Bday Party Part 2

Birthday party's photo:

Jared's angelic look


Tigger balloon & the no. 1 t-shirt fr baby Gap


Jared with his tigger cake


Blowing candles


Time to cut the cake


Wai po feeding cake


Celebrating aunty Agnes bday with the cup cake

Jared with his presents

Big thank you to Uncle Cheehui for the nice& professional photos

The Big 1!!!

Jared turns 1 today and we had a party at home to celebrate this special day. What a tiring day... but a memorable one too, with relatives and friends coming to give their blessings.






Thank you for all uncles', aunties' presence & presents.

Gymboree @ Vivo City

Went for another trial class gymboree..Overall was quite fun, but Jared turns grouchy towards the end of the class. A good work out for the day...

Hooked on new Escrapping software

We just downloaded Scrapbook Flair from download.com as our previous Microsoft Digital Imaging have expired. This is a suprisingly easy software to use with built in library of e-papers, buttons, graphics etc. Daddy got hooked on the software and created another artwork..Here it is..hehe

Me & My Little Corner

This week Jared developed a special habit. He loves to squeeze into little gaps that he could find. Today, with a little help from Daddy and Mommy, Jared finally found his Little Corner… right next to the sofa…What he does there? He pees, shout and have lotsa fun


-Daddy&mummy-
8 Nov 2006

p/s Today is a special day cos last yr this day my water bag started leaking, I was so worried if Jared could be born healthy. Thank God, he is such an adorable boy! Counting down to the day Jared turns 1!

Mygym Trial Class & Uncle Wei Ming's birthday party

Finally managed to arrange a trial class for Jared @ MyGym at Civic Center. It was an impromptu decision since we passed by there for the bank. Jared had lots of fun attending the class, the "toys" there are quite interesting. Of all Jared like most is when the teacher hang a jumping rope on the ceiling and let him learn to walk while holding to the rope. Hate most when teacher tried to flip him over, even cried out loud.

On Sunday we went to chalet @ Downtown East, Pasir Ris for Uncle Wei Ming's birthday. We had bbq dinner, Jared was like on holiday mood again, just like the time when we were at Genting. Sleep very little for the whole day yet don't get cranky and smile to everyone who approached him. hehe.

Long Weekend

Even though we didn't have special plan for the long weekend, it was still quite enjoyable. Well, we just been to zoo, bird park, east coast for the past few weeks..Its really a big headache what's next to visit.

So we decided to bring Jared for a swim. It has been a long time since the last swim, we were avoiding the 2 Lunar 7th mth and busy with preparations for the US trip and finally during this long weekend, we actually brought Jared to swim twice!! On sat and Tues. Daddy took leave to spend the whole day with us on Tue, Hari Raya.

On sat, Jared seems real tense in the water, no smile, no movement. But yesterday it was so much different. He started to enjoy the water, kick around, float and if we placed him sitting at the edge of the pool, he would jump down... first time we see him smile in the swimming pool ...enjoyed it so much that he actually zonk out even in the car. See Jared in action.



Oh yeah, finally I've managed to make the porridge which Jared likes a lot. Just simple one, add egg yolk to the porridge just before serve, then it will taste yummy..hehe..Jared loved it so much that after every mouth, he will make the "hmmm" sound heheh. Make me so happy. At least I don't need to chase him around and can sit there wait for Jared to come towards me in his walker when the next spoonful is ready! *So proud of myself* hehehe.

Jared is 11mth old!!!

At 11mth Jared could:
1) Use us as support to pull him self from sitting position to stand up position, and trying to be gung ho everytime by letting go of both hands!
He could stand unsupported for few sec nowadays.
2) Climb on us from our lap to shoulder when we sit on sofa to reach the window grills
3) Fav tv ads: Mobtv, Muchies, KFC, burst into laughter when watch these ads
4) Walk like crab along the wall
5) Just today we observed that many more new teeth are coming out and probaly at the same time? 2 each beside the 2 front teeth seems to be at the edges liao. His gums are red, and can see that he get irritated easily nowadays due to uncomfortness.

