February flew by...

arghh! can't believe i start work again tomorrow..where did my 4 months of maternity go?! sigh.
Feb was just one of those months I wished would never end..we did so much and there was so much more to do. Here's a tea-spoonful of what we did (CNY gets it's own blog post) :

Decorating a valentine's day cake for daddy

Mummy decided to do some decoration on Bean ;)

The piece of art by Sophie-angelo

We went back in time and rode the pink dinasaurs @bedok reservior park

Bean started tracing alphabets and letters..off to a pretty good start I must say

we enjoyed Thursdays @ Tiong Bahru Arts & Crafts

Played hide and seek on rainy days

sobs..i am sure going to miss the two kids..hayley's generous smiles and yes, bean's endless "why?"

Dim sum land with the kids

I wanted to do a quick family trip b4 starting back work in March. We choose HK partly bcos jin's parents have never been there and also cos I wanted to take Bean to Disneyland b4 she turned 3 (and have to pay entrance fees :p)

we found out it was NOT easy traveling with a baby and toddler. everything had to be done at ultra slow pace as we had to slot in hayley's feeding times, bean's nap times and my bm pumping times. Jin's parents were awesome - very patient with bean and super helpful with hayley. Although it was a short 5 days trip and made shorter by having only 1 key activity a day - i think we all had fun. (but have to say we were happy to come home and catch up on sleep!)

Bean still fits into the airport trolleys!

Enjoying her chicken pie meal and slurping orange jelly juice

Hayley catching a nap in her own "airbed"

1st stop : Macau - enjoying a meal at a cha chan tang @ City of Dreams

CNY deco along the streets in Macau

Hayley's 1st time in a stroller!

2nd stop : HK - view of the harbour from our suite at YMCA Salisbury

Bean and her Ah Ma sharing a rub nose moment

our mini zorro taking a nap while we ate lunch

Victoria Peak

Yay..here we are at the Happiest Place on Earth ;)

What's Disney w/out a family pix with M&M Mouse? not sure if it was worth the 1 hour wait in line though :p

Bean and daddy got to sit all the rides

She loved driving the car even though she could not see the road. Jin stepped on the accelerator for her.

Bean dancing on the bench while grandparents waited in line for photo shoot.

only waited 5 minutes to get a pix with Goofy and Pluto!

Hayley looking gorgeous ;)

An exhausted Bean with her Mickey bought by grandparents

Bye bye HK...daddy says no more trips with the kids till they are like 7..haha :D

Hayley @ 3 months, 3 weeks old

6.6kg, 61cm

It's such a joy to wake up each morning to a happy smiley baby. Hayley flashes her toothless smiles to anyone who will just give her the time of the day - she happily coos and "talks" to us when we respond to her smiles.

A rundown of her days :

6.30am - wakes up for her milk and usually quite contented to lie back in bed and watch her musical mobile..sometimes falls back asleep

7.30am - if parents can drag themselves out of bed ("wake up sleepy heads" as bean will tell us!), hayley gets brought into our big bed for some morning chit chat and songs

8.30am - a whole hour of yakkity yak yak tires the little one..she starts fretting and we usually put her down for a cat nap.

9am - Cat nap over - drinks milk (140 to 150ml per feed now)

10am - morning bath time - she loves! actually I love giving her the baths too..even though I get peed on 3 out of 7 days :p. after bath, she naps again

1130am - milk milk milk and then..zzz

Afternoons - she is mostly awake, partly cos big sis is home and making a LOT of noise

6pm-ish - milk and starts to wind down..can see she is sleepy but still wants to ke-poh

7.30pm - gets between 60 to 100ml milk top up and usually falls asleep drinking.

12am/2am - some nights we wake her for a dreamfeed at 12am b4 we hit the sack but we noticed that for some reason if we do that, she will still wake up at 3ish for another feed. wherelse, if we do not wake her for dreamfeed, she wakes herself up at 2.30am, drinks and falls back to sleep till 6.30am...hmmph.

we have a part time aunty to come to the house to take care of her - aunty nelly loves her.."damn cute, damn cute" is what she says about 30 times a day :)

damn cute damn cute

daddyyy..this is NOT what mummy meant when she asked you to keep an eye on me!

..and today i drank milk! and slept! and pooed..and drank milk..

uber chubs!

Milk To Hayley

Our 3 mth old little one has been taking 130ml of milk per feed since she was 1 plus month. the amount has not gone up just bcos she does not finish the additional 10ml when we try toping up the milk to 140ml. I find it interesting that she takes about 15 to 30 minutes to finish what I could finish in 2 gulps (10 seconds).

She loves to savour her milk - most feeds, she will drink all the way till the remaining 60 ml(which is like a small mouthful of liquid for adults) ..then she takes a break - rejecting the bottle. But if she does not drink finish that 60 ml, her sleep is unsettled combined with lots of hand sucking resulting to very wet mittens. Give the girl her last 60ml and we get a happily contented full baby who will close her eyes , droop her head and no amount of talking, rocking, patting or noise will wake her :)