Norelle is 11 months old!

Norelle is 11 months old today. Can't imagine that it's going be a year since she first came into the world. And it seems like only yesterday that I held the little body in my arms - looking so angelic and sleeping soundly away. Zap! now, she's busy walking around (she can walk pretty well now) I cant even sit down for a minute and yakking away (in her own language).

And remember that I posted about 'finally' Norelle's teething? Well, it turned out to be a false alarm. I waited and waited for like, a month and yet still nothing. Hmm..but yesterday I saw her 1st tooth cutting out on the lower left gum. This time I swear that it's really happening. I checked a few times and I can even feel the tooth with my finger when I was bathing her. When I told HY about this, he broke out into a song, 'All I want for birthday is my 2 front teeth'. Haha..

My baby is growing up now. Venturing into toddlerhood very very soon.

Mummy, will I be growing up soon?

1st Christmas!

It's Norelle's first Christmas this year. And it was very kind for VT and Paik Ling to invite us for Xmas lunch at their home. And congratulations to Paik Ling for the good news. Hope your wish will come true ;) Norelle got to play along with Bryan gor gor too (more like snatching toys from each other). Norelle had so much fun playing and exploring all the toys. Baby Bryan is so adorable and macho (like VT, haha). He's so active just like Norelle and has a huge appetite. It's so much fun seeing both of them playing. Should let them meet up more often.

Busy exploring Bryan gor gor's toy

Paik Ling: Say cheese everybody
Norelle: Let me go!!! I haven't finish playing with the toys!!!
Bryan: Hmmm....how many times do I have to pose for a photo? This time, I am not going to cooperate!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Peek-a-boo!

Norelle loves this game. She knows how this game works. Mainly is because I'ven been 'playing' this game with her since she was born. So now when we say 'peek-a-boo' she will cover her face with a cloth and when we say the word 'boo', she will 'unveil' herself and laugh :)

This is Norelle doing 'Peek-a-boo' :

Now you see me...

...now you don't

...TA DAH!! Now you see me again

Norelle is walking...

On Wednesday (19th December) evening, Norelle and I were at the living room playing as usual. Half way through playing, she got up on her feet and clapping her hands - which is usual. She likes to display her ability of standing up and would clap her hands when she does. But that night, after getting up on her feet, she leaned herself forward and at that moment I thought she would fall down flat front on her face. But to my surprise, she didnt and she took her first step forward!!! Then only I realised that she's actually trying to walk - on her feet - on her own! Ha. Then she placed the next foot forward and slowly she made a few steps. I was estatic to witnessed this important milestone in her life.

She plonked on her butt after a few steps but that only made her more eager and more confident to get up and walk again. Each day, she is making progress by walking further and further. And she just can't get enough of walking - which means I have to walk with her too - right behind her. She's still abit wobbly, so I have to watch over her.

I recorded a video of her walking the walk:

Norelle is (was) 10 months old

As clearly indicated from the title of this post (above), Norelle was 10 months old on the 30th November 2007. This post is wayyyyy long overdue, thanks to the mummy who's buried herself into the pile of work at the office.

Well, back to business (Norelle's bisuness), Norelle is getting more and more active. Can hardly hold her down. I wonder where she gets the energy from? Maybe I over-indulged myself with sugar when I was carrying her?? Hmmmm.....

She can stand unsupported now. And has been doing it very frequently. And now, she wants to stand ALL the time. Irregardless where she is - be it on the stroller, bath tub, high chair, bed, car etc...PHEW! Imagine trying to feed her porridge/cereal while she's standing ON the high chair. Seriously, these past few weeks Norelle has gotten more and more mischevious. Sometimes, I think it's a bit out of hand. She is VERY stubborn, has a character of her own (this already being determined since birth!) Bad tempered (I wonder for this she takes over me or HY???)

We bought a walker for her to practice on her walking since she's been standing on her own quite steady and firm. The moment she saw the walker, she loved it! We guided her on how to walk using it and now she can 'walk' on her own using the walker. It's fun and exciting seeing my little girl is slowly learning to take her first step. Gosh....seems like just yesterday that I held the tiny little body on my arms. And in less than 2 months' time my little baby will embark into toddlerhood.

She is also getting more and more vocal - but mostly still in baby talk. She can say mamamama or mumumum. Sometimes she makes those sound like she's calling out for her daddy - dadadddadyyyy daaaaaaaadddddyy something like that, but I doubt she's calling for HY :P

Oh..she's teething now (or has been for the past 2 weeks). There's a white spot on her lower gum and I can't be happier when I spotted it. I mean - FINALLY! I am dying to see some pearlies on her gum. It would be soooo cute when she's smiling and you can see those little teeth. But that was 2 weeks ago and she is STILL teething. How long does it takes for a tooth to sprout out???

