of project and 3rd bedroom...

Anyway, with wifey not around the house and CNY activities over, I have began my project to clean the house thoroughly. I know what you might be thinking. How can I clean my house during CNY period. No choice la, not much time already. I wanna make sure that the house is clean when wifey comes back with Sue Yi. I have rearranged the second bedroom (again!) and set up a small work area for myself. Most of the unused stuff on have either been junked or packed in boxes. The plan is to continue to clean up the junk in the room so that I can setup an activity area for Sue Yi when she gets older. Next step is to save up enough for an air cond unit. Any sponsors? Then there is the master bedroom, I am not sure what is the actual purpose but I think people have always been putting their mattresses under the sun when they do spring cleaning. So, the bed is now flipped up and mattress is propped up against the window to get some sun. With that, I have also effectively demoted myself to sleep in the 3rd bedroom for the next few days. Finally will be the cushion covers in the living room. Will probably do it this weekend in 2 loads. Hopefully wifey will be impressed with my handiwork on the house. It’s either that or she’ll go beserk and have to clean the house properly by herself ;)

of warm fuzzy feeling and booties...

We are getting nearer to D-day now and I guess momentum is starting to build up. Anyway, we washed some of girl girl’s clothes last weekend. I know it sounds silly but somehow, hanging out her clothes and seeing them makes us keel kind of warm and fuzzy. I guess it’s one of those things that makes us feel and get a grasp of the physical being of her.
Here are some shots that I could not resist taking.





























btw, got notice any differance in photo quality or not?

Updated: more pictures*.

more booties...

we did the colors today...

* I know, I know, what's so interesting about a bunch of photos of baby's clothes, but they are to us, something more than that.

of 36weeks and 6 days, and hand me downs...

We are now 36 weeks and 6 days into the pregnancy and wifey told me yesterday that her boss have allowed her to start to work from home. Looks like we are on our final stretch now. Wifey did a round of rearranging all of girl girl’s clothing items last weekend and I was surprised that we actually have quite a sizeable wardrobe for girl girl. Most of them are hand me downs from my SIL and also some of my ex-work colleagues. So, thanks to those who have been generous with the hand me downs and I think you know who you are. Probably you can recognize some of yours in the photo below.

of elbow grease and stroller...

This is a sort of like a backdated post.
I could not wait any longer and told wifey that I want to assemble the stroller that we got for girl girl. So last week I finally got to open up the box and see what’s inside.
We actually bought the stroller during our last trip to KL and have left it in the box since then. Wifey said to not to open it and assemble it as it is still early and she didn’t want it to get dusty.
Anyway, I found that they really put a lot of attention into packing the stroller as everything were secured nicely and also padded.
Assembly is actually easier that I thought. After removing the stroller from the box and cut all the cable ties, all that I need to do is fix the wheels. The front wheels needs a bit of elbow greese to coax it in but I think that is actually good because once fixed it is really secure. The back wheels are much easier as all I need to do is fix them to the axel and then fix it onto the chassis.

This box have been taunting me to ask me to open it up for weeks....

contents in the box...

After assembling and looking at it, wifey and I realize that it is quite big and wonder if it is another case of us biting off more than we can chew, but I guess it’s better to one with some elbow room for girl girl than to have one that cannot fit.

tadaaaaaa......

So now, instead of sitting there in the box in the second room, it is now wrapped in plastic bags in the second room. At least now I have the comfort of knowing that the stroller is fine and have no defects on it.

of 31 days and 4 fingers...

We are exactly 31 days to go from today. So technically it’ll be 1 month to go. I know that the aunties aunties out there will say ‘no lah, will be early for first one lah’ or ‘girl one will be early one lah’ and this and that, but we don’t care. It’s 31 days and even though it’s can be any time from now, I would still like to think of it as 1 month. OK, let me list out what thousands of years of Chinese aunties wisdom in predicting when the time will come.
There is one theory that says that if you can put your four fingers flat on the area below the sternum (basically it’s the lower part of the area between the mommy’s breasts – a bit hard to explain). Anyway, if you can put the 4 fingers flat, then it’s about time that baby will come out.
Then there is the one about feet swelling. There are 2 versions. One states that if the feet swells up and then recedes 3 times, then it’s time for baby to make an appearance. Then there is another version that simply states that if the feet swells, then it’s time. But wifey and I have a question, wifey’s left foot swells up much more than her right foot. Does that means that girl girl will only be playing peek-a-boo with us?
Then there’s one I heard from the ladies at work that if the tummy is very low, then it’s time, but I think that’s subjective, how low do you consider low?

In any case, I guess what matters more is that when girl girl decides to pop out, that it will be a safe and trouble free journey.

of club membership and blouse lifting...

Wifey and I just came to the realization that being pregnant is kind of like getting a membership to an exclusive club. I am not sure if the mommies and daddies have experienced this when they were pregnant but we (actually to wifey only, but I just tumpang glamour) seem to have more strangers (not the wiredo stranger type but just the normal stranger) either smiling to us or talking to us. We live in an apartment and sometimes when we were in the lifts people who will not even give two hoots will sudden seem to be friendlier. Out of no where people will be asking things like ‘when will you deliver?’ or just gave us a friendly smiles. Now that girl girl has been growing bigger and wifey’s tummy is really round and protruding in your face out, we get even more people who are asking abt this and that. Even little kids seem to be oogling staring at wifey’s tummy. I guess it must be some kind of fringe benefit of being a parent to be.

One funny incident that wifey related to me is that there was one incident where my BIL explained to his 2 year old son that there is a baby in wifey’s tummy. The little fella then went up to wifey and lift up her blouse to see for himself!

something to keep us busy...

Now that the fact and excitement of having another new person in our life have sunk in, wifey and I are beginning to go through the motions of getting ourselves ready.
After some discussions with some female colleagues and friends, I opened up an account in babycenter.com. for those not in the know, this is a fantastic site that helps you track your pregnancy. It gives you info of your baby’s growth and discussions on issues with regards to pregnancy. Definitely much better than just thinking that pregnancy is about a growing lump in your wife’s stomach. My only gripe is that it seems to be more catered for female coz the newsletter that I got is something like ” your pregnancy is now so and so weeks and your body is now blab la”. If there is one improvement I think maybe have an alternate account for expectant dads.

We were also starting to look for confinement homes and asking around for confinement ladies. Since baby’s due will be near Chinese New Year, we were naturally a bit concerned about the cost and availability of confinement ladies. An ex-colleague told me that she went to a confinement house and enjoyed the experience as she get to talk to other mothers and on top of that she can focus on resting while someone takes care of the baby. Sounds cool, but we really need to weigh in the pros and cons.

We have also cleaned up the 3rd bedroom and moved all the stuff into the second bedroom to make way for baby. I took a few days off from work to work on the baby’s room. Wifey wanted to have the room painted and since we are not sure baby will be boy or girl yet at this time we decided to go for a neutral color. So baby’s room’s gonna be yellow. Bright and cheerful. At first I was a bit hesitant about the color but I must say that after painted the room and looking at it, I must say that I do hope that baby will inherit the color sense from wifey.

Probably next will be baby’s name…. (but not until we find out it’s it’s gonna be banana or papaya)