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About me: A lady with a loving hubby and a mother to 2 pretty princesses.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
posted by Karen at 8:58 AM
So what have the kids been doing these few months?
Kristy
She is still in childcare and has settled well. She has been promoted to N1 this January. And her best friend is Emily. Haha. She is always asking for Emily. She has started on her LetterLand.
I told hubby, we should also start to learn LetterLand so that we can teach her too at home.
There were many cases of HFMD during February. It started at the end of January. Thus, for the whole of Feb, Kristy only attended school for a week. I would prefer to play safe and keep her at home to eliminate any risks of contracting the virus.
Kristy is starting to be more vocal. She will just blabber and blabber non-stop. But her jealousy is still as serious. This is one big headache for us. She will always fight for attention when we played with Kylie. She will purposely do things that we ask her not to. The rebellious side of her is getting serious due to this. She is currently weighing 16.1kg and standing at a height of 99.1 cm. Tall tall gal.
She will be coming to 3 soon. Another 25 days. I really hope she will slowly begin to accept her sister totally and share everything with her, including our care and love.
Kylie
This little snow white is growing well. At a age of 9 months and 3 weeks, she is weighing 9.1kg and a length of 73.3cm. She now has 2 little lower central teeth. She is currently taking 2 meals of porridge.
A very naughty little piglet. Haha. She has started to cruise around. She now even knows how to climb onto my bed, sofa and tv console. She even tries to climb out of her cot. Faintz!
And she keeps wanting people to carry her. She would not want to play inside the playpen or sit in her walker. My mother had a hard time trying to juggle between looking after her and preparing for dinner. Kylie will pretend to cry and shout out loud to "demand" you to carry her. And when you carry her, she will treat you like a tree. Climbing up on your body. Faintz faintz!
And if you snatch away her toys, she will scream at you and even cry! Triple faintz!
Meanwhile, a family photo for you all to see. Taken during this CNY. :)
Kristy
She is still in childcare and has settled well. She has been promoted to N1 this January. And her best friend is Emily. Haha. She is always asking for Emily. She has started on her LetterLand.
I told hubby, we should also start to learn LetterLand so that we can teach her too at home.
There were many cases of HFMD during February. It started at the end of January. Thus, for the whole of Feb, Kristy only attended school for a week. I would prefer to play safe and keep her at home to eliminate any risks of contracting the virus.
Kristy is starting to be more vocal. She will just blabber and blabber non-stop. But her jealousy is still as serious. This is one big headache for us. She will always fight for attention when we played with Kylie. She will purposely do things that we ask her not to. The rebellious side of her is getting serious due to this. She is currently weighing 16.1kg and standing at a height of 99.1 cm. Tall tall gal.
She will be coming to 3 soon. Another 25 days. I really hope she will slowly begin to accept her sister totally and share everything with her, including our care and love.
Kylie
This little snow white is growing well. At a age of 9 months and 3 weeks, she is weighing 9.1kg and a length of 73.3cm. She now has 2 little lower central teeth. She is currently taking 2 meals of porridge.
A very naughty little piglet. Haha. She has started to cruise around. She now even knows how to climb onto my bed, sofa and tv console. She even tries to climb out of her cot. Faintz!
And she keeps wanting people to carry her. She would not want to play inside the playpen or sit in her walker. My mother had a hard time trying to juggle between looking after her and preparing for dinner. Kylie will pretend to cry and shout out loud to "demand" you to carry her. And when you carry her, she will treat you like a tree. Climbing up on your body. Faintz faintz!
And if you snatch away her toys, she will scream at you and even cry! Triple faintz!
Meanwhile, a family photo for you all to see. Taken during this CNY. :)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
posted by Karen at 2:50 PM
Hello, been a long while since I posted anything.
Just a recent photo of the 2 gals. :)
Just a recent photo of the 2 gals. :)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
posted by Karen at 12:49 AM
Just want to record this down.
Kristy @ 30 months
Weight: 15.2kg
Height: 95.5cm
Kylie @ 4 months and 1 week
Weight: 7.2kg
Length: 67.5cm
Kristy @ 30 months
Weight: 15.2kg
Height: 95.5cm
Kylie @ 4 months and 1 week
Weight: 7.2kg
Length: 67.5cm
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
posted by Karen at 12:41 AM
Hello friends, it has been a while (close to 2 months) since I've updated this blog. Pardon me for my laziness.
