RayThoRous @ BaBySpa

well, i guess 人是犯贱的.....

previously we signed rayous up for this baby spa thingie at 11 sessions for $400. then we were super happy when we finally finished all the 11 sessions. 

apparently, towards the end, rayous did not enjoy it much liao. put him in for a while and he started to throw tantrum. if i remb correctly, there was 1x when he refused to stay in the water. lucky that 1x was not counted as utilised, else wasted 1 session. 

and also, the 10 sessions were valid within 6months only, so we were quite obligated to keep bringing him there before 6mths period is up. and after some time, it's quite boring to bring him there. it's quite warm inside and we have to keep standing...

so when we completed all the sessions and the staff asked if we would like to extend, i was secretly telling hubb '好不容易才用完..还extend....'.

but now.... for raythorous..... 

we, or rather, i signed him up again!!!

tada!

ok, honestly i dont know if this baby spa thingie is beneficial or not. but i dont think it's harmful. so, if rayous has it, as far as possible, i will want raythorous to have the same treatment. and also, the package comes with a free photoshoot which is the real thing im after. 

if we dont sign the package w baby spa and engage the photoshoot ourselves, the photoshoot package will be $148 but only 5 soft copies returned. 

now w this free photoshoot, we r only entitled to 1 hard copy. i remb topping up $100 for 10pics for rayous. so meaning, it's either $148 for 5 pics (if we engage the photoshoot ourselves) or $520 for 11 sessions of baby spa + 10 pics. 

i dont know, but somehow, the latter sounds more appealing. that's y i decided to let raythorous try and to sign him up, just like rayous.

and..... raythorous totally enjoyed it! 

rightfully, he should start at the small pool first. but the staff suggested letting him start in the big pool since the big pool was vacant. and, unlike rayous who was quite scare during his 1st time, raythorous was totally cool about it! 

really 2 thumbs up for him! 

ok la, also depends on how u see it la. for myself and MIL, we think raythorous is more zai than rayous. but for hubb, he thinks raythorous has lower 危机感 than rayous. ha.

and apparently, this rayous enjoys playing at the side too! haha. very good. next time can just bring both of them together. i was still quite worried what to do w rayous when raythorous is having his session. no need to worry now liao. LOL. 

and after the swim, was the massage session. this time round not bad, they throw in 4 free massages (excluding this time) in view that we r repeat customers. yea.

and they also gave us 10 swim diapers and a towel and a floor mat. not bad. 

yeah, after swim and massage, sure hungry liao right? happy munching boy! 

yep, so, 6months to complete 10 sessions. better use them up soon.. and also the photoshoot... u know la.. these kind of shops..... never know when will closed down... 

eiyoh.. choy! 

haha

wooohoooooo!!! 

im on leave today!!

very happy!!! 

me timeeeeee!!!! 

additional resolution for this yr: if there is no PH, then i will try to take 1 day leave, after working every 2 full week.

yes, its been really really tiring. 

if not for being able to nap for awhile during lunch time, i guess i probably could have collapsed liao. 

long time since i slept till 自然醒.. 

monday to fri need to wake up for work. sat and sunday will kenna wake up by raythorous. so, basically, there is no one day when i can just sleep till 自然醒. 

and even if there is, i probably still cannot sleep till my hearts content cuz i will be awaken by the soreness in the busts for not clearing the milk. 

ahhhhh..! 

anyway, i really should not complain le la. at least still can put raythorous at parents in law's place, so we get undisturbed sleep (though sometimes rayous will still make noise in the middle of the night or will kenna a kick from him.... ). 

and since now rayous is in school during daytime, (we assumed) MIL can better cope in the day. so... we kind of put raythorous overnight w her from mon to thurs liao. only bring him home on fri night and over the wkend. 

uhhhhh...

super super guilty. 

but the tot of having to put 2 boys to sleep at night, having disturbed sleeps on working days, and the mad rush of having to settle 2 boys early in the morning...... IS A NIGHTMARE!

so, sorry raythorous. pls bear w us. once u can sleep thru the night, we will bring u home every night, just like kor kor now. 

promise ok!! 

I guess some truths hurt.

What to do? 

只能怪自己。

回头看, 其实一开始就错。

But... also cannot turn back time liao.

Or maybe if turn back, I still will make the same choice?

Well.. I don't know. 

Anyway, 现在也没有很差。只是比较差。

Haii. 

算了。

知足长乐 ok.

看开一点。

haiii... 

dont know is it the childcare centre... or simply just the cold weather.... both boys fell sick. 

haiiiz. 

i think it's the childcare centre, coupled with the cold weather. not even 5 full days in school and unwell already. and then passed to the didi somemore....

same kind of congestion in the nose. same kind of thick mucus. same kind of cough. and didi even developed slight fever.

child falling sick is a whole new level of experience for us now. cuz instead of 1 child falling sick, it's now 2 children falling sick, as most of the time, they will just pass the virus to each other...

and not to mention the clinic fee. last time is 1x, now is 2x! 

ahhhhhhhhh

and the pedi was saying, last time kor kor doesnt fall sick as often, but now didi will fall sick often. cuz during kor kor's time, there was no one around to pass the virus to him. but now, didi has got someone who will pass the virus to him! 

hahahaa. 

one of the many agonies of being the subsequent child. 

sorry didi. 

