Yu turns 11 months today on 9/9!

And he fell off the bed for the fourth time in as many months! :( And I can't believe it but think three of these four happened on his monthsary!!!

We were breastfeeding in bed this afternoon. Sito needed a pin from his bank token so I got up to get N to watch Yu while I settled the admin. He was in the middle of the bed when I left him. When I turned around from the door, he was smiling at me from the edge and as I reached for him, he slipped off!!!

I saw his tiny forehead hit the floor and he cried :( I thought it was the area from his right eye and up but a bruise on the middle of his forehead informed me otherwise. My poor baby. I shouldn't have left him alone. He may know how to get off the bed but accidents could still happen.

Getting off the bed legs first

On a happier note, he has really grown this month! New half tooth, more words, more actions, closer to walking...

To the sian-ness of Sito, he said a new word that is not papa - bear! I attribute that to my constant reading of Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See. So I brought out his Gleneagles bear for him.

"Bear!"

And this week, he started saying "bread" - not papa again?! - coz N has been giving him bread in the morning while I snuggled with Yang just a little bit more while he wanted me :p But he eats more than just food...

"Why? Why can't I eat stickers??"

"Can I eat my first ziplock paint then?"

"Ok, I eat ball!"

Yu is very troublesome at changing time. Every diaper change is a struggle. Every post-shower is a struggle. But plastic balls buy me a little quiet time. This evening, I managed to put on his diaper properly before he turned and crawled off! And speaking of that, I realised that I haven't managed to take a photo of Yu in the bathtub! He's soooo cute!

This boy is quite the daredevil - he likes to just stand up in the middle of nowhere, and smile! A few times, when I was near, he started to bounce too. So scared he would just fall and hurt himself.

He loves the camera...

Playing in the dark during his bedtime routine

This afternoon, he decided to stand up and show off!

Now we have fallen into some sort of bedtime routine. We'll read and play a little at the shelf before milk. After milk, he is seldom drunk so he will crawl around the room - I have to lock the door to prevent him from going out and to prevent his brothers from coming in!

Playing a little before milk milk

He seemed very taken with the fish!

It takes some time for him to go to sleep. There were a couple of days when I could just pat pat him and he would sleep. But most days, I had to rock him madly. Or like these two evenings, I simply held him still while I sat down and let him cry until he dozed off!

He still wakes for milk. Many times, he crawled all the way to our bed before anyone heard him! Within a week or so, he became super skilled in pulling open his door. And at least once a night, he would refuse to go back to sleep. Sometimes, he'll grind his 2.5 teeth, argh! So I'll spend two hours patting and rocking him. On Thursday night, I let him roll on my bed until he fell asleep.

How I wish he could be like Kai who got drunk on milk easily! This baby Yu gets distracted and moves around a lot during nursing.

See how he shifted until he was almost standing?!

He can even slide off the hipseat via little movements! And if we're in a car, he'll just move off the hipseat. He can even stand and get out of the soft carrier *.*

Shadow of a still Yu on hipseat

Back-carried him once! He didn't seem to like it...

My carrier is really old now. But not going to get a new one. The hipseat comes with an attachment that I could use to transform into a carrier, just that I can't back-carry him. I would really love to! Will try again :)

Was sitting on the floor in front of the TV while he moved about this evening, as we were waiting for someone to repair the TV which died suddenly yesterday. He had his back to me as he played with the music table. Such a tiny back, his sleeveless onesie showing off his cute tiny shoulders. And I thought - no baby of mine will ever be this small again. He's troublesome, as are his brothers, but must really really treasure every moment with him and his brothers.

His brothers love him too!

The three rules

For some reason, Kai tugged Sito from behind as we were walking toward Bugis Downtown Line on Saturday, and Sito almost tripped with Yu in his arms. We scolded Kai on the spot, and Sito stripped him of his farecard and his post-shower video that evening.

In the train, he came over and roared at me so I told him he had to go to the corner when he got home. For a few train stops, he kept saying he didn't want to go to the corner. He looked so poor thing that I wanted to cry and hug him!! But I sat still with Yang.

He did go to the corner back home after shower. During the post-corner debrief, I told him we had to set rules but I didn't have time then so we would do it the next day.

And the next morning, we sat down and talked through the rules:

1. Safety - do not cause danger to anyone or anything, e.g. do not carry Yu!
2. Respect - respect people and things, be polite, e.g. don't be rude to parents!
3. Hygiene - keep hygiene in mind, e.g. wash hands after toilet, no spitting of saliva!

