staying by the sea on our own without daddy

daddy was suppose to meet some friends on Saturday nite...i got mad cos he didnt tell me earlier and in a fit of anger, i changed my mind and decided to stay over at uncle's place. packed very quickly before leaving for our shopping spree. but funny thing was, daddy's meetup was cancelled... still we stayed overnight at uncle k's house while daddy gota spend some time at home with his parents. baby r refused to sleep and she was super active rolling around on the bed, sitting up, climbing onto me and daddy. called sis into the room and we started a conversation esp for baby r. when i asked sis what time will she be over the next morning, sis replied 7am and i told her i will be ready as i am gog to bed! then i look at baby r and told her if she don't wake up in time she has to stay with m! i won't wake her up as she is not ready to go! sis told her she won't wait and neither would she wake her up! baby r rubbed her eyes, laid her head down on the bed, then she crawled forward to daddy to take the pacifier from him.... put it into her mouth by herself and closed her eyes as i pat her to sleep... sang her 2 lullabies and she was asleep!

i grabbed mum's laptop and type in all my entries and watch baby r sleep. i was afraid that she mit have nightmare from the swimming incident... and she did... she cried very loudly and looked so frighten.... i carried her and hush her to get her to calm down. she won't take her pacifier and kept crying and i had to hug her tightly to comfort her. she slept but broke into tears again and i told her Nightmare will go away and she will be fine as i m there... she calmed down. watched her till 12.30am and she was crying again... i told her to dry her tears and sleep as we need to wake up to go out with yiyi and she took her pacifier with her eyes still closed and she slept thru till 5am she woke up for milk but everything was normal.

we got up and she was fine. had my breakfast as popo carried her. then we rushed out in yiyi's car to the supermarket. this time, i fed her before we left the house and i took an extra feed along in case we were out longer than expected. i used her kangaroo bag as it serve as a soft toy too! lucky baby r wore her new sweater dress as it was really freezing cold at the Huge NTUC finest supermarket. after sis and mum kept asking me to let baby sit in the trolley that i agree to let her try it out... she enjoyed thr thrill while i was worried that baby r might get too active and hurt herself... she was good and she was pretty relaxed and she even sweing her little legs! after awhile, she started rubbing her little ears with her hand and we got her out of it. whenever she rubs her ears, that means she is tired and she want to sleep. put her into the jap cloth carrier and she fell asleep on me in no time!

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Shopping carts: A risky ride?

These days, grocery stores acknowledge that some people feel squeamish about germs on shopping cart handles — antiseptic wipe dispensers are becoming a fixture at stores. But not all parents take advantage of them. "I never use the wipes," says Carolyn McCarthy, a mother of one from Decatur, Georgia, with another on the way. "We grew up riding around in shopping carts, and we did fine."

For other parents, a mere wipe isn't enough. In addition to her bleach bottle, Connecticut mom Titley brings her own cloth cart cover to keep the handle under wraps.Shopping cart handles really can be coated in germs, says Elizabeth Scott, a professor of biology at Simmons University in Boston and founder of the Simmons Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community. "Then again, germs are absolutely everywhere." She says moms and dads could give grocery cart handles a quick wipe, but "it wouldn't be a huge concern of mine.

Ällison Aiello, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, agrees that shopping cart handles don't pose any special health threat, at least no more than doorknobs, telephones, and the other germ-covered items in our lives. When shopping for groceries, you should pay attention to your hands, not the handles, Scott says. "If I get a little chicken juice on my hands, I'll ask the clerk for a wipe," she says. Food-borne bacteria lurking on raw meat or fish pose a bigger threat than any other germs you're likely to run across in the store, she says.
Bottom line: Wiping down the shopping cart can only help, but it's a corner you can cut without guilt. The real danger in the store is raw meat and fish — so wash well after touching them.

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 i got myself a bottle of sugar... a special bottle of sugar! handmade australian purple lavender fine sugar! i am pretty excited to use it but i would need time to bake and use it for decorating and flavouring! once home, mum started preparing lunch and i started learning how to cook my mum's dishes! it was a close up, one student demo class! just mum and me! so i wrote down the recipe for hokkien noodles and took many photos to make a step-by-step instruction recipe for myself! i have a bigger project in mind and i am glad it took off today!

i gave baby r bananas for the 1st time! i added mashed bananas to her b.r cereal mixed with soy milk. she loves it! my mum, popo fed baby r for the 1st time! yiyi tried feeding baby r the afternoon before and told mum that baby r is very easy to handle during feeding and popo agrees! i managed to get a very short nap to catch up with my energy level as baby r refused to sleep and i almost became short-tempered with her... mum took her away in time. i asked for 10mins and it was sure 10mins as baby r came looking for me... thou 10mins i was taken into lala land and i was dreaming! so tiring! my sweet mum made alittle milk to help baby r sleep and she sure slept after drinking milk. so i started typing the entry watching her rest. then mum surprised me with a bag that contained a box with a jar of honey inside. she bought it esp for me. she say i have to drink it everynight before i sleep to help me slim down and its good for my health....

i am a very lucky girl. i still feel like a little girl whenever i see my mum. i dun seem to feel grown up when she is around. i always think my mum is very poor thing to have me as a daughter as i can't take care of her as i chose to be a SAHM and i have no income to support her... i am not as open to tell my mum face to face as we were brought up rather traditionally... but i wished that i could have told her I LOVE YOU , mama... when she gave me the honey... she thinks of our needs, our well being, makes us soup and never think for herself 1st. I salute my mum!

wished i could have followed my mum to buy chinese new year dried goods... but i had to keep watch on baby r as she is napping right now... things are sure different with baby around. it will be the 1st year baby r is celebrating new year and everyone in the family is a rank higher than before! think the happiest would be the grandparents! will wait for daddy to come by after he meets up with SI classmate CH for tea... we will be gog for our evening beach walk later. i am also thankful to uncle k that my little family gets to enjoy the beach almost every weekend!