baby c has started laughing (actual laughter!). what beautiful sounds. he cracks us up. HOWEVER he has a really short attention span AND he never laughs at the same things twice!

gossip - the universal language that brings people together and the ultimate icebreaker. agree?

DECEMBER 2009

my absolute favourite form of transportation - my baby bjorn. it frees up mummy's hands so that she can do chores and stuff. also this way, she can carry me all the time without getting tired.

christmas shopping with mummy. she needs her caffeine fix everyday because she NEVER gets enough sleep now.

how the back of my baby bjorn looks like.

look, no hands! it's so comfy that i fall asleep in it.

happy after a feed by da-da.

with unc after dim-sum. my outfit matches my baby bjorn - orange!

yogurt desert after dim-sum with unc and grandma. too bad i'm starting to get too heavy for mummy to carry me in my baby bjorn. although the weight limit is 11kg, i'm already 8kg now and mummy does NOT want to throw her back out carrying me!

with aunty p and aunty m. thanks aunty m for the christmas gift! i can't wait until i can play it : )

our christmas tree at home. look at ALL MY gifts! ahem.....obviously mummy went overboard.

my socking stuffers.

the night before auntie left for leeds. telling my sob stories to her.

bye auntie. remember to buy lots more stuff for me when you come back next!

enjoying my bath time.

all wrapped up ready to roll!

i get propped up like this sometimes after feeds to help the milk stay down.

me and my buddies (they're actually hand-me-downs from mummy)

me and my bedtime buddy - froggy. this is how i show my love for him. yum-yum....

whenever i go out, froggy comes along to keep me company.

froggy loves riding in my buggy too!

daddy says that i have mummy's tongue - sharp and pointy. i went through a phase (which lasted a few days only) of always sticking my tongue out all the time.

mummy styled my hair. do i look like a toughie?

i simply love being propped up in a sitting position. i can see lots of things.

i'm so happy that i know what's going on around me.

me in my jammies the morning after. i managed to wriggle one leg free. sexy?

i'm going through a MAJOR drooling phase! i soak through bibs and tops like there's no tomorrow. sometimes mummy changes my clothes up to SIX times in an hour. no wonder mummy continually does laundry!

me and my bumbo. love it, love it, love it!

gong xi, gong xi! must practice this pose for cny to collect lots of ang pows! must stop putting my fists into my mouth though.....

mummy and daddy love my bumbo too. they can put me in and give their arms a rest.

better gong xi pose eh? at least my fists are OUT of my mouth (or rather they have not reached my mouth yet!)

my and my favourite toys. i love my lady bug. i lie for minutes (which is a really long time in my world) and talk to it.

see who i'm talking to? myself!

after months of not having tummy time, i decided to surprise mummy and daddy and lifted my head up when finally i was put on my tummy again. mummy and daddy were super duper happy that day!

prior to this, whenever mummy put me on my tummy, i would cry the house down. i hate, hate tummy time because my neck wasn't strong enough so i faced down throughout tummy time. i was also too lazy to practice lifting my head. but look at me now!

i have been dumped into the spare room to sleep this past week. b says that i snore so mega loudly that it wakes baby c up and it gets difficult to put him back to sleep again. also, apparently, i disturb b from getting a good sleep too. i admit i snore and i snore even louder when i'm absolutely knackered. the first night, lying on the sofa bed before nodding off, i was not very happy to say the least. i was missing baby. can you believe it?! it's so crazy, he's only a walk across the hall from me! but after i dozed off into dreamland, it was pure bliss.........aahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........so mega wonderful. before this, when all of us were sleeping in the bedroom, i would wake at the slightest sound baby c made and i in turn would wake b up to attend to him. he would attend to baby and baby would wake up. (for those not in the know, b takes the night shift. i tried but i couldn't handle it. it was just all so unnatural to me, to have to wake in the night and stay awake til baby nods off again). needless to say, all three of us were not getting enough sleep. BUT, this past week has been wonderful - for all of us. baby hardly wakes up anymore, not even for his feed. b still has to attend to him at least once in the night but that's it (compared to attending to him through the night, this is easy-peasy). so....we've agreed to give it a week until baby settles into a routine sleep, and i'll move back in (albeit with one of those nasal strips that stops you from snoring.....)
a note though, baby does realise that i'm not in the room and he'll cry so hard and so loud searching for me. once i carry him from b, he shuts up immediately. so i'll carry him to sleep nowadays and talk to him and then only pass him over to b. ahh.........sleep,sleep,sleep...............sooooo wonderful.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i do not understand women who are mothers or are pregnant and ALL they want to talk about is either their current pregnancy, their previous pregnancy or their child. is this all they are? a MOTHER?! i know i am considered a "new" mother for baby c is only 4 1/2 months now and yes i do like to talk about him and how i am as a mother but i would like to move on to other topics! eg, current affairs, movies, how the other person is, what's going on in her life, what's she doing now, what i've missed out on, what else i do during my free time, family, friends, etc, etc....... as a mother myself, even I consider these women bores. what more for those who are single or not mothers? sigh..............what a waste of time to have to sit and to listen to them go on and on......... i'll never get those precious moments back (for yes my time is extremely precious now what with juggling baby time as well)

taking a breather from shopping to have my milk.

what are those dangly things doing on my stroller?!

da-da always carries my diaper bag although it's a bit too short for him.

christmas shopping with mummy.

the sun shade comes up when i'm sleeping in my buggy so there'll be no distractions for me.

in my car seat in the car. are we home yet? i miss home.

yeah! we're just round the corner from home. there's no place like home....................