Cookings

I work from home this week, hence i have chosen three recipe from the cook book.
(1) Vegetable Soup (5 types of vege cook together)
(2) Sweet Potato & leek pasta
(3) Broccoli & Cheddar cheese

(1) is successful. Andrea loves it. I mixed with pasta for her.
(2) will only try cooking tomorrow. I guess it would be nice too as she loves pasta.
(3) It's abit oily, hence i don't feed andrea alot. She seems to like it.

Being a stay at home mum can be very boring. I do not have the stamina to stay with my kid 24 hours. I'm glad that i have a maid to help when i needed to get my things done or im exhausted to do anything. Andrea has been behaving herself & i have almost 80% of concentration at work.

Backache

I had a terrible backache yesterday. It may not be as terrible as i have described because i never had a backache before. Whole day i was in pain and it relieves a little after i did the signature exercise.

I am working from home this week, only require going back to office when there is a telecon. I was on half day yesterday and when i was back home, andrea glued to me and i think i only have 25% of my concentration at work. I am going to office at 10.30am later for another telecon at 11.30am, then i will be back. Hopefully today andrea is more independent. She will cry whenever no one accompany her. A Spoil Kid!

I've used coconut oil for cooking yesterday's dinner, the chicken + potato was okay, didn't had any hint of coconut taste in the dish. However the spinach had a very strong smell. Maybe i have put too much. Honestly Coconut oil is not very favourable, it tasted like nasi lemak. Imagine nasi lemak taste on all your dishes for that night! Horrible... Anyway, Look at the bright side, It is the world's best cooking oil!

11 Months Old

Andrea is a big girl now. She knows
1. when she wants to urine. She will crawl to her potty (Only day time)
2. how to sign "flower", "more", "pretty" & "sleep"
3. going to her drawer to get dressed when she see grandma going out (she wants to follow)
4. how to "kiss" when we asked her to do so, but somehow she doesn't want to kiss me
5. the name of her book "Three Little Pigs", "Thumper Shapes", "Goldilocks and the three bears"

Andrea's Favourite snacks or shall i say, the regular snacks i bought for her is the biscuit by WAKODO from Isetan. There are 11 different flavour with different stages i.e 6 months, 7 months and 9 months.
6 months - comes in 2 flavours: Tried 1 (Rice cracker)
7 motnhs - comes in 5 flavours: Tried 1 (Potato stick)
9 months - comes in 4 flavours: Tried all 4 (sweet potato, pumpkin, potato & aeroplane shape biscuit)

Andrea also drinks Heinz fruit juice everyday. 1 Bottle last for 2 days
1. Apple & Blackcurrant
2. Strained Apple Prune Drink
3. Strained Pear Juice
4. Strained Apple Juice
5. Strained Apple Prune Drink

Andrea meals are mostly Organic. We bought most of the vegetable from JustLife. I am now a Justlife member too.

Andrea wakes up in the middle of the night

Andrea seldom wakes up in the middle of the night. I have no idea what happened to her, she wakes up at 2am and only get back to sleep at 3.30am. I have made her milk & she can't fall back to sleep after the milk, she started to cry after that. I was very very sleepy and tired, luckly hubby is there to help to put her back to sleep.

early this morning, she grin at me when i got up from the bed. I gave her a hug and kiss then i go brush my teeth. Andrea seems okay and hopefully she won't be so cranky tonight.

Andrea had rashes on her neck since sunday, it had not got better. Mum said wait for a few more days before we bring her to see doctor. I have gotten a medication gel for bathing from chen chen. But it doesn't seems to help alot.

Andrea s able to say two vocals now but still couldn't made them up as words yet. She tried to take her 1st step on saturday, but wouldn't want to try another time till now.

work is Stressful

Back to IBm about 3 weeks now. I have not grasp everything as fast that i could imagine and anticipated. everything is new to me, including my Business Controls role. The name could be the same but the process is totally different and i have to start from zero again!! Everyone has high expectation of me, because they know that i am a re-hire and i can start my engine on day 1! They're wrong, im a slow learner and i needed more time.

I have had nightmare almost everynight and feel so depress before going to work. when i am at work, i work like a dog and hoping 5pm will come very soon! i go home sharp everyday at 5pm unless there are classes or telecon. I don't know when this sadness and stress will go away, i hope it will go away soon, because i can feel that i am collapsing soon. There is no one in this world would understand me, including my husband. I felt so alone and lonely at work and at home.