New Kid On The Blog

15-Feb-2006:
It has been 4 days since SM left for London and since then Dominic and I have moved in with my in-laws (SM's parents). It's a new home for both Dominic and I and both of us are still adapting to the new environment. During the first 2 days, Dominic was not able to nap sufficiently during the day time for several reasons:

• It is much noisier here than home. We are now living in a household of eight. There's always activity going around, not to mention Dominic's two cousins (Joe, four and Vincent, one) who are practically always shouting or crying whenever they are awake. Otherwise it will be grandma or grandpa shouting at them.
• It's hot here in the new home. We used to live in a windy apartment. The heat now bothers me, I'm pretty sure it bothers Dominic too.
• It's after all a new home and I think Dominic knows it. Or perhaps he misses his dad.

Dominic with grandma and grandpa:

Most of the stuffs from our old home have been moved here. The old dining table here was moved to the apartment and replaced with our new dining table. As you can see in the picture below, half (if not more) of the table is occupied by baby stuffs (milk powder), bottles (the three pots contain milk bottles for Joe, Vincent and Dominic), baby food, etc.

And because Mummy always washes the kitchen floor, Daddy has wrapped all the legs of the table and chairs with plastic bags to protect the wood (see picture below).

The cushioned bench that we used as a seat to wear shoes/socks is now placed in front of the TV (see below). The rationale for placing it there is so that Vincent, who's 1 year old, will not be able to go near and touch the dusty TV cabinet! :p

The old 2-seater couch is finally thrown away (FINALLY!) and replaced with the recliner and cushioned bench from our old house. The cushioned bench was used as the seat at my dressing table. But since my room is soooo small now, I couldn't find anymore space for it.

And the rest of the stuffs, whether useful or not, are all stashed up at a corner (see picture below).

Our old home (the apartment) has been rented out furnished. Some of the furniture remains there. Some were replaced with older ones.

The living room still looks the same:

Our rectangle dining table has been replaced with an old round one:

Before:

After: