Happy Birthday to MaMa! ~

Bday prezzie from my beloved cousins. Guess what's inside?

We will have 鲍鱼 for this year's 团圆饭!

Such nice packaging for four cans!

YAY! It is mama's birthday today! We celebrated the event last saturday in 红星酒家. For those in my generation, you would know this to be one of the most famous dim sum restaurant! I love this place because they still have push carts of delicious hot piping dim sum! Price is reasonable and food still tastes fairly good ( i feel it was better in the past)!

The bible says "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you". To me, it all boils down to obedience. We obey our earthly parents because we obey our heavenly Father! It is definitely not easy, when what our parents want us to do goes in a different direction from our own thoughts and wishes!

I have learnt to love and obey my mama more and more through the years. My greatest prayer right now is that she knows the Lord and spends her life in heavenly joy. May the Lord grant her good health for many many more years!

Social Smile

Ung-Gur Gur baby!

Hehe you adults look so funny! ~

In the first month, Charis smiles mostly when she is asleep. i always joked that she smiles dreaming of a pool of milk!

On 1Jan (when she was 5 weeks), we discovered that Charis actually smiled with her eyes opened in response to our conversation to her! We were so thrilled, and you can be sure our hearts melted!

On searching the web, i found that there are actually two types of smiles for babies: a. the spontaneous or almost reflexive smile that can occur early in the newborn period, and b. the social smile that occurs in response to something, like when you talk or sing to your baby

Really delighted that Charis has started her social smile! Hope to hear her laughter soon! According to baby books, that comes around 3-4 months! Exciting!

Breastfeeding in the Bible

As a new breastfeeding mom, i am eager to read up on anything and everything related to the subject. I was also curious to find out what the bible says about breastfeeding.

Actually, many parts of the bible talks about children nursing at the woman's breast. Perfectly in line with the understanding that breast milk is the best gift from God for our children!

For one, Moses was nursed by her mom. Remember Miriam suggested to the pharaoh's daughter to get a Hebrew woman to nurse the child? God has such a wonderful plan for Moses to be nursed by his biological mother, and to be taught the ways of Jehovah from young. That paved the way for His great salvation plan later on in the Exodus!

Another example is baby Samuel, as recorded in 1 Samuel 1:21-23.

When the man Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow, Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, "After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always."

"Do what seems best to you," Elkanah her husband told her. "Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his word." So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

Mothers! Persevere in your noble task of breastfeeding! You may need to wake up in the wee hours of the night and suffer some panda circles, but seeing your child grow strong and healthy is definitely worth it! :)

New Year Meal

Pork ribs in bean paste sauce; most yummy dish of all

Stew chicken wings in black sauce; kinda my 拿手好菜

清炒豆苗; hubby's fav

Blessed New Year to all!! As the saying goes time flies and indeed, looking back i feel so much older this year because i now have a husband, a baby, and a few more wrinkles on my face!

To usher in the new year, i cooked dinner for our family (aka my husband and maid only; i can't bear to torture my mom and my brother yet!!) Didn't taste bad so i guess that should kinda set a nice precedence for the rest of the year!

My new year resolution: be a good wife, a better cook, and a great mother :)

五连拍

I love the last pic best .... i'm a sadist, i actually think Charis looks cute when she cries!! HAA ~~

First Flight (Almost)

Gee, here we are at T2!!

Snoozing away and enjoying the air-con!

Grandpa and Grandma was in town over the weekend to see their beloved Charis. We decided to bring her out when sending grandparents off.

Baby behaved real well and slept through it all ... hehe ... i was so worried and praying hard that she doesn't wail in the airport ... i could be made famous ^_^

Hopefully we'll get to bring baby back to Penang when she's a little older in the coming months. She has a real real LOUD voice so i hope she puts on her best behavior on flight!

First Month On Christmas

We practice by putting baby in the infant car seat at home

We're getting ready to bring her out after the first month!

YAY!! Charis turns one month on Christmas day! Frankly, it was quite a stressful month for a first time mother. But thanks for all the help of my mom, i'm managing better by the day :) Getting to know more and more about Charis' routine, and on hind sight, babies just need to be loved, fed and kept warm! That simple! Really!