of birdies and wifey's godmum...

I think it's no secret that our little girl do look a bit like a boy and sometimes do get mistaken for a boy. We get a lot of "Oh, she's a girl is it? Nvm la, old people say, next one sure will be boy liao". As if there is something wrong with having a daughter la. But I guess it's just that some folks still get stuck in the old thinking that having a son is good mentality.

Anyway, that's not the story here. Wifey's godmum have a special throry about the "next one will be a boy thing". According to her, before Sophie was born, the 'birdie' was supposed to fly into wifey's womb and attach itself to Sophie and she will be born a boy. but the Sophie came out before the 'birdie' arrive and now is left inside wifey's womb. So it will attach itself to our next one...

Doesn't makes much sense medically, but since the logic jives, who am I to disagree :)

We heard that she passed away yesterday. I have only met her a few times and do not know her well. So i guess i'll remember her as the lady who told wifey that she has a 'birdie' in her womb.

Sophie sans birdie

of letters and 11 months...

Dear Sue Yi,

You hit your 11th month last week and it seems so surreal that you will be one year old in a month's time. It seems like not so long ago mommy and I were struggling to keep up with your feeding and sleeping times and the works (in fact we still do).

Your character is becoming very evident. For one, you are a very curious girl and everythingwill attract your attention, and now that you are crawling, we were kept on our toes constantly making sure you don't grab the wrong stuff (worse put it in your mouth). We just wonder how we will be able to cope when you are able to walk, but I guess we will.

You are also a very active girl, and other that when you sleep you are always on the move. Either looking for something or cruising from room to room usually looking for mommy.

Mommy and I felt that we are blessed because you are a very easy to laugh (but then you cries easily too). I guess it's a good thing because a happy baby always makes our day. You laugh very easily and your laugh are very infectious and like those from the gut laugh.

But then you cry easily too, especially when we chanmge you to your sleeping clothes. You will really really protest whenm we take your clothes off and put on new clothes. I hope this will pass soon.

Anyway, it's been a good trip and sometimes when I thought about all the joys that you brought to us, I don't know how come we did not have you earlier.

love

daddy

of New year's present and curious buffoons...

Sophie gave us a small new year present yesterday. We were playing with her on the bed before putting her to sleep when she suddenly picked herself up and stood up unsupported. Thus far she can only stand up when she have something to hold or pull but I guess she must be in a good mood last nite that she decided to pull that stunt. I missed the picking up part because I was looking the other way. We encouraged her and clapped and typical of our little girl, she gave us her goofy laugh before falling down on he bum. Then wifey asked her to do it again and like a good showman, she picked herself up and stood up again.
Being the excited and curious buffoons that we are, wifey and I asked her to do it again, but I think our little girl knows how to maintain the value of a good performance. Overexpose it and it loses its value…

of routines and changes...

Wifey started her new job today. I am still at work and have not seen her yet. So I hope that everything is ok. I am a bit worried for some unknown reason. Not because I worry that wifey is going to screw up, in fact I think she will do well. But I guess it’s just a normal tendency to worry about someone you love when they enter into a new surrounding.

I guess it goes without saying too that Sophie’s routine and schedule will be shifted a bit. I hope she can adapt well to it.

of red spots...

Our little girl gave us a scare last Wednesday. Since we thought that she had recovered enough from her bout of fever, we took her to the Christmas service on Tuesday. But when we checked on her later that night we saw that she got red spots on her forehead and back of her ears. The later in the night we also found more spots on her back. We suspected that it might be chicken pox or something and monitored it. We were kinda worried because she just recovered from the fever and now chicken pox pulak….
Anyway, on Wednesday we calmed down a bit, our baby sitter told us that she heard from the other babysitters in my apartment that the spots could be due to the paracetamol that we gave Sophie when she had the fever. My SIL also mentioned the same thing. I guess in a way it’s good to know some additional information, but we decided to monitor her anyway.
It turns out that they were probably right because after a few days, the spots slowly disappeared.