Danelle second injection - 27 Sep 09

We brought Danelle for her 2nd jab of 6 in 1 injection on 27th Sep. My poor baby was crying and curl up when she was "poked". Seemed to be painful. Actually, we wanted to let her take the rotavirus dose on the same day but the doctor asked us to come back another day... :(

Danelle is growing well and @ 3 mths old, she is 6kg and 61cm tall. Comparing to her jie jie, still short of 0.3kg and 2cm. :) But i am glad that I am still total breastfeeding her and can pump her up to 6kg cos my mum always think that my breast milk is not fattening enough for her... haiz...

Back to Work

I went back to work on 14th Sep and that left me with 4 weeks of maternity leave to clear by Jun 2010. On my first day back to work, i told my boss that i will take the remaining maternity leave in Nov cos hubby on reservist. It's better that i be SAHM during that period else i can only work half day afternoon shift. Well, boss say OK and will arrange with him closer to the dates! :D

Before i returned to work, i've started a routine for Danelle and maid.
7am - Latch
10am - Bottle feed
1 pm - Bottle feed
4 pm - Bottle feed
7pm - Bottle feed
9-10 pm -Latch
12-1am - Latch (Dreamfeed)

Danelle was following very well according to the schedule and she was taking the bottle during day time and sleep thr the nite from 10pm till 6-7am. Only occassionally she will wake up at 4am so i have instructed my maid to give her pacifier and she is back to dreamland again. Such an angel rite? :)

Well, the friday before i went back to work, Danelle started to "bottle protest". Yes, she refuse to drink from bottle. Haiz... We found out when she didn't take any milk the whole day and will cry when we put the bottle into her mouth. But if i let her latch, she will happily drink her milk?!?! So what i did was to make Danelle fall asleep then feed her the bottle. It works sometimes. Then we also realised that certain frozen EBM she reject so I am not sure which packet of my 30+ storage packets has problem. Every day i will thaw 1 packet and ask my maid to try to feed Danelle with that. If Danelle drink, then it means ok to continue to feed her else throw! Sounds wasted rite? But no choice cos maybe certain batches are not "fresh"?!?!

During my 12 wks of maternity leave, i have stored up to 30+packets of Frozen EBM. As of today, i have abt 40+ packets of Frozen EBM in my fridge cos i am still expressing milk twice during office hrs. Thus, Danelle is still on total breastfeeding and NO formula milk required from birth till now! :) I really hope i can breastfeed Danelle till she turns 6mths old or even longer since i have invested in a breast pump. So no excuses to quit breastfeeding for now. :p

Giant Baby!

Gosh! Little Sumo but super chubby and pinchable! Haha... :P
Check out @ http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/867162/woman-gives-birth-to-8-7kg-boy

F1 Rocks

My dept got 17 pairs of tickets to F1 Rocks Concert for tonight @ 5pm. They did a lucky draw few mins ago and i got the tickets worth $178 but... should i go??!?! Saw from the ticket that it is a Rain or Shine event and free standing wor.... Hmm.....

Tonite got Jacky Cheung, A-Mei, Da Mouth, SodaGreen and i would like to see Jacky Cheung leh!! How?!?! Should i go and pick up my darlings at later hour?? :p Don't think can drive there too cos the road is closed for F1 race. See more details @ http://www.f1rocks.com/singapore09/

Just found out the program for tonite :

Thursday 24th September.

1700 - Doors

1900 - Da Mouth

2000 - Sodagreen

2100 - A Mei

2200 - Jacky Cheung performance

Adelle teaching Danelle to clap

Jie Jie is teaching Mei Mei how to clap! :D

Princess Adelle is 20 months old on 16th Sep

Adelle weighs 11.2kg at 20th months old. She can now say an entire list of words like keep, eat, draw, ok, pig, kite, book, rice, monkey, baby, duck, close and clap. She also know how to address people like aunty, uncle, mei mei, didi. Another significant improvement was she started to form sentence like "where's daddy?" and "go to bed". Seeing her language starts to get better each day makes me feel very happy and every day i am looking forward to hear new words and sentences from her! :)

Princess Danelle is 3 months old on 21st Sep

3 months old Danelle can flip to one side by lifting up her both legs then turn! :)

When she's on her tummy, she will lift her head and chest as if she were doing mini-pushups.


She also started to play with her hands and can fold her arms!


Danelle best record is she can sleep from 9+pm and wake up at 7am!


Whenever she hears our voice, she will turn to see us. She enjoy chit chatting session with us too.

All in all, Danelle is growing well except for her milk feeds, it was really challenging! She refused to be bottle feed and will scream when she see the bottle. Thus, my maid has to bottle feed her when she is asleep. So everyday she is looking forward for me to return home to latch her... Haiz....

Outing at Lim Chu Kang

During the long weekend of Hari Raya Puasa, we brought Adelle for outing @ Lim Chu Kang.

It was a long drive to Lim Chu Kang and our first stop was the dragon fruit farm. Adelle get to walk around and even smell the passion fruit hanging on the tree. Then she had fun feeding the fishes cos hubby bought the fish food for her to "throw" into the pond. The fruit farm also sells fresh fruits and vegetable that they say these are organic fruits. Hubby bought the dragon fruits and bananas too. The dragon fruits was really sweet! :)

Our second stop was the goat farm - Hay Dairy. Hubby bought the fresh goat milk but i don't like the taste. However, Adelle and hubby were happily drinking it. We also walked around the farm and took some pics with the goat behind us.

After the goat farm, we drove around Lim Chu Kang and saw many farms but didn't get off cos it was hot outside. As we drove on, we reaches Sungei Buloh. We didn't go for the long walk there cos it was near to their closing hours so we decide that we will make another trip back the nxt round.

We also saw there is a D'Kranji Farm Resort. It looks quite interesting but not cheap wor... Wonder how many people will come here to stay for fun? ;)

Overall, we had fun exploring this part of Singapore! And throughout the trip, Danelle was sleeping and during our journey back, Adelle doze off too! :)

Revamp of my blog site

Yeah finally i have completed the migration of old template to the new template. :D

Warning signs of a toddler's language delay

A link to share :

http://www.babycenter.com/0_warning-signs-of-a-toddlers-language-delay_12293.bc?scid=momstodd_20090915:3&pe=2UuNkAd

Cover Picture of Danelle

Kite Festival

It was a bright sunny afternoon and we decided to bring Adelle to west coast park for the kite festival on 29th Aug. It was the first time that we introduce to Adelle - Kites! She loves seeing the flying kites and can say "Kite" when we taugh her the word on the spot. We have fun too by making a simple kite @ the festival. :) While on our way back to the car, Adelle insist to push the stroller! So we let her try it and she enjoys "pushing it" cos we helped her by pulling it infront without her knowing it! ;)