One Day Tour to JB

Bro made plans to go in to JB to view a project that he was doing. So Mommy and I tagged along to kpo and also to do some feasting and shopping.

Emo Boy

Because he wants to ko.

Didn't transfer the child seat to bro's car cos we reckon he will refuse to sit on it. Yes…it is dangerous but his cries are terrible max.

Newly built terrace houses at Bukit Indah area. The whole estate is fenced up and it has a guard house with security guards screening all cars that is going in. Kids are able to wander around the estate freely without the parents worrying. 

Happily sitting in the trolley and nearly refused to get out.

Splashing Saturday

Finally had the chance to bring the kids out for a swim to enjoy water activity. So interesting to see them in their swim wear.

Excited Ian

Skinny Babe

Monkey Face

Had great fun at the pool with them. No photos taken while they were at the pool because both me and Hub were busy playing with the kids and totally forgot about snapping pictures. Next activity for next weekend will be going to the beach! Yeah!

Record Breaking

Time now is 12am. Ian managed to played till now and finally call it a day! I am hoping that he wakes up at 10am later. Mommy is not an early riser so pls pls don't wake up too early ok…

Boys being boys….Ian is getting very active ever since he is able to walk. Walking around the room, walk and walk. I think he had lost some weight after being so mobile.

Where has my chubby boy gone to? Having the urge to buy Pediasure for him. But Hub don't really favour, citing reasons that the nutrients is not as good as normal formula milk. What and how can I beef up my son??

My Beancurd Supper WIth Ian

Yesterday night my lovely son treated me to a round of his self made beancurd. There were so much till it spilled on me ALL OVER. Thankfully it wasn't hot, just warm.

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Gotcha! And you thought it was the real beancurd right? Haha. It was his vomit, milk that had cured, and it looks like beancurd but the smell is way far off. He merlion again just when I thought his stomach had matured. Poor boy. He regurgitated so much that the whole room was filled with the sour milk stench. The already half way slept Hub jumped out of the bed the moment he heard his son puke. From the amount of beancurd that was splattered all over me, I think it equates to 2 bottles of milk.  At the last bit of his puking drama, he squeezed his eyes and shivered a little. He must have felt really awful.

Sleeping with a comfy tummy now. *Sigh* This was the worst ever regurgitation for the past 13 months. Seriously, what went wrong? 

Ian Starts to Walk

Finally at 13 months, Ian starts to walk a little, with assistance. He still refuses to walk by himself. Nonetheless, it is a good start.

This morning at the market.

Who does he resembles? Some said Hub some said Mommy. Verdict: Ian looks like Mommy. I will tell you why in my next post.

Yes I know there is a bald patch at the side of his head. No…there is no problem with my hair cutting skill. His growth of hair is like that. Anyway, it is time for a haircut soon!

Carefree Kids

Peek a Boo!

Having fun with Birdie and Elmo.

I took the good day from the hands of God as a perfect gift!

When to Change Milk Bottles?

Milk bottles nowadays are mostly BPA free or should I say most things made of plastic are BPA free. BPA stands for Bisphenol-A. How is BPA harmful to us? It has Estrogenic Acitivity which means it mimics the hormone estrogen in our body. Too profound? Alright, BPA is a chemical found in plastics that can behave the similar way how estrogen and hormones in the human body. It can imitate our own body's hormone in a way which could be hardazous to our body. And it is found that babies and young children are especially sensitive to the effects of BPA.

Some parents, I am one of them, will say," We grew up drinking from bottles that were not BPA free and look, we are still looking good." BPA free bottles will cost a little bit more. My philosophy is, if you can afford, why not? Hub will say," If you can just put off buying another Chanel bag, you can buy tons of whatever baby stuff." Make sense right? But Hub say say only la, he never deprive me before. Muahahah. 

According to a sales promoter who sell milk bottles, she advised changing Non BPA Free milk bottles every 3 months and BPA Free bottles every 6 months.

