Honeymoon Plannings

We are stuck! STUCK! Still debating if we should bring our munchkin on a cruise since he’s still very young. My original plan was to go on our honeymoon last August/September when I was pregnant with him but I got so sick. Never knew I can get that sick. I thought it would be a one week thing but I ended up puking for the entire month every day!! If I wasn’t as sick – I think we would of gone on our honeymoon last year. Now that our munchkin is here – it’s so hard to go on a vacation. I calculated – in order to go on a ONE week trip – we gotta bring at least 100 diapers! Is that crazy or what? Hopefully we can figure out this vacation plan soon because I’m in need of a vacation!!! I need to get out of Toronto!!!

“Happy Wife – Happy Life”

That’s right – you gotta make your wife happy in order to have a happy life. LOL. This year will be our four years together. These past four years has been the best time of my life. Never do I regret being with him – never was I unhappy. I could share absolutely anything with him – my frustration, my heartaches, my happiness, my everything. I never met a men as understanding as he is. I love how patient he is, I love how he respects everyone and absolutely everyone around him, I love his humor, I love his everything. “When you love someone – you love everything around him.” – sometimes it’s not true but sometimes it’s true. I grew to love the people around him.

There’s never a time he would miss a kiss and tells me he loves me in the morning before he heads out for work. I really can’t ask for a better partner.

Munchkin’s grandparents

We are blessed to be living with the in-laws. I enjoy watching munchkin and his grandparents bond. Not a lot of families can do that – having three generations living in the same house. Although we live in the same house – we still try to do everything on our own because we feel like it’s our responsibilities. At times they do play with him and feed him. But other than that – we take care of him most of the time. It’s always nice to get help once in awhile. Sometimes Hub and I would run out to run some errands and munchkin would stay home with his grandparents. I want him to grow up with relatives around him. I never really grew up with any relatives because we live so far. So in the future if we do move – I want to stay close with the in-laws and out-laws.

My Labour Experience

Not going to have much pictures in this post because I wasn’t expecting labour so early.

I remember the night of my contraction. Hubby and I had to go for our last 2 prenatal classes and we had Harvey’s after. The night went by smooth and Hubby slept around 1 in the morning!  Right when he fell asleep – that’s when my contraction started. I thought it was just something small because it didn’t hurt much. But the point was I kept going to the washroom so often. I thought it was nothing and continued watching my TV in bed. I woke Hubby up after 3 to 4 hours of my contraction. I still felt like it was false contraction because it wasn’t painful at all. I felt like it was just period cramps. Till I saw brownish liquid coming out down there. At this point – the pain was bearable. I took a warm bath before I called the hospital. I got dressed and took my hospital bag.

As I wasn’t expecting it to be “real” contraction – I didn’t even bother bringing my camera nor my phone charger with me. I should of though!

During my car ride to the hospital – my contraction got a lot stronger. To the point it really did hurt. It was about 2 minutes apart. I didn’t forget – it was an icy night driving down to the hospital – very cold too. Hub drop me off at the emergency doors and parked. After he parked – we walked to the baby center. At this point – the contraction was insane! We arrived to the hospital around 4:30AM in the morning.

The nurse checked me up and told me I was “3 centimeter dilated”. I asked her “What does that mean? Does that mean I’ll be giving birth today???”. I was beyond scared at this point and her answer was “Yes”! Than I told her “I’m not ready for this yet…………………”. She gave me a funny reply “ready or not hear it comes ”. Than she sent Hubby and I out to sit till the nurses got the room ready for us. When she sent us out to sit – that was the worst contraction feeling! No lies – it was hurting bad. I couldn’t sit nor stand. I didn’t know what I could do at that time – contraction was every two minutes apart.

Twenty minutes later – I was finally given a room. Told me to change into a gown and the epidural doctor was right there for me. When the epidural doctor was preparing his needle – I kept saying “I’m soooooo scared – I’m sooooo scared”. The nurses tried to calm me down and Hubby was holding my hand. After the needle – I was shaking so bad because it felt so cold. I shake for about a couple hours. The epidural worked like magic – I stopped feeling the pain after like 5 minutes! Everything got back to normal – I just waited and went on my phone to update news on Facebook. I was pretty much relaxed by than.Nurses told me that I was dilating really quick and my cervix is thin – so its easy for munchkin to come out.

By the afternoon – the in-laws came to visit. Munchkin wasn’t out yet – we were still waiting. But I did start pushing here and there. So much energy is required in order to push this baby out. I didn’t even eat anything. I ended up puking a lot of water out while I was trying to push.

My last push was at 3 in the afternoon. How did I do it? Well – the doctor threatened to use the kiwi vacuum to take the baby out because I couldn’t push. So I gave it my ONE last push – than there it is. My munchkin came out very slimy but with no blood on him. He didn’t cry much though. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me! Or else I would of snapped a lot of photos of him while still slimy! He came out weighting 6lbs and 2oz.

My labour experience? Not a tough one I must say. Why? Because I heard worst! Way worst – like those women going through 24hours of pain. Or the baby wasn’t co-operating and needed a c-section. Yep – I was only in pain for a very short period of time – thank god! I have to say – no more than an hour of “real” pain. Really got to thank God for an easy and fast labour experience!

