Several people have complimented this nice photo. Pity that few people have complimented the subject of the photo. I must agree that the photo is pretty well taken. He looks so peaceful, happy and relaxed. His facial expression hints of a little smile.
Baby #2 came home today. He was discharged from hospital on schedule according to the “standard maternity package”. Yeah, it sounds like we’re booking a holiday tour. Actually he was showing a little signs of jaundice, but the levels fell below the threshold on discharge day, so the paed allowed him to go home.
We still haven’t thought of a name, so he’s still Baby #2 now. I hope he doesn’t mind. He should be happy that his name is so important that we’re taking so long to decide.
Baby #2 is strong. At day 1, he was already trying to lift his head. He loves to crane his neck and turn to look around. Babies this age aren’t supposed to be seeing much yet, so I’m surprised that he’s turning he head around so much as if he is really trying to explore his surroundings.
“Hello, world!” Baby #2 has been born today, two years, 2 months and 17 days after Vanessa. He seems to have a dark complexion just like Vanessa. He cried a fair bit more than Vanessa though. Not sure about his crying pattern after he returns from the nursery. Yes, it’s already 2 hours past the delivery, baby #2 hasn’t come out of the nursery yet.
Today it’s one month since we’ve been without a maid at home. I’m quite surprised we managed to make do without our maid for one whole month. It was originally going to be just 14 days of home leave, and we were already thinking like what are we going to do for the 14 days. Then something happened, and we decided we needed to change, and then some further complications arose, so things got delayed further and further. From 14 days, it’s now 1 month (and about 1 day, actually).
Vanessa was somehow greatly offended by the pictures at the bottom of this plate she got at Tang Dian Wang. I couldn’t even recall what the picture was. By the time I realized what she was up to, she had covered it with the Lotus Leaf Rice. Yeah, not cheap plain white rice, but expensive flavourful Lotus Leaf Rice. She was very insistent that the whole bottom of the plate had to be covered, no part of the picture could be exposed.
One of the ways of keeping Vanessa entertained is to feed her. There are a few kinds of food that she never grows tired of. French fries is one of them. So here’s Vanessa with Daddy chilling out in a southern part of Singapore, while it is raining, and Mummy is (probably) fast asleep, and Daddy is having a Singapore Sling and updating this blog.
Just for record sake, in case we want to come back to read this blog many years down the road, this is Vanessa’s Tweety Bird birthday cake. The cake she did not have. (Neither did Papa and Mummy.) It’s ordered from Benjawan Solo. Chocolate filling in the centre, IIRC. Not that it matters so much since we didn’t get to try it anyway.
Since she was down with suspected HFMD and had to be isolated at home, we had a simple birthday celebration for her at home on Friday night. Just Daddy, Mummy and Baby Vanessa. What’s for dinner? Pizza Hut! Hehe. Papa’s and Mummy’s favourite. I guess Vanessa enjoyed her simple dinner too. She got to watch her favourite TV programmes at the same time.
It turned out that her HFMD was a false alarm. We had to wait till Saturday to know for sure. So, unfortunately, she had to miss school on Friday. We had ordered a Tweety Bird birthday cake for her. We still sent the cake to her childcare centre for her classmates to share. But Vanessa couldn’t be there to share. She would have loved blowing the candles, cutting the cake, and I’m sure eating it too.
Vanessa will be two years old tomorrow. She should be in school celebrating her birthday. But it’s so unfortunate that she’s possibly down with HFMD. I hope it’s a false alarm though. Although she started having a little diarrhoea yesterday, followed by a mild fever today, she otherwise does seem quite well. But we were quite startled this morning to discover what looked like an ulcer on a tongue.
This is the Nokia 5730 Comes With Music phone which, as the display says, will be coming soon. It seems like lately Nokia is releasing a whole bunch me phones that look and function about the same. Case of giving customers a false sense of choice?
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Back to this stall for their yummy beef brisket again. It's at Holland Road Hawker Centre. It's really good. But the funny thing is that they are supposed to be famous for their pork ribs I think (which I've not tried).
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