Gift From Stephanie

Finally I got back this parcel which I think it was lost in mail. I received a PM from Stephanie on last Sunday asking whether I've received the parcel that she sent out last week. I was so surprise about the gift and on the other hand, I was worried too as she told me she posted it out last week via Pos Express and the status shown from the Pos Malaysia's website was " Delivered".

I decided to wait for the postman to come and ask him about the parcel on yesterday. Around 10.30am, I received a call from a stranger and being told that she was oversea and when she returned home yesterday, she got a parcel which was belongs to me and wrongly send to her house. She would like to pass it back to me. Hoo hoo hoo...... i got it back finally. Thanks so much for this kind lady.

OK..... what is inside the package???? It's a birthday present for Kendra from this kind and thoughtful mommy...... Stephanie!!!! There are some princess stuffs inside and when I show it to Kendra, she like it so much and keep on asking me to unwrap it for her.

Once again, THANKS Stephanie!!!!!

The Backyardigans

Yes.... The Backyardigans, this is the latest cartoon show Kendra like to watch lately other than Shrek and Dora. Hubby got her the full version of session 1 and with the portable DVD player her grandpa bought her, she keep watching it on her leisure time. Among the 5 characters, she like Uniqua the most. As for myself, I like this cartoon series too. The wonderful animation and lovable characters make me can't resist to keep watching it just like a big toddler....LOL!!!

Hotslings

I've been comparing some baby pouches lately and keen to get one for myself. I never used it before and doubt whether it's as useful as described. Among all, I like those slings from Hotslings. I like the fashion fabrics use in this slings especially the color and pattern.... can't resist to get one for myself but, the price is not cheap. Here are some photos to share with you:

Designer - Kyoto

Designer - Sweet Pea

Reversible - Leaves Noir

Everyday - Tokyo

hahaha.. they got the kids version too.....

My Little Model

This are some new clothes I bought online and hubby help me to bring it back when he was meeting his US colleague in India last week. The saree (I'm not sure whether this costume can be classify as saree or not) is one of the gift bought by hubby's boss to Kendra and she like it so much. Keep asking me to put it on her everyday....LOL!!!!

Early Birthday Celebration

Time flies and Kendra will be turning 3 years old next month. We had an early birthday celebration for her this year because her daddy is leaving to India by today and it's too short of time to prepare her birthday dinner when he is back later.

We planned to celebrate for her this Saturday and nothing much different from past years. No birthday party has threw for her even a small one, just a simple dinner with my parents and sister. Since we can't bring her for the Princess on Ice show, so we decided to have a "Fairy" theme on her birthday. Let her be a "Fairy" for a day.

She was so looking forward to her big day. After breakfast, we went home to dress her up with her princess dress and have some photos shooting. She really enjoy being a fairy and keep on playing with her magic wand.

At night, we had our dinner at the Chinese Restaurant that we used to dine in. During the dinner, the little fairy can't wait to cut her cake and rush us to finish our dinner in short time. She was so happy when we sang her the birthday song and cut the cake.

After dinner, we had a drink at the newly open cafe at Ipoh Garden....Josephnie! This was my first visit and I like the atmosphere there very much. The captain (maybe the owner) overheard our conversation and got to know that it's Kendra birthday. She presented us a cup of jelly (yes, jelly cake again) with a candle on it and guess what???? the jelly cupcake is on the house.... hahaha!!! Kendra told us that she was very happy yesterday.....!!!!

more photos here.........!!!!!!!

Present from her gong gong......
Present from her Auntie Terry..... a handbag from Joules and a coin purse from Marks & Spencer

KL Day Trip

We supposed to bring Kendra for the Princess On Ice show next week but due to some unexpected circumstances, we have to cancel the show and change our plan to a day trip to KL. Kendra was not feeling well early in the morning. She can't finish her milk and vomited after she took her milk.

I advised her not to follow us since she was not feeling well but she insisted to go with us because she wish to collect her cake by herself. So, we got no other choice but to bring her along. She slept well once she got into the car and had some bread when she woke up. When we are almost reach the toll exit, again she vomited. I'm so worry about her condition.

We head to One Utama straight from the highway and it's almost lunch time when we were there. We had our lunch at Dragon-I and Kendra's seems ok when she reach the mall. She told me that she felt better and no more the vomiting feeling.... Great!!!! We started our window shopping then and headed to The Curve after that. She had a great time playing the slide there while mommy was shopping alone. I'm so happy that I finally found the Princess dress with Magic wand for this little girl. She was so excited when I showed her the dress. After a few hours of shopping (walking non stop), I felt so tired and asked hubby to drive me home. Before we were leaving, of course we need to collect the princess's cake and this is the main purpose we were visitng....hahahah!!!!