Time passes. Kristy is coming to 30 months in another 4 more days. Kylie is now 4 months and 1 week old.
Let me update about Kristy first.
Many things had happened during my absence from this blog. We had sent back the helper back to the agent. Things happened..blah blah blah. I'm lazy to elaborate over here. So without the helper, my mother was not able to handle both kids by herself. So I had to take leave and also worked from home while thinking of a solution.
A solution was concluded after many days of pondering. We decided to enrol Kristy into a full-day childcare. So we (Kenny and I) started to visit the shortlisted centres and decided on Learning Vision @ Biopolis. Although the centre is not that spacious as compared to the other 2 (Agape @ NTU Alumni and Sherwood @ Ayer Rajah Crescent), but I am comfortable with the teachers and place.
We started Kristy in the childcare on 3rd September. Things did not start as smoothly as I hoped. She had a very serious separation anxiety for the first 2 weeks. She would not take lunch and did not napped much during the noon nap. She slimmed down quite a bit during these 2 weeks. But things started to turn better this week (3rd week). The morning goodbyes were not as bad although Kristy is still crying a bit. But her teachers said she only cried for a while and she is ok after we left. She has started to take her lunch and also finished everything. Nap during noon time is also satisfactory. She would sleep for 2 to 2.5 hours.
Things seem to be improving but we might have to withdraw her from the centre at the end of the year and enroll her either in the PAP 豆豆班 or a childcare centre nearer to my mother's place so that my parents or the new helper can help to fetch her home earlier. It would be better than having to wake her up so early in the morning (7am) and having to reach home around 7+pm, thus resulting in a late dinner.
It is really a dilemma. Having to see her go through everything all over again. It's really very sad for her. I pity her. I feel that I'm not a good mother, having to make her go through so much. Would I be able to come up with a good solution by then? Haiz. We shall see.
Now updates on Kylie. This little gal has been growing well. Brought her for her 2nd dose of DPT/PT. She is currently weighing 7.2kg and a length of 67.5cm (not sure if I heard this correctly as it seems quite long. :p). She is currently running a fever. It shot up to as high as 38.6ºC but it is currently hovering around 37.4ºC to 37.6ºC. Hope it will subside by morning.
A naughty gal as she would not finish her milk at times, thus wasting the precious EBM. Some people would think that it might not be wasteful as I have a good supply of BM. But the hardwork to express the BM out and the rocky journey I had been going through made me treasure every single drop of the BM. So I hope Kylie would try to minimise the amount of wastage. :)
Already 4 months+ but Kylie is still not able to flip. Lazy fellow. But she is able to lift up herself to sitting position if we rested her in a 45 degrees position. Gei kiang leh! Don't know how to flip but wants to sit up. -_-"
Time passes. Kristy is coming to 30 months in another 4 more days. Kylie is now 4 months and 1 week old.
Let me update about Kristy first.
Many things had happened during my absence from this blog. We had sent back the helper back to the agent. Things happened..blah blah blah. I'm lazy to elaborate over here. So without the helper, my mother was not able to handle both kids by herself. So I had to take leave and also worked from home while thinking of a solution.
A solution was concluded after many days of pondering. We decided to enrol Kristy into a full-day childcare. So we (Kenny and I) started to visit the shortlisted centres and decided on Learning Vision @ Biopolis. Although the centre is not that spacious as compared to the other 2 (Agape @ NTU Alumni and Sherwood @ Ayer Rajah Crescent), but I am comfortable with the teachers and place.
We started Kristy in the childcare on 3rd September. Things did not start as smoothly as I hoped. She had a very serious separation anxiety for the first 2 weeks. She would not take lunch and did not napped much during the noon nap. She slimmed down quite a bit during these 2 weeks. But things started to turn better this week (3rd week). The morning goodbyes were not as bad although Kristy is still crying a bit. But her teachers said she only cried for a while and she is ok after we left. She has started to take her lunch and also finished everything. Nap during noon time is also satisfactory. She would sleep for 2 to 2.5 hours.
Things seem to be improving but we might have to withdraw her from the centre at the end of the year and enroll her either in the PAP 豆豆班 or a childcare centre nearer to my mother's place so that my parents or the new helper can help to fetch her home earlier. It would be better than having to wake her up so early in the morning (7am) and having to reach home around 7+pm, thus resulting in a late dinner.
It is really a dilemma. Having to see her go through everything all over again. It's really very sad for her. I pity her. I feel that I'm not a good mother, having to make her go through so much. Would I be able to come up with a good solution by then? Haiz. We shall see.
