HAPPY FATHER'S DAY PAPATAN! This is the first year you are celebrating Father's day and i hope you are enjoying the festive as much as we do. We hope that we are the best present in your life and we want to tell you that you are the BEST! in the TAN family~~~
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Have been asking in the BLW group on what should i prepare for baby Morris and some of them suggested cooking Pasta for him. It was said that baby are able to gum on the cooked pasta and subsequently eat it up. It is also a good way to train their motor skill but do prepare for the mess!
Found this simple Bolognese recipe from online and did some changes to it as i am not suppose to cook beef in the house. I have never try making my own sauce for the pasta since there are so many ready available ones in the supermarket but since it is for Morris, i decided to give it a try. Ami 姨姨 came by to GrandmaKwan house as she is suppose to collect some babywraps. And here she came with Kellen! While i was at work, Ami forwarded these images to me which really makes me feel sooooooo jealous of missing out such awesome moment.
Looking at the photos make me feel really cute and that our babies are growing way too fast! The last time we met was even before i delivered. That makes it more than 6 months ago! And yeap, we are definitely going to arrange more gathering for you morris! Morris is approaching his 6 months milestone in a couple of days and i have been researching on the various possibilities to start solid or even, self feeding. Went past the organic shop in HBF centre and decided to take of the 台湾米饼 sample for him to try. Took me a week to monitor if he is ready before i offer the biscuit to him. This rice biscuit is recommended by Pearllyn as she mentioned that it is organic, tasty and melts in mouth. Good for a start as an introduction to solid kind of food. I like it that it is prepack ready in a single packet, easy to bring around. A good sign from him where he seems eager for solids. Took the biscuit with his hands and slow started by licking it then move on to sucking and biting it with his gum gum. I was a little skeptical that the biscuit will cause abrasion to his gums but looking at the rate it melts, i know i worry too much. Other than the part where the bites get tooo small, i will remove them from him in case he is to gag. After he is done from the 1st piece, he actually cries for more. Haha! Let's hope he is going to love all those puree that i am going to make for him. Excited! Well! MamaTan has a confession to make which is that she is pretty much poisoned by the swap group and have purchase QUITE A NUMBER OF WRAPS to babywear my little terror! Apparently he loves to be wrapped in comparison to my Manduca SSC! He enjoys looking around like one of the kaypoh kia and he will look till he is tired before resting on my chest for the day!
Hello little precious, i have a sudden thought and feel like writing to you what are your common behaviors at this stage in life! You are currently 3 months old and now, you are at the stage of babbling while making different sounds. Sometimes, you sounded like you are whining over a lot of things that we don't know about. Sometimes, you have your mouth open in a "oo" manner where you seek for our attention. You have also developed your self-soothed methods by putting your fists or fingers into your mouth. Chuk Chuk Chuk out loudly is what you usually enjoys doing which unfortunately your GrandmaTan doesn't like it and ALWAYS try to remove your hand from doing so despite numerous reminders by me. On the other hand, GrandmaKwan and I feel that to develop your self-soothe technique is important and we believe that it will wean off on it own when you are a bigger boy. :) You enjoys milk milk as you always love drinking more and growing bigger day by day. Sometimes, the amount you drank, shocks both of us. We have no explanation for your sudden action and we had to say it is called growth spurt. In additional, you enjoys pooping while eating. I guess somehow this happens because you are more relaxed and ready to poo poo. Oh ya, and your sudden urge for snacker after your poo poo! While you are cranky and grumpy, you do not allow any of your caregiver to sit down while hugging you. This is how demanding you are! You have also learned many interesting expressions, one in particular where you want us to hug you badly. Tell me how adorable you are yea! Found this article that i feel, let me understand you a little better!
Happy 3 month baby! You are getting very active these days. Thank you grandmaKwan for agreeing to babysit Morris. We are all hoping for the best for babyTan! :)
Time passed really quickly and Morris is almost 3 months old. Seeing him growing up day by day from newborn who is only able to cry to express himself to one who slowly begin to be able to see the surrounding and response accordingly. This is one good example that my boy starts to know how to smile while you smiled at him. He starts to know that we are playing with him and he will smile with joy. I will call it a new skill learned!
