Finally...

Thank god, its finally over.

We received the call from the clinic assistant, Ms Lim, this morning and was told that my gynae wanted to speak to both myself and my husband on the results. She didnt give me any details but told me that she saw something like "retest" when I asked her on the results. "Retest?" My heart sank when I heard that. I called my hubby and within 2 hours, we reached the clinic.

Anyway, thank goodness everything is alright...except that they found 4 XX chorosomes among the 34 cells they had tested. Doctor said it is possible that the XX chorosomes belong to the mummy and it is especially obvious when the baby and the mother are of different gender. Phew! Though the lab suggested a retest if we want to double confirm, we decided to go away with the idea. The wait for the results is simply unbearable and I have told myself I am not going to do it again.

Dear lord, I thank you for watching over the little one residing inside my tummy. Thank you for blessing him. Amen.

Mooncake festival Celebration 2007

The school organised a mooncake celebration last Saturday. It was also supposed to be a parent-teacher get-together session however we were late so we didn’t get much chance to linger with the teachers. Worst still, we only got 20mins to work on a lantern where others got almost an hr to do it…haha must be the pregnancy syndrome, I totally forgot about the event! Just before the function, we even brought Trenyce to Serangoon Swimming Complex swimming...almost going elsewhere for dinner but then we decided to go back home first to put down the swimming stuff. Called my mother then I remembered about the event! :p

This was the 1st time we get to see Trenyce singing with the other kids. Can see that she really like singing and dancing….this really prompts hubby and myself to send her to a singing & dancing school.

On Sunday, we had another gathering at my sister's place which was just a block away. My cousins brought their kids and some of my sister's friend turned up as well. We had all the mooncake novelties i.e pomelo, yam, "unicorn", chinese tea….and the not-so-mooncake food - fried chicken wings, herbal tea etc. The children had lots of fun....they even had a mini lantern walkabout at the void deck! The children enjoyed themselves so much that they cant bear to go home! haha!

I am 3! Celebrating in School!

Birthday Celebration
Last Friday, we celebrated Trenyce's 3yo birthday at her school. Mummy didn’t have the strength like last yr to host a birthday party for her at home so celebrating at school was the best alternate choice. She wanted an ELMO cake so we ordered one from Polar Cake Shop the week before from J8. She chose the design herself. I packed 50 party bags and prepared some 50 fishballs for her to bring to school. She was so excited that the night before, she just couldn’t sleep and kept talking to me until about 11pm….so in the end mummy had to force her to sleep by shutting her chattering mouth…This explained why she couldn’t wake up on time and we were slightly late for school…

Both hubby and myself joined in the celebration at her school. Coincidentally, there was another girl celebrating her birthday, however hers was on Saturday so Trenyce got the privilage to have her birthday song first. She was emotionless when the cake was presented in front of her. When I asked her later after the celebration was over, she told me she was shy…. Gee, a 3yo knows what is shy?? Hmmm... But we could tell she was very happy as she jumped and hopped around the room when the celebration was over….
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That was not the end of her birthday celebration. We brought her to the Zoo in the afternoon. It was about 4pm when we reached, 2hrs to tour around before the Zoo closed. Luckily we managed to catch one of the animal performances. Well, the other bonus we got was we saw James Lye and Diana Ser with their little boy! What a coincidence huh!



Presents
Trenyce had long redeemed the birthday present that daddy and mummy had for her ---- a bicycle, the Hi5 concert and a $10 balloon! It was the most expensive balloon we ever got for her. When she saw every kid passing her holding the balloon, she couldn’t resist the temptation and pestered hubby to get one for her..haha… We caught the show on 8th Sep07 and the hall was pretty packed. Kids nowadays are so fortunate huh.

Grandmother bought her the helmet set complete with knee and elbow protectors, and a ring bell.

Grandfather bought her a battery-operated bubble set.


Grandma bought her a Thomas-the-Train set. Actually, mummy was the one who went to purchase the toy. Initially we thought it was a battery-operated moving train, however it turned out to be a "manual" train...have to use hand to push the train. Trenyce only played a while and lose interest in it already :p

Mood: Gleeful Milestone: 3 years old

Still waiting...

This is the 14th day after the amnio test..more than 10 days already. When is the results coming??? *anxious*

Should I call or should I not? Ms Lim has promised to call as soon as she received the results. I feel quite embarrassed to call and ask again. But what if she gets too busy and forgets? Maybe its good that I call to remind her? Sighhhh………..

At 12noon, I finally decided to ring up the clinic.
"Hello…" That’s Ms Lim's voice.
"Hello Ms Lim, this is Tracy. Is my amnio results back?"
"Not yet leh..." Ms Lim replied.
"Did they say when the results will be ready?" I asked again.
"I called the lab this morning and they said not ready….sometimes it takes more than 10days, sometimes about 14days...." Ms Lim replied.
"Ohh..but today is already the 14th day. How come they are taking so long…" I couldn’t hide my anxiety.
"err..yah….I understand…..should be out tmr or day after…once the fax comes, I will inform you..." the same reason she gave me the other time.

Oh well, what to do...just have to wait….oh my my my, why is it taking so long????

Counting down...

This is the 8th day after my amnio test. Havent heard from my clinic yet. Counting down now….. I know they said it will take 10days but the wait is really unbearable.

Lord, pls bless the little one residing in my tummy..…safe and sound, strong and healthy like his Trenyce JieJie. Amen.

My little attendant

Trenyce has been a very helpful attendant. Everytime she sees her mummy rushing for the wastepaper basket, she will start her 100m sprint to get the tissue box. Her poor mummy here has very bad evening sickness, sometimes can vomit up to 3 times in a night. After 2 to 3 times of "serving" her mummy (Initially I was the one who called her to get the tissue for me), she knows exactly what to do when she sees her mummy sitting on the floor hugging the wastepaper basket. This persists on everyday without fail for 2 months (starting from 8wks onwards).

Not only that, she will also gently pat on my back to help comfort me and at the same time ask me "mummy, are you better?" Very professional little attendant, right?

There was one time I went to pick the wastepaper basket, not to vomit but to trim my nails, little attendant without looking at what's mummy's doing dashed for the tissue box (as usual) and quickly tear a piece of tissue out from the box and passed to me, saying "mummy vomitting ah? nah, clean your mouth." *silly grins*

Lord, I thank you for giving me a wonderful little attendant and I am thankful that the vomitting frequency has greatly reduced now. Pls, continue to protect and bless my little attendent and the little one who's residing inside my tummy. Amen.

Prata Feast!

We brought Trenyce to Upper Pierce reservoir sometime in June. We dropped by the prata shop nearby as well. See Trenyce enjoying her prata feast!

Tortise Tammy passed away!

We lost Tammy, our tortise, today. Hubby wanted to feed them before leaving for work this morning and found her lying on her back. I couldnt quite believe it when hubby shouted to me from the hall "Tammy died already"...... It was quite a shock.

I feel so sorry for Tammy. She has only been with us for 6 months.

Tammy, pls rest in peace. We will take care of Tommy well, I promise.

Fat??

I think I look fat. Maybe to them (the strangers on the public transport I took), I look like a typical fat auntie with tummy bulging out.

Till now, I rarely receive seats from people. None volunteers their seats to me. So, poor me have to stand all the way home on the train from Cityhall to Ang Mo Kio. I also have to stand all the way on my bus ride too. My colleague said these people are just faking ignorance cos its quite obvious I'm preggy.....

Anyway, I just want to say "Hey people, look carefully, I am a typical pregnant mama not fat mama ok."

Picture from www.babycentre.com