Now updates on Kylie. This little gal has been growing well. Brought her for her 2nd dose of DPT/PT. She is currently weighing 7.2kg and a length of 67.5cm (not sure if I heard this correctly as it seems quite long. :p). She is currently running a fever. It shot up to as high as 38.6ºC but it is currently hovering around 37.4ºC to 37.6ºC. Hope it will subside by morning.
A naughty gal as she would not finish her milk at times, thus wasting the precious EBM. Some people would think that it might not be wasteful as I have a good supply of BM. But the hardwork to express the BM out and the rocky journey I had been going through made me treasure every single drop of the BM. So I hope Kylie would try to minimise the amount of wastage. :)
Already 4 months+ but Kylie is still not able to flip. Lazy fellow. But she is able to lift up herself to sitting position if we rested her in a 45 degrees position. Gei kiang leh! Don't know how to flip but wants to sit up. -_-"
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
posted by Karen at 1:15 PM
Finally decided to bring Kristy to have her delayed pneumococcal jab. I have been procrastinating for too long. I worried about her having fever or rashes after the jab. But for her own sake, I decided to bring her to have the jab today before I go back to work this friday.
We told her yesterday that I would be bringing her for an injection. She was agreeable to it. I told her she would miss school today as I would be bringing her for the jab in the morning 9am.
We were late for the 9am appointment, thus we had to wait for a while before our turn. When we reached the clinic, Kristy was well behaved as compared to the previous visits. She sat at the play corner and played with the toys there.
When we entered the Dr Lieu's room, Kristy went to the play corner straight away and put 1 pail of toys up on Dr Lieu's table. Carried her up to sit on the cushion designated for babies/toddlers to lie/sit down. I had to hug Kristy tight before Dr Lieu could jab her. When the needle went in, everything was ok. But few seconds later, Kristy let out a big cry when the needle was been pulled out. She cried very loud and was screaming. Big drops of tears roll down her cheeks. I continued to hug her and tried to pacify her, sayang her. I said I would give her a box of raisins.
Dr Lieu tried to pacify her too. She gave Kristy some stickers and pasted them on her right hand. Soon all was well. I asked Kristy to say bye bye to Dr Lieu and we left the room. Once we left the room, I gave her the box of raisins as promised. Paid for the jab and we took 171 back to my mother's place. She was extra well behaved on the bus too. Instead of standing on the seat as was previously, she sat there quietly, eating her raisins. I wondered was it because of the raisins that could make her sit down quietly.
The cost of the today's visit cost $235. The jab costs $180, and the rest of the cost is the doctor's consultation and the bottle of paracetamol.
Will have to monitor for fever and rashes. Hope none of these appear. *Pray*
Weight @ 28+ weeks: 14.9kg
Height @ 28+ weeks: 94cm
We told her yesterday that I would be bringing her for an injection. She was agreeable to it. I told her she would miss school today as I would be bringing her for the jab in the morning 9am.
We were late for the 9am appointment, thus we had to wait for a while before our turn. When we reached the clinic, Kristy was well behaved as compared to the previous visits. She sat at the play corner and played with the toys there.
When we entered the Dr Lieu's room, Kristy went to the play corner straight away and put 1 pail of toys up on Dr Lieu's table. Carried her up to sit on the cushion designated for babies/toddlers to lie/sit down. I had to hug Kristy tight before Dr Lieu could jab her. When the needle went in, everything was ok. But few seconds later, Kristy let out a big cry when the needle was been pulled out. She cried very loud and was screaming. Big drops of tears roll down her cheeks. I continued to hug her and tried to pacify her, sayang her. I said I would give her a box of raisins.
Dr Lieu tried to pacify her too. She gave Kristy some stickers and pasted them on her right hand. Soon all was well. I asked Kristy to say bye bye to Dr Lieu and we left the room. Once we left the room, I gave her the box of raisins as promised. Paid for the jab and we took 171 back to my mother's place. She was extra well behaved on the bus too. Instead of standing on the seat as was previously, she sat there quietly, eating her raisins. I wondered was it because of the raisins that could make her sit down quietly.
The cost of the today's visit cost $235. The jab costs $180, and the rest of the cost is the doctor's consultation and the bottle of paracetamol.