Hmmm, all these seems to be quite advance skill huh? Mummy is still waiting patiently for Jared to do some basic stuff, like wave bye bye, clap hands and self feeding biscuits etc!!!

A small celebration to celebrate the last mth of being a baby!!! Errr..why 2 candles? 2 yr old?? No!! 11mth! hehe

Bad fall & East Coast

Jared had a bad fall last Saturday. So bad that when we pick him up from the fall, all we saw was blood in his whole mouth. For sometime we thought his front teeth became shorter from the knock of the fall. Luckily, the blood stop quite quickly, and Jared also return to his cheerful self within mins after the fall.
His lips were slightly swollen for a while. We both were so heart pain to see his clothes stain with so much blood, and when he did the brrrrrr...his blood also brrrr out together... Luckily, everything went back to normal after 1-2hr. We even brought him to visit Pasar Malam at Causeway Pt that evening haha.

I'm wondering whether its good that Jared could crawl, he's so prone to accident nowadays...I recalled last time when he could only flip 1 side, I wouldn't even need to worry whether he's placed nearby bed side etc. Now I would make sure he's with me everywhere i go. In fact I put him on his high chair when I need to be away for short while to prepare his breakfast.





Some pics of that morning's activity. We brought Jared to East Coast again!!! heehee. Even though we had been to ECP many many times, but that day was still the 1st time that we actually put him to stand on the water/sand. To our surprise he actually cried big time everytime his feet got into water.

After that, as usual, we went cyling. This time round Jared enjoyed it much much more. In fact even refused to come down, when daddy need a rest..hehe.

p/s: Jared has finally got his hair cut!! Look so refreshing & handsome..hehe.

A weekend stay Indoor

Haze was really bad on last Sat. So we decided to stay at home in the afternoon. We finally get to go out only in the evening to Vivo City, the new largest shopping mall in town!. Most of the shops are not open yet, but we'll definitely go there again to check out the views facing Sentosa. After that, we went to Ikea to get another high chair for Sembawang. I'm so tired of chasing Jared to feed him his lunch/dinner. Funny thing is he never really like to crawl, but to escape from eating, he could crawl real fast hehe.
Jared on his fav pram-trolley at Ikea!



Jared's latest toy-a walker cum rider from playskool. Again, Jared don't really appreciate this little car. Make mummy real headache!

Jurong Bird Park 30 Sept 2006

We brought Jared to Jurong Bird Park on saturday cos I've a complemetary tics from col. Uncle Weiming & ah yi followed along too. From the experience of the previous zoo trip, I knew that I hv to dress Jared lightly. So here comes Jared in a yellow sleeveless top+bottom. hehe..Look like his sleeping clothes hor? hehe. Similarly, Jared still not very excited about the birds. But we did hv fun there especially at the Lorry loft, where daddy bought food to feed the birds, Jared get to see the birds in close distance. One of them even stop by Jared's head ..and end up he cried for a while. hehehe

The tour ended with lunch for daddy&mummy at Bongo Burgers.

A busy weekend for Jared and us

Jared has got a busy weekend. On Sat we brought him to the zoo, thanks to Lisa who's so kind to help ballot the tics. This help mummy save lots of $ hehe.
We got there around 9am, but I had to wake up around 6am to make Jared's porridge, boil water, make our own sandwich etc.

Weather was really nice, not too hot. But Jared never seems to like outdoor activities, no much _expression on his face and sleep most of time when we were there. He also refused to smile to the camera, not sure whether he is unfamiliar with that camera (We got the old cam to fix) or just not happy hehe. Anyway, he manage to see some monkeys, orang utan, white tiger, fish, giraffe, zebra, horse and polar bear.




At night, we went to Lisa's place @ SengKang to return the tics. A pic of Jared & Rae, Rae was born on 14 Dec, about 3-4wk younger than Jared. hmmm..jared's hair is way too messy as compared to Rae, need trimming soon..probaly next wk.

On Sunday, we brought Jared to join a trial class of Kindermusik together with the Dec babies. Jared again seems to be the toughest bb to handle. Refused to join those activities which required us to sit down. Luckily he still enjoy all the rest of the classes which required us to move around.

