Mummy’s entry – Rye Li’s room and other updates

It’s been one a half weeks since we all moved into her room and we didn’t have any major issues with her. It’s probably due to the fact that both of us are there with her, I sleep with her on her mattress while hubby sleeps on another mattress next to her.

There was one night though (about the 4th night) she asked to sleep in my room and on my bed but I brushed the idea away and she didn’t resist. There was also one morning when she got up and realized that I wasn’t next to her, she cried out for me. The few times I used hubby’s bolster under my blanket did the trick but she got smarter and came close to it and realized I wasn’t there and cried.

A few nights ago, I wasn’t feeling well and slept in my own room while hubby was with the girl. About 5 in the morning, hubby woke me up to say that the girl has been asking for me in the last 15 minutes. She didn’t cry but has been whining and refused milk when hubby offered her. Thinking that she would eventually fall asleep, hubby just let her be. But after a while, she didn’t fall asleep and hubby decided to get me to come over. The moment she saw me, she asked for milk and after she had her milk, she slept. I thought she would be crying for me but she didn’t.

Soon, I will put her to the test again. That is, when hubby is not traveling, he will be with her while I will be in my own room. I’m trying to let her get used to hubby attending to her in the nights rather than just me. Also, I slept like a baby when I was in my own bed! Hehe…I do so miss my bed!

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On other updates, I’ve been too busy with work (have been working late nights at home) to even update on the remaining parts of our US trip and other stuff on the girl.

Just want to update on her behaviour and speech lately.

She is getting really persistence these days without taking “no” for answer. When she wants us to read to her she will go:

Rye Li: Papa, read storybook
Papa : *no answer*
Rye Li: Papa, READ storybook
Papa : *no answer*
Rye Li: Papa, READ storybook please
Papa : Wait first, papa doing something
Rye Li: Papa, READ storybook PLEASE
Papa : *no answer*
Rye Li: PAPA, READ STORYBOOK NOW! NOW!

She will keep on doing this till we give in (or smack her for being rude….just kidding!)

She’s also getting smarter in using words like “and”, “also”, “just now” and “first”

“I go Disneyland and I see Mickey Mouse and I see Donald Duck”

“I also got no money. Mummy also got no money” (when she heard that Aunty Ng, her caretaker mentioned that she has no money to the other kids)

“Just now, Papa take you (me) go Aunty Ng’s”

When I asked her to eat her rice, she will say…”I want drink water first”

And the best liner that shocked me last night…”I don’t like mummy, I like papa”. I just ignored her when she said that. She must have picked this up from the kids at the daycare.

We’re off to Pangkor Island today and we’re taking the bus. It was supposed to be a family trip with my family but since our London’s family friends are all down, it will be a big group trip. There will be thirty over of us including kids. And this will be Rye Li’s first time on the bus. Will update on this when I’ve the time (I still got 3 more backdated posts from our US trip…hehe). Adios!

Mummy's entry - Moving into Rye Li's room

We officially moved her into her own room on Saturday night. I feel this move is a big change for me rather than for the girl.

Again, like how well she adapted to her holidays in the US, she was fine. Slept through the night, well, she did stir here and there a little and asked for milk early morning but she was overall okay.

I, on the other hand, couldn't sleep well (it takes me time to adapt to change) and on top of that, I got a backache as I'm not used to her queen-size mattress. The arrangement was that I sleep with her on her bed while hubby slept on a separate mattress next to us. We didn't want her to get use to sleeping in between us.

She's also saying "my new bed", "i oi-oi (chinese slang for sleep) here on my new bed" and "my room". We have been preparing her for weeks for this and she gets excited a little when we mentioned that it is time for her to sleep in her room.

This was the first night. Last night, the second night, she did wake up several times, fussing and mostly went back to sleep but she asked for milk at 2 plus am and another at 7am. For four nights before we moved her into her room, she slept through the nights and I was so hoping that this is finally my wish come true for peaceful nights but too bad! I think it's also got to do with the change.

