No time to post my thoughts. Matthew just puked!

Our Little Dumpling ~ Matthew Chua 蔡卓樂

Final countdown

I bought a small case of 12 packets of Vita Coconut water when I was entering into my 3rd trimester. And have been drinking 1 pack per week since then. Hearsay is that baby will be born "cleaner" with less of the white stuff known as "vernix" covering their skin.

Now that I'm down to my last packet of the drink, it means that this is my last week of pregnancy! My baby is coming out next week!

I know I probably have talked about it a zillion times, but I really never knew I could made it this far. In the end, our baby has proved my gynae wrong and I am so proud of him! Although it has been a torturous wait ever since the 37th week as we really want to be able to hold, hug & kiss our little precious...

Yesterday night before we went to bed, I turned to Junyong & said "told you our baby is gonna be a June baby!" :)

38!

Did I mention that my new fave day of the week is Wednesday?

Because every Wed, I get to add a new week count to my pregnancy! And this week... the number is.... 38! Woohoo!

Looking forward...

We dropped by the post office yesterday and happened to see a window poster for the upcoming 2011 Father's day.

Junyong was very excited and exclaimed that this year will be his first and very own Father's day ever! He was being a show-off because I didn't get to celebrate my Mother's day this year >_<

Although on Mother's day itself, I demanded that he gives me the Sunday off. So, he was nice enough to do all the cooking and dish-washing for that day (we usually share the duties, if i cook; he washes up and vice versa). Even though I do not have my baby on hand yet, I am still a mother, and deserved to be pampered, right? hee..

15 more days to go! Can't wait!!!

Mummy-to-be is in a good mood. can you tell from my double post within a week?

Thank you Auntie Ash, Auntie Flo & Auntie Yan! We're received the "Welcome Matthew" gifts! Love them! ^-^

We started buying toys and books for Matthew too, since a couple months ago. Actually I did but with daddy's money of course, so I said "we". :p

Anyway, so Junyong commented that by the time Matthew is born, he may have more toys than his daddy has ever had in his whole childhood. I told him that he was being exaggerative. But right now, I'm not so sure anymore...

We are (technically) full term!

I confess. I've been afraid of pre-term labour. The thought of seeing my fragile premature baby in the NICU scares me.

So I have been trying to lie low for the past 2 weeks. Athough not on bedrest but on self-imposed home-confinement. Except for visits to the gynae office and weekend trips to catch a breather, run some errands & grocery shopping, I've been staying at home most of the time. I don't know how I did it while maintaining my sanity, but I'd managed.

We're 37 weeks today! So, baby is technically considered "full term" with a high likelihood that his lungs have matured to adjust to life outside mummy's womb! I am so glad that we've managed to come this far with only 2+ more weeks to go before his edd!

And daddy has been so looking forward to seeing our little one these days that 2 weeks ago, he's started to whisper to my tummy "baby, when is your birthday?" This made me so nervous and I kept replying on baby's behalf "Daddy, I'm gonna be a June baby!"

Right now, we're just hoping he puts on more weight.. as close to 3kg as possible is our goal. So, I've been trying to eat every 3 hrs, whether or not I'm hungry. Hopefully, most of my weight gain is going towards baby's fat-building.

I'm glad I'm laying low (with no pictures on the blog & no one is to tag a recent photo of me on FB ok!) so you wouldn't be able to see how fat I've become. But at the end of the day, it'll be all worth it!

Also, another great news is that my mum has made it to US! She travelled alone from Spore to US, despite the language barrier (fyi, she doesn't read English and speaks very limited English). It's her first solo trip out of Spore and the whole family has been so worried about the logistics of how it's gonna work out. Planning started months ago and yesterday when I saw her came out of the arrival elevator at Sea-Tac airport, you can imagine my relief! I am so proud and grateful to have such a noble & courageous mum!

Our Little Thinker

Our little guy looks like he's deep in thought, isn't he? But look closely, and you'll realise that's his feet foot rather than hand. lol!

He's probably gonna kick himself in his face and wonder who did that to him...silly! haha!


35 weeks now! 35 more days to go before EDD - 8 June 2011! Yippee!!

Counting down!

My tummy has been getting a lot of attention these days...


Getting a good variety of stuff to digest every 3-4 hrs, lots of tlc rubbing from myself and also hubby, loving words & kisses all over from hubby, classical music concert almost every night ...


But it's also working very hard to accomodate our growing baby... stretch marks is something that I've come to accept... and no longer on my mind until I see them before the daily bath...

Today marks the 32nd week of my pregancy! Another 8 more weeks to go before we get to see our little one. Can't wait! But at the same time, we hope that baby will stay in there for as long as he can so that he'll be a strong & healthy full term baby.