Tommee Tipee Anti Colic Plus Bottles

Frankly, I am a Pigeon user. Jewel uses Pigeon. From bottles to nail scissor. I had initially prepared Pigeon milk bottles for Ian too. But he refused to drink using that bottle. As mentioned earlier in my post, being a colic baby, I decided to try anti colic bottle. Was comparing Dr Brown with Tommee Tippee. In the end, I chose Tommee Tippee as their slogan says, Closer to Nature. After done a fair bit of research, it was said that their teat mimic the natural flex and movement of Mommy's breast. The teat is designed to be like a breast like shape nipple which allows baby to latch on easily and further support the transition between bottle and breasts. That attracted my attention. Ian likes it and I was glad that there wasn't any confusion between  my breasts and the bottle subsequently.

Look carefully at which bottle you are buying. With a Plus sign, it means it is for sensitive tummy . This range of bottles provide optimum venting during feeding via a unique tube and valve system. They also help provide a continual feeding action via an easy latch on nipple. 

Now at 1 year old, he starts to gulp drink faster so the opening of the teat needs to be bigger. Some may use a toothpick to wider it. I use this.

Bought it at Kiddy Palace. It comes with 3 hole sizes. 

OOTD - IAN

Ian's Outfit Of The Day!

It is getting so much fun to play with him now. He understands what I am saying. And he is getting interactive.

However, one thing that stays the same is that he is still a cry baby!!.

Loves and enjoys crying. Even the slightest thing like when I said," No. You cannot do this." Also he will cry. Wake up first thing in the morning is to cry. Despite all these, Mommy still loves you max! Mommy also likes to see you cry la. Hahaha. You look soooooo adorable when you are about to start crying. That hamburger face, cute daoooooo.



Outfit;

Top - Fox Baby
Bottom - Cotton On Kids
Shoes - Crocs

20 Places to Order Kids Birthday Cakes

Ian just celebrated his 1 year old birthday few days back. In case you didn't read my previous blog, I bought Ian's cake at The Icing Room.

Why I chose The Icing Room? Because of all the cake shops that I went to, The Icing Room offers the smallest in size. I didn't hold a birthday bash for Ian, so there wasn't many people around to eat the cake. We still have leftover after that night. 

I believes many parents are excited over their little ones' birthday and wants to source for a pretty and nice birthday cakes for them. Following are the cake shops you may want to take a look, hope it helps on your selection.

1. Pine Garden's Cake
2. The Icing Room
3. Bengawan Solo
4. CherylShuen Designer Cake
5. Oven Creations
6. Haven Bakery
7. Emicakes - They offer eggless cakes
8. Ecreative
9. The Gingerbread House
10. Happy Bakes
11. Glad Cake
12. Room For Dessert
13. Angie The Choice
14. Sweetest Moments
15. Delectable Delites
16. Polar Puff & Cakes - Halal
17. Eatzi Gourmet - Halal
18. The Royals - Halal
19. Secret Recipe - Halal
20. Prima Deli - Halal

Do comment below if you know of any places that offer nice and pretty birthday cakes.

Ian turns One

Yesterday was Ian's 1 year old birthday! We had a birthday dinner with my in laws. Unlike many parents, we didn't hold a birthday bash as me and Hub prefer a low profile celebration.

Birthday cake from The Icing Room

Finally Ian turns one. Expecting Ian wasn't smooth as compared to Jewel. Morning sickness was horrible and I constantly felt bloated. When I reach my 5th month, I was hospitalized due to food poisoning. I was so worried about the little boy in my tummy. Will he get dehydrated inside? Will he experience tummy ache as well?? After I recovered, few months later I had persistent cough. It was so terrible that I had to see a specialist and I was prescribed with STEROID! My jaws dropped wide  opened, a thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible depositism ovet my thoughts. Steroid for a preggie??? Insanity. Doctor assured me that it is fine to take the steroid and that it will not harm my baby in any way. 

