Seventh checkup - 6th Oct 2007

Mummy has been sick(with bad flu) for the past 1 week but thank god, our princess is healthy inside the womb as she is still busy moving inside mummy daily. At 25+ weeks, she is already 1.1kg leh!! Oh mine... is she big?? We think so.... See the average weight at 25-26 wks should be 660 to 780 grams. U can read more from http://www.babycenter.com/average-fetal-length-weight-chart?Ad=com.bc.common.AdInfo%40764d59d9

Also because of the weight, the estimated due date is between 30th Dec & 10th Jan so the system average out to be 4th Jan 08?!?! Hmm..... seems like there is a possibility that adelle may be born earlier? Better put her on "diet" before she become overweight ah... :-p

Other interesting observation that we have is mummy tummy is smaller in the morning & it grows double at nite. We wonder why it is so but guess after dinner, adelle is stretching inside so need more space? Anyway daddy say it's better that bb adelle is born in the morning so that she is smaller & easier to deliver via natural birth ya?

Okie here is princess adelle picture but can't see much of her this time except her tummy which Dr adrian took the estimated weight measurement...

"Baby mercedes" for Adelle

1st Oct - First children day present & most expensive one for baby Adelle

Over the last weekend, we went shopping at OG & Seiyu Bugis to see if we can buy anything for princess Adelle. Daddy was reminding mummy to see if there is any good buy for stroller cause that is Daddy favourite item to see whenever we are the children dept. While mummy loves to see the cute clothes that she can buy for our princess! ;-)

Daddy was very excited when he saw one stroller + baby car seat from Capella! The price was quite attractive - $239 for both items & entitled to 15% discount too! We are very tempted but was hesisting whether it is really good buy or not. But we didn't buy on the spot & went back home to do some research. However, we did not left empty handed. Mummy bought 2 pooh bear clothes, 1 mini mouse top with a skirt cum panty & an air filled cot bubble sheet that can be used as a changing cover or place under the bedsheet to give extra cushion to bb.

The next day sunday, mummy surf the net(http://www.babystudio.com.sg/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=57) & found the model selling at Bugis - Capella Stroller S217(http://www.babystudio.com.sg/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=264) cost $183 & baby car seat S1100 (http://www.babystudio.com.sg/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=267) cost $132. Total will be $315 leh!!!

Wow, imagine Seiyu is selling that for $239 & with discount some more but the trade-off is only 1 color available - RED. Well, guess don't have much choices if we want to save $100+ loh..... :p We also did considered other brands like Peg perego & combi. However, we conclude that Peg perego is good but expensive & heavy leh... As for combi, it is cheaper than Peg preggo but the design & structure aint fits our requirements as it's look kind of flimsy.

Anyway today(1st Oct), after much consideration & price comparision, we decided to proceed to buy it! Hehehee... It cost us $203.15 after discount & we bought a yellow-blue clip fan for our princess too!! Baby Adelle is very happy the whole night as she was busying bouncing inside!! :)

Our New Flat @ Kallang - Selection of Unit

20th Sep 2007 - The long awaited day

Yesh! We went to HDB that day & managed to secure a unit @ our desire flat location, ie Upper Boon Keng Road, next to Kallang MRT station! So happy!! :-)

It's been our prayers since the day(May 2006) when we saw the new flats there. Looking back at the amount of hard work & time that we spent to buy the enbloc flat @ Sims Drive, we thank God for his provision & making our desire possible!

Just to share a little bit more about the flat selection process. On 1st Sep, we received the invitation letter from HBD & our queue is 738 on the 15th day of the entire exercise. Well, we are little skeptical about whether we still stand a chance to get a flat so we did some projection & monitor closely via the internet daily. After a week of study, we think there is a chance to get the flats there but maybe we will not get a good view & low flow too.

Thus, we come up with an agreement that our selection criteria will first be the layout & 90sqm. Basically, there are 2 types of layout for the 4 rooms flat, 2 type of floor size - 85 & 90 sqm & finally 2 types of facing - either facing outside or inside. We went to do a site visit on one saturday & there are 2 kind souls that let us in to take a look at our prefered layout. It was indeed the kind of layout that we want coz it's much spacious. Then we also look at how we can re-engineer the kitchen door to make it more spacious. :-) It was a good trip & also we agree that we dont want to stay too high coz Airrence find it scary! heheee...

So on the day before our selection, we are left with 15 units of the prefered layout flats. Thus, we came up with our top 30 unit numbers in the order of preference & prayed that God will keep one of the top 15units for us.

God is good. On the day of our selection, only the top choice was taken though our appointment is at 3.30pm. We get to choose our flat at 4pm and yes, we got Blk 3B #16-624!! YipEE our second choice for that day!!

On the following sunday, we went to take a look at our flat & just realise that there is a playground below so our baby adelle is very happy loh!! :p