The Tooth Fairy has come! And other of Jaz's May Milestones...

Tooth Fairy

12 May, Jazreel’s 1st tooth is out!!! She is 6.5months old! 5 days ago, both of us saw it nearly peeking out, and today, ah ma called us when we were at work, telling us the maid said Jaz’s teeth is really out! So exciting, what a milestone! I was peeved though that I was not the one who saw it. My guess that she would cut her first tooth earlier than 7mths was right. Interesting. :P

24 May, 7mths old. 2nd tooth is out too! Now she has officially 2 teeth in her mouth, and is officially non-bohgey. :P I was previously peeved that I wasn’t the one who noticed her 1st tooth, so I was determined to be the first to notice her 2nd tooth! Hahaha.

Playing with gorgor the day her 2nd tooth came out.

Many precious things about JAZREEL…


Around the time she turned 6months, I started massaging for her at night. Initially I used Buds Baby Lotion, and now I am using California baby after I finished Buds. But I still prefer the texture and scent of Buds. Hhmmm….so I just bought another tube. :P Jaz loves being massage. Initially she gazed at me curiously, wondering what I am doing to her. Then, she started to smile when my palms move around her chest, her hands, and her legs. After that, every night she will know what’s coming when I start rubbing my palms together to warm up the cream. She will pause what she’s doing (usually chewing some changing table toys), gaze at me, and once my hands touched her, she will smile, esp when I massage the thighs haha. So sweet. But when I do her little feet and toes, she will flinch and pull away hehehe. Ticklish.

A few days after my previous post about her waking up at night (before we sleep) and demanding to be carried, her pattern changed. She still cries many times before we sleep (she used to stay quiet from her 9pm bedtime to 8plus am the next morning), that is, between 8.30pm-12midnight, but once she sees you in the room and feel your hand on her, she turns to one side and continues to sleep. She just want the pressure of the hand on her, the knowledge of your presence. This is her pattern betw 6 to 7 mths of age. :P

She loves sleeping on her side now, many times when putting her down for nap, she will even turn in my arms when I am putting her down halfway, resulting in her stuck in an awkward position in my arms heheh. Even the maid commented she’s suddenly easier to put to nap. She may cry out when she hits the bed, eyes half opened, but within seconds will turn on her side and doze. Very cute.

This is the way she turns around in her hairchair to follow me when I go into the kitchen, and her endearing way of tilting her head such that it rests on the table, peering at me.

20 May Wednesday.

Ah Ma told us about this when we reached home. Jaz didn't like the lunch she was having (parsnips and spinach) so she turned her head when the spoon came. She kept doing this but it didnt work, so in the end she decided to flung her head down on the table, so there's no way they can spoon food into her mouth!!! hahahahaaa!!! so clever... :P

She has a label festish! Noticeable since she turns 6+ months! She likes to find labels or label-like attachments on toys, be in fabric, plastic, Velcro, and she would chew very enthusiastically on it, contented-like. Just like this photo, this is one of the 4 cubes in the toy, but she always search this blue cube out determinedly because that’s the only one with labels. The poor cube doesn’t have a chance.

25 May, she has started to lunge forwards on the playmat in her attempt to reach something in front of her. A sudden lunge that would propel her 10-20 cm forward. Guess it’s a prelude to crawling…

Things she does on the high chair and her jubulent mood in the morning. :)

27 May

The maid carried Jaz out of the room after a failed attempt to make her sleep. Jaz was so happy when I carried her over, that she turned back to smile at the maid, with mouth big big. She did this 3 times, then suddenly shouted distinctly and triumphantly "Ah Dah"! Her first deliberate words?? hehehee!

Jovann is 32 months old

He's growing up and he say's the darnest things:

## When I ask him to go and sleep and when he wakes up we can go ride bike, he will argue and negotiate "ride bicycle first then sleep!!!"

## When I accidentally knock onto him and I exclaimed and wanted to sayang him, he assured me "its okie, its not your fault"

## The evening I asked him to help me play with meimei while I have my dinner, he said "OK!" obligingly. But a minute later, he called the maid over and said "Auntie, sit down here......., look after meimei ok?? Ok! Byebye!" and ran off to watch TV.

