Check out how Shannon is getting better at grabbing stuff with her little fingers and holding on to things...
Posing with My Thomas...
It was a lazy Sunday morning. Mummy was spending some quality time with Shannon and me. Mummy knew I don't like taking photos, so she coaxed me into posing with my Thomas. Strangely, I agreed.
Mummy even taught me how to get ready by saying, 1 2 3 Thomas... and SNAP...
Some more "1 2 3 Thomas" photos....
Me and Little Shannon Again...
Finally we are back into winter wonderland Shanghai. When we touched down in Shanghai on Wednesday morning, the temperature was freezing cold at -2 degrees celcius. The water in the fountains at the garden have all turned into ice...
Despite the freeziness, we felt really warm at home with the heater running on almost 24 hours a day now... Check out some fun Mummy had taking photos for us... Here's a perfect shot of me and Shannon...with all smiles...
An Eventful New Year's Day 2010...
What a way to spend the first day a new year... It was 4AM in the morning when Mummy gave up waiting for 姨姨 to return home from her new year's eve partying. As Mummy was getting ready to go to bed, she touched and felt Shannon very heated up. So she got up and checked Shannon's temperature. To her horror, it was running at 39.2 degrees celcius. Mummy was shocked. Shannon has just recovered from bronchitis and given a clean bill of health by Dr Ngiam two days ago. Mummy immediately fed Shannon some fever medicine and sponged her with cool water.
Shannon's fever remained at 38-ish degrees celcius even as she woke up the next morning. Luckily she was still quite cheerful and finished her milk. All the PD clinics were closed as it was public holiday. After much thought, Mummy decided she will bring Shannon to the A&E department of Glen E, hopefully, the doctors on duty will be able to contact Dr Ngiam. Luckily for us, Dr Ngiam was actually around in the hospital that day. Dr Ngiam checked her throat, lungs and ears, they were all clear. So Dr Ngiam decided to get a urine test to determine if it was an urinary tract infection ("UTI"). Although the nurse got a urine bag done for Shannon, it was not secured and Mummy had a hard time thinking of ideas to collect her urine. At last when she did, the nurse confirmed that it was UTI after doing a urine test and Shannon needed antibiotics. Dr Ngiam said Shannon cannot leave for Shanghai yet, so we had to delay our flight to until a few days later. Sigh, I will miss the first few days of school. I was so looking forward to going back to school to ride my favourite bicycle and play with my classmates from school...
What a way to spend the first day of a new year... At the A&E department of Glen E.
On a subsequent visit yesterday, Dr Ngiam explained to Mummy we needed to find out the reason for the occurrence of the UTI as Shannon is still very young, whether the UTI caused by an inborn structural abnormality with her urinatory tract, which would need her to be on a few years of antibiotics or surgery, depending on the severity. See link below for more information.
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utichildren/
So we had a series of tests / scans done earlier this morning. Luckily, the results show that the kidneys are functioning normally and there is no sign of reflux. The UTI Shannon had was probably caused by a bacteria infection. So we finally received the go-ahead to return to Shanghai. And so, we are leaving tomorrow night. Hopefully there will be good weather when we touch down in Shanghai as it is forecasted to be snowing tomorrow with a temperature around 0 degrees celcius. Back to winter wonderland...
Shannon's fever remained at 38-ish degrees celcius even as she woke up the next morning. Luckily she was still quite cheerful and finished her milk. All the PD clinics were closed as it was public holiday. After much thought, Mummy decided she will bring Shannon to the A&E department of Glen E, hopefully, the doctors on duty will be able to contact Dr Ngiam. Luckily for us, Dr Ngiam was actually around in the hospital that day. Dr Ngiam checked her throat, lungs and ears, they were all clear. So Dr Ngiam decided to get a urine test to determine if it was an urinary tract infection ("UTI"). Although the nurse got a urine bag done for Shannon, it was not secured and Mummy had a hard time thinking of ideas to collect her urine. At last when she did, the nurse confirmed that it was UTI after doing a urine test and Shannon needed antibiotics. Dr Ngiam said Shannon cannot leave for Shanghai yet, so we had to delay our flight to until a few days later. Sigh, I will miss the first few days of school. I was so looking forward to going back to school to ride my favourite bicycle and play with my classmates from school...
