The wait begins

Since last week, everyone who sees me is asking when is the baby due. And I have to keep telling them not yet, soon baby will arrive. Four more days to my due date. One of my collegue whose due date is one day after mine gave birth on the first day of Raya. So now everyone is after when I will pop! I am also anxiously waiting for the arrival of my bundles of joy but my baby seem to be very comfortable in mummy's stomach. No sign of labor yet. The head is down but not in the position yet.
From about a month ago, people have been saying that my baby seems to have descended, should due soooner than the expected due date. But I am so near to due date, still no sign! From history, I have a feeling my baby will not be on time. Qi ning was five days overdue. My mum told me when she was having us, all of us were overdue, my sister's babies were all over the due date as well.
I am sweet talking to my baby not to delay for too long and hopefully not to the extend of need to be induced as mummy is hoping for a natural birth after C section (Qi ning was a C section). So this few days have to talk to baby more.
Actually, mummy is also feeling a bit umcomfortable running around with a big tummy. This time round, my tummy is really big, much bigger than when I had Qi Ning. Is quite difficult to find a comfortable sleeping position at night and is hard to change side while sleeping. All in all, I am hoping baby will come quick so mummy can carry baby in my arm rather than in my tummy. So my dear baby please do come on time and do not delay. We are all waiting for your arrival! :)

Two years and one month old

Life is amazing, especially when you see the little one grown from a tiny little baby to a pre-scholler. As I looked back how 25 months ago QI Ning was just a little new born babe, today she is a chatty little girl! Each day, when I hold her hand, I am just so thankful to the Lord for her.
Now, let see what she has achieved thus far. She is fully tiolet trained during the day time, no more diaper only at night. When she wanna pee or poo, she want to take off her pant by herself and is refusing help. Wanting to be independent! She weighs about 12.5kg and height is about 87cm.
Language wise, she is able to communicate in English, Mandarin and Bahasa. A little bit in Foochow (daddy & mummy's dialect), mummy hope she will pick up more Foochow so need to make an effort to speak to her in Foochow. She can hold simple conversation with people and respond appropriately. She loves to sing and can sing many songs. She also loves to read books and can tells us story from the book that she reads. She remembers the character from the story and will choose which character she want to associate herself with and which she doesn't want.
Her favourite question now is "What is this Mummy?" Whenever she see anything that is not familiar she would asked the question and it would be non-stop when we are outside the house as there are so many thing that caught her attension. I guess soon it will be the WHY question oledi!
See my girl has grown and she knows she is going to be jie jie soon!

Bubbles fun

Long time ago, I think it was during Chinese New year time when we were back at my in law that Qi Ning first had her encounter with bubbles. Somehow, she always remember those moments and talked about it often. Her memory often caught me by suprise, because many thing I don't think she could possibly remember due to her young age but she could! She always remember is her Juney jie jie that blows the bubbles for her. She likes the bubbles. So lately, we bought bubbles set for her. She is so thrill by it and has been playing with it often. Now she don't need us to blow the bubbles for her, she can even blow her own bubbles. Of course we need to monitor her closely, just in case she put the tube too near her mouth. Her is a glimpse of her chasing the bubbles!

"The sky is dirty"

Due to the haze, we having been really taking Qi Ning outdoor the past few days. On Saturday, the sky was cleared for once, we took her outdoor. In the evening after dinner, we saw beautiful skyline with different colours, blue, orange, etc. She was excited. However, the beautiful clear sky did not last long, only for a day.
On Sunday morning, the haze came back. Qi Ning notice the changes, when we took her to church in the morning, she look at the sky and told me " Mommy, the sky is dirty! Clean the sky". Indeed the sky is dirty, what a huge task to clean the sky. So I told her to pray to Jesus and ask Jesus to send the rain to clean the sky and she did! Sad that our kids have to live with a "dirty sky" because of irresponsible adults!

Birthday Photos

Finally, this slow action mummy get to upload Qi Ning's two years old birthday's photo. The yellow dress birthday celebration was few days earlier than her actual birthday. We had a small party at home for her. The one in pink dress is her actual day, celebrating with Shirly jie jie who share the same birthday with Qi Ning at a restraurant.
From the day that she was born till now, time seems to fly and this little girl of our has brought us much joy and blessing. Life is never the same because of our darling girl, Qi Ning. May she continue to grow to be a blessing not only to our family but to many others!