He can be playful as long as he keep within these rules.

We will probably change rule 3 as they get older but for now, it's important!

So these two days, I kept reminding Kai and asking him about the rules as we went about the day. It was mostly rules 1 and 2 though. For rule 2, Kai would usually say "polite". Eventually, he told me respect means being polite.

Even Yang got schooled on the rules along the way. And amazingly, he seemed to have learnt well!

Yang threw a book.

mf: Yang, remember rule 2?
Kai: Respect!
Yang: Respect books!

Yang wanted to horsie* me...

mf: Don't you do that! Remember respect?
Yang: Respect people!

I'm impressed.

I realised I forgot a rule about whining! Maybe can park under respect... Let's see how that turns out in practice...

* They were rowing a boat here but horsie refers to the same position but with a parent instead of the green pillow!

Five full days with my boys!

And I didn't go crazy!!

School was closed 31 August to 4 September. This must be the longest stretch ever - Teachers' Day, Haji, Saturday closure, Sunday, Monday closure.

On Thursday, it was just me and N against three kids. N looked shocked when I said we were going to the Botanic Gardens without Mum :p Forgot Yu's bib and my whole purse so N went back twice along the way to the train station. Oops, that's for going out understaffed for the first time...

Monkeying around most of the morning

Had a date with Na who had help from her mum. But our kids didn't interact beyond a very curt "how old are you" by Mr Kai *.* They watched squirrels and roosters together but that was it. Yang decided to stay in the stroller meant for Yu the whole time while Kai whined as he trotted alongside me. Yu took a little nap despite the heat.

Squirrel up the tree!

The adults didn't have much of a conversation amid the child care! We started out late but tried to keep to an early lunch so the kids could nap. Lunch was miserable coz the table was small and Yu was needy and Yang was naughty and Kai was whiny. At least I got to squeeze HX's chubby thighs - 10 kg against Yu's 8 kg just 10 days apart!

"More Gerber puffs!"

Kai and Yang went down at 130 pm. I headed out for bubble tea and to buy bread with Yu before setting him down for his nap. I didn't get a chance to nap coz Kai woke soon after Yu went down :( And then the other two woke.

A painting activity with a lesson on primary and secondary colours, which Kai already knew some of

Turned the nanny on - sounds wrong, hoho! I meant the TV.. Somehow we survived until Mother arrived. I did some work while there was an extra pair of hands :p And then it was playground time! Yang ditched his scooter once we got there. Kai asked him like we asked them before - then why do you bring your scooter down??? :p

Dinner was just downstairs at La Mian. I overate coz their fried rice was huge!!! The boys had their wish after that - ice cream at the daily scoop.

I agreed to premium cones...

Kai finished first so N took him back to shower first. Yang took his own sweet time savouring his ice cream. Oh, he had zero warm-up time today - he said "hello 外婆" without prompting and then "look, (some TV thing)", and at the end also said bye bye properly.

As we walked home with Yu sitting quietly in the carrier, Yang started telling me a story about a boy who was alone and there was a ghost, ending with "that's my story of the ghost" :p I was so curious and asked him to tell me his ghost story again. Well, he gave me a brand new story, about the boy kicking the ghost and the ghost ate the boy!! There were a couple of other lines but I forgot. I asked him and it seemed like he thought of the story himself. So cute :)

But I was so tired I slept at 915 pm!

Day 2 was better. N was off but Mum and Dad were with us at River Safari, and it wasn't too hot. And we were lucky - we saw both pandas even though we were told Jia Jia might stay inside! Kai Kai even walked towards us and sat down roughly for a snack. His girlfriend was so much more demure. Or less of a brute? Heh!

Fake boat

Yu looked at fish

Kai touching a crab - forgot the name!

With the fake panda

Kai Kai reaching for his snack - carrot, I think

Jia Jia snacking on bamboo

Kai was very happy that he could take the Amazon boat ride while Yang couldn't coz it became the big boy ride for him. Yang looked so sad that Sito got him an ice cream but he didn't like it coz it had nuts! Ah well...

Just before he found the ice cream-in-lieu-of-boat-ride yucky!

