Trip to Bank

As part of this morning's "entertainment", JR followed me to the Bank. Along the way, he saw the Tasmanian Devil & Bob the Builder. I'm not sure why he's so fascinated with their faces.





We changed his car seat yesterday (yeah, he's 11mths old...time to upgrade). So far, he's been fairly happy. The new car seat offers him a much better view of his surroundings, and the view outside the car. He just LOVES seeing buses! And yes, he LOVES to study books.

I love this Maxi-Cosi carseat. It has very thoughtfully-placed clips at the side of the seat for us to hang the baby's toys. Ah, and I succumbed to buying that small hungry caterpillar (Eric Carle) book sometime back bc JR simply LOVES it!

After dropping by the bank, we went to the supermarket and visited loads of apples. Gee, there were South African APPLES (yeah, the word "APPLES" are so clearly printed on the packages), Fiji Apples, Japanese Apples, and I don't know whatever other country. Hey, it's sure cosmopolitan in that supermart! PINK apples...ever seen them? Actually their colouration is more like Rainbow Mangoes. I'm so unexciting. I simply grabbed a tray of organic Gala Apples.

Organic Apples are really tasty, and these were so soft that all I needed to do was cut them into smaller sizes and JR could chew them up himself. He's got 8 teeth and another 2 more on the way. Hai, I didn't even realise he was teething until he went around biting every one of us this afternoon, then I pried his mouth apart to check. *haha*.

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!

Bookish Diversion

On one of those nightmarish trips, after all the song & dance didn't work anymore...I passed JR this book I had in the car.

This little boy sure likes studying the images or prints in books/clothes. The bawling was diverted for most of the rest of the trip. Whew!

Nightmarish

Just one of those days .... the nightmarish trip we always wish never to have. ;(

It's so important to plan the trip well and not get into one of baby's foul moods, but well, we try...

Business Trip

All cosy, and quite a nuisance in the corporate world nevertheless, but I had to bring my nursing product manager along, yah?

Car Travel

Babies should always travel in a car seat. It is dangerous for the baby to be carried by an adult. And a child that has been taught that car travel means being in the child safety seat would learn to use it without protesting.

Baby JR came home from the hospital in his infant carseat. We do have to watch his mood or he'd cry the whole journey in his seat. When going out, I would allow time to nurse him so we do not have to worry that he cries during the trip because he's hungry. If he has a dirty diaper, I'd make sure to change it first too.

Our older baby TJ was a big cry-baby when out in the car. Back then, I spent some time training him over a week. I did this by bringing him out for a short drive everyday around the neighbourhood. For instance, the 1st day, it'd be for only 10mins, then 2nd day for 15mins, then 3rd day for 20mins...and so on. You'd have to watch your own baby and be somewhat intuitive with the timing of this "training schedule", but eventually, baby will become used to the idea that as long as he's in the car, he has to be in his infant seat.

And this is how 2-month-old JR would be nowadays, when he is in a happy mood while in his carseat. Woe be it if we don't watch signals of bad mood and we'd have a screaming baby instead the whole trip!

And yes, he recognises the CDs that I've been playing in the car all throughout my pregnancy (in the background? Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole). He has a cute little "Mr Sun" toy that plays a nutcracker melody clipped to his car seat too.

Full Month

Had a simple celebration, sharing cupcakes from Mong's Stirs. We did the red eggs ourselves, packaging and decorating - had quite a bit of fun doing that simple task!


Baby had quite an outing today. I had to nurse him several times while out today. Here I was in dh's office nursing wearing my favourite Selina Top in Berry Pink size M - sure's discrete and convenient!

Week 4: Wt 4.62kg, Ht 54cm, Hd 37cm