BabyCare Fair

This was one truly busy time for me, rushing in & out, as I needed to take some time out to feed the baby (who doesn't take the bottle), and in being chauffeur for the other kids too!




Am thankful that my girl could help out this time around.

Breakfast

Sharing my breakfast with baby.

Avocados have always been a favourite of mine, even when I was little. I personally like to make up a batch of mashed avocados with chopped onions and cherry tomatoes. The tomatoes keep the avocado from oxidising and turning black/brown. Like this! So yummy!

Nevertheless, I'm quite happy jusy scooping out thin slices and layering it with lettuce or alfafa sprouts as a sandwich too. Keeping it simple like that means I can easily share with baby. Today, I just mashed it all up though, and scooped up some for the baby.

The baby's portion was mixed with some expressed breastmilk to keep it fresh and lessen the chance of it oxidising - hopefully. JR usually eats this mixed with his Oatmeal cereal.

.... and some for me!


TIP:
Putting breastmilk on foods does help prevent them from oxidising or "turn brown"!

Dirty Fella

The Dirty Fella...thanks to SPP..

He loves sharing our foods, and we do - if it is suitable for baby to try.

Baby seems to like more "real" foods, so we didn't blend & grind them up as much now. Here's an example of his lunch. Rice with peas & carrots.

Bumbo

Found JR some distance away from the Bumbo. It's certainly not safe to leave him there unsupervised! We'd seen him stand up from it many times before, but never seen him jump OUT and away from it! And he sure seemed so tickled by having done so too!

I'd never approved of the Bumbo myself, as I so disagreed with the concept of having a baby who is developmentally unable to sit independently, be on a chair. But we were nevertheless given this as a gift. Really need to watch your babies carefully if they are on the Bumbo!

More FlashCards!

Baby LOVES watching his flashcard vids. It's the "Your Baby Can Read" series and the "Wink-to-Learn" series. I'm amazed at his attention span with these. We started showing these to him when he was 5 months' old.


And this morning, I took out some of the kids' old Barney CDs ....JR didn't give the shows any attention! But was happy when I changed to this....Chinese flashcards - again:

Strange Kid!

To Market

(6.5 months old)

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig...oops.

Well, no pig in our wet markets these days! Baby enjoys the trip nevertheless. He's getting fairly big now, and even though he's really in the seated position in the baby pouch, he likes to pull up his feet and suck/nibble at them. Very nimble.

And the main reason for all these photos...so you can see the baby pouch or slings in action!
(Ah...I need a better cameraphone for all these photojournals!).

Sitting

At the Grand Ole Age of 6 months, the little boy still can't sit independently. ;( His elder sis & bro could sit by 6mths, just about. And his 二哥 (small big bro) could sit by himself at 4 months!

Nevertheless, when we were offered the baby high chair at our fave roti prata place, we tried.

Well, he can sit for awhile.....but he asked to be carried not long after! Mom's lap is probably still his preferred! Oh well... still have to eat with difficulty outside! Not something I relish.

Semi-Solids

JR turned 6 months old a week ago. He was down with a slight cough then, so we decided to hold off the introduction of solids . No hurry!

We started off with an instant brown rice ceral, Healthy Times single-grain. 1 tablespoon of dry cereal. He was so excited. It was all finished!

Single-foods are given at a time so that we can more easiliy watch for allergies to any single food.

Banished

With all those tiring trips, I'd concluded it's easier to just banish the boy to the back where I can't see him.

(photo taken from my mirror)

I've also figured that it's not worth wasting my time stopping or interupting the car journey to calm him. Might as well go quickly from point A to B!

Music Fun

This little boy finds such great joy in watching his brother going away on his violin...and trying to grab it!

Pool Fun

JR just loves waterplay!

I Want!

He's at that age when whatever we eat or drink, he wants!