Is Xi ready for a meimei?

We have, since the beginning of my pregnancy, started to prepare Xi for the arrival of her meimei/didi (we did not know the gender of the baby yet at that time, but Xi has been calling the baby meimei from day 1 when we told her there is a baby inside my tummy). She seems to be getting the idea pretty well, as whenever we ask her where is meimei, she will point to my tummy. When we ask her what is inside daddy's tummy? She will say "fat fat" instead. So she kind of know the difference between what is inside me and her daddy.

We have been telling her now that mummy is having a baby and tummy big big, cannot carry her already. So daddy carrys her and mummy holds her hands. Sometimes when she asked me to carry her, we reminded her mummy can only hold her hand. Sometime she will cry and insist me to carry her but most of the time she listens and let me hold her hand instead. I feel heartpain to have to reject my little gal's plea to carry her. How i love to cuddle her tightly and smell her, and her lying her head on my shoulder!!!

Every night, i will want her to say night night to her meimei and sayang my tummy before she sleeps.

When the baby kicks, i will tell her meimei is kicking and ask her to touch my tummy.

We have also been teaching her to share her toys with her meimei. Everytime we ask her can she share her "mi mi" (her favourite teddy bear "Emily") with meimei? She will hold her "mi mi" to my tummy. But when i asked her can she let meimei sleeps on her playpen since she does not like to sleep in it? She shaked her head.

Xixi and her "mi mi"

The other day when I was carrying baby Kaizheng (SIL's newborn baby boy), Xi quickly ran to me wanted me to carry also. She does not even allow her daddy to carry the baby boy. Haiz.... guess it will take her quite awhile to get used to the idea of us carrying another baby.

We thought of sending Xi to pre-nursery before the arrival of her meimei so that she can be more independent and not so sticky to me as she is now. But after visiting a few childcare centres and after much consideration, we decide to put the idea to later when she is older, probably when she is 2.5 years old. The concern is if we put her to childcare centre now and 3 months later withdraw her for 1 or 2 months due to my confinement (as I will be having confinement in JB), it might be too disruptive for her. Meanwhile, I am looking for any weekend program for her so that she can have an idea of how a school will be like and how to get along with other kids.

I got a few books from amazon on the arrival of new baby and be a big sister after advice from some mummies.

Yesterday first time i read to her "The New Baby at Your House". She was quite captivated by the real life pictures of siblings shown in this book. Good...

Is Xi ready for a meimei? Mmmmnnn.... we shall see 3 months down the road....