eight months.

so fast! its been a month since i started work and the little girl is turning 8 months old!
and it has been such a sleepy month! YAWNZ!

falling asleep playing half way. 

sleeping in her 摇篮.

fell asleep after breakfast. 

and again after lunch.

#truestory

falling asleep in her car seat.

sleeping in her 摇篮 II.

sleeping in her 摇篮 III.

 one moment she is awake..

the next is is sleeping... Zzzzz.

sleeping in with daddy on weekends.

falling asleep after meal, again.

falling asleep during grocery shopping.

taking naps with me!

even at time when she is not sleeping.. she looks sleepy...

trying hard to keep her eyes open. 

the zzz monster won in the end.. 

just in case you are wondering...

anyway, here is a video that i really want to share..

last month, i thought she will take awhile to learn to climb up herself. 

but just few days in her seventh month, she already knew how!

so proud of her! =)

anyway, for the record, she is 71 cm tall and almost  9kg already.

she now officially crawl on her fours and she think she can walk.
she was in the cry room at church last sunday and saw all the other kids walking (she was the youngest in the room at that time)..  she crawl towards a chair, got herself into standing position and started to "walk". after a few steps, she really thought she was walking and let go of the chair. of cus she fell and let out a loud wail...
-_-" #mysillybaby

she is also turning into a cheeky monkey.

smile until no eyes.

and contrary to popular belief that the little dont cry.....

so not true!

and this is her giving me the look for making her wait for milk. 

and sadly, my baby is looking less like baby and more toddler each day. =(

the husband woke up this morning wanting to make poach eggs for me (yes, i am so lucky. i know). so i made carbonara, chicken wings and garlic bread to go with his poach eggs =)

the ingredients. 

poach egg with carbonara.

wings!

neonate!

have been reading and researching alot on medically related stuff these two weeks. from policies to systems to study of disease.
feel like i am back being a student. sometimes, i dare not walk too fast, just in case the things i study/read may fall out... -_-"

anyway, i think neonate is the cutest new word i learnt these two weeks.
its actually from the latin word neonatus which refers to an infant less than a month old. =)

say after me... N E O N A T E S.
cute name for cute things. i like!
so in love with this word. hahaha

so actually, do you know that newborn is an infant who is hours, days or few weeks old? the medical people must have been laughing thier heads off when i say, i have a 7 months old newborn daughter. lol.. the right word, i found out should be infant. hehehe..  and when my little neonate learns to walk, she will be upgraded to toddler! which i think is pretty soon because she can now already pull herself up from sitting position and also able to take steps around her playpen while holding on to the sides.


the word which i thinks looks the least cute is otorhinolaryngology, which means head & neck surgery.. =/ and i keep forgeting that renal means kidney. i keep thinking of eyes when i see that. lol....

will be "going upstairs" next wednesday. hopefully i am prepared.

this were all taken by the dodo over the weekend.

so blessed to have such a cute baby. #thickskinned

and so blessed to have her two 姨姨s so crazily in love with her too.

i was home late yesterday and she was already fast asleep.
feeling quite bad, that i barely had 2 mins with her yesterday, which was before i left the house.

she was so cute last night. she heard her dad and me talking and woke up to smile at us. she was on her belly. when she looked like she wanted to push herself higher to take a better look at us, it seem that she was too tired and fell asleep in the mid of it. it happen quite a few times and we i had a good laugh. a silent one of course, so that i wont disturb her sleep. i am so blessed to have a baby to who loves to play us so much.

i think she was quite well behaved yesterday becuase her 婆婆 send us alot of photos of her.

of her at breakfast..

of her sleeping...

biting her shoes....

 

and later prefering her own feet....

 #whymybabysocuteone

i am so going to be home as early as possible today.



2nd week of work.

today is the first day of the second week at work. i must say work is so far all right but i do miss the little girl very much.

i dont miss her like every second but every night when i watched her sleep beside me, i wondered how does she looked like when she ate her cheese in the morning? how much milk did she have? did she cry during nap time? what did she looked like when she tried new food? did popo secretly let her watch tv while she was having her meal? i feel like i have missed out so much of her life. =(

this morning when i went out, she was still sleeping. 

i cannot believe that the weekend was already over and i tried to recall the amount of time i had with her. it wasnt much. 

its new week again and i am hoping i that it would get better. maybe it wont get better but we just have to get use to it.

this morning when I was dressing up for work.. the little girl was up and wide awake, playing by herself in her bed.

she then said mama.

it was not her usual type of MAAA... MMAAA.. it's a more softer tone.

i looked at her and she was looking at me which makes me even more surprise!

did she just called me, mama? :)

seven months.

dear baby girl,

you are seven months today! and sadly its also time for me to go back to work tomorrow.
=(

well thats ok. i do not worry that much about you now since you are growing well (8.8kg and 70cm tall now), eat well (4 milk & 2 solids), sleeping well (2-3 naps & 12-13 hours of sleep throughout the night), playing well and hitting all your milestones!

rolling is so yesterday. you used to roll to your destination instead of crawl because you found it faster. but now you seem to realise that crawling is better because you cant really roll over everything. hahaha. you are still on the way of becoming a competent crawler. you have mastered the worming leopard crawl and now occasionally, and getting more frequently, you would lift your belly above the ground and crawl on all fours! your limbs are getting stronger by the day - you are able to support yourself with just your hands and feet on the ground leaving your butt up high which is a very funny sight. and now its not safe to put you on our bed any more even with pillows because you have gotten so good and crawling over them!

you are now learning to feed yourself your star shaped graduates puffs. you have learnt to pinch the puff up using the finger-thumb grasp, put it into your mouth but has yet learnt to release that yummy food into your mouth. and you would give us that puzzled look when the puff is not in your mouth even after you put it in. thats because it came out of your mouth still in your finger-thumb grasp, my silly baby!

talking about food, we have discovered that you seem to like fruits a lot! you love pear. we found this by accident. on our flight to phuket, we were given three bottles of heinz's baby food and one of them was pear. when we feed you that on one of the day there, the spoon seemed to have some magnetic charm with your mouth. hahaha. so we have made pear & apple purée and you seem to like it just as much. you like durian and lychee too. i had craving for them badly when i was pregnant with you!

you have also learn to make single sounds consisting of a consonant and a vowel, like ma & pa. you would call maaa.. mmaaa.. whenever you need help escaping bedtime, bored stuck in your chair, etc. i am not sure if you know what those means yet. but i am still happy to hear them!

you have been also developing your character! though you are still shy & wary meeting new people but once you warm up to them, you are all smiles and giggles!

the biggest thing that happened this month was - we went phuket!

and my favourite photo have to be of us at phuket!

stay happy my happy baby.
i am now more prepared to go back to work than in february. i am looking forward to have some increase in my bank account so that we can have mini holidays again!

and yes i shall remind myself that its the moments we remember and 

stop feeling bad about not being able to be with you all the days. 

love love,     

mummy.