Week 19 Day 1: Belly weight

Technically, it is not possible to know the weight of my belly.

What I do know is that the girth of my mid section is now 90cm and my weight is hovering around the 63 to 63.2 kilogrammes mark.

So far, the few discomforts I feel from the progressing pregnancy are general tiredness, shortness of breath (so I cannot walk too fast or too long), heat radiating from my back at night, and getting up two to three times during the night to use the toilet.

Oh, and an overall yearning for all the various foods that you can find in Singapore - Katong laksa, mee siam, dim sum, XO fish slice beehoon, chili crab, Boon Tong Kee chicken rice and so much more!

Other than that, it has been quite smooth sailing, much like the first pregnancy!

Year 1 Week 27: Summary

Over the past two weeks, Antonio has made associations between animal sounds and the animal that makes the sound.

When he sees a picture of a cat, he goes "meow meow".

When he sees a picture of a dog, he goes "wow wow", trying to imitate mommy's version of "bow wow wow".

When he sees a picture of a duck or sees the ducks in the rice fields surrounding our home, he goes "quak quak".

When he hears "chik chik chik" sounds, he goes "chik chak!"

So far, the only animal word he can say is "duck" because it is very close to "quak". He also loves watching them as they run around, quacking in the rice paddies.

At the moment, he knows what sound a gecko and a cow makes, but is unable to imitate them.

His favourite number is two, and he often chimes in with "do" or "too" at "2" when we are counting numbers.

But his favourite word of all time is "mommi!" And his favourite person is "mommi!" Is he not just the sweetest boy?

Year 1 Week 27: I am 18 months

Year 1 Week 26: Present for mommy

Today is the Balinese holiday of Galungan, so the Balinese nannies have taken the day off for attending temple ceremonies and celebrations. Thus it falls on me to take care of Antonio.

The little one is a whole body of energy! From the moment he woke at 5.30am, he did not stop until falling asleep at 9pm.

One of the things he did was to try and figure out the remote control of an air conditioner unit we had.


Then his attention turned to his crayons, where he eventually created this artistic expression on one wall of his room.


This is not his first drawing on the walls, but it is the largest he has done in one drawing.

By 4pm, I was already exhausted and our domestic help took over for a short while by bringing him out for his daily evening walk.

When he returned, he presented me with a present:


A small bunch of wild flowers for mommy! It was a lovely and sweet surprise.

Year 1 Week 25: Pictures

Antonio busts out a new sleeping position (taken on October 06):


The growing boy needs to sit at a table now. Here he is, engaged in his daily drawing on the table and chair set that we bought for him a couple of weeks ago.