I sent Rachel's hiau-hiau photo for a cute baby contest a month ago, and she has been lined up for the October Baby contest... The voting will start tomorrow (1st October to 31st October)! Everyone can vote for a baby ONCE. Can you please vote for her? hehehe...

She is No.26 (Rachel Huan Ying Xuan).
Her photo (an old photo liao ler, since the contest so popular, so many people enter, have to line up for a month) is VIEWABLE HERE. And to vote, go to the last page, or VOTE HERE.

NOTE: The baby number is located BELOW the baby photo. Don't get mixed up by it... :D

For those of you that would like to enter your baby or toddlers into the November Contest, CLICK HERE.

As promised, here's a photo of the Rachel in her newly bought baby sling, taken in the morning right when we were bringing her out. I used the sling because it was raining!!

Anyway, I have to say, with the sling, it's so convenient! I have my free hands to hold the umbrella myself, instead of having to coordinate my steps with hubby while trying to shield her, and instructing hubby to walk faster, or walk slower, or umbrella to the left or right... I have NO regrets buying the sling.... :D

I think I just need more practise putting it on and pulling it tight. Actually, I'm not even sure if I'm doing it correctly... Anyone out there that uses the sling a lot, any suggestion?? Do you think she look comfortable?? hehehe... ;)

As I posted yesterday, I was sick. Doctor's advice was, STAY AWAY FROM CHILDREN!

For the first time, my worries didn't linger around my sickness, but it went straight to, HUH?! HOW? HOW HOW HOW? How do I stay away from little Rachel?? :(

As soon as I got home yesterday, Rachel looked at me and smiled a big cute smile, and probably was wondering how come Mommy is standing like a meter away from me and not coming nearer. Then she smiled to me again and raised her right hand towards my direction. Told her I am sick, and I can't carry her. Tina (the maid/baby sitter) carried Rachel away so she won't see me. That's when little Rachel cried! I just can't let her cry on, so I showed my face again, a meter away, and she smiled and this time, raised BOTH hands in my direction! After a while, probably realising I won't be carrying her, she started crying again! It is SO TOUGH! :(

Anyway, as babies are, after staying away for like 5 minutes, she stopped crying and played with Tina... As for me, I took my medicine and slept until dinner time!

I'm feeling much better now, despite still having slight fever, but throat is at least bearable! Hubby did get some mask from the pharmacy, but Rachel just couldn't recognise me with the mask on... Hopefully the fever will go off by today evening so I can carry and hug little Rachel as usual...

This is probably the first time I'm taking all my medicine seriously, and following the time strictly! I want to get well soon so I can play with my girl, and I don't want to have virus in me that could infect her... This adds to the changes that Rachel caused in me eh? =D

Labels: Parenting, Ramblings

I'm sick, my throat is burning and it hurts even when I swallow my saliva (that throat infection doctor was telling me about last week), I'm having fever too now, and I'm planning to go home soon. Waiting for boss to come in so I can get his approval... :(

I'm wondering, is this contagious? Does this mean I can't get too close to little Rachel until I get better? *sob* *sob* That is so sad isn't it? :'(

Labels: Ramblings

I saw a PosLaju package for me when I reached home from work yesterday, and was really excited! Pixart photobook arrived!! WOO HOO!!

I must say it was pretty fast, because I uploaded the order last thursday! Hubby and I thought that it will be a good birthday present for Rachel's greatgrandma in Ipoh next month, and since pixart was having a 20% introductory offer, we went ahead and ordered it. (We even did a 2nd one as a present to be sent directly to Rachel's grandma (hubby's mom) for her birthday gift next week). I know it's weird, like giving Rachel's photos for their birthday, but then it's for them to show off their little great & granddaughter! hehe...

As for the quality, I must say I'm impressed with the whole thing (it was better than my expectation). The paper quality is good, and the cover is wonderful! Everything is properly binded, and very pretty too. The quality of the photo is not too bad, considering I ordered the digital print and not the photo print. Just think of the magazines, that's how it is, only on thicker and better quality paper. The only lack point is that the the binding was too near to the photo and very small portion of the photo is difficult to view, and some of the photo borders were not very neat as I used the full page Pocket Story Teller layout. So for those that are interested to purchase, try to minimise the use of this layout, but other layouts are wonderful...