## I love you very much you know???

## Told meimei (when she don't want to finish that last 100ml of EBM) "meimei, Mommy make milk for you to drink. Milk good for you!"

## Asking us "your sure" only it comes out "you fhwa"?

He's better with colouring within pictures now. Though his strokes are still rough, but he tries to colour within. These are colouring pages I have downloaded off the net on his favourtie cartoon. He was super excited to see them.




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He's been singing these songs at night and asking me to sing with them. I love the way he sings them in his off pitch voice, and sometimes making up lyrics hehee.
* Skinamarinky Dinky Ding, Skinamarinky Do....I love you.... (except he sings it "Shinga shinga The Ring, Shinga Shinga The Ring....." hahahahaa!)
* Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
* 一闪一闪亮晶晶
* Sing a Rainbow (the enthusiastic off pitch way he sings the chorus always tickles me no end)
* "Jesus song"
* Incey Wincey Spider
* This Little Piggy

When he wanna ask us to wait for him to do something, he will say "Wait Daaaahhh!" with his palm out twds us.

When I draw open the curtains in the morning and the bright sunlight suddenly comes in, he will cover meimei eyes with his palm, in an attempt to shield her from the sudden glare. Only his aim is so bad he usually end up clasping his palm on her forehead instead. But the idea is there. :)

He is always happy to see her in the morning and will give her a hug

He loves to have me lie down my head on his lap when we sit in the car, if meimei is not with us. Then he will stroke my hair, play with my hair and head gently.Daddy always get jealous coz J dun ask him to lie down nor will J be so gentle hehee.

Since a month ago, Daddy started using tooth floss with the bedtime teeth brushing routine, and surprisingly Jov likes it! Every night, he will ask for "tooth floss". Thanks Rina for that idea!

There are jealous times of course. When I carry Jaz, sometimes he will gaze at me with that look on his face as if trying to find a word to what he's feeling. After some internal struggle, he will look up at me and ask "I want mommy baobao".


He made up this funny rhyme himself a week ago, bits and pieces from 2 original nursery rhymes.
"6 little piggies went to the town!
upstairs and downstairs
wee oh wee go home!"

1st Real Bike

Jovann got his first bike on Sunday 9 May 09. How excited he was! We were in the bicycle shop watching the uncle fix up his first ride, and he actually stay riveted throughout. He only fidgets when trying to get closer to touch the bicycle parts or finger something on the floor. We had a hard time preventing him from picking up every single piece on the floor, or keeping him calm enough for the whole of the 40mins which was the uncle’s estimate need to put the bicycle together. Never have I seen him so focused on something haha.

I think in this photo he's trying to imitate Uncle doing the screws and bolts.

Yeah almost there!

Finally, he’s done! A new shiny blue bike with the words “BMX” on the handlebar, complete with a little basket and a cute little bell. J kept ringing that bell more than riding it initially. We let him do his antics all the way to our car.

His first ride on a real bike.

That day, went downstairs to let him practice riding his bike. We spent an hour downstairs, part of which is at a playground, but he spent most of the time pedaling backwards, and refused to listen to us teaching him.

That evening, we took a step back, took a deep breath, and let him play on his own, restraining ourselves through a huge effort from “teaching” him, since he so obviously didn’t want like it. He told us in no uncertain terms “I want to learn myself!” and “I don’t want to listen.”. So we let him do that. Interestingly, within 10mins, he figured out how to pedal it so that he can move forward. Steering on the other hand has never been a problem, and now he can move. The only thing is, he is only pushing down with his right foot, meaning the pedals only get to go halfcycle all the time. :P Nevermine, let him “learn himself”. Better for our blood pressure anyway.

We still have lotsa fun riding outside the gate in the lift landing. He has a kick out of chasing after me, and he’s quite fast even with 1 pedal. :P We even bought a nice blue bicycle helmet for him, kid size. He simply loves it.

But in the shop he kept pretending he wants the pink helmet instead.

