What Simply Works!

Since we got so busy preparing for the coming for our new baby, my husband never got the chance to play with his Wii console.  I wonder if he’ll get the chance to use once the baby’s out. Hee hee.  Good thing I didn’t buy the more expensive PS3 console (since the Wii was my gift for him), otherwise, it will be a huge amount of money gone to waste.

It took me about three months to get back to my pre-pregnancy figure when I had my first child.  I wonder if it will be the same (or even shorter, I wish!) this time around.  Many friends have commented that minus the bulging tummy, I don’t look pregnant at all.  (Does that mean I won’t be needing weight loss pills at all?  I sure hope so!) It must be the continuous physical activities (read as: house chores) that I have been doing throughout my pregnancy period that kepy my weight at bay.  So, we’ll see how I’ll fare this time around!

I’m so happy that Spring is almost here!  I’m enjoying the warmer weather, I can slowly veer away applying thick slabs of moisturizer on my face and body several times a day, which is so troublesome to say the least.   And I’m so glad that I escaped the long winter season without seeing a dermatologist or getting acne treatments.  It will be very expensive to get skin treatments here for sure.

Since my daughter started going to daycare or “school” as how I refer daycare to her, she seems to have lost interest in watching her DVDs.  She has become more active and wanting to draw, scribble and do more “fun” stuff.  Not that televisions are all bad.  I still remind her to watch her favorite DVDs from time to time.  But right now, I can see that she’s enjoying this stage where she’s learning things outside our home.

It is known to our family and friends that my husband enjoys living in Australia.  Between the two of us, he is more vocal to share that here is where he wants to eventually buy a house, a second car and send our kids to school.  In short, to settle.  In between his thoughts, I would tease him that he’d buy my vote (to settle in Sydney) if he’d buy me a new SUV.  He’d ride on the joke and say, “Of course! Even if it’s a UTE (Aussie slang for pick-up truck) that you want plus tons of truck accessories to dress it up, I’ll get it for you.”  That of course, comes with a wink and a loud laughter after.

With the sudden growth of my belly on my 8th month of pregnancy, I’m a bit alarmed with the potential size of my baby at the time of delivery. Although all along I’ve been careful with my food intake.  I don’t believe in eating in big portions just because I’m supposed to be eating for two.  I know that it will only make me and the baby bigger but not necessarily healthy.  I hope the baby continues to steadily grow in average size and that after I give birth, I won’t have a hard time going back to my pre-pregnancy weight.  Or else, I will be on the lookout for natural fat burners in the market.

For some reason, I always get goosebumps whenever I am at a hospital.  There’s something about the whole hospital smell, seeing very sick patients or being in a room full of high-tech machines (AED included) that just give me the chills.  Even now that I’m frequenting a hospital in the city because of my pregnancy check-ups, I still have to condition myself that I shouldn’t feel scared or worried being there.  Sigh.  I hope I won’t feel this way when I get admitted on my D-day.

With our almost eight years of home rental experience (six years in Singapore, nearly two years in Australia), we’ve learned not to mess with the walls.  At one point, we displayed frames upon frames of our favorite photos in an apartment we leased in Singapore only to find out that it would cost as so much to fix and repaint each hole that we made.  So up until we have a place of our own, we will not attempt to pin photo frames or TV mounts on our walls.