My fellow comrade – Mdm Tan – came visiting last week with the her family and boy – Yuan Hao. Our families shared a story with many similarities and thus it felt like a big reunion when we “reunite” again. This time round, the setting is different. Instead of lying down and talking across our hospital beds; we were sitting at our dinning table, sharing baby stories and carrying our “trophies” victoriously. 
Both our sons are growing healthily and had came a long way from their low birth weights.
It was definitely a happy sight; one that we were hoping to see ever since our encounter at KKH some 7 to 8 months back! Mdm Tan was so sweet and excited that she bought 2 new identical rompers for our boys. Photo-taking is definitely a must for this “historical and special” day. Poor boys – Hao and Xi En – were so sleepy but we still changed them into the rompers and embarked on our photo taking session.
Some moments of the day:
Xi En on the left and Hao on the right (getting restless)
Hao dozing off.. come on turn your head to the center
why are you forcing me to take a photo?! Wahhhha!!!!!!!!!
Hao is now on the left and Xi En is on the right. Not much help though! haa..
Xi En: Hao, don't cry already. So loud - must cover my ears. Hao: Whaaa!! I don't want! Whaaa!!
Xi En: Now that's a good boy, Hao. Hao: Hee.. as long as I have my pacificer, you can do whatever you want. 
Finally - one good shot of the boys holding hands!
side profiles
Ok. That's enough. We wanna sleep!
We also had some group photos:
the mummies ("swapping" sons)
the mummies with the "right" sons now.
the grannies
One group photo to end the day
Indeed it was good to see Mdm Tan and her family/son again. It was really a nostalgic feeling; recalling how we braved the complications together; sharing stories of how many blood tests we both have to do per week, how many scans, how many ctg readings, how high are our amniotic fluid,which doctors are better and etc etc etc… Not forgetting how we shared durians in an attempt to increase our babies’ weight too! God is good to us both!
A really busy December. Especially when:
Christmas -25th Dec,
Mum’s birthday – 27th Dec,
Kim’s birthday – 29th Dec,
Dad’s birthday –30th Dec and
Parents-in-law’s wedding anniversary – 1st Jan
A time of celebration, gift giving/receiving and of course – feasting! 
Some updates on the big events of December:
Christmas Lights: Took Xi En out for a ride down Orchard Road. Forgotten to bring his pacifier along and was stuck in the big Orchard jam.. He cried half the time there and slept all the way back home. haa.. Nonetheless, it was some nice Christmas lights…all pictures were taken in the car because we really can’t imagine squeezing with the crowd!
Christmas Dinners: We had 2 round of dinners. One with my in-laws’ family and one with my relatives.
We had a nice, cosy dinner at my sis-in-law’s place:
2nd round of C’mas dinner was a BBQ at my 3rd uncle’s new penthouse. Little Xi En was the star of the night (being the youngest in the entire extended family). He was passed from one hand to another…ended up really so sweaty and over hyped up! We had a tough time getting him to sleep that night! (photos courtesy of my last uncle) 
Christmas Service:
We brought Xi En to church for the first time on Christmas day. He “enjoyed” the service except that the noise was probably to loud for him to fall asleep. Nonetheless, it was a good first try. Kim “enjoyed” lazing around with Elmo/cookie monster in the nursery as well! haa.. I might be bias, but CHC provides one of the best nursery environment and helpers!
Alrightie.. that’s all the updates for now. Ending off with my favourite picture till date:
Auntie Jav bought some really expensive & Eco friendly diapers & wipes for xi en recently when she came visiting.
It is made of biodegradable material.. And corn is one of the material! Hmm.. Wonder if baby’s poo will smell like corn now.. Haa..
eco-friendly diapers & wipes
Auntie Jav + Xi En