My Amnio Test Result

Hi all, this is an update on my result about the Amniocentesis test which I took 2 weeks ago. Hubby rang up the clinic this morning and the line was pass to the dr. by the nurse. According to him, every thing is fine and I can carry on my pregnancy.......hooray, what a relief to me and hubby!!!

Now, I can continue my shopping for the baby and not forget to get a confinement lady too!!!!Of course a big thanks to those mommies who concern and have me in their prayers too!!!!

Avent Feeding Bottles To Let Go.....

Since my girl no more fancy to drink from the milk bottles, so I have to let go my existing stock of the bottles. Some of you may wonder why not I keep it for the coming baby...??? For him, I've placed my order of the Avent BPA free bottles and that is the reason I need to get rid of the bottles.

*****2 Set left*****

I've 4 set for this 9oz/260ml x 3 bottles and would let go @ RM55 per box. All are in sealed box. Price is excluded shipping. Kindly email me at peimun78@yahoo.com if you are keen on it.

No to Feeding Bottles

Bravo........ another big achievement from my princess before she turn 3 years old next month. She don't want to drink her milk from the milk bottles but in her cute Hello Kitty mug. At first, she only took 1.5-2 oz of milk per feed and I feel so tired to persuade her to finish her milk every time. At first, I thought she get bored with her current milk powder and thought of changing it after all my stock is clear later.

Before I move on to change her milk powder, I try to prepare her milk in the newly bought Hello Kitty mug and what surprised me was she finished the whole cup of milk within couples of minutes. After that she told me that only babies have their milk from bottles and she is a big girl now, so she must drinks from the cup.

I thought problems was solved since her milk intake is back to normal. But lately, she told me that she get bored with the cup and demand for a new My Melody or Keroppi mug........ So, mommies out there, if you came across any nice mug, please let me know ya!!!!!

** Stay tune for the Avent Bottles sales by me!!!!!!!**

My First Spaghetti in Carbonara

Yeah.... this was my dinner today and can't wait to share it with you all. This was the first time I try on this sauce and thanks Lilian for her great recipe. The taste was just nice and my princess finished up all her portion and so does my hubby. He rate me 9 out of 10....wahahaha!!!!!

Safe Pregnancy Beauty Products

I'm now 5 months into my pregnancy and I found that my skin tends to be more sensitive and delicate when dealing with drugs and cosmetics. So, I'm very concerned when choosing the right kind of products I consume and put on my skin as I never know what is inside the product and will it affect my unborn baby if I apply it. It's not easy to find a range of beauty products that are safe for mom-to-be as well as baby in the local market.

Thank God! I learned about this Beaute de Maman. Beaute de Maman is a unique line of beauty products developed by a board-certified obstetrician to treat problems specifically related to the physiological and hormonal changes experienced by women during pregnancy. These products have been used by Hollywood celebrities like Penelope Ann Miller, Chyler Leigh, Brooke Mueller Sheen and others.

I'm keen on their stretch mark cream which contains all the natural botanical and herbal ingredients to help preserve the skin's elasticity and suppleness. It's totally different from other brands in the market as this stretch mark cream is an absorbent cream rather than a messy oil. It's value for the money with the cost only $24.99. So, order now and enjoy free shipping with purchase of $25 and above.

Pregnancy & Delivery Story Tag

This is an interesting tag and I started to post it once I received it from Family First without thinking twice.

1. Was your first pregnancy planned?
Yes.

2. Were you married at that time?
Yes, we were married for more than a year at that time

3. What were your reaction?
Happy + excited

4. Was abortion an option for you?
101% nope. We had been "working very hard" on it for more than 3 months only we got it.

5. How old were you?
27 years old

6. How did you find out you were pregnant?
My "auntie" come and visit me very punctual every month, when I missed my period for 3 days and bought the home pregnancy test kit to test it, a positive result was show.

7. Who did you tell first?
Of course my hubby

8. Did you want to find out the sex?
Yes, this is because I can't wait to start my shopping for baby stuffs....

9. Due date?
8th April 2006

10. Did you have morning sickness?
Not really. Only have some migraine at the first trimester

11. what did you crave?
everything except rice

12. who/what irritated you the most?
eerr...... nothing

13. What was your first child sex?
A girl

14. Did you wish you had the opposite sex of what you were getting?
Nope. Hubby and I wished for a girl at the very first beginning.

