First Day at School

Janelle attended her first day at school (aka childcare) last Thursday! We decided to send her to childcare 2 days a week (Tue & Thurs) because she misses attending playgroup in Singapore. She has been saying that she wants to go to Little Pals (the name of her playgroup in S'pore) so we decided to send her to one for her to play and mix with other children.

When we picked her up from school, the teacher was full of praises for Janelle, saying that she was a very well-behaved girl and gave no problems at all. The teacher went into detail on what Janelle did at school and how she behaved, etc. At the end of it, I told Janelle that "mummy is very proud of you" because I was! I was impressed with my little daughter on her behaviour on the first day at school :)

Was just thinking that as a parent, I have so much joy when my child makes me so proud of her. I wonder if our Father in Heaven feels proud of us - His children?

Growing Up in Ozzieland

Janine turns 7 months old in about 4 days' time. She currently weights 8.14kg! And I forgot her length! Just took her measurements at the pharmacy where the nurse on duty did it for me. Am impressed that she's now over 8kg! Didn't realise she was growing so fast as she still feels pretty light to me. Perhaps in comparison to Janelle who's way heavier, Janine seems rather light.

After almost 7 months of regurgitating milk, I am sad to say that Janine STILL regurgitates! *faint*
What happened to my prayers about her stopping her regurgitation when we come to Australia? Besides, now we have no maid to help clean up so I have to clean up the mess, plus we have carpetted flooring - which means the regurgitate remains on the flooring and it's harder to clean. Arrggh. And now that she's started on solids, she regurgitates her solids AND milk.

I asked the doctor over here about her reflux problem, and he told me that 80% of babies who have reflux will stop after about 6 months of age. So seems like Janine is in the unique 20% category of babies who continue with that reflux problem till they're much older.  And the doctor assured us there was nothing to worry about her reflux since she's putting on weight and growing well.

As for Janelle, she is speaking really well and talking a lot more since we got here. She is rather naggy (inherited from either parent) and can speak so well it surprises us sometimes. She'll be attending day-care twice a week from this week onwards. I suppose after another month here, she'll pick up the Aussie accent!