After the boat ride, Kai was getting tired. When Yang left the stroller, I think, to pee, Kai rested on the stroller. He didn't want to get up and Yang was upset. I coaxed him up saying he was too heavy for the stroller. And this boy bravely stood up but he was on the verge of crying. I managed to stop the flood with the promise of a nice drink at lunch. He was still upset so I had a chat with him about how primary school kids no longer nap so take this as practice... the "grown-up talk" worked like a charm! Despite all his whining, he's really understanding :)

Lunch was very late at two plus. The older boys napped less than 30 min in the car and that was it. They went down really quickly at night, yeah!

Yu didn't nap after his short nap while Kai was on his boat ride. He was very active. At one point, he stood up in front of me on his own! I was so pleasantly surprised! He was so pleased with himself too :) He had a good day, eating a wassant when he shouldn't have haha! Close two eyes by the third kid :p

What a happy day!

Saturday was almost usual except that the boys were in the whole morning. Sito wasn't well and went to see a doctor late morning, leaving me and N with three. But Yang somehow fell asleep while snuggling in my bed - at 11.15!! Kai wanted to nap with him but he also wanted lunch so he had lunch before an early nap at 12.30 pm. Amazingly, Kai woke at 2.30 pm and Yang at 2.15 pm!

My cutie pie in my bed

Kai and Yu in the other room

Our activity of the day was fishing at Bugis. It was longkang fishing with a net but Kai wanted a rod so he settled on prawning. The shop couldn't take all of us so Sito sat with Kai and Yang while N sat outside and I went walking around. I bought six towels and four pairs of pants within 20 min :p

Uncle Kai, need a beer??

Got back within an hour coz Yang was getting bored. Turned out they didn't catch any prawn. Sito got the staff to help and he caught one in a minute!! No luck at the end of the hour but got some photos!

They touched it and the bits of chicken heart baits too for sure - plenty of handwashing...

Yu pooped during dinner and we had to change him in the small baby room - smallest I've seen among the newer malls! Job hazard... But Bugis + isn't exactly for families though we saw many. Sito pointed out that they were young so probably more used to this place? I had another job hazard thought from this, heh... Anyway...

There was an important development on the way home. So important I'll record it separately.

Sunday was the usual routine. Sent the boys to Chengzhu and went to the bingsu place downstairs. We had a drink there last Sunday. This time, we shared s bingsu before 11 am :p

Yummy! :p

The baby who fell asleep to K-pop and my aerobic dance steps!

It was the last class of the term so it was open class! This time, I went to Kai's class while Sito went to Yang's class. Kai was very participative! But he was using English to ask questions unless it was part of what he was supposed to do. The teacher was also very good in getting them to participate and weaving in the beginnings of hanyu pinyin.

Spot Kai? :)

Yu was also captivated!

On the other hand, Yang was not participating! He was standing at one side at the end of last term but that was his first term. He was apparently still the same this term. His teacher said he was usually like that *.* But at least there was a video where he said 跳 when asked whether he wanted to 跳 or 转呼啦圈 - that word cost $400!!!

And in this funny video, he slid down and stopped, with his head to the floor!! Super cheeky boy!

And yesterday, Yang ate very slowly and reluctantly at dinner. For some reason, he didn't eat well the past few days. So Sito took Kai and Yu back first. When I was on the way home from Mum's place with Yang, I had a bad stomachache - the kind that would saw me go running for the toilet. But I was in the lift with two stops before ours!

Spent a good 30 min or so in the toilet. Had to shout for the pain a few times. And I was breaking out in so much cold sweat I had to take off my top which was drenched. I almost gave up, wanting to call for an ambulance - like 12 years ago - but I couldn't talk properly to give instructions on milk for Yu! But eventually, the constipation passed and the diarrhoea started - I think that was the reason for all that pain, constipation plus diarrhoea!! IBS??

I took a bottle of bao ji wan and the pain subsided. But the next morning, the pain was bubbling just beneath the surface. By the time we got to IMM, it was started to get worse but no poop. Over lunch, the pain changed to become gastric pain, which I'm more familiar with. I let Mum and N take care of Yu coz I couldn't.

So happy!

Perhaps coz we took Kai out for waterplay a lot more than Yang, he is very happy with waterplay. When we arrived, Yang wanted to go to the playground. When I asked Kai, he said he would go with Yang. But later, he really wanted to go for waterplay so we changed them both. But Yang mostly stayed in the perimeter and out of too much water. Hope this would change when we move...

Kai wasn't pleased he didn't have a turn at this water gun, which shoots higher than the rest

At the end, I asked N to bring Yang out first so that Kai could have a go but he decided to leave as well. I think despite what he said about not liking Yang, he does like him enough to want to be with him. After all, this is the brother who can play with him, even if he doesn't find him cute like Yu!

