Thank You for All the Presents!

Thank you all the aunties and uncles for the lovely presents! Both Geraldine and Mama appreciates the lovely gesture!

Thank you everyone!

From Auntie Mary - special order from the States!

From Mama's office

From Auntie Sharen, Michele, June, Clare, Catherine and Florence

From Mama's Boss and RM&I team

Passed Out?

Mama and Geraldine was discharged from the hospital on 8 Feb. Upon discharge, Geraldine didn't have any sign of jaundice. So Monday morning, the paedietrician asked her to go back to his clinic for another blood test. Together with the jaundice blood test, there were another 2 blood tests to be performed. So, Papa and Mama brought Geraldine to the laboratory to extract blood. Poor Geraldine, the lab person bent her right wrist and inserted a needle into her tiny vein to extract 2 tubes of blood (Yes...TWO TUBES!!!!!!!!!!)...initially, Geraldine cried loudly...but after about 5 seconds, she was all quiet and calm...Papa and Mama were so surprised and suspected that she's PASSED OUT...(see below), almost motionless...poor baby...

The plastered location was where blood has been extracted...

Kissy Kissy Baby

As mentioned previously, Gwendolyn has been asking to carry Geraldine whenever she sees Mama carrying her! Mama told her that she can only carry "mei mei" when seated at the sofa...so this time, she prepared herself at the sofa, with some cushions to support her arm as well...and kept kissing her "mei mei'! Lyn Lyn: Mei Mei, you're so cute!

Do we look alike?

Mei Mei is so nice to kiss!

I kiss Mei Mei with my mouth look like this

Haha...we're such good sisters!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Gwendolyn is here to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

Rock-a-by Baby

Baby Geraldine was crying and Big Sister Gwendolyn was trying to calm "mei mei" down. She rocked Geraldine whilst singing Rock-a-by Baby at the same time! So sweet!

I Can Carry My Mei Mei

Gwendolyn's been longing to carry her baby sister, Geraldine. At last, Mama gave her a chance and asked her to sit down, so that Mama can place Geraldine on her lap! See how satisfied she is! However, when she asked to carry Geraldine to walk around, Mama told here that she's not strong enough to do so! She was so disappointed!

My Baby Sister has Arrived!

Baby Geraldine has arrived on 6 February 2008 at 2:06pm! She's a Chinese New Year Eve's baby! Gwendolyn was so excited to know of the arrival of Geraldine and wore her "I'M THE BIG SISTER" t-shirt when she first went to the hospital to see mummy and mei mei! See how happy she is in seeing her "new toy"!

I'M THE BIG SISTER!

Mei mei...

Do we look alike?

Mummy, Gwendolyn and Geraldine

Geraldine Is Born!

Mama went to Uncle Adrian for checkup on 5 Feb, to see whether Geraldine is ready to come out. However, she was still comfortably resting in Mama's tummy. By the time Mama left Uncle Adrian's clinic, mild contraction started, but was not really noticeable. Mama went home after that. Since Mama had a feeling that Geraldine is about to come, Gwendolyn was asked to stay at grandma's place, just in case Papa has to send Mama to the hospital in the middle of the night.

At last, around 2:20am, Mama started to feel stronger contractions and started monitoring the timing between each contraction and the severity of it. Until 4:20am, Mama woke Papa up to prepare to go to the hospital. They arrived around 5+am and went straight to the labour ward. Whilst the nurse was checking on Mama, Papa went to the admission counter to do the paperwork. After the initial checking, Mama was transferred from the Observation Room to Delivery Suite No. 9! The Anaesthetician came to give Mama epidual before Papa was allowed into the delivery suite. After that, it was just pure waiting for the actual delivery...

Mama lying on the delivery bed

Uncle Adrian came at around 10:40am to check on Mama...she was 5cm dilated...Uncle Adrian said most likely, Mama will delivery around early afternoon, cannot wait for 12 midnight to give birth to the first New Year baby! Mama didn't want to wait for so long as well...it doesn't matter when Geraldine is born...since Mama didn't have any breakfast, Papa gave 2 pieces of peanut pancake to Mama to boost up her energy level for a bit, before she gives birth!

At around 1:39pm, the nurse came and said Mama can start pushing already, as Mama has already fully dilated...both Papa and Mama were in shock, as about an hour ago, another nurse came and check to say that it was still around 5cm dilated...anyways, the nurse helped Mama to start practising pushing, before Uncle Adrian arrived 20 min later! The pushing was not that long and Baby Geraldine was born at 2:06pm!

Weighing 3.545kg, heavier than Gwendolyn

Just born, still under the baby warmer

About to go up to the ward, so that Mama can rest

Driving a Motorbike

We went to the Ghim Moh Food Centre for breakfast and the long-lost kiddy motor ride is back! Gwendolyn missed it so much and asked to play on one of them, even though there's a long Q with many kids waiting. She's chosen a motorbike this time and is determined to wait for her turn to play! See how much she's enjoying herself, even though it was only a 10-15 minute ride!

Top left: Roger, Lyn Lyn calling; Bottom left: I'm so smart in my motorbike; Bottom right: Yeah! I can ride sooooooo well!

Hair Cut @ Hairdresser

So far, Gwendolyn refused to have her haircut at an outside hairdresser. She's been observing other kids cutting hair at Toys R Us for many times. Finally, don't know for what reason, she agreed to have her cut on 2 Feb 2008! She waited for her turn and sat still at the chair for the auntie to cut her hair! Mama has asked the auntie to cut her hair shorter this time, so that she can endure longer for the next haircut.

Sitting very still

After the haircut

Me and My Family

Arty Gwendolyn has decided to draw her own family! She took out her easel board and drew out the faces of her family members! What's more impressive? She didn't forget about her "about-to-be-born Mei Mei"!

