After 4 years and 5 months!
Gosh! Time sure flies by in a blink!
I have almost forgotten about this blog if not because of my eldest who would want to read this blog once in awhile since she is now a competent reader!
So many things have happened over these 4.5 years. We have moved to Hong Kong since May 2011. I have since become a full time stay-at-home mum. Xixi is now 8, Ruru 6 and Ling Ling 4.5 years old.
Ok, I guess I should start blogging again since my two younger ones have been complaining this blog was all about their oldest sister!
Welcome back to our blog! 🌻
My Baby Ling at 3 months old
Love grows as your family grows. How true it is! With the birth of every kid, my love grows another 100% to each of them. Baby Ling is now 3 months plus. At 3 months, she is an active, chubby and smiley baby and she loves to "talk" to people when people talk to her. Her neck is also pretty strong now. In fact, she can lift up her head since she was 2 months old. She does not sleep much during daytime but thankfully, she does sleep ok at night, though sometimes she will wake up 3-4 times at night for feed, but most of the time, she only wakes up 1-2 times at night. Hopefully soon she will be sleeping through the night.
I am so much in love with my baby...
Ling sneezing:
Ling "talking":
Ling giggling:
Class Assembly
Xi's class was having its 2nd class assembly today, whereby the class would give a small performance for us parents and other students. I missed attending her 1st class assembly as coincidentally I was in the hospital waiting to deliver Ling. This time, all of us, hubby, Ru and Ling went to see her class performing. The kids were doing great and really sweet and cute to see them perform in front of us so naturally and without fear. A video clip on the class performing "感恩的心“:
Another one on the class performing English song:
Aren't they cute?
Another one on the class performing English song:
Aren't they cute?
Happy Birthday to Papa!
We celebrated Papa's birthday today at my in-law's house. Just a small celebration with a cake from Secret Recipe. A first family photo of our family of 5.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA! WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA! WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!
Birthday cards
Papa's birthday is coming! So Xi, seeing her cousins making birthday cards for her Da Yi on her birthday, also wants to make a birthday card for her dear daddy. I spot dotted the wordings on the card for her and she did the rest.
After making her daddy a birthday card, she also made another card for her popo whose birthday is coming too.
After making her daddy a birthday card, she also made another card for her popo whose birthday is coming too.
Future hair stylist and her model
As most girls, Xi is in the age of loving all things girly and pink. And her younger sister becomes her model of her creation...
Building Phoebe Castle
Xi happily built her castle named "Phoebe" (after her best friend)...
Then came the sister, Ru who took away a piece of the castle...
Angry Xi :(
Happy Ru :)
Then came the sister, Ru who took away a piece of the castle...
Angry Xi :(
Happy Ru :)
Baby Ling is 1 month old!
Life is certainly much more busier and tire having have to handle a new baby, a toddler who is in her terrible-two, and a young girl who is in N1. Pardon me as you will see more photos than words in my future posts. Baby Ling celebrated her 1st month on 25 September. Like her sisters, her full month was celebrated with simple praying to our ancestors and distribution of cakes to our immediate families and neighbours.
Like her sisters, we shaved Ling's hair to botak on her full month. Photos taken during the shave and after shaving:
Our greatest consolation is the love shower by Xi and Ru to their baby sister. They love to hug her so much sometimes we afraid her small body will be crashed by her rough sisters. :)
Baby Ling enjoying the musical cot mobile:
Like her sisters, we shaved Ling's hair to botak on her full month. Photos taken during the shave and after shaving:
Our greatest consolation is the love shower by Xi and Ru to their baby sister. They love to hug her so much sometimes we afraid her small body will be crashed by her rough sisters. :)
Baby Ling enjoying the musical cot mobile:
Baby Ling at 2 weeks old
Baby still sleeps most of the time...
And mummy is trying hard to give her total breast milk...
Now that I am working from home, hopefully I can breastfeed her for at least 6 months and beyond.
Who is who?
Have you guessed them right?
From top to bottom: Xi, Ru and Baby.
Our newborn does not look like her sisters in real person, but strangely, the three of them look alike from their photos.
The arrival of Princess #3
Welcome our newborn baby girl, our Princess #3! :)
Here's the birth story:
27 August 2010 (Friday):
5.35am: Awaken by Ru who asked for her milk milk. Then realised my mucus plug has broken. Was thinking the next step of action while trying to pat Ru back to sleep.
5.45am: Decided to wake up and start packing just in case. Ru refused to sleep again so hung around me to watch me packing up.
6.30am: Called hubby who was in Japan. Told him baby might not be able to wait for him to come back on Saturday. Hubby was shocked and promised to come back on the day.
6.45am: Woke my younger sis up. She quickly washed up to get ready to send Ru to nanny's house and Xi to her school.