LOL

and cuz it was sunday, our 2 usual pedi are not opened. yes, there are 2 pedi whom we go to, cuz somehow, the pedis do not operate on every night. so that time, it was on a night when our 1st pedi was not operating. so we went to this 2nd pedi lor. and it's just nice that they complement each other, ie, when pedi A is opened, pedi B is closed and vice versa. so, mon to fri, there will be a pedi whom we can go to if (touch wood) need be. 

but unfortunately, on sunday, both pedis are closed! so went to this 3rd pedi at bukit batok who operates on sunday as well. and 1st consultation is usually more expensive. so we want to avoid going to different pedi. but this time no choice la, cuz dont wanna wait till monday liao.... 

anyway, just few units away from the pedi was this shop selling dim sum. 

so, we 苦中作乐 lor. 

not so bad, at least, still got hot steamy dim sum early in the cold morning... 

look at the crowd behind. lucky we were early, cuz the q started to get longer... 

yep

this pedi also said kids who attend schools will fall sick as often as 1x per month. this was exactly what the usual pedi told us as well!!! 

so, fingers crossed ok. 

get well soon sons. 

and dont fall sick so often again ok!!!!!

Day time, no need aircon no need fan, and need to wear socks. 

Night time, no need aircon no need fan, and still need the blanket!

Are we in genting or something? 

This is so kua zhang...

The whole house like got aircon on...

Brrrrrr

Wet and cold weather.. makes pple gloomy and sluggish. 

I guess I still prefer the big hot sun.

Ha.

犯贱。

brrrrrrrr.... 

it's been so cold these days.... 

so much so that we did not even have to on the aircon ytd night.. 

though hot weather is irky.... overly cold weather is not any better.. 

worse thing is that the clothings cannot get dry!

hahah. so auntish. 

i know it's always cold and rainy during jan and feb (cny!).. but this yr like colder than before??

and rayous appears to be down w a cold.. 

less than 2 weeks full-day in school and pattern starts to come liao. 

looks like our wild wild wet this sat probably cannot materialise liao.

siannnnn. 

XmaS XcHanGe

xmas xchange w the dear gals this yr was held at my house! woohoo! 

our initial choice of presents... 

and our final presents after changing and swapping. ha. i received yy's bag which is in the shape of a champagn. yy received qy's bag. glo received my present which is a necklace w 7 crystals pendant. jo received glo's present which is a tumbler. and qy received jo's present which is an eye/face massager. 

and finally, the kids get to meet and gather. wowohahaaha

sofia and calla! 

great gathering w everyone. turned out not as chaotic as we feared. LOL 

probably not as chaotic, cuz the number of adults vs kids is still quite big. we shall see what happens when more kids come along! 

cheers!!!!

RaYous's Full Day SchooL

yeah, so rayous will be officially starting full day school today. 

for the past 5 days, it was still half day, from 9 to 12pm, to let them orientate. but today onwards, we can put him from 7am to 7pm liao. kekkee. 

finally! 

been wanting to put him full day since august2017 (when my maternity ended), but was told no vacancy. so now, finally.

i think the happiest will be MIL. cuz she no longer needs to travel to and fro 4x, and she no longer needs to take care of 2 kids most of the time. now she only needs to go and pick rayous up, and most of the time, she only needs to handle raythorous, since rayous will be in school liao. 

phew! 

i can tell u, taking care of 2 kids is no joke. though she got FIL and the maid to help her, .. it's still tough! not to mention she still has to cook. so, happy to relief her abit.

and though i feel rayous may still be too young to totally sleep, eat, shower in school, i think it's good to expose him more. else at home, most of the time he also sleeps or just play w toys. 

some may say it's very 'kelian' to put him in school so young. i used to tot so too. but at this age, they are really learning alot and learning fast. now, i feel it's only wasting his time and potential if we were to keep him at home. unless we can really teach him at home and always bring him out to explore, but... who has the time and energy??

so,  better to leave it to the professionals to teach him. let him learn more, play more, expose more and interact more! 

and i do see improvements in him after going to school. like he can eat on his own and sometimes, what he says also surprises me. like he knows a to z, big and small, hot and cold, the different animals, the different kind of vehicles etc.. and 1 day, he happened to see '17' and he said 'seventeen'. that really surprised me and hubb. 

yeap. so hopefully he can adapt well and learn more things and have more fun!!

i can only say, kids these days, are really different from us back then. 

hoho! 

StayCaTioN on XmAs DaY & BoXinG DaY

yeah, so on xmas day and boxing day, we had our staycation at studio m hotel. 3d2n stay.

it's a loft room, so there are 2 levels. i will say the room is quite small. good for couples or friends, but definitely not suitable for us with young children. 

the bathroom and toilet are separated and they are really small. and there's no proper wardrobe. 

with raythorous, we really had to bring alot more things along.. kua zhang dao..... 

