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i am a:

• stylist for picking out what baby c wears
• manager for managing baby c 's routines and times
• dietitian for planning baby c's meals
• chef for cooking baby c's meals
• hair stylist for cutting baby c's hair (and yes he looks like 'nga chat so' from wong fei hung now)
• manicurist for trimming baby c's nails
• teacher for teaching baby c new things
• entertainer for being a one woman band

i'm sure this list will grow as he grows................

new things with baby c after turning one:

• he's become very demanding
• he's also become very clingy to me (which is unfortunate seeing as to how i've been feeling lately)
• he's very good at using signs to let us know what he wants (pointing)
• he moves his head AND body up and down (like he's shimmying) to say yes
• he shakes his head to say no (which happens a LOT)
• he has suddenly developed a multitude of facial expressions (from squinting, pouting to arching his eyebrows)
• he imitates us very well now
• he picks up things and learns very fast now (flashcards, new tricks)
• he refuses to eat his completely free of seasoning meals which i prepare for him. he wants to eat what we're eating
• he eats less than half of what he used to (but still weighs the same. hmm..........)
• he wants to feed himself and play and experiment with his food (squeezing the life or rather the juices out of them)
• he's mighty strong for someone so small
• he likes entertaining us (performing the same thing over and over again if it makes us laugh)
• he's babbling all the time now (and he's loud too)
• he does not want to take naps because he seems to think that things happen when he does
• he wants to play all the time
• he hates diaper changes. it really is a two or sometimes three person job. one to hold him down and watch his hands, one to entertain him, and one to do the diaper change
• he gets bored of something once he's mastered it (the ipod, mobile phones)
• he's discovered his penis - he always goes for it when his diaper comes off

i'm sure there's lots more but since i'm pretty forgetful nowadays..............i'll update this list as i remember them (provided i remember there's a list to update! haha)

j - didn't know you read my blog! but anyways, have started feeling better. photos turned out beautifully. waiting for you to put it up on YOUR blog! ;)

p - to think that i kept on telling these "specialists" about how i'm a SAHM and it's been a year, yet they just brushed it off. you'd think that they would at least have an inkling about other medical divisions!

ok........i've been slacking off. well, to bring you guys up to speed, baby c is ONE already! woohoo!
for the past 3/4 months, i've been feeling so sick. i have constant headaches, dizziness, nausea, unbelievable tiredness, sleepiness, body aches, difficulty breathing, forgetfulness, not remembering words, etc (the list is endless). the fatigue was so crippling that i couldn't function at all. b had to skip a LOT of work to help me out at home. i couldn't make it through the day. all i wanted to do was curl up and sleep all the time. but of course, that was not doable. i still had baby c to attend to. (although now it was only a mere quarter of the time i used to spend with him).
i went to see so many doctors. for those who really know me, you'd know that i do NOT like to go to the doc's. i prefer to let whatever illness i have run its course. so for me to go all out to see doctors, i felt that there's something really wrong. i went for mris, mras, etc. everything came back normal. before going in for the scans, i would actually pray and hope that they'd find something, anything. cancer? so be it! i was desperate to find out what's wrong and to get treatment to get well so that i could look after baby c again.
after exhausting all options, i decided to go and see my ob-gyn. she knew exactly what i was talking about: chronic fatigue syndrome and acute hormonal withdrawal (due to my pregnancy with baby c). i was so damn relieved! now that we know what i have, we can treat it. ironically, i have been put on the pill to bring my hormones into balance. it's only been about 4 days but i feel different. more like me. my ob-gyn says it's gonna take sometime for the pills to have full impact but hey, i'm game. i just so desperately want to look after baby c the way i used to. well.............here's to the road to recovery!

p/s: for those who are on my fb, please know that i won't ever announce a pregnancy there! it's too public. i'd announce it here.