Early morning call at 5am on Monday morning

This morning, at 5 am I heard a small and sweet voice calling mama, mama, mama :)

Emily is hungry and wants milk milk. After drinking her milk, she fell a sleep again.

Its the sweetest little voice and sweetest sound that I can desire to hear. She crawl towards me on the bed and hugged me and called mama again. As a mother, that can be the sweetest sound we hear and the heart just melts with it.

Even though I did not manage to get back to sleep till around 6 am - I guess that is the happiest early morning call that I can remember.

Baby Gathering @ Bee Ling's

A few weeks ago, we had a baby gathering at Bee Ling's house. Its really special this time because we have around 8 mama's attending the gathering and 11 baby gathering together. Our intention is of course for the mom's to meet and chat and also for the baby to gather and play. However, every baby seem to have their own 'interest' during that time and still does not know how to interact with each other.

In conjunction with that, Bee Ling has also purchase a birthday cake for baby Jun Jie who celebrated his Chinese birthday that day :)

Thanks Bee Ling for a wonderful afternoon and gathering

All of them are playing with the toys on the floor separately.. hemm.. still don't know how to socialize yet
Happy Birthday to Jun Jie
Sitting: Lee May & Shey Nell, Angie & Emily
Standing: Daphnie & Issac, Siew Kooi's Hubby & Eugene, Siew Kooi & Vincent , Pei Jin & En En, Michelle & Jun Jia, Bee Ling & Zi Heng, Julia & Nicole.

Emily's Wearing her England Football Jersey

Here are some old pictures that has been taken in August with Emily and Daddy. I promised one of my counterpart in England to send some pictures of Emily wearing the England Football Jersey that he has send to Emily. Finally, I manage to take those pictures...

Mama, Emily & Daddy

Mama and Emily

"See Mama I am reading now"

"Mama what are you doing there ? Don't make me laugh la, I wanna read"

"Ok mama its really funny. Stop making that funny face .....hahaha"

Emily's birthday pics

Here are some of Emily's belated birthday pictures taken on 7/16/07.

"Oh its a surprise birthday"

"Yeah I am 1 year old now"

"Waiting for my birthday song....Happy Birthday To Me..."

"Look at the cool red egg, mama please have 1 "

Being Pregnant again...

Being pregnant brings a lot of joy to me. This is true only beyond the 1st trimester and beyond all the morning sickness and nausea.

I have a few happy thoughts about being pregnant and here they are:

1) When I am pregnant, I don't have to spend a lot of money on cloths and accessories. Not to mean that when I am pregnant, I don't have a sense of fashion (only the truth can tell :P) but I really take this time to save on shopping for shoes, cloths and lots of other things. So this 9-12 months will be a cost savings time for me. BUT the problem is I will start to spend the money that I saved from these few months very fast after the confinement period and when I get back to work :P

2) Being pregnant feels good because everyone in the house will pampare you like a baby (because you are carrying one). I have been so lucky that I dont have to drive to office everyday and search for a car park or walk from a car park which is half a football field. Now my hubby will drop me right at the door step. Being pampered also means that I don't have to do any house work like washing, cleaning and bla bla bla. See.. how lucky I am now...

3) When I am pregnant, I can sleep as much as I can. Not because I want to but because I need to. When I am pregnant, I can also eat anything that I want. However, I stilll need to control my sugar intake during the last few months of pregnancy.

4) I am also very delighted and excited when I can feel my little baby moving, twisting and kicking me. I truly enjoy every moment of that, even though it is in the middle of the night, a punch on the rib bones woke me up or a kick on the bladder makes me wanna pee. I enjoy every moment of Emily's movement in me.

5) Being pregnant makes me happy again because that I know in a few months time, I will be able to meet my new born baby and able to share our love and happiness with our new born baby.

So my dear friends get pregnant again :)

I'm Back

After being quite for so long, I am back to the blog pages. I think it has been exactly 2 months, 5 days I have not had the time and energy to blog about what has happened in my life. There are so many events that I wanted to share with my friends and family that happened during that time but don't have the opportunity to do so. Some of my far away friends were asking what happened to Angie whom has been away for so long.

Well, I have a very valid reason for this !! I was having morning sickness & nausea & vomiting for almost 2 months. Yes... I am pregnant again :) ..haha some would say it is very fast and some would actually its time to have the 2nd child while the gap is not too huge. For me there are a lot of challenges and memories during the last few weeks.

Being pregnant is one of the happiest moment in my first pregnancy. I can still remember clearly when I was pregnant with Emily, I enjoy every moment of it, even during the 1st trimester. I did not experience a huge amount of morning sickness only slight nausea during the evening for a few weeks. This pregnancy bring a totally different experience for me. I did not know that being "morning sick" was so tough :(. I was not able to eat or drink and any input to the mouth will cause output. So it was a tough time during the last few weeks.

However, I am on the lucky side now, stepped into the 2nd trimester now and the morning sickness and nausea has reduced tremendously. I am more energetic now and able to "run" around with Emily.
Emily being very very active, really requires a lot of attention from both of her parents. We really have to follow everywhere she walks to avoid falls and also unwanted accidents.

One of the hardest thing for me to let go is breastfeeding Emily. I had to stop breastfeeding or should I say naturally I had to stop because the milk supply has reduced tremendously. I remember it actually took me 1 week to totally stop lactating. When I found out that I am pregnant, I try to read more about Tandem breastfeeding from the Internet. Some approve of that and some actually encourage to stop. My gyne actually encouraged me to stop breastfeeding as it may affect the contraction of the uterus and also cause malnutrition to the fetus. During this time I am very very lucky and grateful to have the greatest mother in the whole world to help me care and feed Emily. I always thought that Emily being a breastfeed baby will have a difficult time to wean. But it came very naturally and easily. My mother really had to scarify a lot of her time and energy to help take care of Emily as I was too 'sick' to hold the responsibility of a mother at that time.

Being in the 2nd trimester now, I am back on my little feet and able to eat more and gaining weight. I am for one not concern about gaining too much weight as long as I am healthy and nurturing my little baby. This time round, I will try to enjoy every moment of the pregnancy and promise to keep all posted.

Till then.. cheers....