Monkey at lunch - always trying to climb out!

Gotta entice him with biscuits...

Took two bottles of bao ji wan this time and laid down to rest. Got better as Yu fell asleep. Then I went downstairs to get some buns for their tea time. And the whole afternoon passed very s l o w l y....! But we finally got to me sitting here typing - I survived the long weekend!! :p

It was tiring but there were highlights that I would have missed if they were in child care - Yang's ghost story, Kai's grown-up moment, Kai and Yang applying their new rules, Kai's love for his brothers, Yu standing on his own and more of Yu which I'll detail later. Just spent a couple of minutes watching their videos with Sito - so cute :) Love our boys!

Yu's food adventures

Yu has gone on a little food adventure... I think it was National Day when he had lots of blueberry bits - I sneakily took some from Yang's fruit bowl for Yu :p And he loved it! So now he's having blueberries after dinner every day.

But one evening, I took a bit of dragon fruit from one of their fruit bowls for Yu, and I had a huge pink mess of a zombie baby to deal with! Luckily, the pink stain washes off easily.

"Mama, I just ate some brains..."

Yu also went to the coffee shop for the first time, and had to use a big spoon to eat his dinner coz this mama didn't bring a little spoon :p

Still contented!

I started giving him porridge for dinner on a daily basis two weeks ago. We started with just a little bit of broccoli porridge, with the occasional fish if his brothers were having fish. No stock coz he seemed to like it bland. And we struck gold. We had two weeks of broccoli porridge. Last Saturday, we added carrot and he took it. So this week, it's been broccoli and carrot porridge with the occasional fish. Gotta think of something else next week!

"But my fave is baby biscuit!"

"See, I'm so happy eating it!"

I love it that he's eating more solids now. He's still drinking milk though sometimes in school, he had less than usual coz of both timing and lots of bland porridge. Even so, I'm running low on my frozen stash - this morning, I found four bags in the freezer :( I brought formula to school yesterday but they didn't give him coz there was a lot of frozen milk. Today, they gave him a bottle in the morning and he took it.

Sighs, I was hoping I could last until he turns one! But pumping is such a chore and I was so busy that I couldn't pump long. In fact, I didn't pump for two evenings this month! So my supply is dropping steadily... I think I'll gradually reduce pumping. Last Saturday, I even used the Haakaa instead of the dual pump already. This is one slippery slope... But I'll continue to latch..

Here's us - may we continue on this breastfeeding journey for a little while more!

Because they are cute

Is it me or do parents get cutified by their kids?

Sunday evening, I couldn't help just lying there to stare at Kai as he watched YouTube. Such a perfect oval face. Such lovely 白里透红 skin. Such round though small cheeks. Such delicate eyebrows for a boy.

See?

And Yang too. Such a perfect round face with chubby cheeks. Such a cute pouty mouth. One morning, very early morning, I came in after settling Yu to stare at my sleeping boy, hands behind his head and breathing ever so gently.

See again?

Even Yu on one of the most difficult nights could snatch my heart away. He was refusing to sleep at 2 or 3 am, and I was so frustrated and needed to pee so much that I dumped him on Sito. On my way in, the boy put his little head on my shoulder and rub his face into me, as if to tell me that he was tired but needed just that little more sayang-ing...

Cannot stop staring at this boy

And of course the moment they turn rogue, they aren't cute anymore!

Or maybe they still are...

Kids 1 vs. Mama 0.

Happy National Day and 10 months to Yu!

This National Day, we stayed in to watch the Parade with a simple dinner. I used to do that growing up - for some years, Mother cooked yummy fried rice and made teh to go with it :) It was fun watching the planes on TV and then hear and see one from our window. Kai even tried to sing the Anthem! Not sure how much the boys took in though but it was a start. I know Kai was looking out for Chan Mali Chan but we didn't hear it before we went in to settle for the evening.

Mum got them matching outfits which they wore to school yesterday. Today, Kai and Yang wore their Merlion shirts while the rest of us just wore red, and we were not the only family doing that :)

Raffles, Farquhar and Crawfurd?! Hoho!

Posing at the Botanic Gardens MRT station while transiting to Downtown Line

We went to Hillion for lunch and to check out the construction. It looks almost ready! We cannot wait for TOP! But Kai said the child care centre looked ugly, hoho! I just hope they get a place there!

