Not taking SHAPE

School's started and I'm back to my wormy state. Feeling so tired everyday that I fall alseep with Gabriel at 9 plus on most nights. I really have to overcome the sloth in me and start to buck up!! Because of that, I've been too tired to run...

Anyway, I read from somewhere that the vacancies for the SHAPE run has all been taken up.. so that plan has got to be put on hold ladies...

How about the Nike Run instead?

Fat and Fit

The difference between fat and fit is just one letter...

The Husband is an avid runner and had recently completed a marathon. His running bug must have caught on me. I've decided to do something about my life and taken his challenge to take part in a 10km run in October!! Yes yes! 10 km... doesn't sound like that much a distance (not 21 or 42 km!) but still... it has been a long long time since I ran. Since pregnancy to be precise.

So, I put on my dusty running shoes today and ran and ran like a professional runner / Forrest Gump. Took me about 40 minutes before I was satisified with my accomplishment only to be told by The Husband that my route was only 1km ++ !!!!

How can it be?! It's a big big loop around the empty fields at my place. I think one round must have been at least 2 km. And I ran 1.5 times of that! Now I feel so short-changed. I'm gonna use my car to estimate the distance tomorrow!!

Anyway, anyone interested to run the Great Eastern women's run with me? Running alone is lonely...

Girlfriend

Having mixed too much with the boys, I decided to introduce Gabriel to a girlfriend today.

Strangers at first... You sit at your side, I'll sit at mine!

Getting warmed up...Both of them inching closer to each other.

Gab totally head over heels in love with Megan! Haha!

If you don't know, you've to learn!

That's sort of sums up the gist of what my MIL told me last Sunday when I visited.

I was telling her that the reason why Gabriel is taking brown rice is because I didn't know how to cook baby porridge. Haaa. You must be there to see the disapproving look on her face. Tsk tsk. Then she went on about how 'heaty' brown rice is and how it must have attributed to his hard stools recently (It's not that hard actually, it's just harder than what it used to be!)

When it was meal time, I gladly offered my son to her for feeding (thought she might want some bonding time... my mom simply loves to feed messy little man). Then my big mouth said how I hated to feed him cos he ends up being so dirty blah blah. Then again, the look on her face appeared again! Hahaha!

So, it order not to appear like an incompetent mother, I decided to cook baby porridge for Gab today. Tadaaaa!!!

It doesn't look and taste too bad! Most importantly, Gab enjoyed it!!! Now I'm gonna make sure I cook something like that and show it to her the next time I go over to my MIL's.

Disclaimer: My MIL is a nice lady and I get along perfectly fine with her. She's probably too anxious over her grandson more than picking on me =)

I'm a tai tai wanna-be

I just love the holidays... That's when I can live and behave like a tai tai wanna-be (but only between 10am to 6pm).

You see, that's when Gab is at the babysitter's and I am free to do anything I want. The past week had been good. Had a massage, hair cut, shopping and drinking! Next week's going to be good too... my schedule's already rather packed. So many things to do / people to meet but so little time! ~Hai~

Needless to say, the $$ is also being spent like water during this period of time. But heck it! I only have 1.5 weeks more of being a fake tai tai before school starts again!

Feeding updates

Gab's graduated from rice cereals to brown rice. Had wanted to cook white porridge initially but his mummy doesn't really how know to cook porridge to the mushy extent, so decided to cook brown rice powder instead. I think he's taking it quite well though I think he much prefers cold porridge.

However, Gab hates apples! I've wasted all my time with the apple puree and all he does is to spit it out or give a very 'tong ku' face when I attempt to feed him.. Hai!

Gonna try papaya later. Hope he takes a liking to it.

Forcing it in even though he's quite had enough. Don't waste all my efforts!

See how messy Gab has become?

Gab's sweetest smile for the camera