7.10am: Finally sent the girls and my sis off by a cab. Despite much crying and insist me to send her to school, Xi finally agreed to let my sis to bring her instead.
7.20am: My elder sis and BIL arrived in a rush. Three of us and my helper quickly get into their car and on the way to JB. No contraction as yet.
8.10am: Reached my JB clinic. Nurse checked, no dilation yet. Advised to wait for my gynae to check again then advised. Discussed over the phone with hubby, decided to ask to be admitted and wait in the clinic since hubby would reach at night. Asked sis and BIL to go back first as expected a long wait.
2pm: Felt bored waiting in the ward, so got permission to go out of clinic with my helper for a walk. Shopped at the nearby Plaza Pelangi. Can feel slight contraction but bearable.
5pm: Came back from shopping and continued to wait in my ward. Hubby called that he has arrived Changi airport, thought i have delivered.
8pm: Hubby reached. Told him not so soon. Asked him to bring the helper home to rest first. Will call him when about to deliver.
10.44pm: Intense contractions began, about 8 minutes interval.
28 August 2010 (Saturday):
12 midnight: Nurse came and check. 4cm dilated.
2.00am: Could not sleep at all because the contraction was getting worse and unbearable. Nurse checked again. 6-7cm dilated. Said can call hubby already. Walked to the labour room. Waiting game was coming to an end.
2.20am: Hubby reached. Getting very very pain. Was shivering non-stop though not feeling cold.
2.30am: Nurse checked again. Almost fully dilated. Finally went to call the gynae to come. (I was going to curse her already if she was still not going to call gynae).
2.45am: The pain was unbearable and the urge to push was beyond words but was told not to push because the gynae was not here yet. Told them cannot already, baby is coming out!!! Heard the faint heartbeat of bb from the CTG machine.
Before 3am: Gynae finally reached and baby was out almost immediately when he reached. Thank god baby is fine. Was pushed back to the ward after doc finished stitching. Felt aching all over my body and shivering continue.
The nurse brought the baby to me at 6am for breastfeeding, which by then my aching has gone and amazingly, I did not feel the pain of the stitching! Initially baby did not know how to suck, but after 1 hour of teaching her, she could suck very well! Well done my girl!
Doctor came to my ward at around 11am and got his permission to discharge in the afternoon.
Bye bye to my pregnancy journey and welcome the new baby to our family. :)
Happy jiejie holding her xiao mei
Here's the birth story:
27 August 2010 (Friday):
5.35am: Awaken by Ru who asked for her milk milk. Then realised my mucus plug has broken. Was thinking the next step of action while trying to pat Ru back to sleep.
5.45am: Decided to wake up and start packing just in case. Ru refused to sleep again so hung around me to watch me packing up.
6.30am: Called hubby who was in Japan. Told him baby might not be able to wait for him to come back on Saturday. Hubby was shocked and promised to come back on the day.
6.45am: Woke my younger sis up. She quickly washed up to get ready to send Ru to nanny's house and Xi to her school.
7.10am: Finally sent the girls and my sis off by a cab. Despite much crying and insist me to send her to school, Xi finally agreed to let my sis to bring her instead.
7.20am: My elder sis and BIL arrived in a rush. Three of us and my helper quickly get into their car and on the way to JB. No contraction as yet.
8.10am: Reached my JB clinic. Nurse checked, no dilation yet. Advised to wait for my gynae to check again then advised. Discussed over the phone with hubby, decided to ask to be admitted and wait in the clinic since hubby would reach at night. Asked sis and BIL to go back first as expected a long wait.
2pm: Felt bored waiting in the ward, so got permission to go out of clinic with my helper for a walk. Shopped at the nearby Plaza Pelangi. Can feel slight contraction but bearable.
5pm: Came back from shopping and continued to wait in my ward. Hubby called that he has arrived Changi airport, thought i have delivered.
8pm: Hubby reached. Told him not so soon. Asked him to bring the helper home to rest first. Will call him when about to deliver.
10.44pm: Intense contractions began, about 8 minutes interval.
28 August 2010 (Saturday):
12 midnight: Nurse came and check. 4cm dilated.
2.00am: Could not sleep at all because the contraction was getting worse and unbearable. Nurse checked again. 6-7cm dilated. Said can call hubby already. Walked to the labour room. Waiting game was coming to an end.
2.20am: Hubby reached. Getting very very pain. Was shivering non-stop though not feeling cold.
2.30am: Nurse checked again. Almost fully dilated. Finally went to call the gynae to come. (I was going to curse her already if she was still not going to call gynae).
2.45am: The pain was unbearable and the urge to push was beyond words but was told not to push because the gynae was not here yet. Told them cannot already, baby is coming out!!! Heard the faint heartbeat of bb from the CTG machine.
