"Mouth"stone

Yummy toes. Want to try?

If i have a blue mercedes ... i would bite it!

Babies explore a lot by taste. Around 4 months, there is a major milestone when they start to put everything and anything into their mouth. This is their way of getting to know the world.

Mine no exception, baby has started to catch hold of her feet and doing the acrobatic stunt of putting them into the mouth. She gets a lot of fun catching her toes and letting go and doing it over and over again. We've also gotten her a tiny teether which she eagerly grabs and licks it like some lollipop!

We're very happy that she can entertain herself, so i get a break!!

The Battle is Over!!!

Special shaped NUK teat

Finally the days of struggle are over. Moving into the 2nd week back to work, baby has finally taken the bottle. YAY! ~~

It was a month of bitter cry and torture for both baby and myself. We tried all means and ways to transition baby to the bottle but whenever the Avent bottle appeared she will cry, sometimes even before we put it into her mouth!

Some friends truly empathized with my plight and recommended me to try NUK bottle. The teat is supposed to the best imitation of the mother's breast and most babies find it easy getting used to. I rushed to buy a NUK bottle early one morning and voila! baby sucked happily and finished with a loud burrrrrp!! I was so thrilled i could jump through the roof! ~~

On hindsight, i tried to provide the best for baby (or so i thought the best in the market), but the Avent teat is quite hard, long and big. My baby found it oppressive once being inserted into the mouth.

If you have the same problem as me where baby refuse the bottle, you might want to try NUK. They have latex and silicone teats. I don't know which one is better but i got the latex one. Hehe the yellow color looks quite cool ^_^ Some other friends also recommended Pigeon. They have a special mechanism to control air flow which goes well with the baby.

Once again, thank God for this miracle!

Baby Turns 4 Months Today!

Ta-Da! Baby turns 4 months today! and it spells the end of my maternity leave sob ^_^ I really enjoyed my time with baby in the past months, learning to care and love for this new member in the family, going cranky when she does, bringing her places, losing sleep, the list goes on! But not to forget the many joys she brings when she just raises an eyebrow or sparks a smile!

It's amazing how a woman can be transformed by motherhood. I am more motivated now to read my bible, so i can bring up my child in the instruction of the Lord. I am also more motivated to work, so i can provide the necessary physical needs for my princess.

Tomorrow will mark yet another new chapter as i start to manage both job and baby. May the Lord grant me a double portion of strength in this new role! Cheers to a brand new start! :)

Very Very Very Very Loooong Winded

The usual morning ritual ^_^

New Camera!!

I promise this is the last blurry pic from my phone camera

Was at the IT fair yesterday afternoon and i think perhaps a million others were there too. There was hardly any parking space and boy it was like 2pm!! Where did all these people come from?? No need to work?

There were a lot of bargains and you can see many lugging trolleys of printers, laptops, even plasma and LCD TVs!? Strange, they don't do delivery anymore during fairs?? I don't know how they are going to drive their big TV back.

I got a Sony camera and indeed i was quite thrilled with my new toy. No more blurry pics for the blog! And i can take nice pics of my little 娃娃! YAY! There was this "smile shutter" feature. Once activated, the camera will click itself away once it detects a smile! Wonderful!! Perfect to capture baby smiles which are ever so unpredictable!

The IT fair is now on at Suntec Convention Hall till 15Mar. Rush down if you need anything cos there's good price and goodies too. And not to forget the million people ^_^

New Dish

Broccoli and minced meat in egg ... ready to jump into the 蒸笼

It's lunch and i said "Put the minced pork into the egg and steam. Steam the broccoli also".

Came back again to the kitchen only to find a brand new dish created by my dear maid.
"Mum said steam egg and broccoli"

Well ok, so my instructions were unclear. It was quite a hilarious situation to me. I looked at the new concoction wondering how it will turn out.

Ah not too bad. We steamed the whole thing for about 8 mins and it did come out tasting quite good. In fact, the veg became a little soft and the whole thing was mashy and fit for my toddler in time to come. Now we've got a new creation added to our menu hehe ^_^

Bitten by a Big Bed Bug

Ok, enough of twisting the tongue. We've indeed got attacked by bed bugs recently. Not sure how it all began, but anyway one night we started to get bitten and at first we thought it was mosquitoes. But this went on for many nights and one time i got up to check only to find a murderous bug crawling on my bed!!

We tried spraying the bed frame for abt a week with insecticide but the problem did not go away. In the end we have to call the pest control company.

One company charges $450 for two visits and will fumigate the whole place. It takes around 4 hours for the entire operation and you need to wash all your clothes and clean up the house after that. Sounds more frightening than the bugs!

Called another company and it is $500 for three visits. They will spray a very deadly (to the bugs) water-based odourless chemical around the affected areas and the skirtings of your house. Takes 1.5 hours and then life goes on as usual.

Took the latter option cos it seemed to have less impact on the little baby. The bug man was here yesterday for the first spray so we shall see how it turns out in a month's time.

Pray for us!!