9 more sleeps

i have been incredibly slack this time round in updating my pregnancy.
my first trimester has been similar to when I was having N. probably being 2nd time round, I was more aware so I felt slightly nauseous in few ocassion but no vommiting. With regular (healthy) snacking the slight nausea went away.

Last time, I had cravings for laksa, noodle, spicy curry, hamburgers. This time, I don't remember any specific craving.

I chose to use my last midwife. She's the bestest :)

my pregnancy is pretty similar to when I had noel except this time we involved N in the process. He attended most of our appointment with L, my midwife. He loves to listen to the 'doppler'. My colleague S also suggested we read him book on preparing him to be a big brother.

Above pic were taken on 2nd day of New year, (35 wks) at the beach. I've never seen Maraetai beach so crowded before. every car park is practically taken...

***Hot Cross Bun***

So we bought N a coat rack. He's more interested in the coat rack as a microphone with the aid of his piggy stool.
The song he chose to sing on his new 'microphone' is Hot Cross Bun.

The lolli battle

I am in my room and overheard this.

MIL: Who gave you the lollo??

N: I found it.

MIL: Ask mommy if you can have it.

N ran into my room and said:

N: I am eating lollo.

Me: Who let you eat them?

N: Ah Ma.

Me: >_<

Bread and Butter Pudding

Each year I received a hamper from my company for Christmas consisting mostly of company products.Anyways, some of them were short-dated, so I either gave them away or have to do something with them. Above is the bread and butter pudding which I made. I made two of these coz I had to use up the 1lt of the cream. the B&B pudding is pretty easy to make, but darn fattening and creamy. Not recommended for those watching their diet.

Since I rarely make them, I decided to use the 'unhealthy' version. The only healthy twist was I added raisins.

Here's my recipe:

Ingredients:

10 slices of white bread (butter double sided) I sliced them into triangles or 4 squares

3 eggs

1/2 cup caster sugar

500ml thick cream

butter for spreading and greasing

Extra sugar for sprinkling (I used raw sugar)

cinnamon (i sprinkled them very liberally)

Preheat oven. Butter baking dish.

Arrange one layer bread. Sprinkle raisins and cover the remaining bread. Dust with cinnamon.

then I pour the wet mixture over and make sure it soaked nicely.

Repeat the process until all the breads are used.

Bake for 30 -40minutes until golden on top.

Result: Would just butter one side of bread next time.

Christmas pt 2

We didn't really go to check out the lights at people's house for Christmas this year. We did check out the Smith & Caugheys dept store window display on Christmas eve. The theme is mouse family i guess.. it was cute and very nicely done. N was pretty enchanted by the whole thing..

Next day, we had sausages and baked beans and eggs for breakfast. After that, Chef Jake set out to cook the big bird (turkey) ..we used the glutinous rice stuffing this year..it turned out very nice...it's like having the 'bak zhang' minus the bamboo leaves inside the bird's cavity..
We had turkey for the rest of the day and the next !!!

Here, N devouring the drumstick. (well, he took a few bites)...

Below N playing with Noah's ark. He has started to have a real interest in pretend play.One of the question he asks was Who's this (referring to the red and blue figurine)when he plays.. I can only tell him they are Mr and Mrs Noah.Here he's putting the animal down to sleep while Mr and Mrs Noah watches. After a length of time, he declared that the animals are awake and poured them all out.


After lunch, we opened our gifts...

Here, N immediately played with his Christmas present.

A visit from Auntie Susan and Uncle Bob

Overdue post.....

Suz and Bob stayed with us for a few nights in Nov and it was great having them :) They were great with N and one of the adventure we had together was bringing N to the A&E clinic to remove splinteers from N's palm. He had about 5 of them (possibly more) and won't let any of us touch it (we only have blunt needles at home)

Above pic was taken when we went to have dessert at Goode Brothers.

Below is a collection of photos that Bob took at the park. We promised N that we would let him go to the park if he gets his splinters out by the Doctor.