laundry basket no pants

its ten past one on a wet saturday afternoon... THE WIFE and junior are having their nap and i am just taking a little time out to catch up on this blog.... I have been a little behind, its been a while since i last updated..... a convenient excuse would be that i am busy but i guess the real reason would more likely be that i am getting lazy.... that would also explain why i am putting on more weight and why junior is running around the house with the laundry basket on his head.... no, he is not trying to be spongebob squarepants, although he is more like laundry-basket no-pants.... hmmm....

the fact is, i am pretty beat from work and THE WIFE is getting heavy with number two.... couple that with junior who is always running around and dosent want to be held on to, going out for walks is like some sport race... THE WIFE with the weight lifting, junior with the running and me with the catching up.... hours of fun....

junior is still not eating much... he can actually get through one day with just 4 bottles of milk and maybe a little noodles in the middle of the day.... most meal time involves us chasing him down to get food into his mouth... doesnt work most of the time though.... he still weights 10.4kg... considering that he is coming to twenty months, thats light for a boy.... his cousin, edbert, who is 7 months old, is weighting about 8 kgs... chances are he will out weight junior when he turns one... but the doc whom junior sees, says that junior is within the average weight and height range for his age... i guess as long as he is healthy, THE WIFE is happy and i am fatty... hmmm...

one plus one equals...

its 4.30 on a hot saturday afternoon, THE WIFE and junior are both having a lazy afternoon nap.... i am just having a lazy afternoon... the thing i find with naps is that they make time goes fast.... you pop into bed at two and in an instant, you woke up at four... where did that 2 hours go??... although surfing the net makes time flies too..... hmmm....

today we finally grill up the remaining two windows thats ungrilled.... the balconey and the kitchen.... it set us back by $520.... but i guess its money will spend.... junior is starting to climb chairs and i dont think it would be long before he reliase that there another world outside the window.... where theres cars and bus and blue skies and green grass..... more interesting than what we have in the house.... Junior is growing into his own little person... when he dont get what he wants, he would kick and scream and throw fits on the floor... but i found that if i talk to him in a calming voice, reason out with him, he would calm down and listen... here, we can see that a happy meal is a deflated balloon and an ice cream cone... although pants is still an option, hes still running around in diapers on most days.....

junior is getting bigger, its one of those things, you see them everyday, you wont see a difference... but when someone points it out, you suddenly realise, yeah... hes grown quite a bit... hes outgrown some of his clothes, shoes and hes getting tall enough to reach over the dinning table.... but he still looks pint size to me, although he is getting heavy to be carried around.... here we can see that junior is fast asleep in his supper high tech pram... it boasts a self containing air ventilation system, driver control steering wheel, which doesnt control anything and cup holder thats too small for most cups..... cool... useful yet useless at the same time.... hmmmm

junior is pick up quite a few words... he can point out to things and name them.... doors, lights, pictures, cars, bus, see saws.... all sorts of things... ive though him recently one puls one equals two.... and every now and then i would test him...

me: one plus one equals...

junior: too....

me: two plus two equals...

junior: too...

me: 100 divided by 50 times one equals....

junior: too....

me: sooooo clever.....

you get the drift.... every equals two to him.... hmmmm......

100% boy

its 10 to 11 on a public holiday eve.... tomorrows labour day... when you think about it, we do laundry on laundry days, go to school on school days, give birth on birthdays but we kick back and have a holiday on labour day... hmmmm....

we were at dr theos office last friday... we were in for number twos 20th week check up... we were suppose to check on his physical development, heartbeat and stuffs like that... we got there at two for a two thirty appointment... theres only one guy in the waiting room with a ladys handbag, reading a magazine... the tv is showing reruns of spiderman but i am just starting at the fishes in the little fish tank... there seems to be one or two fish missing.... it wasnt long before we were in dr theos office....

dr: hello.... so you know the results of that test.... everything is alright with the baby...
me: yah, does that mean that the results is a 100%?
dr: well, let me rephrase that, the baby is not a 100% all right, its just that he is not going to have downs syndnome...
me: hmmm.... thats half a relief....
THE WIFE: what else can the test tells us?
dr: 100% sure that the baby is a boy....
me: hmmm.....

THE WIFE hops on the bed and the nurse readies her..... the doc starts with the scaning thingy...

dr: lets see now.... heres the head.... the body, spine.... arms... leggs.... heartbeat... and you can actually hear his heart beat....

he flips some switches on the machine and we hear heartbeats.... cool isnt it? we can actually look inside number two while he is inside THE WIFE.... hear his heart beat even.....

dr: everything looks allright...
me: is his head big?
dr: no... everything is normal.... everything looks all right....i will see you a months time....
THE WIFE: okay

and with that, we made another appointment for the end of the month.....

everythings gonna be all right....... :)

its 40 after 10 on a full moon night.... THE WIFE and junior have turned in and i have just stepped out of the shower and ready for a little me time...... the past couple of weeks was lousy... it was two weeks ago that the good doc told us that results of the blood test that THE WIFE took has indications of a possible down syndrome and we were adviced to take another more invasive test to confirm the results of the first blood test.... although it was me birthday last week, i wasnt really in the mood to celebrate....

i spent most of the days keeping meself busy and trying not to think too much about it.... although i have not discuss anything with THE WIFE, but i think she is also not really having an easy time either..... time seems to drag and your mind tend to picture the worst while waiting for the call to come..... but the good doc called today... it was negative, the blood test was a false positive... number two was going to be alright....

according to the first blood test, we had a 1 in 75 chance of number two being born with down syndrom.... the safe zone was 1 in 250.... according to dr theo, 1 in 75 is a high risk and 1 in 20 of all pregnancy would be tested positive for high risks.... but usually the high risk would turn out to be false positive.... we have to take an invasive test that invloves drawing fluid form THE WIFEs tummy.... that test has a micarriage rate of 1 in 370... and according to the good dr, the results of the invasive test will be 100% accurate.... i am no mathematician but as an engineer... i know, 1 in 75 is not too bad of an odds, when you think about it, out of every 75 births, only 1 would be it.... but when it hits so close to home, even 1 in a thousand is lousy odds....

we were facing a very real possibility that number two would be born unwell and the worst decision for any parents to make is should they or shouldnt... i guess we were spared that tough decision.....

we are going in to see dr theo this coming friday.... we will be doing a routine check on number two to see if his growth is normal, the development of his head, body and stuffs like that.... i guess this means we can start to stock up on baby stuffs for number two.....