What a way to spend the first day of a new year... At the A&E department of Glen E.
On a subsequent visit yesterday, Dr Ngiam explained to Mummy we needed to find out the reason for the occurrence of the UTI as Shannon is still very young, whether the UTI caused by an inborn structural abnormality with her urinatory tract, which would need her to be on a few years of antibiotics or surgery, depending on the severity. See link below for more information.
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utichildren/
So we had a series of tests / scans done earlier this morning. Luckily, the results show that the kidneys are functioning normally and there is no sign of reflux. The UTI Shannon had was probably caused by a bacteria infection. So we finally received the go-ahead to return to Shanghai. And so, we are leaving tomorrow night. Hopefully there will be good weather when we touch down in Shanghai as it is forecasted to be snowing tomorrow with a temperature around 0 degrees celcius. Back to winter wonderland...
The Chan Look-alike Meter II
MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Descendents - Family name history
Hahaha, Daddy will be really disappointed. Even Shannon looks more like Mummy...
The Chan Look-alike Meter I
MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family web sites - Free genealogy
Well, it isn't true when everyone says I have a photocopy face of Daddy. The above look-alike meter tells me I actually look more like Mummy as I grow older... Check out Shannon's look-alike meter...
New Year Resolutions 2010...
It was that time of the year again, the very last day of a year, that Mummy sits down and reflects on the past year, which seems to be an eventful year where we see the very ups and downs of a worldwide economic crisis. Despite the ups and downs, Mummy feels that it is the time to give thanks as God has seen her and our entire family through 2009, especially since God has blessed her with wonderful and lovely kids like Shannon and ME (hahaha...) and giving protection to Daddy during the Ritz Carlton bombing that took place in Jakarta just one month before Shannon was born...
Work tended to be slower in the earlier part of 2009 as Mummy is basically working in the capital markets where all IPOs died when the crisis hit. That was why Daddy and Mummy decided it was time to give me a little sister this year. And so we had Shannon added to our family in August. She is so adorable and I simply love her. Mummy is definitely glad when friends and family commented that Shannon looks more like Mummy (especially after having dealt with all comments about me being a photocopy image of Daddy...)
Daddy and Mummy also had their long awaited annual vacation to New Zealand with little Shannon in Mummy's tummy. It was a place that they had wanted to visit for a long time. And finally, they had the opportunity to do it in April. It was definitely a trip worthwhile as they enjoyed the beautiful scenery at a lower cost due to the depreciating NZD.
Since little Shannon arrived, Mummy's always had her hands full, either busy with me or Shannon. It's been really tough especially since Daddy recently took on a new project role at work that requires him to be travelling and away from home for more than 50% of the time. So it has been rock-and-roll every night as Shannon and I bunked in with Mummy on her king-sized bed... As the capital markets recover in the latter part of the year, Mummy has also taken on another US IPO and that has definitely kept her really busy since she returned to work in mid November.
So as we look forward to a better 2010 (as all the economists have predicted), we continue to ask God to watch over our lives.
Work tended to be slower in the earlier part of 2009 as Mummy is basically working in the capital markets where all IPOs died when the crisis hit. That was why Daddy and Mummy decided it was time to give me a little sister this year. And so we had Shannon added to our family in August. She is so adorable and I simply love her. Mummy is definitely glad when friends and family commented that Shannon looks more like Mummy (especially after having dealt with all comments about me being a photocopy image of Daddy...)
Daddy and Mummy also had their long awaited annual vacation to New Zealand with little Shannon in Mummy's tummy. It was a place that they had wanted to visit for a long time. And finally, they had the opportunity to do it in April. It was definitely a trip worthwhile as they enjoyed the beautiful scenery at a lower cost due to the depreciating NZD.
