林北破扁了

鼻涕比尿还多
全身隐隐作痛
林北这次破扁了。。。

Phoebe flipped

Phoebe had been flipping herself to the left or right in her sleep. Being able to move like this kept her well asleep since she could sleep in her most comfortable pose, instead of warming up her back while lying flat all the times ^^

On Friday night, while helper was about to change her into her pyjamas, Phoebe excitedly tried to flip herself to the side... This time, she did more... she managed to flip onto her tummy as we cheered for her!! I was so glad that I did not miss her first successful flip!!

So what's after this would be helping her to flip back whenever she happily flipped onto her tummy. Wahahahaha ^^

Ostrich instinct

It was another thunderstorm night...

Thanks to the roaring of thunder, Renee buried herself in the pillow and eventually fell asleep...

Thanks to the flashes of lightnings... Renee woke me up at 5 am for milk, then buried her face in the pillow, again, and she eventually fell back asleep... I, who had woken up,  patted Renee to sooth her from the thunders and to check on Phoebe via CCTV...

Pumped, flu-ing, and trying to get back to sleep =_=

Revisiting Taiwan 2013

Our first visit to Taiwan was in 2009, yup, 4 years ago... and if I hadn't mentioned it on my previous post, it was horrible. We were totally turned off with the delayed flight (Jetstar), followed by the food. Perhaps our expectations were too high for it during the first visit.

Late Oct, early Nov, when Hualien experienced an earthquake of scale 6.3, we were there. Our second trip to Taipei, first to Hualien... We revisited Shilin Night market, Tamsiu Fisherman's Wharf and Eslite Bookstores... Everything was wonderful. The scenery, the weather and even the food...

We took our supper at Mc before setting off... shOoooooOOO~*

Our first time hanging around at the Taipei railway station and the main station underground mall (where our self proclaimed topo king, Mr Tay, actually hollanded). Believed it or not, I was the one who know the way better... UNBELIEVABLE O_O

First thing was to book for Taroko day tour for the next day, followed by cycling along the pacific ocean... Yes, the legendary ride and yet we did it wrongly...

You can miss the train but you CANNOT MISS THESE 公正包 in Hualien! Or your trip would have been wasted... or rather you would be wasted! Yes, seriously these buns had trashed Ding Tai Feng's xiao long baos... No joke! And they were sold in a steam basket of 10 buns at NTD 50!! (That's just SGD2++ for 10 buns, meaning each is less than 30cts?? WuhoOOOoo!!!)

We were so lucky... why would I say that? We stayed in Hualien for 3 days. First day was earthquake, second day was planned for Taroko and last day Taroko was blocked for a marathon. Spot us at the finishing line ^^

Taroko was indeed a beautiful place. For safety reason, we were advised to wear helmets when walking down certain zone of Taroko... Seriously, if a rock of size larger than a fridge fell on us, I didn't believe helmet could do much... so we prayed as we strolled down the lane of falling rocks...

Due to stupidity, we failed to buy return tickets early enough. So we spent our morning scrolling nearby of our hotel (Ocean Hotel. 2 thumbs up!) while waiting for our train to return to Taipei. Good exploration! Most importantly, we managed to get another round of 公正包before we left Hualien. BTW, 七星潭 is beautiful but we think that Gold Coast is even better ^^

Since we got to Taipei in the late noon, we decided to give Jiufen a miss and re-visit to the Fishman's Wharf. Brilliant decision made by Dear... We got to Ximending, Beijing 101, No, Taipei 101, Shilin Night Market, Eslite bookstore and the underground shopping mall.

To summarize all, this was a wonderful, exciting and unforgettable getaway birthday treat from Dear. We had fun gaining weights during those 5 days, while missing our 2 lovely girls who were left at home... BoohOOoooo~*

Desaru 2013

Followed Dear's team outing to the Desaru Fruit Farm, Malaysia. Both of us had no clue why we paid to smell the hen-cock's poop in the farm under the scorching hot Sun... Very sticky date... Haa!

