Sarah has been putting us through her terrible two antics for quite a while, ever since she discovered the power of 'NO'. She has blatanly defied her parents in public by refusing to walk, to come down the stairs, to hold hand while crossing the road, to leave the supermarket........ Every visit to the supermarket is traumatic for us, it almost always end with a wrestling match, force has to be used to evacuate her out of the supermarket. The most tricky sections are the fruits section, where she must grab the apples; and the cashier counter, as they have colourful wide variety of candies on display besides the cashier.
Even though saying 'NO' is a norm attribute of the terrible two, she has left us scratching our heads as she uses 'MAI' instead of no'. Mai is the hokkien for no, no one in our family, extended family or school speaks any dialect to her. She will 'MAI' at us loudly and swings her arm wildly and furiously like a drama queen.
The dilation has began, which means Bei should be borned within the few days or by the end of the week.
We went for our scheduled consultation with Dr Fong today, it was brought forward from the end of the week as Flo has been experiencing contractual + lower abdominal pains since the latter part of last week. Upon hearing the symptoms, Dr Fong said there was a lot of downward pressure and wanted to check on the cervix. From the examination, he discovered that the cervix has already dilated to a width of about 2cm. Next he proceeded to the ultrascan, due to some unknown reasons, the attempts to gauge bei's weight were in-conclusive, the first take was 3kg, the second 2.1kg and the third at 2.3kg -_-" . After doing an ECG test, bei's heart rate was normal but contraction movements was charted as well. Dr Fong decided to send us to TMC for a more thorough scan to ascertain his weight as well as the blood pressure.
The test results at TMC were good, bei has grown to 2.5kg, his blood pressure is normal and the best news was the placenta has fully moved up, as such c-section is not necessary for delivery! However, as the cervix has dilated, we are told to monitor bei closely and be prepared for delivery any time this week.
We are very excited and looking forward to seeing him.
We had our 元宵 dinner at the 7th Storey Restaurant at the Marina Barrage.
But instead of having it on the 15th night, we brought in forward by a day to fit into everybody's schedule.
We had to sit outdoors as we were having the steamboat. Even though the weather has been terribly warm and humid, it was quite enjoyable as there was a constant sea breeze.
Sarah enjoyed it, especially the crackers.
We had the ala-carte + steamboat set for 10. The portions was too much as we had only 7 adults and 2 toddlers.
带子
Their specialty, the charcoal fish steamboat. There was really lots and lots of fish meat inside, we ate until we were so sick of fish.
A series of shots taken by Hilda on the first day of CNY at beach rd.
Papa trying to calm her down.
Mama offering her a barter trade, bananas for red packet.
You know what she chose, food of course.
There was still space in her stomach for many pieces of kueh lapis.
The banana gave her too much energy, she had to resort to shifting/pushing stools to burn it off.
After burning off her excessive energy, it's back to recharging them again, LUNCH time!
Papa looked like he had dozed off, while Sarah was posing cheekily for Auntie Hilda.
She then ran around and offered to shake everyone's hand. Very PR.
A shot of her with great grandma.
Just having fun, that's all she wants nowadays. She does not want to take her nap in the afternoon nor sleep early at night.
Went over to Membina this morning to visit Auntie Jen and Great Auntie Margaret, as well as the playground.
She did not get to spend too long at the playground though, as the sun was blazing. Nevertheless, she found her own playground upstairs. There she is performing a perfect back arch using the main gate.
Epi pop by to pay us a visit on her monthly off day, how sweet of her.
We went to Downtown East today to celebrate Raven's third birthday.
Sarah was given a party hat and a bottle of bubble solution by Auntie Carol. She was trilled with her presents and could not wait to play with them.
She had fun trying to balance the hat on her head without the chin strap. Every time the hat fall off, she would let out a loud giggle.
Today, she learned how to blow her own bubbles without our assistance. She was captivated by Chloe's seriousness in blowing the bubbles that she got inspired to blow her own.
After helping herself to 5 bowls of fried rice, we brought her to see Raven's chalet room. Inside the room, we found Raven playing excitingly with his new thomas and friends train set. There was a heap of thomas and friends birthday present piling up inside the room!
I was surprised it was so easy to get the three of them to stand still together at the same time to take this shot with only one take. Raven, Sarah & Chloe.
After getting sick of the balloons, Sarah found her new toy, Chloe's Barney bedroom slippers.
She danced around happily after pestering me to put it on for her.
The green dragon pinata.
Pinata bashing session opens. After a million hits, the pinata finally broke.
All the kids made a mad dash to grab the confetti of sweets and candies, Sarah included.
Of course, Raven's birthday cake had to be Thomas and friends.
Sarah sang along happily to the tune of the birthday song. She could follow the tune accurately, the words however are still not very accurate as yet, but she is making good improvement!
She is in love with carrying her haversack bag with her, even when she does not need it! We were just going downstairs after dinner for a stroll, she insisted on having her back pack on.
Everyone says she looks like flo, i see a little tiny weeny bit of me in this side profile shot of her's!
Happily waving bye bye to us even though she is going nowhere.
tod in a hurry.
Sarah is such a messy eater these days, to make things worse, she refuses to wear bib. So after every meal, she is a real mess, her face, her clothes and not to mention the floor is in a total mess.
She is addicted to drinking soup and is capable of finishing one big bowl of soup by herself every meal. Her favourite way of drinking the soup is shown in the photo below, drinking in straight from the bowl!
After she is done with her soup, her whole top would be wet!
We are in the final month now, Bei will reach 35 weeks tomorrow.
Today's scan shows that he has grown to 2.28kg. The growth rate has not increased as much as in week 28-31, but the weight gain remains satisfactory. Dr Fong told us not to expect a big baby as Sarah was delivered at 2.44kg.
A disastrous attempt to capture her expressions
It was the first time that we see her doing that, we were shocked at first but we could not stopped laughing after that. Kids are so real and expressive. I cannot get it out of my mind, i tried to coax her to repeat the same act again at home, only to get a scolding from mama flo!
