Meeting up

Friends have been texting me and wondering if I've given birth and yet announced it to them, and I have to say, I do have many friends who are thinking about me :) Thank God for friends.

This pregnancy is certainly taking longer than everyone anticipated, even for LC and myself. I still recall weeks and months ago when he reminded me to pack my ready bag, and it's been packed and just sitting there, gathering some dust now.

Monday, met with tina and jim for lunch, and she announced her big news, that she's pregnant. Tuesday, we had lunch with joelle at cedele Wheel lock. I've got zoo pass for Glenton and family to go over the wk end, thought they might appreciate a free entry.

Supposed to meet Wendy on wed, but her son fell ill, and she couldn't come. So we went to the supermarket in the morning instead. It was a wet wed. Nathan brought his zoo umbrella along, and learned to shelter himself, he looked absoultely adorable carrying that umbrella, like a grown up boy now.

Productive morning

My cough was really bad this morning when I woke up, but after a nice egg mayo and cheese breakfast, I was suddenly very energetic. Picked up the broom and started sweeping. Last week, I only managed to sweep the floor, today, I even mopped and scrubbed the toilets. Well done, mummy!

I was handsomely rewarded by a well behaved boy. The whole time while I was doing the housework, Nathan sat and read by himself. He fetched the books, one at a time, and read aloud to himself, and of course, I was entertained too, he was so loud!

This is one thing I must congratulate myself for staying home, and developing his keen interest in reading. And puzzles. He could spend a good hr fixing puzzles, and another hr and a half on books. That's 2 hrs off from me, leaving me to eat my breakfast, do qt and pray. And he has learnt that when mummy is praying, he'd better occupy himself with something. I wouldn't want to hide in a closet or room to pray and read the bible, i want him to see me to that, so that in time to come, he would do qt with me too!

39th week

Visited the doc this morning. Everything looks fine. Doc advised that we should make a decision to induce the baby is she doesn't arrive on time. Over due babies have complications... this doc often scares me with horror stories, but I know he means well, that he is cautious and wants us to have a safe delivery.

Weighing 62kg now, forgot to ask about the wt of the baby, the last I heard was 3.1kg, a few wks back. He just mentioned she's a good size, perhaps it's also an estimate, so if it's not a concern, he wouldn't say further.

Doc enjoys nathan's company, bounced him on his lap today. And told him silly stories about the dinosaur, and his plastic toy. I can see that this doc loves children, wonder how big his kids are now??

Met Tina and Jim for lunch at Dino cafe, Tina announced that she's 4wks pregnant, wow! Praise God, hopefully the blood test on Thursday is positive, and she would be able to carry the baby well. All in God's hands, whatever God puts together and intends, let no man fail it. Amem.

other people centered

I was reminded at Mum's BS today that we should be other people centered, especially towards our loved ones, and those who are yet in the family of Christ.

Often times we are preoccupied with our kids, work and daily tasks that we seemed to have abandon the more important issues in our christian lives - to share the good news of Jesus Christ. We ought to be as excited as when we found our first love with the Lord, and keep on telling others about it, and not stagnate, otherwise, our love becomes stale and unmeaningful.

Thank God that at least for a good start, I'm reading the Bible daily and committing to prayer, and Nathan leaves me alone for a good amount of time. Perhaps I should start QT with him too. He is beginning to ask many qns, as I read about Jesus's death and resurrection with him from the Bible. He learned about thorns on Jesus's head, and dying on the cross for our sins. I find it hard to explain the plain facts, but just keep repeating them, hopefully one day, he will internalise the truth himself.

Cross Stitch completed!

Yeah, I thought I was not able to finish in time for the birth ... but this pregnancy is taking much longer than i expected, and becos Nathan came so early, everyone is anticipating Hannah earlier too, we are all waiting ... perhaps she will be on time this time, 2 more wks to go, tick tock tick tock...

'HANNAH' is done! Gonna go sport lite get a poka dot fabric, and frame it up :) I'm so happy, mission accomplished.

38th week

Little baby is still growing in my tummy. This has been one pregnancy experience, didn't imagine that i would carry her this far, thanks to God, hopefully, she's an easier baby than nathan since he was a premie. I have a good feeling about it. And as I was sharing with some others, that I really do want to experience labour, God's intented, though a result of sin, but I believe that God would give women strength to pull through labour pains, cos he knows how much we can take!

Another exciting news is, we sold our Bishan flat, on 11th July, 2009, Saturday. A young couple bought it the same day they saw it, and we didn't have to pay a single cent to the agent, cos she represents them, and she is also their cousin. Another very smooth and pleasant experience, as we prayed, as we bought our sengkang apt. Thank God for that!

Shopping at Ikea today was fun too, bought lightings for the kids' room, some storage boxes, and took photos of possible tv consoles that we would like to build in our new home. I've been thinking about the colour of paint... moving into a new house and different location is exciting, hopefully for Nathan too, that he would like his new room.

Buying and Selling

It's rather thrilling to sell something online... not necessarily the money collected, but the idea of decluttering and getting alittle something in return.

Via singapore motherhood.com, you don't know how much is going on out there, the things people need, and wanting to get rid of...

I sold 2 hot pot and a vacuum cleaner, all of which were sitting in the cabinets for the past years, not used.

Told LC that this is getting fun, so long as it doesn't take too much time away from Nathan.

Visit to Doc

37th week, Dr Poon congratualted me for carrying the baby for this long, and now, the baby is fully grown! Weights approximately 3.1kg. She's moving alot lately, esp after meals, and tasty soups. Nathan loves kissing the tummy, and sometimes gently touching it, he says, 'hello, mei mei Hannah.' How loving. I have a good feeling that he's going to be a nice big brother!

I'm feeling the weight more each day, weighing 61kg now, still putting on. Hopefully not much more, can't imagine, and don't want to think how I'm going to lose it all, just eat balance and healthy meals, hannah will benefit from the nutrients, my shape, well, will work harder down the road.

37 week

Baby girl seems contented staying in there. I think she enjoys music as much as Nathan too. Felt her bouncy moves during praise and worship for 2 sat in a row. She just moves particularly often during those 2 hrs.

I thought I felt contraction on friday night. Perhaps I was over tired, from cooking jap curry rice and bbq chicken wings for our friends who came over for dinner that night. We stayed and chatted till mid night.

Everyone was in a mood to share, and the night could go on and on. Emily, as always, very encouraging. Thank God she is recovering very well, got her voice back, and speaks normally now. She shared about her recent mission trip to Cambodia, her student life, and how God has been with her throughout this voice surgery and therapy process, making her come out stronger spiritually ever.

Her sharing reminded to be persistent in prayer. Committing the best bit of the morning to God before anything else start. Giving our best to the Lord, indeed. Especially during this time when I'm anxiously waiting for baby's arrival, I should learn to discipline myself to do just that, praying and intercession!