Before 3am: Gynae finally reached and baby was out almost immediately when he reached. Thank god baby is fine. Was pushed back to the ward after doc finished stitching. Felt aching all over my body and shivering continue.
The nurse brought the baby to me at 6am for breastfeeding, which by then my aching has gone and amazingly, I did not feel the pain of the stitching! Initially baby did not know how to suck, but after 1 hour of teaching her, she could suck very well! Well done my girl!
Doctor came to my ward at around 11am and got his permission to discharge in the afternoon.
Bye bye to my pregnancy journey and welcome the new baby to our family. :)
Happy jiejie holding her xiao mei
The Sisters
Now that Ru is 18 months old, an active and cheeky toddler who can easily tire out her caretaker, especially her heavily preggie mummy. But it is also at this stage that she and her elder sister begin to have more fun playing with each other! Though there are the usually fight on the same toys, pushing on each other and sibling squabbling, there are also the hugging, patting and kissing of each other. Each night, Xi will walk over to the side where Ru sleeps and both girls will hug umpteen times and unseparable before I force Xi to go back to her side of bed to sleep. When Xi fell and cried, Ru will go over pat pat her sister, kiss her and brought jiejie's water bottle for her to drink. And when I scolded any of them, the other one will be either crying or angry at me! How ungrateful!!!
#3 is arriving anytime. Can't wait to see the three girls playing, go to school and have fun together!
#3 is arriving anytime. Can't wait to see the three girls playing, go to school and have fun together!
Her new pettiskirt
Here's a video clip on our little miss Yun Xi dancing with her new pettiskirt. :)
Reading books
From young, we have tried to cultivate the love for books and reading habit to Xi. I have bought plenty of books online (www.thebookpeople.co.uk) and from book stores and it seems to have worked for her as everyday before her nap time and sleep time at night, she will "pester" us to read books for her, not one or two, but could be four, five or more. It's like a marathon. First she will pull my younger sis to her room to read for her (as she knows I will be busy with housework). If daddy is around, daddy will continue part 2 of reading. And lastly will be me, by reading another 2 or 3 books for her, before she will want to wear her socks, pants, and allow us to switch off the light for the night.
We have seen great improvement in her word recognition since the start of her school and lately, she shows her curiosity in understanding the meaning of the words in the books and keeps interupting our reading to her to check on the meaning. Two weeks ago, I realise she can finish reading most part of this book "It's Not Fair" by herself, and yesterday, "The Three Little Pig".
(You can buy the full book collection of 10 books from here, strongly recommended: http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=177164)
This is another collection of books which she loves, Princess Poppy Collection . Beautiful books for girls.
(http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=140670)
As for Ru, while reading to her sister, she will run around the room and the house carring a bag filled with little books. Sometimes she will bring a book to us and want us to read for her. But the moment we open up the book she has run away already. Sigh.... Anyone has any method to let my little girl to sit still for 5 minutes?
We have seen great improvement in her word recognition since the start of her school and lately, she shows her curiosity in understanding the meaning of the words in the books and keeps interupting our reading to her to check on the meaning. Two weeks ago, I realise she can finish reading most part of this book "It's Not Fair" by herself, and yesterday, "The Three Little Pig".
(You can buy the full book collection of 10 books from here, strongly recommended: http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=177164)
This is another collection of books which she loves, Princess Poppy Collection . Beautiful books for girls.
(http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=140670)
As for Ru, while reading to her sister, she will run around the room and the house carring a bag filled with little books. Sometimes she will bring a book to us and want us to read for her. But the moment we open up the book she has run away already. Sigh.... Anyone has any method to let my little girl to sit still for 5 minutes?
Xi's sports day
Xi had her first sport day on 21 May 2010 at Toa Payoh stadium. The weather on that morning was superb. It was great fun to see so many young kids and energitic teachers, and parents who participated the games with their children enthusiastically. Though the N1 kids did not participate as well as they normally did in school and at home during the 1st part of the warm up sing and dance led by the Mandarin teachers, all of them managed to finish the team races which came after that.
Xi and her good friend, Olivier
With her English teacher, Elizabeth
The class queuing up for their first game. From left to right, Angel, Cayley, best friend, Phoebe, Ethan, Olivier, Xi, Chloe and Jeremy
Waiting for the next game to start
With friend, Angel and her Mandarin teacher, Yu Jiao
Xi and her good friend, Olivier
With her English teacher, Elizabeth
The class queuing up for their first game. From left to right, Angel, Cayley, best friend, Phoebe, Ethan, Olivier, Xi, Chloe and Jeremy
Waiting for the next game to start
With friend, Angel and her Mandarin teacher, Yu Jiao
