standing soon?

we were putting yu ze to sleep just now. our naughty boy refuse to sleep was turning around in the cot, sitting up in the cot and even trying to stand up in the cot. yes, he is trying to stand up or should i say he had done it. my baby had manage to pull himself up by holding on the his cot. we were to shock to see him doing that. 

ever since, he knows how to sit up from lying position. putting him to bed is never easy. he no longer get to bed before 9pm cos he will be sitting up whenever he don't want to sleep. sometimes, he will sit there and cry for our attention. we try to leave him alone as much as possible or simply walk in to his room and give him his pacifier and walk out again. i don't know what time he really go to bed now. 

now that he can stand up in his cot, putting him to sleep will be even a harder thing to do. he is still a bit shaky when standing up, not stable yet. looking at the way he learn to sit up, he will keep practising this new trick this week. yu ze, you are growing up fast.

valentine

a few weeks back, i ask darling if i will get any valentine's day present. he said yes but when is valentine's day? he didn't know when is valentine's day and i refuse to tell him. then after a while, he very confidently tell me its on 15 february. my answer to him was, well we just wait till then if you got the date wrong, you will just get scolding from me only loh. 

then 3 or 4 days ago, he came to me and said, we stay at home and watch tv on valentine's day ok. so i ask him again when is valentine's day. he told me he confirm its 14 february cos tv told him so. he actually needs the tv ad to tell him when is valentine's day, that is my gong gong darling. 

 



yesterday, darling came back with my valentine's day present. he got me a bouquet of tulips. i'm so happy. i still envy my colleague who got flowers in the office, didn't expect myself to receive it too.

we celebrate valentine's day by bringing yu ze to hort park and actually had mac for dinner. wanted to go the that mickey mouse restaurant at anchorpoint but its closed down when we reach there and the car park is full too. so we turn out and went to mac at king's albert park instead. no romantic dinner. sigh....

yu ze - 6 months

very fast, my little baby is 6 months liao. i wonder where did all the time went to? it doesn't seems like 6 months had past. my baby is no longer a little baby. he can do all these now:

• sit on his own without support
• flipped from back to tummy and tummy to back
• wiggle like a little worm in his cot whenever i put him down to sleep
• puts everything into his mouth
• can self-entertain himself in his cot
• fall asleep on his own when he is tired
• trying to crawl now but still not able to do it
• able to sit up on his own from lying position
• started on solid for him
• chew his food like he has teeth already

looking at the list, my baby is really growing very fast.

chest freezer to the rescue

we finally bought a chest freezer to store breast milk today. i have been nagging darling about our bursting freezer. once or twice a week, we have to play musical chair with bottles and bottles of breast milk. we will transport breast milk from my place to fil's place then from there move to babysitter's place. this had go on for quite a while and we still manage to have some storage space. i had also manage to squeeze another 60 bottles into our own freezer before doing any move.

well, this is not a permanent solution for our storage problem. darling will hear me complaining about no space every 3 to 4 days. one day, darling realise that the tray in the freezer is bend due to the weight of the breast milk. thus, he decided to buy a chest freezer for the breast milk. i search the singapore motherhood forum for a second hand one and manage to see one on sale. however, i'm late. it had been reserved and pending for collection when i contact the seller.

i'm in need of the freezer so much that i call the company in the morning and get them to deliver in the evening. we paid $280 for it and it was delivered at 8pm. finally, my freezer is free from breast milk and i can start buying ice cream to eat.

yu ze - 5 months

at 5 months, yu ze can flip from tummy to back and prefer to flip this way compare to back to tummy. he can sit quite well now. yu ze don't like to lay down and wants to sit up often so he don't want to play with his play gym liao. he likes to bang on things now. he is enjoying the leapfrog activity table and fisherprice rainforest piano. he had also show interest in the food we eat now but we are only going to start him after chinese new year. he starts to recognise people and environment now, he will cry very loud and badly if he is at unfamiliar face and place. boo... boo....

grocery shopping

 

today, we went shopping with my parents at sheng siong. i was carrying yu ze in the beginning cos he was sleeping. when yu ze wakes up, i wanted to try him on the trolley seat but my mum thinks he is too young for it. she told me not to put him there.

but after carrying him for a while, my hands are aching liao. so i decided to try. if he can't sit there or fuss then i will carry him loh. 

so this lazy mummy, put him on the trolley seat. yu ze loves it. once he is seated, he just hold on the handle himself. we afraid that he will let go of his hand and topple over but he didn't. he hold on to it tight and sit very well.

next time, we can put him there whenever we go grocery shopping liao. yeah!!!

tendered

my boss is not in today, she got dental appointment. i had left my resignation letter on her table. since she is not in, she won't be able to see it but i did something very mean. i had email her to inform her about it. i'm very mean hoh to tender the first day of work of 2009. but i don't have a choice leh, if i don't tender today i won't be able to leave by 1 feb. 

hopefully on mon when she is back, the idea of me leaving has already sink in her. don't know if this is a good way to start the year.