back again!!

harloz..i'm back again!!
Life been prettie bz with little Kielli around. But thank God, i am kinda more or less adjusted to life with the little gal. Thank God for the energy. Coz it certainly requires lotsa energy to enertain Kielli. Coz she's super hyper active and requires lotsa attention. She's kinda easily distracted too, even when she feeds. And she luvs the Shopping malls coz there's so many new things to see. U can reallie see her LOOK around n exploring the world when we bring her out. Ter proclaimed that she is a little like me. A little playful, easily distracted, luvs the aircon and see new stuff!!

With this little one, we've been training her a little each day. Coz we didn't want her to be too weak. We kinda believe in exposing her to a little virus a little at a time, so that she grows strongly and makes life easier for us if she does not fall sick easily. Also, on the other hand, with Ter & my lifestyle, ( we luv to play) this little gal juz gotta get used to our lifestyle of going out and be exposed to the germs out of the house. It will make our life much much easier if she adapts easily to climate and environmental changes.

As part of her training and " exposure to germs" program, we've brought her to Tangs at Orchard, Tampines 1, picnic at Botanical Gardens, food courts, church etc...And it's a success!! Thank God she's quite strong n did not fall sick on these excursions.

We'll be bringing her to KL for our annual church camp for a week in June. My mil is kinda concerned about us bringing hardly 3-mth old Kielli to KL. But we know that God luves her and trust that God will protect her from all the strange virus in Malaysia. Well, for little Kielli to survive her first June camp, she needs to

1) Endure the loong hrs of air-con during the 5day seminar n hotel nites.

2) Adapt to sleeping in her pram. ( so that mummy need not carry her during the seminar)

3) Fight the germs in Malaysia

4) Sleep thru the night. ( so that muumy & daddy can have good rest during the camp)

5) Survive on breastfeeding with onli one formula milk at nite. ( mummy don't trust the water in Malaysia)

Thus, in view of these goals to help Kielli survive her camp, we have been dumping her in air-con rooms to help her get used to the cold. ANd putting her in her pram whenever we can when we go out and cutting down her reliance on mummy carrying her. The little gal was on partial breastfeed one mth ago. But thank God, i have successfully removed all her formula milk feed in the day time and she survives quite well with one formula milk feed at nite now. WELL, I still have 2 more weeks to work on even removing her formula milk at nite and to go into total breastfeed. I'm reallie working on this. With total breastfeed, we will then have no fear that the water in Malaysia is not clean etc...

Little elli is growing so fast!! She's a blessing to us! And we thank God for her.Being a mother has not been easy with little sleep. But it has certainly been so fruitful and fulfilling. And i'm enjoying every bit of it!! :) I've been reading so much on spiritual parenting and it is indeed a challenge to be able to bring up tis gal in the ways of the Lord. As i read, the Lord has truly blessed my heart and challenged me in many areas of my life. I've been reading on Growing up God's way and it's a good book!! thanks for the book sister chiao chyi.!!!Be it to teach her gratefulness, forgiveness, reverence for God, truthfulness, contentment etc, God has indeed challenged me as her mummy to look within my own heart too and be a mummy whose life speaks wat she teaches.

There are so much stuff to teach and so many attributes that u wanna ur kid to inherit. But, as i read on, there are a few attributes i wanna spend more time on:

1) Gratefulness ( That she will have a thankful heart to God for all things she has)
2) Truthfulness ( That she will be true to God's word and ways and seek righteousness)
3) Forgiveness ( That she will learn to forgive abd be forgiven and be able to go on in life, being free from any burden of unforgiveness)
4) Contenment ( That she will be happy and content with the life God has blessed her with and not envy and covet the materials/possessions of another)
5 Identity in Christ ( That she be convicted that she is created by God, for God and is very special and beautiful for God has made her most beautiful in His sight,

I have been reviewing these attributes on myself as i seek how to teach this to Kielli. Indeed, may the Lord change my heart and create in me a pure heart and give me wisdom that i can teach her these attributes to the best of my ability.