Siblings Funtime

Jared loves to play with his jie jie. Look at how playful the little boy was. Fortunately jie jie is quite tolerant with his cheeky behaviors, though she will still fussed when di di left his saliva on her stuffs, LOL...

Jared At 10 months.

Weight : 10.65kg

Height : ~80cm

Teeth : 4 incissors ( 2 top and 2 bottom)

Jared turned 10 months on the 1st day of CNY. Time flies, isn't it ?

He can now crawl and stand unassisted for more than 10 seconds, each time he will smile and waved his hands as a sign of achievement. When holding on to the sofa, he will make some steps and move from one end to the other. Has become extremely active, touching almost anything that he can reach, really exhausted when taking care of him. However he has grown to be even more adorable and "manja", will hug and lie on our shoulders when we carry him. When we ask him to lie down and sleep, he will do so and pretend to be sleeping but that only lasted a few seconds, hahaha. Wants a lot of attention probably due to the reason that babysitter never left him alone. Will cry out loud when we are out of his sight.

Indeed a jovial baby, will smile each time he sees us when waking up in the morning. He is also very playful, likes to play peekaboo with everyone, laughs out loud at the slightest joke.

However he wont simply allow anyone to carry him. When hubby came back from US 2 weeks ago, he refused to be carried by me the moment he saw daddy.

Has started to snatch toys from "jie jie" even though "jie jie" gave him some toys to play and even raised his voice when jie jie scolded him..

As for communication, he can make the "da dee" and "je jie" sound quite clearly when I taught him to say so or when he wanted their attention. But I still can't be sure if he is really saying those words.

Able to imitate some simple movements, like pointing to pictures which interest him. He also knows how to fit round, square and star shape blocks on to the shape-sorting lid. Able to grasp ball and pass to daddy when asked to do so.

At times when I need to attend to something, I will leave him in the playpen and let him watch brainy baby dvd, he loves to watch the 1st part where it shows pictures of babies with their ages and occupations.

As he is taking 2-3 times of solid meals, his milk intake has also reduced to 4-5 times (6.5-7 oz) with 1 serving of formula and the rest are BM.

BreastFeeding...

I have been expressing breastmilk for more than nine months. Jared has stopped latching on to my breast even before his fullmoon, reason is I find it too tiring for me as my supply was pretty low during that time. I can't deny that breastfeeding does take lots of time especially for working mothers like me. It needs lots of determination and support from your family and also peers. I am so glad that I have gotten many great advices from the mothers in my company who goes to the "Mother's Room" with me. They have given me tips on how to increase my milk supply, ranging from food to take to how to fully clear milk from the breast. Amazingly my supply shot up after the 3rd month.

I would say the advantages of breastfeeding are countless. All in all, it has been a great experience so far and I hope to continue expressing till at least Jared is 1 year old.

Look at the amount of milk available in the refrigerator of the Mother's room. Many times some mothers mistakenly took other mother's milk and had to return the next day :)

My New Kitchen Assistant

What do I dislike most about cooking ? My answer would be chopping and mincing. But now I do not need to worry about this anymore, thanks to my new Kenwood 550 chopper.

I have always love cooking spaghetti as my family loves this dish but the thought of peeling and chopping the large quantity of onions, shallots and garlic and mincing the chicken meat really bothered me. To try out my new toy, I decided to cook Bolognese Spaghetti on last Sunday.

To save preparation time, I bought the ready peeled garlic, onions and shallots from the wet market. All I did was wash and throw them into the chopper. Voila… in less than 1 minute, everything was finely chopped to the texture that I require. Next comes the chicken fillet, which I roughly sliced it into chunk size and let the chopper minced it. I only had to manually sliced the button mushrooms which is a simple task. I was so excited that I totally forgot to capture any pictures of the raw ingredients but I definitely remember to take picture of its final results.

Practice Makes Perfect

After weeks of exploring his new toy, Jared has learnt to handle the ball so well and drops it into the basket pretty accurately. This is definately his favourite toy and he will play with daddy when he comes home from the babysitter in the evenings.

We also notice that he holds almost anything using his left hand, which brings us to the suspicion that he could be a left-hander, inheriting from daddy.

My little darling with his shootouts