Jared is 10 mth old!

Time pass so fast that Jared's already 10mth old. Last night something interesting happen. When we heard him cry at nite, he was found to be out of the mattress already..knocked his head to the fan. Luckily all of us sleep on thin mattress on the floor hehe.
These are what Jared could do at 10 mth:
1) Crawl on all fours..but still slow and hardly crawl
2) Recognise object such as watermelon, microwave, clock, chopstick, papaya. (Jared will turn towards the object when asked where is it, and give a big smile when we praise him to be able to find the object)
3) Say papapa, mamama, kaaaa, brrrrr etc
4) Stand supported by the cot (It has been a while since we go back to our own home where his cot is there, so we had no chance to see Jared's skill on this part till he's at 10mth!)
5) Stand unsupported for a few sec (So far only ah yi hv the priviledge to watch it once, mummy& daddy hope to be able to witness the moment ourselves soon !)

6) Jared is 9.3kg now

7) Jared have 5 pearlies

Unfortunately, my milk drop quite badly ever since I've got back from US trip. So since 9mth 3 wk Jared is on 50% bm. His 2pm & last feed are on formula nowadays.
Our camera's memory is spoiled also, none of the pics can get downloaded including Jared's harley davidson and our US trip. So sad. Hopefully we can get this prob fix soon and take more of Jared's pic.

Some pic taken using ah yi's camera today. I felt he look pale? He has reject porridge for 2 days. Mouth kept shut whenever wai po tried to feed him. Hope his appetite will turn better soon.

2nd Honeymoon with Daddy to US 1Sept – 9 Sept & Jared's Harley Davidson

Finally manage to take 1 week off from Jared…*Hiak*Hiak* Jared, please don’t blame mummy. It has been a full 9.5mth that mummy has not taken any off days from you..hehe.

We went to San Francisco and Las Vegas. It was such a torturing flight 6hr to Narita, 2hr transit time, and another 10hr before I finally met Kee Ping at SFO airport. I left home around 4am on 1st Sept. Couldn’t wake up at all, cos Jared was waking up almost every hourly. Luckily daddy did call home to wake me up. I think I only managed to reached SF hotel at 4am 2 Sept Sg time. It was a total of 24 hour torture.

We started off the trip by walking all the way from our hotel at Union Square to Chinatown and finally Fisherman Wharf. Daddy don’t want to take bus and want to repeat the history of making me walk 10hrs a day like over in Rome during our previous trip..aiyo! But most of time I felt SF a bit too cold(60F)to move around, so I’ll forced Kee Ping to learn how to take the public transport hehe.

We went to Chinatown, Union Square, Fisherman Wharf, Alcratraz, Lombard Street, Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito in SF.

For Las Vegas, is the total apposite! approx 100F. Much hotter than Sg. Again, Kee Ping tried to force me to walk under the hot sun!!!..Just after 2-3 hotel hopping(covered only the nearest 3 hotel, my face get as dark as the Indian gal, everywhere peeling so I gave up…and go back to hotel to wait for the sun to set before going out again. Hehe.

We managed to watch Phantom of the Opera our first stage show! It was superb! I really like the show very much, although we sit quite far and can’t really understand the lyrics etc.

Besides that we also rent a car to travel to Grand Canyon and stay a nite there.

Some photos of the trip: (To be updated later)

Okie okie, this is supposed to be Jared’s Blog..so should be everything about Jared!

After 2 weeks of commando crawling now occasionally Jared can crawl on all fours. Jared was also a happy baby during the times when we were away, he slept thru the nites, drinking well and eat lots of porridge too! Wai po was very happy with his performance.

Take a look at Jared’s new Harley Davidson! It’s a gift from Wai po, as she strikes lottery..hehehe…With Jared Brrrr Brrr whole day..sure this Harley Davidson is the best gift! hehehe (Taken at 11mth)

Jared can CRAWL forward Finally!!

