Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

Children Ha! Yesterday was a well spent day but it was quite taxing on me. But I enjoyed it very much. In the morning, brought Josh to Jacob Ballas at Botanic Gardens and he loves the water feature so much! He heard the water feature and straight away wants to remove his shirt! He has came here before and he enjoyed it then. There is only one Singaporean (me) and the rest are Caucasians. They really let their children free to roam and I bet they are regulars to this beautiful park! We spent about 40 minutes there. Thank God I brought avocado bread for him as he was hungry after the event. We later went to a sand garden and even picked up saga seeds! Around 30 of them. Josh even picked up and place them one by one in the plastic bag!! Work When I came back, I straight away had my lunch and headed for 3 appointments till 7pm.. Was quite hungry then. Wife Rested awhile because I have sore throat and slight fever. This is due to the Old Chang Kee that I have eaten the day...

Kate Hoe (3.18kg) -------------------------- Well nowadays or "now a nights", I have been effectively sleeping from 5am onwards. Ah. Its mainly accompanying Kate. She is a newborn and she is still slowly adjusting to our day and night regime. When she is in the womb, she is mostly active at night and of course, when she is born, the pre 9month sleeping habit sure prevails. According to books, it will take about 6 weeks or so for her to adjust back to our normal day active and night sleeping. So, at 1 plus, she would be sound asleep. But around 3-5am, her big eyes will be opened and my confinement lady and I will take turn to accompany Kate, while Eve will occassionally wake up to breastfeed her. And of course, I will wake up at around 10 plus every morning... Ah!! Imagine if I have work in the early morning.. But thank god my career allows me to have this flexibility. Josh Hoe -------------- Now Josh knows more words!! Add to his words list Daddy Eight Five Steady Bear Ma Bus...

Yesterday evening, it was indeed a father-son time for me and Josh! And we enjoyed so much together. We took cab to Suntec and guess what? He really loves car ride because he is able to spot and tell me things that he know! Such as tractors, cranes, lorries, tunnels, cabs, trees.. Amazing boy. We went to church and he played himself the toys which are available there. And he enjoyed himself. Learning some building blocks as well as cooking stuff. After church, we went to the nearby Esplanade to have his dinner. I knew that the NDP rehearsal was there, so we found a spot, beside Marina Square and we sat there to enjoy the breeze and to feed him. I'm so happy that he finished all his food and when the first fireworks started, he straight away made the fireworks sign by opening his palm and pushes his hand up, a sign he will do when he saw the fireworks video in the iPhone! And he loves to link things that he know. So he straightaway pointed out to my pants that my iPho...

Well, wanna share with you that currently, we are adjusting our lifestyle with our daughter. All children have demands and now, both of our children have their separate demands but they have one common one: breastmilk. Now our daughter is 6 days old and she is sensitive to the breasts! What do I mean? During day 3, at night she rejected the breasts totally even though she was hungry. And the next day, Eve called the Breastfeeding association and found out that it was probably due to Josh drinking it and his saliva was on the breast. My daughter felt that there was a difference and that's the reason for it. Now, we would wipe first before feeding her. Amazing! Yesterday was really quite hectic. Slept at 6am. Can you believe it? My daughter was awake and Josh was asleep since 12am. Then Josh woke up at 3.30am. That's when things are jumbled up! Josh wanted Eve to nurse(this was the normal routine before my daughter was born). However, his sucking is quite hard on Eve and after 15...

Hey Everyone! Woohoo!! Our daughter is born!! So happy! She is born on 110711, 2019hours at Mt Alvenia. She is 2.960kg and she has alot of hair!! Really want to thank God for his provision and also his protection over her and Eve. I received a call on 110711 at 3.30pm from Eve, and she told me that her water bag burst at home. I was on train back at Novena Station. Upon hearing that, I straight away went out of the station.  And bought my lunch and headed straight to Mt Alvenia.  I met Eve at Mt Alvenia as she took cab from home and we were warded at 4.30pm.  This time, the delivery time was around 3.5 hours and this is amazing and you gotta hear it. At 8pm, the nurses said that she only dilated for about 6cm (still got 4 more cm to go). The contractions became stronger and until a stage she was kneeling down and I have to practically support her with my own weight!! And the next minute, she told me that she is pushing. And I told the nurse that she is pushing...