Isabelle's "Trigger Thumb"

This is Isabelle's first surgery and hope it's the last ofcourse. We "check-in" to the hospital and waited in the room for a couple of hours before we were called into the Operation Theater.

Nurser trying to give Belle a pre-checkup before the operation.



Here's a pic of her in the room waiting patiently. We were both so bored in the room, lucky that I bought some of her toys and puzzles along to keep her entertained.

Her operation was scheduled to be at 1:30pm. At 1:15, we were asked to be prepared to walk to the OT. Belle didn't want to be pushed sitting on the bed so I had to carry her. I was also asked to changed and followed the nurse and doctor into the OT because they knew Belle wouldn't just go in without her mommy. They put the anesthetic mask over Belle noise so she can breath in and within less than a minute, she's sleeping like a baby.  Operation only took 30 minutes and its done!

Belle cried so badly right after she's awake. She didn't like the bandage on both her hands and she got very frustrated and keep wanting to pull off the bandage. The nurse tried so hard to calm her down, gave her a glove balloon and it didn't work. It took quite a while before we could calm her down and we walked back to our room.

After a while, i gave her some water and then milk. She felt much better after taking her milk. I guess she was very very hungry as well cause she has been fasting since 7:30am in the morning until after her operation completed. Poor girl.


After the operation

Bandage on her Right hand

Daddy bought some balloons to make her feel better

Next day morning. So bored in the room waiting for doc to visit

Yay! Finally Doc is here. Doc changing the dressing on Belle's hand after which we can be release and discharge to go home.

New addition to the Family

We have been planning and trying for 3 months and finally I've just tested positive 2 days back. Even though we've been planning and have anticipate for this but when it really happens, suddenly there was a big question mark in head. Questions that popup were "Am I ready for another baby?". "Can I go through another pregnancy mode again?." "How am I going to manage a baby and a toddler at the same time?". "What should I plan for Isabelle?" and the list goes on.

I was a bit terrified that night after seeing the test results. But thank go that the next day when I woke up, I feel better and less terrified. Then I started have in my mind that I need to spend more effort and time to seriously plan for Isabelle for the coming days.

Nanny decided that she wants to take a long break and stop babysitting for a while which means I have to look for alternatives and options for Isabelle. I have done some research and short-listed a childcare/Montessori/Preschool for her. This is not an easy task. I'm sure all mothers out there would feel the same as well. There are so many things that I need to consider and weigh before deciding. Ultimately, all I want for Isabelle is that she can learn by playing and she's happy learning. I don't want a place that is too academic driven.

Next I have to decide whether if I would want to put her on Full-day or a Half-day at the centre. I felt guilty if I were to put her on full-day  She has only just turn 2. Quite pityful to put her in a new place for a full day, 5 days a week. What is best for her? I'm really not sure. Sigh.  


Here's a comparison list I've done to compare the pros and cons between the centres that I've visited

Trip to Japan, Osaka

Vacation : 5th Sept 2012 - 10th Sept 2012

This is my first trip to Japan - Osaka. It was a very tiring trip for us as bringing a toddler along with you to a trip which requires lots of walking, it takes up 3x more of our energy and strength for a leisure travelling. But I was quite happy and glad that we took quite a lot of nice photos with Belle at this trip.

Japan - Osaka Sept 2012

Belle had Urinary Tract Infections

At age 2, Isabelle tested with Urinary Tract Infections. When I first found out, it was when she tells me "mommy, pain" when you pass urine. Not just once but a few times. I was quite worried as I have UTI before and I know very well how much pain it was for me more so for a 2 years old.

I took Isabelle to see doc and told doc everything. We took Belle's urine sample for a test and true enough that in her test results, there was some bacteria trace found and there were some other traces on her white and red blood cells as well. Thank god that after 5 weeks giving Belle her antibiotic medicine, she has recovered from UTI. Upon next visit at doc again for another urine test, the red and white blood cells readings were back to normal and there were only slight traces of bacteria found. Doc says that might just be caused by contamination when I collected Belle's urine.

We have to be very careful in managing Belle's hygiene cause as doc says, if Belle were to get UTI again the second time, he will have to do some serious test on belle which includes putting in a tube into her ureter to take some tissue and samples cells. This sounded so serious.

The disadvantage of being a female :P