Adpating

Mrs and I had been really busy for the past month thus we have not been updating our family blog for quite some time. We shifted into our home on 4 July 2013 and spent quite a fair bit of effort to unpack and clean up the house. We are still adapting to the new lifestyle since Fernvale is less accessible than Serangoon which we used to stay with parents. We are also learning to manage our small family.

 

There are a lot of changes in life recently. We are still finding back our comfort zone.

Aleric Full Month Celebration 2

 

 

Aleric celebrate his full month birthday with Mummy parents on 14 June 13. We wish that he grows up healthily & happily and sleep through the night soon. 

 

 

Aleric + Renovation

Our family blog has not been updated for quite a while as we were busy with taking care of Aleric Shen and renovation.

Aleric is taken care by his Grandmother and Mother most of the time. He can get pretty hard to handle at times. We had his early full month celebration last Sunday with his Daddy's family and will celebrate his full month this Friday with his Mummy's family.  

Renovation should be close to completion by this week. We had 6 paints colours for our hoome and I tried to capture 5 as below.

Day 5 at Mount Alvernia – Aleric 沈坊锦

We were anxiously waiting for the call from hospital to inform us if Aleric could checkout on the Saturday. We received the first name analysis report from Master Wu on the recommendation for Aleric’s Chinese name. After some deliberation, we chose 沈坊锦.   His daddy hoped that he could lead a wonderful and meaningful route of life in the future.

We rushed to the hospital early to register his birth as the birth registration ended at 11 30pm. We planned to visit him in the nursery if he still could not checkout of hospital. While waiting for our queue to register for the birth, we received the call that he could checkout. : ) After registering his birth and settling the bills, we set off back home.  Finally, the whole family was home.

Day 4 at Mount Alvernia – Mummy’s Checkout

Day 4 was supposed to be the checkout / go-home day for Mrs and Aleric. But, at the last moment, we were informed that Aleric’s Jaundice reading was high and he had to stay for 1 more day in the hospital. His grandparents and Mrs were disappointed and worried. I felt so initially too but I guessed it would be good to get all stuffs prepared before he goes home, hopefully the next day.

Back home, we started preparing all the stuffs, taking out all stuffs which he would need and sterilizing all his equipment.

Day 3 at Mount Alvernia – The Turnabout

I slept longer on Day 3 and reached hospital at around 9am. It was the day of the turnabout of negative feelings as I saw Mrs getting a lot better. She managed to walk to the toilet herself even at night. Aleric’s baguette head has much recovered. However, the paediatrician tested him to have Jaundice. So, he got to be left in the nursery for the UV ray treatment most of the time.

Day 2 At Mount Alvernia – The Hard Truth

Since I was not allowed to stay in the hospital, I woke up early on Wednesday morning and drove to hospital early. I was hoping that I would be the first person Mrs see when she woke up. However, Mrs was already awake using her iphone when I reached her ward.

I felt very negative in Day 2 as I saw Mrs seemed to be a lot weaker. She could not move her legs well to get off the bed herself and had problem urinating. It was the day when It struck me if we were really happy welcoming Aleric and if we would want a second child.

As novice parents, we were very anxious about Aleric. He cried really loudly in the night before I left and we were both lost of what to do. We were lucky, with the help of a nurse; he managed to latch onto mummy for breast feeding. The hard truth about having a baby was that it really took a lot of effort, sacrifices and commitment.