I'm a full-time mummy

Hello world! I've finally arrived safely on planet Earth on 2nd September 2011 at 12.40pm. Mummy delivered me safely via natural birth (quite a drama too from what I heard as the nurses were not taking mummy seriously when she kept complaining on her contractions pain). By the time the nurses decided to listen to mummy and checked her, she's already 8cm dilated and they rushed to wheel her to the labor ward to get ready to deliver me.

Anyhooo, my name is Alyson and just want to drop a note here that mummy will not be blogging much for now. Other updates can be read on her FB page from time to time.

I'm already happily gorging on mummy's colostrum and breastmilk which arrived on the first day of my delivery!

Thank you all for the prayers and support for my mummy!

You know how the saying goes on "Walk the talk"? According to Wiktionary, this phrase meant: "To do what one said one could do, or would do, not just making empty promises."

So yeah... I have NOT been walking MY talk! I admit it! And the more I think about it, the more guilty I felt!

I think it started when I was about 36 weeks pregnant when I got an invitation from my high school friend to her twin's 1 year old birthday party. I politely thanked her and declined the invitation saying I think I should stay home as much as possible now since Spicy Baby will be due anytime already...

And the next thing I know, we were out for an impromptu family outing to the National Zoo.

Ben trying to show his shoes to the elephant

Ben reaching for the ice cream...

Then when I was 37 weeks pregnant, I got an invitation to attend my cousin's wedding on 30th August and although at first I wanted to go, I decided to decline after that as I don't think it's nice to hog 3 seats for the wedding dinner and then went into labor and wasted the 3 seats. I did however passed along my angpow (token of money) to my brother who attended the dinner.

So anyway, I declined the wedding dinner and the next thing I know, we went on another impromptu family outing to Genting Highlands. I basically just pushed the stroller along everywhere (and went to the loo VERY often!) and the only ride I get to enjoy is the monorail, the rest, hubby went on with Ben while I sat and rest somewhere and waited for them.

Ben with his toy gun on our way to Genting...

All the stuff we lugged along during the day trip...

Then when I was 38 weeks pregnant, a senior from my high school messaged me through Facebook asking whether I want to join her and 2 other seniors for dinner at a shopping mall on Saturday and again, citing the reasons that I think I should stay home and not venture out much, I politely thanked her and declined the offer.

And, yeap... you guessed it... on the very same day, we went out for a lunch date with my best friend and her sister, and the lunch outing turned into a window shopping activity at a newly refurbished mall, then tea time, then a very impromptu movie date (watched Cars 2) and then a late dinner outing since there was a heavy traffic jam on the way back to their place.

And now, at 39 weeks pregnant, I've already declined 2 more wedding invitations and 1 baby full moon party and yeap... we went for another family outing to KL Bird Park (the last time we went there was sometime back). It was quite tiring by the time we finished walking the WHOLE park and all I did was just walk! Either Ben walked himself or hubby pushed Ben when there is uphill slope while I used the staircase. But it was really hot and I guessed that makes it more tiring!

Ben laughing at one of the bird near his stroller...

Ben playing with daddy while I rested...

There were few other occassions where we went window shopping for hours as well in between my 36 weeks of pregnancy until now...

So I was thinking the more I declined offers or invitations to do something, the more I ended up doing activities during my pregnancy stage! I just can't walk my talk! Arghhhhhhh!!!

Decided to go for this post title since I'm due with Spicy Baby any day now... hehehe... Anyway, for those of you who are not familiar with the term of 'crowning' during chilbirth, according to this website:

"During pushing and delivery, your baby's head will begin to make an appearance through your vaginal opening with each contraction. When your baby's head remains visible and does not slip back in, it is known as crowning."

Now, why I said I'm crowning a different kind of head (instead of a baby's duh...) Well, it's because my blog is finally getting a NEW head! Woohooo!!! After days of craving into my nesting instincts, it's finally ready! Take a look above! What do you think of it?

In case this is your first time here or you're already too mesmerised with the new header to remember how the old one looks like, I have luckily snapshot (for memories) the previous blog header look before I replaced it...

So yeah, I've earlier make my payment in the middle of this month and harrassed liaised with the designer with my compiled and revised and recompiled versions of the details I wanted for my new blog header. In between that time, the designer had some hiccups with his own website and my work was delayed a few days. I waited patiently as I really don't want to stress him out by rushing him to deliver my work (plus there are like 4-5 people queueing up before me) and since I used to be in IT line, I totally understand his frustration (in fixing his own website and trying to deliver his clients' work) and just waited for my turn patiently. (hoping I don't go into labour before it's done...hehehe)

Anyway, all those are in the past. What's lying in front of you now is the finished product. After days of liaising with the designer and also bugging my hubby for his feedback on the header, I'm comfortable to say THIS IS IT!

I'm really happy with the design and it's well worth the money I paid for (I actually paid the designer more than he normally charged as I do believe his work is worth the amount!) I think this is a nice gift for myself before Spicy Baby comes along any day now!

So what do you think of my newly crowned 'head'?