Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Head & shoulders, knees & toes
He's got a fascination with body parts I reckon, not in that horrible macabre way like serial killers are, or models, but he loves grabbing and gripping my fingers, stroking my arm, holding my hand so he can fall asleep.
And when he's awake, he'll spy my toe and try to gum it, spy my elbow and try to gum it, spy my chin and try to gum it.
Maybe he thinks they're just really big versions of the veggie rusks he likes chewing on.
I'd like to think he just loves his mama very, very much.
And when he's awake, he'll spy my toe and try to gum it, spy my elbow and try to gum it, spy my chin and try to gum it.
Maybe he thinks they're just really big versions of the veggie rusks he likes chewing on.
I'd like to think he just loves his mama very, very much.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ooh forgot to mention about our trip to Sydney!
Here're some highlights:
1. Coughed my way through the trip with a cold. Especially in the rain. Gagh.
2. Ate at Billy Kwong's (delish!) for dinner and Marigold (delish!) for yum cha.
3. Bought my hoodie and found Emu Oil for Aidan!
The latter's really important... Aidan's eczema's really bad, and all the creams and lotions and steroids (yes! steroids! he's been put on cortisone cream) don't seem to be working too well. A doctor friend who's a dermatologist suggested emu oil 'coz a lot of her patients have anecdotally mentioned it's worked really well for them. We shall see...they've a money-back guarantee anyways.
Here're some highlights:
1. Coughed my way through the trip with a cold. Especially in the rain. Gagh.
2. Ate at Billy Kwong's (delish!) for dinner and Marigold (delish!) for yum cha.
3. Bought my hoodie and found Emu Oil for Aidan!
The latter's really important... Aidan's eczema's really bad, and all the creams and lotions and steroids (yes! steroids! he's been put on cortisone cream) don't seem to be working too well. A doctor friend who's a dermatologist suggested emu oil 'coz a lot of her patients have anecdotally mentioned it's worked really well for them. We shall see...they've a money-back guarantee anyways.
Mobiles and mobility
The day has finally arrived. Or rather, is in the midst of arriving. Aidan's starting to crawl! And he's getting quicker by the day.
He can do this leopard-crawl/squirm thing with his body, and uses the function of his well-defined toes to inch his way to wherever his target is. And it's usually the shiny metal leg of the dining chair.
Man, what upper-body strength! If I had half that much strength, I'd be, well, erm, fitter. But he can hoist his ENTIRE body up using just his arms in order to gum the chair leg! His butt actually lifts off the ground! Picture a koala perched on a eucalyptus tree, and there you have it.
It's just the most adorable thing to watch. I'll sit some distance away from him, and dangle his favourite ball or a set of jangly keys and coax him to make his way over to me. He starts up sitting, then lunges forward so his hands are on the floor, flattens his body and starts wriggling side to side. He'll twist and turn and push forward with the tips of his toes until he eventually reaches me. That is if he doesn't get distracted halfway by another shiny object of course. By, hurrah, he's here!!! Woohoo, what a smart strong boy! Wait till he starts crawling properly, then he'll REALLY be a headache. Gotta get me those stair-gates so he doesn't tumble down.
Thing is, with him being so mobile now, I've to keep rescuing objects from his slobber...like wires, remote controls and mobile phones. SIGH! A "NO! Aidan. NO CHEWING ON WIRES!!!" gets greeted with a silly grin. As if he were saying, "Aww shucks mum, I know you said no chewing on wires, but look at me, I'm too cute to really listen to you 'coz I know you'll let me get away with it won't you...won't you?"
"And I know you said that mobile phones and remote controls aren't safe for me to nibble on, but hey, I'm a tough little bugger and isn't it more fun when the TV channels keep changing randomly while you're watching it anyway? Teeheehee..."
