TAIRVLYN’S BLOG

Here are some of his show of strength…

Sam's going to show u how to do some pumping

up! see effortless!

Let's have some fun with chehcheh ….*poking head up*

oops.. she noticed me behind her. hi chehcheh

and now , demo on crawling…. target red box thingo

I'm gon' get cha

I almost got ya…!

Gotcha!!

Next… demo on lifting power

testing testing… good to go

notice the camel full of coins…. heavy ….

oh no.. the 'wall' collapsed on me!

watch this! the mighty "Samson" lifting himself and the 'wall'

phewh,.. chuan already… everything set back to it's original place. Well actually papa put the cushion back for me

after a hard morning of pumping, crawling and lifting. I'm just gonna sit in my clothes box and pick my baju for kaikai

~ Tairven

Things have been really crazy at work, therefore, no time to update blog.. this is going to be a real short one.

Rachel turned 33 months (2 years 9 months) 9 days ago. My princess has grown so much…people tell me she now looks more and more like me…pretty like me..actually in my opinion, she’s prettier than me..   she can be a really charming angel at times but other times she can be super cheeky and naugthy and drive us all up the wall.

She’s about 91cm tall now, and weighs 14.7kg.

I’m happy to say that she’s now completely diaper-free except for night time.  Yes, even for afternoon naps, she diaper-free. The only time she wears diaper is night time. But lately she’s been waking up with dry diapers and she will ask for the potty to shee-shee. Will see how it goes before deciding when to take her off diapers at night too.

Her latest favourite phrase “mama, i don’t want to go to sleep”!  every afternoon and every night, she will utter this phrase over and over again. so i will tell her “ok, no need to sleep, just go to the room and lie down” or “just go to the room and drink your milk”. knowing that she will eventually doze.. hehe… she just wants to play play play..

she still doesnt like her hair to be tied/pinned. at times, i cannot tahan seeing her hair so long and not tied up. but then again, i am extremely reluctant to cut her hair short! hehe. so i’m hoping that one day she’ll be more than happy for me to tie her hair…

that’s it for now…till the next update…

Samuel turned 7 months about 1 week ago. Well, he has made quite a bit of progress…read on.

• Weight, height/length, head circumference -> no idea coz he hasn’t had to go to the paed coz he has finished all the compulsory jabs for the first 6 months. His next jab would be when he turns 1 year old.  In the meantime, I probably have to take his measurements myself.
• Teeth – still stays at 2.

• Solids – rice cereal mixed with mashed carrots. We introduced some fruits to him as well. He’s ok with apples but dislikes bananas! The first time I gave him bananas, his face wrinkled up at the first taste. 2^nd mouthful – still the wrinkled face…and next, the moment the banana touched his mouth, he screamed and cried in protest! Hahaha.

• Milk – still taking about 4oz – 5oz each feed on top of nursing direct from me whenever I’m with him.  We’ve tried increasing his milk but most of the time he’s not able to finish. So I guess he’s happy with 4 – 5oz.

• Sleeping – Sam has definitely made vast improvement with his sleeping habits much to his parent’s delight! Hehe…  At 7 months, Sam is able to fall asleep on his own in his cot at night.  Before this, we used to have to rock him to sleep. I can still remember those days when we had to rock him for half an hour or more just to put him to sleep! Rock until our arms go numb! But now,  he doesn’t want to be rocked. So after taking his milk, we’ll place him in his cot and gently pat him. He’ll turn and toss for a while first and finally when he’s satisfied, he’ll go to sleep! Although I’m glad that it’s so much easier to put him to sleep now, somehow I cant help but miss rocking my little baby… hehe… it’s such a warm feeling cuddling him close to me and seeing him fall asleep in my arms…like a little angel..
• Also, at 7 months, Sam is now sleeping through the night! HOORAY!  Praise the Lord! Sleeping through the night means being able to sleep for at least 7-8 hours straight. If he sleeps at 9pm, he’ll wake up around 5-5.30am for feed. After nursing then he’ll go back to sleep for another 2 hours or so. If he sleeps at ard 10pm, he’ll wake up around 6-6.30am for feed.  Yeay, finally I’m able to get a longer stretch (ard 5 hours) of uninterrupted sleep at night! Praise the Lord!
• Sam is also now able to sit on his own. Occasionally he can still lose his balance so we still need to make sure we’re sitting behind him just in case he leans backward suddenly.

• Crawling – well, he has learnt how to push his butt off the ground when lying on his stomach. And now he is learning how to put 1 knee in front to push himself forward. He loves to turn himself on his tummy but gives up easily when learning how to crawl. After a few tries, he’ll start screaming in protest already!
• Speech – well, we’ve been trying to teach him how to say “mama, papa, cheh-cheh”… he will always stare at me with a very focused look when I teach him those words. I think he’s processing it in his head, just that he doesn’t know how to utter them yet. Hopefully he’ll learn to say “mama” first.. hehe    his vocabulary in his baby language has grown…he loves “talking”….. some of the ‘words’ -> woh, ahgoooo, heyo (his papa says it sounds like “hello”),  boooo, ooooo, etc

That’s about it (at least for now, that’s all i can remember.. hehe). will try to post up some recent photos SOON…

~(updated photos on 18/1/10 by Tairven)

OK you people have been seeing me snacking on fruits and olives on twitter and facebook. Many speculating that I’m trying to lose weight or something. Here’s really what’s happening…

Darling has been bugging me to go on a healthy diet for a longest time ever …. and it took just one medical report to get me on it right away.  Nothing serious, all’s good and I’m not going to die any time soon  

My main problem according to the report is, too much fatty food intake is causing some things to go up, like cholesterol and uric acid. All caused by too much trans fat, despite the doctor telling me my fruit and vege intake is good. The main culprits… hawker food and fast food……. those are mostly my breakfast and lunches.  Supper has been mostly bread with ham/sausages or maggi mee, which is really really bad for you. McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza, triple bad for you, followed by hawker food.