Left is Mei Mei (the smallest), Second left is Papa (short hair with spectacles), Second right is Mama (long hair) and Right is Lyn Lyn (above shoulder length hair)

Decorating for CNY

Since Mama is due to give birth at anytime, Papa and Mama prepared all the Chinese New Year stuff much earlier this year! Even buying they pussy willow like 2 weeks before CNY! Gwendolyn, as usual, was so keen to help with decorating it! See how she climbed up the sofa and helped with hanging up all the decors!

Auntie Mary!

Auntie Mary is Mama's primary school friend. She came to visit us and stayed with us on 11-12 January! We had a good time...first had dinner at Clarke Quay's Italian Restaurant and then ice-cream at Haagen Daz! The following day, we went to The Cheese Prata Shop next to NUS for breakfast, before heading to Mount Faber's Jewel Box for a light lunch, feeding some fish, before we went shopping at Vivocity!

Gwendolyn enjoyed Auntie Mary and Uncle David's company so much, as Auntie Mary brought along her Nintendo DS machine, with Lyn Lyn's favourite Dora game...she knew how to play the game immediately after Auntie Mary's taught her the basics!

My special 2 scoop chocolate ice-cream!

Not sure how Lyn Lyn managed to take a smokey effect picture for Auntie Mary and Uncle David!

Ice-cream for Papa and Mama

Busy playing NDS at The Cheese Prata Shop

Our light lunch @ Mt Faber Jewel Box

Watergun Sword

If you can remember, Gwendolyn asked for this watergun sword whilst shopping for X'mas presents at Toys R Us in early December. She didn't get to "open this present" until Boxing Day! Finally, she's got a chance to play with this sword, when Papa brought her to the swimming pool!

Looking so girlie with a sword?

Even though it was rather cooling on that day, it didn't deter Lyn Lyn's interest in trying out her watergun sword! Papa challenged her to rush to the floating sword to see who's faster in reaching the sword, so as to be able to shoot the other person! Lyn Lyn, as her usual self, being very competitive, rushed to the sword and kept shouting to Papa: Don't swim so fast! Worrying that Papa will be faster than her to reach the sword!

I shoot you, Papa!

Don't splash water on my face!

Having fun with Papa in the pool!

Not forgetting to show-off her princess swimming robe!

Breakfast with Ms Angeline

Ms Angeline has been a regular to this blog and a close teacher to Gwendolyn. She started to take care of Lyn Lyn since she joined Etonhouse 2 years ago in the Pre-Nursery class, as she was taking most of the after-hours duty! Their relationship grew from then until now...even after she's left Etonhouse for good about 6 months ago...she's still very close to Lyn Lyn.

We met up for breakfast on a Saturday morning @ McDonalds (as requested by Lyn Lyn), at IMM...we're catching up with each other and had a good time! At first, we thought that this was the first time that they met outside of school...but when Mama thought back, no...it's the second time! The first time was the Dora Lookalike Competition, where Ms Angeline and Ms Wahila went to Forum to give Lyn Lyn the support!

New Academic Year - New Phase!

Gwendolyn is starting Nursery 2 this year! What's the difference? She has to start wearing uniform, follow a full-day curriculum during school hours : 9:00am - 3:30pm, etc...That translates to no formal nap time during school hours, no more shower after lunch, as there's no more nap time...what a change for her! But she was very excited about her uniform and thinks that she is now a "big jie jie"!

Since she's been enjoying a "lazy-bone" school holiday sleeping routine during the last 2 weeks of December, sleeping only at around 12midnight, Mama thought that it would be rather difficult for her to adjust : waking up earlier to go to school and have a full-day curriculum! Ms Jam, her new class teacher and Mama agreed to just observe her for the first day and see how things go! What happened on the first day? After lunch, she was so tired that she held on to her Spot and Steve and looked all teary, informing Ms Jam that she was very tired! Since it's only the first day after the school holidays, Ms Jam brought her to Victoria Falls (N1 class) for a short nap! Poor gal...but after that short nap, she was all happy and re-joined her classmates for snacks and a story!

P.S. We've heard of the fact from Ms Jam. Guess what Lyn Lyn told Papa and Mama after school? She was so creative that she's changed the timing of the whole matter, telling Papa and Mama that she napped in the morning and woke up for lunch! Hm...was she genuinely creative or did she have problem remembering the sequence of events? Something to think about...

Do I look smart in my new uniform?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We went for steamboat at grandma's house on New Year's day! Bao Bei Gu Gu and Gu Cheung bought Joel and Gwendolyn a present to share! Guess what? It's a spin-by-yourself toy! When Mama saw it, Mama understood the rationale behind buying this toy...as Joel and Lyn Lyn will always ask Gu Cheung to carry both to play the dizzy game! As time goes by, both have gained more and more weight and it's getting tough for Gu Cheung to carry both for the game! The alternative? To let them spin-dizzy by themselves! See how excited both are at this new toy!

Lyn Lyn giving it a try - so easy...as she's played coffee cup at HK Disneyland before

(Note: box said that maximum weight is 15kg...think Lyn Lyn is over the limit already!)

Joel learning to turn the steering wheel and spin by himself

Both excited about trying out the new toy, even though it's not fully assembled!

New Spelling Game

Gwendolyn received so many new toys this Christmas and Papa has bought this new Word Launch Game for her to start her on spelling! Well, is 3 years and 7 months too early to spell? Lyn Lyn doesn't think so...just see how much she enjoys herself with this new interactive toy!

This is fun! In fact, not a very expensive Leap Frog game too!

This tech-savvy generation!

I can spell my name!