ECP on 23rd August 09, Sunday

Dennis suggested to bring us to ECP yesterday morning as he was flying off later in the night. He wanted to send more time with us. I appreciated his thoughts but the weather was simply AH... WARM. Keke...

Woke up early to pump milk, feed Cayden and prepare Cayenne's porridge. Imagine I started to prepare the ikan bilis stock for her porridge in the early morning. 3am plus! Since then, busy pumping and feeding Cayden and settling him to sleep. The time was already 5plus am. Very tired and Dennis took over.

Fed both Cs milk before bath and set off after preparing all their stuff. Seriously speaking, I have no mood to go out at all as I was very sleepy and tired. But since already "promised" the kids, so off we went with Jann as our photographer again. Thanks dear for always there to take photos. ;)

Always so happy in her car seat

Cayden sleeping soundly in Mummy's arms.

Now alittle bit Cayenne will "ah ah ah"

Showing her tongue to Aunt Jann

Why 弟弟 not in the picture?

There! Here is 弟弟! Our Complete Chua Family Photo!

After don't know how long @ ECP, I decided that was enough. Cos night time Dennis would be flying off to Sweden. So we better went home early so that I could rest more in order to take care of double Cs.

Quickly settled both of them before I bathed and I knocked out immediately. Simply too tired... *Yawn*

Darling Cayden's Full Month Celebration

Decided to hold a small scale celebration for Darling Cayden in the end. ;p Had phobia of sending cakes all over SG during Darling Cayenne's Full Month. Very tiring. So it was either celebration @ home or vouchers. My Dad was telling me we must bring Cayden to visit his grandparents. Dennis & I were thinking if we deliver cakes to them & our aunties, then might as well they came over rather then we went over. Keke...

Had a busy and tiring day on 16th August 09, Sunday. Lucky the CL stayed over 1 more day to help me. If not, Dennis & I were be rotating our turns to feed Cayden & won't be able to entertain our relatives & friends.

Recovered!

Cayenne finally recovered! & back to her naughty self again. Keke... Past 1 week plus, her appetite was simply zero. Now she has been asking for milk, bread, noodles, porridge, rice, soup etc. So happy!

I have decided to...

Trust my helper, that is. Hee... Had a massage session on Tuesday, was pouring my "woes" to Grace (my ML). She is kind enough to listen to my 牢骚. She advised me to trust the maid. Even Lily told me that too. She told me that she thinks my helper is obedient and is one who is willing to work. I should learn to trust her. Well, I did.

Today, I let my helper handle Cayden's feeding unless if I latch him. So far she is doing a decent job. Hope she can maintain this way. Tomorrow I'll teach her to bath Cayden and dress/diaper change.

Actually my helper is very "cute". As I stress on the point that Cayden must be burped during his feed, probably she felt the stress. And when Cayden finally burps and sometimes very loud, my helper will laugh and quickly told me that 弟弟 burped. She felt a sense of achievement and satisfaction. Haha...

Just now I was in the room pumping milk and she was in the living hall feeding Cayden, I could hear Cayden's loud burp, my helper laughed so loudly and kept praising Cayden "Good Boy". Haha...

Guess sometimes, I shouldn't hold onto certain issues so stubbornly. Let go! LET GO! Now I'm telling myself this!

Hope things will turn out better for me. ;)

My "nightmare" starts on... (;p)

17th August 09, Monday! Haha... I have to handle Cayden myself from feeding, diaper changing, bathing etc. Made me wondered how I managed to clear the "obstacle" during Cayenne's time. ;p

I didn't let my helper to handle Cayden at all. Main reason is I still don't trust her. I haven't let go and trust her.

And guess what, I was down with abit of flu and felt feverish. What a Monday for me. Felt so tired and no appetite and have to handle Cayden. Finally evening came and I asked Dennis to take leave on Tuesday to take over. I didn't even dare to step out of my house to go and see doctor on Monday, scared to leave my Cayden with my helper alone.

Anyway back to the taking care of Cayden, I started off with feeding him then then bath time. Kinda of loss when bathing him, but still not too bad as compared to Cayenne's time. This time probably with experience, I'm more relaxed, and Cayden seems to enjoy in the water. ;)

Finally it was OVER...

My confinement month. Haha... Anyway, I wasn't being "confined" at all. Been doing the opposites & my confinement lady never stopped me. Talking about my confinement lady, she is not good at all. The only good thing about her is she spends time in feeding and burping my Cayden which I like. Other than this, cooking sucks, no advise from her about the confinement stuff etc, no tonics for me (only when my Dad asked her to prepare, then she prepared). Same for the soups. One very bad attitude of the confinement lady is she always pushes the blame to my helper and other people except herself. Really cannot stand her. Terrible right? My Dad was super super un-pleased with her. Haha...

Fake Measles

After having a yo yo fever for 4 days (Saturday till Tuesday), on Wednesday early hours, I observed my Darling Cayenne's neck/chest area had some tiny dots. I wonder what was that. I was afraid it might be some kind of infection. Her face did has a bit too. Was thinking probably too heaty or her saliva (she was teething @ the same time while having fever! Poor girl)

Lily called me up around 4plus in the afternoon and told me that Cayenne didn't seem too right. Her face and body broke out in rashes!!! I immediately thought of fake measles. Could it be that? I asked Lily if Cayenne still having fever, she said no. So I told her it might be fake measles cos I recalled some forum mummies that I came to befriend were discussing about this fake measles months ago.

Asked Lily how was Cayenne doing? She said Cayenne was still very active, appetite did increase abit, ate at least half bowl of rice and lots of soup. & was also playing and laughing with Lily's children. Lucky.

After putting down the phone, I quickly go online 2 find my saviours - Mummy Wendy & Mummy May via MSN.

Mummy Wendy told me the symptoms of fake measles. So confirmed (by me) that my Darling Cayenne is having fake measles.

Mummy May told me she didn't know much on the fake measles. & end up we were chatting over her lovely Ervin's 3rd BD party. & also talked about planning our girls' 2nd BDs. Haha... Still got at least half a year though. But think if want to plan an interesting BD party, we better do the planning now. ;p

Back to Cayenne's fake measles issue, we went to pick her up and Lily was worried so she advised us to bring her see doctor. I told Dennis actually I'm quite sure it is fake measles & according to Mummy Wendy, there's nothing we could do. For Mummy Wendy's darling Amanda, the rashes took only few hours to subside. That was pretty fast. Cos I was reading up information on the fake measles, the rashes could last few days or few hours. So cutie Amanda was the lucky one. Hope my Cayenne's rashes will subside soon.

So Dennis asked me still need to go to see doctor. I told him yes! Haha... Being a KS mummy, I think we better bring Cayenne to see doctor for a peace of mind. ;p