Then one day, on 15 June, about the 5th time he rode his bike, he figured it out. Now he’s faster and he’s really cycling!!! He was so so pleased. Hubby called me on the phone to tell me the news (It was Monday and hubby was the house daddy that day), and I praised Jov excitedly and asked him to show me when I get home. He was so proud of himself. :P That evening, he got so excited he was jumping up and down and yelling “Yeah! Yeah! I want to ride bicycle!!!” when I prepared the bike and put on that nice blue helmet for him heee.

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Happenings in May

Labour Day Long Weekend

Friday - Went swimming at SCC with Ah Gong and Ah Ma. Was so fun, though Ah Gong was not familiar with J's comfort level in the water and was too protective resulting in increasing J's anxiety level and him swallowing some water as a result. :P Ah Ma had a nice massage in the changing room while I washed up for Jov. We had lunch at the cafe again. Had dinner that night with Ah Gong Ah Ma too.

Saturday - Brought Jovann to breakfast at coffee shop. Then we went to Greenridge and bought a dinosaur kite for him, he was so excited. :) Had a motorcar ride at the Plaza.

Had a great time with Reubern and Rochelle that evening at Sentosa's Songs of the Sea!!!

Do you know why he's standing there so lost?

Because of the speakers behind us, can you see? He said it looks like "an angry face"....he was appraising it warily throughout that pre-show 30mins.

Daddy has been the official pedi and manicurist of Jazreel ever since my clumsy attempt few months back where I took off a tiny bit of her flesh together wth her nails. :P I admit hubby has been better at this than me. I am more squeamish than calm, and my nervousness probably translated to mistakes. But Jaz is a Good customer. She hardly fusses when being trimmed. Look at her sitting so prim and proper on Daddy's lap while getting her nails done. :)

8 May weekend

Sunday:

That night, brought him down for the first time to the motorcar ride in Greenridge. The uncle was hesitant at first to let him take the car when he heard he's only 2.5yrs old. But he was amazed J can steer properly throughout that 15mins. J having so much fun but he has this bad habit of staring at other kids/cars and not watching where he was going! A few times hubby gotta intervene to prevent him rushing headlong into someone. But there were a few times J did deliberately brushed shoulders with some gorgor on another car, for the thrill of it.

Jaz has started to crawl forward, but very subtly. She will push herself fwd on her legs but still lack the strength to move more than 2 inches fwd. But she's moving a bit at a time. :)

16 May

Jaz's first time on the potty.:P See how miffed she looks, you can tell she really don't like sitting there, unlike her gorgor who loved it at 5mths.

Daddy servicing his princess in her weekly manicure.

Brush with UTI?

Jaz just recovered from a bout of suspected UTI.

She woke up at 3.30am on Wed (6 May) morning with a 38.9degree fever.

Visit to PD next day and tested her urine (only traces were collected in the urine bag coz it took a long time for her to pee and some leaked) and found presence of bacteria. As UTI is left untreated in young children may damage kidneys, PD's SOP is always to start them on course of antibiotics first before the full urine culture comes out.

So poor Jaz took her antibiotics, and her mommy feel so heartpained.

However, when the culture came out, the following Monday, it says "mixed bacteria". It didn't say the name of any predominant bacteria but at that moment we didn't know the significance of this. By now Jaz's fever has already gone since 24hours after that 1st antibiotics dose, and we went back to see PD at the end of her course as instructed. He explained to us the necessity of further invasive tests, and another 28 day course of antibiotics as a "preventive measure" before these tests. By now, the terms "radioactive dye", "DNSA", "MCU" etc etc already rings a bell due to all the reading up the past few days.

Reluctance to submit her to such tests and that extra antibiotics prompted us to spend the whole day seeking 2nd opinions. We had length conversations with 1 other PD, and personally visited a 3rd PD, both of whom are nephrologists (kidney specialists). What they said put our mind at ease, and helped us realise the significance of the urine culture results, or lack of. And we made our decision not to do those extra tests.

It was a draining 1 week, and during the period before we spoke to these 2 paedestric nephrologists, hubby and I felt so lost and bewildered and pained, at the thought of putting her through those procedures which has such high amount of radiation.

This is Jaz's temp monitored those few days.
The pink squares are when paracetamol was administered and the orange ones are nurofen.