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Friday, September 7, 2007

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Clarence's 1st Birthday

Clarence's Birthday Party! 25 August 2007.

Held at The Legends....such a nice sounding place isn't it? Legends.......echos of the mystic, romance and class.... Mommy initially wanted to hold my birthday celebration here also, thanks for Auntie Peachie's recommendation. But as their high tea timing is my nap timing, this option is kinda out. OH well, at least I get to attend a PARTY there!!

Clarence looks so cute that day, and his cake is so cute too! with marshmallow lollipops his mommy bought from B.I.Y.




I met baby Rae-Ann, Alexis there as well. Alexis tried to play with me by swiping her hands across my face and body, but I just woke up, in a very laid back dun-mess-with-me mood. and I cried! Mommy daddy din console me much, coz Mommy feels big boys shldn't cry, so I stop after a while. hehee.

But when Rae Ann played with me, it was fun!! She talks to me a lot in her baby language, and I replied back. Our parents were amused we were holding a conversation heheee...she is such a pretty darling, don't you tink?




This photo is taken after Clarence cake cutting, 3babies were plonked on the sofa. Clarence was busy surveying his guests, and Rae Ann and me put our arms around each other! My left arm encircled her shoulders and she did the same. buddy buddy leh....Don't I look like a big boy protecting a pretty damsel??? :) she is so sweet lah her...I like her very much, and I think she likes me too, don't you? :P




See our ballroom dance....
got standard a not? If you want us to perform at your birthday party, call my mom kae?







Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Party Planning in Progress

Sorry friends and fellow mommies, think i have been lazy in updating my blog recently. besides being sick and down with sore throat and a persistent cough (I saw GP 4 times, i finished 2 course of antibiotics and 3 bottles of cough mixture, 9 bottles of chuan pei herbal drink, 2 cans of snake water, 2 strips of lozenges, pi pa gao, manuka honey, salt gurgle, everything!!!) for almost 4 weeks now, I am also planning for Jovann's 1st Birthday BasH!!! where got time??? I just saw a chinese physician and she said I will recover within 3 days with her medicine. After taking her med, I am coughing harder than ever especially at night, close to coughing my lungs out. cannot talk without coughing. Its so embarrassing when I have coughing fits in the office, outside, at coffee shops, I feel as if I am contagious, aiyoh... but I am very considerate, I use a tissue to cover my mouth when I cough in public, and use a mask at home with near to Jovann. Sigh...this is so tiring, hope I get better soon. A friend just suggested today that I try bird nest. Why didn't I think of that?

Planning this party is both great fun and stress. the stress part is the guest list. There's so many people I wanna invite! so many ppl who has shown love to Jovann in one way or other, played a part in his life the past 12 months. But try as I might, I couldn't fit everybody into my guest list, because hubby's side of the family is HUGE and our venue cannot fit all that we wish to invite. Really a tough decision to make......but Jovann wants all of you to know that he loves EACH and EVERY one of you whether or not you are at his party can? *smooches and hugz*.

8 more days and counting......

Monday, August 20, 2007

Who's Turning ONE??

20 August 2007

Finally! Mommy has not updated my blog for nearly a month now! Hmph. But I know I cannot blame her, she has been busy with work, with planning my upcoming 1st birthday party, and she still is down with coughing and sore throat since 2 Fridays ago. She has been sleeping in the living room for the past 4 nights to avoid passing it to me, poor mommy. My cot has to be dismantled if they wish to move it out of the masterbedroom, and now is not a good time to do it, so Mommy has to sleep outside. She also wears a mask when nursing me at night, just in case.

