Cheeks to Cheeks

Tomorrow is the big day–Belle is moving into her own room.

I’ll update after tomorrow night. I doubt it will be smooth sailing but it’s a start. Both Daddy and I can’t bear to have stiff backs. Belle’s sleeping habit is becoming worse each night. Last night she slept horizontally between us. We have a Cal-King sized bed and both Daddy and I were stuck at the edge of the bed.

I’ll post updates later.

Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear.

These are our daily vitamins…

This morning Monkey Queen (did you notice I always refer her to this nickname whenever she’s naughty?) decided to take over my arm. I’ve written about how she loves to hold onto my arm(s) and treat it as a comfort item before going to sleep. Today’s experience is by far the worse! She refused to let go of my arm and did many things with it:

1) Planted her face onto my upper arm.

2) Laid her head on my shoulder and insisted I had my arm bent just so she could koala hug it (her back facing me).

3) Faced my arm and koala hug one arm while insisted my other arm to hug her.

4) Her head pushing onto my side (sleeping horizontal) and holding on to my arm just so she could run her hands along that arm.

If I move or turn my back behind her she would cry and cry and cry and cry. I had to turn towards her several times just to stop her from crying. After all it was friggin 6 in the morning! By 7 am my arm felt as though it had been cut off from blood circulation. My back was aching from sleeping sideways for many hours. Most of all, I needed my sleep. 10 mins of non-invasion from Monkey Queen was all I needed.

I couldn’t take it any more and turned my back on her. Monkey Queen broke down, sat up, mouth opened widely and this came out, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Aiyo, I felt like smacking her bum but I was too tired. Daddy couldn’t take it anymore, got up and smacked her bum. What next? A louder WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! *sigh* Then she kept calling out, Mama…*cry* Mama *cry*.

I went to the toilet to relieved myself, came back, hug her and let her hug my arm again. *big sigh* Oh yea, she stopped crying immediately.

This has got to stop. We will have to move her bed to her own room this weekend; otherwise, I will not get any peaceful sleeptime.

Remember the photo of Chase and Belle?

I found another photo taken when Belle was 2 months old and Chase was 7 months old.

Look at my Belle, she was such an ugly duckling.

We were quite busy last Saturday. We attended Kaitlyn’s 2nd birthday party at Gymboree and Jon invited some of his high school friends over for a pot luck dinner.

We didn’t bring our camera to the birthday party; so, no pictures. Maybe Kaitlyn’s mom will share some with us.

These are some of the stuff little girl did on Saturday… Read the rest of this entry »

This morning, Belle woke up and started to kiss my arm. She loves to touch my arms ‘cos it will be cold from the morning air. She kissed and said the 3 delightful words: I-LOVE-YOU.

She will kiss once and say I luv yeew; kiss again and say I luv yeew!

This is the very first time she say the words w/o any prompting.

Need to jot this down before I forget:

Couple of nights ago I had to go in to my health provider to get some blood drawn. Right after I had the blood drawn Jon and I went to the daycare to pick up Belle. Little girl saw the bandaid on my arm and said Ouch. I acknowledged by saying, “Yes, Mommi has ouch-ouch here.”

That night I put Belle to bed. By that time I had my bandaid taken off and there was a small red dot on my arm. Belle touched it and said Ouch again. To my surprise, right after she said that she kissed the red dot. That action totally melted my heart. Marshmallows! Yup, my heart was like a melted marshmallow the entire night.

I think she has learned that from me. Few days back she fell and scrapped her knees. I kissed her boo-boo and told her everything is alright. Kids. They pick up our mini actions without us knowing it.

Yes, it is Thursday and…….

SUMMER IS HERE!

Today is the official day Summer begins! Woohoo!!!

We woke up extremely early today. Belle was coughing and couldn’t breath through her nose around 5am. I couldn’t bear her endless coughing, woke up and rubbed some Vicks vaporub onto her chest and back. It relieved her cough slightly but the cough was still there. I figured it must be the back-drip from her nasal mucus; so, I took the sucker and sucked the mucus out. She woke up from that and decided to stay awake.

We rolled on the bed for a while, trying not to disturb Daddy. Daddy slept on Belle’s bed last night. In the end, she insisted to roll onto her dad. Daddy woke up and helped me sucked the mucus from her nose again. By that time, it was 6 in the morning. We decided to get out of bed and have breakfast.

I must say, it is quite refreshing to wake up this early in the morning. I came in to work early and some of my co-workers were surprised to see me in the office before 8am!

Daddy sent Belle off to grandparents’ house ‘cos she was sleepy by 8am. She slept more and Jon had just IM’ed me to let me know she just woke up. My FIL will send her to the daycare today. And yea, she is still coughing.

Weekends are my only free time to do laundry. Sometimes I’ll just put clothes into the washer on a Friday night and hang-dry or put ‘em in the dryer the next day.

Whenever I fold the clothes little girl will try to kacau (Malay: disturb) me by unfolding them. Sometimes she would put my bra on. At times she would try to wear my shirt or pants. Last weekend she did something new…

She played with the basket and tried to stand on it. She even tried on her daddy’s sexy Playboy underwear. As you can tell, she is of no help. ?, ????!