Nevertheless, we had fun... and not to forget to mention that the Mangoesssss served during buffet lunch was so so so so generous... WuhoO~* ^^

Happy 31st...

I wasn't excited about getting older each year... But I was happy on this day because Dear put in lotsa effort in it and because everyone took their time to celebrate this day with me. Lotsa love, Thanks and Cheers! ^^

Our girl's first visit to the Siloso beach, Sentosa and a mini-buffet at home, with the closest love ones... Thank you, Dear!

大宝怕怕

大宝这两天好像被什么吓到了。。。

之前被突如其来的震天雷吓得跳起来,埋头大哭。这几天更是对新事物/人表现得很抗拒。

灯光也是其一。不是怕暗,也不是不爱灯光。不过,只要在暗处有一点灯光,那就不行了。

怎么说? 就说在车上吧。车子在行驶时,车顶出现了一些光的反射。有时是手表,有时是手机的。大宝会哭噢!

昨晚大宝一直要找女佣还有妹妹。在婴儿房里,灯是关着的,而点开关则有红色的开关显示灯。这也不行啊,大宝吵着要把灯关上呢。

除了灯,有一些我们觉得很轻快可爱的乐曲也不一定是大宝会喜欢的。舅舅之前的短片和老公新手机的铃声也让大宝吓得哭个不停。

好奇怪!希望我们可以找到什么方法来让大宝放松一些。。。加油!

Last 30...

光阴似剑,日月如梭,30年的人生一去不复返。

我要感谢我的父母。没有他们,就没有现在的我。

我要谢谢我的先生。他也教会了我许多的东西。 没有他,也没有现在的我。

很多的事我还在学习,有错莫怪。为人母之后,感触更是良多。。。

感人的话我说不出口,因为话还没到嘴边,我就会哭的。

肉麻的话我很难启齿,因为我是个含蓄的女子。

话不多说,因为我不是在拍韩剧,过了10多集还在啰哩叭唢的。

爸爸,妈妈。。。给我听好了。OOps! 谢谢你们一直以来为我所付出的一切。我爱你们,也要把这般爱延续给我的两个小宝贝们。

老公,你可能读不完这个贴纸,我会亲口对你说的 ^^ 谢谢你!

越老越不想庆生。这也不过是个其他天。。。不只呢,还是个Monday Blue... 不过还是要在这天对父母亲传递爱的感谢!

New discovery...

So learn about two things from my girls today...

Recently, i had been wondering during the night when I slammed myself onto the queen sized seally bed... "why were my legs aching when I stayed at home all day and hardly walked around? Shouldn't it be my butt that was aching, instead?"

I tried so hard to think over and over what I had done today... almost nothing? Oops! Just when I was about to gave up with my spoilt ram memory... I realised. .. It was Phoebe!! Oh yeah!

I had been rocking her by pushing the net rocker for the entire noon... okay, just less than an hour, maybe... and when I mentioned push, I meant my legs... alright, that absolutely explained why my legs ached so much now!

Another findings made me a little guilty. Okay, very guilty, I admitted.

Why did Renee pull my hair recently? Was this part of growing up? But I had dropped enough hair...

So what happened was like this...

Some nights ago, when Renee just started to quit suckling her pacifier to sleep, I had tried all means to sooth her in the night. That included light massage on her back and arms, some gentle patting on her tights and shoulders... and super gentle stroking through her hair... which worked twice so far.

Tonight, she was so tired. Everyone knew it except for herself. She played so hard in the bed despite of her heavy eyelids. After she successfully stayed awake till almost 10pm, lights went out and she was fed. there she laid in bed and started to disturb me who was miserably pretending to be asleep beside her although I desperately need to sleep.

"Ai ya ya..." (that's how she called me or anyone) and started stroking my hair and eventually turned into pulling when my hair was not as smooth as hers... I pretend to wake up but she flipped herself around to back face me... it was then when I realised it. I finally understood her gesture. She had wanted me to stroke her hair to sooth her to sleep...

