Cry Baby, Cry Mommy

We finally got another series of blood test done for Myron.
His prolonged jaundice is more serious than we thought.
He will be heading back for more photo therapy.

Today at the hospital poor little Myron cried his lungs out when the doctor had to prick him twice and drained 3 tiny test tubes of blood for a series of tests.
Gadget-daddy was in the room, but busy with with on his computer (or just pretending to be?), so Mommy helped the nurse sooth the baby while he cried like for the longest time.
When they pricked him the second time, Mommy walked to Gadget-daddy. His turn was up. Now he patted Myron to try to calm him while the doctor drew blood from his tiny hand.

The doctor suggested "fasting" the baby off breast milk to see if that was the cause of the jaundice.
He warned us it would be difficult.
He gave some nice-looking pre-mixed formula in a bottle (look like for space travel!!) to supplement. more like for a replacement and then bring Myron back on Wednesday for more tests. Mommy has to be in another room, or the baby would smell me and refuse the milk.
He warned us it would be difficult.
He warned us that the baby will cry, and at the end, the Mommy will cry too.

He was right.
We actually tried only once.
After a long day of emotional stress for Mommy and baby, it was all we could take.
I took him back to nurse him in the room and tears just came down like someone had pressed the "on" button.

I called the doctor later and told him he was right.
We will bring the baby in for photo therapy tomorrow.
No need to wait till Wednesday.
*sigh*

Myron's Fullmoon

Myron is a month old.

"Woo-hoo! Look at my loot!"

Thank you, everyone for all the lovely gifts.
Not forgetting to mention all the well-wishes, and those who also gave gifts to the two older boys, for me and the generous "ang-pow" too.


Thank You.

We did a little dinner for the family.




We also gave out the usual package of red-eggs, ang-ku and steamed chicken to reciprocate those who gave gifts in this time.
(Sorry no pix here. MiL and I started the "production line" at 4am, and in between I had to attend to a crying baby and another crying boy.)

Knock-knock

Knock-knock.
Hello, You.

I have been dropping by to visit at your sites, but the internet connection has been so slow that I actually can't get the comments posted up. and so after a while... I give up.
(It has also succeeded in demotivating me to blog coz it takes ages and a few rounds of resending a post. Grrr..)

So here's telling you have been peeking at your place.

Over here it's been exhausting to be back into fully breastfeeding a little one.
Maaan! I have forgotten how draining it can be.
All the night feeds is one thing to handle but actually getting the nutrients sucked out of you (literally)... I feel my energy being sapped out of me.

Oh, I am not complaining in a sense.
I love being so close and cuddling my little on e and doing the thing only a Mommy can do. It's just harder when you have 2 other boys to attend to (which I also enjoy very much) and a hubby who also likes some attention (like making him a sandwich, or getting him a cold drink while he sits with two computers on).

My ever impossible wish is that, "Oh, only if I have as much energy as when I was 18!!
Hahaha...

Almost Five And Pretty Funny

Entertaining us:
Micah has been entertaining us with his very funny antics and jokes.



A couple of songs he came up with:

Eat some leaves*
Eat some leaves from the tippy-toppy trees
Eat some leaves
The ones covered with bird poo-poo are the best

and,

1, 2 ,3, 4, 5,
Once I caught a dead fish,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go,
Because it is already dead
It is already dead,
So you cannot eat it.


His favourite jokes are (thanks to Tigger):

Why do birds fly south for the winter?
Because it's too far to walk.

Who stole the soap out of the bath room?
The rubber (robber) duckie, because it's a robber and a duck, so it steals.


Micah also likes to quote the funny parts from the shows, at least the parts he thinks are funny.
The other funny thing he likes to do is to re-enact snippets from his cartoon, and this sometimes he will tell you, "Look, Mom. I'll do it again for you - in SLOW motion." And those can really send you rolling on the floor, especially with the facial expressions.


Entertaining himself:
The other day, while his two little brothers were napping, he wanted to do some painting.
Not painting on a paper, but his truck.



He also drew this when we were playing pretend in the room.


The poster was to show our room is a "Cat's Feeding Room."

At other times he will be racing around the house, jumping on the beds in every room and playing at the back yard with the cats.

He loves babies, since the time he was very little.

Max and Myron, 2009

Micah and Max, 2005


Micah and cousin Xue Han, 2007

Micah,
you are so funny and so brilliant.
Stay happy and creative, my boy.
You are so special and we love you so much.



*When I asked him why he did not sing his "Eat the leaves" song to his teachers,
he said, "It's embarrassing. It's only for you."
That made me laugh.

Surprise!!

We got back from school yesterday and the boys and I had a surprise.



Grandma shaved Myron in advance for his Fullmoon,
which is actually this coming Monday.

Micah's exclamation was:
He is botak (bald)!
Now he looks like kung-kung (grandpa).

Time sure flies.

Now he looks even bigger to us, and to me, he looks like a three month old.

Myron: Sweet Slumber

Jailbreak - Shhh... Don't Tell My Mom

I took the boys to school today, as some of you already know.
Gadget-daddy left for Hong Kong this morning for work and will be there till Saturday evening.


Mil had suggested that the boys skip school this week, but we figured it'll be really too hard to get Max back into the routine of getting back to school if he has another "break" this week, and Micah would feel awfully deprived of school. He loves school.

Of course for the adults, I think the house can do with some peace and quiet with the boys out for school, a total of 4 - 4.5 hours, including travelling time.

So I did the usual with my sister this morning - sent the boys to school, had breakfast and walked the supermarket, hanging out mainly at the biscuit aisles, looking for snackies for the boys. The only difference is that we drove the car about a bit more than our usual walks of 15 minutes from the boys' school to our favourite coffee shop.

Oo... and I had some delicious fruit juice!!
Shhh... don't tell my mom. She'll give me no peace.
Oh, btw, my mom is away on holiday in China with a bunch of relatives.
:D


I left Myron with grandma, with 2X 4oz of milk. When we got home he had finished almost all the milk, save 1 oz. It seems that he behaved better today than the last time I left him home - he did a stake out, not sleeping and complaining whenever he had the bottle. Well, baby boy, you'll have to get use to this coz this is going to be our routine in time to come.


Will be doing this for the next two days.
:)

P/s - Grandma started potty-training Myron already.


Apparently if you start the baby off right from before the fullmoon (a month old), it'll be easier to potty train him/her fully in time to come.

Twitter Is Me

Gadget-daddy has handed me the Tweet bug.

So the side bar is me now. Guess it's good and bad.

You'll see some updates of what the kids and I are doing in snippets throughout the day.
But it also means me not sitting in front of the computer as much...
Actually I don't usually sit in front of the computer so much, especially when Gadget-daddy is working from home.

Those of you who tweet, tweet me, ya.
;)

Catch you later.
Max wants a snackie.