An Exciting Start to Week 32

Today marked the beginning of Kaelyn's 32nd week. The Saturday morning began early for us, much like a usual work day, only more hectic. G and C (from the PR Firm), another G, his very sweet girlfriend D and Shi Fu (Nippon Paint) and a bunch of other people were scheduled to come over at 9am to start the painting of Kaelyn's new room and the living room as well as the photoshoot for Nippon Paint Hari Raya marketing brochure.

Makeover of Kaelyn's Baby Room

Here's a BEFORE and AFTER photo of our guest room which was being converted into Kaelyn's room, all part of a joint marketing project by Nippon Paint, Life Baby and Young Parents:

Here's a photo of the master shi fu at work. He's super agile and has a steady hand for a 74 year old man, who started his painting career at the tender age of 12, painting cars for 5 years before switching to painting houses for the other 57 years of his life, of which he spent 6 years in Swatow, China setting up the Nippon Paint China operations and training disciples there to carry on the trade.

Nippon Paint's Hari Raya Promotional Brochure

We had agreed to let the Nippon paint people use our living room as the backdrop for their Hari Raya marketing and advertising promotion. Little did we know what we were in for until we had about 25 people of various ages packed into our tiny living area, doing make-up, setting out studio lights, using huge ass cameras, and of course, an entire wardrobe of clothes for at least 5 models! The sheer number of shoes outside our door as well as part of the wardrobe hanging outside our house must have scared our neighbours!

Here are some of the shots that they were taking:

Oh, and if you were really wondering, Nippon Paint's Odorless range of paints REALLY have no smell. We had the aircon on in the entire house and it was smell-less! Wonders of modern technology. I am sold. :)

Routine Medical Appointment

Went for the routine medical appointment today at around noon to check on how Kaelyn is doing inside. Did a hospital tour as well, just to get a feel of what and how the labour rooms / wards looked like and to mentally picture myself in those surroundings. Strangely, ALL the rooms on the maternity floor were filled, from the super luxurious suites to the deluxe rooms to the 1 bedder to the 4 bedders. I knew July would be a busy month for babies being born, but this??? As a result, we only managed to sneak a peek into the rooms through the tiny windows in the doors. Oh well. Looks spacious enough for me.

The ultrasound conducted on Kaelyn showed:

She's STILL a girl (PHEW! The room can still remain pink)
She's got pouty lips and a bulbous nose (that's G's description of Kaelyn. I personally think she's cute!)
Head Circumference: 29.1cm
Abdominal Circumference: 26.3cm
Estimated Weight: 1.79kg (50th percentile, approximately 0.6kg weight gain from last checkup 3.5 weeks ago)

Oh, and my alleged weight gain (including Kaelyn's 0.6kg increase) was 2.5kg. I SWEAR that there's something wrong with that hospital scale... and apparently I'm not the first one to complain!

Did a Strep B test to see if I'm a carrier (hopefully not!) and whether Kaelyn would need treatment when I'm in labour.

Skype Video Calls

Ended the night on a 2h long video and audio call with Dad & Mum in Den's place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dad & Mum decided to fly up at very short notice to visit Den & the kids before Kaelyn is born. They sent over some photos of the HUGE house Den stays in-- approximately 15,ooo sq ft, including a house with about 4,000 sq ft in built in space. Think Den's 3-car garage is probably the size of my entire Fernwood apartment. Geez.

And Den was telling us that he and Erica went to check out the most expensive house in their estate--built in was 12,000 sq ft and the land area was at least 2 acres (that's about 90,000 sq ft?). Double Geez.