When I reached my third trimester, I still felt bloated and couldn't consume much. My tummy was very very low and pointed then. I felt uncomfortable to step out of the house. Many commented this when they saw me,'' Wah, your tummy is so low. Going to deliver soon right?" With a smile, I replied with the same thing every time," Ya…Soon." At night I will have difficulty to find the right position to sleep.  Lying sideway, I will feel the tummy falling so heavily to the side. For sure I can't lie on my back, my spine will break. Neither here nor there. 

At 34 weeks, I lost my mucus plug. I panicked like hell!. I remembered it was in the evening at around 5pm. My gynae clinic had closed for the day and I thought there shouldn't be any major issue. Feeling uneasy at 9pm, Hub brought me to KKH to have a check. Half choked, I was 3cm dilated. 3cm at 34 weeks??? This is crazy. No, I can't have Ian out at this period of time. His lungs are not yet fully developed. The gynae at KKH insisted I get warded and take a jab to stop my cervix from dilating any further. At that moment I had to make a choice. To ward or not? To take the jab or not? Conclusion, I didn't allow the KKH gynae to do anything to me and I left the hospital. The gynae was reluctant to let me go but I insisted. So she got me to sign a letter stating that I left on my own consent and I will not hold KKH liable for anything that was going to happen after I get discharged.

The next day, I hurried to my own gynae clinic. The same, she gave me a jab to stop the cervix from dilating and I was happily on my way home after that. My tummy was getting heavier day by day and I had problem in my mobility. At 36 weeks, I kept telling Ian that he can be out any time. So at 38 weeks, during the weekly checkup, this was how it happened;

Gynae: " How are you today?"

Me: " Good." Casully saying," Haii…Just wondering if I can deliver today…"

Gynae: " Ok…Let me do a check……….Wow. You are 5cm-6cm dilated already! Faster go home and prepare yourself to get admitted to hospital today. I am going to deliver you at 2pm."

Me, feeling astonished," What? I am already dilated so much? Can I wait till next week?"

If possible I would want to deliver Ian on the same date as Jewel.

Gynae:" No. Can't wait any longer unless you want to deliver on the streets."

I bowed submission and went back home. I had a shower and head to Macdonald to have a Mcgirddles meal. Feeling full, I was ready for it! Acting hero again, I didn't have the epidural jab. For the next 1 1/2 hour, I enduredddddddd the worst kind of pain in my life! 

He is out!

Kinda miss the newborn Ian. 

Nonetheless, Happy Birthday my son! Muacks!

My Breastfeeding Agony

Before Ian was on formula milk, he was exclusively on breast milk. I was proud for being a breastfeeding mommy.  For the first four months, he was exclusively latched on. I didn't want to express as I finds it troublesome. From my previous experience I had with Jewel (exclusively on expressed breast milk EBM), expressing is not as effective to build up the supply, inconvenient and lots of washing and sterilizing. Thus, I was very determine for Ian to latch on. The only con I feels about latching on is that Mommy doesn't know the quantity of milk they drank.

During the first two months, Ian yelled for milk at every hour. My nipples nearly fell off! I gritted my teeth at every feeding session. Imagine an open wound being rubbed against with salt at every hour. It was extremely painful. I am not trying to scare off anyone who is planning to breastfeed but it is really excruciating . Nipple cream does helps and I diligently applied on it after every feed. This is the nipple cream that I used, Earth Mama Natural Nipple Butter.

Earth Mama Natural Nipple Butter

It works miracle! It is lanolin free, zero toxin, not sticky and best of all, SAFE FOR BABY. I recommended it to my friend and she had the same review too. Right Janice (if you are reading it)?

Two months of grueling sessions, my nipples got seasoned at the third month. Ian is still pretty demanding. Interval was every two hours and at night, it will be the same or every one and a half hour. 'Huh? Really anot? Then how you sleep?' I was a walking zombie. I didn't have sufficient rest. It was affecting my work. A weary soul, I couldn't see any glimpse of light in the tunnel. My Mommy consoled me, telling me to endure and that things will improve eventually. But when? Nonetheless, I persisted and persevered as I want to provide the most nutritional food to my little one.

