Elephant

JR came face-to-face with the fishes & the pygmy hippo today. Super-delighted especially with this big puffy fish, the name I failed to catch on any of the signs. It was a really cute fish, but active just like JR, hence the blurry pix. *haha*

We also saw the White Tigers on the way out. I also had quite a fright from a snake that slithered across my path(!!!).

Our main aim in making the trip to the zoo was to once again see the Elephant Bathing/Feeding session which is at 9.15am. And I printed out a very simple book just about that.


Next trip, l should work on a different animal theme. ;-)

Your Faves

YOUR FAVOURITE NURSING STYLES
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Along the way as nursing moms, we'll find some styles suit our style of nursing and our lifestyle the best. For this baby, I've grown to love the empire-waistline style the best.

Many of you saw me wearing the neat Anna Cross-Wrap top at the last Saturday Showroom Opening. It's sleek and colours are fresh, and just keeps me looking great. Needless to say, that top sure sold that day. Get yourself one too!

Anna Top:
[http://www.momsinmind.com.sg/annatrim.html]

My other everyday favourites are the Liana Short-sleeves and the Selina, apart from the Cindy. And my most recent favourite is the Sharon Top. I reach for these over & over again every morning as I prepare to get dressed for my full day of dashing in/out with our 4 children. It is a busy day, and I do need a get-up that keeps me looking well put-together!

My faves:
[http://www.momsinmind.com.sg/liana-SS-Top.html]
[http://www.momsinmind.com.sg/sharon.html]
[http://www.momsinmind.com.sg/selina.html]

Which are your favourites?

Saying it Loud

This is one of the few words he can verbalise for certain right now.

He can only do words that sound like "Ba" or "Ma", so Butterfly would end up like "Ba ba bye" & even Umbrella will still sound like "Ba"! The only word that he can say nicely with 2 syllables is "Ma-my". *hehe*.

And I will find him taking books to "study" too. Our eldest was the same way. The older 2 boys never did this.

Raw

Hai, with the more frequent night nursing bc of the extra wakefulness due to the chickenpox, my nipples & the skin around are quite raw with JR's teeth scrapping frequently on it. *sigh*

My skin must've grown much thinner over the years with age!!! Must step up intake of vitamin C to aid healing. In the meantime, I am trying what I did years ago.

Express a little milk to clean skin and then wipe dry, put Lansinoh, and cover with the Hydrogel disc bc these help to keep the lansinoh cream neatly on without dirtying my bra and further promotes the moist-wound healing process.

Pox Party

Big boy had chickenpox 2 weeks ago, and now everyone else in the family is down with it! Our very own pox party! LOL!

Baby too was affected and he looks quite bad for it too...so many huge spots. No fever though. Whew! Itchy now the scabs have formed and giving me sleepless nights, so started giving him long oatmeal baths & shampoo, and applying numbing anti-itch antiseptic plus Desitin cream after that to help reduce redness.
He happily continues to play though!

The good thing is that this seems like quite an outbreak for him so maybe he will have lifetime immunity now!