Week 27

I have to add another fairy to my maternity clothes fairies group - this is from another dear neighbor@girlfriend, Melanie S. She has an 18-months old daughter and we cannot wait to set up future play dates!

Peter really like this dress on me.

Perfect dress for a hot summer's day!

Summer reading...

Thanks to all the amazing and wonderful ladies in my life - Peter and I have a lot of resources to look through before Baby Milizia arrives. Our summer reading list has lots of informational, guidance and laughter tossed into it. Peter has been great reading up and as for me, I have a tendency to read up to the chapter/section where it coincides with how long I am along the pregnancy.

Summer reads... thanks to Michele C, Melanie S. & Diane G.

Being outdoors...

It has been nice and warm here on the weekends that I want to be outside - I try to help out doing yard work but mostly I 'supervise' Peter on what he does and mingle with the neighbors. I wear a sun hat to keep the sun away and cute summer dresses from my maternity clothes fairies!

Summer & Pregnant - Week 26

Glucose testing

Since I am around 24-28 weeks into the pregnancy, I was scheduled for the 1-hour glucose screening. The next day the OBGyn office called to say that they would like me to take the 3-hours glucose test because my 1-hour test results came out not so favorable. How unfavorable? Normal is to be under 140 and my result was 188. Yikes!!

I scheduled for the 3-hours glucose test immediately and they also had me set up to see a gestational diabetes doctor as a precautionary. The 3-hours test I did a lot better! Sitting at the doctors having your blood drawn every hour having been fasting for the past 14 hours was not too painful of an experience thank goodness to me being prepared. I brought a pillow, iPad, DVD player and 2 movies in tow. I was fairly comfy and time did not pass by too slow. After drinking this very sweet, cold and flat orange soda, the first of the three hour result was high but close enough to the desired level and the second and third hour reading, my glucose level was a a very good level. What does that mean? My body just process the glucose in my system a bit slower since being pregnant.

Peter told me that when Mom@Nancy was pregnant with him, she had gestational diabetes. So, I put this all on Peter :P

My OBGyn still had me keep the appointment with the gestational diabetes doctor. After meeting with him - he me set up with one of those glucose monitors where I am supposed to test myself 4 times a day and a guideline to dieting.

Peter and I thought this was rather extreme but better be safe! So here I am now, after each meal I wait out two hours not eating too much sugar (or space out my sugar intake) and then check my glucose level. So far so good.. if all is well, when we see the doctor in two weeks maybe he can prescribe something with less frequent testing. Gotta really cut down all that bread, potatoes and pastas!!

From our Canadian friends...

Mother's day, we hosted dinner for our Canadian friends who happened to be in town shopping. Sherene cooked up a very nice homey nasi lemak (coconut rice) meal for 10 people with all the side fixings a true nasi lemak has to offer including to the banana leave on the plate to accentuate the flavor of the coconut rice which already had a wonderful pandan (screwpine) leaf aroma when it was cooking with the rice.

Our Canadian friends presented us with a lot of clothing for Baby Milizia and her very first red packet too. Since it was graduation weekend at UB and Sherene had to attend graduation ceremonies, we could not head up to Aurora for our friend Bethany & Binh's son - Lex Ngo's full moon celebration. Mom@Nancy went on behalf of the Milizias' and we had her pass our red packet to baby Lex. So who came from Canada after the full moon celebration? Lex's grandparents who presented us with Baby Milizia's first red packet and a cute pink dress set. And the other set of pink and yellow attire came from Bethany's brother, Jonathen and his girlfriend Faye. The bib set and socks was gifted by Bethany's cousin KK and his girlfriend Sai. 

A growing wardrobe for Baby Milizia

{Pre-} Mother's Day

Peter had been hinting of a special 'gift' for me for this {pre-} Mother's Day... and this is what he is getting me! 

A NEW DSLR CAMERA

Nikon D3200

The sweetest thing he said to me after revealing what the gift was that next to me wanting one for some time now, it's about time I got it so that we can both use it to capture all the special moments in our lives and especially with Baby Milizia's arrival. I love you husband!! XoXoX

UB's Graduation weekend

This year for commencement - I got to see Laurel, Dominique@Niki and Xi at their graduation ceremonies. This entire weekend alone... I walked to and fro a lot and what an amazing workout it was for me. Fashion wise - I am also able to fit very comfortably to my summer dresses. With a pop of color, me 'waddling' here and there around campus was quite an achievement :P

 With Laurel

With Dominique@Niki

With Xi and Shu Fei - both my mentees 

Summer dresses...

I really have got to thank once again my maternity clothes fairies - here I am in one of the dresses bequeathed to me.

Thank you Michele C. for this dress!

Another early gift..

This one is from one of my amazing student staff - Mi Mi. She heads home to South Korea for the summer and she wanted to make sure Baby Milizia has her cute onesie and matching hat ready for her arrival.

