TODAY! We woke up as early as 8am to get everyone ready!  The Balloons were delivered at 9am and Dear and myself collected the cake at 10am, whilst Jamie came over to help decorate our place which was awesome! Thanks to my dearest friend who always take the extra effort to make my kids' day special hehe..

It was an awesome day, i ordered my favorite hello Kitty balloons, the cake was good and the kids enjoyed themselves to the fullest! And everyone was happy with the goodie bags i have given out which was really special! hahaha

Although it was a tired day at the end of it when the cleaning and packing may seem impossible, we all have fun and that is all that matters!

Happy Birthday Calyce! Although i know you may not be appreciating it as much as we do! But you will come to love birthdays very soon enough by the next year..

Its going to be the Lunar New Year AGAIN! hahaha.. and this is the FIRST year that Calyce can officially collects Ang Bao from everyone, because last year although she was born during the CNY period but she didnt collect any new year Ang Bao.  I wonder if she is excited this year hehe..

Calyce is going to be a year soon, in 3 weeks time.  However, her progress is not as fast as i have expected her to be.  Didnt people always say that girls progress faster than the boys?  Her progress appears to be fast during the early months but then slowed down in the recent months again.

1. At 1 year old, she still refuses to down any solid food.  All food must be blended before she will stop vomitting.. 

2. She refuse to try any new foods, like fruits, biscuits, bread etc.. maybe she doesnt have the teeth, but isnt that the same with Cepheus?  Cepheus doesnt have any teeth until starting of 10th months and they grew out damn slow as well.. but Cepheus loves food so much that he will simply put anything edible into his mouth to try and taste.  Calyce is just the opposite.  She will put anything into her mouth except food..her food intake is still very little compared to kids of her own age.. even when compared to Cepheus..

3. Calyce started crawling pretty early, however, till now, at 11 mths old, she still refuses to walk.  Whenever we tried to lead her hands to walk, she will 'keep' her legs, bend them up and refuse to walk, only want to seat down and crawl.  She is a pretty fast crawler and can crawl all over the house very quickly.  She loves to crawl onto the sofa but didnt want to learn standing for long or walking as yet.

 4. Calyce learnt to fight for attention with her brother, and will always cry for attention whenever she sees Cepheus near to the person.  She always wants the same attention from the same person whom is attending to her brother as well..no wonder Cepheus always got pissed off by her actions hahaha LOL

after we have our own children.  Normally i am the one on business trip while he was trapped at home with granny and the kids.  But this time round, its different. I end up the one being trapped at home taking care of the kids hahaha.. anyway, a good chance for dear to rest and sleep well as we seldom able to sleep through the night without waking up in the middle of the night at home.  But this time, it is also different, whilst my MIL and hubby always insists that they needed help and that they cannot take care of two kids at the same time without another adult at home (and i was wondering how my MIL can claim that she have been a nanny before.. hahaha), i opt to do it myself, with little help from my FIL on sat and my own daddy on sunday.  I took care of all their meals, bathe them, do all housework myself on the weekends and play and put them to bed at night.  I took a little help from my FIL and my dad in the daytime, where they pop by to play with the kids so that i can take a little breather and do my housework or own stuff (such as taking my own bath).  I even did a little marketing on sunday morning itself with the two kids all by myself as my dad only pops by around 4pm. Although, it is quite 'xiong' to do everything by myself.  I realise that it is nothing impossible at all.  All these crap about having two kids at home, how impossible it is to take care of them at the same time (the reason my MIL always gives) are just craps.  If you genuinely love the kids and take care of them well.  They will be well behaved and give you less trouble as well.  All those reasons i find are just given for sake of plain laziness and bo chapness.. but well, you couldnt really expect people to work extra for you since they think they are 'salaried' and should not be overworked else underpaid.. sigh.. such sad that even next of kin would be so calculative as well to you..when the main reason why you seek help from family is because you think they will be genuinely true to you when offering help.. what crap! anyway, i have zero expectations from now and we make up our minds that we should just depend on ourselves.  

I am now also even looking for good tingkats, since after the monday incident, after the row i have had with my MIL, she complained to Ferris that she thinks she is working too much (although really her only role is to take care of Calyce in the daytime as well as cooking dinner for us including herself).  But since she is so relunctant and thinks that by doing these is still too much for her, we are adamant to 'shrink' her duties so that her main role is just to take care of Calyce in the day time.  Hopefully after this incident and 'restructuring' of duties, she will not think she is overworked anymore and will pay more attention to Calyce in the future.

whilst i am feeding her night feed.. she have this habit of vomitting when she do not feel like drinking and when she is feeling tired or sleepy.. i am not sure now if she is actually suffering from reflux issues again or she actually regurgitate as and when she do not feel like drinking.. sigh..

Anyway, you can see the difference in how she is being treated twice this week, once on monday when she vomitted at home and today again, same both are night feed, and same when both granny (monday) and grandpa (today) is taking care of the big one whilst i am feeding her when she vomitted..

Monday - Calyce vomitted all over herself including her milk and porridge, and she cried out real hard.. her granny actually totally ignore the fact that she have vomitted and is crying out real hard and continues to shut herself in the room with Cepheus.  Whilst i carried my wet Calyce soaked in water and dripping all the way from the toilet into Cepheus room without any towel on, and she continues to cry profusely. i stormed into Cepheus room, on all the lights with Calyce still crying and began to dry and dress her immediately.. and all this while, granny and cepheus are making merry in the room.. granny's 'reason' for not offering any help is that she is trying to make cepheus 'sleep' and i wonder how she is going to do that with me in the room all lights on and Calyce crying and making a scene in the room itself.. after i carried calyce out of the room into my own MBR where calyce bed is, i put her down and proceed to the living room to clean up the mess.. and again Calyce cried out loud again, and the next thing the granny did is 'shut the door' on Calyce and continued to sleep inside Cepheus' room...

Today - Calyce again vomitted and although only milk and not the porridge but its just as bad as her hair and top was all soaked with vomit, chair and floor just as dirty.  The first thing grandpa do is to carry Calyce out of the chair and soothe her, whilst i quickly prepare her bath, grandpa then went into the bathroom to see if i need additional help and pass me whatever towel or stuff i may need for Calyce. Whilst still keeping an eye on Cepheus who is still in the living room.  And helping me to take care of Calyce whilst i clean up the mess in the living room...

From this incident, one can clearly see who is being genuinely sincere and dote on the kids and who is not, some people are just taking a 'salary' and pretending to be nice so as to keep their KPIs.. what a cruel world it is, but it does happen, not only to your company employee but to your kins at home too.. 

妈妈,妈妈 several times today and pronouncing so accurately!  When she wants to get my attention!! But when i insists that she calls me again, she refuses.. sigh.. another stubborn rabbit..