Finally after much procrastination.. An entry after the arrival of Princess Chloe!

Princess Chloe has arrived! My Precious Ger Chloe Chen Wanxuan joined our family on the 2nd September 2009.

These are just some of the photos taken few days after her birth.. anyway in case u're interested to know.. here's my Birth Story...

01/09/2009 6.40am: Bloody show when peeing. dunno to call gynae / admission to Mt A straight.. Hb say no pain juz wait & observe. 8.30am: Decided to call gynae & was asked to go down to his clinic at Gleneagles. Went shower & headed to clinic w my mum. 10.10am: Reached clinic. Pee test, CTG monitor on bb's heartrate & contractions. Another Strep b test & VE examinations. Dilated 1cm. Water level lower at rate 8. Gynae suggest induction n to chk into Mt A straight or wait till 12mn if wan to save on a day's room fee. Decided to hv lunch then admission straight. 1.30pm: reached mt A n headed straight to delivery suite. Changed into robe, liquid medication for poo poo applied. Insert tablet to soften cervix opening. Strapped to CTG again. 5pm: Transferred to deluxe ward to rest. 8.15pm: Intense contractions suddenly started at 5 mins interval. VE done by nurse only dilated 1.5cm. 9pm: Transferred back to delivery suite again to use pain relief laughing gas. 11pm - 3am: More intensed contractions, asked for other pain relief method. Injected 2 jabs on buttocks for me to sleep.. but doesn't lessen pain at all. 9am: Finally saw gynae, VE at 2cm dilation. BB heartrate got lower at each intense contractions, water bag broke by gynae & headed for emergency C sect, requested for epidural n anaesthethist came within 5 mins. Applied epidural n lots of nurses came into rm to help.. Transferred to another bed n pushed to OT. 10.45am: Anaesthethist increased dosage of epidural. Felt Gynae jab many jabs on tummy. Lots of pushing n tugging at tummy area.. can stl feel little pain. 02/09/2009 11.02am: Heard princess loud n active cries. Burst into tears myself.. princess was placed on my chest for awhile.. then taken to weigh n bath. Anaesthethist gv some sleeping med for me to sleep while gynae stitched my wound n delivered placenta. Pushed to observation area cos felt breathless n dried throat unable to swallow saliva n shivered damn lots due to epidural. Can't drink water also.. only by droplets. 12pm: Pushed to temporary double bedded rm as single n deluxe wards all full.. 03/09/09: Expect to b changed to single or deluxe ward. Was on drip w painkiller thereafter, unable to start bfing bb ger due to whole body numbness frm epidural. Princess was on formula. Expected to try bfing the following day. Total took 21 hrs for princess to make her grand entrance. but alls worth while.. though expect to c huge bills upon discharge. Hubby called mine a COMBO cos i had laughing gas + 2 jabs on butt/thighs + epidural + mine was a emergency c-sec thus all these made up COMBO. lol.. hope tis birth story not tt boring to u all. Some ppl said c-sec stay is 4d3n but i was discharged on the 3rd day as my package only 3 days for c-sec.. n my gynae made me get out of my bed to try walking n going to the toilet on the 2nd day. Tell u it's damn painful lo the journey from my bed to the toilet was like The Great Wall of China, that long! On the day i was discharged, the journey from my ward to the nursery was even longer.. I walked like neverending.. Anyway, am unable to bf her so had to resort to pumping all the milk out and bottlefeed instead. Hubby had to go buy a $388.00 Medela Electric pump on the day i discharged so that i could start pumping milk for Chloe to drink.. OH BTW, thanks to all those who visited me & Chloe when i was in the hospital. Ppl like Ah huiz n Soo engz.. Sharon Jie n Chris.. and also the other Sharon, JAn, Siqi n Hamie.. Shall post more photos when i hv the time to.. nowadays its totally lack of sleep.. and this will last forever now.. plus my parents might be heading back to perth after my confinement.. which means it's going to be just HB, Chloe and I...and i had to look after her on my own then.. which also means tougher jobs ahead.. persevere!!!

