Right Second Molar

A note for mummy: your right second molar is sprouting out. We can see the pearly white :-)
No wonder you keep on 'biting' on us...imchy gum, I suppose.

Happy 15 Months Old

Vital Stats:
Height: 83cm
Weight: 12kg
Teeth: 4 top & 4 bottom incisors.

Dietary:
- Milk: 3x per day.
- Meal: porridge (lunch) + cereal/fruit puree (dinner) + whenever we eat!
- Snack: fruit, baby biscuit & JUNK food (only when we eat)

Development:
- He is 80% potty trained at nanny's place. Either he will 'tell' or when he tried to take the potty out, it's his sign of telling us. If we are not fast enough, of course he will poo in his nanny. So you can imagine how he has trained his nanny to be in the lighting speed in taking out the potty, remove his nappy and put him to sleep on the potty.

- At times, he will touch his 'birdie' when he wets his nappy. He is starting to signaling to us his nappy is wet.

- He is having separation anxiety with me every morning when I dropped him to his nanny. While walking to the nanny's house, I have to 'negotiate' with him where the nanny will bring him to 'kai kai'. Most of the time, I will tell him he has to wear his shoes before he gets to go "kai kai". So, when we reached nanny's house, he will let nanny carry him and straight point to the shoes. He remembered!!!!

- He loves book over than his cars/toys. There are few of his favourite books that we used to read to his sister, they are not thorn mostly and full of tapes on most of the pages. He would run to the book shelve, take out the book, walk back to us and sit on our lap.

- I have introduced the 2 pieces of puzzle set few weeks back. Out of 4 vehicles, he is able to recognize 2, ie "car" and "aeroplane'. When I tried to teach further, he would run away! Well, i am happy with it at his speed.

- Point to his "teeth", "nose", "eye", "ear" and "head" whenever we asked him. Thanks to the nanny.

- Nod and shake his head indicating 'yes' and 'no".

- Point at the right person (only family members + nanny's family) when we ask him.

- He is a stubborn person. When he wants the thing, he will want the thing. He will wail until we either give in or distract him. He is not an easy compromising child.

- He is still a light sleeper. During afternoon nap, even we tip toe walking out, he is able to 'tell'. So we literally need to nap with him during day time!

- He has outgrown his playpen bed as he was able to push his pillows and toys to be the 'stepping stone' and lift one of his leg out. We have put him to sleep on single bed mattress now by his own.

- He doesn't like hair cutting. The moment he sat on my lap, the 'loud speaker' started the end of cutting. He has never received a complete hair cut becoz we have to do it very fast in shaving him. The layering/trimming process is always done 70% becoz he started to struggle by moving the whole body! Because of this reason, we have to 'crew cut' him because that's the fastest and safest.

Vocabulary:
1) Words that he is able to say it out:-
- Cow (the real cow!)
- Burke-Keh (book)
- Che Che (his sister)
- Mah Mah ( Mummy - Proud me!)
- Pah (Daddy)
- Poh (His nanny)
- Yao (Want in Mandarin)
- Kah (Cat)
- Mum Mum (eat)

2) Objects that he is able to point out:
- Cow
- Cat
- Dog
- Car
- Aeroplane
- Book
- All of the family members + nanny's family members
- He knows the right button to press to nanny's house in the elevator

3) Things that he does whenever he is asked:
- Look out for his 'chit chit' (pacifier)
- Walk and take water bottle
- Take his book
- Sit down (chor chor)
- Go to XX room
- Lye down
- Sleep (oah oah)

My boy is growing up!!!


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Quickpage by Shabby Princess

The Things He Says...

Oh boy, I am way way behind in updating my kids' blog. :-( If I don't update, I am sure you guys will start to see spider web soon. LOL

Over the past few weeks, we have seen tremendous oral development on Sean. He is able to point and say:

- Cow (the real cow!)

- Burke-Keh (book)

- Che Che (his sister)

- Mah Mah ( Proud mummy!)

- Pah (Daddy)

- Poh (His nanny)

14 Months Old Boy!

Vital Stats:
Height: >79cm
Weight: >11.7kg
Teeth: 4 top & 3 bottom incisors.

Dietary:
- Milk: 3x per day. He is fully on formula now. My breastfeeding journey stopped when he was 13.5mos.

- Meal: porridge (lunch) + cereal/fruit puree (dinner) + whenever we eat!

- Snack: fruit, baby biscuit & JUNK food (only when we eat)

- He love drinking plain water now,yay! Thanks to his nanny to train him up!

- He is a conservative boy when comes to eating new food. We literally have to force it down on in to taste it. After then, this boy will start to bang on the table asking for more and FAST!

