Gathering at Grandma's place...Time for weaning!

Little Kyan met up with Nigel di di and Stephy Jie Jie yesterday as they and mummy's friends came over to my ah-ma's (maternal) house @ hougang yesterday. Wanted to take photo with stephy jie jie but she didn't want to lie down...but Kyan managed to take with Nigel! Yippie....

Nigel didi shake hands with me...we are brothers and friends!


I'm so happy i get to take photos with Nigel di di!


Currently at 5months and 1week, Mummy has started me on a weaning schedule. I was being fed Earth's Best organic sweet potatoes and i absolutely love it!! The moment I saw mummy with the scoop of potatoes puree on hand, i plunged forward and stick my tongue out and mummy knew i love it. She fed about about two to three spoonfuls each time.

Grandma fed me Earth's Best First Pears today. At first i get the sort of a sour-ish look but later it was ok...

Mummy is working out on my weaning schedule. Whats next? Avocado puree or mashed apple? Is mummy going to feed me cereal? Haiz, kids are so spoilt with so many choices that mummy doesn't know how to start!

Photos with Mummy n Daddy at 4months!

Here are some photos i took with mummy!



And here are some shots with daddy! I love putting my fist into my mouth!


And this is me!!

Swimming in the tub

This was the video of my very first swimming lesson at hwa xia!


Here is kyan's swimming lesson for the second time at hwa xia...



He looks terrified in this picture! Yes i think he feared swimming for quite a bit..wonder if it will get better next time or he's just not used to it???


And here is one swimming photo at home in his personal swimming tub...

My Significant Milestone!

Kun and i brought kyan over to Michelle's son's one year celebration. Thank goodness kyan didn't make a fuss during the celebration! My colleague carried him and he was ok with it.

However things weren't as well before we stepped out of the house in the morning. We let him have a dip in his personal swimming tub but he was rather terrified in it as he was looking for a handle on the float to hold on to. Eventually his look of terror stayed so much we decided to take him out of the pool after about 5 to 10mins. At 12pm+ we needed to feed him before leaving the house, but he just wouldn't cooperate despite me coercing him to drink milk for an hour. And now he's very smart! Don't want milk? Use both his hands to push the bottle and teat out of his mouth!

Finally received the awaited Gracie the Giraffe made by one of the forum mummies. No it wasn't FOC, but it was so nice that i had to buy one for kyan. The colours were indeed sparkling beautiful and captivating for the eyes :)

Kyan smiles and says..."look at my new found friend!"

*Hear no evil!!!*


Good news! He finally did his full flip today!!! There were a lot of previous unsuccessful attempts as one of his hands got stuck underneath but he managed to take it out this time round. My mum actually enticed kyan with the giraffe you see in this picture. He managed to free his hand while staring at the colours intensely...is that the magic of Gracie??

See me flip!! Tummy time!

Daddy is that a camera u are holding? *blur blur*

I'm going to try crawling...

And more to come...I'm going to be successful in a couple more weeks time!

Milk strike over?

Kyan seems to have grown out outta his milk strike, which is a good thing! Now he can drink up till the highest at 170ml and the last feed was about 4 to 5hours back. But generally on an average of 120ml to 150ml.

Now he starts to put everything into his mouth already....teething baby! poor boy!

He's ever so talkative now! Cheeky little boy...

I guess it will be fun to start him on solids on his 6th month. He seems to be interested in seeing us eat. He's now on Similac on the last feed for the night. During the daytimes, its either brown rice powder mixed with EBM or just the pure EBM.

Bought the neck float + swimming tub for him and realise he doesn't like the neck float...sigh! Just hope its cos we didn't put the neck float well around his neck.

Kyan's sleeping patterns seem to be abit distorted over the past 2 days. Usually he has no problem sleeping through till 6am+ from his last feed at about 10pm+. These days, he started waking up early at 5am wanting milk! Another growth spurt?

At my mum's....addictive online shopping

It was a one week hiatus for my mil, who had her hand injured and still not recovered for the past few weeks. The nagging pain came on and off. As i wanted to give her a break and some time to heal her hand, kyan was brought over to my mum's instead. Together with my mum (she and i took a week's leave) we took care of kyan since monday. Kyan and I stayed at my mum's place during this period. I am really thankful i have my mum to help, or else i have no idea how i would have been able to cope (judging from kyan's fussy drinking habits). But there is one thing i really must thank for...that is the sarong (yaolan) that karen loan to us cos it makes things easier sometimes....thanks karen! However this little boy is an active one. The other day my mum put him into the sarong he fidgetted here and there and BANG! His head hit against the side metal bar of the sarong and he cried really badly with a ba luku on his forehead. My mum used a boiled egg to rub on that area and it subsided after that.

Kyan still proves a toughie when drinking milk...though now my mum is more experienced with this little one's patterns. Mummies are still the more experienced ones, they know how to deal...thanks to the previous experiences bringing us up.

Kyan now has little white teeth forming at his gums though his first tooth hasn't literally popped up yet...so he's pretty cranky. I guess its due to the teething discomforts. On top of it sometimes the weather just kills. its darn hot!!! wahhhhh....He is a really "yang oh" baby...why? everytime see us always "ehh ehh" then next moment cry expect us to carry him...aiyo....

I think by now he has recognised who is who...yesterday i displayed the action of asking whether he wants me to carry, and he arched his body towards me...how cute!!

But sometimes he doesn't want mummy....BOO HOOO!!! =( so sad lo, prefers his grandma instead. Cos he will cry and cry and i failed to pacify him...so my mum took charge and he stopped crying....wonder why? Is it because i have the milk smell on me and he hates it?

Have started to add in the rice powder into the breastmilk. I guess variety works better for him. He's on one feed of FM and one feed of rice powder+EBM daily, with the other feeds still on EBM.

Nowadays i also try to stretch my pumping sessions. Sometimes work, sometimes not. End up with painful and engorged breasts. I guess i'm better off pumping 3x a day still. Don't be too greedy stretching pump sessions ya...wanted to give up breastfeeding and pumping actually, but no guts yet. Now kyan seems to drink EBM again, probably because as i mentioned, there is variety for him since i included FM/rice powder into one of his feeds now.

Ok now to my shopping stuffs. I have finally bought a yellow swimming tub for kyan. Cannot tahan...hehe....i guess i am addicted to online shopping le...v dangerous. Got cheap photo frames, clothes and belts and some miscellaneous stufs for myself and kyan. Better control control...*bites teeth*...daddy has given me "warning" le...better control....

Today finally took the first family photo..