Artist's Impression

We finally started this very important project today - 09 Dec 08. No particular reason why today, but we should have started last week by right. We started off with chopping down two huge manago trees in the garden. I would have loved to keep the trees for their fruits but it is way too big and gets into the way. Also, mango trees sheds plenty of leaves and attracts too many ants so they have to go.

I loved the artist's impression our designer gave us, looks beautiful right? I certainly hope the house will turn out just as good!

Aquaria KLCC

Our domestic helper, Nur, officially went home on 27 Nov. Sofia was a bit down during the first two days but seems to recover pretty quickly. I guess it helped that we did a countdown with her before Nur went home. Nur was telling her everyday that in how many days' time, kakak will take a plane and got back to her kampong. We also try to make weekends more interesting for Sofia, to try to distract her as much as possible.

Today, we visited Aquaria KLCC for the first time. I thought the place was pretty impressive. Of course, as usual, Daddy's first remark at my suggestion was "What is there to see??" To that, I reply, "Not for YOU to see, it is meant for SOFIA to see." And true enough, Sofia was thoroughly fascinated by all the different types of fishes and sea creatures. We have the chance to get our hands wet and even touch and feel the starfish and Sofia even wanted to bring them home!

We enjoyed the underwater tunnel very much, it is very fascinating to watch the sharks swim right above us and we can have a clear view of their gills, teeth and everything! Sofia was watching in amazement too, where else can we possibly show her so many fishes? It was a very good field trip and we were all so busy taking turns carrying Sofia that we only manage to snap one photo at the end.

We then went to KLCC for dinner and as we were there before sunset today, we managed to take some photos of the lovely KLCC park.

We ended the night with dessert at Häagen-Dazs, we knew Sofia would defintely be after what we ordered. So Daddy and I had our favourite green tea flavoured ice-cream which is also the least sweet among all.

Sofia's eyes were all on the ice-cream, eager and curious how it taste like.

So it did not taste as good as she thought afterall?!

Yes, it was Sofia's first time eating ice-cream, we tried our best to keep it away from her for the longest we can. But it seems like she does not like it as much as we do, which is good. In the end, she ate more of the waffle cone than the ice-cream.

Mei-mei or Di-di?

Whenever we go to the playground or Sunday school in church, I try to teach Sofia the difference between 哥哥,姐姐,弟弟 and 妹妹. I am suppose to speak and teach her English while Daddy is the Mandarin guy, but "sister" and "brother" in English does not differentiate the age difference. So I broke the rule and taught her these few words in Mandarin.

She can say 姐姐,弟弟 and 妹妹 quite clearly now and my mum had this interesting conversation with Sofia few days ago:

婆婆 : 小宣, 你要妹妹还是弟弟?
小宣 : 妹妹!

婆婆 : 小宣, 不如我们来个弟弟好吗? 你要妹妹还是弟弟?
小宣 : 妹妹!

婆婆 : 可是弟弟也不错哦, 你要妹妹还是弟弟?
小宣 : 弟弟!

This time round, my mum is happy and satisfied. To us, it does not matter, what is most important is the pregnancy is smooth and baby is healthy.

ROAR!

RRROOOOAAAARR ... Yeah, I am well, all up and running walking again ... our second babe is doing well too and hitting the 12th week milestone last week certainly makes everyone more relaxed about the situation. In fact, they gynae gave me the green light to lead a "normal" life again since 20 Oct but we never knew if anything that I did could jeopardize the precious cargo in my tummy. I could still remember on 18 Sep, before I suspected anything unusual, I went to the gym and ran 2.4km on the treadmill because I was feeling so very bloated. I felt faint after the run but did not think much about it. I only started panicking when the home pregnancy test kit showed positive and bleeding started shortly after. I felt so bad about the run and of course, Daddy was worried too.

Then the bed rest started together with weekly injections and daily oral medication. To be honest, complete bed rest may help the body but it does not help the mind. The body can stop all physical activities but the mind is active and it is pretty hard to block bad thoughts from entering the mind. I was glad to have Saanvi's mum, R, around during the first few days, before help from Singapore arrive. R made lunch for me, came over and kept me company and made sure I was resting in bed. I was really touched by her care and concern, the support she gave me was like sunshine in the middle of a cold and gloomy winter. Thank God for this good Samaritan and may God bless her abundantly!

C.R.I.B

Just a short note to let you know we are all fine. Just that I have been asked to have CRIB (complete rest in bed) till some undesirable symptons I am experiencing stops. It has been happening since 22 Sep and it really bores me.

I cannot work, walk, run, carry Sofia, etc ... and the list goes on. Hopefully things would improve over the next few weeks and life will be back to normal again for us!

Pls keep us in prayer, thanks!