Sand Art

Thought this would be a fun activity, so when my parents walked pass a push cart and wanted to buy something for little gal, I suggested buying sand art for her. My parents agreed and bought 3 pcs for $5 (abt A4 size each).

Well little gal and I did one some weeks back at my granny's place. He admired my patience since that pc came "uncut". Yup, I used a pen- knife to cut out the bigger areas so the sand could go in.

Weeks later, little gal pulled out "Mickey" sand art and insisted on doing it up. Brave mummy took up the challenge- she choose the colours & poured them while I help pour the sand into different disposable bowls. This time it looks more "complete" as all the small parts could be removed for the sand... ;)

The conclusion: doing this sand art is a test of the parent's patience. But check out the smile on her face (priceless?). :)

Learning another colour?

After the colour "RED", it is on to "BLUE". For some reason, she prefers big letters (capital) over small letters... When I ask for "small letters", she takes it literally and writes me "small-sized" words in capital letter.

The school will allow the kids to doodle on recycled paper and without aid, little gal actually spelled the word "BLUE" (notice it is is caps...) ;)

Guess the little "Colour" projects are working... ;)

Yummy fruits: Petite champagne grapes

I remember that when I was very young, staple fruits were banana, orange, apple and pear... Occasionally grapes (since they were expensive then).

Now fruit stalls bring in more variety - kiwi, cherries, peaches, nectarines, pulms, prunes, dragonfruit, etc. Now it's so easy to buy seedless grapes. The fruit stall we frequent sells this variety of grape which are special - not only seedless but also small!

Check out how much the little gal enjoy these little grapes! ;) Slowly savouring them one by one...

My TTC journey :)

I am about 18 weeks now and this is just a record of what had happened for #2.

The TTC journey is a long one this round... Comparing it with my first pregnancy which took only about 6 months with the help of Clomid and ovulation monitoring.

This TTC journey started 2 years ago when we started planning for a "Rabbit baby". The Rabbit year came and went. Enter the year of the "Dragon"... The months to try for a Dragon were coming to an end. Not that Dragon matters but it's almost 2 years of trying! Medical attention was definitely needed...

I went back to SGH's CARE which helped me conceive back in 2008. The doctor recommended two cycles of Clomid. After failing one cycle with Clomid, the doctor ordered an additional trigger shot during the 2nd cycle. Having read the side effects of long term Clomid usage, I did not want to be on more Clomid. So, I went back to the gynae who delivered my #1. There, I relied only on ovulation monitoring (i.e. ultrasound scanning and LH test kits). Just when the gynae asked if we would consider IUI during my next cycle, since my "natural" attempts have failed, we hit the jackpot!

This attempt was no different from the other cycles. The only difference was that we tried alternate days just before, during and after the LH surge. I remember during my TTC journey, there was a lady who blogged about her LH test kits and it was called - pee on stick. For memory sake, I actually took pictures of the LH test kits and put them side by side for comparison. So here there are  - the photos of LH test kits used in this successful cycle. My gynae confirmed that the positive test result should be the 3rd stick and not the first. As to why the second kit looks so negative, he couldn't quite explain. :p

The #2 pregnancy was also a Mothers' Day gift. I tested positive the day before Mothers' Day. Was 4-5 days late and I wasn't holding up much hope since it was normal for my cycle to be late up to 5-6 days. But positive it was. :)

Will be blogging more about the pregnancy in the next few posts! :)

Practice makes perfect?!

After the PTM with lil gal's school teacher, we decided to settle down with alternating weekdays with worksheets/revision & play.

Well at least some part of it paid off when I gave her a revision and she could spell out loud, write the word "RED" (in big and small letters, yah and she really writes it small!) and point out the Colour to me.

Nothing great i guess but I'm happy to see some results... ;) and yeah she can write her name on her own too (thou I feel she writes her "O" very big!).