All About Your Child

This is Weidong, my youngest nephew (as of now). He was born with holes in his heart. I did not type an extra ‘s’, yes he was born with THREE HOLES in his heart.

My Sister-in-law was shattered the moment she heard the news a few hours after labour. She has been hoping for a son. She wanted to have 2 children and stop ‘production’. But her 1st 2 kids were daughters and she wanted to have a son very much. So she ‘try’ for the 3rd time.

Luckily God was gracious and granted her wish. Without God’s grace, I cannot imagine how many more tries she will go through. She may just end up like her mother who had 7 daughters before the 8th was a son!!!

Weidong need to go for monthly checkups for his heart condition. Today on his 9th checkup, the doctor did another S$300+ scan for him and announced “He is discharged!” Yeah! He is fully well now.

The 3 holes have closed up completely! No more worries on everyone faces. No more hospital checkups. No more extra expenses to pay for. Yippee! 3 cheers for Weidong! As you read this post, hope you could feel the excitement in us too.

Everyone knows that kids equal extra expenses. Milk powder, diapers, baby cot, pram, special baby shower foam, kids toothpaste, mini toothbrush, lots of tiny clothing and the list goes on.

For us, there is a special thing we had to settle which I guess many family do not need to worry. You see, Allan drives a van because he needs to do delivery for his brother, who is a supplier for greeting cards. So Allan needs the van to deliver his brother’s greeting cards to retail shops, insurance agents, property agents, etc.

The front could sit 3 people and when the kids where still small, one of them would sit on my lap while the other one would sit between Allan and I. Ya, like most of you (my fellow Singaporeans) know, its against the Singapore law.

But now when they are so ‘big’, the front space which used to be quite spacious has suddenly become very cramp. So we went to the get this!

We took a long time to find a mini sofa for 3 people to put in the van so that the kids and I can sit at the back. Everyone told us that we must get someone to tailor-made the sofa for us, but we believe in possibilities and did not want to spend the extra cent to get a tailor-made seater.

Indeed, when there is a will, there is a way. We searched through the furniture malls and found this mini sofa-bed. Don’t you think the length and the width is a perfect fit? Its four feet by 2.5 feet.

We feel in love with it at first sight! So now Allan becomes our chauffeur *wink*.

There is still plenty of space behind the sofa for brother’s greeting cards. So from now on the kids no longer need to squat down whenever they see a police car drive pass. They can just sit back and relax. With so much room to move around, the car rides become more enjoyable as they play with their toy cars on the sofa.

When the kids are happy, so will the parents, right? *Nodding*