2010 Mini Getaway #1

Hee.. looking at the title.. meaning I am planning for #2, #3 #4......... etc... haha

Back to this trip, we went to Malaysia over the last weekend to attend my cousin's wedding.
The Malaysian customs is such that the bride's family will host a dinner on their own and there will be another dinner host by the groom.
We were there to attend the one hosted by the bride.

Is a foodie trip, there's nothing to do except eat eat eat and eat!! Not a single minute was I feeling hungry.. haha..
We also visited my eldest cousin's new house. It's a big & nice bungalow!!

Let the photos do the talk.. and to the bride & groom
May you have a wonderful, everlasting & blissful marriage forever!!

Help!!!

As I mentioned in my previous post, Lucas's weight seems to take forever to increase and I am struggling very hard to pile it up.

So I decided to measure him and see where he falls under the WHO growth chart.
Length for 22 months: 81 cm = 5th percentiles!!!!!
Weight for 22 months: 10kg = 15th percentiles
Weight for Height (Length) = 25th percentiles

Oh NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is truly very very very small.
At this very moment I am really at a loss, as to me, I think he is eating normal and enough (I hope).
6.30am - 7 oz (210ml) of milk
9.30am - 1 slice of bread
10.30am - 5 oz (150ml) of milk
12 noon - 1 full bowl of porridge with meat / fish & vegetables
3.00pm - 6 oz (180ml) of milk
3.30pm - 2 pcs of kids biscuits
6.00pm - 1/2 bowl of rice with meat / fish & vegetables
7.00pm - Nibble a few mouths of Mummy's & Daddy's dinner
8.30pm - 1/4 of apple or a few pcs of biscuits or some cereal (like honey star / cornflake / coco balls)
9.30pm - 8 oz (240ml) of milk

I am considering if I should bring him to a specialist. I spoke to one of our friend, Joyce, who happens to be working in such a clinic at KKH and her boss is in this specialisation. According to her, the routine for the 1st consultation would include X-ray on hand and blood test. The fees can sum up to S$300 plus.

Upon hearing that I am rather put off, not by the fees but the blood test!! I yikes blood test and more so when it has to be done on my little one. Sigh!!!
Joyce's advice is that even if we were to go to normal PD, ultimately they will refer us back to KKH.

Being a very sweet and helpful nurse, Joyce actually asked her boss to help us plot the growth of Lucas to determine if he is growing healthily.
So right now, I am still thinking if I should go for the consultation...

In the meantime, to all my readers out there (I hope there are.. hehe), if you have any tips in this area or if you find that my feeding has some problem, please let me know via the comments box or chat box.

Thanks


PS: I nearly got to cancel my trip to Malaysia as Desmond's passport was expiring and we only realised it on Monday night. Lucky he got his new passport this morning, if not I think I will be Bao Gong over the weekend!! :)

1st Post for 2010

Yes I know, it took me so long to get a post out.
Sorry, pretty tied up lately, simply no time to blog and there’s nothing much to blog about anyway.
No no, not FB games but with all the spring cleaning, cookies baking experiments. There's so much to do with so little time.

We did celebrate New Year, over at Eve & WJ's place together with a few close friends.
No cake this time, had enough of it since Christmas and I am conserving my energy for Chinese New Year haha.

Lucas is doing well except for that sickening diarrhea which he had it since 2 week of December last year and it was on off kind of thing and lasted for almost a month long!!

On the first occurrence, after the anti-diarrhea medication, it did help, but came back again after 3 days. The same goes for the 2nd occurrence. I noticed that if he eats too much, he will poo alot and it became diarrhea.
We knew that no FM allow during diarrhea, it's best to take soy milk as it does not contain lactose, so better tolerance for his little stomach as compare to normal formula milk.
But GP also advice that if we don't want to use soy milk, we can actually dilute FM.
However this time round, we decided to put him on soy milk since it's been going on for quite some time. Oh boy, soy milk STINKS! Thank god, my little one still took them as usual.

We went to GP thrice, but it was still the same and he keeps giving him Lacteol Fort (Acidophilus in powder form).

Finally we brought him to PD, upon hearing the whole situation, she pointed out that we shouldn't do an immediate switch of diet once we see that Lucas's poo is back to normal.
In fact, we should switch it back slowly. Since he's on soy milk, we should slowly change it back to FM by introducing 1 feed each day and increase it as days goes by making sure the poo is consistent.
Do not give him too oily & rich food, no roots vegetables & fruit juice (as they have a higher sugar content which is currently intolerable)
After all these tips, Lucas finally recovered.