So yeah … officially since last Thursday night , I’m on a diet…. Have to take some drastic measures to get those numbers in red back to normal.

I’m on a cereal breakfast…. which I can never get myself to do … and  here’s pictures of my new supper … which isn’t bad for me, coz I looooooooove olives. Version 1 didn’t have raw onion,… but version 2 is enhanced with raw onions yeah! dressed with olive oil with balsamic vinegar infused with garlic and black paper (the bottle in the 1st pic below).

Supper verison 1

Supper version 2 !

 So no , I’m not exactly trying to lose weight. I’m doing this for health sake. Of course if I lose weight in the process, that would be cherry on top of good health

To all my old supper kakis reading this in great horror …. leave me a comment! wuahahahha!

~Tairven

Every time I put Samuel into  the playpen, Rachel will always want to go in and join him too. Here are some pics of Sam and Rachel in the playpen together.

We’ve been saving up a lot of Huggies points to redeem a tent for the kids.  100 points to be exact and that’s A LOT of diapers we’re talkin’ about here

Sam hasn’t seen the tent yet coz by the time we got home Sam’s already sound asleep. Rachel was wide a wake coz she slept late in the afternoon till past 6pm! So we had the tent opened up for her. As usual with all new toys, she exitedly got in and played ‘house’ with it while watching some TV.

In the tent with mama.

Watching TV thru the tent

~ Tairven

Just realized I haven’t taken some close ups of Samuel’s hands and feet when darling (Wee Lyn)<yeah we call each other the same nickname> asked me to take a picture of Samuel’s teeth.

Let's see those teeth

Sam's little fingers

Sam's little feet with cute tiny toes

~ Tairven

Christmas was somewhat eventful this year. Now that Rachel is bigger, she was excited to receive so many presents. She started receiving the presents about a week before Christmas. I told her she had to wait until Christmas Day to open her presents. So she obediently placed the presents around the tiny Christmas tree that we had. (Didn’t set up the bigger tree this year).

Then on Christmas Day we went to church in the morning for Christmas Day service at 10am. Samuel got baptized during the service.  He was quite well-behaved.

a quick family photo before baptism..

kneeling down at the communion rail coz Sam was getting restless, so needed to distract his attention..

rachel..

now it's my turn!

water trickling down my face….

finish already?

at the drums with Timothy & Julia after Christmas Day lunch in church

smile! rachel didnt want to let go of the drumsticks! hehe…

After having lunch in church, we headed home. Kids took their nap. After nap, it was time to open the presents! Rachel was so excited… she was so happy.  Unfortunately we forgot to take photos of her unwrapping the presents. And we forgot to take photo of all the unwrapped presents.  Among some of the presents she received are  :  pretty shoes & jeans from Grandma & Kong Kong ( the shoes that she’s wearing in the photo above are the shoes from Grandma & Kong Kong), pretty lace socks & soft toy from Jee Ee & Jee Teow, pretty red dress from Sar Ee,  colourful musical fish toy from Ah Ma & Ah Kong, Elefun toy game & clothes from Papa & Mama, story book from Timothy & Joel, cute pencils & erasers from Julia, flowery dress from Michi & Caleb, Disney powder from Matthias, and many many more. (can’t remember all laa, my memory fails me…sigh). And for Samuel : cute matching baby Mickey shirt & shorts from Grandma & Kong Kong, cute white & blue tshirt from Jee Ee & Jee Teow, cute yellow checkered shirt from Sar Ee, small toy drum from Ah Ma & Ah Kong, cute jumper & tshirt from Papa & Mama, and different type of tshirts, shorts and jumper from fellow friends. Next year, Samuel will be able to open his presents himself. This year, his cheh cheh happily volunteered herself to open his presents! hehehe.

On a sadder note, a dear aunt of mine passed away on Christmas Day. She had been battling stomach cancer. We had a simple Christmas dinner at my parents place before heading to my aunt’s place to pay our respects. “Dear Kuma, you will be greatly missed by all of us. Rest in peace. “

Ever since we bought the kids writing table for Rachel, we’ve kept the playpen stowed away in the store room. Now that Samuel is able to be by himself for a bit, we decided to bring out the playpen again… plus 100 soft plastic balls from Tesco to add to the fun!

Hmmm… looks like it could use another 100 balls ….. we’ll think about getting another bag ….

Rachel totally elated to have her playpen reopened and filled with colourful balls!

Scene 1:

I couldnt help but laugh! hahaha.. sharp nose, my girl..

Scene 2 :