__ Tuesday, July 31, 2007 ;

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again at 3:22 PM ;

__ Monday, July 30, 2007 ;

Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself.
My name is Jolovan Lee Kim Kuan, age 5 days and 10 hours and I was born on 26 July 2007, 9 plus AM. Currently I am chubby on the face and svelte on the body. The weighing scale says that I am 3.4kg when I am born but I suspect that I am more than that now, like 3.5 or 3.6kg? People who see me say that I am handsome/cute/adorable/smart and I am going to make good of what they say about me.

Gong gong and Ah ma went to fortune teller to get me my Chinese name, who coincidentally helped my parents to decide they wedding dates and other big matters. He said that I am born in good time, and my life is going to be lucky and will rise to be a successful figure. This really makes everyone in the family overjoyed because they want the best for me in my life and they are going to ensure that. The Kim in my name is that of “jin3 xiu4 qian2 cheng2” which mean great talent and successful future, while the Kuan is that of “quan2 li4”, which mean great power and authority. The name goes well with the element of my life and will help in the smooth progress and success in my life. I am a lucky baby and thanks to mummy and daddy for that. J Also to gong gong and ah ma for their effort to get this auspicious name for me.

Some fun event / snapshots to share with you (not in order of sequence/priority):

Mummy start feeling contractions at 2plus AM and I was born by 9plus AM, considered as short delivery time, as even the doctor expecting me to be born around 2pm.
Daddy had borrowed and read “ The survival book for New Fathers” so as to know how to be a good dad. I know its common for new daddies, but coming from a daddy who do not like reading even storybooks, you should gasp in surprise and Awww….
Gong gong do not dare to carry even now cos he is afraid that he will be a butter finger. So what he do now is to keep coming over to me cot and talk to me and identifying himself as “ hi I am your gong gong!”
Ah ma gave me a lot of nick names like “chao babi (smell pig), “lao ah peh (old man)”, chao dehg (smelly pig)”, “chao lang” (smelly person). And she likes to tease me by threatening to smack my bums, but I think I am quite well-protected by my diapers J
First time gugu carry me, I smile at her multiple times which drove papa nuts cos when he want to take picture of me smiling, I stopped, only to smile again when he walked away. Hehehe papa complain saying that cos gugu have big boobs which makes me feel cosy, I think that is quite true. J papa’s chest is a little too hard for my liking.
I enjoy looking around with my big eyes but I do not like strong lights, too glaring for me. I like to look at those fuzzy images around me and listen to people talking. They knew that I like it so they talk to me a lot a lot, especially papa, mama, gong gong, ah ma and gugu. If I am happy, I smile at them to motivate them to talk to me more. Ain’t I smart?
Many of mama and papa’s friends and colleagues bought presents for mama and me to congratulate her, so now my house is full for nice presents waiting to be unwrapped. This is really very thoughtful of them and I must say my thanks to them in my baby language since this is the only language I know of. So here it goes: ahh erhhhh ah ah wah erh ohhh”. Translation: Thank you all Uncles and Aunties for those nice presents!
Mama’s boss was very nice. When he knew that I was born, he loudly announced to the whole office that mama had given birth and all the colleagues who are coming to visit mama are to bring presents for us. How sweet! Awwwww…..
I am the only one in the whole wide world to be able to dirty my mama papa’s bed without being scolded by papa. Papa is very particular about cleanliness but he is very accommodating to me. Once again, I am lucky.
I am the only one to be able to wake gugu up from sleep immediately, which no one is able to do, cos she is very fond of snoozing. I do not even have to cry/wine/whimper. I just need to appear in front of her and she will be fully alert to talk to me. And I am the first one she will go to see every morning.

By the way, something very embarrassing happened yesterday. I know I am too young to know about embarrassment, but when I grow up, I will be embarrassed and this will probably one of those jokes people will not be tired to use to make fun of me. Ah ma was doing my evening wipes so that I can go to bed clean and fresh. But when she was changing my diaper, I peed and I peed all over my face and chest. You can imagine the cries of surprise from mama, papa, ah ma and gugu. Gong gong was very impressed saying that I can “go far”. With my pee, they have to change me all over again and change papa’s bedsheet, but I went away trouble-free and scott-free. Hehee

Mama had her post-natal massage today while papa took me on my first outing to the doctor’s to see if I have any jaundice cos Uncle Weichong commented that I look a bit yellow yesterday. Lucky for me, I am safe. My jaundice level is still below the average range. Papa phew a sigh of relief. I am a healthy baby!
OK, time to go to bed. Now my attention span is 30mins to 1 hour at most, so I can’t talk or think too much. See you when I wake up, okie? *yawn~~*

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again at 2:15 PM ;