Overall, judging the book as a gift, I would rate it a 95 out of 100... By the way, I must also add, their customer service is FIRST CLASS (hehe, that also added to the rating lar of course). I'm going to get a coffeebook size photobook when Rachel is 1 years old, as a collection of the year.... Looking forward to that.... :D

She hasn't visited the paed lately, so I'll post her weight and height next week... hehe...

Rachel's Update:

1. She likes to be carried vertically, though might still lose balance once in a while.
2. She drinks 5.5oz (UPDATED: 165ml, as requested by TIMO) of milk every 3.5 to 4 hours.
3. She sleeps from about 9:30pm to 6am everyday, without waking up.
   
4. She'll fall asleep herself at night. Where I'll wipe her, feed her and put her on her bed and leave the room...
5. She'll reach out with both hands in the direction of the milk bottle (I will try to shoot a video and post it online) when she sees the bottle, then will to hold it, open her mouth big and attempt to put the teat into her mouth, all by herself.
   
6. She LOVE to sucks her fingers. Sleeping time, it'll mostly be her right hand, index and middle fingers. When playing time, her left hand thumb.
7. She cry when she lost sight of the toy she's playing, or when she wants to be carried. She usually stops her fake crying as soon as she sees the camera.
8. She holds her rattlers and other toys, and will put it into her mouth!
   
9. She salivate A LOT! Always soiling her hanky, bibs, or the collar of her blause within minutes.

Rachel's greatgrandma (father in law's mom) insisted on a prayer for little Rachel's 4th Month anniversary. She also insisted in a 'stop salivating ritual' because Rachel salivate a lot, where she requested for a new bib from my mum, and some MARIE biscuits (13 to be exact). The biscuits were threaded together into necklace like, and worn onto Rachel's neck on top of the bib. Greatgrandma then said something about stopping Rachel's saliva, keep it dry and not to salivate again while she used the bib to dry Rachel's salivated chin! We were then made to hang the bib for 10-20 days in our room, and ate up all the 13 biscuits. HeHeHe...

Verdict: Rachel is STILL salivating! Well, my personal believe is that, there's really no harm doing this, and I don't lose anything but gained in all as it made greatgrandma really happy. So that was why I went along with it, though I did not believe it will stop Rachel from salivating, but I found this 'ritual' really funny, weird and 'cute' in some ways... Anyone else heard of it before? Is anyone a 'believer' that it works? It's interesting to share this kinda opinions sometimes... :D

Labels: Monthly Milestone, Rachel Huan

Rachel received a gift yesterday from Aunty Jaime from Japan, and it's BEAUTIFUL! Really very cute! It's a little too big now, but she'll grow into it in a few months time, and I'm sure to take more photos and blog about it. She'll be the little japanese cutey pie then.... :D
Can't wait for her to try it on though...

Now now, I'm getting all excited when she couldn't even understand it yet... Well, that is what mothering is all about yeah? hehe....

Isn't the 'kimono' cute?? :D

Labels: Rachel's Gift

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of http://shannonchong.blogspot.com!!

This is probably the longest 'diary' I have kept and are still updating... I remember the time when I was a young girl, every little cute diary book will attract me, and I'll get my mom to buy it for me, I'll write a few pages, and then keep it in the drawer... Cute background diary, daily diary that was given free at the beginning of each year, common notebook, diary with keys to lock it up, you name it, I have it.... But I've never written in it as long as this blog... There was even a time when I flip back a diary and realise that I haven't written in it for more than a year!

I hope I don't get lazy again!! :D

Rachel has a new sleeping position. I thought that she'll grow out of it after a while, but this has been since 2 weeks back, where it's a sign to us that she's sleepy too. She will suck her right index and middle finger, and cover her nose/mouth with her left arm... I do have a fantastic imagination, but it does seem like she's trying to hide her sucking.....
HeHeHe.....