After a satisfying feed.

When Ian was ten months old, I had mastitis. It was awful. I had high fever and my body kept shivering. I felt chilly, so cold till my teeth rattled like castanets. It was one of my worst experiences in my life! Finally, I called it an end to breastfeeding. Apart of me felt sad that I couldn't continue however Hub comforted me saying formula milk is fine too.

It is coming to two months since I stopped. I do miss those days when he latched on but not the sleepless nights. As of current, he is only waking up once at night. I hope in time to come, he will be able to sleep through the night!

Loves his smile!

Choosing a Hair Clipper

Thanks for all the compliments for my son. Indeed, it feels assuring and proud whenever a parent gets praises of their children. *Blushing* 

Remember, there is no ugly children, only lazy mommy. 

An example is this;

I bun up Jewel's hair into two and took them off after a couple of hours and this was what it turned out. Look at how auntie looking she is. But just a little styling of her hair…Viola! Transform to her pretty much better looking girl. *trying to be humble*

Alright, back to Ian's haircut. Definitely with a good hairdresser is not enough, you need to be equipped with a good tool, the hair clipper.  Can't possibly use this kind of shaver ya?

Barber Shaver

Many factors came to my mind before deciding which hair clipper to buy. The battery life, suitability for kids, user-friendly, reliability of the brand, maintenance and price. There are many brands in the market that carries electric hair clipper such as, Phillips Hair Clipper, Braun Hair Clipper, Panasonic Hair Clipper etc.

I was confused by the number of models that was displayed in the showcase. Thankfully a nice young sales promoter came up and showed me a few which could address my concerns. He helped me to narrow down between Braun and Philips. 

Braun 

Phillips

In the end Braun triumphed over Phillips for the following factors;

• Shorter charging period

Braun: 1 hour charge for 40 mins usage

Phillips: 8 hours charge for 1 hour usage!!! 

Worst scenaio that could happen;

I can only use Phillips hair clipper once a day, so if Ian is super uncooperative, then he will have to wait till the next day to continue his haircut. *Mommy grasps hair and screams*

• Easy to clean

Braun: The trimmer can be washed under running water

Phillips: Have to use a cleaning brush to sweep the loose hair

The shortest length that Phillips can shave till is to 0.5 mm whereas Braun only up to 1mm. Well, Ian is not going to be a monk so that extra 0.5mm is fine.

One of my best buy

How to do a Haircut for your Kid?

Dreads to cut Ian's hair. I am so afraid I might hurt his scalp and cut his ear. Can you please sit still and let Mommy shave and cut your hair???? Yes, you are right, I am the hairstylist for my son. I cut it to my own liking. Cool isn't it!

I like Ian's hairstyle to be like this. Short and smart looking.

How to shave your kid's hair? I am going to share the process! Let's start!

What you need;

Hair Shaver ( Don't need to be a kid's shaver)
Chair (Bumbo Seat or any high chair)

Powder

Scissor

Comb

3 Assistants

Toys

Steps;

Sprinkle powder on his face, neck and arms generously.

Starts shaving. 

Pass him a toy to play to distract him. He will get bored after awhile so standby more toys to change.

One assistant will be in charge to hold on to your kid, in this case, it is my mother.  The second assistant is to play with him, the daddy. As your kid cannot sit still like a grown up child, you need to be swift and sharp in your moves.

When the two assistants fails to bring in anymore excitement, call upon the 3rd assistant, the sister.

Ta-daaaaa. The haircut is done!

Using the shaver may not be able to reach certain areas like near ear so you will need the scissors together with a comb to trim it. I think Ian is satisfied with the haircut, so is Mommy. 

 It looks similar right? Say yes.

A short clip of the haircut

                                         

What do you think of my skills? Wanna engage me to cut you boy's hair? Free for the 1st 3 readers who pm me! Heehee

Crescent Eyes

Loves it when they smile or laugh heartily. Look at their resemblance. I am grateful and I thank God for their features.