A Letter to My Precious.

Dear Princess,

Finally we're going to meet you in probably a couple of days time, after a whole of 9 months in my tummy.

From the day you made your existance known, till now at 37 weeks and 2 days, you've been a good girl to me. For the morning sickness, glad it was a mild one where I did not actually puke anything out. Minus the two times of fainting spells..other than that all went well. I certainly did not treat you that well, just think of all the late mahjong nights and late breakfasts, I am so guilty of those!!

There were of course all the hectic preparations 外婆 & I did, like washing of all your lovely clothes and getting your new wardrobes. 外婆 & 外公 came back specially from Perth for you. They cleaned and tidied the whole house.. wiped your little bed and packed our studied room to convert to your future princess room.

Of course there's one very important person I must mention..it's your JD Papa. He has been very hardworking at work, despite his health issues lately, just to provide you with the best that we could. Daddy also dolled up your room with all the cute wall decals, which he found the pasting process was harder then his RT. Though JD Papa didn't say out, but I know he's been looking forward to your arrival as much as I do.

Your 婆婆,公公 & 曾祖母 are also anxiously waiting for your arrival, all the yummy Bird Nest and tonics they made me eat hopefully all went to you as well. As I ate.. you grew and grew till i could feel your little movements in me.. sometimes quite painful but its definitely very amazing and unforgetable. Every night when i sleep and look at your little cotbed, I would wonder to myself when will I be seeing you in person..and what will you be like? Would you be more like Me or more like JD Papa?

I guessed most importantly, I just hope that you will be HEALTHY & BRIGHT! Nothing is more important now that you've entered our lives. You've given JD Papa & I a new direction and goals to look forward to. Please endure and be as strong as ur JD Papa and tahan all the way okie precious?!?! We've come this far le.. let's just work hard together for our better future!!!

So looking forward to see you..Love ya lots.

Mummy

My Brave Attempt on Chnging my New Mobile!

Yeap.. I got myself a new mobile.. This time its the HP IPAQ 912c.. best of all, it was delivered to my doorstep.. without me having to go out to get it. The convenient of Online Shopping.

I think it's oredi quite sleek n nice.. but.. I just made it look nicer than before.. I BLINGED it!
Here's my Halfway done phone.

Then my Completed one.. but for now.. it's only the back of the phone done.. I'm planning to do up the front as well.. wait till i top up my collection of crystals.

What do u think of it? Well, it's sort of my virgin attempt afterall.. to chng the whole phone.. new phone somemore.. I must be out of my mind!!!

Before u agree, I chnged my mum's phone too. Here's her design.. her concept. It's stl under completion cos I ran out of crystals.. I'm going to get them soon.

The almost completed back of her phone.. as you can see.. it's the top part tat's out of crystals.

So lately I've been busy playing mj n chnging phones.. and also playing FB games as well.. I've grown a little sick of RC le.. dunno why.. I thk i might just leave it as it is..

Well, in anycase.. if any of you like my skills.. of dun mind the lousy skills.. maybe u DARE to let me chng ur stuff.. I dun mind too.. since i'm like free for the next one month.. hopefully my ger ger princess dun come out too early.. I'm like only due on 4 Sept.. there's like a month plus more to go.. you know how ridiculous they charge outside for this chnging n blinging service? Betw $288 - $488 .. mostly $1 per crystal... damn ex lo.. I noe becos I actually wanted to bring it outside to let them bling my phone.. but after enquiring the prices.. I backed out.. cos it's simply too ex.. I'm glad I managed to do up quite professionally. Okie.. enuff of it..

I'm going to read up a new book I bought today on Breastfeeding.. before i sleep.. Am super tired.. tummy is like aching.. Nites.

Updates & more updates.

