Busy Weekend…..

SIGH… I’m looking at a busy busy scary weekend…

I’ll be on leave this friday, as mother-in-law will be admitted to SJMC and Tecky (hubby) and I will be sending her there and accompanying her, cuz she is kinda afraid of the surgery… She has fibroid in her uterus, and the operation is to remove the whole system, ovaries and all… She has to be in the hospital for a good 5 days, after the near 2 hours operation…
(That’s why have to miss a birthday party this saturday for you-know-who… Sorry yeah… )

As she don’t have any daughters, and only one daughter-in-law for now, I am feeling the responsibility to take care of her… I know since no one is going to be around that could stay the night with her and that she was hoping someone will after hearing from grandma about the need to have a person with her, being the DIL I know I should, cuz she got no daughter also mar… But but but… I VERY SCARED OF HOSPITALS LAR!!!! When gave birth to Rachel, the whole night I cannot sleep and kept waking up, and I have to admit, at one point I was paranoid until I cried. I’m damn scared of hospitals at night lar… AIYOH!!! How leh?

Anyway, I was thinking of making porridge for her after the operation, any suggestion on what is good for after operation patients??

Updated:
Eee… updated due to Timo’s comment, no lar, it’s not sexist… Just that her insurance only allowed shared rooms, and that said, men cannot stay the night mar…
As for the why I’m afraid of hospitals, I don’t know, maybe, but but, it’s just an automatic fear that creeps up and I don’t know why… I’m just SCARED… maybe it reminds me of all the bad incidents I have with hospitals as Tecky puts it, maybe the ghost stories we hear or we see since young, maybe, maybe, maybe, I don’t know…. Is there such thing as hospitaphobia????

How She Has Grown…..

I wanted to do this on the day Rachel reached her 6 months old milestone, but I was too busy to come up with the selection… haha… So here goes, backdated a bit…

I’m sure every parents sees this, so yeah, I’m stating the obvious… Rachel has changed SO SO much since the first time I laid eye on her… This is evident from the whooping 3136 photos that I took of Rachel for this 6 months (I have at least a photo of her a day)… We also have about 500 photos printed out on hardcopy, arranged in 3 photo albums!? (this is more than my wedding photo even… hahaha)… So here goes, a summary of Rachel, for this pass 6 months….

6 Months Old…..

Rachel is 6 (SIX SIX SIX SIX SIX!!!) months today!!
(Again, SIX!!!!! SIX MONTHS ALREADY!! *slaps forehead* SO FAST!!)

Diet:

• 6.5oz milk, every 4 hours (except night – sleeps from 9pm to 6am)
• 1 semi-solid a day (banana, papaya, rusk, cereal)

Developments:

• holds own milk bottle
• can turn over all the way on left side
• can sit unsupported
• can pull up to standing position
• can stand supported for a short while
• can remove the hankershief that covers face with a swift hand motion, sometimes throw it on the floor too
• knocks her head forward when you say ‘kok kok’ (hokkien: knock knock) and put your head in front of hers
• knows how to lift her right hand towards your stretched out hand, when told to ‘shake hand’ (see video)

Temperament:

• VERY bad tempered
• throws tantrum (cry and fuss and shout) when don’t get things her way
• VERY impatient (if we are slow in feeding her the next spoonful of solid, she’ll cry and fuss and sometimes not want to eat anymore)

Speech:

• BABY TALKS!! (what else?)
• Sometimes shouts out (arrghhh) when seeking attention
• When frustrated, babbles in her language that sounds like:
  • paa paa paaa (sometimes paauuu paauu)
  • neen neeen neenn
  • maaa maaaa (sometimes maamm maammm)
  • other unspell-able sounds