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!

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.

Fever Again

Not sure if its bc I'd been busy rushing around these few days. Woke up with aches all over my body, even my fingers ached!!! Urgh! And I seemed to have a plugged duct as that area was painful & swollen. I was super-tired and could barely move properly while carrying the baby. ;-(

After a tiring morning, I quickly took some panadol and garlic and collapsed in bed nursing the baby, and slept the whole afternoon away.

Thankfully, the long nap did me some good. I was feeling much better by the late afternoon. Just in time for Reunion Dinner.

Race Against Time

Not a good time of the day to be doing photos - sun too bright and wouldn't reflect the true colours of fabric. But I was rushing for time.

*hehe* Can see my arm & digicam in the shadows, thanks to the strong sunlight! Loads of lovely new stuff just for CNY though!

Chinese New Year Festive Sales - Now ON !!!!


Our Showroom filled with Festive Styles:

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!

Toe-Lickin' Good!

Such delectable heels & toes, eh?

And he sure has grown. 2months ago, this outfit was so loose on him. Now it's fitting.

Happy New Year 2009!

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Dream Watching

They are always such a dream to look at when sleeping, yah?

Merry Christmas!