First knitted baby long pants

It's a wool pants... another interest I got after addicted to cloth diapering. More details here.

Not Again!

Yesterday was really a horrified and scary day. There was blood showing and it's quite shocking when I saw it, it's not just staining. I need to wear panty liner and luckily it's not either heavy flow but there's some blood flakes-like stuff coming out... Without any delay, daddy rushed mummy to hospital but unfortunately need to wait for 45 minutes as the gynea was away for some issues.

There are no other symptoms besides the blood showing and this made mummy think of last time when preggie with En En. It's almost during this time started to have blood showing till the pregnancy was about 7 months. Placenta previa is the term I learned from my last pregnancy.

Met the gynea eventually and was told that it's a threatening abortion! Luckily baby is growing well and nothing happened to the baby. Through the scan, the placenta is really located lower in the uterus. So, most probably it is the same case like previously. Therefore, no long distance travelling (we planned to go to KL this Thursday but got to cancel the trip), no lifting heavy items including carrying En En who stick to mummy so much lately. When I was working during past pregnancy, I was forced to take 1 month medical leave in order to stay at home to rest!

But still... unsure about the gender of the baby yet and it's now 19 weeks old...

Pregnancy Indulgence?

Don't worry, mummy only took the chocolate sundae, the rest belongs to daddy...LOL!

This pregnancy is abit different if compare with previously. Food with stronger taste will be the preferred one. Moreover, mummy longs to eat fast food and drink coffee!!! Yes, those are not healthy food but the feeling of wanting to get the fried chicken from KFC or the McD's burger and french fries is so greater than ever! Mummy even eyes for Pringles and those junk potatoes chips... very tempting, huh? This is so weird as always be a health concious person, those are the banned food for mummy even when not pregnant. When having E nEn last time, definitely no fast food and coffee throughout the pregnancy... but this time... why become so weak towards the temptation of unhealthy food ??

Lots of self disciplin and control need to be carry out and by thinking to put on extra kilos of pregnancy weight (from previous experience) this is surely another terrible weight loss struggle later on... But, occassionally go for those indulgence should be still alright, isn't it? I think I do loss some determination to say no... *sigh*

On En En's birthday...

Backdated post.


I got Pooh bears on my birthday cake... I received "bi-ci-cle" from Ah Mah as my birthday present...



I received a musical karaoke toy from Ku Ku... she knows I love to sing...



I enjoyed posing with Jie Jie in front of the camera...

The cake is yummy... and mummy said this was the first time I finished one whole piece by myself...

I think I know what a Birthday means now...

2 months old En En VS 2 years old En En

2 months old baby En...

TODAY - 2 years old!

Happy Birthday to our dear Sweetheart!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Today is a special day, would specially wish my mum a Happy Mother's Day even she doesn't read my blog (but my younger sis does... :P .. hehe...).

She came over yesterday from Alor Setar to Penang to show and cook the chicken essence for me! She even brought the kampung chicken and the cooking pot which I don't have to demonstrate for me... How nice and thank you so much Mama! Ever since En En joined the family then only I realized it's so difficult to be a mother and only then I understand and appreciate whatever a mother can give to her child. Mom is always the best, don't you agree?

A special dedication to all mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day to you too!

New Progress - Adjectives

Lately, En En uses lots of adjectives in her daily conversation with us. She is able to differentiate and says between:

- big & small

- far & near

- black & white

- smelly & no smell

- mum-mum (means hungry) & bao bao (stomach full)

- pain & itchy (She loves to use this in "Buttock pain" vs "Buttock itchy".... LOL!)

- beautiful & not beautiful

Some conversations are like these (well, she spaeaks in Mandarin):-

En En:"Dog papa big big, dog baby small small."

En En:" Dog hei-hei (black in colour), pah-pah (scare...); Dog bai-bai (white in colour), mei mei (beautiful)."

When En En passed wind *cheeky grin* we were wondering and said whether it's smelly or not, En En straight away relied:"Mei chou! means No Smell!!!"

Knitting works - On hold at the moment

A baby cotton vest - mistake in stitching but never have the chance to correct it yet. This is also the first knitting project with different patterns involved in the work... quite interesting and tiring to do the counting of different stitches.