Thank you Mi Mi - this is just too cute!

Week 24

Taken this morning...

From the Whittakers'...

We were invited to the Whittaker household for a scrumptious Aussie home made dinner with one of my favorite dessert ever - pavlova (meringue-like dessert). It was a nice relaxing evening with friends and what a surprise it was for Peter and myself when Andrew and Mandy gifted us with an early baby present for Baby Milizia.Thank you so much for thinking of us!!

Sleep Sheep to ease Baby Milizia's slumber time.

Minnie Mouse for Baby Milizia

Peter came home with the cutest mini baby Minnie Mouse for Baby Milizia. His co-worker Gia and her husband Dave were holidaying and thought of us.

Thank you Gia & Dave for thinking about Baby Milizia

Flashback - Baby Pete & Baby Sher

Here we are back in the days... from new born to under 9 months old.
Will be loading more soon!

 

 

 

Grandparents-2-be : Homework #1

I 'assigned' my mom and my father-in-law homework... to gather pictures of myself and Peter when we were born through our first birthday. What a great preview to see how Baby Milizia will turn out.

Stay tuned to see Baby Sherene and Baby Peter back in the days!

Week 22

I looked a bit surprised here since I could not keep a straight face because husband maked me laugh while he took the picture :)

Awesome Auntie!

Another surprise that came in the mail today... it was from Ai Ling who custom made this super adorable onesie for Baby Milizia. Ai Ling said this is for all the cool Aunties to Baby Milizia. And she is right about that... there's going to be a lot of amazing Aunties including Auntie Ai Ling! XoXoX

With love from Auntie Ai Ling

TGIF Surprise

Not only is it a TGIF indeed... but a TGIF with a special dedication on Facebook from my dear girlfriend back in Penang, Ween Nee Tan @ Baker Artist Extraordinaire who also owns this amazing store so appropriately named Sugar.Ween was inspired by yours truly with this special baby themed cake and we love it!! Thank you Auntie Ween Nee XoXoX

Made by Ween Nee Tan of Sugar & love-a-cupcake - April 2012

A closer look at Baby Milizia

We had another follow up ultrasound this morning and Baby Milizia is measuring good. We are officially half way there now at 20 weeks. This ultrasound session was to confirm what Peter and I already called which is an arrival date of the end of August - around August 29th date. I know Pete has been 'gloating' that he will be the 'younger' parent if and when baby Milizia arrives after my birthday. We will find out when she arrives!

Heartbeat of 152

We see your face!

Is that a thumb's up we see?

Baby Milizia's either yawning, talking or laughing :)

Baby Milizia announcement

Today, we officially told all our friends and colleagues of our impending parenthood and Baby Milizia of course! We celebrated with cupcakes at work - Peter helped me made these cute 'sticker-flags' to add on to our cupcakes.

Carrot cupcakes and chocolate swirls cupcakes

Baby girl calls for something sweet

Anniversary dinner date...

For our anniversary dinner, I surprised husband to one of our very favorite (and the best) French restaurant in town - Tabree. We actually celebrated our third anniversary at Tabree as well but when they were in another location. Now that they moved to a closer location to where we live, I anticipate more outings there.

Being the foodie we are... we feasted ourselves minus my usual glass or two of wine in my current condition. We started with two appetizers - the foie gras over a bed of red cabbages slaw and the special appetizer of the day, the soft shelled crab with cucumber and mesclunn green side with roasted corn with a drizzle of sesame lemon vinaigrette. For our entrés, I had the lobster pappardelle, sweet peas cooked with a saffron cream sauce and Peter opted for the seared duck breast with haricot verts and a calvados sauce. .

Right before we headed in to the restaurant, we decided to opened up our cards for each other and my gift to Peter. Remember in my previous post, the supposed gift gifting etiquette for 5 years anniversary is supposed to be wood... this is what I got for Peter...

Look what I got!

I gifted Peter with a nice Wood based product - a gift box made out of paper! Nothing really sexy about the gift of wood at all ;P Now... what is in the box??

Daddy's girl for the future Dad-2-be

I just started shopping for Baby Milizia literally two days ago... and I could not resist getting this onesie for Peter. I also got this cute dress with matching cardigan for her. Let the shopping begin!

For our baby girl

Peter gave me several options for my anniversary gift... and his clue to the gift were so cheeky about how wood related it is. And yes dear friends... he is gifting me a piece of WOOD. He was really trying to keep a straight face as he reveals clues of the gift.

Things he said... 

• it is made of all wood
• its really hard wood
• the best 'wood comes' from Malaysia
• you get to 'relax' on it

So what is it??

A teak wood bench for the bathroom. I get to create a mini spa for us in our bathroom

Good to know that we are both still as silly with each other after all these year :)