I know the blog was dead for awhile.. cos i was busy getting ready for the arrival of Baby Chloe..all the buying..cleaning..washing. So now I finally have a little time to rest.. before she pops out in a couple of weeks times. I shall try to stay home and rest myself mentally and physically from now on.

Anyway, I managed to find the wardrobe that i wanted to get for Chloe. Called up a couple of furniture shops to enquire..most were selling them at 200+ bucks.. damn ex lor. In the end decided to go down to Sungei Kadut side to try my luck.. and boy i must say I AM LUCKY.. not only was I able to find wat i almost wanted.. but at a cheaper price too! Happi Happi!

Yeah I bought two.. they are similar.. but they cost different price lo.. reason being one has a little scratch while the other one is perfectly good. and these two cost just 120 bucks.. and for just 20 bucks more they delivered it for me. So I'm glad.. and Chloe's too.

Just look at the barangs on top of the little wardrobes.. all the stuff I got prepared for her arrival..and ya.. my maternity bag is packed. It's like so fat lo.. I think i am oredi very good le.. at least i nv bring luggage bag lo.. hahaha! and in case u're wondering what's the froggie doing there.. it's the night lamp i got to place beside Chloe's Bed. So cute rite? It's 3 bucks nia.. hehe~

Okie here's how the inside of the two wardrobe looks.. Chloe has alot of stuff le.. hee~ mostly hand-me-downs. My relatives and sis-in-law has been relli kind to hand me lots of stuff. So in a way we get to save quite abit le.

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On to another note, the other day went to attend a cousin's ROM and saw the decor on their dining table.. it was held at home... quite nice rite?

The little gift we got for them.. Precious Moments Long Pillow / Cushion. I like it alot lo.. but din get one for myself...

And I have another cousin going to hold his customary wedding on the 18th July..banquet's at Marriott Hotel. I specially went to find a dress for the wedding dinner.. cos my tummy's big now and I relli dun hv any proper outfit for dinner that fits now.

Isit nice? The dress is 62 bucks and the shoes is 31 bucks.. i like lo..

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Few weeks back we rented a space at a Flea Market at Yew Tee. The rental was quite cheap at ten bucks.. but the crowd wasnt tt good.. but its a good experience after all.. we sold 50+bucks in total. All second-hand stuff which I dun intend to bring them back home with me le.. so I just sold to a low of even 1 buck at the end. Maybe becos ppl saw me Preggie.. and gave me priority.. that's why business was ok as compared to the rest of the stall. They asked, " you pregnant stl come ar? The Sun is so hot.. go home and rest la." haha~ Thanks....how nice.

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Yeah Finally!!! I've collected all the coke glasses~ I've got two complete set.. one for my bro and one for myself.. and got alot of spare colours! Something accomplished!

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A Random shot of wat I had for breakfast tis morning.. haha.. Hotcakes which Mummy made!! yum yum!!

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Yeah!!!! The postman just delivered the Wall Stickers I got for Chloe's room. So speedy!!! Now I have to decide which to paste first.. cos all three are so cute!!!

I hv to go rest now. Tataz~

Organized a BBQ at West Coast Park some weeks back.. it was sort of like a gathering for Hubby's pals from secondary school..Partners invited thingy.. and since we're all MJ kakis.. we pretty much oredi know each other le.. didnt take much fotos anyway. Just some crap shots..

The BBQ was supposed to start at 8pm but they were all late!! Hubby n I reached the pit like 8.15pm and there weren't anyone at the pit..Worse stl, the food and utensils were not there too.. so we cant start setting up of pits. To make things even worst, our pits were occupied by the BBQ goers next pit. Our neighbouring pit was like some company gathering but its those who employ ah nehs foreign workers one.. so u can imagine how many rowdy ah nehs there were and they were all drinking n talkin loudly. One of them even sat on the table i placed my huge water bottle and HE KNOCKED DOWN MY WATER BOTTLE lo.. it nearly hit my tummy and Hubby got so angry that he just screams vulgarities at the ah neh.. n that drunk ah neh was like blur blur one..then his other ah neh frens just kept apologising.

