Filed under: Something unexpected
Pregnancy + appendix inflammation = A test of faith.
I feel odd. I can’t feel myself again. I throw up mostly after the noon and later in the evening, unlike first time that i could eat whatever i want. I get so exhausted that i fall asleep on office chair in the noon. I have back pain now and then.
Amazingly, my body was well-trained in the past one year. I can still mop the floor, pick up my 11 kgs girl, rock her to sleep at night, do house chores and afterall, stay alive during the day. I’m blessed.
Filed under: Joy & Happiness
My girl
The everlasting bond
The happy happy birthday girl
She has grown up *tears*
Happy birthday to u, happy birthday to u, happy birthday my Chloe, happy birthday to u
Her smiles just brightened everyone up..everyone was so happy for her.
Cake from Allen's mom. It was an art piece
Cake cutting time! She was more than excited to grab the cake with both the hands. I held one hand so that everyone could still get to eat the cake later the evening.
With daddy
With 'po po' (her battery was running dry)
Chloe's neighbour friend ^_^
Happy Hannah
Chloe's friend, Jason
Babies are so scary at times. Scarily brilliant! Thank God for the brilliant babies.
Chloe is almost 11 months old now. She has mastered her skills so professionally that she can lie, then sit up straight without the worries of falling backward anytime, get herself up by reaching her hands out to hold on to furniture edges (I found that her cot is the safest place for her to learn the standing up skill) and TAADAA! stand up. Then she’ll lean her tummy against the sofa edges to support herself so that she can free the hands to play her toy toy placed on the sofa. We didn’t put the toys on the sofa on purpose to encourage her standing up. We just woke up one day, amazed to find a standing baby in front of us. Haha. So, every night, i’ll grab a piece of cloth to wipe the living room’s floor sparkling clean and make sure the entire floor contains no hazardous small items to swallow or choke her or stuck up into her nose or ears or whatever-that-is-so-scary-to-think-of-now.
And thanks to my mother in law, reminding me that i’ll have MORE chores to do when she can walk by herself. I’ll have to follow even more closely behind her.
Her mastered skills include clap hands (she does that when she wants something from you/when she’s happy/when she hears the words “Clap clap” from anyone/when she wants milk so desperately..and i don’t get this the last one) and she sways her head from left to right when i say “No”. Somehow, i do think that she understands the connection between “No” and “head-swaying action” but she has yet to grasp the theory to abide with the command. Sometimes she does obey and when i compliment her “Good girl”, she’ll be over the cloud. She’s a very happy baby except when she needs to go to sleep at night and when she’s hungry. She just hate sleeping! She wants to play, explore and having us to accompany her by her side, she’s more than willing to do anything to give us a smile on our faces.
On the naughty side, she needs to learn to give and take. She has started to know how to give and take an item from us but when it comes to playing toys, she can ride in her walker to knock the little boy over at my nanny’s place. She snatches the toys on his hands away and flee to a corner to chew on the toy. I have no idea where she learns that from but i guess, at her phase, she doesn’t really know the effect of knocking someone over and causing pain on someone. Gradually, she will be taught (by the stern mom) how to play nicely with other friends and appreciate the gesture of sharing with others.
Recently, i’ve just started her on how to pray to God. I will say “Let’s pray. Open the palms big big and slowly move the two palms near each other. Then, the 5 fingers give another 5 fingers hug hug. Then, close the eyes and say Amen!’
First attempt to show her this, she stared at me blankly with her pupils enlarged. After i finished Amen, she gave me a big smile. ahhaha. But, at least, she paid full attention to me. The next few times i said “Let’s pray”, she immediately stopped what she was doing and paid attention to what i did and i just kept repeating the whole thing again and again. I’ll give her time to plant that into her mind. By God’s grace, she’ll learn that it’s praying to God when she grows up to understand things happening around her. It will benefit her in the long run ^_^
Babies are just amazing.
Filed under: Daily
By all means, Sunday means resting. But that doesn’t and will never apply to a mother. In fact, i have more house chores and baby-related works to do because baby doesn’t go to her nanny on this day. You see, it really depends on our schedule (and the baby) if we’re going to make the day interesting but feeding, cleaning, sterilizing & bathing schedules postponed or uninteresting but feeding, cleaning, sterilizing & bathing schedules carry out on time. We feel sorry for the bub if she doesn’t get to go out with the parents on weekend cuz obviously, she’s not going out on any of the weekdays. Hence, we came up with the idea to alternate the going gai gai to the weekend every fortnight.
A ‘on-time Sunday’ would be getting the bub to wake up by 9 the latest, brush her up, nappy change and dress her up by 10 and feeding her porridge by 11 and getting everything washed, cleaned and getting her bathed by 12pm. Then drag myself to shower and try to get a catnap before 3pm. The day will seem to be laid-back and goes smoother.