Development:
- His walks very fast now. I think within the next 1-2 weeks, he would be able run because by looking at the speed of his walking, he is almost there.

- He is able to understand and point to the object when we asked him. Lots of things he knows now until i don't think I can list them down.

- He loves riding on motorbike. His nanny and family been taking him 'ronda ronda' within our neighbourhood.

- If you give him a toy and a book to choose, he would choose the book for now. I hope this good sign will continue

- He is a cool baby when he meets strangers. There are no ways (as of now) any strangers can make his smile or what. Only the family and nanny will make him laugh!

- He adores his sister very much. Anything his Che Che is doing, he will surely giggle.

- While he is a cutie pie at times, he can be demanding baby too. He can push his Che Che away when he wants to grab the things he wants!

- He is able to stack the building blocks now. So this is his current favourite toy!

- Whenever the house phone rang, he would run to pick up the handset and put on his ear. Then he will 'talk'. Even on his toy phone, he would pretend the same.

- He doesn't like to wash hair, just like his sister. Luckily he has short hair, so washing process is short!

- He is in the stage of opening drawers.

- He loves playing the fan remote control, in which he will lift up the remote, pointing to the fan and press. You know, there is a sound come out when you press the 'on/off' button. So this little monster finds it thrill!!

Boy, kids grow up so fast...


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Paper: LLIELLA
Embelishment: Klund

His First Time...

In eating ice cream - he gave us a really 'sour' face when we fed him. Infect, he turned his face away, not wanting to eat it. We have to 'force in' the first spoon into his mouth.

The moment he swallowed, he started to realize the wonderful taste of ice cream is that awesome! After than, it's spoon after spoon...haha...

Sean is not adventurous when it comes to food. He is a 'careful' person, you may say. He will usually turn his face away and show us the 'sour' face whenever we tried to give him new food. If he likes it, we have to feed real fast because he will eat like a thunder speed!!! If he doesn't want, trust me, there is NO WAY you get feed him. He will scream his lung out, arch his back, struggle with us until we give up.

See this clip below. Look at his eyes. He wasn't looking at the ice-cream but something else (leng lui???)...real funny!

Lower Right Lateral

This is a note to mummy - the lower right lateral has sprouted out. That makes the lil boy has 8 teeth now!

Breastfeeding Journey on Sean

April 4th 2010 marked the last packet of frozen EBM for Sean to consume. That means Sean is on breast milk for 13.5 months. Exclusive on breast milk for 9months, started introduce formula right after then.

He threw up when I gave him 1 full bottle of formula. Then his nanny recommended to mix formula into he EBM. I agreed because I didn't want to stress up his nanny. It worked well that Sean slowly consumed the mix milk everyday.

As Sean is my 2nd child, I started to have very strong let down effect on the 2nd day after I delivered him. He has high jaundice level and that caused him to drink little milk and sleep long hours. Because of that, i didn't get to open up the nipple duct on time comparing with the flow that I had. I ended up with breast engorgement, very bad until I need to see a lactation specialist.

I can still remembered, hubb took us (Sean and I) to the hospital at 11pm as my breast was too full and painful. The nurses helped me to hand express out the milk (painful, thrust me!) while Sean was on the other breast latch on.

We did that for 2 hours till 1am!!! I felt much better after that but the 'fullness' continue.

It took me 1 month to completely clear all the blockage and the breastfeeding journey after than is smooth sailing.

Again, being an experienced breastfeeding mother, I pumped very frequent and started keeping my 'inventory' for the first 3-4 months.

I weaned Sean off from the breast around 10+ months. Sean is more attached to me as compared to his sister. So, I decided to wean him off before he can differentiate the real and bottle nipple. :-)

I did the same like his Che Che, brought back all the frozen EBM when I travel overseas. Coincidentally, the country was the same for both of them - Thailand. I went through the same hassle of arranging with the hotel to access into their kitchen's fridge as the mini fridge in the room is not cold enough to freeze the EBM. Every day pack and deliver the milk to the kitchen, etc etc. By the end of my stay, I sort of know the kitchen staff although I don't speak Thai!! LOL

Because of the recent liquid restriction, I can't hand carry the EBM like what I used to do the last time. Well, I checked in the EBM by putting lots of ice-packs, tap many many layers to seal the airway and finally wrap again in a tower.

One good thing is, it was only Thailand (Bangkok). When I got home, everything still alright. The EBM still frozen and the cooler box still cold!

Not only I get to feed Sean for 13.5 months, his Che Che get to consumed fresh EBM everyday too.

It's a priceless bonding experience with Sean.