Baby Shower Wish List

My friend Heather wanted to throw me a baby shower here before I go home in 2 weeks.
But there simply isn't enough time because all my friends are away at the moment due to the week-long Bayram holiday.
Also baby showers are a pretty American concept, and I've only ever been to one in my life...the one we threw for Christy in May this year. (it was really fun with GREAT food I got catered by another friend, Ayse)
Wonder if anyone will throw me one in SG?

Anyway Heather was talking about typical baby shower gifts and she said she was surprised that most people here almost ALWAYS give clothes as baby gifts. After all, new parents are already SWAMPED with clothes as gifts, and often the baby grows too fast to even wear them.

Heather said that in the US, friends and family usually get stuff that the new parents would REALLY need, like a Pack n Play foldable cot or a Diaper Genie.

Diaper Genie? What's that? It was the first time in my life I heard that term. Well, she explained what it was, and WOW! I'm impressed! ALL NEW PARENTS SHOULD GET THIS! How come no one EVER told me this existed?

Here's how it works: (from Wiki)

"Diaper Genie, a creation of entrepreneur John Hall, is a baby diaper disposal system. The unit consists of a large plastic container with a plastic lid. The system seals diapers individually in a scented film to protect against germs and odors. By opening the lid on the top of the canister, a soiled diaper may be inserted into the "mouth" of the container. After inserting the diaper, the lid is replaced and twisted 3 full rotations to seal the diaper inside. After the container is filled with dirty diapers, it can be emptied by unlatching the bottom of the canister, where the diapers fall out still individually sealed."



How cool is that??? An easy clean way to deal with stinky poopy nappies.
Considering that new babies need to be changed 10-12 times A DAY for the first few months, this is GREAT!
It retails for about US$50 in the US. How come this isn't widely available elsewhere?
Definitely never seen one in Turkey, or France or even Singapore for that matter.

So if anyone wants to get us one as a baby gift INSTEAD of clothes, PLEASE DO!
Getting hold of the refiil bags is another issue....but I was told you could sorta work it out with regular trash bags.

So start hunting this down for me folks!

Good Parenting

Scary how more and more foodstuff from China is toxic.
First killer dog food and instant noodles made with motor oil, now baby milk.
I wonder how many White Rabbit Sweets I've eaten in my lifetime? As a child, the little rice paper wrapping was a constant source of fascination for me. Hmmm....that could explain the overall weirdness of my cousins and I!! White Rabbit Sweets have been slowly altering our mental states all these years! If only our parents knew....

Speaking of parenting, here's a good baby care guide for all mums n dads to be! Hee hee hee!

ATTACK BY EVIL ALIEN CREATURE!

Today we came under siege by an EVIL ALIEN CREATURE with SHINY GREEN EYES! Eeeeeks!

I was sitting happily in our bedroom, listening to Baby Einstein Mozart CD (very soothing!) and writing in my baby journal when this thing WHOOSED in. (The balcony door was open cos it's so hot)

It zipped around like crazy! So fast that I couldn't really see it clearly. But because it was bigger than a moth or a bee, I thought it might be a HUMMINGBIRD. I had seen cute little hummingbirds before around the lilac bushes near the pool. Always wished I had my camera, but usually I was swimming at the time.

Suddenly the creature flew up to the ceiling and into the hole at the base of the light fixture. (Yes, til today the gaping holes made by the useless people who installed the lights more than a year ago have never been fixed! HMMMMMMPH!)

Anyway, I quickly closed all the doors and windows and rushed downstairs (as fast as a 6.5 month pregnant woman can waddle!) to grab my camera and zoom lens.

When I got back into the room, the creature was hiding in the hole and REFUSED to come out. I think I waited about 45 mins but it didn't budge!

OK nevermind, so I go downstairs again to Google HUMMINGBIRDS. Didn't I read somewhere that they need to eat every hour so they don't die? Cos they have the highest metabolic rate in the world. (all that fluttering about flowers).

I came across an article called HUMMINGBIRD RESCUE and it described how to rescue hummingbirds trapped indoors. Also I thought it might be a good idea to hang a cup of sugar water out so the poor thing wouldn't starve.

Armed with my sugar water, I get the ladder and climb up to hang it on the light. Waited 10 mins but the creature still didn't emerge. Suddenly I got the idea to tap the ceiling with a mop stick.

Sure enough, it flew out!! Grabbed my camera and started snapping! On closer look, IT WASN'T A HUMMINGBIRD! It was......this!













What in the world is THAT? My overactive, pregnancy hormone-driven imagination tells me it's an ALIEN SPY SCOUT sent to monitor us earthlings (So I recently finished reading The Host!)

Or could it be Oberon in disguise? Come to survey my mortal baby?

Anyway, the THING flew back into the hole and IS STILL THERE!

Aaaah the musings of a very pregnant, rotund writer. :)

Ladybird Books - the UN-PC version!

Do U remember reading Ladybird books when we were kids?

Peter & Jane and all that? I loved those!

Well take a look at THESE!!!
They are so un-PC they made me howl with laughter.
Boy, this must be the work of a very bored AD with too much free agency time on his/her hands ;p





Read the rest of the book here:
http://seorant.ath.cx/police/ladybird.html