1st wedding anniversary

Time flies. This time last yr, I was busy and excited on my wedding day. Beautiful gowns, nice makeup/hairdo and being the center of attention. One yr later, i am tired, shacked and fat...haha but with a new addition to the family, now there are 3 of us :) So what did we do to celebrate our 1st yr anniversary? There is no romantic dinner or a relaxing getaway for 2. Now, all outings have to take into account that we are bring a bb along and the fact that i need to pump every 4 hrly. So we actually went to Underwater World. So "family" right..lol... Skyler is now at the stage whereby he likes to see lights and any moving objects, so we feel that Underwater World is the best place which we can bring him and he would love to see all the fishes swimming ard

The cheeky bon bon all ready to go gai gai.

Skyler's first bus right (@ sentosa blue line). He was sleeping thru out the whole journey, but that little bugger woke up right before we were abt to enter Underwater World. Talking abt knowing the right time, he sure is good at it!

Not interested in taking photo, but instead was looking at the fishes that were swimming above his head..lol

With mommy, but still looking at the fishes

There were alot of fishes but i particularly like the jellyfish. They looked so elegant and pretty floating ard.

After that, we headed down to Carousel for dinner. Its my 2nd time there but hubby's 1st. I liked their seafood selection. So fresh!

Baby lobsters and oysters are the best!

The main courses are so so only. But the have quite a no of live station which include the common pasta station and chinese food stations; hanianese chicken rice (thats comes with rice balls), loh mee, tim sum, fried quak teow etc. Dessert also so so only. One thing good abt Carousel is that, if u are gg to celebrate ur frens (note: not to celebrate your own birthday), you can order their cake and from FAR FAR away, they will bring the cake to you and SING in a very loud voice, their own Carousel version of birthday song and the whole restuarant would know..hahah its pretty special..but like i say, its good to celebrate the birthday of others but not own self..lol..

One funny incident that happened to us at Carousel: I requested for a glass of hot water so that i can warm up Skyler's milk. In fact, i did tell the waiter what the hot water is for and i did point to my bottle..after a while, the waiter came back with this:

A "plate" of hot water....took my ages to warm up the milk...

Love this shot, Skyler's wats up look

Happy 2 months

Happy 2 months Skyler boy! Today marks your 2nd month birthday. And how we celebrated it? With LOTS and LOTS of other Jul babies! Haa..its just a co-incident that the Jul babies gathering falls on the same day.

I took the first step and went out with Skyler alone, without any aid, ie no carrier or stroller. I hand carried him all the way. Luckily he was a good boy and sleep thru out. He only woke up for the phototaking and his feed, then he went back to sleep. No fuss, no cranky, no crying. Good boy ya Skyler!

Its was a very successful gathering with ard 20 babies. Managed to meetup with alot of mothers who we have only chatted in forum or msn. At least now I can put a face to the nick that i am chatting with :)

There are so many babies, we got to take photos in batches as the sofa is not big enough to hold all of them

Hubby's birthday

Happy birthday hubby! Hope you like your birthday arrangement..ahhaha which is practically doing nothing for most part of the day :P

As a birthday privilege, i release hubby of his nite feeds and let him sleep thru till 11am+ next morning. He woke up for lunch, laze ard a bit and went back to bed! Slept till evening , wake up, sing him birthday song then we went out for dinner. Sounds pretty boring for a birthday celebration right. But when u have a young bb with you, you would understand and cherish watever rest u can take and sleep all you want! I long for a 8hrs sleep without any interruption! Looking fwd to my birthday (hint hint :p )

Ordered cake from Awfully Chocolate and its AWFULLY DELICIOUS! The chocolate is so damn rich and yummy! We take a series of photos with Skyler and his expression are damn funny. lol.. see for yourself

Rum and Cherry cake from Awfully Chocolate



Guess how old is hubby?

Take photo with daddy - ok i must be patient if i wan to eat cake

Ok, take photo with mummy too..can you guys hurry up *sian look*

Hai..still must take family photo?!

Quick lah!

Wah..nice candle (i love lights!)

Not my cake? Sob sob

Nv, not my cake i also wanna eat

Still must blow candle?!

Ok finally can eat cake alr

Sinful but yummy!!

Boss in his stroller

Skyler seeing us eating also cry for his share

Jap buffet at IMM

Updates

Hello ppl, sorry for not blogging more recently cos was really busy and tired. For now, i can and will only update my blog or surf the net when i am pumping, other "free time" would be spend catching up on my sleep. Previously i cant even update my blog when i was pumping cos i wasnt using the handfree set, but now, its a total bliss :) i should have started on that earlier!

