1st Year - 5Dec08

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY SHAWN!!!

1more day to 1st birthday

Nope, no plans of any party, dinner or whatsoever... just YT, me and Shawn and a small cake with a candle. We are going to Sentosa this weekend. I have 2 weddings to attend. And bringing him to the pool, the beach and soak in the sun!

Happy Lunar Birthday

Yesterday was Shawn's Lunar birthday. In Chinese calendar it is 26Oct.

Before my mum left for KL, she went to the market and bought 2 angkukueh, 1 chicken drumstick and even prepared 2 red eggs. Of course the Angkukueh ended in YT's stomach while the chicken drumstick in mine. We did the choosing the "career" thingie.. Sounds silly but anyway, just for the fun of it. YT took his old gameboy, dinosaur calculator, ruler and chicken drumstick and placed in front of Shawn. Shawn took the calculator and drumstick and put next to him. He did not even touch the gameboy and ruler. Kept on playing with the calculator and even screamed at me for taking it away from him!

Auntie Sandra and Uncle Anthony came by during lunch and bought lots of food. He wasn't too warm towards them when they arrived. Shawn had his fill earlier on, sat on his highchair as what you could call a demure child while we busied ourselves with the food. Then he even spent 20minutes of so in his playyard alone in the room while we were all outside chatting! Never been that way before - I AM SO HAPPY! Hahahaa! When they wanted to leave, Shawn started crying. Weird huh? After awhile he was being himself again, chatting away. :P

What a way to spend a birthday evening

Yesterday when I picked him up from school, teacher Jolene was around. Teacher Pris passed him to teacher Jolene then to me. He screamed and cried. I was surprised by his reaction. Instead he wanted teacher Jolene to hold him for awhile more. So after a few minutes while the adults are chatting , he was in her arms, happily looking around. Then when he was passed back to me, no more screams/cries from him. Apparently teacher Jolene just popped by the centre later in the evening. He probably missed her. He is most attached to her among the teachers... hahaa

On my way back home from work, I called Dr Khor and updated her about Shawn's condition. Kidstarz told me that he did cough badly in the afternoon, very congested and phelgmy. Dr Khor suggested to go for an X-ray because Shawn has been coughing for a long while. She wanted to be sure that his lungs are clear. So I quickly settled his dinner rolled oats with beef and packed up his stuff . We left home at about 7pm and went to East Shore. Shawn was curiuosly looking around and chatty when we were consulted by the doctor there. Doctor said there is no wheezing. Even when the doctor forced his mouth open to check his throat, he was okay with it.

X-ray time. He had to lie down on the stretcher with me holding his arms close to his head/ears. He whimpered a little while the radiologist wrap his legs down with a cling wrapped thing so that he doesn't move. Less than 1 minute, it's all done. Brave boy. Then the nurse had to take urine for test. We had to wait for him to pee and that was like 20minutes wait. We went back to the doctor and good news, lungs are clear and urine is clear as well. The doctor made a disclaimer, he mentioned as what he is looking at right now, the lungs are clear BUT he is not an X-ray specialist. So today the X-ray specialist would interpret the X-ray and let us know if there is any issue. Duh... Anyway, the bill from East Shore cost us a bomb. The damage is mainly from the off-office hours consultation and X-ray fees.

We got home at about 9pm plus. Mum cooked dinner and I quickly wiped him down and bathed. While we are having our dinner, Shawn had half a piece of bread. He obviously looked tired. After dinner I nursed him to sleep but it was not easy. He was cranky. He finally slept at 10.45pm or so. I too, kong-ed out at 11pm. Then Shawn woke me up at 2plus, 5plus and finally 7plus this morning. I had to nurse him back to sleep during the 2 earlier wakings and now I am so dead tired today. He was sleeping through for the past week but last night he went back to square one. I reckon it is because of the evening schedule got messed up by us and he did not settle to sleep on his on??? We will see again tonight as I would put him back to the usual routine which we had in the past one week. I hope it works again.

Recovering, I hope

Took at photo of Shawn in the cab this morning.

Last night when I gave him the last dose of Salbutamol, he was dreaming. At 11.30pm, I picked him up from the cot, no struggle. He has his mouth open as usual when he is sleeping. Gave him the 2.5ml and he just smacked his lips close. Put him back into the cot and he went back to his lala-land until 5am. He is not coughing that badly anymore but Dr Khor advised to start the antibiotics today. He is taking the  Azithromycin (Zithromax) quite well. Didn't clamp his mouth shut like what he did when he takes the wheezing medicine Prednisolone syrup. And I am so glad that the patches of rashes on his face are going off already and his torso/back are not so rough anymore (I call it sandpaper). I am also thankful that Shawn always have an appetite for a cow whenever it comes to mealtime. At least he did not refuse his porridge/bread/milk and he always ask for more. :)

I just had birthday lunch with 4 other Moms@Work. It was a very nice. We had it at The Sandwich Shop *Yummy!* Thanks to the moms for the treat! And thank to JH for the banana muffin *Yummy!*

Setting an email account?

Recently, one of my friends told me that she had the idea of setting up an email account for her daughter. Reason being there are certain things that can't be blogged and shared in public. Therefore she had wanted to send email to her daugther and would disclose the existence of the email account to her when her daughter turns 21. The next day, she told me that yahoo account date of birth does not support year of birth 2007. I laughed til I flipped. Anyway, I thought that was a sweet idea and was seriously thinking of doing that. :P

Best-est Meal in 35wks

This morning, while I am tossing and turning in bed, baby hiccuped. I felt funny as I wonder what had made him hiccup in the morning even before I had my breakie. :) We had a lazy Saturday, just laze, did nothing and relax at home... We had nasi lemak for late breakie. Stayed home and watched "The Queen". I thought Helen Mirren did a good job potraying the queen indeed.

Had an awesome dinner at Morton's. The last time we went there was probably in end 2003. Nothing has changed except the wait staff. I ordered the smallest, least-expensive cut at Morton's i.e. single cut filet mignon, medium well but not dry, it was just perfect. The oh-so-comforting warm chocolate cake with Häagen-Dazs vanilla icecream was served on the house. There seem to be a lot of birthdays celebrated today at the restaurant. What can I say, the Best-est Meal in the last 35wks, one month before baby is expected to be due. I believe baby would also enjoying his portion inside :) Had a couple of Braxton-Hicks at dinner table and now as well. Baby should be having his dinner right in my belly now as this is his usual wakey time and he is moving about quite a fair bit. I am thankful I am not getting heartburn from the choco cake!