And today, Yu also turns 10 months :) And he also fell off the bed for the third time in as many months :( This time, I dozed off and found him on Sito's side, lying on his side and crying :(

He started scratching his head a lot in the past couple of weeks. Dr Google has no definite answer. But it is likely due to tiredness. Tonight, he slept through his brothers' transit into the room. Hope he continues to improve... Sleep aside, more on him in pictures!

I love how he held on to the bay window and tried to stoop down to reach for toys. Most times, he ended up kneeling. I don't remember his brothers doing that!

He can get up and down very easily now

And he crawls super well

Practising his fine motor skills on Gerber puffs - when his brothers hadn't got to them first!

Very much more interactive - he laughed whenever I pretended to eat his food

And when I sang, he clapped! So sweet, haha! He can do a lot with his hands. I taught him to wave a big hi and wave bye. Today, when Dad said bye to him, he paused and raised his hand to wave bye - I was so happy!

We think he entered a new stage during his nebulisation weekend - he's no longer content with staying in the carrier; he must be walked around! And today, I found that he seemed to prefer being carried free hand - that sucks, hoho!

He is really good at calling me :) Sometimes he says nai nai too - not the person but the milk! Am thinking of introducing him to formula soon coz I'm running low on my freezer stash and I'm paranoid that he wouldn't take formula! This is one picky boy - he has two teeth now but eats very little. Hope he can eat/drink more soon. Stay chubby!

Three boys sleeping in their room

Took a picture of the kids' room on Saturday coz I was thinking of letting Yu sleep in there again. But it was a short Saturday morning coz we went to ICA to collect their passports, and N was going to Batam that evening so I forgot about it.

Also a last shot of the playmat

Yes, the good old playmat is pretty much dead. The button holding the roof together broke free of one of the arches a few weeks ago. N stitched it back but it came off again. And over the weekend, I found that one of the hooks for the toys was broken, leaving a sharp edge, but the hook itself could not be removed from the arch. Took it out of the kids' room just now, in case Yu decided to put his mouth to it!

So just now, instead of nursing Yu in my bed, I went to his bed. He looked a little lost, like, why are we here? But it was a good day - he woke at 3 pm so was tired by dinner time. I nursed him and he dozed off. I was surprised that I was able to put him down on the bed with just one try. And then I got to spend some time with his brothers!

Watched them play in my room

First, I showed them the camera footage and explained to them that if Yu cried, I would go over while they stayed here to play, and that when we went over later, they had to be quiet. Then I watched them play a while.

And then I got greedy and decided to shower - save some time! :p But this Yang refused to let me go! After many no's, he finally let me shower but with him watching *.* Halfway through, he slammed the door and left, argh...

We had lots of fun today. First, we read the latest popular book from Chengzhu, of a goat and a sheep crossing a river. Then we re-enacted the scene at the foot of the bed, which makes a nice passageway acting like a bridge.

And then it was time for massage. I had to go get the little stingray toy from the other room. Instead of letting them draw or find the stingray, I turned my back to them and threw it back. Yang got it! So massage massage massage... And there was a fair bit of horsing around before I settled them in bed to watch an old video of Yang. They loved it! Kai thought Yang was so cute while Yang thought he looked like Yu - I told him it was coz they're brothers :)

After a few more videos of themselves, we cuddled in bed for a while, playing round and round the garden. And just as we hid under the duvet, somehow Yang looked out and saw Papa! I didn't even hear the door open!

By then it was time for bed so we went over. To keep them quiet, especially Yang, I decided to stay with them until Yang slept. But Yu woke and cried for mama so I nursed him. Yang fell asleep during that short time. After settling Yu, I chatted with Kai a little before leaving.

But before I could open up my laptop, Yu woke again! Managed to settle him quickly and I've been here since. Sito just said that he couldn't remember the last time we had our laptops in bed, with the light on. And neither could I! I wonder how long this would last - not in matters of days but hours haha! Will probably bring Yu back if I can't settle him easily later. But to have our room back while we're awake is really great :)

Just checked the camera and look! Haha!

The brothers sliding down, weeee!

It has been an uneventful week - good! But they've each hit a milestone, or "milestone"...

Kai took a shower on his own this evening, supervised by me. Took a bit of nagging for him to cover every spot with soap. When I checked, only the top of his head was a little soapy - almost there! But this boy is like his father when it comes to towelling off - his standard for "dry" is very different from mine!

