Our 宝贝宣慈: Baby Jez: 12 Months Old

12 Months Old: 28 Jul 09 to 27 Aug 09

We brought Jez to trim her hair as her hair is getting long. We celebrated Jez's 1 yr old birthday at our house on the 25 Jul 09, slightly earlier than her actual date. This time we invited lesser guests as compared to her full mth celebration. We ordered a 60 pax buffet. We would like to thank those who spent their time with us to celebrate this special occasion with us and thanks for all the presents. I ordered a cute Baby Minnie cake and specially bought a Baby Minnie outfit for Jez to wear as she's born in the Year of Rat so she's a baby Minnie too. I hope everyone likes the cake & the buffet.

1 week after we celebrated Jez's bdae, she actually started to become sick. Initially, she had cough & mild fever. Later on, she had flu. After another week, her cough & flu got a little better but she started to have fever again... I remember on National day, after we watched the NDP parade, she had fever. I gave her medicine and her fever subsided. But after a few hours later, the fever came again. This repeats about 3 times and I became very worried so the next day, Wilson's sis brought us to KKH to see doc. Doc said that she had viral infection and fever will come & go for abt 5 days. I felt quite helpless and scared also, especially when Wilson is not around. Luckily, my mum is at hm with me. On the 5th day, she still had fever so my bro's gf drove us to KKH. She had blood test, urine test and X-ray. They said that she had bacteria infection. So they gave her antibiotic, only then, she got better. However, the antibiotic had side effects. She had diarrhea and vomited about twice. The whole process lasted for almost 3 weeks. I'm super glad that she has totally recovered now.

This month Jez had another great achievement, to sit up by her own on 4Aug09. Altho' she was sick, but she kept on practicing whenever she felt better. I also taught her a new hand signal for 'No More'. Whenever, she finished eating her porridge or drinking her milk, I will say 'No More' and she will do the hand signal by turning her wrist. She can understand things very well. She can already differentiate who is Mama, Papa, Ah Gong, Ah Ma and Popo. When we say 'Where is Ah Ma?', she will turn & look at Ah Ma. When we say 拜拜, she will look at the 神台.

Jez likes to sit in the walker very much, cos she can go anywhere she likes... She's considered slow in her motor skills. Sometimes, I will put her inside the playpane and she can usually stay inside for abt 30mins so that I can do some other things and need not worry that she will injure herself.

Jez putting CD in & out of the cover


Jez likes to use her leg to get the things she wants


Jez learning to sit up on her own


Jez is happy to sit up on her own


Jez watching NDP 2009


Jez enjoys reading her baby book


Jez exercising her tongue


Jez looking at Papa through Skype


Jez doing action while I sing 凤阳花鼓


Taken secretly: Jez playing on her own in the playpane