around him.

Ahyi n Yi Shang commented that janelle looked very fierce. Hee. We had 3 dishes n leave the place cos janelle wanna to sleep alr. Reached home at 9 n after dress her down n give some milk. She fall asleep.

Month 5 Week 2

It's Janelle's first Chinese New Year.

Daddy is behind making sure that ah gong hold me well

Family Photos



Yi Yi Jean returned from australia specially dropped by to pass me an angbao.. Thanks yiyi. :)

First Chinese New Year

This year is Janelle's first chinese new year...

Told kogan our plan:
10.00am janelle will wake up, bath and milk
10.30am head down to his grandma place
11.45am had to left and head down to my mama place
12.00pm janelle need to be feed n and sarong to sleep

but he and mil dont believe it and want to test janelle..

so,

10.00am Janelle wake up, bath and milk, waited for janelle's gugu to come over
11.15am head down to kogan grandma place
12.10pm janelle starts to scream her lung out (noone dont know about janelle now), refused bottle.. i have no choice but to rush into a room and latch her. finally she calmed down... immediately we head down to my mummy place and put her into sarong for her afternoon nap. this is one of the very bad points of sarong..

when she woke up, she went over to my grandma place.. i placed her on the sofa after her milk, she looked at the fan and laugh out loud.. heee.. cute.. she enjoyed the accompany with uncle long and gong gong kiat but not my gugu and shen shen.. heee..

First day: Janelle earns $544 of angbao.. woo.. quite good.. and this amount will go into her saving account. :)

5 month 1 week

Just enjoy being in arms.

Mummy brought me to north point to get this headband for chinese new year..

Returned home, mummy cant wait to try it on for me..

Do i look nice in it?

A Night Out with the girls

Clearing my maternity leave this week from 19Jan to 23Jan (Balance 20 days). I will be having care of Janelle and my MIL went to salon to help.

Tonight took a night off and went for Cinderella Musical Play at esplanade with Jess and Amanada. MIL was too busy at salon so kogan and the maid take care of Janelle. But in the end, Kogan is in the study room rushing for his work and the maid took care of Janelle.

Before the Play, we have indian food @ Mirchi Taste of India. Yes Indian food, when i heard jess telling me they are at esplanada Level 2 Indian's restaurant over the phone, i was so surprised. heee, ppl who know jess will know that she not into such food. She perferred Jap food, HK food those that are light in taste. But not too bad, the food served was quite good. Total bill was abt $70 for 3.

When they first saw me in the restaurant with my new hairstyle, heee.. they said it was so much better :) look younger. haaa... i have to admit, after i have janelle, i dont have the time to really take care of myself. by the time she sleep, what i want is to sleep too.. to caught back all those hours of sleep i need. and over the 5 months, i realised that i've aged alot and kind of very messy in look. no time to shop, no time to makeup... remind me of a sentence, this world there is no ugly ppl but just lazy ppl.. guess am just lazy... finding so much excuses.. haaa

took the photo from jess's blog :)

at 阿嬤's house

bought janelle over to my mama place with kogan. while janelle is having her morning nap, me n kogan went to waterloo's street to pray n do some quick shopping. when returned home, mummy told me tat janelle didnt sleep at all. she even play with gong gong till laugh out so loudy... guess she had made ah gong day.. :) Janelle, you again made you mummy so proud of you.

Took 6-in-1 + Rotavix

Bought Janelle for 6-in-1 and rotavirx with Dr Lee this morning. when waiting for her turn, she fall asleep on her daddy's chest without any crankyness... omg... this is the first time.. am so pround of her.. :)

Review with Dr Lee:
1. Dr commented that janelle is taking too little milk as she should be taking 150ml every 3 hrs, instead of 120ml every 3to4 hours. and once she able to take more in the day, she should be able to sleep thru the night. if by 6 month, Janelle still wake up in the mid of night for milk, this will then continue for another few years.
[Yvonne] OMG... how to improve her intake in the day??? make the milk bottle nipple's hole bigger so that she can drink faster and more? give her milk more often? hmm.. i also dont know how?? any advice??

2. Recommended to start cereal from 6 months.. but it was ok to start from 5 1/2 months cos the first 2 weeks are mainly to a waste, they would usually play and learn how to swallow during this stage.
[Yvonne] went to read up a few websites for weaning. need to start planning.. Will post my plan up later.