The other neighbouring pit was some Indonesian students.. and they were like playing games n guitars..not some but in fact i thk there was abt 60 of them bah.. so u can imagine how noisy lo. All the pits there were booked and they were all BBQing and hving fun when our pit was like so empty with no actions going on.. soon the frens came at 9pm and we started BBQing but u noe wat?! The rest of the pits packed and ended before it was even 11pm lo.. and so eventually we were the only pit there BBQing and we had the park to ourselves.. So we ate and drank and played cards n dice games.. till 2am then we were all tired.. cos it was a Fri nite and they all came from work. Overall, it was fun la.. except tt two pals didnt turn up.. otherwise it was nice. I guess out next gathering would be on my BB shower bah.. end of the year.

The following afternoon at 1pm, they all came over our place for mj again.. haha.. its like not enuff sleep lo.. but we're all gamblers.. Lol` and we were supposed to go over to my aunt's place for Potluck dinner. I played like one whole round and started to prepare my Roast Potatoes contribution when one kakis came to take over. In the end, I went over on my own, Hubby sponsored cab fare and I showered and left on my own while they were all stl playing mj at my place.

I reached my aunt's place club house and saw that most of my relatives were there le. Went up to my aunt's place and saw the lovely BB LeAnn. She has grown so fast... her features had changed.. and she looks more like her mummy now. Soon we started dinner and finally! I got to taste chilli crab.. haha not the crab meat though.. just the sauce is good enuff.. I was told to stay away from crab meat till i deliver. The beehoon was yummy.. I had three bowls lo.

After tt, I packed some food back for Hubby and Shu Shu Kok gave me a ride home..while the rest of the relatives went up to Aunt's place for some mj n cards session.

Went to IMM to shop and walk walk alone on my own yesterday. Wanted to go check out if the Wardrobe we wanted to get for Chloe stl has stock.. SAD TO SAY!!! It has been out of stock for the past 2 mths.. how how how peeps?!!! Please help me to look around and see if u can find something similar.. i mean i'm sure the design is somewhat common.. but just when i needed it now.. it's nowhere available. Will some kind souls pls help me to keep a lookout? It's somethg like tis.. the left side door opens to be the hanging compartment whereas the right side 3 smaller compartment doors opens sideway.. colourful but colour may varies..and its about 3/4 my height.. please let me noe if u see anywhere selling tis ok? Relli appreciate!

(Please pardon me for the lousy drawing ok, I tried my best!)

Anyway, got some consolation buys at Giant for Chloe, since I didnt see her wardrobe. I was so happy lo... initially i thot these were going for 4.99bucks each.. and i took four diff colours cos they were all so nice.. like what i'd buy for myself to wear.. and they were so mini! i couldn't resist so i prepared myself to pay 20 bucks for them..went to the cashier to pay and got a shock to see how come she only charged me 10 bucks for these and a floormat and 6 pcs of table cloth. Just paid and walked off to see the recept showing 4.99bucks for 3pcs per set.. and she din even count hw many pcs i took lo.. she just assumed i took 3 pcs.. so the 4th pc was FOC! haha..

These were bought sometime back at Bugis. Also cute rite? Damn cheap lo..1+ bucks each nia..

So far Chloe's Wardrobe only consists of all these..wait for maternal grandma to come back first.. then can go shopping le.

I got tis pouch from Mini Toons at IMM ytd, cos Hubby said my purse stinks..so i got myself a new one..nice rite? Got Mini Toons VIP card so got discount somemore.. I am going to get the kids playmat bumper from Mini Toons as well.

Bought tis from Precious Thots..its like only 12.90 bucks and i'm planning to use it for my hospital stay and maybe Chloe's diaper bag.

It says Island Princess and it has a waterproof layer internally.

Most imptantly, it has a huge compartment which i can put alot of barangs.

Okay..tt's the end of tis post.. blog more sometime again.