Would I do it again? I doubt it. This one wasn’t as painful but who knows if the second one would be painful right? I’m so not good with pain!!!

Munchkin’s One Month Celebration with family

That’s our cutie pie! We celebrated his one month with family at Casa Imperial about a month ago. We had an yummlicious dinner along with “red eggs”. There’s a meaning to “red eggs” but I’m not too sure what the meaning is. I just know that it’s because the baby is one month. Do anyone know why? He behaved quite well and took pictures with everyone. I wanted to hire a photographer for this event but the photographer was quite busy and couldn’t make it. Too bad – it would be nice to have family portrait with both families. We don’t get together often – I guess the next time will have to be someone else s wedding.

It took us awhile to think of which restaurant to have his celebration at. We had our wedding celebration at Casa Victoria and thought it would be meaningful to have it at Casa Imperial. Both restaurant has a very Victorian-style to it. I love love love the table settings in this restaurant. Unlike other restaurants – they use rustic dining table.

Ending this post off with a family photo. Happy one month my munchkin. There’s many many other celebrations ahead of you! Mama and Papa loves you ! *smooch*

My Mommy Life

Our Munchkin is now two months old. I feel like these two months has been one of the busiest time of my life and time is flying by twice as fast than before. Overall – it’s a joy taking care of my little munchkin. The one thing I want to slow down is his growth – WHY do babies grow so quick? He’s now two months and is weighting about 9 pounds. I wish newborns can stay  small for a longer period of time because I won’t be holding another newborn.

Remember how I was so determined that we’re ONLY having ONE kid while everyone says – that’s not going to happen. I do have second thoughts because labour wasn’t as bad and painful. But to be honest – I do want to stick to what we planned out. A kid is a lifetime commitment – there’s no taking a break. When their here – their here forever. Hub and I are not really spending enough alone time together already and with two kids? We gotta say goodbye to our alone time. There’s just so much in raising a kid. We’re always worried about this and that. I do want another one but there’s too much to handle. I never imagine us having two. Maybe one is enough?

How “mommy life” like these days? I’m enjoying it now before he knows how to crawl and walk. He’s a sleeper like his mama and sleeps a lot. Which is a good thing because I get to sleep a lot too and wake up in between to feed him and pump milk. We sleep around 1 in the morning and wake up around 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Yes – I still try to sleep as much as I can. *hehehehe* Can’t help it – I love my sleep too much.

My Mornings or you can call it afternoon – my schedule is according to the time he wakes up in the afternoon. Right when I wake up – there’s a billion things to do. Feed him, change him, pump milk, make the bed, brush my teeth, collect all the bottles, wash bottles, and than I can finally make my lunch and eat it. Yes – I come last now! Even if I’m deadly hungry – I gotta do all that before I eat. That’s my life as a mother – but at the end it’s all worth it. It may seem busy now but it will get more busy when he sleeps less and knows how to crawl and walk around. Than my eyes will be on him 24/7 instead of sitting here doing my online stuff or socializing with friends.

Baby Show at Toronto Metro Convention Center

Yepps – baby show happens twice a year in Toronto. This time we went on a Sunday with Hub’s friend. Had to wake up extra early for this show. Extra early to me means around 8am-11am. I am so not a morning person and waking up early is really not for me. Thank goodness our munchkin is a sleeper like his mama too. But eventually I will need to adjust my sleeping habits and not sleep so much. I still try to sleep for about 8 to 10 hours a day. Sleeping is my hobby and I just love my sleep too much. Although – now that I have to wake up once during midnight – I’m still having good sleep overall.

Anyways – back to the Baby Show. Munchkin wasn’t even awake to enjoy the show with us. He slept through it without any fuss. We walked for about 4 hours to different booths and collected a lot of free stuff. I would recommend you to go during your pregnancy because there wasn’t really a point of me going when I have all the stuff already. Although – there were a lot of babies there with their parents. I still find that going there when your pregnant is more helpful. While I’m there – I did check out JBL instruments – pretty fascinating. They have a booth for instruments and baby toys.

Wonderful friendships

I seriously can’t ask for better friends. I haven’t been dealing with any friendship drama for a couple years now and it just feels so great. I just can’t deal with girl drama or even family drama anymore. It brings too much stress and heartaches to my life. I’m just living the oh-so-peaceful life now with my family. The unnecessary drama is just not allowed in my life again. I think this is why mostly my friends are men because they are more simple and easy going.

Father’s day gift

Are you ready for Father’s day yet? Well Hub will be spending his very first Father’s day with his munchkin and I’m already thinking of what to get him for his very first father’s day. Although – it’s not my job in getting him a gift but I thought it would be neat if I get it on behalf of my munchkin. I’m thinking about getting him some cohiba cigars for him to try. He’s been talking about cigars lately because his boss smokes them. Once in awhile is alright but hopefully he won’t be addicted to it. Any gift ideas to share with me?

Munchkin’s One Month Celebration with family & relatives

It’s been such a busy month for us planning the munchkin’s one month celebrations with family and another one with friends. Hub and I finally decided on a Chinese restaurant to celebrate with family and relatives. When it comes down to Chinese restaurants – I’m more looking into quality of food and the interior because I do want to take some pretty photos with him. He’s almost 2 months soon – time is flying by way too quick! Please slow down time!