Guest in the house!

"Hey!What's that?"

" Looking at me?"

Spot the flower!- 1

Spot the flower!- 2

Spot the flower!- 3

" Mummy... that flower is bigger than my face!"

" I think it is bigger than my head too."


"same hair band with this yee yee"






Yesterday my gf came to do scrapbooking for another gf's wedding. It was a good time to catch up though it took quite a bit of our brain juice! Anyway the highlight of all that was of cos the photoshoot session we had with Hannah.

View it before someone MAKE me remove them! lol

Updates

These days I am getting a tad too lazy to blog. Perhaps I am out of the house most of the time, meeting up with friends, hitting the gym... or just occupied with piano/spanish classes. Other than that, the remaining time will be for Hannah.

Just started her on Carrot puree a week or more ago. She seems to dislike it compared to rice cereal. Anyway she still ate it nevertheless. Good girl.

I am going to try pumpkin puree today. Interestingly, pumpkin can be meshed into puree with a fork after steaming it. Don't even need a food processor unlike carrot. I hope she'll like it.

Anyway some quick updates:
1) Answer to poll
- dawn feed
-breakfast
-lunch
-tea break
-dinner
-supper.
So it's 6-7 feed a day:)

2) She can turn herself over and back again now! Thank God! The nights of flipping over the overturned tortoise.. I mean baby.. is over. :P

3) will post photos SOON.

ANSWER to POLL

She shook her head! And scrunched up her face and looked at me as if I've fed her crap.

But thankfully, she's happy as a lark now whenever she sees me preparing her cereal.

Puree soon.

And congrats on those who have guessed correctly. Will the winners please stand up?

:P

More updates

Well... lots to update. Wonder which to begin with.

1) 5months old
Hannah is now 5 months old. A week or more ago, we started her with cereal and man! She loves it (after her initial response which I can't reveal till the poll is done). Then just a couple of days back, she started rejecting it. Mummy is at a loss. Anyway, I've decided to just feed a little bit again and if she still doesn't want it then we'll just wait for a couple of weeks later. Maybe it's good too. No hurry. I believe she'll know best when she's ready. The thing is she's not exactly having enough... so she's waking up in the wee hours again. Oh well.. guess I'll just enjoy moment this while I can.

2) Milk-scare
I think I was dehydrated? Or for whatever reason, I experienced a day without much milk. It came to me as a shock and I was thrown off balance. So worried that my precious will starve. (albeit her hefty 7.5kg and counting). It was at that moment that I began to 'treasure' breastfeeding again... yeah... it's an experience, once over, never return. So now, no more complains about feeding her. Enjoy it while I can. Thank God, the supply is back after I down alot alot alot of water and fish soup!

Theory behind the incident:
Well, many bf mums tell me diff stuff.
i) When you reach 4-5 months there's usually a dip.
ii) Baby once start on solid, demand falls, supply dip.
iii) dehydration and mummy's change in diet
iv) clueless

Appreciate those listening ears and advice. Some even went through the same! :) Thanks girls.

3) Bloody neck!
Yes... as you know Hannah's really fat at the neck so we usually can't see it. Recently... due to her drooling incessantly the neck area became dry and scaly. It became itchy for her. So whenever she turns to her front, she'll start scratching it. Until it bled! I nearly died when I saw some blood. When mixed with saliva it looks like blood is oozing out! Thank God it wasn't that bad a cut. But still... now we dare not put her on her own without supervision. All eyes are fixed on her fingers and neck now. That's been keeping me REALLY busy. Hope she gets well soon. Heartache.

Then again... it seems that she is totally oblivious to it. When I saw her and hugged her... I was so upset but she was smiling and cooing away happily. My baby's made of steel.

4) Me
This week's meeting with my fren has been cancelled cos she was unwell. Spanish lesson cancelled cos teacher was held up elsewhere. Piano lesson cancelled cos I can't leave Hannah unattended with her neck like that. Well, well... next week will be better. :)

ANSWER to POLL

Answer :
Less than 1 minute. She went: " ah" in an irritated tone and was instantly pacified:)

Our MRT day out and more...

After months of staying at home without too much of a social life, I've decided to go on an adventure! Not many of my friends are mummy yet. Those who are either stay too far from me or are working mums. So I decided to find new friends.

Against all hesitation and anxiety, I ventured out of my comfort zone. I decided to take Hannah on a MRT ride. Just the both of us. To meet up with a mummy friend. It was not as difficult as I thought it would be. After feeding Hannah, we took a slow stroll to the MRT station which was just a stone's throw away from my place. Then we took a train to Tampines One. Simple. Met up with my friend and her baby boy who is 2 weeks older than Hannah but at least 1.5kg heavier! Had lunch, went shopping, had coffee and cake at tea time before taking a train ride home again before the peak hour crowd came by. Hubby met us at the MRT station and gave us a ride home.

It was enjoyable and it gives that immense sense of satisfaction knowing that I have overcome the obstacle of fearing the unknown. A sense of pride knowing that I have inched closer to the great word 'INDEPENDENCE'. And of course, liberation. Being able to move out of the house definitely takes away all sense of feeling 'trapped' at home, 'losing the much-valued freedom'...
And all in all, it was a great experience. I will venture to more places soon. Probably meeting my friend at City Hall next week. :)

Independence... it is a great word. I will blog solely on that one day. Not today. More updates for today.

Hannah had her first solid! I decided to buy the rice cereal last week after her fussing in the middle of the night but I haven't mustered enough courage to kick-start the new phase until yesterday. It was a very fun experience. I only fed her a couple of mouths full and decided to stop since it was the first attempt. Hannah enjoyed it (I think...cos she was smiling and flapping her arms up and down). Today I tried again. This time finishing almost the entire portion. Well, it wasn't that much. Just one teaspoon of rice cereal with milk till watery and thin consistency. I tried it too! It wasn't too bad. Sweet and refreshing! :) I will not be increasing the amount until she's 5 months. (which is next week) And then will see how it goes along the way. So far it has been rather successful. She shows contentment with the food in her mouth. Come 6 months then my long- planned -recipe can be put into good used. Looks like we are entering a new phase again!

ANSWER to POLL

Hannah is 7.5kg. HAHAHA.... so nobody got it right since there's no such option :>