Monday, October 22, 2012

Picky eater

My little picky eater is so difficult to feed :(

Baby led weaning isn't going very well and I'm too tired to clear up his mess. The stuff that he can eat on his own are baby biscuits (rice only), small puffs, bread and apples. Yup, he loves apples so much!

I've been giving him porridge cooked with a combination of 2-3 vegetables like broccoli, carrots, pumpkins, sweet corns, asparagus, spinach and cauliflower. Sometimes, I add red dates for sweet taste.

Today, I tried out a new recipe and fed him tomato pasta. He seems to enjoy the new taste and ate more than he usually would. So breakfast is tomato pasta, lunch is porridge and bread with olive spread and sugar, and dinner is porridge again. And some bites of apple coz he snatched it from me and ate it.

Tomato pasta
tomato ketchup
tomato puree
a little bit of sugar
a little bit of cinnamon
boiled hot water
add in cooked pasta
add in chopped and cooked broccoli 

Olive Bread
softmeal bread
olive spread and sprinkle a little bit of brown sugar
cut bread into small square pieces
(I would love to get some cute shapes cookie cutter to cut the bread.)

Porridge
chopped pumpkin, asparagus, and baby corns
red dates for sweet taste
brown rice
cook with slow cooker until rice is ready to be eaten

Tomorrow, I'll be making this:

Star Pasta
cook star shaped pasta
cook chopped brocolli and mushrooms
stir in Heinz salad cream

Hope baby will like it. Will be making the olive bread for him again as breakfast.

Feeding a picky baby requires lots of creativity and brain power from mummy!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

All about words

Baby can say some words and recognize names of things now.

He learnt that star shaped things are called "star" so he point to them when I ask him "where is star?" and he will also crawl excitedly to star shaped patterns and tell me "Tar!"

He also know that apples are called "apple" when I take one whole red apple to let him hold and explore. Then I scrap and feed some of the sweet juicy apples to him! He can point to an orange instead of an apple when I ask him "Where is orange?" but he calls all round and reddish fruits "Per".

His first word of all is actually "bah" for bus. One fine day, he goes around saying "bah" the whole day and we realized that he was pointing to passing by buses and pictures of buses on posters and books and saying "bah!". Now he is starting to call daddy "bah bah" too.

And after that, he also call "bear" and "bird" by modifying the "bah" sound a little bit.

He points to cars when I ask where is car? And he calls cars "Tar", same as stars.

He can say bubbles as "ber ber" now when I blow bubbles and tell him they are bubbles.

One day, he spends the whole day making growling noises and we don't know why he's doing that until I help him put on a pair of socks with a lion picture on them and he pointed to the lion and said "arhhhhh". Pretty amusing for me!

We showed him a wedding picture of hubby and I as bride and groom and grandparents, and my sisters. When asked "Where is papa? Where is ah gong (grandpa)? Where is ah mah (grandma)? Where is yi yi (my sister)? Where is xiao yi (youngest sister)" he got them all right! He pointed to the correct person in the picture. When asked "where is mummy?" he pointed to me instead of myself in the picture. Lol! Perhaps when mummy puts on make up she looks different?

He learnt names of facial features in mandarin first. He points correctly to 头, 鼻子, 眼睛, 耳朵 but he can't say them.

He also knows how to clap when I ask him to clap and he will raise his arms above his head and wave when I ask him to do taiji.

Here's to document what he can say and know at 12 months :)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

One year old

This day, one year ago, was the day I first held my precious baby in my arms. A life changing event for me. I had grown up so much over the year, having experienced the pain, joy, sadness, heartache, exhilaration, and excitement that comes with motherhood. During the first 6 months, I really wanted to call it quit and I couldn't comprehend why anyone would want to have a baby just to torment herself. And now, like all experiences, once one forgets the pain, the sweet memories are all that remains. And I almost believe I'm ready for a number two! But to quote Darryl in "Baby blues", that's "just my ovaries talking" and I should ignore them. Happy birthday, dear baby. Thank you for coming into my life, for making me understand what it is to be a parent, and to truly appreciate and be grateful to my own parents.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

reaching the one year milestone

Kieran is coming to one year old in a week's time!
What are baby Kieran's milestones reached?

  1. has 4 front teeth, 2 upper and 2 lower. Really sharp!
  2. can crawl on all fours
  3. pull to stand up
  4. walk a little with support of the wall
  5. can crawl up and down the bed and coffee table
  6. recognise and try to say names of bus, car, star, ball, and today, I swore I heard him say "ah per" when I scrap bits of it to feed him! He points to the picture of bird, bear, and star accurately when we requested. He also roars "arghhhhh!" when he sees picture of a lion!
  7. recognise his head, nose, eyes, mouth, ears. Points to them when we ask him to.
  8. can flip a book, although not very well
  9. likes to interact with people, a natural magnet to people, even strangers on public transport
  10. can feed himself with hands

That's all I can think of now... Its amazing how fast baby grows up!

I'm proud to say that he's still having breastmilk and no milk supplements at all now!

I was away for the past few days and I missed baby so much! That was the first time I couldn't nurse baby at night for one night. Hubby said whenever he brought baby to our bedroom, and baby saw the bed, he made a really sad face and started to sob. He pointed outside, to ask hubby to bring him outside and pointed to several rooms so that hubby can bring him in "to look for mummy". When he couldn't find me after searching everywhere, he started fussing and was really sad. Hubby had to bring him downstairs to distract him and walked around carrying him until he was tired and fell asleep. When I went back, baby smiled sweetly the moment he saw me and started pulling my shirt, requesting for milk shortly after a hug.

Baby is my main motivation, and I enjoy every single moment with him!