So far for now, i still have 1 kg more to drop to go back to my pre-preggy weight and 5 more kgs to drop to go to my ideal weight. But i realised that even with the weight dropping, my "size" doesnt seems to be dropping much :( i still cant wear my rings and most of my shorts..i wonder where all the weight dropped from...

Nowadays, my days are pretty much routine. In the morning, i will feed Skyler, pump, have breakfast, then prepare to go to my parent's place. At my parent's place, i would be on a 2-2.5 hrs standby mode to feed Skyler and to pump on a 4hrly interval. My mom will help with the feeding if i am pumping or eating. Then in the evening, i will bathe Skyler, apply all the creams/oil/spray (at least 6 types) then feed him again (on the 2-2.5hrly mode). After the 7pm show, Ai, my parents will fetch me home and i will continue looking after Skyler myself until hubby is back, who will take over the nite feeding shift. Thats pretty much a day in my life now..boring ya.

But for last night, i did all the nite feedings myself cos its hubby's birthday today. As a privilege, i excused him of all the feedings. Now my 2 boys are sleeping soundly. Skyler just had his feed and hubby was sleeping thru the nite and havent wake up yet! So envy..i am looking fwd to my birthday..lol..

Mooncake festival

Celebrated mooncake festival at hillview on Saturday. The condo management organised a get together party whereby they give out lanterns, catered buffet and provide mooncakes. There are popcorns, candy floss and various games for the kids to play. Its Skyler's first mooncake festival too! So i bought him a Thomas Train lantern. Haa, even though he doesnt know how to hold the lantern yet, but at least he enjoy the music coming from it and the light (he love to see lights..not sure why also..lol). But realise Skyler is a bit afraid to be in mist of crowd. My mom who was carrying him says he will crouch closer towards her body and remain very still. Wanted to join in the lantern walk at night, but Skyler was sleeping thru out and i was a bit late in gg dwn, so miss it. Nv, there is always next year :)

Mooncakes from Tung Luk

See, he is sleeping all the way

Facts about Skyler

- At 6 weeks plus, he is 55 cm long and weighs 5kg (now at 8 weeks, weight is about 5.3kg)

- He will smile at me first thing in the morning (that is if he is in a good mood)

- He can now make some sounds other than eh eh eh and crying, such as coo-ing

- He likes to hold onto my finger whe drinking his milk

- When frighten, he likes to burrow into my arms

- He likes to "talk" to his "frens" - which are the cot bumper and cot mobile

- He likes to sleep in his net rocker

- He sleeps better on our bed

- He can burp and fart simultaneously

- He can puke out ALOT of milk

- He can drink 80ml of water + 80ml of milk in 1 feeding

- He can drink every hourly or every 2 hourly depending on his mood

- He will make a face when given FM ; when BM not enough :(

- He can pee twice within a short time span , eg bath time (which ususally last lesser than 10 mins)

- He can poo ALOT

- He likes to be carried to sleep (haiz...)

Skyler's full month celebration

Born on 25th Jul, we celebrated Skyler's full month party on 22nd Aug. Its a 2 in 1 celebration as its also our house warming party. I did up an e-invite using a pic taken during Skyler's infant PS n sent out a week or 2 before the actual day. Thanks to all the people who turned up for his celebration. It was a bit chaotic as there were TOO MANY ppl turning up at the same time..lol..some of them said they couldnt make up but eventually did turned up n some said will come later came at 12+.. so in the end the food tat we ordered wasnt enough n we have to re-order another round of food fom neo garden. By the end of the day, all of us were totally knocked out. Ok, lets just let the pics do the talking..

Our e-invite

Our self dyed red eggs

"Birthday Boy" - woke up early in the morning. Seems like he can sense the excitement in the air
Divers Anilao gang

Sec school frens

Hubby's primary school frens

Colleagues

Family photo :D

We shaved off Skyler's head on his full month so....

A fresh botak now :P

All the presents n hampers recieved. Thanks all!

Busy busy busy

Been so busy since CL left thus dun have much time to do blogging. Now my life is not just eat, sleep n pump. Now it includes: pump, feed, burp, bath bb, change diaper, coax him to sleep, entertainment him when he is awake, wash clothes n do household chores. I dunno wat is sleep now..or relax meals... Everything has to be done in a rush in case Skyler wakes up.. will try to update my blogs when i have the time..still got lots of things i have yet to blog..till then!