3. Janelle's size are more towards above average
[Yvonne] will she be a big girl? oh no...

We have to wake her up for rotavix and 6-in-1, she is kind of cranky.. who ask us distrub her sleep.. hee... when she was jab with the 6-in-1, she cried for like 2 sec and stopped after mummy and daddy sayang her.. heee... good job janelle... you did us proud. :)

janelle 5th month photos

Enjoying the accompany of daddy and the fan (her fav toy, when she looked at the fan, she will laugh out loud) ...

Janelle nick name

Janelle is 5 months now and had quite a number of nick name. Here they are:

外公的大眼妹
奶奶的臭人
Daddy 的sweetie
Mummy 的宝贝（day time) n night monster (night time)
姑姑的小头风
姨姨的ah nel

a day off

chinese new year is coming, and i have yet to do up my hair and buy new year clothes. so took urgent leave today and went to 卡麗啦 with caiyu to do up our hair. as there are chemical apply to the hair, i afraid the chemical will into my bloodstream n to the breast milk.. tot some ppl says it wouldnt, but some says i would.. to be on the safe side.. i didnt feed janelle with breastmilk, i pumped and throw away the breastmilk in this 24 hrs. kind of wasted,but no choice for her Heath. And this mummy need to dress up, looked so 黄脸婆 so i need to do something to myself.. else i feel more depress.

my new hair style:

caiyu finished perming her hair earlier then me, so she went to fetch mummy and joey at chong fu and returned back to salon to pick me up. We went to fetch joelle from school. Yes!! 妹妹上學了。the first reaction she saw us, she smile and tell her teacher 阿麼。姑姑。she wanted to run towards us, but teacher stop her as the class had not ended... they just having their toilet break. i took a photo for her.. cute cute...

she saw me holding my phone, n she posed for me to take photo.. :)

her classmate must be wondering what she is doing

after fetching joelle, we went to bugis street to buy cny clothes.. wa.. the clothes there are cheap.. all selling at $10.. pianz.. why still need to spree from taiwan or go bangkok?? go bugis street can liao. i bought a dress and a top there.. guess is enough for my new year.. hmm... still missing of shoe.. hmm...

returned home after shopping, and my maid told me that janelle had just flip by herself. ai yo i missed that. but great to hear that she can flip already...

xmas dinner with 10 years old friends

A late update: On 19 Dec, we went for yakitori dinner ar Far East Plaza. The first dinner we have after having janelle... Really enjoy gather together to gossip. :) this year we have a special guest - Perline.. :)

photos can be found on http://phases-in-my-life.blogspot.com/2008/12/early-xmas-gathering.html (thanks mung for teaching me how to be a lazy blogger).

When i saw the photos on jess's blog, I find myself looked horrible and look like i'm still pregnant with 3 months.. haiz.. i have to work harder or spent money to say tummy good bye.

Janelle with mil in the night

My mil is kind enough to help mr take care of janelle tonight after she see me not having enough sleep yesterday. Actally I prefer to tale care of her myself. If I didn't returned home late yesterday, and she had moved her big matteress to the living room, I would bring janelle in with me. Haiz.

She woke at 12 for milk. My mil warm breastmilk for janelle, and top up with formula milk. While she is in my room making fm, i went out to carry janelle. And i gabe her the feed. Then i realised that She used the same bottle to make fm. I asked her and told her off. Next time cannot cos don't want 2 type of milk mix together. She kind of not happy. Then I ask her how much she had made, she told me 1.5 scope, bianz. I say what 1/2? She say half scope, by estimate. I was so angry, I told her never do that again, i will be eithet too concentrate which hatnful to her kiney or too ciliate which she don't have the nutrial. Then she angry but she keep quiet. Bianz. Make me angry n now worried till I can't sleep.

Month 4 Week 3

Let Janelle try to sit in the walker.. let her self entertain herself..

but see, she preferred her own thumb..

Janelle first word

now janelle starts to say something other then ah, er..

her first word is "ai ya".. *fainted*

Updated on 18 jan:My colleague told me ai ya had a silimar sound to ah ya in Malay which means daddy. Haa my girl pick up Malay? But when I told Kogan this, he so happy n say "see, told u alredy baby will call papa first"

Janelle's bank account

This afternoon, we brought janelle to north point for account opening.

We need to open a CDA account with either OCBC or standard chartered bank in order to get the one to one saving from government. We decided to go for OCBC which is more convenient for us.

Together with CDA account, we also open up one young saver account for janelle. this will used to save her angbao money.

 

Last day of 2008

Janelle took a nap at 9pm and woke up at 10pm,  refused to sleep till 1am.

guess she wanted to join us in counting down for 2009 :)