Little Girl with Baby Shannon

A fellow mother, Christine from the SMH Dec Forum dropped by my house to pick up some items. She carried Baby Shannon along. She was going to leave when it struck me that we should seize the opportunity to take a photo of her little girl and mine... Both of them are Dec babies and only days apart... :)

It was pretty difficult to get a nice picture because my house was super messy... And there were loads of stuff on my sofa. LOLz, my hubby has been nagging at me for the longest time. Since Christine's hubby was waiting downstairs in the car, we hastily tried to take a few shots of the 2 little girls on the messy sofa...

Shannon is curious about something... What could it be? My little one is feeling a bit tired I think... Look at her moody expression... :P

My little girl is catching something on TV... But still not smiling...

Mummy Christine finally manage to get Shannon's attention and her little face lit up! Err... My girl is still staring at TV and the expression is ...

Milk STRIKE!

Just when I thought that my girl's milk intake has gone to a decent level, she decided to go on a milk strike. It is driving me crazy when I know her average intake should be around 600ml per day inclusive of 2 replacement of solids. 

For about a month or so, her milk intake has increased from 3 milk feeds of between 4oz to 4.5oz (i.e. total of 360ml 405ml) to 3 milk feeds of about 5oz to 6oz (i.e. total of 450ml to 540ml) per day. Then all of a sudden, she started to cut back on her last feed... And now consistently for every of her feed, she drinks only 3oz (i.e. total of 270ml). That falls way below the 600ml intake she is suppose to be having!

Sigh... Did I feed her too much solids that's why she's not drinking enough? Should I cut back or continue to see if her milk strike is a passing phase? Or is it because she's not "exercising" enough so no avenue to expel her energy?

Anyway here's how much she's taking for solids...

About a full bowl of porridge (the above is pumpkin porridge with pork) 

Left a little bit... ( I had to add water because she did not like the original SUPER thick version...)

Is this considered a lot for an almost 8 month baby??? I just realised I should have asked my PD during my visit to her recently. I forgot to mention that I let her take the pneumococcal jab. She only needs 3 jabs since she's more than 6 months when taking the very first of the series...

Little girl had her very first jar food on 8 Aug 2009 for dinner. Under the recommendation of a fellow December mother, I bought the Heinz Mum's Receipe series - Pumpkin Cous Cous.

Little girl ate the entire jar of it without struggle nor noise. She just open her mouth each time she was done swallowing. Makes me wonder if my porridge is that bad... *Sigh* But I do agree one thing with the fellow Decemeber mother, letting my girl eat jar food is easy and convinient. Not to mention fuss free since she will open her mouth each time she finish swallowing the food... *Hmmm....*

Mama's 28th Birthday Celebration

Opps... I just exposed my age... Yeah, I am not that young to begin with... As with every year, my parents celebrated my birthday. Last year, I chose Tim Sum (because I had craving for it while little girl was in my tummy). This year, I chose New York New York at West Coast. I am not a fan of western cuisine but since I signed up for the membership, I thought of giving it a shot. The bill came up to a horrid $200 (luckily I had a $15 discount voucher). I got a nice BIG cup (as big as a bowl) as the birthday surprise.

Little girl had a ball of a time as she got to pinch salmon, toast and potato... And not to mention that she was attracted to the round brown creamy thing that was brightly lit with sticks that seem to get shorter by the second (Yes! It was my birthday cake).

This post is also specially for Adeline, Luther and baby Bryan: Thank you for the cute little denim jumper! I wore it with another top though... Enjoy the photos! And my little girl is 7 months and 2 weeks old today! (which means another 2 more weeks to 8 months! WoooHoo...)

Just me and the cake... My sister insisted on putting so many candles and not just 1...

Trying to take a photo with little one...

She's just too distracted by the candles!

Trying to get a family shot and little girl is just plain irritated that both the cake and the candles are out of her reach... She plain refuse to sit, stand and just want to bend forward to grab those bright little lights... LOLz

Serious looks can kill! Haha. Don't the 2 of them look so murderously adorable?

Little girl with her favourite man... Papa...

If you're not giving me the cake, give me those candles PLEASE!!!!!!!

Can you see a morsel of food just on top of her mouth?

Evidence of a happy yiyi - Yeap she got to carry my girl without fuss...

Well the picture says everything... Ah ma is super happy! She got to carry my daughter without fuss AND she disappeared with my girl when I went to Cold Storage to grab some stuff... -_-'' I think this is the best photo my mum has taken with little girl so far... Going to resize and transfer to her phone as wall paper. I bet she will show it off to her colleagues! :)

Sashimi! YUMMY!

Uncle Jeff (what my girl should be calling her. He's my sister's girlfriend) gave my parents, hubby and I a buffet dinner treat at LATITUDE Bistro in ONE°15 Marina Club. The club has yatch facilities. The atmosphere was so serene and relaxing! I just wished I could hang out there for the entire night. [Okay back to reality... I got a baby now so it's just wishful thinking on my part...]

