My little athelte

I'm a track athlete so introducing Xuanxuan to the track is very important to me. There's a stadium right next to my house so there's really no excuse at all. I rolled her to the track once in a while, to just sit there and watch people run by, or stand on the track for a while, or stand on the grass. She doesn't like to stand on the track, or grass, but she does watch the people run by.

I made it a point to myself not to introduce her to running too early cos if she do get too good too early, she'll be so sick of running by secondary school. Stamina is needed for any sport, so I'll definitely take her jogging, but her daddy plays basketball, soccer, I play touch rugby, her uncles play basketball, volleyball, there's badminton court right below our house, and we swim too, so hopefully she'll be exposed to enough sports to be interested :P:P

She can hold her own bottle!

I was soooooo excited when I saw it at her infant care today! :D:D:D

It was her feeding time, and the teacher put her in her rocker chair and gave her the bottle. She put Xuanxuan's hands on the bottle and my baby just started holding it and feeding herself! :D:D My baby has grown up!

I didn't want to distract her, so I discreetly took this photo from the side. According to her teacher, she has been doing this for a while. She usually falls asleep while drinking, so as she dozes off, the teacher will have to continue to hold the bottle for her, if not she will cry when her bottle drops, cos, well, she fell asleep and couldn't hold on anymore.

I guess at the infant care, with abt 5 teachers to abt 12 babies, the older babies are forced to grow up and learn to be more independent cos the teachers can't possibly be holding the bottle for every single baby. According to the teacher, my Melody sometimes 'roam about' in her cot to find a comfortable spot, and then falls asleep on her own. She also drinks water to sleep sometimes. Hmmmm! Why can't she fall asleep on her own at home then? And she is smart enough to reject plain water everytime I try to feed her some. Hmmmm.

All the same, she has reached another milestone in her life to me :):):)

Driving

Xuan driving a BMW. Not too bad for a first timer! :):)

The cousins!

Notice how Xuanxuan is clinging onto my leg while Xiangxiang sits by the side. She's entered the "stranger anxiety" stage and no one, I mean NO ONE can tear her away from me. We're at my dad's place and he tried to carry her, but she started screaming and clawing her way back to me! She clings onto me almost every single second and lets no one else carry her, except her papa, 2 grannies and granddad (paternal).

"Come on, let's go and play!" "What are you doing? No!" heeheehee

It's interesting that Xiangxiang doesn't have this stragner anxiety, yet? It's a joy watching these 2 babies grow up together and the difference between a girl and a boy.

My little drummer

Mama So is very proud of herself for making her baby a drum out of the milk powder tin! Plus 2 Ribena pencils as the drumsticks! :D Who says baby toys are expensive and a waste of money cos they are outgrown so fast? ;)

Rocker Chair

This is the rocker chair that she sits on/in everyday at the infant care. When she first went there at 2+months, she seem to sink into the chair. She's so tiny! The younger babies who haven't started crawling usually sits in the chair all day long (well except when they fall asleep and the caretakers will "transfer" them to the cot) Now, at 8+months, she still sleeps soundly in the chair :):) I'm seriously considering buying one for my next baby.

Chicken Little

At this moment, Xuanxuan's favourite toy is 小鸡, a wound-up toy that goes "ded-ded-ded-ded-ded-ded" forward and little Melody goes chasing after the little chick every time. It's adorable seeing her shuffle awkwardly on her tummy after the little furry thing.

We let her crawl around quite a lot, though "crawl" is not exacly the correct word to use now. She's doing her army leopard crawl and has just graduated from "propelling" herself backwards to moving forward at least :):) Very soon she will start to crawl!

Playing the guitar

I introduced Xuanxuan to the guitar today. Showed her how to strum and how to pluck. She observed for a while, cos it's something new, then pressed on the strings and I coulnd't play anymore, then banged on the strings and produced, well, some sounds :) She made an attempt to pluck, and I think that her tiny fingers can fit in between the strings just nice :)

Leopard crawl

Xuanxuan has started shuffling on her tummy and I bought her a toy that both bay and adult love-- the little wound up chicken! It induces her to crawl after it, and it's always a joy to watch :):)

Innocence

I think this is a look of eager anticipation, of trust, of innocence. I just love it when she looks at me like that :):)

Biscuits

She can hold her own biscuits! My sis introduced Baby Bites carrot flavoured biscuits to me and I fed some to her before, but I tried propping her up today and wa-laaa! She can actually feed herself! :D:D So I happily let her eat 2 biscuits and took like a hundred photos of her eating them :):)

Bffffffff!

Xuan's been trying to pronounce this impossible word:

Cute Melody

This is Xuan at 7 months, she's starting to crawl on her tummy :):)

It was a time when she can only cheer while doing "back-raisers" :):)

And these are some of my personal favourites:

"Oh?"

"hmmm!"

Gummy smile

I see this term in magazines all the time, and this is a true description of it! :):)

The Thinker

Xuanxuan has a chin dimple just like her dad

And when she looks up like this she looks as though she is in thoughts

Her first turn

She used to just lie flat on my tummy but now she is attempting to turn :):)

*Yawn*

You know how yawning is infectious?

And babies crying always make the mummy in our hearts go "oooohhhhh"

Not ticklish

Ticklish babies are cute cos it's so easy to make them smile. My baby, however, seem to do the exact opposite :):)

Funny sleeping poses

She was parallel to the length of the bed initially.

Little froggie pose!

Hiccups!

Even when she's still in my tummy, she's a very hiccup-y foetus. How do I know when she's having hiccups and not kicking me? Hiccups is light and rythmic for quite a long time. It's cute at first then it got a little irritating :P but now I think it's just cute :):)

1 month +

When xuan is sleeping, she's my sleeping beauty.

When she's awake, she's my little explorer.

Look left

Look right

Look straight and show off my (papa's) chin dimple! :):)

My sleeping beauty

Most of the time she sleeps with her hands up.

Sometimes she sleeps sideways.

Sometimes she sleeps in the little roller chair and this is my favourite :):)

First Injection

Xuanxuan goes to the polyclinic today for her injection. This is my fav photo of her wrapped in her little duckling hooded towel. She didn't cry much, in fact, she just let out a little yelp, and then got distracted. It was the mommy and granny who felt the pinch.

Melody sees her first daylight!

After about 5 hours of labour, my Melody lets out her first cry and started looking around at the strange world around her. She started nursing without fuss and my hubby and I feel like the most blessed people in the world.