Oswald- Coming to 8months

Oswald is going to be 8months old by Monday! Still feeling very much inexperience as a new parent. The trick that worked yesterday may not worked today and it seems I can hardly fully comprehend my child..

The latest happening that amuses me is his 'crawlathon'. I am not sure how other babies does it, but it seems he crawls really fast! He even had blisters at his foot due to the crawling. Few days ago, he learned how to get into sit up position from his leopard crawl.

Seems that when Sharon (Paul's niece) was a baby, she was apparently very happy with herself when she could perform this new skill. So we were expecting Oswald to clap/smile to himself.. But he did nothing, as if life as usual.. hmmm.. Anyway, we just clapped and cheered him on! But he was still not amused.. anyway...

Occasionally, Oswald will have some new pattern that brings us some clues about his personality. This was taken when he just finished his milk and was kind of just slacking.. I figured out, all guys need some space-out time. N he is especially nice tempered after his milk. So I guessed, hungry man = angry man!!!!! This is quite similar to Paul.. hmm

It was my birthday and I thank God for friends who celebrated with me and sweetened up my day. The day started in pretty sad way, but ended well.

Praise God for friends who understood, listened and gave support. Praise God for them who share the same faith, one God and remained faithful friends through the different seasons in life.

And so, till we meet again in Nov for Callin's birthday and more sharing.. Some how, I am looking forward to each of their weddings and more babies to come to join our SOW group.

Baby and Work

It had not been easy to wake up 5am every morning and bring Oswald to my mum's place. It can get tiring by the middle of the week. But usually one night of sleeping at the early hour of 830pm would be sufficient to sustain till the end of the week.

Weekends could not get me much sleep as well because Oswald is used to waking up around 5plus am. So once he's up, we gotta be up too.

He fell really sick somewhere in the first week of October. It was a terrible week trying to comfort him, coaxing him to drink some milk and forcing him to take his medication. When oral medication could not work we needed to start him on the nebulizer. Thankfully, Paul managed to take time off to care for Oswald. It was a worrying week, literally feeling sick in the stomach. Thank God it was over, but one never know when virus may strike again.

Just find Oswald so cute!!!!!

At the newly renovated Bishan Park... One of our favorite hangouts during the weekends.

Tip of the ice-berg is how I describe my current work. There are just so many things to know and now only doing one small part of the job. Many seniors are already there for 5-6years, some even longer like 10 over years while the most senior already stayed for 30years. Wonder what kind of job could make me give 30years of my life to? Maybe motherhood it is.. But knowing that there are so much more to learn and to do helps me to be more positive about staying long term..

Nice colleagues make my work even more pleasant.. =)