Since little Shannon arrived, Mummy's always had her hands full, either busy with me or Shannon. It's been really tough especially since Daddy recently took on a new project role at work that requires him to be travelling and away from home for more than 50% of the time. So it has been rock-and-roll every night as Shannon and I bunked in with Mummy on her king-sized bed... As the capital markets recover in the latter part of the year, Mummy has also taken on another US IPO and that has definitely kept her really busy since she returned to work in mid November.
So as we look forward to a better 2010 (as all the economists have predicted), we continue to ask God to watch over our lives.
Some of Mummy's Favourite Shots...
Mummy has been snapping a lot of photos for Shannon and ME this month, as she breaks from her job for Christmas. Here are some of Mummy's favourite shots...
Visit to the Doctors...
All three of us - Mummy, Shannon and I returned from Shanghai with a flu bug. In fact, for Mummy and Shannon, it grew bad for them as they developed a fever during the flight.
On the very next day after we arrived in Singapore, we all went to see the doctor. Mummy's doctor told her she shouldn't have flew since she had the ear infection and couldn't equalise her right ear during the flight. As Mummy was still breastfeeding, she only asked for mild antibiotics that could allow her to continue to breastfeed Shannon. However, after finishing one course of antibiotics, Mummy's right ear is still not alright. So now, she had to go on stronger antibiotics and has to stop breastfeeding for a week at least. Mummy visited a ear specialist who explained to her after doing tests that her middle ear was infected due to the flu and will take up to 2 weeks to recover. It's been a week already, so hopefully by this coming Sunday, Mummy would have recovered and be ready to return to Shanghai.
As for Shannon, Mummy's decision to let Shannon rough it out was caught offguard as Shannon ended up with bronchitis. Or rather, maybe if we had not flown and without the changing environment, maybe Shannon wouldn't have ended up like that. Of course, we never know. It was scary when Dr Ngiam told us Shannon got an infection in her right lung and needed an X-ray to determine if it was merely bronchitis or peumonia (which she will have to be hospitalised). Luckily or not, it was bronchitis and Shannon had to be on the neuboliser for one week. She is recovering and still waiting for Dr Ngiam to give her the go-ahead before we can return to Shanghai...
As for me, I am left with a mild cough and running nose, so Dr Ngiam figured that this would be relatively easy to treat.
I guess, it will not be an easy winter, since the temperatures have been dipping so quickly. In fact, Mummy just heard from her colleagues that Shanghai has snowed for the very first time this winter yesterday afternoon.
On the very next day after we arrived in Singapore, we all went to see the doctor. Mummy's doctor told her she shouldn't have flew since she had the ear infection and couldn't equalise her right ear during the flight. As Mummy was still breastfeeding, she only asked for mild antibiotics that could allow her to continue to breastfeed Shannon. However, after finishing one course of antibiotics, Mummy's right ear is still not alright. So now, she had to go on stronger antibiotics and has to stop breastfeeding for a week at least. Mummy visited a ear specialist who explained to her after doing tests that her middle ear was infected due to the flu and will take up to 2 weeks to recover. It's been a week already, so hopefully by this coming Sunday, Mummy would have recovered and be ready to return to Shanghai.
As for Shannon, Mummy's decision to let Shannon rough it out was caught offguard as Shannon ended up with bronchitis. Or rather, maybe if we had not flown and without the changing environment, maybe Shannon wouldn't have ended up like that. Of course, we never know. It was scary when Dr Ngiam told us Shannon got an infection in her right lung and needed an X-ray to determine if it was merely bronchitis or peumonia (which she will have to be hospitalised). Luckily or not, it was bronchitis and Shannon had to be on the neuboliser for one week. She is recovering and still waiting for Dr Ngiam to give her the go-ahead before we can return to Shanghai...
As for me, I am left with a mild cough and running nose, so Dr Ngiam figured that this would be relatively easy to treat.
