Pi-sai

Eliza: *digs her nose during bedtime* mummy, eeee pi-sai (aka nose dirt)
Me: throw it away
E: *gets up from her bed* ok, done.
I guess she must have flung it out of her bed :S

Zoo trip!

I would love to bring Eliza to the zoo again. This trip with her school was really quite fun as her friends and teachers were there.

I kinda just recovered from my 1st trimester nausea & exhaustion so i'm really thankful that I'm able to bring her there with good enough energy. Of course she was excited :)


I kinda realized after a while that she wanted to see monkeys! She was completely uninterested with the white tigers. No wonder she was doing so much monkey 'oo oo's prior to the zoo trip.


We went to watch the dog and cat show which was interesting but i would prefer the larger animal shows though. We had a photo taking session before the show with all the kids lined up..


After so many photos of her, we just gotta take one together ya


She was quite game to go stroke the dogs....while other kids went gaga over the bubbles further behind this photo. She did too...later on.



After the show was lunch and free time which she obviously took the opportunity to head off to the waters.


After drying up and changing into dry clothes we went to check out the farm animals. She was quite excited to see these kids...saying hello to them and talking to them.
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A photo with the horse


I tell you this is the first time she sat on the moving car without jumping off...her friend Ariana rallied her to join in the car and i guess she also didn't want to get off. She was holding on to my hand at the steering wheel quite tightly initially.


Had a photo taking session with some of her classmates and this is the Marcus i often hear her talk about. See lah...she has to hold his hand just like how she does with her cousins. Later on i learnt from her teacher Nur that he being quite mature for his age has kinda taken care of her at school like a big brother, which i guess that's why Eliza talks about him so much.


That's her other friend Ariana i heard of before...she's quite vocal & sociable and i always hear her calling Eliza.

Trying to update

I've been so lazy updating anything. I think it's my pregnancy syndrome where all I want to do is just....nothing much. I'm also oh so lazy to go out. And with my being less active, I am quite reluctant to bring Eliza out on my own, to minimize having to carry her. She knows that when we go out, she walks. When we go out with Ww, she'll always ask him to carry her which he'll gladly oblige anyway.

Thankfully, my first trimester is over and all the nausea, extreme tiredness is more or less over. I felt so unlike myself during that period and I felt as if I was sick for weeks which isn't like me at all.

I hope to post up more things as there's also so much happening with Eliza that i just don't want to forget all these stuff that has been happening. So to more blogging days...i hope :)

Updates

I wish i can write more...there's so much to write about Eliza who has been so charming.

The 'in' thing for her to do now is make 2D houses on the floor which she'll invite us to come in. Sweet. Her passion for arranging things has developed to arranging a large shape which she calls her house.


I'm thankful for Eliza who has been relatively cooperative and for Ww who has been taking over much of the playtime with Eliza from me. They're really a lot more energetic, loud & hilarious, which i think is great for eliza from the way i see her enjoy her playtime with daddy so much.

For the past 3 weeks, i've been running on low energy because of the surprise arrival of cutie pie no.2! We've been waiting for no.2 for so long (ok a little past one year?) and when he/she arrived we were a little surprised but delighted. No.2 is God's gift in God's own time. I wondered if we were foolish to still try for a baby so close to next year's changes but if God gives, He will, if not He won't. It's a little complicated because of the many changes next year but if it all goes well, no.2 will be born in Canberra. If all goes to plan, it may not all be that bad...i can't imagine going through my first tri all alone with Eliza & Ww, if we had conceived one there...and i kinda didn't want to wait till Eliza was 7 yrs old to have my next one. Maybe 2 kids is all we'll have..just nice. hmm?

It's a little crazy because this time round, i feel a lot more exhausted, more throwing up, more lethargy than i remember during my first trimester with Eliza. I'm asleep by 10pm which means i haven't been doing my usual online stuff for weeks. I can't seem to eat fruits/milk and all the healthy stuff, but i'm eating all the really sweet/salty/oily stuff. There're days i wish i could lie in bed all day. So i'm just praying this hormone thing stabilizes and i can be back to normal....somehow.

Nites

Sticking thing up her nose

Yesterday I came home late after ladies sharing and BS, but i still got to listen to my mil recount the day's dramatic events.

Well, after lunch while my mil was eating lunch in the kitchen and Eliza was playing her toys in the living room. Eliza came running to her saying "I can't breathe" (I'm surprised she even said that phrase!) of course this made my mil anxious and she eventually found out that the candle tip from her cake toy came off and Eliza curiously stuck it in her nostril!

So my MIL and SIL tried to help her get it out. The tweezers were too big, and even asking her to blow her nose didn't help. Eventually they found an ear-digger stick and slowly shifted it out. All the while Eliza calmly let them get the little red plastic candle tip out of her nostril. And with a little help from Eliza to blow her nose, it finally came out.

Later on my MIL chided her and reminded her that she should never ever stick small things in her nose or ear or mouth.
In response to all that, Eliza replied, "I put in my eye" -__-

Great, my little one is getting cheekier with her words.

( oh and this is not the first time Eliza has stuck something small in. The last time she stuck a soya bean and a green bean in her ear. The green bean came out quit easily, but not the soya bean. I can't remember what my FIL did to get it out)

Anyway, My MIL concluded that Eliza's just too cheeky and too giak xiao. My sil said nothing like this happened to her 3 sons either. Oh well, that's Eliza for you! She surprises us always. :)

Sleep talking part 2

Eliza tend to rouse around 12midnight to 1am and in before that she tends to sleep talk. Usually we hear it when we're in the room..though nowadays, it seemed to be much louder.

On one of the nights when i was staying up, i heard her call out "Where's mummy?" which she would do if she is sufficiently awake and don't find me in my bed. So i answered from the study that i'm coming while i turn off the computer, thinking i'll go to bed anyway, since it's so late. I found her fast asleep when i went into the room to check. So was she sleeping or awake?

Oh and i'm starting to wonder if she has started to have nightmares / night terrors....she'll suddenly wake up crying really loud and somehow seem inconsolable. Though it could be that she was feeling bloated and it is really uncomfortable. Tonight i rubbed some ruyi oil and it seemed to help. It happened on other occasions..just that this time she was saying "i don't want, i don't want". Maybe a mix of both eh?
Still pray she'll sleep well and not have bad dreams.

National day weekend

Eliza has been sick for at least 3 weeks. In between there was a few days of no runny nose or fever etc. And after that 3 days we heard her cough at night and knew that it isn't a good sign. Meanwhile Ww's sick too, after being in a meeting with 2 colleagues who has flu and sneezing beside him.

This time round I thought I'll bring her to the doc earlier on Friday afternoon since it's so packed on Saturday and closed all weekend. $68 later she started to develop a fever that night that lasted till Monday morning. We brought her to the clinic near home and thank God it was open with our fav chatty doc. She was prescribed antibiotics (again!!) and given a tablet in her butt to bring her 39.5degree temp down.

She was so seh the whole day, took a 4 hour nap and watch a lot of hi-5. This time round she was REALLY sick. We haven't seen her so sick for a long while. She also haven't eaten much for 3 days and her extra 300g she gained recently was all lost. I also see signs of her usual irritability when she's sick but we try to give her lots of TLC and firmness.

Pray she gets well soon by Friday cos we've got lots of fun stuff to do in the coming weekend!!