This is a wool longies (long pants) for infant. Achieve the length but not even the shape yet and got to mix with yarn in different colours as this original colour is not enough for a longies...

Well, let's see how long it takes to complete them both.

What about No.2?

Hmm... Mummy really wonder whether it's common that less attention will be given to the following child compare to the eldest one?

Mummy went to visit gynea today with daddy (who's so eager to find out the gender of the baby), eveything is fine... baby is growing well. Throughout the whole scanning process, the little baby inside the womb just moving and turning non-stop. Super active compare to En En but too bad mummy still can't feel anything from the tummy. Maybe the abs fat is thick... LOL! We are so gald to see the baby is healthy and active even it's now officially turned 16 weeks. Well, daddy said maybe the baby is protesting since mummy seldom talk to the baby and care less compare to when preggie with En En. How not to feel guilty but having a toddler already like having bad hair days almost daily... really and seriously need to relax and calm myself to talk nicely to No.2. So unfair, huh?

I read from other expecting mummies' blog about their feeling or dilemma towards the baby inside the womb compare to the firstborn. Now, I really feel that I'm in the same boat too. Just feel the love is less and care is less... especially time for just the two of us! Seems so difficult to achieve this...

Mind to share with me how did you overcome this?

When En En is away...

Something happened to her Pooh-pooh bears...

En En sure will ask mummy to rescue them if she sees this... LOL!

I can make bubbles!

From my mouth!!! Hahaha...

Baby En En

OK... not sure this is good or bad but at least when we ask En En what's the name of mummy, or papa... she's able to tell in not so accurate pronunciation. But at least we know who she's calling.

When we ask En En: "What is your name?"

En En replied: "BABY!!!" or sometimes "Baby En!"

When we ask En En: "Is baby inside mummy's tummy?"

En En nodded her head and pointed to herself saying: " Baby is here!"

Are you a Beauty?

Many young ladies nowadays wish to become singer or actress through participating in talent contest, cat-walk competition or maybe beauty pageant. Even magazines will have Beauty Queen or Miss XXX of the year held annually. The one I remember is our local CLEO which will select the Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year! I'm not sure whether this event still available since I stop reading CLEO when I turned 25. So, I'm aging now...

Each year, there will be many new faces or look of the year appear. They are beautiful, handsome, young, energetic, tall, and... many more. Everyone who had seen En En will tell me I have a model look-alike daughter, very beautiful and smart. She will have bright future when she grows up. Well, in my opinion, I don't really encourage my children to live under the limelight or become a model. Our cultures and believes is very different and not every parent can accept the child having a life without privacy, well sort of exposure to the public. At least I know I'm one of them. There are parent who love the kids to be the headlines of the press or superstar... maybe can pay a visit to http://www.lookoftheyear.com. Hopefully you can find some information there.



Anyway, I still believe beauty is not everything. Even handicapped children can have bright future if given proper guide. Therefore, being a parent is a challenging task and now I realized why my parent refuse me and my sisters to take part in any beauty contest previously.

Relieved moments...

Guess what! So many bloggers mama told me Bloggerwave never paid us if we take the opportunity but to my surprise... I was paid last few days! My post was published 2 months ago... so, don't give up yet!

Next, the wool longies that I ordered from US also arrived safely (finally!). I was waiting for more than 2 months which I nearly give up and concluded that it got lost during transit somewhere in the Pacific Ocean... LOL! This one is meant for En En but it looks very big and long on her... I'm doubt whether she still wants to wear wool pants?

Oh yes, remember I said I was having the credit card problem to purchase online? Well, I managed to place order at last and the knitting yarns arrived at my doorstep yesterday. Yes, can start my knitting projects anytime now...

Busy... busy...

It's not easy to be a home-maker... I can't believe it can be so busy... 24 hours really is too little for a mother who wears so many hats! Alright, no maid at home for 2 weeks and no toddler at home for 2 weeks as well. But, you think mummy has time to do knitting or favourite activities? NO!!!

Miss knitting and scrapbooking but this is not the time yet. Wake up almost 6am in the morning and start cleaning the living hall, kitchen, prepare for breakfast even it's a quick one. Luckily I only do laundry every alternate day or at night... then go to wet market every alternate day. PIL told me it's not fresh to buy vegetable for a week's consumption, which I think it's acceptable. Then, after that brunch (you know, pregnant mama tends to eat more when the portion size is smaller too), time for lunch preparation.

