last day of 2008

last day of 2008, yu ze decides to hold his own bottle, not to long though. he had been trying to hold his own bottle for quite some time liao. we will let go of our hands and let him hold the bottle whenever he try to hold. but he will let go of the bottle when we let go.

today, he wake up feeling warm. he is not having a fever just has a warm body. due to the temperature, he refuse to drink milk. babysitter try feeding him every half an hour and he only drink 1 oz and keep fussing. then she starts feeding him with gripe water mixed with lots of water. only then he drinks a lot and starts to pee a lot too. this way, it helps to bring down his body temperature and by noon he is ok liao. he starts to feel hungry and drinks his milk. cos he is hungry, he hold his own bottle and drinking away.

so in the evening when he is back home, he also hold his own bottle. not for very long but its long enough for me to get the camera to take photo. heheh... going to start training him to hold his own bottle liao

its christmas!!!

yu ze's first christmas, he got lots of new toys and we brought him to see christmas lightings too. although he won't be able to remember anything but at least must take some picture to show him when he grow up. 

babies christmas party

we had a christmas party for the august babies at one of the mummy's place in the afternoon. she is very nice to offer her place for the mummies and babies to have an enjoyable christmas party. we had gift exchange for the babies. all babies get to see their friends and interact with one another.

 

 

darling send us there but didn't join us. mummies that i had not met, can recognise me by looking at yu ze. i didn't know yu ze is so 'popular', mummies can come up to me at the void deck and say this must be yu ze and you are celyn. heheh..... for mummies that we are meeting for the first time, we are able to recognise each other by looking at the baby.

 

 

i think its nice to have such gathering for the babies and mummies too. now we can put nick to faces when we chat in forum. i think there might be another one coming up for chinese new year.

mattel warehouse sale

we went to mattel warehouse sale twice. once on 5 dec and the second time today. got 4 items on the 5 but 2 of them was given away so left 2 for yu ze. then on the 11, we went again and got another 2 toys for him.  

 

after looking at what other mummies loot from the sale, i have learn something. for future sale, i must go on the first day and early in the morning to get goodies. they manage to get all the toys that i had in mind to get and i got none of them.

yu ze's room

 

are the alphabets on the wall very familiar? i did them when i'm still pregnant. it was only now that i have the time to put them up on the wall. we also got him a little bookshelves for his books. yu ze's room is very simple, nothing fancy.

 

yummy drumstick

yu ze is 4 months liao. traditionally he can starts on solid from today. however, we will only start him after 6 months. we did a little open ceremony for him. we give him a drum stick to lick. he is enjoying the drumstick.

heheh... sorry, baby this is the only time you get to taste it for now. you will get to start eating solid food only after 6 months, so 2 more months ok. please be patient.

he is able to lay down and play on his own now, giving us some free time to do our own work. having the short 30 minutes to 1 hours to ourselves is really good. he starts to recognise us and the environment now liao. sometimes he will cry very badly if we are out of his sight. he too will feel insecure and if he is in an unfamiliar place and we are not within his sight. we brought him to fil's place and he start crying when he didn't see me. once i carry him, he is ok liao. it feel so great that i'm so wanted by him.

bumper mat

cheapo mummy finally got a bumper mat for yu ze. i have been eyeing on this for the longest time. i just find it too expensive for a mat. also i don't get to see and touch the mat so was so scare that after i spend so much, its going to be a white elephant. there are 2 brands for it, parklon and lg prime. the price difference between these 2 is great and can't really tell what is the major different. thus, i keep pushing the idea back. 

i finally get to see the actual product when i went for the august babies gathering. that mummy told me she had the mat for 3 years already and its actually her best buy. hers is the parklon brand one. i was impressed cos after 3 years, the colour still look so bright and good. i'm convince liao, i want to get one for yu ze even if darling objects. 

i finally placed order for the parklon yellow bear. i got darling to pay for it. hahahah..... i told him its a good mat and yu ze loves it. :P i'm so glad that he didn't fuss at all when i put him there. he actually likes laying there and play on his own. maybe cos we are just around him or some where near, at least he is not alone. he likes to have company and don't like to be alone.

review after uti

we went back to kk for yu ze's first review after being discharged for uti. he had an ultrascan on his kidney and bladder. they are growing well, no sign or deform or abnormal. so this is a good news. i ask if he can stop his antibiotic but was rejected. the antibiotic is to clean up or kill any possible bacteria in his urine in his uterus. in case there is any back flow of urine, it will be free from bacteria or contain less bacteria that could harm the kidney. so he still need to continue to take his antibiotic till march where another test will be conducted.

today's scan only tell us that his kidney and bladder are growing well but doesn't tell us if there is any backflow of urine into his kidney which could be the cause of his uti. therefore in march, they are going to insert some colour dye into him then do a scan to see the flow of his urine. if his urine flow is normal, the previous uti is just an isolated case. if there is a backflow of urine, then they need to see how serious is the backflow. if its very serious, there might do a little operation on him or he may have to take antibiotic till he is 6 years old. however, looking at him physically, the doc say it should be an isolated case of uti or even if there is really a back flow its not a serious one. she told us for babies who really have back flow problem will be sickly and not as active as yu ze. 

for now we just need to make sure he take his antibiotic every night and he don't develop a fever.