At the same time, he begin to explore his sense of touch. He begins lifting his hand and started putting them into his mouth. Eating and sucking it loudly as if it is a tasty drumstick of his. It is also unstoppable unless one is willing to eat pacifier which is obviously not the case for Morris since he rejected the FOC AVENT pacifier (which is good and bad!). He started recognizing the difference between day and night since about a month plus as it is clearly differentiable from his length of sleep. What we have done to differentiate the day and night is by:
Was using an online date calculator to check when is Morris's 100th days as we are intending to hold a simple celebration for him. Understand from the traditions that 100th days is worth celebrating as it is said that baby fetal stage is high within 100 days. If baby survive upon and beyond 100 days, it is said that he/she will grow up well, 所谓长大成人. Who knows that the date derived falls exactly on my birthday! It means double celebration! We decide to hold a simple celebration by preparing some food and let him have a tasting ceremony. Understand from some friends to also prepare marie biscuit and hang them over his neck.
So exciting to be seeing our little terror growing up well! He is officially 6 kg now and yet to be 3 months old. Happy total breast milk fed baby and i hope i can support him for as long as possible. Baby Morris is turning 3 months soon and that also means that it is almost time that my Maternity leave comes to an end. I guess it is rather common for mommies to have this separation anxiety piling up when the time gets nearer. Unfortunately with the high living standards in Singapore, mamaTan has to work. This means that we will have to look at potential babysitting alternatives for our little terror once i am back to work. We researched and discussed while coming upon the few choices: 1. Enrol into infant care centre. In fact, we have been to the Jalan Sultan's myfirstskool which mamaTan wasn't really impressed by the environment there with: - common shared room with toddlers (in view of room availability) - common shared cot for infant under 6 months - toys are everywhere on the floor and the teachers appeared way too busy with ratio 1:5 (understand from president that the government's standard is 1:5 although they trying for 1:3) Fee: Range around $600-$1000 after working mom's subsidy. Concerns: Recent HFMD outbreak is last Dec 2014 which makes mamaTan really uncomfortable about it. 2. Consider engaging professional nanny service. That means we are expecting a 1:1 ratio where we will send little terror to the nanny's place for babysitting. Have been hearing from papaTan saying that his colleagues have engaged nanny and there are lesser worries for HFMD and illness spreading since there are minimal interaction with other kids. Fee: Range around $600-$900 depending on number of hours, solid food or not and certified early childhood professionals. 3. Request grandmaKwan to quit her job while we pay her what we ought to pay ifc and have her to take care of morris. This means that we will need to ferry little terror from home to bedok and back on a daily basis which may cause inconvenience for papaTan. Having grandmaKwan to take care also means that there are chance where morris will be spoilt by her. Lets hope this can be finalized soon so that i can shift my focus to my career for a moment and hoping everything runs smoothly. P.S: GrandmaKwan agrees to quit her job and help us to babysit Morris. We will be fetching him over and back on a daily basis. :)
After so many people have been telling me that my little terror looks exactly like papaTan since Morris's arrival. I have been living in the denial hoping that he will slowly develop some of the features of mine but instead, he grew more like his dad as the days goes by. I decided to face the music to do the photocopy face of the father and son. It is definitely 100% affirmative they go out together, EVERYONE will know that boy he is carrying is his son. Just take a look at PapaTan's childhood photo and the recent photo Morris has taken. The face shape, nose and the eyes are so look alike.
I am honestly jealous about it. Hello! i am Morris and i am my mommy's little helper!
This cute little romper was given as a gift from my elder brother to Morris and he looks extremely adorable in them. While we bring him out to Vivocity, he stole plenty of attention from others. I am pretty sure that he will grow up to be a charming man! TSKTSK, i am very bias! :D Merry Chrismas to all and have a blessed day ahead. Celebrate with the close ones and let the ho ho ho season begins.. |
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