2008 ended almost a week back(what outdated post)and today I'm 37 weeks with 21 days left to my EDD.

It's been a challenging, challenging year. A different pregnancy from the first. A jumpy year ended with uncertainty, a new job with love, enduring the stress at work..from my old and new job. then there was hubby's exam blues, to getting a home, running from one end of Singapore twice for the two important ladies of my life, in June and Nov, for their important dates, and Alhamdulillah they r happpy, happily married, to a wedding preparation of beloved bro and welcoming the addition of a new family member, my dear lil sis, to preparing for labour to top the icing or the cream of 2008.

There were more things to think of besides the baby.the first trimester passed with a lot of puking, the second, with raya, stress at work and hubby's exam and the third preparation for bro's wedding which went solidly well. These days are left to pace myself back and hoping to enjoy maternity with the lovely kids.

This time my dear baby was more active than the dear gyrl. The hubby more practically craving for rojak india or chicken or starbucks or even Qiji food. (he still haven got his rojak he last asked for even though we had it several times during my first and second trimester!) Hubby was more temperament and not that he don't know, but he admitted his short, tense self all by himself.(Let's just say I was much more patient then he was this time)

It was also different because we had to share it with my baby. I'm still seeing my gyrl as baby like it was always a yesterday, that she was born, not months ago. I'm having a hard time to really admit she's a kakak because I think she's too young to understand she's a kakak and her role she'll need to hold responsibility in the future.

I'm awed with her development altogether. She's expressive, registers what we do, How we talk and how we react. Her intelligence made us proud parents, her friendliest self and love warm us up. Her teachers, an empty lot; by the uncle, the grandparents, us, and the young ones, oshi and yash, either amuses us, cringe us for their nonsense or made us sigh with relief. She knows the gender of the baby when you ask her, she misses her uncle so much nowadays.. she will tell us her uncle is not ard. she mimics her Yash crying when we ask her where is Yash,

All in all 2008 left me with lots of great decisions to take and impacted a lot on us. I had a swop of job which left me blessed. stressed but it was well worth it. Now my team is complete and kicking?

And hoping bro and wife gets blessed with kids soon and then my dear gyrl will have cousins!!! Hmm, i love cousins! Blessed with a lot of them during my little childhood, It was totally cool, to have sleepovers, and tricking our granparents into really spoiling us during school holidays. I hope they get that joy too.