Josh's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Josh 1st birthday on 27th June 2009 (Saturday) at Mac Donald, Limbang Shopping Centre. Some pictures to share.

Family picture, Josh is busy staring at the cake. Josh: Never seen such a big and colorful cake. before. Derick: hmm....today is my birthday.

Kids are busy eating their meals.

Derick: Daddy, what are you doing? I am waiting to open the presents. Josh: Brother, why do you look so impatient? I am so happy, I got to see such a colorful box in front of me.

"Thanks aunties, uncles, sisters and brothers for coming to my birthday party. I had a great time and hope that you had a great time too. I love the presents that you gave me very much. Hope that mommy and daddy will celebrate my birthday again next year and you can join again."

Got my Nikon D90, Yay...

Remember my older post? I finally got it last weekend. I also bought the 55-200 mm lens. Sam paid over 2k for this.

Updates on Derick and Josh

Der dropped his first milk tooth at his 6-years-old. Fast? He got his first milk tooth at 4 months. Since his teeth erupted early then dropped early too.

Two of his adult teeth has erupted behind the other 2 milk teeth. His adult teeth appeared mis-aligned with others lower milk teeth. Hopefully, the rest will be aligned.

Josh got his second haircut this afternoon. His first haircut was 11 months ago (he was 1 month old). Josh is quite different with Derick. Derick will cry till the whole building can hear his cry while the hair-cutting process, but Josh seems quite enjoys it. Josh kept looking with the clipper and how the hairdresser cutting his hair. When he felt insecure, he hugged me tighter then continue looking every corner.

Stop Pumping at Office

Since yesterday I stopped pumping at office. Actually, I still want to pump but then I have to be at this client's place for two weeks. Their working environment is open space. They got no fridge, only 1 cubicle in the toilet. I tried not to pump yesterday and quickly pump once I reached home. Today, I will try not to pump and see whether I will have bad engorgement. Hopefully, everything goes smoothly. I am tired to lug the ice bricks and pump to/from office every day.

Josh maybe in growth spurt. Hubby just realised yesterday that Josh wake up every hour at nite. Indeed, most of the time Josh wake up every two hours at nite. I can say I have adapted well to his sleeping pattern. Hopefully that he will sleep through the nite soon.

Letter to Josh

Josh...

You will be turning 1 year old in few weeks time.
You are still crawling on tummy.
You like cruising.
You still wake up twice every nite.
You can show to us what you want in simple way. Eg. When you want milk, you will say eh..eh...and looking for mommy to carry you. If mommy not walking to the bedroom, you will continue eh...eh...You will look at the bed where mommy used to nurse you. You will looking at mommy and showing the expression, Mommy, why you don't lie down? I want to nurse.
You are a socialise boy.
You have tried chawanmushi when you are 11 months old. And you like it. You almost finished half bowl of it. Actually, you still can't eat white egg, but Mommy has give up what to feed you, you are indeed a fussy eater.
This is the photo when you eat chawanmushi at Shintokyo, Yew Tee Point. Your caring caregiver was holding you.

My Maid Has Gone Back

I should have a lot of things to write, but I have no mood to blog. My maid has back to her hometown. I cried buckets. This was the first time I sent maid to airport bringing Der and Josh together and cope alone in the taxi to take the new maid. Oh...I missed my old maid a lot. Der cried on the nite before the maid home. After the maid home, he smelt maid's bag and I asked new maid to wash. After cleaning, he kept on the maid's bed. I kept it in his wardrobe with the reason that new maid will be sleeping on the bed. Now, I can feel the sadness of losing a gem.

I just celebrated her 21 birthday on the nite before she went home. How good is she?

• She helps me do my confinement. Cooked and brew the herbal soup.
• Apply jamu on my tummy during confinement and put on the wrapper.
• Carry Josh from the day 3. The day he was back from Thomson Medical Centre ("TMC").
• Wash all my pumping equipment.
• Store my Express Breast Milk ("EBM") neatly in the fridge.
• Simple alter and mend our clothes.
• Fixing some small things for us.
• Brought her to Jakarta with us.
• Oh...lots of things that she helps us within this 15 months.

Pray that everything goes well to her and if we have 'yuan fen' we shall meet again.

Early Birthday Celebration for Derick

Derick's birthday always falls on school holiday, therefore, I decided to celebrate this year birthday earlier at school. Initially, I planned to throw a big birthday party for him, but after some considerations I decided to pull off. Lucky, I didn't arrange big birthday party for him, many things has happened to me recently until my fridge also almost broke down and I have to ask neighbour to let me keep my frozen EBM inside their fridge. Josh also fall sick and hope that he will fully recover by tomorrow.

Derick chose this birthday cake his own. I ordered online from Primadeli website.

Birthday boy, Derick with me. Do we look alike?
Some short video of blowing candle and Happy Birthday song.