Category Archives: Family

Everything that revolves around the family and relationships

a month of celebrations

July is the month when 4 of my favourite people celebrate their birthdays. Last Saturday we had a roast chicken dinner celebrating my dad’s 67th, along with David’s 29th, my cousin Debra’s 42nd (she’s like a big sista I never had) and my brother’s 34th. T’was a rare occasion that my brother is around (he…

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The girl we call Maria

Maria has been with us for almost 2 months now. She has been GREAT help around the house (from cleaning, mopping, cooking, washing, ironing, folding, dusting and very much everything in between for the sole purpose of keeping our home in order).  As the days pass, I get to know her a little bit more–some…

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Rainbow

Now that Zachary is 10 weeks old, he’s more interactive with us, the other people around him, and even his toys. Yup, I caught him chillaxing with Rainbow. Meet Rainbow. Rainbow is from Lamaze’s Play & Grow range and its secret agent codename is Pupsqueak. He’s so damn colourful hence the name. Press his nose…

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The grandparents

Zachary is very blessed that he’s got 2 sets of grandparents (AND a great-grandma) who loves him to bits. His grandparents are also a funny bunch, coming up with their own ways of entertaining and socialising with their first grandchild. Here are my observations: My mom I don’t know why she’s so obsessed with getting…

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Progress report: At 6 weeks

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Blast from the past

You know how everyone compares if the baby looks more like mommy or daddy? So far we’ve got more votes for daddy–however there are a certain few who reckon Zack looks more like mommy. Even my obgyn thinks so! For comparison sake, I went digging around the bookshelf for my baby photos and got some…

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One month old

The hours seem to fly by once David and I went full time taking care of Zack. For me it was endless cleaning, washing, hanging, drying, folding (I think our washing machine is working on overtime the moment we moved back home) and for David he’s been in charge of bathing our son coupled with…

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The bumpy road

A lot of unpredicted events have happened since bringing Zack home. He had rashes all over the day after we brought him back, making us panic and immediately sending him to the paed. Turned out to be nothing to worry about. From then on, all the problems that came were for me. I’ve had so…

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The many faces of Zack

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First week with Zack

How time flies! It’s been a week since we brought our son home. Day 2 at the hospital Physically, I’m in serious need of grooming. I have man-brows and my hair is a mess. I sweat buckets everyday and am only allowed 1 shower per day (no washing hair although I’ve broken this rule, washing…

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