.... we brought the whole steriliser along! believe it or not.. 

and the steamer/blender to cook his food! we even brought our own potatoe, carrot, veggie, knife, peeler etc.. even had to bring along 2 basins - one for washing milk bottles and pumps and the other for bathing! seriously.... !

our dinner for 1st night - food panda. 

2nd day morning, started w the hotel buffet. 

ok la, quite standard stuff, nothing fantanstic. 

then swimming time! the pool also nothing fantastic. just a simple rectangular pool. and the other side is a square jacquzzi pool. 

the water was soooooo darn cold lor! surprisingly the kids were ok with it and rayous even said it was not cold! raythorous was happily kicking in the water as well. now i seriously suspect kids are not as sensitive to temperature as adults. so cold and yet they are ok...... brrrr.. 

anyway, i couldnt bear the coldness. i did not even try going into the water, cuz it was just tooo cold to bear. after a while, i went back to the room w raythorous while hubb played awhile more w rayous. 

then evening time, sis and tricia came along!

and we had dinner outside.. 

and then tricia came back w us and had a sleepover! haha! good to have a little helper to help look after and entertain rayous! 

and that same night, raythorous was a handful! he did not want to sleep and kept waking up. and know what? in the middle of the night, the breast milk ran out, and i couldnt pump anymore, and hubb had to go back home to bring the frozen milk to feed him! really that kua zhang ok!! 

really terrible la. and not to mention, the room itself has no fridge. so each time after i pump, we have to ask the staff to come and collect the milk and help store them in the hotel's fridge. and when we need the milk for feeding, we have to ask them to collect from the fridge and pass to us again! this to and fro process repeated for dont know how many times lor! 

reaaaallllyyyyyyy

breastfeeding is a nightmare! 

should have just taken the easy way out and feed him formula! grrrrrrrr

this ah di... really... haiiizzz.. really waiting for the day when he can truly sleeps thru the night... 

yay, so, tis staycation is a preview of our upcoming taiwan trip. we concluded that we need big rooms (with fridge!!!) and we need more help. 

originally, we were contemplating if we should bring the helper along. but just yesterday night, raythorous gave us a super hard night again. so bad so that hubb thinks we should just not bring raythorous for the taiwan trip. 

well... i dont know... if dont bring him, it will definitely be easier for everybody. but.. feel guilty not bringing him along leh.. 

haii.. ok.. lemme think abt it and see how yeahhh.... 

Happy 2018!

ahaha, parents in law are back from their hainan trip on 30 dec. so on ny eve, we happily 撇下 the 2 kids and went pak tor! LOL. 

had our dinner at this restaurant in westgate, just outside isetan and time zone. seen this restaurant a few times already, and always tot it's a cafe that serves desserts, cakes, coffee and tea. who knows, it actually serves korean fusion food. ha. 

and the food is not bad. not expensive also. 

and they've got some really interesting cakes like green tea lavendar cake, earl grey cake, thai milk tea cake etc. in the end hubb chose the salted caramel choco cake. the cake so-so only leh. maybe abit hard cuz just came out from the fridge. should have waited for it to melt abit, maybe will be nicer. and it's really one tall piece. 

ok, la, dont say we 撇下 the kids ok. we did bring them home for the countdown la! such a special moment, how can not be with the kids??

initially wanted to go to the countdown party at boon lay de (just like what we did last yr). but it started raining, and we decided not to go, but to go back home to watch the countdown via tv instead. 

so took a pic at the void deck lor. supposed to be an 'open mouth happy' pic. but this hubb tot it's a 'yawn' pic. duh. and yes, raythorous was fast asleep already.

went home and attempted the 'open mouth happy pic' again. and with ah gang. LOL. 

yep, so we watched the countdown via the tv, and welcomed 2018 ~

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new year day!

left the kids at parents in law place and we went out jalan again! kekekeke.

finally finally finally get to sit down and properly eat steamboat liaoooo!! had wanted to bring hubb to this steamboat restaurant for a long loong loooong time. finally did. very happy!! 

this restaurant is call hai xian lao at wilkie edge. honestly i felt it is as good, if not better, than hai di lao. really recommended to give it a try. 

after that, we went shop for my present. 

heehehehee. 

had wanted to buy an anklet for the longest time. i used to have one, but i think i misplaced it liao. so now, wanna buy one again. unfortunately, almost every jewellery shop that we asked, sells only gold anklet. finally poh heng sells this gold anklet that has plated white gold. so it doesnt look as 俗气 as a total gold anklet. 

and i A hubb to buy it for me. no apparent reason or occasion. but just tot he should buy something for me. LOLLLL.

good luck charm for the new year. hiak hiak =) 

after that we went massage at this spa massage somewhere in s'goon, before heading to IMM and eat gelare for dinner. 

yeaa. 

so, happy new year everyone! 

may 2018 be a huat huat good year for all!!