Been really lazy lately...

Oh, I have been really neglecting in maintaining my blog page.

There have been many things that popped up and demanded my attention.

Baby Alex was sick, a seriously tiresome one week that sent my maid, Patirck, and I into sleep depriving moments. He was down with fever, running/block nose, loss of appetite, and vomitting like a merlion. We tried western medicine after having sent him to the GP, and even bought the very expensive $60 over per tiny bottle of black bitter powder from a chinese medical hall Eu Ren Sheng... Still, it took quite a while before he's finally recovering.

Christopher and Nicholas had been really mischevious, asking them to study seriously is like getting them to pluck the moon from the sky for me. Also, one of their teacher has been giving me problems, with dishonesty, and a totally result oriented driven mind, she's driving me nuts. I had to talk to her on the phone a few times, and even got the vice principle involved before things actually improved.

And there are the stressing times as the two elder boys' mid exams draw near. Patrick is practically stuffing himself with his high blood pressure pills as he teaches them each day.

And third boy Bryan started his viral flu this week, with serious coughing, block nose, sore throat and fever...

Oh boy, are we ever so busy!

But still, there are the happy occassions, with the two older boys Christopher and Nicholas having their birthday this month May! Their birthdays happen to be just a week apart and tomorrow is Nicholas'.

Baby Alex is now always fighting for attention from the whole family. He's stretching out his hands wide and together with his toothless big smile, begging for people to carry him! And oh ya, we have tried giving him some bread bits today, he's really enjoying the solid food.

Gosh, the days of the messy gluey yucky fish smelly porridge are going to be back again as we start to feed Alex with solid food soon.

Our Family

Patrick and I with our four little boys

Alright, I have been lazy for a long while, no photos, no new blog post, etc

But hey, here's some making up for the long lost times.

Patrick hate photo taking as his excuse is that he's not photogenic.
Alright, I have the same excuse too and hate people taking photos of me.
But taking photos together with our four boys, it's a totally different issue, we love to be with them, it's just so "FAMILY"

Times flies, the nights of waking up to feed our boys when they were babies, now's our fourth boy Alex's turn. But he has been really good as he stuff himself with lots of milk just before felling asleep at 10pm, then he slept through the night without night feeds.

Alex has been really full of surprises, he started to sprout two white tooth on his front lower gum when he's just turning 3 months old. Then he started baby talk and turning from his back onto his stomach. Wow, seems like he can't wait to get up and running with his elder 3 brothers.

Patrick and I bought him a Fisher Price rocking chair at a sale for only S$20! That's really cheap. There's a musical playing to the tune of Itsy Bitsi Spider, with a rabbit moving up and down out of sight from a chimney, and two dangling spider rattles. Alex has started to kick his legs high up at the spiders and attempting to pull at them with his little hands.

Each morning, as Patrick and I woke up for work, Alex will be sure to catch us too.

He will always greet us with a big smile on his face as we greeted him "Good morning".

All the tough waking up at night, and everything, are very very worthwhile as we experience the lovingly sweet innocent smiles from our 4 boys. No matter how mad they can so amazingly make me and Patrick felt.

And one more thing,

after shaving off Alex's hair when he's one month's old...

The hair's finally growing, it sure took a long long 3 months to grow this bit of hair.

Our Pride and Joy - Bryan's Growth Path

Bryan's 4th Birthday

22nd March 2010

A whopping 2kg cake for the 28 children in Bryan's childcare nursery class

Decorated with cartoon characters, the cake is a hit with the young little boys and girls. Patrick hubby and I prepared cut mangos complete with little baked hotdog rolls for the kids to go along with the celebration.

Everyone had great fun, all the children were excited and started to gather around for the birthday songs. Bryan had fun preparing the little red packs of goodies (sweets / chocolates / jelly cups / cookies) a few days before his birthday. The teachers were wonderfully helpful in helping out with the cakes and all.

Christopher and Nicholas the two elder brothers also had fun as they joined in the celebration with the children at the childcare centre. It is all very priceless to witness the joys of little children.

Within an hour, the cake was all cut up and well distributed with the mangoes and hotdog rolls. Such delightful appetite from the little boys and girls, we are glad to see the teachers enjoying themselves too as Patrick and I go round distributing the food to the other classes' teachers.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

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A very very good start to the new year 2010, I won cold hard cash of S$ 1,000!!!

I have extended my maternity leave and will be going back to work officially on 1st March 2010. In the meantime, I was back to the office on the 4th day of Chinese New Year to visit my beloved colleagues in Metso Paper. It is the so called official first day to start work for many companies. Hubby Patrick and 3rd son Bryan were with me as I went back to the office, misses everyone in Metso Paper so much, especially Lay Peng Sis, Janetud, Pow, Ang, Bjorn, Murugan, Tomas, and Nelson (but pity he's on leave). Of course there's other lovely ones like Hwee Lee!

Sis persuaded me to go for the new year lunch with everyone at Hilton, it's there where I striked the S$ 1,000 in the lucky draw pick! Wow, really a very good strike, thank you to every lucky people there and god for letting me strike!!!!

Patrick hubby was still thinking that I'm pulling his leg when I got home and told him I won $$$$... Luckily I could proved him wrong this time.