Growl. He knows it. Wait till a small thwack lands on his chubby little thigh! (Altho, having tried it once, I've concluded his skin's too thick to feel anything 'coz he just blinks at me and carries on...) Anyhoo! I should take a video and post it up (Sidenote: reason why I haven't been posting video is 'coz my camera takes really huge files and I can't upload it on blogger or youtube! Humph. So I have all these great videos for you guys to see... it's just sitting in my camera. Boo...)
In other news, we saw the Maternal health nurse today, and it seems Aidan's a little under is projected weight for his age. She says it's normal with kids his age being active and all (and he is VERY active), but I realise he can and should be eating a lot more solids than he is right now (which is about 1-2 teaspoons of pureed veggies). So I'm upping his intake and just now I gave him 2 serves of his usual carrot...which he took forever to finish but he did eventually. So I'm supposed to add to his diet some meat too (like shredded chicken), and maybe some rice porridge (chok) with fish. He likes drinking from his sippy cup which is great! Bypassed the spout lid, and went straight for the curved sippy lid. Cutey patootie!
We got ours from Stevie-boy, who works at Heinz and gets stuff cheap from the Heinz mart! He gave us this plus the weaning-bowl set Aidan has - so sweet! Only thing is, the Heinz mart sells them in just one colour...so my boy uses a pink and purple tumbler and bowl & spoon. Hey, he has no issues, I repeat, no issues with it okay! Boys can like pink - think (urgh, hate this overused term) metrosexual! We are raging against the matriarchal machine that dictates women dominate the pastel-colour market. We are raging against the patriarchal hegemony that says boys who like pink are effeminate and hence weak pansies. We defy the monolith that is today's socio-cultural influence over our lives!!
Ok lah, you got me. It's free, so we keep.
He can do this leopard-crawl/squirm thing with his body, and uses the function of his well-defined toes to inch his way to wherever his target is. And it's usually the shiny metal leg of the dining chair.
Man, what upper-body strength! If I had half that much strength, I'd be, well, erm, fitter. But he can hoist his ENTIRE body up using just his arms in order to gum the chair leg! His butt actually lifts off the ground! Picture a koala perched on a eucalyptus tree, and there you have it.
It's just the most adorable thing to watch. I'll sit some distance away from him, and dangle his favourite ball or a set of jangly keys and coax him to make his way over to me. He starts up sitting, then lunges forward so his hands are on the floor, flattens his body and starts wriggling side to side. He'll twist and turn and push forward with the tips of his toes until he eventually reaches me. That is if he doesn't get distracted halfway by another shiny object of course. By, hurrah, he's here!!! Woohoo, what a smart strong boy! Wait till he starts crawling properly, then he'll REALLY be a headache. Gotta get me those stair-gates so he doesn't tumble down.
Thing is, with him being so mobile now, I've to keep rescuing objects from his slobber...like wires, remote controls and mobile phones. SIGH! A "NO! Aidan. NO CHEWING ON WIRES!!!" gets greeted with a silly grin. As if he were saying, "Aww shucks mum, I know you said no chewing on wires, but look at me, I'm too cute to really listen to you 'coz I know you'll let me get away with it won't you...won't you?"
"And I know you said that mobile phones and remote controls aren't safe for me to nibble on, but hey, I'm a tough little bugger and isn't it more fun when the TV channels keep changing randomly while you're watching it anyway? Teeheehee..."
Growl. He knows it. Wait till a small thwack lands on his chubby little thigh! (Altho, having tried it once, I've concluded his skin's too thick to feel anything 'coz he just blinks at me and carries on...) Anyhoo! I should take a video and post it up (Sidenote: reason why I haven't been posting video is 'coz my camera takes really huge files and I can't upload it on blogger or youtube! Humph. So I have all these great videos for you guys to see... it's just sitting in my camera. Boo...)
In other news, we saw the Maternal health nurse today, and it seems Aidan's a little under is projected weight for his age. She says it's normal with kids his age being active and all (and he is VERY active), but I realise he can and should be eating a lot more solids than he is right now (which is about 1-2 teaspoons of pureed veggies). So I'm upping his intake and just now I gave him 2 serves of his usual carrot...which he took forever to finish but he did eventually. So I'm supposed to add to his diet some meat too (like shredded chicken), and maybe some rice porridge (chok) with fish. He likes drinking from his sippy cup which is great! Bypassed the spout lid, and went straight for the curved sippy lid. Cutey patootie!