She is also starting to get really bad tempered, I'm not sure if this is expected in all babies, but I do read about it a lot...
She will cry, and we will try to attrack her attention with rattlers, then she'll try to reach for it and as she held it, she won't know how to shake it to make the noises, and she'll cry.... Or the toys in her hands falls off, she'll cry and sorta like demand us to get it back for her....

We are also trying to make her 'practise' turning over, but she seem a little too lazy... (like mother like daughter I guess)... We tried letting her play with a toy, and then take it away and put it such that she'll have to stretch and turn to get it... Sometimes she'll try, but sometimes, she'll just lie there, staring at the toy and wait! If you look closely at the photos in the slide, little Rachel was on our bed, and with every 'turning' she did with our help, she leave another wet saliva spot on the bed.... *slap forehead*

Labels: Milestone, Rachel Huan, Rachel's Habit

We went for the exhibition, in mid valley, so little Rachel got to go Mid Valley again... She was good, no major fussing, but I on the other hand, wasn't feeling very well on our way there. It was raining cats and dogs too... :(

I got what I wanted. Haha... We bought a baby sling from baybsupplies. Cost us RM99, not a bad deal, as the retail price was RM190. Washed and tried it, it was good.... Comfortable for little Rachel and me too. But hubby made a stand in not going to ever use it, cuz he says it looks like I'm wearing SARI! hehehe.... He kept complaining saying it cost too much for a silly piece of cloth though.... *shrug*
I'll post some photos of it when I have the chance. Did not manage to take photo of it yesterday when we tried it out though.... :D

Technorati Tags: Weekend | Rachel's Outing

Labels: Rachel's Outing, Weekends

This post would be boring to many, but I just wanted to share.... :D

We were previously using Drapolene (sp?) for little Rachel, until a friend mentioned the Pureen Nappy Rash (pink coloured box) being better and asking me to give it a try.....

No no, Rachel did not have any nappy rashes, but we use it to prevent nappy rashes. However, last month, she had pretty bad rashes on her neck that whenever I 'lifted' her chin to wipe it, she will cry. We gave pureen a try, and within a week, the rashes cured and it didn't come back even until now. I even introduced pureen to another friend whom daughter developed nappy rashes, and he claimed his wife liked pureen too....

Labels: Parenting Tips, Rachel Huan

When I was pregnant, I remember questioning every mother I know, how does contraction feels like, how painful is it, and yadaa yadaa..... A very common answer I get was: "PAIN, but after giving birth, forget already lar!".... At that time, my exact thoughts were: "BLUFF AR?! If really pain, how can you forget? CANNOT BE LAR! Wait lar, after my turn, I will remember then I can tell people"....

Now, that said, and labour done.... If someone were to ask me exactly how contraction pain is, my answer is "VERY PAIN at that time, but after giving birth, forget liao (SLANG: already) !!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....

The night before, after I put Rachel on her bed, and left her alone in the room to fall asleep, I sat in the living, closed my eyes, played back the whole labour scene in my head, imagining it happen all over again, and tried VERY VERY hard to remember how exactly contraction pain and labour felt like.... I can remember many details, I can tell the time that each thing happened, I remember things that I asked the nurses/hubby, I remember my legs shaking from pain during contraction, I remember feeling like there was a whole lot of stool in my bowel that needed to be released during contraction that was pushing Rachel out, but but, I don't remember how the pain felt like, I don't remember how painful it was.... WHY?!

Hubby gave his personal explanation, saying that it's nature's way of ensuring women don't get too afraid of going for their subsequent labour, and maybe that's why we get memory lapse after labour, so we forget about the pain.... HAHAHAHAHA.....

Does any mother out there actually remember how the contraction pain felt like exactly?

Labels: Labour, Pregnancy

I was working on Saturday, so Rachel had to go to grandma's house and Tina was the one to bath and prepare her for the day (so sad for me). Daddy was around to play with her, until I reach home around 1pm, where she had another outing to Bukit Raja Shopping Center, to meet a few of my friends.

