Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Our 宝贝宣慈, Baby Jez: 7 Months Old

7 months old: 28 Feb 2009 to 27 Mar 2009

Baby Jez's weight is abt 7kg. She needs to be fed every 3 to 4 hrs and is drinking 5oz of milk each time. 1 cereal/porridge feed per day.

Baby Jez gets to sit on the walker for the first time on 7 Mar 09. It was a saturday and as I was also having video call with Wilson, he also managed to see Baby Jez first time sitting on the walker, exploring the buttons, and moving around the living hall. I'm glad that Wilson saw it. Even though, he's in overseas, I still hope that he can be very much involved with Baby Jez's development. Baby Jez is very excited to move around in the walker. She will keep pressing the music buttons and rolling the ball attached to the walker.

On the 18th Mar 09, Baby Jez actually called 'Papa' for the first time. Sounds weird right? Why is she calling Papa when Papa is not even around, should call Mama first mah... Hahaha.... Maybe becos we do keep saying 'Papa' to her so as to keep on reminding her about Papa and also she hears her cousins calling their Papa everyday. Ah Ma, Ah Kor and Ah Pek are the first ones to hear her call Papa. That morning, everyone was shocked to hear that she called Papa. It was loud and clear and repeated many times. Ah Kor got excited and brought out the camera, wanted to video down. However, Baby Jez became more attracted to the camera and stop calling. Luckily, Ah Kor still manage to capture her saying 'Papa' once after a long wait. Subsequently, I also keep hearing her call 'Papa'. Sometimes, she called very gently and it sounds really sweet. Too bad it's too difficult to video down as she will juz call out of a sudden.

We gave Baby Jez porridge again this month. However, she still seems to prefer cereal than porridge. I think it is because cereal are sweeter. She likes sweet stuff and that explains why I like to eat sweet things when I'm pregnant.

On the 22nd Mar 09, Baby Jez's number open 4D for the first time. Her weight 3215 open under the starters and it's very lucky of Ah Gong and Ah Ma who both strike. Baby Jez is able to turn to the left quite smoothly now.

She is also able to sit with her hands supported in front but it will only last for about 5 seconds.

Baby Jez's reading session - 'Turn the Page'


Baby Jez playing with her 'sweet'


Baby Jez digging Chip n Dale's nose


Baby Jez digging Tiger's tag


Baby Jez manages to turn to her left and reach out for the thing she wants


Baby Jez first time sitting on the walker


Baby Jez sitting on walker


Baby Jez looking at Papa in computer


Baby Jez playing with 婆婆

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Our 宝贝宣慈, Baby Jez: 6 Months Old

6 months old: 28 Jan 2009 to 27 Feb 2009

Baby Jez's weight is about 6.8kg. She needs to be fed every 3 to 4 hrs, drinking 4 and a half oz each time. One cereal feed per day. There are about 2 night feeds. Her hair is about 2 inches long but many people still say she looks like a baby boy.

I discovered Baby Jez's first tooth on 28 Jan 2009, which is also the first day of her being 6 months old. It was found on the top right gum. After the first discovery, there's no other tooth found until end of Feb.

Baby Jez likes very much to use her index fingers to touch, dig or scratch things. When she's about to sleep, she will also keep touching her own fingers, as if thinking why all the ten long objects can move differently at the same time.

We also heard her say 'mum mum' this month... Hopefully, she will say 'Ma Ma' soon since both are similar.

She also starts to eat solid food and the first solid food that I gave her is porridge. However, later on I realise it's better to give her cereal first as I'm afraid that the porridge might not be soft enough for her to swallow. Baby Jez loves cereal very much. Whenever she sees the bowl, she will get very excited and keep on kicking her legs as she knows that it's time to eat cereal.

Baby Jez managed to turn to her left on 22 Feb 09. However, crawling is still not as easy for her at the moment. I believe it is also because I did not let her crawl on the playing mat whereby there's more friction and can assist her to climb. Baby Jez will try to reach out to anything that appears before her eyes. If she sees it, she will bend her body & stretch out her hands to get it. She's very attracted to toys with music. She likes to play books too. I brought her to the community library in Sengkang Compass Point for the first time. I only gave her a mini book and she actually played with the book for 1 hr, just by touching, turning or scratching the book. I taught her how to open the book and turn the page and within minutes, she is already able to turn the pages herself. She gets very excited by the pictures & colors inside the book and she becomes talkative, as if trying to tell us what she saw in the book.

Baby Jez's first solid food (Still trying to figure out how to swallow)


Baby Jez is excited to hold her book


Baby Jez playing with her book


Baby Jez imitating 婆婆's action (Pay attention to her right leg)


Leg Exercise


Baby Jez trying to turn to her left