Going into Month 10.... What am I? An Elephant?

Ok,.... my due date of 25th July has come and gone and surely Baby Sophie is throbbing to be released from the contraints of my tummy!!!

1. My hospital bag has been packed and now half unpacked cos I just need the stuff in there.


2. The confinement nanny has arrived in Singapore last week from Malaysia and is waiting for my call...


3. Emma can't count down to Sophie's arrival anymore cos she doesn't know how to go less than zero.
   
4. Everyone is asking me if I have popped - SMSes, Emails, Facebook messages, MSNs..... "Has she arrived?", "Have you popped?", "You birthed?" The answer is NO! :(


5. Paul is tiring of his standby mode and asking when he can go back to his training for the looming 70.3.
   (He hasn't been going on long rides and swims etc cos Cate arrived within 2hrs, so judging from what ppl say where it just gets faster each time, he can't really be that far away from me or away from me for long lengths of time training if he wants to be around for the birth of our child!)


6. I have started to binge eat cos I am just thinking that baby isn't satisfied with my weight gain. I have managed to put on 2kg just over the weekend as a result.
   (Sophie you'd better be taking it all with you when you leave my body!)

What's going on????

Now the question is whether I should induce. I am not hot on that idea as I am keen on going as natural as possible. I have also heard such horror stories of ppl going through 48hrs labour followed by an emergency C-section after inducing!!! That is so not for me. Especially after my 2 very smooth deliveries with Emma & Cate. I would really like to keep my memories of childbirth as glorious as it has been this far. After some discussion with Prof PC Wong, we have concluded that I will just hang in there as long as it is safe for the baby. Maybe she just wants to be an August baby like her mummy...

The waiting game continues....

Reunited with Aunty Lis!

We had Yum dim sum at Shang Palace with Aunty Lis yesterday. I wasn't sure if i could make lunch expecting to have already delivered. Well fyi, am still very much pregnant so to lunch we went...

Anyway at last poor Cate is reunited with one of her overseas godmas! She was a little shy at first but soon warmed up.

Godma Lis, you'd better get your ass back to singapore for good!

My 3 Girls

Here are my 3 girls. Was hoping to introduce y'all to baby Sophie but this is the best I can do for now.

I will be 40 weeks along in 2 days and am incredibly uncomfortable. Will keep you all posted!

The Girl with Shades....

Check out my view of Cate from the vanity mirror. Is she looking cool or what! Shades in the middle of the night. It could catch on... I guess....

Another pic of Cate in her cousin's shades.

She does seem to like her sunglasses ("Sun-necklace" as she calls it despite me correcting her over and over)

Emma's Brainchild of a Game

Emma and Cate are the best playmates for each other. Emma loves having Cate trailing behind her and eagerly listening to everything she has to say and copying where possible. Cate just adores her che-che and thinks everything Emma does or suggests is fun. For me, it's all good cos they are kept occupied with each other :)

In the weekend, I overheard Emma and Cate playing in my room.

Emma (in usual Bossy tone) - "Come Cate!... Stand inside mummy's cupboard with me! We can play 'let's pretend'.... You be the t-shirt, I be the dress."
Cate stands in cupboard eyes bewildered by what a great game it sounds like. She is thinking "Che Che is so smart!"

Emma and Cate are tickled and giggling for a good minute and I got a picture (see left).

By the 2nd minute, they both seem bored.
Emma (barks with authority)- "Cate! The t-shirt needs to talk to the dress!"
Cate (looks blank and worried,....probably thinking "Wah, this game is hard!")
Emma gives up. (Concluding that this pilot of a game didn't quite work out)

Another one of Emma's brainchild games.

Full Term....

View of my feet from my perspective

(Trust me, seeing my feet from this angle was no easy feat! [Excuse the pun.] Took quite a bit of skillful leaning to get this shot. Makes my already tiny feet look even tinier!!! In case some of you are wondering, I AM fully clothed here. In fact this picture was taken in my study)

Today I am 37 weeks preggers. This means that my pregnancy is officially "full term". I am a constant insomniac and feel a bit useless. Even the slightest strain (e.g. using a bit of effort to put Cate's water bottle into her bag!) would send my tummy contracting and all hard and uncomfortable. As a result, doing the daily school runs are so much effort! I don't really remember it being like this. Perhaps I wasn't doing any school runs while preggers with Emma and Cate.


Anyway, I am not ready yet though.... I haven't even packed my hospital bag. Keep procrastinating. Have tons of work to finish off still - may be part of the reason for my insomnia. Awake at 4 or 5am daily only to find myself working. I guess it is nice and peaceful with the girls still asleep.


I think Cate is beginning to feel a little displaced. She has somehow regressed to wanting to be a baby all the time. Asking to be rocked and sung "Rock-a-by-baby", she would protest if you call her a "big girl". Her response to that would be "No! I am still a bay-beee..." or "NOoooo,.... Baby Sophie** still in mummy's stomach, I am not a che-che yet." Poor tot, ... I keep telling her that she will always be my baby.


Emma on the other hand can't wait to rule the brood! She looking forward to being the biggest che che of the house. She talks about her new sister all the time in school (according to her teachers), and is literally counting down the days to Baby Sophie**'s arrival.

Ohhh... let me just finish my work so I can enjoy the rest of my wait for baby to arrive.

**I am using this name loosely simply cos it has stuck with the girls. We haven't yet confirmed baby's name. We love the name Sophie but are still thinking. While Paul quite likes it, he doesn't find the name "strong" enough.

"I have never heard of a CEO called Sophie."
- Paul

:O I guess he has high hopes for his girls!!!! I am assuming that he has heard of CEO's named Emma and Cate!