My first boxer briefs

I'm not a man so I don't know if "boxer briefs" is the right term for these squarish briefs. But aren't they cute!!

We're doing some light toilet training at home these days. Summer is so hot here that I feel bad if he has to wear diapers and shorts on top of that. So far he is willing to pee into a bucket, sometimes he warns us and says "niao niao".

Usually he just grabs his penis when he feels urgent because he knows that wetting pants is uncomfortable.

But we're returning to sg for a short holiday so the training may have to stop for a while.

Beware of a new compound that might kill you

The fate of bananas

3 food entries in a row. I'm on fire!

I hate having to buy a big bunch of bananas from the supermarket because we can never finish all before they turn mushy and horrible. It's also a big waste to dump them. So the best way to deal with over-ripened bananas is really to turn them into nutritious and wholesome breakfast banana breads.

I haven't found THE recipe yet... The one i baked above was ngeh... okay only. It didn't make anyone feel like 2nd helpings. If you have a good one to share please do!

Complete the sentence: The best recipes come from....

... the back of ingredients packaging. I swear on it.

I've tried alot of internet recipes and if i compare them with the ones behind the packaging, i have to say the latter wins hands down.

I recently made a batch of soft oatmeal cookies using the Gold Medal Unbleached Flour Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe and it came out just heavenly crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. I made only one slight change to the recipe. Added 1plus a bit of egg instead of 1 egg because i feel that china eggs are very small.

Separated the dough into 2 batches.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip with walnuts.

Oatmeal with cranberry and white chocolate.

Mountain Man and boy prefers the cranberry/white chocolate combination. =)

Project Fatten Mountain Boy commences!

I am sick and tired of people telling me that my boy is skinny. I get questions like...does he eat well? He doesn't drink enough milk? He doesn't sleep? Some parents even automatically assume that i cook unappetizing meals so my son doesn't like to eat. Well, thanks for the advice and accusations, but no thanks.

He drinks milk. He eats a healthy amount. And he sleeps just fine. PDs tell me that kids at his age tend to be very active and weight gain is usually slow (1-1.5kg in one year is normal). You may find it hard to believe, but i was a slim kid too until i was force-fed by my maid when i was 7 because people thought i was "too skinny". Anyhows that's another story altogether.

Make no mistake, I am concerned about his weight gain too. Every parent will want their kids to be a wee bit fatter, a lot taller, healthier etc etc. There is nothing i would not try to make him grow.

So i'm embarking on a new project. Fatten Mountain Boy. I want to feed him all the fattening stuff and see if he can put on more weight. Don't say i didn't try...

First up.

Very fattening 2-cheese pizza with whole-wheat flour base. Made everything from scratch, even the damn dough.

Verdict:

He wolfed down 4 slices of a 10-inch pan at one go for his afternoon snack!

Now where's that weighing scale!

Tomato ketchup monster

Nothing gets his appetite going like a squirt of tomato ketchup. He loves to dip his fries, suck the sauce dry and dip the fries again.

Perv alert!

Mountain Boy went for a haircut at Melonheads at The Place two days ago. Afterwhich i told the nanny to watch Mountain Boy at the playground opposite while i rummage through the Zara summer sale (awesome yield this year btw).

Upon returning, i sat next to this young man not more than 25. Tanned, stud in his ear, looks decent. Most of the parents who were watching by the sidelines were screaming their heads off at their kids, "Careful! Don't snatch anything! Come on you can climb over that obstacle" etc etc... But this dude, he was calm and collected. Didn't seem fussed about his "child" at all.

