merry christmas

its 30 pass 5 on a thursday afternoon, 25 december.... yup its christmas day.... we are at me folks, THE WIFE is with junior in one of the bedroom playing with cousin edbert, number two is with me old man..... and me? well, its been a while since i last made an entry, i guess i am making up for it.....

the last two months had been a rush, time really flies when you are having fun... or buried with work... junior had learnt to pick his nose in the last two months and put whatever he digs into his mouth... he even offered some to THE WIFE....

junior: mommy, eat pee sai?
THE WIFE: eeee.... you dont eat pee sai... sooo dirty....
junior: nice nice....
me:hmmmmmmm...
i swear he did not pick up nose picking from me... he digs with his thumb, i prefer to use my little pinky.... i guess nose picking is one skill he is born with but to dig it discreetly is an art he has to, with pun intended, pick up....... although i am a believer of, what one does with his pickings is nobody's business but his own.... but please do not put it in your mouth... hmmmm....

number two has been putting on weight steadily... he weights more than 8 kgs now... according to prof p, he is in the 25 percentage, overweight..... on the bright side, he seems to be thriving.... putting on weight just on breast milk, i guess its not too bad, most babies ive seen put on weight due to formulas...... and right now, number two is wearing L size diapers, a size that junior can fit... THE WIFE is even letting number two wear juniors shorts and shirt, and the thing is, they fit!! junior weights about 11 kgs, i guess it wont be too long before number two over takes junior.....

two cakes for turning two

its 10 past 11 on a friday nite, the last day of october.... THE WIFE is washing up number two, junior is spending the nite at his wai gongs place, i am just enjoying the peace.... yes... today, two years ago, junior came to be.... i have been a daddy for two years..... two years of dirty diapers, nite feeds, tantrums, baby pao tiao and of course, my favourite, papa carry you.......

junior is becoming more and more like a little person.... with his own likes and dislikes.... he chooses which grand pa to play with, what shoes to wear, what cartoons to watch and of course what to eat.... junior is quite particular about what he eats... depending on his mood, he would swing between chicken rice, noodles or nothing at all.... he can go all day with just bottle milk and nothing else.... which could explain why he still poo once or maybe twice a week... i guess if nothing goes in one end, nothing much will come out the other... hmmm.....

the good thing about spending time at both grand parents is, you get to have two cakes on your birthday..... and the thing with a big extended family is, you get to celebrate birthday quite often.... me mom and number two are in sept, me sis and junior are in october, me old man and me fil are both in november, me bro and cusion edbert is in december, cousin izzac is in january, THE WIFE is in march and mine is in april..... i guess with birthdays lined up like that, putting on weight should not be a problem for junior... hmmmm....

whole family in hospital

its 15 past 9 on a tuesday nite.... THE WIFE is in NUH with number two, junior is at me father in laws and i am at office, getting some work done... well sort of.... I am on leave today, i just thought i swing by get some work done so that i wont be buried by it tomorrow.....

yup, number two is in the hospital.... he was warded last tuesday for an infection... THE WIFE has been spending her nights keeping him company... i have been with them the last couple of nights... junior was admitted to the same hospital yesterday... he was discharged today and staying with his favorite grandpa.... yup... how lucky can a guy get? both of me kids warded in the same ward at the same time... on the bright side, i dont have to go to different hospital to see them both and i dont have to take too much time off...... hmmm.... frankly i hope it never happens again..... not many parents go through lives with all their kids in the hospital at the same time... at least none of the ones i know....

number two was having an infection on his scar he got during his operation.... the wound was sort of swelling and puss was flowing out of his tummy.... prof p said that we had to admit him for observations and have some procedures done to draw the puss out of his scar.... if not, the scar will not heal and the infection might spread..... so far, number two is barely two months old and he had already been warded into two different hospital, its rough... most folks i know, gets through life without spending much time in the hospital....

as for junior, he got into a little accident in the bath.... the motherinlaw was bathing him when he slipped, fell forward and hit his head against the toilet.... it was a pretty nasty cut, blood everywhere.... he was rushed to the polyclinic, which in turn referred him to nuh..... they stitched him up and warded him for the nite for observations...... well for the record, junior always bump his head when he falls and the last time it involved blood was when he hit his lips while climbing chairs at me dads.... so i guess its fair, the scar above his right eye is from his wai gong and the scar under his lip is from his ah gong..... hmmm

touch 4D ten times.....

its 15 past 11 on a sunday nite... the boys are in bed, as is THE WIFE.... number twos been cranky the last couple of days, we havent been having much sleep.... i guess a baby being a baby, he is just doing what he is program to do...... keeping mum and dad up... hmmm...

we were at nuh a couple of days back... we were refered to a professor queck, by the good dr simon, and he in turn referred us to a professor prabah... i guess they are must be pretty good in what they do to get referrals... hmmm... prof q is a pretty nice fella, looks like he is pushing 60... he did a once over with number two and referred us to prof p..... lets just say that its sort of comforting to see old profs, with so many years under their belts, they must have seen everything..... hmmm... and according to prof p, what number two has is something only 5% of babies with this particular condition gets.... when you worked it out, 5% of the 1 in 5000... that would make it 1 in 100,000..... considering that the chances of touching 4D is 1 in 10,000.... number two just touched 4D ten times... hmmmm......

according to prof p, he has only seen 2 or 3 such cases and most of them are girls.... he should be able to do the second operation when number two reaches 6-7 kgs.... that means we have to fatten up number two.... at around that weight, prof p should have enough of intestines to work on.... what prof p wants to do is to take the existing part of number twos intestines, fused to some of his other large intestines and hopefully have enough to make everything alright....

prof p arranged for us to meet the stoma nurse... as it turns out, i knew the nurse... we used to be classmates back in the old days... junior, number two, if you are reading this.... point to note here, be kind to all your friends, you never know when you will meet them again needing their help.... the last time i met her was 16 years ago.... i guess number two is in pretty good hands.......