Will have to monitor for fever and rashes. Hope none of these appear. *Pray*
Weight @ 28+ weeks: 14.9kg
Height @ 28+ weeks: 94cm
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
posted by Karen at 10:30 AM
Time passes. Kylie is 2 months old today. She has grown from much during these 2 months. She is getting chubbier, very cute.
She has started to follow the movements of items and people. When she's lying in her cot, she will follow the person's movements. If someone walked from her left side to her back, she will tilt her head back to look at the person. Such a kaypoh little girl.
When we called her name, 纬恩, she will respond back by smiling cheerfully. I like to see her smile. It really brightens up your day and make you fall in love with her all over again. She is a happy child. Smiling most of the times. She will also "look" for people to chat with her. Whenever anyone responds back to her "ahhhh", she will smile back.
Kristy dotes on her a lot. She will plant kisses on Kylie's face, forehead, hair. She will request to carry Kylie, feed Kylie, place back the pacifier into Kylie's mouth when it dropped. But her fight for attention is still very fierce. I really wonder when will she get over it.
I hope both sisters will be able to love and care for each other always.
She has started to follow the movements of items and people. When she's lying in her cot, she will follow the person's movements. If someone walked from her left side to her back, she will tilt her head back to look at the person. Such a kaypoh little girl.
When we called her name, 纬恩, she will respond back by smiling cheerfully. I like to see her smile. It really brightens up your day and make you fall in love with her all over again. She is a happy child. Smiling most of the times. She will also "look" for people to chat with her. Whenever anyone responds back to her "ahhhh", she will smile back.
Kristy dotes on her a lot. She will plant kisses on Kylie's face, forehead, hair. She will request to carry Kylie, feed Kylie, place back the pacifier into Kylie's mouth when it dropped. But her fight for attention is still very fierce. I really wonder when will she get over it.
I hope both sisters will be able to love and care for each other always.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
posted by Karen at 10:14 AM
Started Kristy on rice yesterday. Decided to stop letting her have porridge as the main diet. She's already coming to 27 months.
Mother cooked steamed egg, vege and steamed fish. It was a difficult task to feed her. Guessed she was still not used to having rice as her meals. Normally she would take a bit of rice from us when we were having our dinner. She also spitted out the fish. Haiz.
Hope she will get used to it soon and there would be no more trouble having to prepare the porridge and bring it out when we had to go out.
Mother cooked steamed egg, vege and steamed fish. It was a difficult task to feed her. Guessed she was still not used to having rice as her meals. Normally she would take a bit of rice from us when we were having our dinner. She also spitted out the fish. Haiz.
Hope she will get used to it soon and there would be no more trouble having to prepare the porridge and bring it out when we had to go out.
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Friday, June 15, 2007
posted by Karen at 4:56 PM
Kristy talked to my mother on the phone last night. I was sitting besides her, looking at her and listening to her conversation.
Halfway through the phone conversation, she replied "want" and I could suddenly see some changes in her eyes, turning watery. After that she suddenly cried out pitifully.
I took over the phone and asked mother what did they talk about. Mother said she asked if Kristy wants to go to her house. I guessed Kristy misses her grandmother very much as she had not seen her since Sunday due to the demise of my grandmother.
Poor girl.
Halfway through the phone conversation, she replied "want" and I could suddenly see some changes in her eyes, turning watery. After that she suddenly cried out pitifully.
I took over the phone and asked mother what did they talk about. Mother said she asked if Kristy wants to go to her house. I guessed Kristy misses her grandmother very much as she had not seen her since Sunday due to the demise of my grandmother.
Poor girl.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
posted by Karen at 12:16 PM
Kristy has finally gone diaperless during daytime at home. Mother started her to go diaperless since last week due to a very serious nappy rash due to the hot weather.
So when she is back home, we also just let her wear shorts. We only let her wear diaper during noon nap and at night.
1 week has passed and she's doing well. She will pre-empt us before each urine and we will bring her to the toilet. Don't know if this will work when we go out. :p But it's already a good step ahead. :)
So when she is back home, we also just let her wear shorts. We only let her wear diaper during noon nap and at night.
1 week has passed and she's doing well. She will pre-empt us before each urine and we will bring her to the toilet. Don't know if this will work when we go out. :p But it's already a good step ahead. :)
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
posted by Karen at 5:09 PM
After waiting for about 2 months or so, and due to some hiccups, we finally picked up our helper yesterday from the agency.