The buffet was great and I enjoyed the food. Not to mention I satisfied my craving for sashimi. My little girl was also a darling for sitting on the Rubbermaid high chair for 1 hour! Indeed a record time for her to sit there without need for our attention. It's the first time hubby and I could eat our dinner in peace! She was busy playing with the toy and not to mention enjoying the bread I gave her...It's such great fun to bring her out during dinner nowadays. Especially when I can find things for her to pinch from our dinner table.

I gave her quite a big piece of the bread for her to hold and chew. She seem to enjoy eating bits of food and chewing them. Seems like I can make her porridge a little chunkier.

Not only so, she smiled and made cute noises at my sister and parents. Through the entire evening, she made cute sharp pitch noises and coo-ed. What a sweetie pie! To end this wonderful evening, I decided that a family picture/potrait is in order... So here are some pictures taken this evening.

Ah ma was the happiest woman alive tonight because she could finally carry my girl without her crying for daddy...

Picture with Papa (Evidence that my little girl LOVES tissue paper. She won't hesistate to put it in her mouth too!)

Picture with Mama. We just reached the restaurant and mummy insist that a photo be taken this very second!

Our little family


With Yiyi... Of course, she was also the evening's happiest lady... Because she got to carry my little girl for a real long time!!!

A checklist of foods little girl has tried...

Visited the PD clinic recently and saw a very informative poster on foods and whether they will cause allergy... The poster is printed by Nestle Nutrition. So all the credits go to them! (note, my little girl loves the Nestle Rice Cereal!)

Foods which are least likely to cause allergic reactions:

(a) Rice

Currently, my little girl's staple for lunch and dinner. I cook porridge with stock, meat and vegetable.

(b)Pear

Ranked No. 1 favourite fruit! She loves it so much! Even more than apple! I recommend Packham pears. They are more expensive and not as cooling as Chinese pears.

(c) Prune

Never tried before because mummy do not know where to get it from.

(d) Carrots

Plain puree is disgusting! But my little girl likes it mixed in her porridge or with potato!

(e) Apple

2nd favourite fruit. So far, I tried Red Delicious, Gala and Fuji. Gala can be sour sometimes. Fuji is difficult to peel aft steaming. I still prefer Red Delicious - easiest to peel. But may be sour sometimes too.

(f) Pork

Currently my ger's favourite meat. I buy Pork Loin (in 1 block) from NTUC and I will cut it into small cubes to put in the porridge to cook. My girl has been taking pork for quite some time now.

Foods which are well tolerated but may occasionally cause allergic reaction:

(a) Barley, Wheat, Plum, Cabbage, Lamb, Turnip, Cherry, Corn

Hmmm... Didn't know could give cherry. More vegetable to try on her (corn and cabbage)! Will try them one by one. But I'll give lamb a miss since it's supposedly heaty...

(b) Beef

Can't introduce this due to religion...

(c) Spinach

Little girl likes the vegetable with porridge... Definitely not the puree version of the vegetable!

(d) Peach

A great fruit to alternate from the boring apple and pear. Not cheap as well! My girl likes it too...

(e) Chicken

I did give this to her in porridge. But she prefers the texture n taste of pork better than chicken.

(f) Banana

I tried Pisang Mas or Pang Jio (in Hokkien). It's SUPER sweet but she do not like it...

(g) Oat

Healthy Time Oats Cereal! Initially, she rejected the cereal. So I gave it a week's break and re-intro the cereal to her. This time I mixed it with a little bit of Nestle Rice Cereal. Then the pure Oats Cereal which she eats happily! *YEAH!*

(h) Broccoli

Also one type of vegetable that she has accepted. Tried it in her porridge for 1 week. But when she was down with flu, she rejected the porridge that had broccoli. So I switched to another vegetable.

(i) Potato

I puree it for her, the yellow and white meat type. She prefers the white meat potato BUT not as much as pumpkin.

Foods which are most likely to cause allergic reaction:

(a) Berries (Strawberry and Raspberry)

Not tried any of the items in the berries category!

(b) Cow Milk

Little girl is still on full breast milk with really occasional cow milk. She doesn't seem to like it...

(c) Legumes

Also not tried it... If I am not wrong, lentils are part of the legumes family...

(d) Fish

Since PD told me to go ahead with fish, little girl tried ikan kurau for about 1 week. Then when she was sick, she rejected porridge with fish. Recently, I started her on ikan kurau again... Gave her salmon at Ikea and she can accept it...

Food that are highly allergenic:

(a) Seafood (incl. prawn, crab, dried and fresh scallop)

Opps... I actually used dried scallop to cook little girl's porridge... So far gave her for 5 days and she is accepting it pretty well.

(b) Peanut and Egg White

Definitely not giving until she's much much older!