It's going to be a baby girl!

Yes! The technician doing the 20-wk scan is 80% sure that we're expecting a baby girl! :) Well, most of the time, our baby wasn't in the perfect position to let us examine the crucial part. But after much try, we did not spot anything between the legs, so hence the guess.

The technician also check the organs and growth and everything is normal. And you really have to see it for urself to believe how active our little one is! Keeps turning round and round and kicking around frequently during the scan. Even the tech says "Your baby is really active!"

After today's christmas eve party at home, when mommyneo is resting on the couch, she is virtually kicking non-stop! I think she enjoys the early nite off and the quite ok tasting christmas log cake from Conrad. Hee... Daddyneo is now waiting to tell our little one stories. Hehee...

Frontal view

Close-up of the face

Sideview

2 more days to 20-week scan!

2 more days before the 20-wk scan of baobaoneo! So excited. My mom, Neo's parents also coming along. Really not sure if they will be allowed into the scan room (6 persons, including me and baobaoneo :) )

Baobaoneo is really getting active! Actually, after the last scan on 10-Dec-05, I can already feel the movements. Really exciting! Initially, he was really active at night, especially late in the night. A few nites, I remember waking up at 2am and 4am to talk to little fellow.

And since then, DaddyNeo has already bought many storybooks to read during bedtime. (San1 Zi4 Jing1, Cheng2 Yu3 Gu4 Shi4, San1 Shi2 Liu4 Xiao4, etc). Also baobaoneo's favourite food is raisins. Will kick in excitement whenever I eat raisins. Really seems to be able to understand our words at such a tender age!

Once, we ran out of raisins, so lying on the bed, I called DaddyNeo to ask him to buy more mini-pack raisins. After second thought, called him again, and told him "Just in case you buy the non-promotional pack, which is more expensive, I think you better not buy (in Chinese)", and guess what? Little baobaoneo kicked vigourously! Haha, little fellow seems to understand all these??? Thus, I quickly added that it's not that we're not buying, but promised that MummyNeo will buy instead, and right after I said those words, i feel those kicks again!

Finally, I managed to fix up the scanner! So here's the pics of the scans of baobaoneo so far!

20-Sep-05 (6w 1d)

30-Oct-05 (11w 6d)

10-Dec-05 (17w 4d)

Dead lizard in the kettle

I drank 2 glasses of water from the kettle this morning without knowing that there was a dead lizard in it till my mother-in-law found out. I immediately puke and became dead worried about any poisoning. Ate 4 carbon tablets and prayed hard. Pls let my baby be healthy and well ...

14w 5d

Our baby is 14w 5d old. :) ~ Later tonite or tomorrow, will put up the ultrasound scans that we've got of our new life (after all, daddyneo promised to relocate the scanner later so that we can use it!)

Had a bottle of home-brewed birdie nest and pork porridge for lunch. Seems really tired today. Cannot imagine having to plough through the PW files of my students. sob sob. Also, mummyneo going for a haircut later. like grannyneo says, Dec supposed to be rainy and cool month, but ended up quite hot. Cannot tahan already.