Sleeping with the little one

Been a while since ZQ slept in my room - his cot in my room was dismantled to avoid cluttering up the place as he sleeps in the bigger cot in my maid's room. In addition, we did not want him to have the habit of being used to sleeping in our room and difficult to shift him to his own room in the future.

Heard of "horror" stories that some kids sleep with their parents till they are few years old and worst, sleep in between the parents. Worst still, some "chase" the daddy off the bed and have the mommies to themselves, daddy sleeps on a mattress on the floor. Well, that's the last thing I would want to happen to us, hence, I allow ZQ to sleep in my maid's room. We used to take turns but it became convenient as my maid can get him to sleep within 10-15 mins. Me? 1 hour.

It's really nice (a nice feeling actually) to have him sleep on the same bed but in physical, both hubby n I find it a little too cramp. Now we do not have fear of squashing him as he is already 84cm">12.5kg@ >84cm. In fact, I felt I was being squeezed out of the bed when he was turning about on the bed. Not forgetting that my hubby is not exactly small.

Hwr, he woke up at 6+, 8+ , both of each I gave him milk and he stopped his fuss. I tried just to pacify him but it did not work and eventually I gave milk. I had been telling my maid to try not to give him milk in the middle of the night but after last night, now, my theory of just feeding him water will remain a theory .... ZQ will make a big fuss until milk is given. In fact, he even woke up and until I told him I am making him milk, he did not stop his fuss.

Nonetheless, it was still great to sleep with my son. Told hubby that we should do this more often. Hwr, with us staying at my in laws place most of the time, the super single bed surely does not have space for him to squeeze with me. Perhaps I might try and who knows, it will enhance the closeness with me ... haha, not that he is not close with me. Just my feeling of him being closer to me .. not sure if this is a pitfall of those mommies who tries to break the habit of leaving the kid to sleep with them.

Perhaps it is just a feeling? I think that so long before they sleep, we spent enough time with them, communicate with them & love them, their sleeping moments do not really matter. It might even be better for them to sleep by themselves as it teaches them independence when they wake up by themselves at night and they can get themselves back to sleep :) Sometimes I feel ZQ do not sleep well with us as he does not have the space he has on his own bed to toss and turn and spread himself out like a king!

So much for ZQ sleeping with me ... agreed with hubby that we could do this a little more often on weekends - if it does not cause us our beauty sleep, ZQ can look forward to sleeping more with daddy and mommy :) Perhaps it's the other way round -- mommy looking forward to sleeping with ZQ. Hopefully, ZQ's beauty sleep is not disrupted.

Jurong Bird Park

Celebrated ZQ GuGu's birthday at the birdpark on Sunday. ZQ enjoyed himself alot during the bird show and slept afterwhich. Look at his pic ... with the bird in the background ... haha. Proof of being at the birdpark.

Grandpa says this is not a vv good pic as there's a bird above his head .. from a photographer's point of view. Well, i still uploaded this cos i think ZQ is quite cute.

Our new DSLR

Some pics taken with our new DSLR .. pretty satisfied with the outcome. Hubby and I had been "fighting" on who is a better photographer ... well, with such advancements in technology, does skill really count?

About trip in Batam

It was a short 2 day 1 nite trip. Upon arrival, we went to the jetty and beach, which was the most enjoyable part of the short trip. Papa is in Batam to discuss some official work matters, so during that period, mama was trying to get ZQ to sleep but failed badly.

For reasons I do not understand, ZQ was a little irritable and making alot of noise. Decided to bring him out to the marina to look at the yatchs but papa came back in time for the rescue.
He decided that we are going to Batam Matahari for some shopping ... so we went .. but din buy anything in the end.

Got back and ZQ was already sleeping. However, in the middle of the night, he woke up very irritated by the mosquitoes which had bitten him on his face, his ear, hands, legs. He started crying and was trying to sleep. To my horror, I discovered 3 blood stains on the part of the bed where ZQ slept on and 3 blood stains on his T-shirt. We checked him and concluded that it was the dead mosquitoes which ZQ somewat managed to kill in his sleep. It was after another 2 hours that we got the hotel staff to Bygone the room and we got back to sleep in peace.

I named him the King of Mosquitoe killer. He even learnt how to "catch" the mosquitoes when he saw us trying to catch and kill the mosquitoe.

So that was our first overseas trip. Hope the next will be better.

ZQ's first chop in his passport

ZQ first overseas trip to Batam. He was ok throughout the trip and more managable than I imagined. Without my maid, I imagine I'd have a tough time but surprisingly, he was alright except once, when hubby was away for a meeting. He keep making noises and I really dunno what to do with him so decided to bring him out for a walk instead of waiting in the room for hubby to come. ZQ was sleepy but din wan to sleep. While preparing, hubby came back from meeting.

It's late and have work tomorrow moring, will post more on the trip again.