Gourmet Confinement Food!

I can't begin to say how much I am enjoying my confinement... how am I going to cope when my confinement nanny leaves at the end of the month?

Here are some of her yummylicious cooking:

Mee Sua for breakfast

Homemade char siew

Fried drumlets

Fried fish with soy sauce

Turmeric Chicken

Steamed Codfish

Pork Ribs (pai kuat wong)

Everything Homemade!

R decided to make a car with Ai Ai out of cardboard today...
I must say I am pretty impressed with it, although I really shouldn't be surprised at his creativity as Mum did lots of homemade toys with him when he was young :)

Ai Ai painting her Mustang

R helping the Mustang babe

For lunch, I thought we could do a homemade pizza.

R didn't think this mama could roll out the dough well enough, so he took over the job.

Our homemade pizza - it's yummy, especially the half with pesto sauce!

This is for Dr. Oh

How much can one tell from a muffin-baking session?
Lots! Starting from Ai Ai's favourite person of the week.
As she was scooping the batter into the muffin cups, she would name who it is for, and the first person who came to her mind this time is Dr. Oh :)

The other people who are always on her list are:
Grandma
Grandpa
Uncle Ian (she'll say "So many for Uncle Ian"... she must think Uncle Ian has a large appetite!)
Auntie Cindy
Auntie Vikki
Auntie Mel...

At my fattest ever :)

I went for my 28th week gynae checkup yesterday and guess what?
I put on 4kg in the last one month - thanks to the nightly supper R bought me!
From pre-pregnancy till now, I've put on a total of 12kg... I'm at my fattest ever!
With Ai Ai, I only put on 11kg for the whole pregnancy :O
The nurse was grumbling and chiding me for putting on so much weight... afraid that the weight would affect my blood pressure and sugar level.
When I saw my gynae and asked him sheepishly if the weight was a problem, he just looked through his records, smiled and shook his head.
Hmm... what kind of a response is that?
I take it that it's OK then, since I started off this pregnancy pretty underweight at 45kg.
So I went home and baked some Mickey and Mini Mouse cookies with Ai Ai and Mum :)

Ai Ai's love for bananas!

Ai Ai has just recovered from a slight viral fever 2 days ago, which explains why I was too busy to post anything recently.

Ai Ai is getting sick of her steamed (albeit healthy) food, so I engaged her in some cooking today.

She stood on a chair on one end of the stovehob while I did a chicken stirfry for her.

It's tough to make sure the food doesn't get burnt while having to watch her to make sure she doesn't get too near.

Towards the end, I simply carried her on my hip so she could get a better view of her food being fried.

She seemed to enjoy her food more now that she is more involved in the cooking process.

In fact, when we finished dinner and she stood next to me at the sink (on a chair of course) watching me wash up, I asked her to smell the pan and she went "Arhmmmm" :)

Cooking for her nowadays is a real trial... attemped onigiri (Jap rice balls) which was a disaster for her as she didn't like chewing plain white rice, even though it was wrapped in her favourite seaweed!

Gotta crack my brains for more ideas... since she is so into bananas and kiwifruit now, I may attempt a banana/kiwi smoothie made with her goat milk just to see if I can increase her daily intake of milk, which is a pathetic 50ml maximum.