Just a while ago, mum showed me that Jared finally could crawl forward. We've been waiting for this moment for ages, and had tried numerous method...including setting a target toy, give jared a push from behind..everything fails!! He finally cannot resist the temptations of lights!! haha...(He has never fail to look at lights since birth, and till now still have a passion on all light bulbs be it in the day time, or night)

Mum made the room dark, tempted Jared with the lights from torch light...he tried so hard to follow the lights..It's so fun seeing him doing that... We felt that ever since he's able to sit up from crawling position, he has been a happier baby. So sure Jared will love the new skill he has aquired.

Hope tomorrow there'll be more progress.

Although ppl mentioned that some babbies will skip the crawl stage and go directy to the walking stage, daddy & me really don't wanna miss anything...and would like to enjoy the fun of crawling together and catching up with Jared.

Daddy in Austin, Texas, USA

Take a look at the pics daddy sent us:

Healthy Baby Competition

On Sunday 20 Aug, we brought Jared to Whampoa CC to take part in the Healthy Baby Competition. There was so many babies around. Unfortunately we had to wait so long almost 1hr+ before Jared can be examined by doctor. Just before our turn, Jared finally fall asleep..haha..so got to go back to the breast feeding room to let him rest for another half an hour before we finally see the examiner.
Just some simple task, the examiner try to attract's Jared's attention by using a rattle and check if he could crawl etc. When come to breastfeeding part, the examiner asked me to squeeze some milk to prove that I'm still bf Jared. aiyo...
The result final annouced at 12pm...Jared didn't win anything..but in our heart he is always the prettiest and healthy baby..heheh..
He fall asleep during the result announcement part and continue to sleep a while when we reach home before taking his lunch.

Summary of the day prepared by Ah Yi



A small milestone of Jared at that nite: He could recognise the word "tiger" !!!!. In a several attempt that we asked him to choose tiger from 2 cards..he always choose the correct card.
21 Aug: I saw Jared could go to sitting position from crawl position.
He has been attempting this very very hard, even though most of time he might fall and ended up a big cry. hehe. Hope Jared could crawl soon.

Jared is 9 mth old!

Today daddy left home for Austin,USA at 3.30am this morning and brought along the camera, so no pic of Jared at exactly 9 mth old. Jared has been paaa paa for the past few days, maybe he sense that he won't be able to see daddy for some times? in about 2 wks time 1 Sept, I'll be joining daddy in San Francisco too. I'm gonna miss Jared a lot a lot!!

Some pics of our activities over the past 2 weeks. Brought Jared to the esplanade on 5 Aug. That day was very hot, and Jared fall asleep on the stroller, so he didn't get to see the Merlion/durian. Recently, ah yi also bought a dog to encourage Jared to crawl. Unfortunately, Jared hates the dog! Everytime will cry when see the dog moving forward to his direction..haha

Ever since daddy thought Jared to push the stroller, it has been his favourite act so far..can keep him occupy for a long time at shopping malls, while I shop hehe.

Our first attempt of Escrapping

After reading lots of forum mummies's blog, we finally managed to attempt the e-scrapping. A simple one below (a joint effort of daddy & mummy)

Family photoshoot with Foto U-Aug 6

Today we went to Foto-U's benjamin to take our family photo, Jared is about 8.5mth as of today. The schedule for the photoshoot was set at 3.30pm-4.30pm. When we reached, there was another couple taking maternity shoots, so while waiting, they help to put on my make up....Unfortunately the photoshoot schedule coincide with Jared's sleeping time...He became grouchy after the first few single shots. So most of our family portrait Jared either cry or no much facial expression. Luckily there were still some shots that turn out nice. Hopefully we can go there to take more photos when Jared's attention span improves.

Jared's 1st Cycling Experience - 29 July Sat

We went to East Coast beach for breakfast at the Irish Pub on 29 July, Sat. After the breakfast, thought it would be fun if we could go for a short ride on the bicycle. That's our fav past time before having Jared. Daddy have 2nd thought..but finally we decided to go ahead with it..although the ride was short, but its fulfilling and fun!

Here's are some pics to share:



After the bicycle ride, we brought jared to Parkway to have his hair cut. His last hair cut was at 4mth old-botak! Now that Jared's hair is getting longer and so messy..it's so refreshing to see him neat and tidy again. Jared was quite happy during the hair cut at Junior league, although daddy kept complaining that was an expensive cut..cost $16! hehe. (Well, his usual hair cut cost only $10)

Some pics of Jared's hair cut and after hair cut(dinner at Sembawang Yatch Club)

(Jared's tooth is visible!)