This morning I had to get up early for work and left her on her own with the door slightly opened. Less than 5 minutes later, I heard her crying loudly for me from her room. I told her after that, that if she doesn't see me next to her means I'm either in the toilet or in the kitchen and all she needs to do is come out of the room to look for me and not cry.

We shall see how the rest of the nights go...I so miss my bed! I'm just wondering how we parents go to such lengths to change our lifestyles to suit our kid's. I'm also wondering when will I get to sleep on my own bed again...

Mummy's entry - reasons to move or not to move Rye Li to her room

The following are reasons are why I should move Rye Li into her room:-

1) She is getting complacent with her cot. She even asked to go into it when she wants to sleep!
She prefers her cot than sleeping with us most of the time.

2) Her room has always been ready even before she was born. Lately, we have added some
things in there like wall decorations, little table and chairs for her to play/write/draw on.
The bulk of her toys have been moved from the living room to her room and eventually, all
of them will be moved into her room too.

3) We will be planning for No.2 soon and hence, we will need the cot.

4) Our room is not big enough to have a cot as well as another bed/mattress in there. Ideally, I
don't mind Rye Li sleeping with us but since our room is not big enough, we have to settle for
her room.

5) It would be nice to get our room back again to ourselves (although I know it will take me
some time to get use to not having Rye Li's cot and her next to me)



The following are reasons are why I should not move Rye Li to her room just yet:-

1) When I need to do things, be it in the late nights or early mornings when Rye Li is still asleep,
I have the assurance that she is safely in her cot and also that she is not able to move about if
she's awake. Unlike if she's in her room, I'm not sure what will she be up to although her
room is safe.

2) When I'm in the shower while she is asleep, I can hear her when she wakes up and usually I
will tell her that I'm in the shower, to assure her that I'm around. If she's in her room, I won't
be able to talk to her although I would be able to hear her since we have the baby monitor.

3) For "convenience" sake. For example, it has been a habit of mine to watch tv while putting
the girl to sleep since she was born. Those days, while breastfeeding her at nights, I will
entertain myself with the TV. Then when she got bigger, she too will watch along with me but
only the commercials...other times, she will just play around on the bed. This was how I kept
up with my shows (Korean/Chinese dramas, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, etc). However,
lately, there are not many good shows (and I don't have Astro) so it is only Monday nights
that I will watch tv (CSI and Criminal minds, only when hubby is around coz I also get
spooked by the gory details of these shows). I know, I know...this is a bad reason! And there is
no way will I put a TV in her room.

For the time being, my decision is that I feel I should not move her just yet for my convenience sake (not the TV reason ok but the fact that she is safely in her cot). But I am planning for this after our trip as I will need her to get use to her room especially when we will be planning for No.2 soon. Anyway, I am anticipating for either one of us or both to be sleeping in her room for a while when we start this. I pray the process of moving into her room will be a smooth one for us!

My Room

When you look really hard into the clear sky at nights when there are loads of stars to see, you will come across my name….

sorry, not very clear as the ceiling is white in colour but you can roughly make out the word

Impressed yet? Haha, this is what I see anyway at nights in my room. Papa had the itch to stick those glow-in-the-dark stars stickers several nights ago. He had been saving these for 15 years and now he has decided to put them up in my room. He allowed me to stick them first on the wall and then later, when I was asleep, he went on to finish my whole room, even on the ceiling and this is the outcome.

My room has always been there before I was born. I guess it became my dressing room as I’ve yet to sleep there, just a few day naps recently.

The first decorative peace in there would be the curtains. Ah Por (my paternal grandmother) sewed it for me.

Aren’t they nice?

Then the second decorative items in there would be the “photo gallery” Papa made in my second month.

It remained like this until I was nearly a year old when Mummy bought some letters and decorated my door with my name.

The final one (hopefully there will be more!) is the recent stickers. Mummy was really touched with Papa’s effort on this. I wonder what else will he do to my room…I hear that there are other stuff which he got that he has yet to put in there. Maybe when I’m ready to sleep in there.