Bitten!

Poor Joshton came back with a bruise on his right cheek today from school. Apparently he tried to snatch a toy from a little girl in class and the angry girl bit him on his cheek. Hope Josh learns his lesson not to snatch things from others. Seems like biting is a common problem among kids nowadays...too much dinosaur cartoons?

A family of 4 'Js'

40 weeks of pregnancy, 3 months of morning sickness, 6 months of chronic insomnia, suffered bad migraines, backaches and leg cramps, a nerve racking fright when my blood test results during the 4th month came back with a high risk of birth defects, plus being cut up for the 2nd time and the painful recovery....all these were worth it when I see and cradle this beautiful baby boy in my arms.

After 1.5 wks of calling him "Baby", we finally settled on a name for #2 - Jaxton. We almost went for 'Javier', but hubby found it a common name with kids nowadays and it didn't sound close to 'Joshton'. Some people had problems pronouncing 'Joshton', so I am also expecting some folks to mispronounce #2's name as 'Jackson'.

Only just 2 weeks old, Jaxton seems to have a strong character....calm on the outside but actually very feisty inside. When nicely settled (not hungry n in mummy's arms), he's very calm n zen like with his favourite 'Sleeping Buddha' pose. But when he's hungry or wants to be carried, he will cry the house down with high pitched cries till his voice is sore.

Sleeping Buddha pose

The main difference between first born and 2nd child is that we spent lots of attention fussing over #1, like bathing him twice a day, putting massage oil, sing lullaby to make him sleep; now time is split between #1 & #2, so barely enough time to do anything more than feeding and changing diapers. And of course, #2 does not have the luxury of new things but using old stuff from #1... but thanks to our nice friends n colleagues for the baby gift sets, Jaxton has some new clothes. (funny that most of the gift sets are sesame street!)

Joshton is giving me a big headache with his behavior, following me like a shadow, always shouting for mummy and ends up disturbing Jaxton from sleeping. Will tell more in another post if I can find the time :( hands full n tied n extremely tired!

Di Di has arrived on 30 Sep!

We are proud parents again to a lovely little boy, who arrived on 30 Sep morning weighing 2.98kg. Had wanted to try for natural this time, so I waited and waited till baby was 3 days overdue. However my cervix was still closed and the amniotic fluid level was getting low, which is a sign of an aging placenta, so we had to go for a c-sec again. I was feeling rather emo on the way to the hospital and had almost wanted to back out, as this was probably my last chance to try for the birth experience. Anyway it was more traumatizing this time compared to the first one, maybe partly because of my emotions, but the most important thing was that baby was delivered safely :) And yes, we have not decided on a name yet, so it's still "Baby" at this moment! 

Joshton has upgraded to a big brother status, so hope he will be a caring kor kor to his di di. When he first came to visit mummy and baby at the hospital, he was very quiet and was trying to comprehend what was happening. Even though we had been telling him that Di Di was coming, I guess it is a different thing when he finally sees the baby. We have prepared presents for Josh to give to Di Di and from Di Di to Josh when we get back home tomorrow, so hope that helps Josh to bond to Di Di better!

"Baby" has a slight resemblance to Josh when he was born 

but think he takes after more of mummy than daddy. Josh was a "mini-me" of daddy!

Countries of the world

Mummy is too lazy to rotate the video :P Joshton got very interested in maps a few months ago and kept asking about country names, so I got him this world map for him to learn the countries.

Josh writing his name

Reading a book

Cute video of Josh reading his caterpillar story book which I took a few weeks ago...

33 months

Our dear boy has turned 33 months, just 3 more months from his 3rd birthday. I haven't thought of what to do for his birthday, other than doing a celebration at his school. And it will be just after the full month of his baby brother, who is arriving in Sep. Guess I will have my hands full in the coming months - new baby, confinement, getting keys to new house, renovation, full month party and Josh's birthday...phew!

At 33 months
Weight: 15 kg
Height: 95 cm
Milestone: Can read quite well. His favourite book for the moment is the Little Einstein Picture Dictionary, which he will bring to me every night to read together. At first we were wondering if he was just memorizing the sentences or really can read, so we tried new books and he could read them as well.
Every morning he will also take the Today's papers and look at the TV listings for the day or pretend to read.

He's now learning the names of the countries and loves to look at the world map. It's tough to teach him at times as I can't pronounce many country names, esp the Middle East and African countries are quite a mouthful. Surprisingly he has no problems rattling off long names like Azerbaijan, and can remember the countries names well by the starting alphabet, eg A for America, B for Brazil, C for Canada etc.

I am planning to set up a new blog when our 2nd baby is born and blog about our boys there instead on continuing on Joshton's Little World. This blog will be kept for Josh, so that he can read about his younger years next time.