First glimpse of Baby Alicia

Arrival of Baby Alicia

Baby Alicia arrived safely to the brave new world at 11.10am 1st November 2009 (10 days before the estimated due date). A day after Daddy wrote on the blog that its not going to be anytime soon !

Some interesting details:

Weight: 3.35kg
Length : 52cm
Head diameter : 34cm

2 weeks to due date

Everyone is getting excited again, as we approach the delivery due date. It has been on a regular basis, where Jeremy will ask 'Why is Baby not out yet'?

A routine medical checkup reveals that delivery is unlikely to be in the coming week, which is good I feel. Somehow, we prefer the delivery to be wee bit closer to actual due date.

So anyway, keeping our finger crossed !

Jeremy the Pre Schooler: 37-39 months

Yes, my son is no longer a baby although he still cries once in a while when he wants to throw tantrums.

I can see that he continues to develop more sophisticated social skills over the past three months. Before we knew it, he already start to crack jokes. He can deliberately hide the Astro Channel control and ask Mommy, 'where is the remote control? Yang Shan has sharp eyes and can find for you.'

He was fascinated with the Eiffel Tower after watching Ratatouille and has been pestering us since on a trip to Paris.

A sign of him no longer a toddler is that he does not necessarily take our words as gospel truth (Kids these days!). One evening, we took him for a car ride around the Twin Towers; he asked whether we can go in and we told him that the tower is already closed and hence no one can go in. His immediate response is 'where is the door'. It seems he wants to confirm whether thats the case ie no one can go in.

Motor skills remain somewhat behind; still fearful of water.

Anyway, some pics taken over the past 90 days:



Jeremy enjoying himself in the nursery we sent him to



Jeremy being patriotic during Merdeka Day



Listening intently to Mommy (or is it the TV !??)



Trying to put his ears to Daddy's floorstanding speaker. He now realises the music comes from this 'box' in the living room.

Stork News

For hundreds of years, the white stork in western culture has been used to symbolize the arrival of a baby and this has also used as an explanation for children anticipating the arrival of a new sibling. I remembered once in announcing the birth of a much anticipated child of a colleague of mine, I mistakenly sent a news flash via e-mail to all my colleagues & bosses with a mispelling in the header : "StoCk News". It was embarrasing and hilarious at the same time to see my bosses summoning me on this as they thought it was some tax planning brief that I had recently put together.

In any case, there appear to many storks which have arrived/destined to arrive this year or early next year. I was told by some people that many are trying to avoid having babies in the Year of the Tiger due to some supertitious beliefs. I read some where that based on population studies conducted in Singapore and China this has always been the trend even in the past. I'm not sure whether this is true but really, regardless of whatever you may think of, babies should be always seen as blessings and not burdens, sent to fill our lives and hearts with joy!

On this note, I would like to congratulate the following friends and fellow bloggers on their latest or anticipated new arrivals in the Year of the Ox. As for yours truly, our stork will be heading our doorsteps in November 09!

Sree - Baby Pratik(January 2009)

Mr and Mrs Belacan - Baby Shushanna (February 2009)

Khairatul - Baby Iman (March 2009)

Norizan - Baby Nur iLyssa (March 2009)

Mr and Mrs Tan - Twins Lara and William ( May 2009)
Mr and Mrs Ong - Baby Katelyn (June 2009)

Mr and Mrs Lee - Baby Lee ( June 2009)

Harimau - Baby Lara (June 2009)

TT - Baby Xenia ( June 2009)

Angel - Baby Alexa (July 2009)

Kittycat - (December 2009)

Shannon - (December 2009)

Mummy Yvonne - (Early 2010)
Jessy - (Early 2010)