September 2013

What an eventful September!

As if Baby2’s birthday and the much anticipated Mid Autumn Festival during this month are not enough, it had been a busy busy month this past month.

The August festive mood spilled over to September.  Had the first ever chalet with my cousins over the National Day and Hari Raya long weekend, and after that Baby1 started to fall sick and mummy and her had to sleep in the study room to isolate away from Baby2.  Slept on the sofa bed all the way past the lunar seventh month, and we entered September with no signs of her recovery. 

Early September, Baby1’s childcare centre was closed for 2 days for staff retreat so we brought her ice skating on the first day and baked muffins on the second day.  Then Mummy fell terribly sick the next week, and was down for the next 2 days.  Down, really down, did nothing at all except to get well.  And alas, Baby2 caught the germs too and fell sick too.  Mummy lost count of the number of times that she, Baby1 and Baby2 visited the doctor just this month alone.  And better forget about the medical bills incurred too, urgh!!!!!!  Anti-biotics x2 for mummy, flu + fever medicine for Baby2 x?, (flu + cough + fever + stomach flu + constipation + nebuliser) x??? for Baby1. It was a horrible horrible month.

19 September was mid autumn festival, and we had wanted to bring the kids for some lantern experience.  But with everyone’s sick, the full moon came and passed.  And 20 September was Dear1 and Dear2’s wedding anniversary, but we ended up sleeping the day away cos Dear1 falling sick too.  Haiz.

Finally it was the eventful weekend during the last weekend.  Supposed to have a staycation in MBS, but last minute we decided to revise it to a day trip instead.  Mummy woke up at 5.50am to bake Baby2’s banana birthday cake.  By 12 noon, set off to MBS and Baby1 had her afternoon nap in the room while mummy and papa took the chance to explore the place pushing Baby2 along to make her nap.  Finally went up to the skygarden cum pool, and on schedule walked over the Gardens and Satay by the Bay for dinner and cake cutting.  Everyone finally slept at 10pm and mummy legs were so super tired.

On Sunday, went to a wedding lunch, and back to Jurong for ballet class and Pioneer Road Run race pack collection. Baby1 got super bloated from her 3 glasses of Coke and milk combination.  Ruyi Oil and lots of farting saved the day for her, poor Baby1.

30 September.  Baby2’s birthday. Last year mummy delivered her via C-section, and was so relieved to have her out.  She’s now a growing toddler, getting fussier and more demanding to get what she wants.  Mummy and Papa are so tired handling 2 naughty girls, but we loved them nonetheless.

Hoping that everyone recovers and germs to stay away from us.  It’s gonna be the last quarter of the year, time for reflections, or consolidations, or ambitions, or maybe even just a breather from the past month’s hectic, and to bask in the year end festive mood again.

Cheers!

– Dear2

The Facebook Trap

~ 11 month old walking along the kitchen cabinets~

~ 3.5 year old doing splits before her ballet class~

~ Chicken mayo sandwich for him, and chicken mayo salad for her.  Their lunch bento for the day~

How show-off!

These are the pictures that I posted on Facebook recently, because I feel proud that my little Baby2 is already trying to walk when she’s barely 11 month old, and I am proud that my 3.5 year old Baby1 can do splits so naturally.  And for that bento photo, I wanted to show my friends that I can prepare a nice packed lunch for Dear1 to bring to work, and I had a healthy salad spread for myself.  “What a loving and creative wife”, I hoped they will think.

Though few and far in between such posts, I am already beginning to feel like a super show-off.  Relatives wowed at Baby1’s ability, and colleagues got worried that their 1yo is not even standing yet.

If I am such a show off, then what about all the numerous Facebook posts that you see every day?

Who and who went to blah blah blah country for holidays, I want to go too, how envy!

So and so received so many presents for his birthday/Christmas/farewell, how popular, I want to be like that too!

Wow, so delicious looking food.  What a nice restaurant/ how she can cook!  Salivates, slurps!

Such lovely family/ group/ individual photos.  What exciting things that they do!

OMG, he has the full collection of the cats, I want them too!

Innocent looking/ sounding, I’m sure many of these posts are merely people’s way of expressing their delight, but to the reader, 10 holiday vacations posted by 10 different friends surely makes it seem like we’re missing out on something.  Or when you see 20 of your friends’ studio style family portraits, you start to consider seriously if you should go have one taken too.  And oh, all of their nursery rooms are so filled with toys, maybe our 2 big boxful of toys is not really enough after all…

Beware!  Facebook can be very entertaining, but it does make us sad frequently too, when we compare our lack with other people’s what-have-nots.  They say we are living in an information-overloaded world now, I say we live in a world where I know “what you ate and what you bought and where you went and what you did and what you think”.  I even know “what you want to eat and what you want to buy and where you want to go and what you want to do and what you want to think”!  Information super overload, but all redundant ones, don’t you agree!?

Beware of the Facebook trap!  But anyway I’m still going to continue this daily entertaining reads, and post my show-off photos.  :p

– Dear2