Guama dan Guakong telah 3 bulan menemani papa, mama, koko dan ade Matthew.

We are really grateful for all the help and companionship they have provided. After the birth of Matthew, they come over on every days that I am at work to help Lina looks after the boys. Guakong helped a lot by playing with Koko Jet, fixing electrical stuffs, cleaning and organizing the garage (he’s done amazing job with it – he’s an organizing genius) etc2. Guama helped a lot by cooking healthy and yummy food for us. Well, they have done a lot for us, more than I can remember.. suffice to say..

They will be missed and we are looking forward to see them again.

I just saw Matt ngisep jempol only for few seconds though.. Mungkin dia lagi bereskperimen.. Si Jet paling demen ngisep jempol, kalo ngga ngisep jempol ngga bisa tidur dia ..

Well, although we started quite well in the first week or so, things do get tougher afterwards.

Our biggest challenge at the moment is Lina’s lack of sleep. For the last 2 weeks, Matt hasn’t been sleeping that well at nights. He usually wakes up at about 10pm-11pm and then he wouldn’t sleep until 3am-4am. And when he’s not sleeping, he’s crying. And then Jet usually wakes up around 7am-7.30am, so as you can imagine Lina can only sleep for a very short period of time.

I really hope I can of help in this, but it’s quite hard because I can’t feed Matt (Matt is still breast feeding) so it has to be Lina. And when Jet wakes up at 7.30am I couldn’t look after Jet as I have to leave for work so Lina has to wake up and look after him. And for some reason, Lina also is not able to take naps, she just couldn’t sleep. So she’s often very tired and easily irritated.

Jet also been quite handful lately. Although I have no doubt of Jet’s love to Matt, but there is no doubt that he’s craving for more attention lately. He started to scream more and acting up more as well. As mentioned previously he’s also very curious with Matt, so whenever we leave Matt lying somewhere, he would come to Matt. Most of the times he would just want to observe his baby brother, chat to him, basically just showing his interest to Matt, however Jet’s problem is he cannot keep his hands to himself so we couldn’t leave him by himself with Matt (not yet anyway).

On the plus side, Jet is getting used to sleeping off by himself. Before he always asks for companion when he’s trying to sleep, but these couple of days, after reading bible and pray with him, we can just leave him and he would sleep by himself.

I also really thankful for Lina’s family, Lina’s parents and sister have been really2 helpful in helping us. On the weekdays, they would come and keep Jet company while Lina can concentrate on Matt. On the weekends, we can drop off Jet at their place for few hours so we can do things that need to be done. I am not looking forward for their departure on March.

I think things will get better over the time as Matt settles to a  better pattern of sleeping and feeding. Hopefully things will get better sooner than later. Definitely need lots of prayers.

The first week has been both well and not so well. It’s better than our first week with Jet simply because now we know things better and also Matt is so far easier to handle than Jet, he doesn’t cry as much as Jet did.

However not so well because dealing with 2 children is actually very tough. There are numerous occasions when both children needs our attention. For instance when Matt needed to be fed but Jet wanted to sleep with Lina to accompany him. It can be very frustrating sometimes for Lina especially on period when no one is able to help her with the 2 children.

Luckily Jet is starting to get used to the idea that he won’t be having as much attention from Lina as before and he’s also starting to understand that I will try to fill in the gap that Lina left (as well as he just need to grow up more, like sleeping by himself more and more). Come to think of it, Jet has been really good with Matt, I think he simply loves him. Often when Matt cries and we are somewhere else, Jet would be the first to run to Matt and he will either to calm Matt on his own way or shouted to notify us, we can see his face is worried whenever Matt cries. We still try to teach restrain to Jet as he is quite rough sometimes, we know he didn’t mean to be rough to Matt but it’s just his character, he is quite physical.