Rachel sat in Starbucks, STARING into the faces of the 'strangers' until she fell asleep while me and friends chatted away. I had to admit, little Rachel is getting used to outings like this, and is behaving rather well, no extreme fussing and just enjoys herself looking around... :)

She had a laughing fit when we played with her upon reaching home, shrieking and laughing playing with peekaboo. We had so much fun making her laugh like that, but then regret later in the evening when she kept waking up from her sleep crying. It even happened at 2:30am that night too!! She woke up crying non stop, keeping her eyes closed like she was crying while sleeping, screaming and wailing, until she dozed off herself. SCARY!!



Sunday morning, after her midnite crying episode, she slept till 8:30am! Record time... HAHAHA.... Slide show above holds the photos of her propped up to a sitting position and slowly sliding off, and fell into a headdown 'turtle' position. She looked really funny at that time. I think she's going to be turning over very soon, she's already half way through now on her right side, possibly not turning all the way because she couldn't lift her heavy bum... hehehe....

She's also starting to show anticipation to things we do, like she'all start to squint (can't think of the accurate word to use to describe) her cheek when we kiss her.

Hubby was kissing her repeatedly yesterday, while moving her body toward his face, and after a few times, she squinted even before hubby kisses her, because she knew it was coming...

Being the naughty Mommy I am, I tried to kiss her the same time Daddy does, to see her reaction. No, she didn't squint both side, but she ended up opening her mouth in an 'O' shape and waited for our kisses. Too bad I couldn't snap a photo of that cuz I was busy kissing her... Now, no wonder there are rashes on her cheek eh? hehehehehe.....


On a side note, I was so bored on Sunday, so when little Rachel was having her afternoon nap, I took a photo of what must have been the mozzy's view, when it sit outside the mozzy netting of the baby playpen we have on when Rachel's asleep, waiting and looking for a way in... hahaha.... I really got nothing better to do eh? hahahaha......

Technorati Tags: Rachel Huan | Weekend | Rachel's Outing

Labels: Rachel Huan, Rachel's Outing, Weekends

Yesterday when I got home, Tina (our maid cum baby sitter) told me in a very sad tone, "Rachel kena gigit nyamuk, tadi Uncle bawa dia keluar" (Malay : Rachel got bitten by mosquitoes, Uncle took her out just now) .

I checked, and guess what, there were THREE (!!!) BIG HUGE RED mozzy bite marks.... 1 on her right eye brow, another next to the right eye, and the last one on the left of her head among her hair.... :(

So sakit hati (Malay : Heart broken)... 1 evening out with her granduncle, and 3 mozzy bites! I think because granduncle's living room is a little dark, and there's ALWAYS lotsa mozzy there...

As at 16 September 2006, the records of her mozzy bites gotten during the care of:
Granduncle TF : 3 mozzy bites
Grandmom : 1 mozzy bite
Kak Tina : 1 mozzy bite

Tina didn't know better, and applied Drapolene nappy rash onto the bites (hehehehe). Found that funny, like Drapolene was a miracle oilment for all things growing on the skin that is red? hehehe.... I did apply some Savlon after wiping her for the night, it still is bright red today morning... :|

Labels: Rachel Huan

Rachel is getting used to faking her cries..... Whenever someone pulled her toys away, or when no one pays attention to her, or when she gets bored of where we were standing and wants us to walk around.... She WAILS!! UUWAAHHHHHHH UUWWAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! *slaps forehead*

Hubby will tell me "LET HER CRY! Else she get too pampered, let her know she can't get her way" one time, but other times, he'll carry Rachel and say, "Rachel don't cry, Daddy sayang, you want to walk? OK OK, Daddy walk walk", and proceed in walking up and down and up and down non stop.... I have to admit that it's the same for myself, I can't resist either...

When she wants attention, she's cry, then look around if anyone looks at her or not, else she'll cry again and then check again.... aiyoh! Here's her first video post, of her faking her cry and checking for attention.... ;)
NOTE: Took me 2 days to successfully upload to youTube!! *phew*

Labels: Rachel Huan

*YAWN*

Rachel has been VERY fussy!! I don't understand too, how she will ALWAYS fuss at 8pm, if we are still in my mum's place or in my in law's place. She'll fuss and cry and struggle, but as soon as we reach home, she'll be ok....