15. How many pounds did you gain throughout your pregnancy?
around 10 kg

16. Did you have a baby shower?
Nope

17. Was t a surprise or did you know?
N/A

18. Did you have any complication during your pregnancy?
Nope

19. Where did you give birth?
Ipoh Specialist Hospital

20. How many hours were you in labour?
Overall, it's a smooth and fast delivery. I admitted at 8pm and gave birth at 10.30pm. Not much suffer from the contraction.

21. Who drove you to the hospital?
Hubby

22. Who watched you give birth?
my gynae, hubby, few nurses and Cecilia ( she is the person who come and collect my baby's cord blood)

23. Was it natural or C-Section?
Natural

24. Did you take medicine to ease the pain?
Nope... no epidural

25. How much did your child weigh?
3.33 kg

26. When was your child actually born?
02-04-06 ( luckily she was not born on April Fool day)

27. What did you name him/her?
Kendra.... coz mommy is a big fans of "The Apprentice" that time and Kendra is the only female winner.

28. How old is your first born today?
Going to be 3 years old this April

Phew... finally I'm done with this tag.

Princess On Ice

This is the show Kendra wanted to watch it for long as I keep on telling her that we will bring her for the show as her 3 years old birthday present. Too bad, hubby need to travel on that day when the show is held and in other words, our plan is canceled due to this.

I found that it's hard for me to tell her this bad news as she is so looking forward to the show. When I'm cleaning her this morning before send her to nursery, I started the conversation with her. I told her that daddy need to go to work and we can't bring her for the show but we will still buy her a present and the Barbie Doll cake on her birthday.

Surprisingly, she looked at with a smile and told me that "OKAY, we don't go for the show"..... then hug me with a big kiss. I felt so warm at that moments and keep on smiling in my heart when I think about it. My girl make me feel so proud of her and I can't wait to call hubby and let him know that our girl has grown up so much.

@ 19 weeks

Time flies and I think I've missed to update my last visit to my gynae's clinic which due last month. Anyhow, I went for my follow up appointment yesterday. And guess what....??? I bumped into Donna and one of my hubby's colleague in the same clinic, what a small world.

Baby weight: 239g
Heartbeat: 160 beats per minutes

I can feel his movement 2 weeks ago and it's so amazing. During the scan, he keep on moving and I think it's because he is so excited to see 3 of us.

Nothing special on the routine checkup as my gynae commented everything seems alright except for the triple test report. The report show that I'm high risk in the Trisomy 21 test and my risk is 1:138. In other words, among 138 women with the same data as mine, there is 1 woman will have the Trisomy 21 pregnancy (carry a down syndrome baby) whereby 137 women will not be affected ( hope I will be in this group)

My gynae suggested me to carry out the Amniocentesis test for a more accurate answer or just disregard the report and carry on my pregnancy. After discussied with hubby, he strongly agreed that I carry out the test as we can have a better plan after the result is out no matter it's a good one or a bad one. We don't want to play the guessing game for the rest of my pregnancy.

I'm schedule to do the test on next Monday and the result only will be available after 2 weeks as they need to send the specimen to Singapore lab for testing. I think the only thing I can do now is stay calm and relax. Hope everything will be fine and I can have a healthy baby.

Disposable Diapers To Let Go

Since Kendra is totally diapers free few months ago, I decided to let go all her diapers which left in my store room.


Mamy Poko
XL50 @ RM40 each x 2 pack [Reserved by Linda]
L56 @ RM40 each x 1 pack [Reserved by Penny]
L38 @ RM30 each x 1 pack [Reserved by Penny]

Mamy Poko Pants (for baby girl)
L14 @ RM14 each x 2 pack
XL12 @ RM14 each x 3 pack [Reserved by Bee Wai]
L28 @ RM28 each x 3 pack

Huggies Dry Comfort
L60 @ RM30 each x 1 pack [Reserved by Penny]

****at the same time I would like to let go the Huggies Ultra as you seen on the picture above. It's not in it's original packing as I've taken out the packets for gift redemption. All are nicely transferred to the Ziplock bags and never being open after that.

Size L (at least 20 pcs in a packet) @ RM10 each x 4 pack
Size XL ( at least 15 pcs in a packet) @ RM10 each x 2 pack [Reserved by Linda]


Delivery: Local pick up within Ipoh area

Anyone who interested, please contact me at peimun78@yahoo.com

Her Masterpiece

This is what she sketch on her Doodle Pro while mommy was busy MSN-ing.......

According to her, from left to right...... Daddy, Mommy and Kendra!!!!! wahahahah

Other than Daddy

Kendra used to have her nap at the living hall everyday. Her nap time normally is from 3pm to 7pm.

