Ethan's first smile

Finally Ethan showed his first smile last weekend

Brotherhood

Caden has been bugging us to take pictures of him and Ethan..

Barney's Christmas Star

PaPa finally can spare the time to bring Caden out to Marina Sq this sat for the Barney live show.. and also, this is one of the rare occasions that Mummy decided to tag along with Lil Ethan. This morning, we went to Caden's school to attend Meet the parents session with his teacher and received positive feedback on Caden's behaviour and progress in class. In fact, the teacher is keen to make Caden the class monitor when the new year starts for him in N1 as she cited that he possesses leadership skills..

We have to take a quick lunch at long john silvers as the time for Barney show is near. Caden was all excited abt meeting Barney and his friends.

After the show, as we didn't have a chance to take picture with Barney, Mumy asked Caden to pose with the posters pinned up in the shopping mall instead for momento.

A cold rainy Wednesday

Today's weather is perfect for anyone to sleep whole day at home.. just like Mummy thought she can have a chance to take a FEW short naps together with Ethan.. however, Ethan's schedule on a daily basis works like this:

2am Milk feed

530am Milk feed

6am pump milk

7am Caden came into the room to disturb both Ethan and Mummy

7.30am, pat Ethan to sleep again

8 am If Ethan doesn't get back to sleep - bath time

830am milk feed

9am Mummy's b'fast plus rocking Ethan to sleep at the same time

10am pump milk and Ethan falls asleep

11am Mummy finishes her shower after milk pumping and Ethan wakes up again

12pm milk feed

1pm Mummy pump milk again

2pm Lunch for Mummy

3pm Milk feed and rocking Ethan to sleep

4pm Mummy pump milk again

430pm Ethan wakes up again

5-6pm rocking Ethan to sleep, otherwise milk feed

7pm Mummy pump milk

8pm Dinner for Mummy and PaPa comes back from work

9pm all reach home.. Ethan still sleeping

9plus, PaPa takes over milk feed while Mummy attend to Caden

10pm Mummy puts Caden to sleep with story telling

11pm Mummy pump milk again

1-2am, Ethan wakes up and cycle continues

On that basis, can there be an opportunity for Mummy to take a good rest????

Ethan in his new long-sleeved romper, asleep

After the shot was taken, he wakes up again

Mothers are so sleep-deprived!!!

Lazy Sunday morning

Caden has learnt to be more independent since Ethan has joined our family.. but only at times.. if he sees anyone of us playing or attending to Lil Ethan, he will want to same treatment to be applied on him, e.g, if mummy carries Didi to drink milk, Caden also wants to be babied the same way..

Today, he was mimicking the advertisement shown on Kidscentral on Alvin and the Chipmunks, where they were dancing to the tune, Shake a boom boom, shake a boom boom, here's a display of his dancing act

He is very glued to the TV on Kidscentral on Sunday, and needless to say, PaPa is also very interested to watch some programmes shown - Power Rangers and the Mystic Force! See how engrossed they are while PaPa is feeding Ethan..

Mummy C-section wound

I went for a follow-up check on my c-section with Dr Cheng today. For the past one week, I felt the pain near the wound area becoming more unbearable, esp when I carry Lil Ethan. And the swell near the wound seems to get bigger.. today, Dr Cheng confirmed that I have got inflammation on the 2nd c-section wound and prescribed 2 antibiotics for me to complete. Hoepfully it will subside the pain and the swell and dissolve the pus in the swell. He said that if pus were to appear, I will have to go back to him for a minor insertion op to remove that! Goodness.. I hope not to go through another op again... can't imagine myself having to go thru another round of op and recovering from it.. let's wish for the best for now..



P/S: to all my friends who are reading this, pls do consider carefully before u opt for voluntary C-section.. it sure has more complications compared to a natural delivery..

More pictures of Lil Ethan

Mummy is still very tired from taking care of Ethan 24/7. Basically his alarm clock is always on the dot, he will want feed every 3 hourly.. and including middle of the night. Last night, we decided to implement the "water method" on Ethan. That is giving him water instead of milk when he cried for feed pass 12 am. Initially he drank a bit, but very soon, he realised that the fluid is something that he has not tasted and awful, so he was screaming and crying at the top of his voice! We had this considered, so we have closed the door and windows in order not to disturb our neighbours.. but subsequently, both PaPa and Mummy were too soft hearted to see him cry so badly and gave in to his demands.. we are trying again tonight. Hoepfully, by the time I return to work in Jan, Ethan would have slept throughout the night..

Some of the pictures to share for this week