I'm a full-time mummy

Phewwww what a day I had yesterday!!!

Just in case you don't know, I have just celebrated my 2nd anniversary of my 29th birthday! Hehehehe.... alright, alright.. I've just turned 31 years old, I get it, I accept it! So anyway, what a great day it was!

To wake up at the sound of heavy rain pouring outside my house (I love, love, love rain!), and then seeing my precious boy still asleep in his toddler dream land and thanking God for a wonderful start for my special day!

And then hubby calling me on my mobile (he was out early to do his banking stuff) asking me what I would like to have for my birthday breakfast and my mind went blank for a moment... I told him I'd pretty much like to have McDonald's breakfast set if I can hehehehe...

And then hubby took over the task of feeding Ben his breakfast, leaving me to enjoy my breakfast slowly while checking my Facebook and being greeted and wished by many many many friends and family members on my happy day!

Not fair! Ben never opened his mouth THIS wide when I feed him!

MIL came over and passed my red packet through Ben...

And after breakfast, we watched Ben's favorite movie at the moment (Disney's Cars) and we stopped halfway and I changed Ben into his swimsuit and let him play in his water pool as we've not been doing that for the past few days. Halfway playing, I heard Ben saying 'cooking' and 'boil boil' and then I realised, oh boy... my precious boy is imagining cooking play now! How cute!

After sometime playing, Ben helped me cleared the toys and drained the water in the pool. Then I bathed him and it's almost 1pm by then. I got ready his lunch and he happily sat on his pink walker (which we bade farewell sometime ago but ended up still using it as his eating chair in our room hahahah)

After a while, it's time for his daytime nap and to my surprise, my precious boy gave me a hug....! Awwww.... sweetness!!

Ben woke up around 5pm and I gave him some snacks for his tea time break. He had 4 small bananas and happily poked the banana slices and fed himself while watching a Doraemon movie.

Then hubby got home from his errands and we got ready to go out for dinner. We already booked a table at this Japanese buffet restaurant, they were having this promo where customers who are having birthday on the day gets to eat for free! Woohooo! We walked around for abit before heading to the restaurant... need to prep up our stomaches for the big feast! Hahahaharr...

There are other dishes which I did not get to take photos of cos' I was away getting my 2nd, 3rd, 4th helpings hehehe... I didn't get to snap photos of hubby's double helpings of lamb shanks, the yummy Miso soup, the delicious Chawan Mushi and the few more scoops of ice creams and some few more pieces of cakes for me hehehehe...

All in all, it was a great day and I truly enjoyed every moment of it! Again, to those wonderful people who take their time to wish me birthday, be it via SMS or Facebook messages, thank you again, and may God bless you & your family! I leave you all with this beautiful phrase to start your day with...

“The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

Read: Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)

Don't you find it really annoying when you see people parking illegally?

They think just because they own a few more cars or vehicles, that they have the right to park their cars / vehicles everywhere they like.

They think that they own the road or place and that they have the rights to do anything they want.

Just take a look at what I have to endure EVERYDAY!

Tractors on my bed... TRACTORS!!!

Racing cars parked in front of my laptop!

Ambulance and police car parked near my chair!

I mean, how am I going to do my work?

Annoying!!

Just want to write this down that I've been having what you call pregnancy brain... also known as forgetfullness or memory problems during pregnancy...

According to this excerpt from Babycenter article:

"Many pregnant women say their short-term memory isn't up to par during pregnancy, particularly during their first and third trimesters."

I've already excused myself from the job of family event planner. Prior to this I'm mostly the person to contact the restaurants to book rooms and tables for family gatherings and then liaise and contact all the family members and invite and remind them to attend the functions. Can't cope with the stress and tiring tasks of liaising with each and everyone in this, so it's better to not take up this task anymore...

Then, I've also been telling my MIL not to entrust me with anything during my pregnancy especially with the tasks of remembering something for her, which she likes to get me to do. Prior to getting pregnant, I have very good memory and could remind her and other people of things to be done, but now, 3 months along, I'm really having trouble remembering things.

So far, I've been having problems remembering where I put (or did I even keep it?!!) hubby's car keys (whenever we're out, I normally hold and keep the keys for him in my diaper bag) and occassionally a couple of times forgetting to replenish Ben's water bottle prior to going out, resulting in us having to buy water outside...

Sigh... I have got quite a few more months to endure this pregnancy brain phase... bear with me please...