I guess, it will not be an easy winter, since the temperatures have been dipping so quickly. In fact, Mummy just heard from her colleagues that Shanghai has snowed for the very first time this winter yesterday afternoon.
Our Flight Back to Singapore
It was a big trip for us, with just Mummy and 婆婆 bringing me and Shannon back to Singapore alone. Now that I have turned two years old, I have my own seat.
Unfortunately, due to the erratic weather in Shanghai, all of us have fallen sick over the past 1-2 weeks. In fact, it all started with me as I brought the flu bug home 2 weeks ago, with a fever, cough and running nose. Since I started out school, I seem to be getting "updated" with the various strains of flu bugs.
The worst thing is I have spreaded them to Shannon for 3 times now. The first two times, Mummy has brought Shannon to the PD who said Shannon needs to rough it out and get well on her own as medicines will not work for her. So this time, Mummy decided to let Shannon rough it out. See later post on what happened when we got back to Singapore...
Then Mummy also caught the flu bug the weekend before we were leaving for Singapore for Christmas. It appeared to be relatively mild so Mummy left it to recover on its own. On the morning that we were supposed to leave for Singapore, Mummy woke up with her right ear really blocked and was wondering whether she should take the flight anyways. She decided it should be ok, but she was proven wrong as her right ear really hurt badly at the take offs and landings as Mummy couldn't equalise her right ear. See later post on what happened when we got back to Singapore...
The Shanghai Christmas Story...
Over the last two weekends now, Mummy has brought us out to look at the Christmas lightings in Shanghai, although this is really little compared to what we will see in Singapore when we get back in a few days' time. In preparation for Christmas, Mummy has started teaching me words related to Christmas like Merry Christmas, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, reindeer, Christmas presents, gloves, winter, snowman, snowflakes and of course, most importantly, Jesus... It's really funny cos Mummy has taught me Christmas tree before Merry Christmas. Now whenever Mummy ask me to wish friends Merry Christmas, I would say Merry Christmas tree... Hahhaha...
See how bundled up I am with the temperature dipping almost 12 degrees celcius over the past two days. It's -3 to 2 degrees celcius this weekend as the cold front comes past Shanghai. It was freezing cold as we were walking outside, even to take photos. So whilst Mummy planned to bring me to view a few Christmas decorations, we did not manage to accomplish it. This is going to be a cold winter, given that it has gotten this cold in December. But Mummy doesn't seem to think this will be an issue for me, since I was born a winter baby and is not afraid of cold... 
Here are the lightings at Jiu Guang...
See how bundled up I am with the temperature dipping almost 12 degrees celcius over the past two days. It's -3 to 2 degrees celcius this weekend as the cold front comes past Shanghai. It was freezing cold as we were walking outside, even to take photos. So whilst Mummy planned to bring me to view a few Christmas decorations, we did not manage to accomplish it. This is going to be a cold winter, given that it has gotten this cold in December. But Mummy doesn't seem to think this will be an issue for me, since I was born a winter baby and is not afraid of cold...
Here are the lightings at Plaza 66...
Shannon @ 4 months...
It was a tradition to give a chicken drumstick to a baby at 4 months, to signify that the baby is going to be ready for solid foods soon. I remember going through this process as well. Here's Shannon at 4 months, licking her drumstick. Watch how I participated in the process too as I also licked the drumstick... Hahaha...
Winter Shots of Shannon and ME...
I have been having so much fun with Shannon around. Mummy involves me in every aspect of Shannon's routine, including getting her diapers, throwing soiled diapers away, playing with her, carrying her and even feeding her and playing with her. I simply love this little sister of mine!!!
This is one of my favourite toys when I was as small as Shannon. Now every time Shannon has fun here, I like to join her too...
Christmas Fair @ Happy Kids
It was almost the end of school term @ Happy Kids. We had a Christmas fair celebration where small items made by ourselves are being sold at the fair with the proceeds being donated for charity. Check out the cookies I baked during my cooking class.
Here's my favourite bicycle and aeroplane at school...