I felt so.... so... 神奇! I couldn't explain why I felt that way but what followed after was a feeling of guilt for not understanding that earlier... I thought she was being playful and naughty (=_=) so I scolded and punished her when she pulled my hair... T__T

Who doesn't make mistake? What's more important is to learnt from it, which I do!

After doing my reflections, I shall be more observant and careful when it comes to watch my girls growing up each day...

Happy to learn, better late than never and best is to learn it on time... ^^

Sorry girls, I'm your mummy who is doing OJT (on job training) now... mummy loves you!

My little energizers

These kids surely have powerful energy...

See what happened to my helper during mid week...

It was Phoebe's routine to either fall asleep on her own on the seahorse mattress... or to continue her sleep from sarong to the mattress after 9 pm. ..

Tonight... Phoebe woke up when helper tried to change her into pyjamas. Helper looked absolutley helpless when Phoebe started smiling and talking ahh-ahh-ahhh...

Feeling quite awake while waiting for my last pump for the night, I stepped in to take care of my little one who woke up at the wrong time ^^

So I pat her to sleep or should I say almost to sleep...

Just 5 mins after I went out of the room, I heard Phoebe's happy voice of ahh-ahh-ahhing. .. okay she wasn't asleep! My helper was really tired.  So I insisted that she got some rest while I would try to make Phoebe sleep.

Few mins of this little girl into sarong, she started to run her little fingers across the net... attempted to flip... and got a little drowsy when it was so bored inside the rocking sarong...

Then, her dad came by to check on us... Phoebe turned her head to her dad's direction... I could see that her eyes grew wide and she smiled, which was very sweet... Phoebe started to talk ahh-ahh-ahhing, again! She thought someone had came by to play with her... Oops!

Oh no... not at 11pm, my dear! So I started all over again to make her bored after her loving dad bid her goodnight... she certainly looked very disappointed but finally fell asleep... wuhoO~*

All the best, everyone in the family! Jiayou ^^

戒奶嘴第二晚

算是喜忧参半吧!

喜是大宝成功地入睡,今天醒来的时候也没有找奶嘴。而且

忧是睡觉时间偏晚了;到了三更半夜会哎哎叫,弄得大家都睡得不好。。。

再努力吧!

可笑的晚餐

为了让我家的帮佣吃辣吃到爽;我的婆家用了辣死人不偿命的印尼小辣椒煮了连续两顿的晚餐。。。

虽然越战越勇,但是结果只一个;就是两头不着岸。

第一次的挑战是辣死人蕃薯叶,我吃到鼻涕直流。吃了几口就放弃了。还好我没逞强,要不就会像老公一样腹泻。

第二次的挑战是升级版的麻辣咖喱米粉。大概是我太迟钝了。一开始就喝下几口咖喱,还觉得可以承受。继续吃,还淋到米粉上。但是一配着米粉吃,什么都辣了。

这回不一样,晚餐只有咖喱和米粉,不吃就没了。我勉强再吃几口但还是放弃了。

逞强的后果不会是好的。我 joined 我的老公一起腹泻了。。。

我家帮佣的舌头早就被辣坏了,没那么容易被满足。等到她被满足,恐怕我已经归西了。。。

经一事长一智,再这样我会霸吃喔!!

戒奶嘴第一晚

昨日到Kiddy Palace黄晃了一圈,大宝直接拿了之前用的紫色奶嘴要我们给她买。我拍拍胸膛告诉她是时候戒了。。。不买就是不买。

这天傍晚,我提醒大宝。

"这是你的最后一个奶嘴,如果被要坏了就没有奶嘴了哟。"

大宝似懂非懂地重复了我的叮咛, "。。。坏咯。。。丢啊!"

我们拭目以待。。。

晚上,大宝准备睡觉,却花了一个多小时的时间才成功不用奶嘴入睡。太有成就感了!

虽然当中包括了哭闹等起伏不定的情绪。但是我们正向着目标逼近。加油囉,大宝!

希望夜晚能睡得安稳,可别功亏一篑了哦! 待续。。。

UPDATE: 战绩报告结果出炉了。大宝睡到早上7:30AM便哭着要奶嘴了。。。  T__T

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