I am 11months, 2 days old! I am growing so big!
Things I like or can do now....
* Put my hands up and down when Daddy Mommy say "hands up!" or "hands down!"
* pat my chest when they ask where is Jovann Teo or in chinese version "shei shi Zhang Han Ming"?
* touch my head when asked where's my head
* Do gong xi gong xi
* Do a bouncy sorta dance when standing up, with one hand holding onto something
* stand unsupported for like 5 seconds
* stood up by myself when holding a toy in my hands at Ah Gong Ah Ma's place.
* climb up to the sofa by myself. Climb down from the sofa by myself.
* climb up and down the 3 steps in gong gong ma ma's living room by myself.
* play the tamborine and xylophone. but not much people can appreciate the music I make. :P
* stack the stars on the stacking toy
* call "Pa Pa". Daddy is elated! He won this round.
* Call ah gong "Ah Ba"...hahahaaa... Ah Ma said I know my ah gong wanna eat duck meat.
* When Mommy Daddy comes home, I will call out " ah ahh ahhhhh...." with my arms outstretched towards them. If Daddy is in the way, I will kinda push him away to reach Mommy hehehe.

Tonight, at Ah Gong's place, I was zooming around in my walk, screaming and laughing and super stimulated chasing after Daddy and anyone who plays with me. I actually kept that up for 1/2 hour, entertaining myself when they are eating fruits, screaming happily. Mommy and Daddy was wondering where I got the energy from.

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I didn't even want to get out of the walker when anyone tried to carry me up. But Ah Ma and Mommy decided I had enough, coz I felt cold and clammy with sweat and exertion when they touched my arms. Mommy took the struggling me out of the walker and bundled me up for the trip back home (I was sweating too much after exertion and Mommy wanna keep my warm).....the struggling bundle soon became the tame bunny when I am no longer in my vehicle of amusement....... the tired and defeated and totally exhausted expression on my face kept them laughing so much, but I got no energy left to scold them for taking my photos.


Last weekend, I sat in the study room chair and looked as if I owned the workspace. Don't I look like a big boss?


Mommy bought my this set from Fox baby and she likes it very much. Its a lazy Sunday morning and I am as usual crawling all over the living room, grabbing things and throwing them aside the next moment.




On the day I turned 11 months, I also tasted formula milk for the First Time! Mommy introduced me to Similac Follow on, Stage 2 formula. She has 3 sample tins of Nestle, Similac and Enfapro in the cabinet and decided to start on Similac. Mommy making formula milk for the first time! Its for my cereal. She say to start in my cereal first, to get my accustomed to the taste. I ate my cereal without noticing anything was amiss!



Yipeee, tomorrow is a SPECIAL DAY. Because I am going to collect my PASSPORT! I can travel the WORLD with THIS PASSPORT! :) I am SO HAPPY! My first trip will be to Melbourne!


Friday, July 27, 2007

@ 10 Months old!

Happy 10 months Jovann! :)

The day after you turned 10months, we brought you for your first Studio Photoshoot hehee. You were in your best cheeky laughy mood in the first half of it. However, in the recent week, you have started prefering to be mobile (crawling, standing, sitting playing) than to be carried, so during the photoshoot, you screamed with frustration if any of us carried you up for a shoot), so David racked his brains on how to overcome this little obstacle, in order to get some family shots of the whole family. Ah Gong, Ah Ma, Gong Gong, Ma Ma were all there! We actually got back all the photos that day (super efficient), but will show the album during your 1st Birthday Party, coming up on 15 September 2007 (Saturday)!!! :)

Recently, ever since Mommy played Throw the Ball with you, you have started showing more interest in the FIFA World Cup Limited Edition Mini Soccer Ball that Daddy's friend bought back from Germany last year (take aeroplane one leh!). It's of the perfect size as you can hold it easily in one hand, and it can bounce and roll and be kicked as well, hehehee. On Sunday (22 July), Daddy played Bounce the Ball with you, and you had such a tickling good time you were screaming with laughter for close to 10mins! hehehee. You laughed each time you threw the ball and Daddy catches it.


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You have started developing an affection for your Pooh Bear that Daddy chose for you from Kidsmall IMM. Every night we reached home, Mommy will bring you to your cot and Pooh Bear will greet you. You seemed pleased to see him and past few days have been greeting him with a "Ah...ah....AH!". You have also been kissing him when we asked you to "Kiss kiss Pooh Bear". :)

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Formula One??

Formula 1 racer in the making?



Heheheee....

