G&G Junior

I tend to get extremely lazy to blog whenever I stop for a week or two. I think it is perhaps I find myself having to repeat everything to my other close friends in emails - they don't surf the web and only use emails from work.

We had to scrap our plans to travel on our wedding anniversary when we found out that we're expecting G&G junior. It's funny how my parents, nieces, friends and cousins kept asking every year, when will we have a baby. But by the fourth and fifth year, they gave up asking and some were concerned if we had infertility issues. I guess it's rare for a couple to start a family only at their fifth year of marriage.

We had purposely taken every precaution not to have a baby until recently because we enjoyed each other's company so much and the freedom to travel and do whatever we want (a family man once told me that the reason most people need to have kids is because otherwise their marriage would be so boring - I find that so not true). Couple that with the fact that none of our immediate families live in Sydney - as we all know, if we're in trouble, family members are the ones who will be there for you at any time of the day.

Well, long story cut short, we thank the Lord for blessing us with this baby. G&G junior is 12 weeks old. We were ecstatic seeing it on ultrasound two days ago. The little heart beat, the little hands, feet and body - the joy only parents would know.

Fortunately holding a newborn, changing nappies, making milk, feeding toddlers, lullabies will not be a whole new experience for me. Not that I was a nurse, I wish I was, for I have great respect for nurses and I think that is such a noble profession ... meagre wage and hard work!

My mom used to babysit and I had the privilege to help out with everything since I was 8 years old until late teens (yes, including wiping poo poo off babies' bums). Once my best friend challenged me to fold a nappy as she didn't believe I had folded nappies thousands of times in my life (she was a first time mom at the time and had only learned how to fold a nappy with the birth of her son at age 27). Thanks for doubting me, best friend, hehe.

But alas, those experiences will never be the same as caring for my own little precious baby and I truly look forward to it. For Kiwi G, it will be his first time ever, caring and living with a newborn.

Well, like all first time parents, we are just so happy to be able to sow the seed of our love. We are really thankful for that. We just hope that we'll be able to carry this pregnancy to full term without complications and welcome G&G junior into the world in June 2006.