crying

We love this video of Janine crying! It was taken when she was 2 months old. Think she looks so cute and pitiful crying...haha :)

Janine sucking lips

Janine loves to suck her lips as though she's sucking a pacifier!

Janine - 3 months old

Janine - 3.5 months old

Janine at 3.5 months old....

- is smiley and has learnt to laugh
- absolutely loves to "talk" and communicate with people. Very chatty baby!
- cries much less now and allows everyone to carry her to sleep (thank God!)
- sleeps more easily, usually by just putting her on the bed with a pacifier in her mouth, she'll doze off to sleep
- still looks blur all the time!
- chokes when drinking milk, especially if she's falling asleep while drinking (very 'cartoon' to see her do that!)
- chokes over her own puke (also very 'cartoon' and silly)
- still merlions out milk though much less compared to the first 2 months

 

Janelle is sick :(

Poor Janelle is sick with a high fever, runny nose and phlegmy cough. She has totally no appetite and not even her favourite foods or fruits can entice her. Her only diet now is half a piece of doughnut from the bakery downstairs.

We were awoken at 5am this morning as Janelle was running a high temperature. Had to give her medicine, sponge her, etc to bring the temperature down. Janine woke up due to the commotion and couldn't get back to sleep either.

By afternoon, Janelle's temperature soared to 40 degrees. My eyes almost popped out when I saw the temperature on the ear thermometer! First time I see a recorded temperature that starts with the digit "4". So it meant that the panadol and sponging didn't seem to work. Brought her to see the doctor and she was given a suppository to make her poo. I kind of forgot that she hadn't poo-ed in several days...in fact, I think it has been 4 or 5 days. Apparently if she doesn't poo, it will make it more difficult for the fever to come down. And after she poo-ed, I inserted another suppository to make the fever come down and now she's finally resting in bed.

I realised that we are busy with 2 young kids. But we get even busier when the kids fall sick! Janelle is sick and moody and only wants me (or Royston) to carry her or do things for her. Janine has always only wanted me to carry her especially when she's sleepy. So it gets chaotic when both insist on being carried by me. From yesterday till now, life revolves around wiping runny nose, feeding countless medicines, putting one kid to bed, then putting the other kid to bed, pacifying whichever kid who awakens prematurely from sleep, etc. It is a hectic life.

Praying that Janelle will recover, and that Janine won't catch anything from her jie-jie. (Janine already seems to be having signs of a runny nose). God's grace is sufficient for us!

3 Months Old

Time really flies. My maternity leave is up and Janine turns exactly 3 months old today! Somehow, when you have a baby, you realise how fast time flies because the change in time is so evidently seen by baby's size and developments.

Janine is now 6.1 kg and about 60cm long. She seems heavy, almost doubling her birth weight at only 3 months when babies usually double their birth weight by 6 months. In any case, I am thankful that she's growing well :)

Juggling between work and family, I am so thankful for how God has answered prayers just within the first week (ie. last week) of returning to work! Somehow, when I bring Janine for meetings and all, she's been very well-behaved and literally sleeps through them all. This is somehow not very true when she's at home! I see it as an answered prayer :)

Having 2 kids, I now understand what some mothers mean when they say they feel bad because they cannot spend the same amount of time with both kids as they did for their no.1. Especially when Janelle is still at a very cute age, and Janine is also very cute, I can't help but feel that I can't fully enjoy both my kids' cuteness because my attention is divided between them both!! Yet on the other hand, you can say that we are doubly blessed with 2 cute kids. :)

Simple Joys

Last night, Janine broke her record in terms of sleep! After her last feed at 9pm or so, she didn't wake up till 5:45am for a feed! That's more than 8 hours of blissful rest (not just for her but for me!!). Am amazed that at 9 weeks old, she can clock such a long stretch of night-time sleep. I can only hope she continues on that way! Perhaps she's trying to make up to me after being such a difficult baby in terms of sleep since she was born. Heh heh. Nowadays, for daytime naps, she can also sleep on the bed for up to 1 hour 15 mins! It's a record for her considering she always wakes up within 15 mins of being put on the bed to sleep!

Janine's also getting very responsive and simply loves to 'talk' to people. She'll reward us with a big wide grin or a sweet smile too, whenever we talk to her.

Such are the simple joys of motherhood.