Valentine's Day!

Valentine's day came early this year. To beat the crowds and avoid expensive dinners, G and I celebrated Valentine's yesterday =)

I made reservations at Pizzeria Mozza 2 weeks ago without telling him. It was a lil surprise and I wanted the element of mystery for our celebration! He couldn't guess where we were going until I had to tell him the venue was at MBS because he had to make his way there separately.

Before dinner at the pizzeria, we spent some time at Beanstro chilling by the pseudo venetian canal within MBS. It actually felt romantic! Lol. We loved how it wasn't crowded on a Wednesday and it felt so peaceful.

Now that we have Leia, I really cherish our dates together. Just to enjoy each other's company and talk about our days. 

Anyways, our Valentine's dinner was alrighty. I enjoyed the thrill of eating at a new place more than the food haha. We thought the food was so so only. Not really worth the price. I prefer Pepperoni Pizza better! I found the menu kinda confusing and difficult to understand. I know the place is helmed by a celebrity chef and all, but it helps to have a menu that's easy to decipher. We were kinda overwhelmed and didn't know what was what. I personally found it a challenge to order food and I rarely experience this. 

We still enjoyed our dinner though! It's all about spending time together anyway =) 

I gave G his love coupons (in an ang bao lol) for his pressie and treated him to the meal. We visited Motherswork and I saw the cutest lil dress for our baby girl! He was going to get me a present so I told him to get that for our lil girl here. It's really the sweetest thing.

Here are our photos of the day!

(Healthy project) Whole grains week!

As shared earlier, one of my new year's resolution is to eat healthy and be healthy. I know this is not an easy goal to accomplish. -.- Loads of people usually put this on their resolution list and kinda forget about it until the next new year arrives haha.

In order to prevent that from happening, I've decided to take a new approach on healthy eating. To help me accomplish my goal, I'm going to work on regular and specific mini projects that are easier to accomplish and track. Sounds kinda technical eh hehe. These small projects, when completed, will help me contribute to my overall goal =D I figured it's easier to set my mind on finishing these healthy eating projects than to generally tell myself to eat healthily. The latter is rather vague.

Soooo my first project for February is to: Eat whole grains for brekkie for the entire upcoming week! I will be having cereal and oatmeal baby! I'm gonna see if I can try out eating different variations of oatmeal to keep things interesting. Time to test my discipline! *fighting fighting*

Baby Leia's milestone: First dress!

I bought our lil girl her first dress! And of course, it has to be pink. How can it be of any colour?! =D

Here's a picture of her in it. I'm currently drunk on her cuteness.

P.S. We had a tough time putting it on her lol.

(Taking a short break)

Marriage: Words of wisdom.

At about 3am last night, I read this article that was shared on Facebook. Its title 'To wives: Before you were mummy' piqued my interest. I guess that's what happens when you become a new parent. Anyways, this article really resonated with me. 100%. I decided to blog about it so that I can always remember its content.

In the article, the writer talks about how married couples change when they have a baby. And more often than not, we are usually not mentally or emotionally prepared for this before the baby's arrival. It's not covered in any prenatal class and people don't advise you beforehand on how to handle this change. 

This is very true. I notice how my relationship with G has started to evolve with our lil girl's entrance into our lives. Our attention is no longer just on each other. Our topics have changed to baby ones. We spend lesser quality time on cuddling and talking to each other. We can't watch movies (our favorite activity together) as frequently anymore. We rush through meals or eat separately so that we can take care of Leia. On weekdays when he has to work, he sleeps in a separate room (this breaks my heart sometimes). Emotionally, I became a lil crazy in the first few weeks post delivery. It's better now but I'm still more needy compared to before pregnancy. And the list goes on. 

I can feel our romance slowly disappearing a little by little. And it really really scares me. Because he is the love of my life. My number one. And I want that to be my constant. 

I guess that's why my heart really felt the words in the article: 

'Ladies, before you were mummies, you were his. Men, before you were daddies, you were hers. Remember this. Hold on to this. Keep these words precious to you.' 

'Ladies, when Mummy becomes your name, remember this man. Remember he is your husband. Remember how much you love and appreciate him. Remember his love and devotion to you. And when the days are long and you need a break, fall into his arms.'

'Men, remember your bride. The care and love she has given you will spill to your children. Her love for you will not change. Give her the grace to be enough  even when she doesn't feel like it. When your days are long, hers are too. Remember her. Fall in love with her again.'

'Remember each other. There is no greater adventure for you to  experience and no greater gift than to walk through parenthood with your best friend. You are a team.'

Such words of wisdom fromscissor tail silk's blog. I will always keep these words close to my heart.  

Happy Chinese New Year!

As always, the Chinese New Year holidays passed super quickly. To be honest, I didn't really feel the festive mood this year. I guess with baby Leia, we have more to cope and consider so I couldn't really take the time to appreciate the atmosphere and enjoy CNY like in the past (I mostly relaxed hehe). Nonetheless, I still had my enjoyable moments!

On the first day, we went back to Nim's for lunch! This is like a yearly tradition. And the food, like all previous years, was sooooo sumptuous. This year G and I had to eat quickly because our lil one was gonna wake up for milk soon. My dad was such a sweetheart. He helped to 'jaga' baby whilst we rushed through lunch. Think he enjoyed looking after her! He told us later that she actually smiles on her sleep. We managed to eat most of our food when she started fussing. 

It was wonderful being with family again. I actually miss being with them all the time! We are such a greedy and noisy bunch together. We had our usual non stop eating (we call it the round two, three and so on) and chatting sessions! G looked after baby whilst I spent time with my family. Once again, so so so thankful for him *loves* 

Here are some of the highlights for the first day! 

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Baby Leia's milestone: 5 hours sleep straight!

Last night, my sweet Leia slept for 5 hours straight! Yay! *celebrates* I truly hope this means she's one step closer to sleeping through the night. But they always say that with newborns, it's always about taking two steps forward and one step back. So let's just cross fingers, wait and see.

She fed at 11pm and again half an hour later cause she was still hungry. Our lil milk monster drank a total of 150ml! Her usual's about 100-110 ml. Maybe that's why she could sleep so long. Her lil stomach was full of milky! I actually changed her diaper at 2.30am and she fell asleep on the table lol. It was quite funny. 

I just fed her about 90ml and she's off to lala land again! Wonder how long she'll sleep for this time!