My Big Little Man

I took some time get XJ to hold his milk bottle on his own. It's not that I didn't teach him earlier. Actually he managed to do that as early as 4 months plus. I guess he is belong to "my husband category" that means "LAZY" precisely! So I'm a bit worry he grows up to be a Lazy Monster... waiting his mama to sort out things for him?! No, I love my kid to be independent but the more I push towards something, it's like more difficult to achieve. As parents, we must understand when to give a duly positive pressure and when to "release" so that the kids will just accept/adapt to it accordingly with open heart. That's what I think.

So now, XJ loves to hold his milk bottle without mama carrying him on my lap because he wants to have milk while watching his favorite Mickey Mouse Club House & Friends!

He is enjoying the cartoon, please do not disturb!

Drive Without A License

This driver has no valid driving license!

Do you have a "driving-baby" at home? My boy loves to imitate what we normally do, the most common few are cough with hand covered the mouth, wave hands, snap fingers, etc. Anyway, this is very normal among kids so we parents must be always watched out ourselves for not doing something unpleasant fearing the little ones will follow! At night, my hubby loves to play the racing games. My boy getting more interested recently or I'll say that both my boys are hooked on it! XJ likes playing with papa's steering by turning left & right. Sometimes quite rough 'til papa feels a little heartache because the entire steering set + paddle costs a few hundreds. He always wanted to climb up the chair and turn. Papa really surrendered & have to get XJ a steering toy set. For your information, XJ still prefer papa's one!

This steering is belongs to XJ. It's quite interesting too with different sounds and flashing but it never got him to sit & play for more than 10 minutes!

What Scared Me?

That's when XJ was 7 months old during CNY, the "cool fever" didn't cool him down

I'm not scared of dark or pain and I'm not worry for being alone nor terrific heavy workloads... What's mattered me the most is when time the little guy has fever. That's the most difficult thing to handle! I'm lucky that he is a healthy little guy and quite tough too. So far he had fever once touched about 38.6-38.8 degree at the highest.(touch woodx10) That was during the 6th day of CNY. (actually started a day before but the fever was within 37 degree, went to Assunta Hospital but the medicine were not effective) The Pead clinic where XJ has his routine vaccinations was still closed for holiday and same to other Pead clinics. Without further delay, we brought him to see doc at Pantai Medical Center, Bangsar at the emergency ('coz it's late night). Good was he needn't admit to hospital. He was still very bouncy like usual and smiled to the doc. But the drama started when we got back home. He was extremely cranky, threw tantrum 100x more than usual :-( Cried 'til he threw out the milk he drank earlier and cried some more... that means the medicine which mixed with milk also came out from the stomach, really headache and needed to clean up the mess too... You know the CNY mood was suddenly all spoilt and I just wanted my little baby to get well soon.

He Grows Up Fast...

Now I'm totally agreed with the people who told me once that "you just gotta enjoy when your son is still a baby..." for numerous reasons. We had his one year old birthday celebration early last month but he seems grown up a lot more faster after that both mentally and physically! We couldn't "control" him much now because he tends to be very firm on his "decision". For example, he wanted to hold the Lipton Lemon Green Tea plastic bottle when I took it out from the fridge, just prepared to pour into my mouth, he saw it & shouted non-stop... He wanted to touch & hold the bottle (he loves to touch cold things) which means he will grab that for quite some while & won't let me drink. I never let this little guy do whatever he likes or he may think whatever he does are just alright next time. But when I don't give him, he will shout 'til I lost my patient and surrender finally... Kids have their own mind so early, is that good (their brain is on duty any second) or bad (to the parents who could hardly tame them)???

I missed his "salivating" kisses. This one taken during Mother's Day in May earlier. He's been very good boy to kiss me whenever I asked for, he will never turn down my request. It's a different story now!

That's precious!

Oh this one is precious because this was the first and the only pic I managed to snap when I finally saw the pearly white erupted from the stubborn gum of my little monster about 1 month plus ago! He never like to let me touch his lips but I always love to disturb him. So one day, I saw something I longed for were finally there and I used my one hand to carry the camera while the other hand to do that as shown in the pic. You can see the little guy's facial expression, he was so reluctant... and he wanted to bite me too!

I think it's very important to witness a kid's growth and developments or you may be regretted if you've missed it and you find he or she is grown up in a blink of eye. My ex-coll rang me the other day to chat about family affair and kids stuff. She said that she felt guilty for not taking care of her own kid (with her personal reasons) eventhough she works at home. Well, my opinion offered to her is the quantity of time is not as vital as the quality time spent with the little one. And we must accomplish our responsibility at the best of us at time and stay focus because the opportunity may just passed through, that's a waste.

It was like just last night I cuddle him, a small baby but he is a little destroyer today!

I'm actually a fruits mania I shall call myself because I love eating most of the fruits since small girl. I think this is most probably because we were "trained" to eat fruits by parents after dinner every night when we were still small kids. So both my parents are fruits lover too! But I have a slight phobia on durian because there was one incident where I developed into fever after I ate too much of it I guess... So it's time for me to introduce fruits to my baby now. First I started with kiwi because it's soft so it's easier for him. I chose Zepri Gold which is golden yellow color inside and it tastes much sweeter than the original green one. You know little XJ blinks his eyes like telling me it's sour! Probably because it's the first time he is exposed to this citrus fruit and give some weird feeling for him. But when I let him try apple which is absolutely sweet, he still blinks his eyes?!...

~ Kiwi in the basket ~

Greeting From My Baby

Yeah there are a lot I didn't update about my pregnancy, my labour and my baby but these are all done in my other blog and you may hop over there to read if you love to. Since I started my own domain, I guess I have been leaving this blog stagnant for such a long time and to get back my readers here is really not an easy job though... Anyway, I'll try to "contact" most of you as an effort to treasure our friendship while making some more new friends!

Here's my Baby XJ, he has just reached 2 months old 2 days ago. But I find he looks much mature than his actual age, agree?... He is a playful boy, he smiles at us when we "chat" with him. He doesn't like to staying alone in the bouncer, sure he will shout for companion. His smile is melting our heart but sometimes he is not very "co-operative" and go cranky when he is hungry + very sleepy then he will cry out loudly!... Ok, this is just some little update and I'll bring baby to visit Paed today for his 2nd month vaccination. Ciao!