I think we're almost ready.. at least in terms of physical preparation. We have attended childbirth class, breastfeeding class, gotten the crib & car seat set up & washed all of baby's clothes, bedsheets, blankets, towels. The fun part was hanging up all the teeny weeny stuff and seeing them dry under the sun. :)

Our Little Guy's Stash

I am Daddy's boy

Mummy says I am Daddy's boy!

Because....

I always behave myself whenever daddy is around.

Like when the doctor needs to do various measurements of me at 20th week, I was pretty cooperative because daddy was around that day to see me.

And whenever mummy says I'm kicking her or moving around alot, the moment daddy puts his hand down to feel it, I will stop so that he will not think that I've been naughty.

Anyway... Mummy was also saying my picture brings a lot of readers and comments to this blog, and it makes her happy! If she's happy, I'm happy too!

So, here's another pic of me at 20th week, taken a couple of weeks ago, to keep you all entertained for now...

in case you're counting... I'm 26th weeks old today! :)

♥ Matthew ♥

Hello World...

I am so not ready to face you yet...

First Birthday Present

"Happy Birthday Daddy

♥♥ FR(from) Baby Matthew"

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2011

Our family in Seattle! :)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

For this year's Xmas gift exchange, our group of friends here decided that we'll play Secret Santa . So we drew lots during Thanksgiving to see who will be our respective gift recipients. And guess who I got? My husband. :)

I revealed to him that I'm his "Secret Santa" but he had no idea what I intended to get for him.

He wanted so badly to tear open the present when I showed the wrapped up package to him 3 days before Xmas. haha!

Tada! PS3 Move!

Definitely exceeded the preset gift budget but I reasoned that this will be his "Secret Santa" gift & our wedding anniversary gift too. :p

A week later, he came home and said "老婆, here's my gift to you for our wedding anniversary!"
An extra PS3 move controller.

Haha! Now we can challenge each other to a serious match of table tennis...

Christmas Eve Steamboat Dinner for 2.25

More than enough to fill us up!

Merry Christmas! :)

Shopping, shopping & more shopping

Been doing quite a bit of shopping these days.

Black Friday... Christmas... and for someone very special.

Not Junyong... not me...guess who?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cosy and intimate Thanksgiving dinner this year...

On the menu we have ham, pumpkin soup, bread, stuffed pumpkin, greenbean casserole, sweet potato tarts, sparking juice, wine, champagne, birthday cake!

Main character, Turkey is missing though.. because Jingying has popped earlier than expected! Congrats! Baby couldn't wait to join in Thanksgiving celebrations this year. Crowd lover, just like her mum. :p

No doubt that our party will have a few additional headcount next year! :)

Random babble

I haven't been sleeping well these few days... having alot of weird dreams & been waking up every few hrs through the night. Ends up feeling very sleepy and listless during the day, so I will occasionally take an afternoon nap. I know it's a vicious cycle but I can't help it...

The weather is turning colder everyday. Daylight is becoming shorter and I feel lethargic everyday. Everyone, including news weather reports has been forecasting that this will be a very cold winter and to be prepared for a snowstorm. The snowfall has already started in the mountains and the snow skiers are exhilarated.

Won't be going skiing this year.... most likely will be staying home to hibernate and keep safe. When hubby comes back from Spore next week, we'll have to start buying lots of food & firewood to stock up just in case of power outage..

Will also be eating a lot more during the festive seasons this winter.. maybe I should take "before winter" and "after winter" photos just for comparison's sake. :p

Back from hibernation

If you're reading this post, thanks for not giving up on my blog. :)

From time to time, I type in my own blog url & sit there wondering why I did that. Hoping that there will be a new post, maybe?

There hasn't been any update on my blog for close to 9 mths. That's as long as a full term pregnancy. Not that I was pregnant. I was just busy with life and life was keeping me busy too.

My parents and my younger sis visited me here in Seattle during March and we did some sightseeing around West Coast & Las Vegas. Also squeezed in a short trip to Hong Kong before returning to Singapore for 2 weeks. Husband did not come along then. Busy with work as usual.

But as I am writing this post, he is landing at Narita airport very soon. In transit, awaiting for his flight back to Singapore. He hasn't been back for 2 years since our Chinese wedding and was really looking forward to this trip back home.

And you might have noticed that I'm not on the flight with him going back together. Well, I just went back in April and figured that I will wait a little while more before my next trip back. Friends have questioned my decision of not going back with hubby this round. My reasoning is simple. I prefer going home on a yearly basis, rather than at irregular intervals of once every 1.5-2 years and then going back again in 6 months. Hubby encouraged me to go on the trip back with him too. But moolah does not come easy and I rather keep the credit and save it for my trip back home next year. I'm becoming quite a frugal housewife eh? (Although hubby might disagree with that. :p)

Perhaps it's because hubby is away that I've decided to start blogging again since I will have a little more free time on my hand. Although I'm not quite sure what I will blog about after today's entry. A housewife's life isn't really that interesting afterall.