It's been 3 months since the last posting and much have passed, our wedding dinner, many more gynae visits, our little honeymoon to cameron highlands, and more baby kicks and sudden cramps, unexpected sleepiness spells... the baby is now as at 25th December 2006, 6 months old (24 weeks), and she's getting "rascalish"... needs daddy to talk or sing to her before mommy retires at night, and when she kicks, rolls or stretches, mommy needs daddy's hand on the tummy to pacify her... so my wife was telling me.. "daddy friendly..."

i did feel her kick many times and it a wonderful feeling that a little life inside my wife's tummy is taking place and the joy and anticipation of becoming a daddy is pretty exciting... perhaps the daddy clock is ticking and it's time for a new chapter in life...

in fact at any one time if possible i would like to feel her kicking, the other day when we were at the gynae, the doc asks us on whether we wanted to know the gender or not, and we said well, why not.... and guess what... during the ultrasound scan, she showed her backside... walaueh... mischievious.... dun get me wrong when i mentioned "she" as i would like to refer the little elf to being a "she" until proven otherwise... so we re still unsure of the gender yet... kinda fun to guess also...

but planning a baby takes a toll... babysitter, confinement, venue of delivery.. even upbringing, training, habits building, feeding, disclipining and the whole works... and the above things makes me wonder, that i am amazed and marvelled and really appreciate and respect my parents for the upbringing and sacrifices they have given me the way they did 30 over years ago...

and kids nowadays have so much more than what we used to have then... i believe that if my parents can do it, i'm sure we can do it too...