This is limiting our time away from home at night, ensuring that we always get home around that time... We are guessing that she's starting to recognise the house, recognising that she wants to be at home by night time, but then again, she's still SO young, could that be possible?? Doesn't really make sense but then it has been like this for a while, not a 1 or 2 times coincidence, but it's the same day in day out.... *puzzled*

I'm a little tired today, more photos tomorrow.... *YAWN*

Labels: Parenting, Rachel Huan

Last Sunday, while hubby and I were playing with little Rachel on the bed, something funny happened. I know it's coincidental and she doesn't even realise she's doing it, but it's funny I HAD to snap a pic.

Remember how I mentioned Rachel is grabbing and pulling onto things that comes in her hands/fingers's way?? Well, she accidentally pulled Daddy's left ear, and didn't let go for a while.


Here are some of the updated photos of her, taken throughout the weekend..... ;)

Labels: Photos, Rachel Huan

We did a check on little Rachel's weight, after a 2 weeks 'diet', and dissapointingly, she put on a whooping 300gms through the 2 weeks....

WEIGHT : 6.6 kg
LENGTH : 61 cm

She started to:

1. Grab/lung for things that comes in front of her (and putting them into her mought)
2. Laugh in reaction of playing peekaboo: No, not coincidentally, but everytime we do it to her.
3. Recognise familiar/stanger's faces: Yesterday night, when a family friend wanted to carry little Rachel from me, (she just woke up, looking dazed and comfortably laying on my chest), Rachel actually cling onto my t-shirt collar, stare at the family friend, and started crying! As soon as the friend let go of her hands, she stopped. There were initial signs, but we didn't think it was possible, until this event.

Technorati Tags: Rachel Huan | Monthly Milestones

Labels: Monthly Milestone, Rachel Huan

A friend told me the other day, "all parents are selfish"...

My first defensive answer was, "WHERE GOT?".... Am I? No lar... where got selfish??

His comment lingered in my mind for a long time, and everytime minor things takes place, I think again, AM I SELFISH?!

• I tend to want Rachel to love me or hubby more than she loves anyone else...
• I want to be able to spend as much time (UNDISTURBED) with little Rachel as possible...
• I talk about NOTHING except Rachel lately...
• I tend to interpret certain things that little Rachel happen to coincidentally does, the way I want to interpret it, irregardless of what other think about it or if it's even logical to think that way...
  
• I tend to bring Rachel to places I like to go, insisting that she'll enjoy it too...
• I tend to plan the future for little Rachel based on things I have missed and things I hoped for duin my childhood, not thinking about if she (when she grows up) will enjoy the things I used to enjoy or not...

Well, to err is human... I guess that's where man childhood wishes comes from, like I wished to be able to have more amily trips, to have more time to spend with my late dad when I was younger as he was always busy with work. All this (and others) adds up to me always insisting that when I have my own small family, these are the things I will ensure is done and implemented, family times, family trips, private time with the kids and so on so forth... At this very point, I forgot to take into consideration whether is this what little Rachel and hubby would want in the future... Am I making sense? Hmm....

Labels: Journal, Parenting, Self Improvements

I awoke today earlier than usual, caused by my growling hungry tummy (MUST be due to the dried grilled meat bun, and the Baskin Robin CHOCOLATE ice-cream I had, late yesterday night while watching the 9:30 on Wah Lai Toi). Lazy to get up, I sneaked a peek at little Rachel, toss around a little and dozed off again, before I was startled by Rachel's COUGH! She stopped for a little while before continuing to cough again, then sounded like she choked and had difficulty breathing. Suddenly, all the SIDS articles came flashing in my mind..... *knock head*


But, after gulping down 1oz. of water suggested by daddy, and a feeding of milk, she was happy and giving us her morning smile again.... Playing and 'Ah-Goo'-ing with her fingers in her mouth, looking around and happy, and not wanting to go back to bed for now.... I breathed a sigh of relief, knowing she's feeling better and the coughing scene is over for now...

