Ethan's Cradle Cap

Ethan has a bad case of cradle cap recently. We asked Dr Sim if he carries any cradle cap shampoo but he said using baby oil to apply on the scalp for 30mins, then comb it away will do. We did this for Ethan this morning and manage to get rid quite a fair bit of the dead skin on his scalp for him.. don't know whether is it because of our comb, some parts of his scalp became a little reddish as I examined him this afternoon.. We are bringing him for a thorough shave next weekend when he turns 4th month old, hopefully it will help to reduce the dead skin on his head..

pictures of him in the last 3 weeks, the last 2 pic are taken today, seems to have lost weight, but grown taller

Ethan's latest development

Ethan has started to "speak"to us during his awake time. He simply loves oohing and cooing at people who speak and play with him, engaging and even laughing out loud at times. His legs are kicked at a higher level, I suspect, in time to come, he will start holding on to both legs and putting one of them into his mouth..

Although Ethan is our second baby, his new developments are refreshing and entertaining to us.. we are still looking forward to new "stunts" to be displayed by him as the days go by.

This Lunar New Year

This Chinese new year, we have both Caden and Ethan doing the usual house visits at the elderly. Ethan just turn 3 and a half months and is still on his usual 18 hours sleeping routine. Caden has now become more sociable, and knows how to say "happy new year" in Teochew, our dialect. He is very happy upon receiving hongbaos and even helped his Lil Ethan accept on his behalf and placed it on his chest. Even when we returned home after the house visits, Caden will ask me for his hongbao, but definitely we don't pass them back for his safekeeping as we know he won't be able to remember where he placed them after a while.

Everyone is eager to carry Lil' Ethan but most of the time, he is either hungry for feed or sleep. So Caden then becomes the focus as he is now more vocal and curious with the surroundings.

One unfortunate incident over the 3 house visits we have made so far was that all the elderly have serious health problems this period. My Aunt is not able to walk as her spinal and nerve condition worsen, Ricky's Da Po has started with dialysis as his kidneys have failed, Da Mu also have problems with her hands and is getting weaker due to old age. Da Yi has also recently have problems with walking as well and may potentially need an operation if her physiotherpy is not effective..

Then leads me to think that if I were to age, I hope I won't be a burden to my children, it will be physically, emotionally and monetary draining to them.. and I will feel as frustrated as my ah Yi.. so possibly, it helps to have more than 1 child, but at this point, we'll still stick to 2, as we have problems juggling between work and family since Ethan is born...

Persisting cough

Caden has been coughing for the past 1 month. He doesn't cough throughout the day but tends to cough very badly at night and mornings when he is awake. We had brought him to Dr Sim and he has given him some stronger dose of medication to treat what he thought sensitive lungs. After the full course of medication, he has not recover and continues to cough badly. Last night, he woke up at 1am to throw out his dinner and milk after coughing for some time. We brought him for an x-ray on Thurs (as Dr sim recommended to see if there is any infection in his lungs before he changes the medication). We will only get to know the results tom or tues and hoping that it will turn out fine..

Playing happily at home during the day - without coughing..

Ethan at 3 months old

We brought Ethan for his third month jab to Dr Sim on Thurs and did an assessment on his suspected tilted neck. Dr sim said as long as he's turning his head around 180 degrees when he is held upright, it should be fine, his head shape will start to balance off when he turns 4-5months as he will be keep upright at a longer period during the day instead of sleeping most of the time.

Ethan now weighs 6.1kg and 60.5cm tall, his head circumference is 40.5cm big.. he reacted to the jab with a little cry (when Caden was 3 months old, he did not have any reaction at all!) but stopped crying within seconds. Although he falls short of the 2x his birth weight gain at this stage, we thought that he's slightly bigger in size at his age.. but still his milk intake did not increase from 2 months and still maintain at 4 oz per feed.

Ethan has now started to grab his t-shirt, hanky, or whatever within his reach when he's awake, and create a sharper cry whenever he's fussing. He has successfully sleep through the night since the last update and sometimes we have to wake him up at 630am to give him the first feed of the day. Hopefully it gets easier for us as both Mummy and PaPa are tired from exhaustion to date (that explains for fewer postings..)

Look, my hair has grown and become curlier!

The new T3 terminal

As we knew about the opening of new Terminal 3 airport, we decided to pop by today to see how magnificient our country has created a place to welcome the tourists.. it is really very impressive, although we didn't get to go into the check-in area, but we could have imagine how self-contained they have made the place. For us, we have a big area to view the aeroplances (viewing gallery), big area for the children to run and roam about - where Caden enjoyed alot! Lotsa of food choices.. but T2 and T1 was good too.. so efinitely a place we will visit when we have no idea where to hit during the weekends and like somewhere which is cooling...

Ethan enjoying the cooling place while Caden is busy watching the aeroplanes:

Once of Caden's fav spot as he is amazed with the rotating flower robot (which we didn't know the significance)

Back at Work

This is only my first week back at work in my Bank and I am already missing Ethan. Although its a short week, each time when I'm in the lactation room pumping milk for Ethan (doing 2 times a day), I have to retrieve the pictures of Ethan to make my day happier at work..

I have not been staying late in the last 3 nights, averaging 745pm. But to me, it is already a mad rush the moment I step back home after dinner with the 2 darlings.. Washing bottles, pump, sterilising them, boiling water, making milk for Caden, bathe, coaxing Caden to sleep, then pump milk again before we retire for the night. All to be done within 1 and a half to 2 hours. I will be staying later in the office in the later part of next week and hopefully my hubby and MIL can cope better without me (cos they need not pump milk).. Not sure how this arrangement will work going fwd, as we are on a lookout for maids now and possibly, Ethan and Caden will be easier as they become older.. otherwise, I will really have to seriously consider other job options..