Quick statistics:
Weight: 12.6kg
Height: ~88cm
Dietary Habits
He has been sharing all our food except for seafood. He is a rather fussy eater, and loves junk food (eg. chocolate, chips, crackers) and fish balls. We are trying to change his diet to become more like ours, i.e. having bread for breakfast and noodles for lunch. As he still cannot eat much from our plate, we try to let him have at least a full meal of porridge at least once a day.
One thing we have noticed is that he loves fish. However, the fish must be cooked just right. Otherwise, it will risk his rejection!
We have also stopped bringing milk powder on trips. Instead, we will pack a packet of milo or UHT milk into the diaper bag for him to drink when he is hungry. He loves milo and the chocolate UHT milk, and we are going to order one whole carton of milk for him next month as it is a lot cheaper. Ian is also 'outgrowing' the baby biscuit balls and prefers crackers which has more munch.
Speech
His speech is still limited to a few vocabulary. Finally, he has started to call "Mummy", "Daddy", and "Por Por". It is a challenge to make him talk, and now, we are resorting to 'bribery', ie. to make him talk before he gets what he wants. Hopefully, he will become more talkative when he starts childcare.
Motor Development
He has been imitating us:
- talking on the phone
- taking the screwdriver out and pretending to use it
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lego
Since I started to look after Ian full-time, I introduced the lego blocks (passed down from his cousins) to Ian. It took Ian some time to figure out how to join up the little blocks. Now, he spends part of his daily routine playing with these blocks. Whenever he feels like playing with them, he will push out the lego cart. Once he is done with them, he will keep the blocks and push the cart back into his room.
His latest work...
Ian demonstrating how to stack a tower!
His latest work...
Ian demonstrating how to stack a tower!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Cinderella Man
As the old story was told, poor "Cinderella" had been made to clean the floor...
But in this version, our little "Cinderella" had dirtied the floor with the crayons, so he must clean up his own mess. Muahahaha...
But in this version, our little "Cinderella" had dirtied the floor with the crayons, so he must clean up his own mess. Muahahaha...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
A Quilt For Ian - Part I
My first quilt project for Ian. The quilts from my Mom did not have a batting layer so we thought of making a warmer quilt for the air-con room.
During Hubby's leave, we visited Spotlight to get the materials...
During Hubby's leave, we visited Spotlight to get the materials...
A panel fabric that will save me a lot of quilting work. It costs a bomb though - $16+ for one such piece of cloth.
A batting for warmth, and 3m of flannel fabric.
We had contemplated whether to get a quilt off the shelves but seeing that the quilt cover sets were normally pretty costly, we decided to DIY. The 3 pieces of materials burst my budget as they cost well over $80. The batting had no price tag on it so we enquired the staff. Little did we expect that the staff had misinformed us that there was a discount on top of the price she quoted. When we paid, the first shock came as I had thought that the panel fabric was $9.95 (assumed so because another design was at this price). The second shock was the high price of the batting. We bought them anyway because Ian had been super cranky and hubby was super tired tackling him. We just wanted to go home asap. On the way back, we concluded that it was probably cheaper to ship it from overseas.
I was only able to complete the front portion of the quilt before Hubby's leave was abruptly ended. Look out for part II as the story continues...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Back to Our Usual Days
For over the past one week, our family enjoyed some time being together. This was why I had not been on the net most of the time.
Initially, hubby asked if I would like to go for a short trip during his leave as he was afraid that I would be too bored being coped up at home all the time. We dropped this idea after considering that we needed to be thrifty with only one income now, and it was too troublesome to bring Ian along because he was still not able to satisfy a complete meal by eating from our plates.
We had planned quite a few activities to be done during this short break, eg. bringing Ian to swim, to the Sembawang Shopping Centre Splash Park, to the beach to play with sand, to take a family portrait, to rearrange the study room, etc. Out of all these, we only managed to clear the storeroom, rearranged the kitchen with a new shelf from Ikea, brought Ian to the Splash Park, shopped during weekdays at Metro and John Little, had our haircuts, and went for grocery trips on weekday mornings! I also managed to start on a quilt blanket which I had hoped to finish before hubby returned to work.
Unexpectedly, we could only execute part of our plans and hubby's maternal grandfather passed away mid last week and he had to shuttle to and fro the funeral. The other bomb came over the weekends as hubby received an SMS from his boss to cut short his leave and return to work this week, instead of next week. It was not a welcomed surprise as we hardly had time to rest after the funeral was over, and also because this was a long-awaited break, after being busy for more than one year without taking any long leave. I felt quite frustrated that because we were not able to go overseas, (1) his leaves could be cancelled easily and (2) his phone rung everyday because he was in SG.
All we could hope for the next long break in December would be undisturbed...AND that his phone would stop ringing!!!
Initially, hubby asked if I would like to go for a short trip during his leave as he was afraid that I would be too bored being coped up at home all the time. We dropped this idea after considering that we needed to be thrifty with only one income now, and it was too troublesome to bring Ian along because he was still not able to satisfy a complete meal by eating from our plates.
We had planned quite a few activities to be done during this short break, eg. bringing Ian to swim, to the Sembawang Shopping Centre Splash Park, to the beach to play with sand, to take a family portrait, to rearrange the study room, etc. Out of all these, we only managed to clear the storeroom, rearranged the kitchen with a new shelf from Ikea, brought Ian to the Splash Park, shopped during weekdays at Metro and John Little, had our haircuts, and went for grocery trips on weekday mornings! I also managed to start on a quilt blanket which I had hoped to finish before hubby returned to work.
Unexpectedly, we could only execute part of our plans and hubby's maternal grandfather passed away mid last week and he had to shuttle to and fro the funeral. The other bomb came over the weekends as hubby received an SMS from his boss to cut short his leave and return to work this week, instead of next week. It was not a welcomed surprise as we hardly had time to rest after the funeral was over, and also because this was a long-awaited break, after being busy for more than one year without taking any long leave. I felt quite frustrated that because we were not able to go overseas, (1) his leaves could be cancelled easily and (2) his phone rung everyday because he was in SG.
All we could hope for the next long break in December would be undisturbed...AND that his phone would stop ringing!!!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Splash Park, Here We Come Again
On the last day of Hubby's leave, we spent our idyllic afternoon at Sembawang Shopping Centre again. It was one of the tasks which we had planned to complete during his leave - to bring Ian to the splash park again.
Since Ian did not want to sleep, we brought him out at 3 plus, hoping to avoid the crowd. To our surprise, the park was not in operation. It was only then that we learnt that the park did not operate from 2pm-5pm!!! We spent some time having our afternoon tea break at Kopitiam and then Daiso.
At 5pm, we returned to the park. To our dismay, there was quite a crowd despite it being a weekday afternoon! This time round, we were prepared with Ian's thermal suit. Ian was thrilled with the water plays, as usual.
After letting him play for almost an hour, it was still hard to pull him away. He made a scene and refused to go and I guess hubby was the only one who could handle this cranky kid.
Since Ian did not want to sleep, we brought him out at 3 plus, hoping to avoid the crowd. To our surprise, the park was not in operation. It was only then that we learnt that the park did not operate from 2pm-5pm!!! We spent some time having our afternoon tea break at Kopitiam and then Daiso.
At 5pm, we returned to the park. To our dismay, there was quite a crowd despite it being a weekday afternoon! This time round, we were prepared with Ian's thermal suit. Ian was thrilled with the water plays, as usual.
After letting him play for almost an hour, it was still hard to pull him away. He made a scene and refused to go and I guess hubby was the only one who could handle this cranky kid.
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