Now I am struggling to pile up his weight. He looks like a miserable tiny baby. He eats as usual even during days when he is not feeling well. Yet his weight seems to take forever to increase.
Not too sure where went wrong, Diet? Too active? Still not eating enough?

I am still sourcing help and advices and hopefully he can grow up stronger and BIGGER!!

We will be busy again for the next few weeks.
This weekend we will be travelling to Port Klang to attend my cousin's wedding. I am looking forward and getting excited because we are travelling together with extended family members as well!!!

After that we will be back to our CNY madness of cleaning, baking, cooking & SHOPPING!!!

Goodbye 2009

Fast... Time really flies very fast and before we knew it, 2009 is coming to an end.

Little Lucas has grow from a baby to a toddler and this year alone he has got 10 new friends, 2 girls, 8 boys... and they are

Oliver, Asher, Aven, Jazael, Charlotte, Brittany, Doreitius, Raynor, Jayven and Koen
(see how productive our friends are ... hehe)

My new accomplishment for the year would be learning to cook & bake!! And yes, I am totally addicted to it that every weekend if I have the time I will definitely bake or cook or do both.
Oh ya.. I have also become a professional FB gamer.. or rather virtual farmer..wahaha :D

Daddy's accomplishment would be.......
lesser or sometimes no more cursing and swearing of the morning traffic jams.
(he can't give me one.. so this is what I think he had achieved)

2009 has been a rather smooth and peaceful year for our little family.

Neither one of us looses our job or suffers a pay cut due to economic downturn which is a big blessing.

Daddy has learnt to help a little bit more in the household chore.

Mummy has learnt to control a little bit more of her nonsensical tantrums.

Little Lucas has learnt alot more how to rummage drawers and turn the whole house upside down :D

Wee Family would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and may 2010 be a fruitful, wonderful & plentiful year for all!!!

Below are some pictures we took over the Christmas Holidays.. enjoy :)

A typical Sunday

6.30 am - Mummy wakes up. After washing up, change Little Lucas's diaper and give him his first feed of day.

7.00am - Washing of cups, milk bottles & boiling of water. Start to prepare ingredients to cook Little Lucas's porrige as well as for adult's lunch.

8.00am - Baking Time.. (if Mummy has something in mind to bake)

9.30am - Little Lucas wakes up (subject to change without any prior notice)

9.45am - Prepare Little Lucas for his shower follow up a mini breakfast consisting of biscuits or bread. Mummy will take breakfast with Little Lucas while watching her favourite Doraemon cartoon or whatever children's programme that is showing on TV.

10.30am - Little Lucas 2nd feed of the day

10.45am - Mummy will bring Little Lucas into the room to wake Daddy up

11.00am - Finally Daddy is awake.. he will now take care of Lucas while Mummy start to cook lunch.

12.00noon - Lunch is ready.... Mummy needs to lay the table and prepare Little Lucas for his lunch as well

12.15pm - Feasting time.... Mummy will feed Little Lucas while having her lunch. Daddy will have his lunch while watching TV

1.00pm - Lunch is done. Mummy will have to wash all the dishes and clean the kitchen. Daddy to help empty the dustbin.

1.30pm - Mummy to shower

1.45 pm - Mummy to pat Little Lucas to sleep while Daddy is getting ready to nap again

1.45pm - Mummy to put laundry into washing machine. If she is tired, she will take a nap now, otherwise she will hook onto the com to improve her gaming skills again..

2.45pm - Laundry is ready to be hang up for drying.

3.00pm - Daddy is awake... watch TV again or hook onto com.

3.30 pm - Little Lucas is awake, waiting for Mummy to give him his milk feed

3.45 pm - Mummy to play together with Lucas before his next shower. Daddy is watching TV or surfing net

5.00pm - Mummy to give Little Lucas his shower, follow by Daddy and Mummy.

5.30pm - Mummy to start packing diaper bag and getting ready for the family outing (is shopping actually)

6.00pm - Out of the house.. FINALLY!!

9.45pm - We are back.... Mummy to unpack the diaper bag and Daddy to keep all stuff brought during shopping (applicable only to stuff that he knows where to keep, the rest will be left lying on the floor waiting for Mummy)

10.00 pm - Mummy to wash up for Little Lucas, give him his last feed of the day, while Daddy takes his shower

10.15pm - Mummy to shower

10.30pm - Mummy to pat Little Lucas to sleep

11.00pm - Mummy & Daddy can finally retire for the day


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Little Lucas's 1st Overseas Trip

Yes, it's his 1st trip out of SG.. but only to Bintan though :)

It's Desmond's company trip and family members are invited as well, so to try out how well we can cope with Little Lucas, we decided to join the short getaway. Final verdict... Good!!!!!!

