In the morning, we took xp for his immunisation shot at the polyclinic. It has been ages (and I really do mean ages!) since I last visited a polyclinic. And gosh! It has changed so much. The polyclinic is no longer the dingy place that I remember it and nowadays, you can even make appointments in advance. I was very pleasantly surprised when I received an sms reminder about xp's appointment. The polyclinics have really come a long way. Having said that though, it is still jam-packed with people who do not see the need to go to a GP and are there to see the doctors. As it was our first visit, not only did xp had to have his shot injected, he also had to see a doc and that took some time.
While waiting for our turn outside the room, it was really quite frightening. There were children of all ages there for their immunisation shots, be it compulsory or voluntary ones. Surprisingly, the ones who howl the loudest are not the infants but rather the toddlers! I guess the infants just do not know any better and once the pinprick sensation is over, they actually pipe down cos they do not remember the pain. The toddlers on the other hand remembers the pain and would begin bawling in earnest when they are taken into the room again for the nurses to check the injection site for they have begun to develop a phobia for the needle. XP took his injection relatively well, giving only a loud yelp and some crying at the point of the injection. Perhaps the dosage was not a really powerful one too as he only took one shot of Hep. B. But we were glad that he did not go on to develop a fever or turn cranky.
It was also very reassuring to know that xp was growing well and in all aspects of his growth, he was the 75th percentile on the growth chart. Initially, we were a little concerned about whether we were feeding him enough. As I am trying to get him to settle into a pattern, I tried to time his feeds and if he fussed before it was time to feed, I would actually not give him his milk. Doppy thought that it was rather cruel of me for he could empathise with xp's sensation of feeling hungry very well (I also refuse to give doppy food if he has had a big dinner but still feels peckish come supper time. You can also tell very easily who our son takes after in terms of his appetite!) and was worried that I was starving our son. We were also a little worried as our son did not seem to experience 'pong-ni' (涨奶) and have his cheeks and limbs all puffed up from drinking milk. Our son actually looks rather lanky and he is definitely a far cry from the Michelin babies that one is used to seeing. So we breathed a sigh of relief when the weighing scale showed us that he was 5.2kg (GOSH!) and he now lies along a length of 61cm. Since xp is our first child, we also have no idea what constitutes normal or average and could only recall to the best of our memory how PJ Junior looked like at his age to serve as a gauge. And so we were happy to find that our son is developing well and he's a healthy baby.
After the very busy morning, we then rushed to IMM for doppy to get a new pair of spectacles. If you have not realised it by now, he damaged his very expensive Armani (or was it another brand?) pair that he is presently wearing playing soccer at work. The frame was distorted beyond salvation and thus he needed to get a new pair. It was also while we were browsing for his frames that we stumbled upon a pair of rimless ones for me. :P Since he had not gotten me a birthday present yet, I sneakily convinced him to pay for my spectacles as a birthday present for me. I'm looking forward to collecting our spectacles.
Thereafter, it was another mad rush to drop xp at my grandma's place before we headed down to Hort Park for PJ and Darth Binky's 5th Wedding Anniversary Celebrations. The place was very picturesque and both doppy and I thought it was a most lovely place to hold private functions. It was also there that I broke my teetotalism as the call of Brewerkz IPA was too strong to resist. It has been so long since I had beer and no matter how hard I tried to nurse my cup of beer, I downed 2 cups of beer without an hour or so. Bearing in mind that I am still breastfeeding though, I had to throw away my cup to prevent me from getting refills. The food that was catered from Lavish was very scrumptious and both doppy and I had many helpings despite us going for a wedding dinner later on that night. The lovely couple with their lovely daughter were great hosts too and I really enjoyed myself catching up with my girls who I have not met for a while. Twas a pity that we had another wedding dinner to go to and hence we did not take xp along with us for the anniversary celebrations and we also had to leave early. It did not help that we were attending the wedding dinner more out of obligation rather a genuine wish to be there.
So pretty, right? Wait for me to upload the photos taken by Petals and invite you to view the entire album. :)
And so it was with great reluctance and regret that we had to give up good company, food and beer to troop to Raffles City for doppy's cousin's wedding dinner. Traffic there was sheer madness for not only did we have to contend with the shopping crowd, there were also 3 wedding dinners that were being held simultaneously! The line to get into Raffles City's carpark was insanely long and in the end, we did a most pragmatic thing and parked our car at Shaw Towers where doppy had season parking and took a leisurely stroll to Raffles City for the dinner. Doppy's brother had to pay $15 for valet parking to get a lot at Raffles City itself and we ended up being earlier than my mil even though we parked much further away.
The wedding dinner was nothing to blog about except that 1. the bride had 16 jie-meis!!! all of whom wore custom-made gowns! and 2. the groom was a very young VP-to-be at 27 years of age. Needless to say, the wedded couple were both scholars lah and doppy had a ball of a time poking fun at everything with his bro's girlfriend who has a most caustic tongue too. We of course had to leave the dinner early as we still needed to pick xp up from my ah-mah's place and it was close to midnight by the time we settled down for the night.
Apart from the wedding dinner that was more of an obligation than anything else, our day was a most eventful and enjoyable one. Xp's going for his three-shots jab in about 1.5months time when he turns 3mo and we hope that that will go as smoothly as this one did.
Stay tuned for my next post on how much monies I have spent on revamping my wardrobe! :P
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