Baby Alarice

Our family welcomed the 4th member on 6 Dec 2015.

Day 1

Baby Alarice was born on 9 12 am after we admitted into hospital at about 6 30am. It was much faster this time as compared to Aleric’s birth as we tried for natural bath. Alarice was smaller in size as compared with her brother. The first thing I saw was her long fingers and toes. I started to count the quantity although I knew that the nurse would count with me later. Alarice was also better in shape than Aleric. No oblong head and less bloody. Perhaps, we were more experienced parents and seemed better in handling her as compared to the first time. Alarice was asleep most of the day.

Day 2

Mrs was also so much stronger after the c-section this time. She even managed to get off the bed on the second day. I went to collect our New Little Princess balloon for Alarice in Punggol before heading to hospital. We both felt that the two looked really alike when they are just few days old.

Day 3

I went to purchase milk powder before heading to hospital and prepare for the family to return home. I was hopeful that that Mrs and little princess could discharge together the next day as Alarice seemed better in shape than Aleric. I left hospital earlier to vacuum and mop the home so that the family could return to a clean home. It was raining heavily at night and I rushed over to fetch Aleric back home after that.

Day 4

I reached hospital hoping that the family could return home. However, we received the news that Alarice got to stay an additional day in the hospital to reduce the Jaundice level. I was quite disappointed as I thought the family could return together on that day. But, this also gave us more time to prepare the home for Alarice return and spend some private time with Aleric. We received Master Wu’s e mail reply on the Chinese name selection. We deliberated on the name and we decided to name her 沈姸锦。

Day 5

We went out early to register Alarice’s birth at ICA. Unlike the previous time when we did it at Alvernia, we decided to head to ICA since it was cheaper there and we have the time. We drove down and reached at around 915am. We did not have to queue to enter the building and our queue number was called fast. The history just repeated itself and we almost forgot to register her English name, just like we almost forgot to register Aleric’s too. We headed for lunch and were almost caught for parking at the loading & unloading bay.  We got the message to pick Alarice from the hospital. Finally, the family was home at noon time. Confinement aunty came at 4 30pm and helped to take care Mrs and baby.

Pray that Alarice grows up healthily. Hope that with the experience, we made better parents and could manage Alarice better.

3rd Year Wedding Anniversary

Mrs and I wanted to celebrate our 3 years wedding anniversary at Nex on Tuesday. However, our precious was sick, so we decided to bring him to see a doctor instead. Hope Aleric get well soon.

Batam Family Trip & Mrs's Birthday

The family celebrated Mrs's birthday at Batam this week. It was the 3rd family holiday and Aleric's first trip to Indonesia. I think he enjoyed this trip the most as there was a arcade in the Mega Mall Batam Centre which he really enjoyed hitting the crocodile game. The game price is cheap compared with Singapore and there was additional credit for topping up $10K Ruppiah (about S$10). The $10 credit was enough for the family to play for the 2 days.

The family stayed at Harris Hotel Batam Centre which is just beside the ferry terminal. The hotel breakfast was quite good as they change a bit of variety of food served every day. We bought the birthday cake from Breadtalk and had a simple celebration for Mrs's birthday.

We bought quite a lot of household stuffs back as it is really so much cheaper there.

Aleric's 2 Years Old Birthday

Aleric celebrated his 2 years old birthday last week. I guess it is always the parents' pride to see your son growing from a small baby lying on his chair during his first month celebration, to sitting down  during his first year birthday celebration and now being able to stand and run around, wanting to do all the things himself.

 Aleric 1 year old birthday

Aleric full month celebration

Trickeye Museum on Good Friday

The family went to Trickeye museum on Good Friday. We waited for about an hour to enter the museum. Thereafter, the family had lunch in RWS before heading to Farrer Park to purchase baby stuffs for Aleric.

March School Holiday

I took a 4 days leave this March School holidays.

Mrs and I went to NSC on Monday morning before heading to Shaws Tower for movie. We had lunch at Dhoby Ghaut, shopped a while in Orchard and headed home for dinner.

We brought Aleric to Sengkang swimming pool to swim on Tuesday morning. It was the family first time there toether and I guessed he enjoyed his swim. We swam for about an hour before the crowd started to gather in the pool, had lunch at Kopitian and headed to Automobile Mart to collect our new family car. The car deal respray the whole car for us. So, at least this justified a bit for the high price we paid for it. I sent Mrs to school before heading to Aviva to cancel the old car insurance and do minor amendment for the new insurance.

The family had breakfast at Kopitian in Wednesday morning as we waited for the technician to come and install the new shower water heater for us. In the end, he told us that the power cables were burnt and replaced the cables for us instead of installing the new heater. Then, we headed back to Automobile Mart to fix the side mirror issue. The family went to Habour Front for dinner and shopping at night.

Mrs and I crossed over to JB City Square on Thursday. I have tried to plan for JB trip every quarter and the strong SGD rate makes dinning and clothes seems cheaper over there.

It was a good 4 days family time.

CNY 2015

I realised this is my first blog for 2015. The family was very busy preparing for CNY for the past few weeks.

 

We were at home doing the final clearing on除夕 before leaving for both parents’ home for reunion dinner.

 

We had cake for breakfast for 初一 before leaving for house visiting which ended at around 3pm. We decided to catch Ah Boys to Men 3 movie at AMK hub as Parents helped to take care of Aleric.

 

Mrs made a last minute decision to catch midnight movie The King of Mahjong on初二. So, we bought tickets in the morning at Seletar Mall and breakfast from Kopitiam before visiting relatives. We were lucky to get the God of Fortune car figuring. Aleric surprised us during the midnight movie as he sat quietly watching the movie with us. Sometimes, we are really amazed by his behaviour. The little Shen has brought the family a lot of joy of laughter.   

 

We continued relative house visiting on初三 noon and had Grassroot reunion dinner at night. It was our first time having reunion dinner in the constituency. The weather was quite hot though the food and drink was nice.

The family went to Shunfu for brunch in 初四 and stayed at home the whole day thereafter.

 

The long CNY holiday passed fast but it was a great 5 days of holiday – a break from work and good time to meet up with relatives.