Ashley is 3 months

13 February 2009, Friday

Here's a quick update of Ashley, she turned 3 months last Sunday:

Weight : 6.3kg

Length : 56cm

Diet : 4oz Breastmilk every 3 hours during the day

She can now sleep through most of the night, waking up only once for a feed. She smiles and coos at everyone that plays or talks to her. She hates being by herself and usually calls out for attention if left in the cot for too long. Ashley loves sucking on her fingers, especially her left thumb (just like her older brother).

Being a girlie girl, she still needs her beauty sleep so she actually sleep alot for a 3 month old; waking up in the day only for feedings and playing for at most half hour before wanting to go back to sleep again. At first I was a bit apprehensive as she may not want to sleep at night, however she seems to have no problem sleeping at night.

Here's a photo of Ashley taken a couple of weeks ago. Look how fat she's grown! Time sure flies and I'm trying to enjoy babyhood as much as I can - as I may most probably stop at 2!

Ashley wearing what-used-to-be Aiden's pyjamas

The Arrival of Ashley Chan

08 Feb 2009, Sunday




My hubby comments last night : " What happened to your blog? It's been idle for the past 4 months. As usual, must be a passing phase for you...."

No, it's not. It's just that I've been enjoying (err...ok, most days enjoy but some days I really want to climb walls) our little arrival. I've not blogged about her at all - not that I dont want to. However, I wanted to spend those precious 3 months with her as much as I can, before getting back to the grind.

Boy oh boy, I knew that it was going to be difficult with 2 children under age 3, but no one prepared me for the tired days and long nights. If I was not tending to aka breast feeding the small one, I'd be spending my time with Aiden. This left little time for me to rest, let alone shower or eat.... The most challenging time was between the second to eight week. Ashley was latching on the me every 1.5-2 hours and just when I had her schedule fugured out, she began to have colic for the next 3 weeks or so. Phew....

Well, it certainly is getting much better now, and our baby Ashley is also sleeping through the night. We lurve her to bits and really is the apple of our eyes. And the clothes....I know everyone's advice about buying too much, but those dresses, skirts, hairbands.....arrrgh! I cant help it!! I'm consolling myself that since this is our second baby, we're not spending on the big ticket items such as bottles, sterilizers, baby cot and other essentials.

I've just gotten back to work last week, so once Ive got my work sorted out, I'll be back with more updates on Ashley and of course Aiden.


Leaving you with Ashley (photo taken Day 20). This beautiful photo was taken by Jasmine & Sue who did a photoshoot of Ashley in December. I'll certainly blog more about this in the next couple of weeks. Thanks Jazz & Sue for leaving us with beautiful pictures of Ashley that we'll cherish for years to come!!!

Name: Ashley Chan Xinmei

DOB: 08 Nov 2008

Weight: 3.01kg

Short Takes

22 September 2008, Monday

Mid Autumn Festival

It was a quiet affair with my family. We went for a quick dinner in the vicinity of our neighborhood. It was also raining for most of the evening, so we were really confined to our car porch compared to last year where some of the children in our neighborhood gathered in my neighbor's house to celebrate the event.

This year, my parents bought Aiden a battery operated latern (Mickey Mouse in an Aeroplane) with flashing lights and music – 'It's a Small World After All'. Of course with no volume control for this made in china product, the song really gets to you after awhile!

what's left of our mooncake, by the end of the evening. Note : candles are from my wedding!

Aiden's lanterns from previous years...

Having a good time with the grandparents...

Hmm... can my Mickey Mouse move on it's own?

Dont Bug Me...

The Garden Helper

Aiden is a real helper around the house these days. He insist on helping me carry this and that around the house and proves his independence and capability by wanting to do most of the things himself, much to our amusement.

One of them is being our little garden helper. He loves to water the garden and insists on having his own watering can. He also forbids us to water the pots that he is attending to, and makes us stand far far away…

Posing for a picture

Enuf water ! My candle wax will die !!

Let's water this patch now...

Falling In Love...

28 August 2008, Thursday

......with Pangkor Laut.

at the entrance/jetty

at the Spa Village

Sea Villas

path leading to our Beach Villa

picture perfect

Emerald Bay

Pangkor Laut

26 August 2008, Tuesday

continue from here…

Day 2

I woke up quite early to catch the morning rays (okaaay … did not manage to catch the sun rise) way before the 2 boys got up. As Aiden is still on his restricted diet of no chicken/egg produce, I actually brought the slow cooker along to make his daily porridge. Time was spent preparing his meal, and by the time the 2 lazy pokers got up, we moseyed our way to breakfast.

I could really enjoy this life of doing nothing and having time on your hands to just enjoy the sea breeze, good food and great company. What more can one asked for?

Here's Aiden with his new friends, none of them could speak English by the way, in the library corner after breakfast. Hubby and I spent a quiet morning reading papers/books and surfing the net.

at the library

You're too young for Scrabble dear

Later in the afternoon, we had lunch by the beach – appropriately named Emerald Bay, the water was as green as emerald. Aiden, being a city boy that he is, was complaining all the way: that he had dirt (actually sand) in his sandals. It was really a comical sight for us, where he is playing with sand sitting on a towel! Noticed his displeasure every time sand got onto the towel!

The beach looks fun!

Mmm - check out those babes

Mummy - I dont like the sand!

Get the sand out of my towel!


You poor city boy...

We celebrated Hubby's birthday and our wedding anniversary earlier, since we were in a resort; and I had made arrangements earlier for a birthday cake celebration (by the way the resort gave this to us complimentary!) which they had promptly served after our Haagen Daz ice cream dessert during Dinner. It came with musicians who did a duet in front of us, singing romantic songs....

chocolate mousse cake

So that was the end of Day 2, after a lazy after dinner stroll, we went back to our Villa to enjoy the remaining part of the evening.