This was a picture Janelle took with her best friend Ariene on the last day of school at Little Pals last term. Don't they just look so cute? :) She will really miss Ariene when we go over to Australia. And on my part as a parent, I also feel sad that my little girl will not be able to play with all her good friends here in Singapore. Well, she probably doesn't realise she'll be going away for a long time, so it's like I'm feeling sad for Janelle on her behalf! How strange!
Janine is now 5.5 months old and she had her first taste of solids today! We were contemplating whether to start her on solids now, or wait till we arrive in Sydney on 2 July to start. She'll be 6 months and 2 days old when we reach Sydney, and by then we may be too busy settling down to bother about feeding her, so thought she might as well start now while in Singapore. Besides, she has been showing great interest in our food - drooling and opening her mouth whenever she sees us eat!
It was a successful first attempt at eating her rice cereal from a spoon! In fact, she was so excited she grabbed at the spoon and stuffed it into her mouth and chewed on the spoon! She also managed to swallow the rice cereal pretty well.
Our little girl is growing up fast! She's also 7kg already, and looking extremely well-fed (ie. chubby) despite her still regurgitating milk. She's also really strong and can almost crawl, and can stand for a few seconds with some support. Because of the fact that she keeps turning over and attempting to crawl, she is no longer able to sleep by herself when we put her down on the bed 
, as she ends up in an activity of flipping over and shaking her butt in an attempt to crawl.
To our dismay, Janine has started shedding hair since she turned 4 months old and she's still shedding hair till now (together with her mummy!). Her head is already looking quite shiny and I think it'll be even more bald as the days go by!
Janelle has been a really loving older sister and the 2 girls really enjoy each other's company. This is a really cute stage that the 2 girls are at, for Janine never fails to laugh and be tickled by Janelle's funny antics and peek-a-boo games, while Janelle loves to shower her little sis with cuddles and kisses.
For me, I shall attempt to update this blog more regularly (just realised that my last entry was 2 months ago!), especially since we'll be going away and people will want to know what's happening to us and our 2 girls.
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
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!