Today, mummy needs to cook ABC soup, sweet and sour pork, spicy fried fish with lime juice and perhaps long bean with egg? Hmm... got to go check the fridge for the ingredient now... Ciao!

Online Shopping Craze!

Ever since I was introduced into the blogsphere, I discovered more and more e-stores and the convenience to purchase online. Well, the first online product I bought was a modern cloth diaper! Everyone around me gave me a strange stare as how can you trust online store? Well, if you never try, you will never know.

I'm in love with the process of buying online now and everytime when I browse at the e-store... well, mostly they are baby items and I really can't wait to fill the shopping cart as much as I can. Even I don't really buy in the end... I think I'm having some crazy imagination thinking that I'm going to get the item from the merchant soon. LOL!

Oh well, I do hope that my credit card will be able to use as I really need to purchase some knitting yarn from overseas for my knitting project. I just don't understand why my credit card is refused when I'm preparing to make online payment. When I look at the shopping cart that I filled up with wool yarns, I feel so sad that I can't proceed the transaction of purchasing. Probably I need to visit the bank tomorrow to get some clarification.

What Mummy is doing right now?

Learn to cook! It's not easy to have good tastebud family members yeah... Every little spices or slightly different cooking method will totally alter the taste and originality of the dish... Need to learn from the beginning as never posses any good talent in cooking.

MIL is going to Shanghai tomorrow and I'll be the cook for 2 weeks. Not sure whether I can cook for the family even En En is now in Alor Setar, a good reason to cook without a toddler disturbing. Hopefully no need to end up ta-pau from outside... :P

As for this pregnancy, am not having good appetite. I still can eat but not in big portion and can't live without hot, spicy and sour. Not sure why the tastebud change so drastically even normal stir-fry vegetables which was my favourite is so difficult to swallow without sambal chillies! So, Malay and Indian recipes book is the one that gets referring the most. Will off to prepare sambal ikan bilis in a day or two... *yummy yummy* Only one things that bother me... tiny bloody vessel discharge but not everyday. Some days even got pinkish red discharge, gynea said it's fine but am still not sure why this happen to both of my pregnancies.

On the other hand, need to start helping daddy to do his checking & recording on monthly expenses (to make sure whether he got some pocket money for mummy or not... hehe...) and lots of household chores to be done since the maid is not here at the moment. Oh... not forgetting knitting too... hopefully able to finish most of them before En En comes back to "interrupt the progress"... LOL!

Huh? Not that bus...

En En loves Winnie the Pooh so much and she won't miss the series from Astro PHDC every morning at 10a.m. So, one night before bed mummy had some coversation with En En about Winnie the Pooh... & his friends.

Mummy: What's this furry bear name? *pointing to her Pooh plush toy*
En En : Ah Pooh!
Mummy: His friends' name? *point to Tigger, Piglet, Baby Roo, Eyore in the book*
En En : (told mummy one by one) Tigger... Pigket ... Baby Roo... Eeyorr...
Mummy: There's one Jie Jie name Darby too. She has a dog, right?
En En : *Nodded her head*
Mummy: What's the name of the dog?
En En : *speechless*
Mummy: It's call Buster! Say "Bus-ter"...
En En : *pause for a while* Bus... bus... lorry...
Mummy: No... it's "Bus-ter"...
En En : Bus... car??!!
Mummy: * rolled eyes*

She knows how to "dot"!

En En loves to draw and write with a highlighter... maybe the colour is more striking? When mummy said: " Draw dot-dot on the paper..." She came out something like this:

Then, without our knowledge, some damage done silently when she "expand her territory"...

On the wall... *slap-head*

Mozzies Attack!

How sad to look at En En's legs... she will keep on scratching those area even when they are healing. As a result, she has lots of scars from the "kiss of the mozzie". It started before CNY but till today those old and new scars keeps on appearing from time to time... so worry that her skin is extremely sensitive. What we need to do now is how to prevent her from the bite? Insect repellant is not working on her as she refuse to let us put on and those are chemicals-made product... good meh?

Any good solution to get rid of mozzies instead of spraying, and using other commercials method? Is there any natural approach? Daddy loves to use the electrical mozzie racquet to electro-shock them... Any more ideas?