Chan Legacy

So.. how do I manage to get by with a 5 yr old, a 2.5yr old and a 6mths old baby?

For one, I don’t cook, I don’t fancy it and I doubt I can cook in peace with a baby who needs to be fed at 5+pm and put to bed by 7pm, plus having to ferry the kids around 4/5pm on some days. So we ordered Tingkat for dinner, from Mom’s cooking, recommended by Sherrie.  It is really yummy!  My hubby even contemplated to get a maid, yet still continue ordering tingkat, so that there is no “mistake” for the food part.  Crazy right?  But he reckoned that what we pay for the tingkat is about the same with what we pay for our weekly marketing + cooking (electricity/gas/water) + effort.  True?  They charge $12.50 per pax for 3 dishes and 1 soup.

Lunch?  We normally eat out.  Yes, I bring all 3 kids, mostly alone, some days with my MIL, to food court or Yoshinoya sorts.  I could bring all 3 for shopping by myself, and not just for their stuff, for MY stuff too!  I brought all 3 to the swimming pool, all by myself too!  The older 2 are really much much better behaved when I don’t have help.  Donald, especially, i can really entrust him to take care of Victoria, and help me along.  I always tell him that he is a TRUSTWORTHY boy and he feels so proud of himself.

BECO.. a life saver.

The fact that I could shift Lizzie to the back carry position all by myself, easily and safely, really helped me a lot.  Sanity!  I can do house work, have my meals, shower the 2 older kids etc, with Lizzie happily sitting and sometimes, sleeping behind!  My Ergo carrier lasted me through 2 kids, no doubt that it was a good carrier, I give it due credit, but Beco!  Another level up.  So save yourself some headache, if you have a velcro baby but got lots of other things to do besides carrying and rocking her, get a BECO!  Contact Ashley now through her website!

Of course, not all are plain sailing and easy lah!  For one, I had to iron till 2am in the morning, and still can’t finish ironing all the clothes.  And realized there is SO SO many things to be washed in the kitchen!  Seems every time I walk into the kitchen, there are stuff waiting to be washed.  My hands felt so dry.  I hardly have time to sit down, most of the time standing and walking, my legs were so tired, especially the days ending with ironing.  Once I tried to iron while sitting down… not too fun. ha ha ha!  But I tell myself, this period shall pass too! 

Just a silly macdonald’s balloon can entertain them for days… of cos not without screaming and fighting over it, even though there were 2, one for each of them!

Daddy went for a business trip to Dhaka, Sri Lanka.  These pix were taken by his Canon G9.

Gave up on my past high chairs.  Sold my Aprica “high chair cum bed”, sold my Ikea antilop.  Both couldn’t really “fit” into my dining table.  They couldnt be flushed against the table, due to height differences.

Custom made 2 teak high chair, without buckle type, but she will only be able to sit by herself on this chair when she is much much older.  So suddenly, I have no idea where I am going to put Lizzie for some “table time”.  I bought this “sack n seat” from robinsons to try… not too bad, but cos Liz can’t sit properly yet, so after a short while, she bends over at the waist.  Hmm… not a great position for feeding isn’t it?

So back to the infant car seat.  Not sure how long it will last, since she is slipping out of it each time she struggles.

Sam recommended a new one from ikea, foldable one, not so “chor tang”.  But I still have to go measure the height, hopefully it fits my table.  BUT Daddy is going to make lots of noise…. hee hee.

Here is Ethan, 3 months younger than Lizzie, first born son of Mummy’s RJC classmate, Carol.

Nice pics of Daddy and the kids, taken by my blackberry bold.  Seriously, the BB is very handy, when we don’t have the fancy SLR around.

Remember I blogged before about how Donald refuses to pose for us?  Don’t know what daddy gave him for breakfast???  Look, he is all pose-y!

Told ya… with maid, we weren’t so “gung-ho”.  Now without maid, we are like testing our limits, bringing them here and there! 

We went into Msia early in the morning to service the car and change tyres.  We came out in the late afternoon, and Daddy suggested Sentosa since weather was alright!  We weren’t even prepared for any water play in Sentosa, but went ahead.  Just had to make do with what we have in the car.

In our bathroom, facing the toilet bowl, is a laundry basket.  One day, I was putting the 2 older kids to bed, Daddy was taking care of the baby.  She is quite a velcro babe, doesn’t like to be put lying down alone, but daddy had to go to the bathroom, how?  He innovatively put the baby in the laundry basket!  She sat there so comfortably and safely, within daddy’s reach and sight!

Children!  They yet to know the “privacy” and “scent” of private business?  When it’s my turn on the “potty”, Donald would bring a book to me, to read to him… Toria would come and want me to hug her, or she would sit there and play next to me…

Lizzie is now 5 months old.  Her hair standing days will be over shortly.  Today, her hair stood up so nicely, converging into a pyramid, like a mo-hawk!  Beautiful!