Jared's favourite stunt recently-trying to figure out how to move forward..haha!

Sleep Training

Sleep training started last Sunday(25 Jun), and we have receive a good result with Jared's appetite in the day time. Thanks to grandma& daddy for their sleepless nites.
Couldn't forget how bad was Jared's cries on the 1st nite when we tried to wean him off from nite feeds. He cried at 11am, 1am, 3am, 4am and finally latch on at 5am. Things improve as we goes on, lesser woke up and less cries.
Now Jared's feeding schedule looks like this:
5/6am: Latch on
9.30am: 6oz
9.30-12pm: sleep
12pm: cereal+1 oz milk
play
2.30pm: 7oz
2.30pm-6pm: sleep or play if cannot sleep
6pm: porridge
9pm: 6oz formula
Mummy's milk confirm not enough and had to invest in a 900g formula soon.
Jared's 1st teeth has also cuts thru. First observed clearly was on 24Jun during our visit to Dr. OngEK for pneumococal jab.

Jared stats @7mth
7mth 8.17kg

Jared's stats

Before mummy starts to forgot all the stats..I thought I better record them down here.


Jared's Stats
Born 2.665kg 47cm
3wk 2.9kg
5wk 3.4kg 52cm
10wk 4.6kg
3mth 6.4kg(75%) 60cm(50%)
4mth 7.1kg
5mth 7.4kg
6mth 7.7kg(75%) 66cm(50%)
6.5mth 8kg

1st and 2nd Fall

Jared has his 1st and 2nd fall both on the same day...3 Jun, so poor thing. 1st fall occur after we got back from jab at the polyclinic. Daddy went to send car for polishing, while mummy wanna help Jared get change to home clothings, but accidently placed jared near by to bed side, so while jared tried to flip, he fall off the bed. All mummy heard is a loud bang and followed by Jared's scream. So heart pain!
Unforturnately 2nd fall still occur despite the lesson learnt, on the same day even! Just finished dying daddy's hair, so daddy goes to kitchen to wash the accessories while mummies get busy with the puree. Suddenly daddy shout fr kitchen saying jared's gonna fall. Sigh, jared falled from the mattress under sarong to the floor.
Luckily Jared can be pacify quite easily after each fall. Hope the two fall wont cause any physical pain to Jared.
Jared didnt behave well in the evening as well- We brought him along to pick up daddy's old fren who came from sarawak for dinner. In the car Jared keep crying that mummy had no choice but to breastfeed him there, when reach restaurant also cannot keep still. Hv to bring out of restaurant. In the end cried non-stop outside restaurant also while mummy have dinner and daddy carrying.
4 Jun-mummy went to attend Uncle tian hui's wedding dinner. Was told that Jared cried non-stop after 9pm waiting for mummy to come. So poor thing.
Today jared also started porridge and could take in half bowl.

Jared started Solids & JB trip

Jared started solid on daddy's birthday 29 Apr 2005. Mummy added some breast milk in Heinz cereal for the first meal. But the cereal turn out to be quite watery ..in the end Jared mess up the whole bib.

Mummy needed to attend auntie Mee Fah's wedding in JB, so Jared followed and together with grandma. It was a pleasant trip, Jared get to go to Larkin's house where mummy grow up..and mummy bought lots of new clothes for me at Jaya Jusco.

Today (1 May) mummy made me cereal with similac formula, it turn out quite sticky..Jared loves them..finish most of it.!

Jared can flip

It has been quite a while since I last update this blog.

Jared is already 5mth old..wow…means I haven’t been writing here for 5mths! Missed out a lot of jared’s milestone liao.

Decided to start again before I forgot a major milestone:

Jared can flip!!! Start showing sign of flipping when we brought him home on 13 Apr and manage to do his first flip on Good Fri night 14 Apr in front of daddy and mummy. We are so proud and glad to be able to be the first person to witness this major milestone of Jared.