She looks younger than the one we saw from the photo. She is of the same age as me, only 2 days younger than me. :p
Once we brought her back home, I asked her to unpack her stuff and she soon started to work after that. She wiped our doors and the windows. The windows were very cleanly wiped but also with advice from Kenny to use newspaper instead of cloth to wipe the glass panels. When dinner time was up, I had to ask her to have her dinner 3 times. She kept saying she was still full. I wondered what did she have for lunch earlier on. Haha.
Kristy reacted okay to the helper. In actual fact, she even played with the helper. So the worry of Kristy not able to accept the helper is redundant.
Told the helper to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 6am daily. But last night, due to a cranky Kylie, she could only get to sleep around 11+pm.
Today is the 2nd day and she is still okay. Has been doing work non-stop the whole day today. Only rested when she needs to take a bath, go toilet or for meals.
Overall as of now, she's quite okay. No language barrier as yet. She can speak simple English and can also understand me but I have to speak slowly as requested by her. Hope she will maintain in this way for the rest of the 2 years and if possible extend for a few more years.
She looks younger than the one we saw from the photo. She is of the same age as me, only 2 days younger than me. :p
Once we brought her back home, I asked her to unpack her stuff and she soon started to work after that. She wiped our doors and the windows. The windows were very cleanly wiped but also with advice from Kenny to use newspaper instead of cloth to wipe the glass panels. When dinner time was up, I had to ask her to have her dinner 3 times. She kept saying she was still full. I wondered what did she have for lunch earlier on. Haha.
Kristy reacted okay to the helper. In actual fact, she even played with the helper. So the worry of Kristy not able to accept the helper is redundant.
Told the helper to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 6am daily. But last night, due to a cranky Kylie, she could only get to sleep around 11+pm.
Today is the 2nd day and she is still okay. Has been doing work non-stop the whole day today. Only rested when she needs to take a bath, go toilet or for meals.
Overall as of now, she's quite okay. No language barrier as yet. She can speak simple English and can also understand me but I have to speak slowly as requested by her. Hope she will maintain in this way for the rest of the 2 years and if possible extend for a few more years.
posted by Karen at 5:00 PM
Time has passed on quite fast I would say. Kylie is already 1 week old but I can still clearly remember the dramatic birth experience I had last week. She's growing well. Currently on total breastfeeding. Weight has increased since discharged and exceeded her birth weight. Her weight is now 3.805kg and length 51.5cm. Basically quite an easy baby to take care of. Most of the times she would fall asleep after each feed and would last her at least 3 hours or so. If she does not fall asleep, then the feed can only last her 2 hours+. Her milk intake has increased from 10+ml from birth to 80ml now. I'm satisfied with the amount of breast milk I could provide for Kylie unlike Kristy's time where my supply was quite disappointing from the start. But like what Melissa said, if got breast milk, good but if don't have, it's ok to give formula. Just don't stress myself on it. :)
Kristy is accepting her lil' sister well. She will sayang her, pat her, touch her. But we still have to be careful whenever she's near Kylie as she still has not master the art of strength control. And Kristy will walk or jump on the bed even when Kylie is lying down on the bed. So we have to be extra careful on this in case Kristy fell onto Kylie.
The past 1 week had been good. Confinement lady is quite ok. Just have to give and take a bit as I still cannot get over the barrier of having a stranger at home. She's quite hardworking in fact. Do most of the housework, takes care of Kylie well (except for some things that I would not agree with). In short to say, close 1 eye, open 1 eye.
Photos will have to wait a while more as I try to sort out the photos and see which online album to upload to. :)
Kristy is accepting her lil' sister well. She will sayang her, pat her, touch her. But we still have to be careful whenever she's near Kylie as she still has not master the art of strength control. And Kristy will walk or jump on the bed even when Kylie is lying down on the bed. So we have to be extra careful on this in case Kristy fell onto Kylie.
The past 1 week had been good. Confinement lady is quite ok. Just have to give and take a bit as I still cannot get over the barrier of having a stranger at home. She's quite hardworking in fact. Do most of the housework, takes care of Kylie well (except for some things that I would not agree with). In short to say, close 1 eye, open 1 eye.
Photos will have to wait a while more as I try to sort out the photos and see which online album to upload to. :)
Friday, May 11, 2007
posted by Karen at 10:13 AM
Kristy & Mummy on the way to United Square Junior's League. :p
Testing to blog from phone but somehow it doesn't get published. Have to manually log in to blogger to republish the whole blog again before this post appears. Funny. Wonder is it because I host it in my own server.
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