One day, while I'm busy preparing dinner at the kitchen and I thought Kendra was still having her nap at the living hall, our main gate was open and that's hubby who came back from work. Kendra was awake by that time and she peek from the sliding door and she knew that her daddy was back. She quickly ran to kitchen and told me this.........

Kendra: Oh Pei Mun (yes, she called my full name), your lou kong (hubby in cantonese) is back.

I was shocked when I hear what she said and ask her to repeat the sentence again. Yes, she told me my hubby was back from the office. Now only I realized other than daddy, she knew another role of her daddy in the family........... MY HUBBY!!!!!!!

She is HEATY!!!

After our dinner last night, I took out a bottle of Yakult for Kendra as a reward to her for finished up her dishes. While she was happily enjoying her Yakult, my mom took out the bowl of fruits for us. When she saw it, she quickly run to my mom and demand for the fruits while she still haven't finished her Yakult. I sound her and told her that she can't have the fruits as this will cause her stomachache if she took too much of cold food. Guess how she answer me...?????

"You try to see my lip, it's soooo RED........ means I'm heaty!!!!! I need to take some fruits or "leong sui" (some chinese drinks to cool down the body).........

We all were so surprise by her response and laugh non-stop after heraing it........ Now only I realized that my girl grow up a lots.....LOL!!!!!

Genting

We went to Genting last Saturday to meet up with Felix. This is the first time Kendra went to Genting and she was so excited about the trip. Every morning when she woke up, she used to ask me are we going to Genting on that day...hahaha!!!

We woke up as early as 7am on that day and after washed up for Kendra, we went to my parent's house to meet up with them and departed around 9.30am. It was raining all the way from Ipoh to Genting. We had our lunch at Goh Tong Jaya while Felix was taking the cable car to Genting for check in.

Kendra was so excited to see her Ah Fu (uncle) and so does her Ah Fu. After we had settle our luggage, we straight away brought Kendra to the amusement park. She keep on running here and there and we had to chasing her all the way. We walked to the First World indoor theme park as Kendra wanted to ride on the Reindeer cruiser. We were there till 5pm and then we walked back to the hotel for a rest and prepare ourself for dinner. My uncle and auntie who live in KL met us up for dinner.

Kendra started to show her tired face during dinner because she skip her nap and overjoy at the theme park. After dinner, we all head to the casino while hubby brought Kendra to the amusement park again as requested by Kendra. Half way playing, she told hubby that she feel sleepy and wanted to go to bed so hubby brought her back to hotel.

I went back to hotel ard 12.00am and both hubby and Kendra were sleep so deeply. Middle of the night, I think it's around 5.00am Kendra woke up by her own and I thought she wanted to go to toilet. But it's not, she told me she wanted to go down to the amusement park to play again........ OMG!!!!!

On the next day morning, we had our buffet breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, we went back to the hotel room and having some great time chit chatting with Felix while Kendra did lots of performance for her uncle Felix. Uncle Felix did brought back some nice stuffs he bought from Japan to Kendra. We checked out at 12.00pm and brought Kendra to the amusement park again. After we took our lunch at the nearest restaurant, it's time to say goodbye to Felix as he need to rush for his flight. Overall, we all had a great time there especially Kendra.

More trip photos here.........

Normal Furikake & Hello Kitty Furikake

Ms Bunny Oshibori, Princess bandage and Ms Bunny container

@ 12 weeks

Went for my checkup yesterday after my last checkup which was 2 weeks ago. I felt this checkup are so special to me as we did it on the last day of 2008 and it remarked the end of my 1st trimester too!!!!

baby length: 5.09cm (grow about 2.36cm in 2 weeks times)
Heartbeat: 165 beats per minutes
mommy BP: 120/70 (seem not so relevant, right...LOL)

During the whole ultrasound scanning, we (hubby, Kendra and myself) can feel how excited the little baby was when he/she meet his/her parent and sister. He/she keep on moving and kicking till my doctor told us that he/she was tooooo active. Halfway of the scanning, he/she started to suck her thumb......hahaha!!!! When daddy told Kendra about this, she was doing the "shame shame" reaction to her little sis/bro. Other than this, doctor did count the baby fingers with Kendra too!!!!

My gynae has stop to prescribe me the folic acid and prescribe me with the multi-vitamin, calcium capsules and neurogain. For my weight, it remain unchange from my last visit and my appetite was back to normal. I didn't have any special foods I would like to crave so far but I like chilling drinks a lot especially Ribena.....LOL!!!!

I was so amaze that I found lots of new development of my baby on my visit and can't wait to see him/her in another month time.