Musings of Motherhood over the years
Sunday, November 26, 2006
My baby daughter turned 4 months old on 22
November 2006. She learnt to flip over from back to stomach on this day. Two
days before she turned 4 months, she was trying her best to flip and both me
and my husband could see her efforts at it. She tried till her face turned red
and was frustrated when she couldn't flip. But now she is really happy as she
is successful in flipping. She likes to suck her fingers and makes cooing
noises. She is a very cheerful girl and likes to smile a lot too. She has two
favourite toys, an aeroplane-train and a clown which when taken from her, she
will cry. And when the toys are given her back, she will smile again.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Baby is 4 1/2 months old and has learnt to
flip and started to crawl. Recently, we brought baby to attend her first outing
away from home - a friend's kids' birthday party.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Bernadette is 10
months old now. She has 4 teeth, two upper and two lower. She can babble,
imitate words like bye bye and say Papa and Mama. She is on semi-solid food now
and eats two meals a day of porridge for lunch and dinner. Her porridge has
some ground vege like broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkin on different days. She
also takes fruits like apple, papaya, banana and orange which we use a spoon to
scrape and feed her. In between she takes 4 feeds of milk of about total 600ml
per day. She sleeps through the night from 10pm to 7am. She rolls a lot in bed
and sometimes makes a bit of crying noise at night when she has nightmare but
it always lasts a little while about less than 5 minutes and she goes back to
sleep. Old folks say it is due to laughing and playing too much in the day that
causes her to cry at night. Talk about crawling, she does that very well and
likes to pick up things and take a good look at them. She likes to grab bags
and baskets and see what's in them. My little girl likes to flip over her toy
car and play with the wheels. She can also knock down skittles with one swipe
of a skittle.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Bernadette is 2 yrs old
My little Bernadette is now 2 yrs and 4 mths
old. She had a mini celebration on her birthday in July 2008. All her little
cousins and aunties and uncle attended her birthday, her maternal grandparents
too.
We, her parents brought her to her Pre-Nursery Orientation recently. She will
be starting playgroup in Jan 2009. Time flies. From a little baby, Bernadette
is now a toddler who is ready for school. She can sing, dance and recite her
ABCs, 123 and nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill. She also
likes to play with her mummy and daddy. Her favourite game is hide and seek and
she likes to hide herself under mummy's and daddy's quilt cover. She enjoys it
when we lift up the quilt cover to find her there. Bernadette also takes her
porridge well and likes to eat adult food too like chwee kueh, chee cheong fun
and bee hoon. She takes yoghurt and orange juice too.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
On Christmas Eve, my husband went for two
Masses at the Cathedral. I stayed home to look after Bernadette. On Christmas
Day, my whole family went for Mass at the Cathedral with John sitting at the
Choir Loft. Bernadette was not used to having John not sitting with us and
cried throughout Mass. I managed to appease her by giving her raisin bread and
water. After Mass, we wished Sir Peter Low Merry Christmas and took pictures at
the grotto where the Nativity scene was displayed.
After that, we walked over to Carlton Hotel for Christmas lunch at Wah Lok
Restaurant with my husband's relatives. We had Tim Sum for lunch. Bernadette
kept going out of the VIP room to play with the balloons. I fed her fish
porridge and chee cheong fun. When we were about to leave the restaurant, I
gave presents to Gabriel and Si Ting care of their father and aunty
respectively as they were not present that day. I also gave a present to Jessica.
Aunty Doreen, Grandpa, Edwin and Jessica also gave Bernadette ang pows and
gifts. We gave a ride to my parents in law home.
Immediately after reaching home, I put Bernadette's rice in the crockpot to
boil. After our nap in the afternoon, I bathed Bernadette and cooked her
vegetables and fish. I fed her while she watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse over
Disney channel. John packed her milk powder and bib and bottles and we set off
to Ping's for Christmas dinner.
John and I arrived at 7.15pm. Everybody else had arrived and had either ate or
was finishing their dinner. John and I ate while Chieu Soon looked after
Bernadette in the playroom together with the other kids. The Christmas buffet
consisted of a wide spread of yam basket, fried prawns, sweet and sour fish,
mee siam, chicken wings, duck, 'kong bah' and 'oh-nee' - a Teochew yam dessert.
Chieu Soon dressed as Santa Claus and went out to the living room to distribute
presents to the kids and take pictures with them. He also carried Bernadette
and took a picture with her. Bernadette looked very serious and seemed
overwhelmed by it all. Chieu Soon kept us entertained by doing a lucky draw. He
asked the kids to pull the ribbons off the reindeer and it rained chocolates
and candy. Bernadette picked up the chocs and candy and kept in her two
pockets. After that, we started exchanging presents. Bernadette and I received
lots of presents from the Aunties and Uncle Charles, Melinda, Ping and Emily.
We went home feeling blissfully happy but tired.
At night before going to bed, we prayed as a family thanking God for giving us
a happy and holy Christmas and a blessed one too and asked his continued
blessings on us.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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