19 July. I went up to my parents plc to fetch my mom, and sam in the car with my dad. He put Jovann at the steering wheel and Jovann enjoyed himself A LOT! its actually not the first time we did this, but always get a kick out of seeing him at the wheel. :)

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Tzlk Tzlk...!! Love my peaches...

9 July Monday. At Ma ma's place, you were eating your Oatmeal cereal with peach (You love peaches since we introduced that a week ago). You were making this funny clucking sound with your tongue that people make when they are enjoying their food. It sounded like "Tzlk! Tzlk!" Yours sound very loud, and you were obviously relishing the spoonfuls of peach. Every "Tzlk" you make, you laugh or smiled hehehe. Daddy took our his handphone to record it and emailed it to me immediately. It brightened up my day considerably then.

Think the video can't really hear the loud "tzlk tzlk tzlking". hehehe.


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Monday, July 16, 2007

Recent Bedtimes

16 July...Tonight, when washing you up for bedtime, you kept patting your own chest, then patted your tummy. So Daddy started making this hip hop rapping motion with his hand and yours, saying " Yo yo yo! Man!" at the same time. and that sent you off into chuckles again and again hehee.

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Recently, to calm you down at night when washing you up (sometimes you scream bloody murder once we put you down on the changing table), We had to think up new things. Some latest that sent you laughing were:

- When mommy press down gently on your yummy during massage and say "press press", you laugh. :) But now you don't.
- When Daddy "smells" your diaper and pretends it stinks and screws up his face and say "eeeee...chao chao!", you chuckle so loudly!
- When Daddy plays peekaboo with you from the side of the changing table.
- When Mommy pretends to hiccup like you. Each "Hick!" earns me a chuckle
- When Daddy sings the song Eensy Weensy Spider with accompanying actions
- When Daddy whips out his magic wand (the cotton bud) to dig your ear, you immediately calm down. Once, when he's done, you gave a contented "Nggggg...". Daddy asked if you want more, and after that, you went "ngggg..." again.

And recently, during bedtime when I am nursing you and you are not asleep yet, you can be tickled by the wierdest things. Once, you were playing with the buttons on Mommy's blouse, and Mommy said "Buttons." and you looked up at me with twinkling eyes and started chuckling! I did it again, and you chuckle, with this lovely gurgling sound that starts deep in your throat. What a lovely sound. I know I am risking overstimulating you by making you laugh so loud so late, but I cannot bear to miss this cosy moment with you, with you looking up at me like that and smiling. Love you so much my son...

Best Breastfed Baby Contest

Jovann entered the semi finals! hehee.

The prerequisite was that the baby should be breastfed for at least 8 weeks, and we are entered by category according to age. By the time the preliminary rounds came, Jovann is 8months old, so he is in Category B.

The preliminary rounds was held in June, at some multipurpose rooms in KKH. that day we didn't take any photos. We were ushered in after registration (taking of weight), during which Jovann kept smiling at the young pretty girl who is taking his weight. He was in a good mood. The girl kept gushing over him, and exclaiming to her male colleague "He so cute! he kept smiling at me!". Yes Jovann, Mommy knows you like pretty girls, you are pretty obvious about it. :P

In the room, there was a mom with a 18mths old boy in a superman costume called Dominick, and another mum with a 10mths old girl called Delia. Both were shy, the babies I mean ... though Jovann was busy babbling and smiling at them.

It's our turn! One judge busied herself entertaining Jovann and testing his response to people, playing with toys etc. The other judge asked me a series of questions. Some of them were "are you still breastfeeding", "do you pump at work and how much each pump", how much he drinks at night before he sleeps", "how many times you nurse", "can he say ma ma da da pa pa", "can he stand up and cruise" etc etc. The questions were easy hehehe. When they were done, and I picked up Jovann to leave, he actually waved bye bye at them. :)

Then, we went to the Heinz baby booth to enquire where is my baby's favourite cereal coming in stock? and we got a favourable reply. Apparently, they just ordered in bulk and the packets are being packed in the warehouse now. Yippee! We took some photos at the booth of him eating Heinz baby jar food. As Jovann has never eaten any baby jar foods before, it was no wonder he screwed up his face hehehe.

