New Year comes with Good News

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

May the new year brings you happiness and joy.

As for us, this new year has brings us good news & hopes.

Yes, after trying slightly more than a year, we are finally blessed with No:2.

I had my first prenatal check-up at week 5 (thats what according to babycenter website).

But my gynae can’t give me an exact due date cause No:2 did not have a heart beat yet. In fact No:2 is so small that we can’t even see him/her.

The only news comes out of the visit is that I’m confirm pregnant.

Next appointment would in three weeks times.

 

She called it “Dong Dong Chiang”

Claudia is addicted to this DVD that my mother bought for her on Monday.

She just asked for it again. Two minutes into the DVD, she asked me to put on her dancing dress and hair ribbon.

o.O

But she don’t have dancing dress and hair ribbon.

Then the girls were dancing with fake gold mandarin/pear, of course my girl asked for the orange/pear so that she can be the same with them.

The funny part is she don’t understand mandarin/cantonese.

She will imitate the dance and hand movement as well as trying to sing those words.

LOL

 

Toilet Trained

Well, Claudia is almost 100% toilet trained. She had her diaper on only at night and sometimes going out. I’m still not very confident with her when we go out. You know when children in shopping mall, they will run here and there, playing with toys and eventually they will forget to inform you that they need to go to the toilet.

We started to train her by encouraging her to pee on the toilet floor (big and small). Then we will clean the mess and wash her in the toilet. She also can do it on the potty in her own room if she likes (but rarely). That lasted for a month. But as of yesterday, my mum informed that she is willing to do her business (big and small) at the WC with the toddler toilet seat.

About half a year ago, I tell myself this is going to be difficult. Now that Claudia is toilet trained, I told myself, to help my little girl to grow up, I cannot be lazy and thinking for my own convenience. It is my duties to teach and mould her so that she can be a better person when she grows up.

 

Own Room

I did mentioned before that we are in the middle of moving Claudia to her own room. Finally, we did it three weeks ago. She seem to like the idea of “own room”. Every time she asked me “Where is who & who?”, I will take the opportunity to answer her who & who is sleeping in their “own room”.

Now every night at 8:30 - 9:00 pm, we will go to her room and start winding down. I will read & sing to her, and I will stay until she falls asleep. Before I will get out of the room, I will turn on the baby monitor and leave her room door slightly open. When I go to sleep, I also leave my room door slight open so that she can just push it open when she wakes up in the middle of the night looking for me.

Now, she only sleep in her own room. Afternoon nap and night sleep. I did not buy her a new bed. I just moved her queen size mattress to her room. Painted the feature wall green, put up two wall lights, mirror and bought her a new mini wardrobe (all from Ikea). Actually, I like her room myself.

 

My next goal is to teach her to go to sleep without me. Just like an adult. When she is tired, she will go to her own room and fall asleep. Wish me luck.

 

Ipoh Trip

Backdated Post.

My aunt (dad’s 2nd sister) came back from US for holidays with her son. And they are staying with my dad’s youngest sister in Ipoh. Yes, my dad side of family is from Ipoh & Perak. Dad wanted to go up to Ipoh for the weekend by himself so I offer to take him and with a warning that I’m going to bring his grand-daughter along if he didn’t mind.  My mum is not going cause she is not close to my dad’s side of family, long story.  Then 2 days before the trip my sister called to catch up and I asked her to come along.  So…it ended up that dad is stuck with the 2 grand-children for this trip.  We stayed over on Sat (29th Dec) night and left on Sunday afternoon after lunch.

We stopped at Bidor for lunch on the way to Ipoh, then Saturday’s dinner is Ipoh famous bean sprout chicken.  Sunday morning is the hotel’s free buffet breakfast (lousy).  Btw, we stayed at Impiana Casuarina (very old hotel) anyone have any recommendation for better hotel in Ipoh?  Then the kid’s go for a swim while the adults are hiding under the shade while watching over them. Then we had curry noodle with roast pork & fried chicken for lunch before we left for home.

Claudia’s new bathers. One of her Christmas gifts.

Nicholas.

 

Grey’s Anatomy

1 Month in Adelaide, what do i do?

I get to watch Grey’s Anatomy Season 3 on rental dvd.

Took me a week to finish 6 DVDs with 4 episodes in each DVD.

Yes, I’m a huge fan of Grey’s.

Can’t wait to watch season 4.

You are able to watch the full episode on the official website (within United States only).

 

Clumsy Girl

 

Clumsy girl fall down in the bathroom. As usual I place her on the dressing table so she can entertain herself with the mirror. So I turn around to test the temperature of the bath water. Just for less than a minute. When I turn around again, she actually falling down right in front of my eyes. Managed to grab her in time. So it is not a hard fall. Some scratches on the chest thats it cause she is naked at the time.

 

Back to 99%

Well, after a week of sickness, Claudia is back on her feet. Therefore, we did not do much accept chilling out in the house to avoid any accident (vomiting & diarrhoea) happen in the public area. Bbelow are some photos taken during our house confinement. LOL.

The tree is up before we got in from KL. No presents under the tree yet because of Claudia. You know why.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures. Clockwise: Top 2 is showing bush fire. Pictures taken from our house. Bottom 2 is showing the sunset at 9:00pm.

Miss Pink for the day.

Chilling out at home yesterday. She is in pretty good mood. Don’t know why.

 

 

Recovering

 

Thanks for all the wishes. But our little girl is still not fully recover. She still having diarrhoea since Monday and no vomiting today. But she did have an episode when we walked in the Esprit shop. I was carrying her and she vomited all the milk that she had 3 hours ago all over me. Mr.Wallace had to knee down to clean the floor with the kitchen towel and wet wipes. Luckily the the store manager is very helpful and understanding. Then we decided to bring to see the GP. He checked her temperature and her stomach, then gives some advices. Thats it. No medication. He said just let the diarrhoea stop by it self but if it still continue over the weekend, he need to see her again. And AUD50.00 please. Amazing. Clinic in Australia is run by appointment system and do not sell medication. If you are very sick and need to see a doctor urgently, then you have to go to the hospital emergency room. You have to buy your medication at the pharmacy store with the prescription given by the doctor. I must said that I don’t quite like with this kind of system.

 

Shivering, Vomited & Fever

It is 11:47pm now and I’m waiting for the laundry to finish.

Claudia had fever, shivering & vomited on the bed. Mr.Wallace & I just finished changing the linens, changed Claudia into a new clothes & washed her hair as well. It’s stink. Poor little girl. She must have caught the cold this morning. I think she went outside (the garden) without a jumper & shoes. Where am I? I decided to sleep in this morning. Bad mummy. Let’s see is she better tomorrow morning.