Since it was only a 2 days 1 night trip, so packing was quite simple, but still there are plenty to bring for the little one.

Meals wise was pretty ok, Little Lucas is able to eat rice, noodles and quite a variety of other food, so we don't have to worry about getting special prepared meals for him. Just that at times, he can be quite cranky and refuse to eat.

He slept well too, I guessed he was tired and so he slept through soundly in the night even though it's a new environment.

We brought him to the pool for his first swimming experience. On the first day, he sit in his float.. using his hand splashing the water.

Then Daddy brought him out of the float to stand in the pool, he was very happy but suddenly he lost balance and his head went under the water. He was shocked and frantic. But after a while he went back into his float again.

The next day, we brought him to the pool again (that's how a resort getaway like, there's nothing much to do except to visit the pool.. hehe). This time, he wants to be out of the float and walk around in the pool!!! Despite the awful drowning experience, he still insist to walk around and refuse to be hold and again he went under the water and again he still want to walk on his own!!! Daring little monster!!

Daddy also let him had his first horse ride and he was having fun.

Look at how Lucas was the centre of attraction among the kids.

Lastly, I was horrified by Little Lucas. He had a fall in the room while I was showering and he was with Daddy. After the fall, he didn't make a single noise or whine about the pain. As usual, Daddy took it that nothing happen.
Then when I was wiping his face using my right hand, I saw blood on my left!!!!
I was in SHOCK!! Daddy told me he had a fall and that could be the cause. I quickly examined his head for bumps or bruises and I found a small little cut on the back of his head. It's very small, not more than 5cm. But it scared the wits out of me and tears were flowing uncontrollably. Never have I ever imagine that my kid would have a cut on his head and his t-shirt were stained. We quickly brought him to the clinic at the hotel and have his small wound clean. The doctor said that he looks fine and since there's not vomiting and he don't look drowsy, so everything so be well. Just that we have to monitor him to make sure there's no more bleeding and no sign of vomiting or fever. Again, my little brave one was still smiling and happy as normal as it can be...

Here are the rest of the photos taken...

We're going to the Zoo Zoo Zoo...

As Little Lucas is able to pronounce names of a few animals, we decided that it's time for us to bring him to the Zoo.

The weather was fine and good. The crowd was lesser than expected since it's a weekday but there are lots of school children, given that exams are now over, it's no surprise to see so many kids there.

Just when we were purchasing our tickets, the staff told us that the exhibit for Giraffe and White Rhinoceros is closed for maintenance. 1 of the boat deck is also closed for renovation meaning the boat ride will only be half of the original journey.

Of course we have to proceed as usual since we were already there but a pity that we can't see giraffe and rino.

As we reached quite early, so our whole itinerary was quite well covered.

We caught the big polar bear having fun in the water.. She is so huge measuring 3m in height and about 1 ton in weight.




See how tiny Little Lucas is.. (he refused to stand still and pose for me... )

As Little Lucas is a do-not-hold-my-hand-and-let me-run-on-my-own-without-any sense of direction boy so we took the tram for most part of the journey and it was a breeze moving around the zoo.



This is the only photo that he smile & pose as there was a foreigner teasing him.

We caught 2 animal shows, Splash Safari featuring the marine animals such as jackass penguins, Californian sea lion, Caribbean manatees and the pelicans.



The other show was Elephant at Work & Play, showing us how do these intelligent big giants move around, work & play in their daily life.



But Little Lucas was least interested in them. His attention span was rather short and instead of watching the performance put up by the animals, he was looking at the audience. Maybe the animals were too far away from him.

We also stop by kidzworld for our lunch and brought Little Lucas to look at pony and goats. Gosh, they are so smelly.. faeces all around....




I think Little Lucas enjoyed most when we let him run freely. He was laughing and running all around. I bet he must had wished for the animals to be on the ground so that he can touch them. He was squeaking in excitement when he saw 2 monkeys running freely on the fences.

Our final stop was at the White Tiger. I thought they would be sleeping but surprising they were very wide awake (maybe because it's their feeding time soon..) and was posing so nicely for the tourists to take photos of them.




More photos over here... :)

Lucas 19th & 20th Month Pictures

Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary

3 years back this day, we walked down the aisle, holding our hands, saying "I do".

3 years flew by in a blink of eye and we have got a 1 and 1/2 year old kid celebrating our anniversary with us!!

No fanciful dinner. Just a simple chocolate cake that I steamed to celebrate the occasion.

Oh yes.. there are gifts.. very special gifts making its way back from Europe soon :)

Happy anniversary dear hubby!! May our marriage be full of love & happiness & forever everlasting!!

Recipe source: The Little Teochew