2 weeks later! We recieved the awaited letter! Jovann has passed the preliminary rounds and entered Semi Finals! Hooray!



(seriously, I have no idea what the prize will be, but it just feels cool that he is a "best breastfed baby!") It will be on 10 July at IMM.


When we reached there, he was sleepy, so I walked around with him (after registration) while he slept in the Ergo for 45mins. :)


The organisers were very very nice. When it was his turn and the nice young lady knew he was asleep, she said to let her know when he is awake so that they can let him go next. That he will need time to freshen up else not fair to him. So sweet right, Jovann? The lady kept talking to you, and to all the babies. Can see she loves babies a lot.

Daddy whiling away his time reading golf/car magazines. Watching over the stroller.


The registration and weighing station. you were 9.1kg. Somehow I think their scales overweighed you hehehe.





You are awake!! you are in a good mood very soon after. :) Think you had a good nap.



Into the room we trooped. This time, besides the usual breastfeeding questions the same judge asked, the other judge also gave you a series of toys and books to see how you interact with them. For the ball, you refused to give it back to the judge, holding it out then changing your mind hehehe. Overall, think you didn't do the things they wanted you to do. But its okie, darling, coz this is all for fun isn't it? Whats important is, you were enjoying yourself throughout the entire thing, because you kept smiling sweetly at them! hehe the other judge told you jokingly "no use smiling at me!!". But she's wrong, that's all that matters - You being happy. Mommy walked out of the room feeling pleased and blessed you are a happy breastfed baby. Even if you are not the best breastfed baby in the contest, you are the BEST in OUR LIVES! :) :) :) *SMOOCH*

Kuay Tiao Soup in chicken broth

14 July - Your menu today.

Kuay Tiao Soup with minced meat, sliced fish, sweet potatoes and Jap daikon cooked in chicken broth.



It looks like this initially.


It looks like this after blending.






Yummy!!! Mommy finished up the soup that you didn't want. After blending, it kinda don't resemble kuay tiao anymore hahaha. I fed the soup as a side, but you screw up your face after drinking 1,2 soup spoons of it, and pushed my hand away when I try again. But you ate up all the kuay tiao and ingredients. I tried to add more soup to the mixture so you can take in more of the nutrients in the soup, don't let it go to waste dearie, all this are for you!


New way with an old toy

Recently you like to stand up and push your Fisher Price Walker. Mommy is afraid you may not be able to balance so is always behind to catch you. But you seem to be able to. Just that when you push it forward, your bumb stick out behind, looks so darn cute hehehe. You push and pull at it till you get tired. :)

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First Time at the Airport!

3rd Uncle's going to Canberra, Syndey to study for 3 whole years!

We sent him off with a bang, at a dinner at Whitebait and Kale, 7 July. The food was delicious, Mommy and Daddy suggested this place after a yummylicious Sunday Brunch here recently. At the dinner, Mummy and Daddy nearly swooned over the Bread and Butter pudding dessert, which Daddy usually don't like. Throughout dinner, I made a lot of noise and they had to take turns carrying me, Gong gong too. The Bellamy's toothy pegs didn't satisfy me, and after my steamed pear dessert I still kept making noise, wanting to get out of my chair. at 10pm, Daddy knew I was sleepy so we left early.




At Changi Airport, I had boundless energy after a 45mins nap in the Ergo. Its my FIRST TIME AT THE AIRPORT! I had my dinner at Delifrance bistro, then sent 3rd Uncle Ernest off to the departure gate, where we took a lot of photos.







We then went to the viewing gallery to watch his plane take off, but I was busy entertaining myself while being pushed around in the stroller by Mommy. My cousin Kieira was napping in her stroller, and Mommy kept shushing me when I screamed or babble to myself too loud.



We went to the cafeteria to have dinner, for the adults. Somehow Mommy managed to gobble dwn her steaming hot bowl of prawn noodle soup so she can entertain me. I spent my time standing up, sitting down, standing up, sitting down and babbling happily in the chair! Gong Gong commented my energy is boundless. Daddy said I am like the Energizer bunny. hehe!


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