With my back facing him, i suddenly felt a nudge on my waist. I glared at him and gave him the "wtf" look but brushed it off as an accident. After i managed to get Mountain Boy out of the Playground after an eternity of yelling and threats, I saw the same man staring himself down at the mirror in the wash area, posing and admiring himself! *goosebumps*

So the nanny and I proceeded to the rather secluded lift lobby to take the lift down and he followed us. I muttered "变态!" under my breath... He pressed "up" and the lift for "up" came first so he went in. BUT GUESS WHAT, he didn't go up. He waited for the lift door to close and re-open so the lift would then be go going down. EEEKS! He gestured and wondered why we didn't enter the lift. I gave him the "Do i look stupid or what?" look. Will a lamb willingly enter a wolf's den?

The scary part was, he was there before I came back from Zara, observing the kids. I wonder what he would have done! Should have called security or taken a spy picture of him. Maybe he was a pickpocket, maybe a pedophile, or a kidnapper i don't know. But man he is sick in the brain.

So parents, you've been warned.

Bladdersome

A friend once commented that the best part about not being pregnant is the ability to pee a full pee.

See, when one is pregnant, the womb compresses all the other organs making them send all kinds of weird signals to the brain. Like I'm hungrier than I really am, or its ok to eat 3 slices of pizza after a full dinner.

The bladder, oh the evilest of them all. I finish my business and I think I have no more pee. 15 minutes later I run to the toilet and finish another one. And 15 minutes later again... This can go on for as long as I'm awake AND asleep.

I do not like being pregnant. *sulk*

2 or more

There was a time when we wanted 3 kids. And then i got pregnant with the 2nd one and i thought "Maaaan this is hard!". I've been complaining the last 5 months that i'm exhausted, worn down, i'm completely wasted at the end of each day. Some of the old wives say bearing girls give you stronger pregnancy symptoms. Another school of thought said the 2nd one is always worse. Whoever is right, the symptoms were there and there's no running away from it. That was when i decided that 2 is enough, for now. At least until we return home where we'll get more family support.

Good news is i'm starting to feel better now. Mountain Boy is getting used to seeing my belly grow, i don't know if he knows what's going on but he points to it and say "meimei" (sometimes he points to his own belly and says "meimei", hmmm), and he likes to put lotion on my belly.

I think about how lucky I am to have a pair of the sexes. Not many people are blessed with that. But i also think about how much more fun it would be for Mountain Boy if he had a brother for a companion. Maybe i'm generalising but i think boys are closer to boys, and girls are tighter with girls. But if i go by that theory, i'll need at least 4 kids- 2 boys and 2 girls to ensure that everyone is satisfied. Everyone but me, the thought of having 4 kids just makes my eggs shrink back into my fallopian tubes (for those who've watched HIMYM season 6 i'm borrowing the reference).

So how? I guess 2 or more kids are back on the table. Plan is, birth the 2nd kid, go for a long holiday- dive with the great whites, jump off a helicopter, climb the Machu Picchu and then attempt the impossibly dangerous 3rd child.

Howdy!

It's been a while. We've since moved house (for the 4th time in 4 yrs) and we are loving the new house! The location is great, facilities are wonderful and mountain boy enjoys his new room. To our surprise the adjustment was extremely easy, he even slept through his first night here!

Our new apartment came empty so we had a short two weeks to furnish everything. Lucky this is china so furnishing a house didn't cost us an arm and a leg. Its not cheap but in the long run its a better investment.

The baby is doing great. Fetal movements are getting stronger now. I'm finally past the nausea and I'm sailing through the 2nd trimester. My new helper is also really good with mountain boy so I feel a lot more at ease.

Mountain man is very busy at work, but he always finds time for his son. Daddy is still number one in the boy's eyes, I'm not jealous because that means he also wants his father to change his crappy diapers!

Ok I've rattled on quite enough for now. Lunch with the lady friends awaits, toodles!

Whoops!

Hey folks,

Sorry about the interruption. I missed the email regarding the renewal of domain name (damn those spams) so i lost thirdmay.net. I tried to buy back the domain name but it's a complicated process and i don't understand technical jargon. So what the heck. org is as good as net, whatever.

I've missed blogging. So watch this space for more updates soon!

xoxo

lovexiaolongbao