infant care?

Oh no.. Infant Care?

yeah, i'm now having no choice but to consider Infant Care. The subsidised rates are pretty affordable or so I think, at this moment with just the basic research but please feel free to email me if anyone has any advice to give as I consider putting nate in a couple of hours a week of infant care. Apparently they have registered state nurses and very caring staff for infants from 2 - 18months of age. Having said that, leaving him with grandparents is the best option but not always available. So i'm eager to hear what anyone has to say based on experience or not.. thanks. by the way its mayeewong@hotmail.com

Too many cookies

I think meg and I had one too many chinese new year goodies

help me please

I dunno why but i'm feeling dam stressed out about everything.

Nate's cradle cap isn't disappearing and its getting worse. It looks terrible and not being able to do anything about doing something about it already makes me feel worse. I've tried Dentinox but it doesn't work.

Neither does Olivin. Now he's hands reach slightly above his head so he's able to start scratching his scalp.

He hasn't even learnt to reach for things let alone grip things but he's able to Scratch his scalp! That's not supposed to happen and I'm not too excited about it. Happening in that order.

I'm starting work tomorrow and even though i know my dad can help me out when i have to leave the house to shoot, i'm still stressed out about starting work. What if my batteries are not charged on time because i'm too busy expressing milk and feeding the baby and i forget to put the charger on? Worse still. What if i forget to bathe nate or change his diaper or express milk and feed him? I'll have a hungry dirty baby with engorgement on the side.

I'm stressed that all the conversation that i'm having with my husband is what time nate had his last feed and diaper changed. All we share is: talk about baby not baby talk with each other. I'm worrying that he will start to get bored of me and hate living here in thomson as opposed to living in Pasir Ris. I'm stressed that i'm not seemingly as felial as he is.

I'm stressed that I do not have enough money to pay for things. To pay for infant care if i ever need to put nate in infant care. Money to pay every dam trip to the ped. Money to pay for every diaper to make sure that Nate doesn't suffer from diaper rash. I'm stressed about having not enough space to keep my frozen expressed milk and whether i'll be too hasty in deciding to buy a chest freezer (a small one which still costs about $600) just to keep all that milk which he can't finish anyway. And then where to put it.

I'm stressed that i'm supposed to let go and Let God but inspite of knowing that, i'm worrying about every dam thing. I thank God for all the blessings but i'm still stressed about worldly things.

I'm stressed that my policy of not ranting on the blog has failed after i post this note.

This is getting to be depressing and yes you guessed it.

I'm stressed about that too.

Too cool for school

apparently that's what you get when you put a 60 year old and a 3 month old together

bug boy

nate looks like a bug (not a gross bug but a bug bug, like one you'd like to bring home and keep as a pet)

or some character from 'a bug's life'

except i dunno which bug he'd be.

bye bye school

so apparently "the scream" is not by vincent van gogh but by edvard munch.

I should have known this after years of lessons in art and cultural studies- which made me realise how long its been since we left school.

OMGosh!

I know this looks alot like that guy in Edvard Munch's Scream but this is exactly how Terence and I looked when we reviewed some pictures and realised how fast some people grow. And to see this for yourselves click HERE.

one step at a time

Joyce, Lynda and I went jogging today.

For me, it's been one solid year since i've exercised and I felt so LIBERATED!

During the whole 9 months of being pregnant, i felt so frustrated that I could not break into a sprint anytime i wanted too. Well, technically i could but it was not that safe to do so in the early stages of pregnancy, and later on even if i wanted to do so, i was too heavy to even try.

us having dinner after our run

So yes. We went for about 4 km and sad to say I couldn't do the full distance running. I had to stop and brisk walk everytime i went halfway up a hill. But nonetheless its a good start and i intend (actually we intend) to challenge ourselves at least once a week which is nothing comapared to the active lifestyle that i used to lead. Having said that, fresh air and breaking out into a good sweat is a feeling i cherish, even if it's an acquired taste.

wah lau

boys + helmet sponges = this

Impressionable

why i shouldn't wear tees with buttons while using a sarong to carry nate.

sorry nate but i thought it was pretty funny

6th Feb 2007

I turned 27 on Feb 6, 2007 this year. And to celebrate, Terence and I had a wonderful dinner at Michaelangelo's over at Chip Bee gardens. Food was great. I was a little worried about how Risotto in Squid Ink would taste, but man.............................. It was so great I was savouring every mouthful. Then he decided to surprise me by gathering some of the usual suspects over to Tcc coffee, where we celebrated with good coffee and tiramisu, but the company was better. Here are some snapshots taken with another surprise prezzie from my hubby, a Canon 850IS which will now replace my good ol' contax u4r which explains all the blur shots posted in my archives.

Thank you girls for coming and sharing this blessed day with us. And thank you terence for loving me so much.

Observing Radio Silence

Nate's recent radio silence (and when i say radio silence i mean he hasn't said hello since then - see blog posted below) has dashed my hopes of him starting a tele-conference.

(and yesi'm kidding...whatdaya think i am? psycho mom?)