外公和外婆

Love this... My parents & my boys, you are my everything...

Yan An's 1st flip!

Yan An finally turned himself today! at 4 months and 2 weeks old! He showed signs of flipping since early September but till now then succeed. I was expressing milk and he was playing on his play mat. He was trying hard to turn and shift his butt but keep "sprung" back and it was quite a funny sight :p

However, he was so persistent and determined and finally he made it after about 15 mins of trying! I was so proud of him and planted numerous kisses on his chubby cheeks! Well done my little darling! :)

Chinese Books

Just back from a fruitful shopping trip! Very very happy! :)
Not clothes, shoes and bags that make me so delighted but............................ BOOKS!

My BJ house is very near to Beijing Books Distributors Complex, just a 10 mins walk away. I am having a break today from the kids (papa babysits the boys), so i decided to visit this HUGE bookstore. There were many book stores there and each squeeeeeeze with tonnes of books, but they were sure very messy so i had to dig and dig to look for the books.

Spent abt S$25 on quite a number of books for the boys and myself. Here's my loots!

I definately want to revisit this place! I just love to buy books! :)

Pacifier vs Fingers

YA has been "salvaging" his fingers so much lately till "chut chut chut" very loud!

We offered pacifier to him but he doesn't seem to be interested, would still suckle but when it dropped, he self-service with his fingers again! argh..

I remembered Dr Tan ever mentioned it's better for them to suckle pacifier rather than their fingers as it's easier to wean them off from pacifier than fingers. And of coz all the hygiene prob, nails & fingers growth prob.. I hope this is only temporary and he will grow to like his pacifier more..

Vaccinations

The boys had vaccinations today.

ZQ:
- weighed 12.3kg and 91cm in height in his 21mth + old
- 2 jabs: Hep A 2nd dose and Japanese Encephalitis

YA:
- weighed 6.35kg and 62cm in height in his 2mth old
- 2 jabs: 5-in-1 1st dose and Pneumococcal 1st dose

PD did quite a physical checkup on them to assess their growth and development, glad to hear that all is well. Just that YA's cradle head problem has been persist for quite some time so PD prescribed a medicine for it. His hair is growing out too fast, so the cradle cap prob must be cured immediately if not it will be difficult to be treated with the bushy hair ard.

And the total cost of this PD visit + vaccines = RMB 5000!
Reason for this exp is because the medicines are imported from HK coz i don't want locally-manufactured vaccines. And they verified the vaccine with me, showing me the whole packaging and the details on the manufacturing. And also this is an Expat hospital so it explained the shocking pricing.

Really glad that it's all covered by hubby's co.'s insurance and we didn't have to fork out a single cent. ZQ's vaccines were all done. YA's next appointment is one-month time for Rotavirus. Poor boy, he still has a long way to go...

Flash cards

I was flashing some Animal flashcards to the boys today. Have been doing this a few days with Yan An and he seems very interested, looked at the cards with excitement and made lots of cooing sounds.

When i walked out the room to get something else, i heard Zq said "Dog, cat...". And i saw that he was flashing the cards to Yan An! But his speed was much slower and pronunciation was not that clear. But im thankful enough of him to help out! Good Job my dear! :)

Swimming

Hmm... Cant remember when was his last swim, i think probably 10 months ago and that was loooong ago. No wonder this little boy behaved like this today.

He was like a koala bear, hooked on to Papa and didn't want to let go. Only until he saw a big floating ball ball then he willing to let go Papa and played the water.

in his new swimsuit
the big swimming pool
he was very scared. haa

try to warm up
playing with ball ball happily.. finally..