A ‘not on-time Sunday’ would look something like this. Bub is overslept and wakes up after 9. Then, i will push the daddy to get her brushed up, nappy changed and dressed up for gai gai while i unload everything-else-from-the-nightout-the-night-before out for a good wash. The daddy doesn’t seem to be impressed with the task cuz you know, men are not well trained to undress, nappy change and pick a dress and dress the girl up like a doll kinda task. He prefers something simpler, like sifting the porridge while i nappy change the bub.
Do not get me wrong. I do love to accompany my girl at home during the weekend. We play (her) games, which include me paying full attention at her to snatch anything-she-picks-up-from-everywhere away from her hands before she manages to put them into her mouth for exploration. We read books (it’s more like her tearing the pages out from the books). We play watch guard game, with me watching and following her closely behind her crawling all over the house and climbing onto furniture and grab her in time before she free falls onto the ground or slam dunk herself onto anything harmful. Sound adventurous? I’ve never done anything this adventurous before.
Whichever schedule we are on, i’m still a happy mom cuz i have a helpful hubby to help out whichever way he can. Thanks dear!
On another note, i think Malaysia’s mom are pretty lucky because nannies with affordable price can be found everywhere. I cannot imagine myself coping with all these 24/7!
Filed under: Daily
Photo taken using panoramic feature in Nokia N86 8MP phone. Love it!
Hehe! Here are some mouth-watering super yummy videos of Chloe’s progress in August (her 9th month of age). Enjoy.
Filed under: Baby's milestones, Daily, Endorphin-dose of the day, Joy & Happiness
With Chloe being 9 months old, she is a super active girl. Here are some photos of her doing stunts and her daily activities at home.
2 Aug 2009 Just woke up and need to pose for daddy. Not happy
2 Aug 2009 Glowing a little but people paiseh ma..
2 Aug 2009 Almost a perfect family photo except for that half little face blocked by daddy's big face
My girl is such a poser!
18 Aug 2009 Entertaining herself with a piece of dissected tissue.
18 Aug 2009 She loves tissues a lot. She loves tearing them into bits and pieces. I have no idea why.
18 Aug 2009 Paying full attention at tearing it apart
23 Aug 2009 A funny action she did. That's the cover of a pacifier that she stuck it inside her mouth.
3rd August – Marks the 4th year anniversary that we’ve been together, shared each other’s life and both of us actually forgot the day! Boo~
23rd August – My mom had just celebrated her 56th birthday ^_^ Happy Birthday my dearest mommy! You have been a great and cool mom! We love you for who you are Ma! Love alwayssss *muackss*
24th August – Chloe is officially 10 months old now! Still very new in this world but she has learnt SO MUCH that you could ever think of. These babies are just so amazing! They learn everything by themselves. When you wake up one fine morning, they just know how to do the roll over then one day, they can sit up then one more amazing day, to your great astonishment, they can crawl all over the floor then pull themselves up then walk. Damn scary. In an interesting way.
The whole August is just another very busy month with work, baby, husband and overall, life. It’s great to be able to breathe for one more day as every day is God’s gift. Cherish every single day and live it to the fullest.
Filed under: Uncategorized
Sleep
She sleeps much lesser during daytime. She might only need 2 rounds of half-hour naps to get her thru the day and she collapses at around 11pm (or later). End of July, we went to Singapore for a weekend and she developed this separation anxiety and what happened was she was SO distressed to go to sleep. Later, i read from BabyCentre that they react so because they fear that they might not see the close ones (aka parents) again. Poor girl! I thought it was her 5th tooth cutting thru that makes her sleepless. There’s no definite pattern of sleeping now as she can nap half and hour and wake up crying non stop (cuddles, lullabies do not work). But some nights, she can be a good sleeper.
Food
Still with Enfalac and will upgrade to EnfaPro when she reaches 1 year old on 24th Oct! Time flies!! Everyday, she will have a meal of porridge or baby cereal alternately. She loves her pork porridge the most and i must admit it smells really good~haha!
She drinks 6oz 5 hourly and 7oz for her breakfast.
Fruit wise, she loves banana puree and watermelon juice drips. I do not dare to introduce her to too much food yet as i’m fear she might not be ready for some of them and she might just refuse to drink her milk.
Weight
She weighed 10.22kgs during last clinic visit for her dose of vaccination mid of July. I didn’t measure how long she is now but she appears quite long to me. Big size and longer than baby of her age.
Fun facts:
- She loves to smile, giggle and chuckles! Give her your funny expression and she can burst into chuckles. All too cute!!
- She can knock two items placed in her hands now. You say Knock Knock and she’ll perform the trick. Then you compliment her for doing that and she’ll chuckle again.
- She can clap and loves to do it. Once she hears Clap Clap from you, she immediately perform the Clap Clap action to get your attention! Compliment her and you’ll see her smiling BIG back at you
- Still as usual, she puts basically everything into her mouth for examining.
- Babbles A LOT! caught her a few times babbling Ma randomly.
- Doesn’t like clothes changing time, likes to splash water in bathtub and loves to grab her bottle of shampoo.
- Plant her butt firm while sitting, still a little balancing to do with her body.
- Cruise like a pilot in airplane while in her walker.
