Conversations with grandma

Sy:" Hi, how are things back home?
Popo:" ok,natalie has been watching some tv, and DVDs but She is ok.
Sy:"can I talk to her?"
Popo:" better not you will only upset her... She looked at your photo today and started to tear. Such a sensitive child, she really misses her mummy. Looking at her makes me feel like crying too.

Popo:" ...stop calling so often. You've left her with me so go enjoy yourself!
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Sy:" How was school? Did she enjoy her time with her friends? "
popo:" Ya, she did. Seems like it's more for the parents though.... She didn't want to remove her socks. Struggled So hard and cried and cried with her might!looking for mummy. But she got over it... "

Sy:"...what is natalie doing? Can I talk to her?"
popo:"she is fine.having her dinner now better don't talk... She cried for no reason today. We went to the garden with junior this morning, she saw am woman with a baby and started crying. I had to bring her to a neighbour's place before she felt better again. Think it's better if you don't talk to her today else after the call she'll start crying again.

Barcelona- La Toja

We've been anticipating this trip since Sharon's resignation. It gets more and more difficult as we head closer to the departure date. Sharon kept saying how much she'll miss Nat and even wants to to bring some of her belongings along and kept asking if it's possible to bring baby along. I really would like to bring Nat as well but this would mean inconveniencing Liang Hwee and wife. Since we are the only ones who would need to take diaper breaks, feed and cook for Natalie at meal times.. and what's more how is she going to adapt to the time difference at such a young age.

Anyway final decision is not to bring Nat and she will be well looked after by her care givers : Popo, Gong Gong, Sunarti and Rach. We've prepared so many flash cards to keep her little brians occupied and with school starting on Sat, Rach has kindly agreed to help us ferry little Nat to and from school. Heard from my mother in -law that she cried so hard the first day as she didnt wish to remove her socks. Guess she has associated socks removal with injections and that created a huge impact! She squelled and kicked the last we met Veronica ( her PD). Fortunately mummy was there to pacify .. mummy always has a way around Nat. So with Mummy gone I guess she must be feeling really petrified and upset. But she'll learn... it's a phase that she has to overcome with tears and sweat or whatever it takes.. I am sure popo managed to make her happy again after the episode. =) Glad that they are around to keep a good eye on her so we could enjoy and not worry about what's happening back home!

Zoo trip!

Managed to get hold of a free zoo pass for the weekends!! Haven't had time to upload the pics till now.. enjoy..







Bubbles

pics of natalie playing at the void deck and first encounter w bubbles.

daddy has been away

Daddy has been away for more than 2weeks and we miss him so much. Especially when we are constantly reminded of the mishap and incompetence of the philippines police it makes the family worry about his safety as he visits one city after another. The manilla police obviously didn't train their soldierS well. With the ex-police officer holding foreigers hostage seeking foreign media coverage, thinking it's a great platform to voice his grievances? No wonder their highly trained squad team under the instruction of a silly commanding officer couldn't even strategise or let alone use the basic theories of negotiation, which I guess many of the CSI or Criminal minds fans out there would definitely do a much better joB at understanding criminal mentality. Anyway I've digressed..


The initial nights were the most difficult. Nat calls out for her papa before she sleeps. Every slight sound related to door opening, car honking or reversing she would jump out of bed and ru towards the room door inSisting on physically checking if papa is home. When we ask her where is papa she point up as though sayng that he took off on a plane. Pains us really to see how stressed she could be over her papa's trip and amazes me of how much info she could absorb at this stage!