On our way to my mom's house to drop Rachel and Tina (our maid-cum-babysitter) for the day, Rachel dozed off in my arms, clenching onto my arms, and look so peaceful.... It's hard to believe the amount of chaos and worries that she inflicted into my today morning, when looking at her now.... It was dark, but I just HAD to take a snap...

Labels: Parenting, Rachel Huan

Remember how she was sucking her thumb? She have found new fingers this week... The thumb must still be too small to satisfy her sucking urges, that she choose to stuff 2 of her fingers (middle and ring fingers) from the right hand and suck away.... When we tried pulling the fingers out, she'll cry and kick and yell!!!

I tried giving her a chilled teether (no, I don't think she's teething, but just trying it out), in replacement of her fingers, and as soon as the teether goes into her mouth, she actually smiled and look contented, for a while that is.....

I wonder which finger(s) will she be sucking on....

By the way, anyone know what is the full proof method of detecting the teething process??

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I know:

• Fever (not detected)
  
• Fussing at night (been waking up in the middle of the night this 2 days)
• Loose stool (how do you know if it's loose??????????)
• White and hard bumps on the gum (err, a little harder but not white)
• Tendency to suck on fist/fingers (Nothing special, she has been doing this all this time)

Hmm... How leh?? *blur puzzled look*

Labels: Rachel Huan, Rachel's Habit

Little Rachel is not so little anymore.... As many would have known and as I have previouslly blogged about, she's a real chubby cutie...

She's currently on a 'tiny' diet, where her milk intake is decreased slightly, as her paediatrician (my aunt, her grandaunt) says she's a little overweight! :|

She's starting to fake her cries, when she's bored or when she wants to be carried! Starting to show her really impatient temper, shouting a lot more when not attended to. For now, we are gonna try and let her do her crying act, just let her cry and shout as she wants to, not because we don't love her, but because we don't hope for her to be a little pampered spoilt brat! Look at the top left hand corner, the photo of her shouting! It can be really loud I tell you.... With her legs kicking and arms swinging, she can be a tough one sometimes....

Today morning at 2am, she woke up for a feeding, for the first time in many weeks now.... Lotsa questions are coming to my mind, on the possibility of this sudden change, but hubby and I have decided that we'll wait and see what happens tonight, before we make any changes to the current routine.... *Yawn*

Labels: Rachel Huan

Are you the ones that would read back on old past chat conversation/emails?

I am one that enjoy doing it, and have a habit of saving up the chat conversations with significant chat partner(s) in text files, for future browsing. I came across CD that was labelled "interesting backup and cool stuff" yesterday, and found some saved conversations and emails between hubby and myself. The text file contains conversation dated from before the courtship (thanks to ICQ for being able to save yearsssss of chat history) up to a few months into the courtship.

It's interesting how re-reading these conversation gives a different impression to the relationship at the point of time, and it's wonderful to be able to see the pattern of conversation flow, between the same 2 person, during the different phases of our lives. Certain part of the chat history also significantly highlighted out the changes that took place in both of us. It also reminded me of certains things which we used to do or say to each other, which we don't anymore now as a couple. It's fun to read....

I know, many does think that this is crazy, but I am a collector, of all things, and I enjoy looking back at things (just like a chat history) that reminds me of little little things that were so trivial that I don't even remember anymore now. Try digging out something that you have, photos, chats, emails, songs (a friend pointed out in her blog today), even material stuff, that reminds you of that certain important person/events (whether happy or sad)... You'll then know how I feel today, all filled with memories and emotion, it's a very nice warm feeling.... ;)

Labels: Journal

It's been 4 years as of yesterday.

It seems like just yesterday, but so many things have changed, so many things had happened. To me, it's the most eventful 4 years: I've gotten married, moved into a place of my own (of course it comes together with getting married), experienced pregnancy and is now a mom, but he was not here to see all this. I'm sure he would have looked forward to all of this, not only in my life, but my brothers' too....

When Malaysia celebrates her independence this past 4 years, I'm reminded of the pain and the heartache from the death of my father. He passed away 4 years ago yesterday, of brain infection, a day after we celebrated his 50th birthday.