We got ours from Stevie-boy, who works at Heinz and gets stuff cheap from the Heinz mart! He gave us this plus the weaning-bowl set Aidan has - so sweet! Only thing is, the Heinz mart sells them in just one colour...so my boy uses a pink and purple tumbler and bowl & spoon. Hey, he has no issues, I repeat, no issues with it okay! Boys can like pink - think (urgh, hate this overused term) metrosexual! We are raging against the matriarchal machine that dictates women dominate the pastel-colour market. We are raging against the patriarchal hegemony that says boys who like pink are effeminate and hence weak pansies. We defy the monolith that is today's socio-cultural influence over our lives!!
Ok lah, you got me. It's free, so we keep.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
7 months and counting!
Booo.... I think I've caught someone's cough 'coz I'm feeling scratchy in the throat and my head hurts a little. It's a combination of tiredness (not to do with Aidan this time - I've been really engrossed with a book I'm reading and have sacrificed sleep to follow it's compelling story), and dehydration. I'm guessing at least.
Yesterday, Aidan was running a temperature - about 38.1 degrees. Worried me a fair bit, but for a kid who has a fever, he's pretty alert and bouncy! Kinda reminds me of the time my brother had a fever - 40 degrees! - when he was about 2 years old. He was hospitalised, but my mum said he was jumping up and down holding onto the edge of the cot. What a trooper; maybe Aidan's inherited the Wong family resilience. I have to say, all of us growing up hardly ever fell sick. Praise God for good health!
That said, I do hope I recover soon...praying for healing. Hack gack cough wheeze... I really wanna recover before our weekend trip to Sydney for our anniversary! EG arranged it - with Shawn and Wency who're going too - so I'm really looking forward to it!
ANYHOO! Baby Aidan's turned 7 months today! He's growing so quickly...wow can't believe time's passed so fast! Happy 7 months bubba! Love you heaps you adorable you.
Yesterday, Aidan was running a temperature - about 38.1 degrees. Worried me a fair bit, but for a kid who has a fever, he's pretty alert and bouncy! Kinda reminds me of the time my brother had a fever - 40 degrees! - when he was about 2 years old. He was hospitalised, but my mum said he was jumping up and down holding onto the edge of the cot. What a trooper; maybe Aidan's inherited the Wong family resilience. I have to say, all of us growing up hardly ever fell sick. Praise God for good health!
That said, I do hope I recover soon...praying for healing. Hack gack cough wheeze... I really wanna recover before our weekend trip to Sydney for our anniversary! EG arranged it - with Shawn and Wency who're going too - so I'm really looking forward to it!
ANYHOO! Baby Aidan's turned 7 months today! He's growing so quickly...wow can't believe time's passed so fast! Happy 7 months bubba! Love you heaps you adorable you.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Food glorious food
So, we've just started on avocado, and had carrots last week, and he seems to really like it!
Thing is, I also think it's what accounts for his lethal, and I mean LETHAL farts.
Man, if there's one thing he's inherited from me, it's that (haha)!
Here I am, just watching TV with him by my side, or cuddling him in bed. And pwhooh suddenly there's a pong in the air. And it stinks!
"Baby! Is that you?!"
And like any other farter, he grins to let me know he's pretty proud of it.
Oh yeah, it's our 3rd anniversary today!
Thing is, I also think it's what accounts for his lethal, and I mean LETHAL farts.
Man, if there's one thing he's inherited from me, it's that (haha)!
Here I am, just watching TV with him by my side, or cuddling him in bed. And pwhooh suddenly there's a pong in the air. And it stinks!
"Baby! Is that you?!"
And like any other farter, he grins to let me know he's pretty proud of it.
Oh yeah, it's our 3rd anniversary today!
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