Yang is his cute self as usual, even when he was crying outside his Chengzhu class. Yes, for some inexplicable reason, he started crying these two weeks! I told him 可爱没有用，还是得进去！And at Mum's place, he pulled a chair over and told me he's cute *.*

Yu had his first slide yesterday - on me! I tried to let him slide but his clothes weren't facilitative so I slid with him instead :) And today, he managed to slide down the little slide at Chengzhu!

1, 2, 3 - go!

First babies

I told Kai about our first baby just now.

Kai was saying that he didn't like Yang coz he was a "dumb dumb" and he liked Yu coz he was so cute, cuter than Yang. And he wanted to wake at night to quietly carry Yang outside!

Fast forward a little. Yang was outside with Sito while I was in bed with Kai. Told him he's special as my first baby. And somehow he asked something like, "am I your first baby?" Well, since he asked... I said there was a baby before him but baby didn't have a heartbeat. He asked where baby was. I said heaven. He didn't understand of course. I had to explain that baby had died and so went to heaven.

"Did he walk there?" He asked, using his fingers to climb up imaginary stairs. So cute :)

I told him I didn't even know whether it was a he or a she, baby being so tiny. And we launched into a lengthy comparison of sizes, baby to thumb, baby to little toe...

He also asked whether he was the first baby then. Yes, he's the first baby I held :)

Towards the end, I said that I was very sad when baby was no more and that all my babies were precious. After a little pause, he said something like, "Ok, since you say that, I won't carry Yang out."

I don't think he totally got it but the last line was enough :)

Reposting this photo for the look they exchanged

A little break

After many weeks of working late into the night and Yu's recent illness, I was so tired that I wasn't focusing my eyesight - unless I was reading, I usually saw things in a blur coz even keeping my eyes open was taking effort. And this happened:

mf: I'm not feeling too good. Think I'm ill...
Kai: You need to rest... Go sleep!
mf: But Yu always wakes up at night.. Maybe you could help me..? *what was I thinking?!* No, you should sleep too..
Kai: But when Yu wakes, he wants your nai nai *hand on my chest* I cannot help...

The next day...
Kai: How do you feel today?

I was wondering if I might be ill enough to take MC today but nope. Then last night, I saw an email that a key meeting next week was postponed so I decided to take leave today since there would be time to work on my item next week. I happened to have an action learning group discussion thing today that I didn't really want to miss so I took half day.

And it was good!

I wanted to leave at noon to pump but I thought I would stay until another colleague got there just to say hi but the pizza also arrived so they asked me to stay. I ended up having a rather nice chat with them before coming home to pump.

I didn't quite plan what I wanted to do but starting with a massage sounded tempting so that was what I did. Went to Natureland downstairs and was lucky to get a slot on the spot! The room is small and dark but sufficient. There's a sign in broken English that basically says they're a proper spa :p The paper underwear was actually comfortable! It might even be more comfortable than the 15yo underwear that I wore today, haha!

Got a PRC lady who wasn't smiling but who had a friendly and soothing voice when she spoke, which wasn't a lot, which was what I wanted. And she was strong. The hour was focused on my head, back and legs. The head included the ears - very interesting! And painful coz she was strong, but not unbearable. In fact, I like it; I thought it helped my shoulders.

The style is more TCM than Swedish so even my bones were hurting and making noise. Plus, she was so strong. Ya, I know I said it already but she was really strong and she was small! She said it might hurt for a couple more days and yes, I'm feeling my back as I type. Before I forget, her name is Sydney.

My next stop was to refuel at Each A Cup :p I hadn't decided where next but I vaguely knew that it was probably Vivocity rather than Jurong or Bishan. Anyway, it was easy - just sat in the train until it wouldn't go anymore!

I was torn between Daiso and Giant... In the end I checked out swimwear at Giant first. All black, bleah. Bought underwear for Kai instead; his bum is growing...! Then it was Daiso. After getting what I wanted, I just wandered the aisles randomly. It felt soooo good! All the little treasures. All the ideas. I can't wait to move house! Also popped into a few stores here and there, like Uniqlo but nothing caught my fancy. Bought some food stuff from Giant and the food hall, and came home to pump before going to get some bread for the older boys' morning tea tomorrow.

I realise it was some time since I spent time on myself like this. No fixed plans. Just walk and see things. When it was time to fetch the kids this evening, I felt that I could handle it! Need more of such breaks :)