When I think about the time it happened, it still is fresh, just like yesterday, I remember:

• how I was stunned when he was proclaimed dead
• how calm I was at that time, up until I said the fact out loud myself when I was informing my uncle about 15 minutes after being told of it, when I just couldn't hold back the tears and the emotion
• how I cried and yet have to be strong for my mum
• how my brother broke down and cried in front of me for the first time since maturity
• how I endured all that while having to repeat Dad's death over and over again in the police station to report it
• how I stared at the forms given to me from the hospital proclaiming his death and wish it was not true
  
• how much I hope the doctor was wrong at the time, how much I wish my dad will move his fingers and sit up by himself
• .....

All through the 4 or 5 days of his funeral, I prayed hard that he'll open his eyes. I remember secretly whispering to him the night before they sealed his coffin, this is your last chance to get up!! Silly ain't I?

Yesterday, I thought of him a lot, because he would have loved to be able to spend time with little Rachel. How much I wish he could still be around to see little Rachel, to carry her, to love her like I'm sure he would...

Sometimes in situations like this, I question 'time'. How could 4 years felt so long, yet so short? How could it contain so many events, yet does not wash away the sadness?

Well, I guess everyone moved on, things are never the same, but dad's death thought me to appreciate things more, thought me the importance of spending time with loved ones and how fragile live is...

Tears are building in my eyes as I recall each minute of it, how appreciative I was of a friend that took extra leave just to stick around, how glad I was that hubby was with me at all times. I shouldn't be blogging about something I wish to forget yeah? But maybe my sadness never really mellowed down because I never really wanted to forget about it.....

Labels: Journal

I was browsing through my photos, and came across this....

No prize for guessing it correctly, but YES, it is little Rachel!! I don't remember posting any new born photos of hers, but this is how she looked like less than 30 minutes from her birth..... Doesn't she look different??

This is a photo of how she look like when she was 1 month old... How much she has changed in mere 2 months, it's amazing, and scary too....

Compare the photos here with the main photo of the blog.... So much changes in the past 3 months, how many more to come in the next 3 months? Made me realise even more, that time doesn't wait, and that I should never take time for granted, that little Rachel will continue to grow and change, and time with her will never be the same again, ever....


I still am glad that I took photo of little Rachel everyday since her day of birth, and I still am... it's really good... I especially like the first photo of her, taken by hubby, right after she was born, still purplish, and have not cried.... It's relaly priceless.... Advice to all expecting parents, do try and photograph your baby at that period of time, because you're actually so exhausted that you won't remember much, but photos will remind you at all times... Also, try to take at least 1 photo of your baby everyday, it does makes a difference when you look back at it.... Even 1 week, you'll see differences.... Trust me.... ;)

Labels: Milestone, Rachel Huan

Rachel found a new habit recently.... It's to grab on to whatever that comes in her palms' way.... That is especially true for my hair!! Whenever I'm wiping her, or playing with her, or even carrying her, I now face the problem of trying to pull my hair out of her tightly clenched fist!!

She even found her thumb last week... She now need not stuff the whole fist into her mouth! She will stick the thumb in, even through her mittens if she has it on, and suck away.... So loud that I can hear it through a closed room door!

The photo says it all... Look at her sucking her thumb and pulling my hair, even when she's turning and looking at her daddy snapping the photo!

Labels: Rachel Huan, Rachel's Habit

It was an eventful day for little Rachel... She woke up at 8am! Imagine that, she slept at 10pm the night before, and woke up at 8am for her feeding! Did not cry, did not fuss... Good eh?? I'm happy.... hehehe....

We took little Rachel to MidValley Megamall.... She slept, she looked, she cried... But in average, she's good... Had her feeding in the car when we arrived, then looked around and slept a bit, fuss a little, next feeding was when we were on our way back, and as soon as we reached my mum's house, she poo-ed... Perfect timing eh? :D
She should be happy, as she smiled a lot, and I'm pretty sure she enjoyed looking around....

Labels: Rachel Huan, Rachel's Outing