Saying it Loud

This is one of the few words he can verbalise for certain right now.

He can only do words that sound like "Ba" or "Ma", so Butterfly would end up like "Ba ba bye" & even Umbrella will still sound like "Ba"! The only word that he can say nicely with 2 syllables is "Ma-my". *hehe*.

And I will find him taking books to "study" too. Our eldest was the same way. The older 2 boys never did this.

Life Cycle

JR loves Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar book

He just loves to make this butterly "fly" by "flapping" the 2 ends of the pages at the end of the book. Thankfully it's a board book so fairly tough.

And...haha - did he figure out the life cycle of a caterpillar? This was a new book that I got him. A caterpillar book. He took a look at it and picked it up:

...And went STRAIGHT for the last page?!!!! And started "flapping" it.

So for his birthday, I got this cake made for him.

Thanks to Mong's Cakes, who did JR's FULL-Month Cakes too!

Bossy!

You know who you're dealing with or not?!

Time to recharge. I will wake in 10minutes ... and you will be tasked to put me BACK to recharge mode.

Words in Print

This kept JR occupied a good part of the time in church today.

Words that I wrote on the printed page. Words that he recognises.

Wearing Baby

This is so amazing... a Mommy playing this YangQin-like instrument while slinging baby!


And this Mommy is kneading bread. Reminds me of slinging the boys and swinging them to my back when I prepared food & cooked so that their busy little hands would not be able to reach out so far .

Here, Baby!

Trying to tire the baby out so I'd have a peaceful night - well, we can *hope*!

Having baby follow me like a little pup. LOL!

Screenshots

At 7am on a weekend ... *yawn!*

Minute of Peace

With the holidays on, schedules get somewhat topsy-turvy. The past week hasn't been way bad, but as usual, there's the time-balancing that is so tricky. I've tried to get up early despite the disturbed nights, just so I can get some work done in the office. Yup so tiring. Each of the 3 older kids seem to have their own schedule of school/practice/play. Then tried to steal a few minutes for myself just after paying my road-tax ... a little peace without the sounds of one baby saying "merk!!" and the others fighting or just being plain rowdy .... by the park! (duh, the carkpark, you mean?!)

Oh well, a little caffeine is ok!

Auto-Turn

Can't fool the kid, huh?


Then I tried to *test* him with words only, so had the idea of printing out the words and putting it in a photo album. ...Words only. And he turns that around too.

Ah, but that photo album is too flimsy. What other medium could I use....Hmm....

Ha-Chooooooo

Ati-shoo!!!!! Flu? Thankfully No. Just a wave of dust, I guess?

With the recent swine flu pandemic scare, it's hearty to know that at least this alerts us to keeping clean at all times. It was surprising for me to read that more people die from the seasonal flu than what we are seeing from the unknown swine flu. 600 a year!!! in Singapore!

The best bet to keep up a baby's immunity is still...to breastfeed, breastfeed, and frequently. This is exactly what the CDC advises - initiation of total breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding if mother falls ill. And not to forget the 1st line of defence - clean hands. Now, how to stop people from touching baby when we are outside? Grrrrrrrrrrr.......

Teether

Finally had time to get myself a new handbag. Not 100% to my satisfaction, but....it'll have to do for the timebeing - my trusty handbag had been chewed up by the baby!

JR loves zeroing on my handbag handles!!! Over time, the poor handles have all peeled & frayed. So embarassing to carry around. *sigh* But I still did so until I finally had time to get an alternative.

Storytime II

The excitement - oh my! He loves being read to.

Cry Room

I never ever wanted to be in the Infantcare room in church. But at the new church that we are attending, it's just soooooooo quiet in the main santuary. In the end, I find it less stressful to be in the infant room. Even if he doesn't cry, he grumbles, fusses. Ah....I think as parents we feel more nervous than those around us. But since those around us all have such serious and stern faces, I really don't feel comfortable, and instead feel too suspicious as to whether they are secretly frowning at me & the noisy baby. *sigh*.

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!

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.

Happy CNY 09!

Dong Dong Dong Chiang! The New CNY is Here! As can be seen, baby is having fun soaking in the festive spirit of his very 1st CNY! He tried to reach & eat every HongBao that he got! Haha!



I tried on several of the CNY tops that I had reserved and brought home for myself, and finally decided that I looked the sleekest in the most oriental Sophia Blouse.


It was truly discreet nursing in this blouse. I didn't even use the sling the whole day!

And I nursed baby in church, and when visiting relatives in their homes. No problemo. Whew!

Only tiring bit was...baby disliked all the strange homes & people, so stuck to me like glue, excited but somewhat fussy bc he was tired from being so "kapoh". It was exhausting for me!

The 2nd day of CNY was once again a replay of the 1st. Baby was again a little koala, but at least he nursed and slept while we were out visiting. He didn't allow anyone else to carry him though. Not his father, not his siblings. Only Mommy would do. ;(

I wore the Ruby Wrap for the 2nd day.

Reunion

We succumbed to having dinner out. Had to plan it early in the evening, starting at 530pm so that we could be done and back home while it was not too late. The baby just starts fussing big-time if we are not at home after 7+pm. He just seems to have some internal clock.





I wore baby in a lovely magenta red silk sling (hey, I think it's one of those that one of you customers rejected!), and a Mandy Wrap top in Red.

Story Time

This boy loves books! Look at him trying to choose:


And he picks one! And then another...and another....


And Big Gor-gor reads to him. He's very attentive!