She is more responsive to us now when we are talking to her. And she did a new sign too - sign for bib. Hahaha...I notice that when I was feeding her the other day. I put her on the high chair and usually I will put on her bib before I start feeding her but that day I forgot to put it on. And there she was holding out her index finger and kept pointing it on her chest. Then I realised she was actually telling me that I forgot the bib. I was surprised when she did that.

And she learned another sign as well at my MIL's. Whenever we bid goodbye to HY's nephew s (age 5 and 3), he will do the following - wave bye bye, fly kiss and salute (dont ask me why) . So this little ritual of them has been going on for a long time and Norelle somehow has picked it up. It's so cute seeing her doing the 'salute' sign (put hand at the back of the head).

So all in all, it a good month and the year is coming to an end and when next year begins, it also marks a new begining to all of us. For Norelle especially as she will be celebrating her 1st birthday in January. Yippeee! Can't wait.

Norelle @ 10 months - and with a new hairstyle (NOT MY IDEA!!!)

A video on Norelle's learning to walk using the walker:

For the first time...

Last weekend, there were many firsts in Norelle’s life:

On last Saturday, we brought Norelle to Putrajaya Marriott for HY’s friend’s wedding. Initially we wanted to put her at my MIL’s place (as usual when we are going for a wedding dinners) but not this time as MIL also had an event that night. Looking at the venue of the dinner and the distance, we decided to book ourselves into a room for a-night stay. It marked the first time for Norelle to be away from home – a mini holiday.

We arrived at Putrajaya Marriott at 5pm and we checked in straight away. The weather was breezy and nice. A vast land and greens surrounded the resort – we truly felt that we were somewhere far far away . No noises from cars, only sounds of trees swaying and wind blowing.
The room was spacious enough. We have 2 twin beds and I decided to get Norelle a baby crib for her. Then HY wanted to bring Norelle for a swim – her 1st swim. I changed her into her swimsuit and off we went to the pool. She was so excited upon seeing the pool – to her it’s like a GIANT bathtub! Once HY placed her at the edge of the pool, she wandered off straight away. She was happily crawling at the edge of the pool while patting the water! She was having so much fun. I was surprised to see her taking the pool so well – since it’s the 1st time for her. Halfway through, she got chocked by the water and she puke! Luckily, HY managed to whisk her away from the pool.

So we brought her up to the room and bathed her. Then she took her milk and dozed off. While HY and I prepared ourselves for the dinner. It’s so nice to be able to take our time and no need to worry about the traffic, parking or the weather. Then I changed Norelle into her dress and put her into the pram – she was still in her la la land.

The dinner was fine and Norelle woke up when the newly weds marched in – from all the hands clapping. She was quite well behaved throughout the dinner. Just an occasional whining as she wanted to climb out from the high chair. She didn’t sleep well that night. She kept waking up and cried. I guess it’s because of her blocked nose. In the end, I just scooped her up from the crib and let her on my bed.

All in all, we did have a nice weekend despite the fact that Norelle is now sick – Arrgghhh!! Cough and cold. Can’t wait to bring her for another swim.

Busy checking-out the BIG bed - can't leave home without ALL her toys!

Testing the 'water' - no pun intended

Ok, time for a pose with the Zebra

Splish! splash! and all wet

Norelle is 9 months old...

My baby girl is 9 months old today. Time flies. And I am glad to announce that she is all well now. No more fever, blocked nose, cough, or what-so-ever. She is now one-happy-active baby. She is getting more and more mobile for now and we all have the same belief that she will walk before she's 1. She had her 2nd dose pneumococcal jab today (what a pressie!) and she weighs 7.75kg (I know, I know...she's a light baby)

She did her first sign the other day. Well, apart from the usual 'bye-bye' and 'fly-kiss', Norelle did her first real Baby Sign. One morning she woke up being very cheerful and she was just 'talking' to herself and playing with her toes on the bed. We had the fan on and suddenly she looked up towards the fan and did the 'fan' sign - hand up in the air 'swirling' gesturing the movement of the fan. I was estatic and couldn't believe my eyes and asked her to do it again. True enough, this time it's real. She's responding to what I say - FAN! Hahahhaa...so all the hard work paid off after all.

I began signing' with her when she was around 4 months old. Having read about Baby Signs when I was still pregnant, I was interested in trying this method with my own baby. I went and bought a book titled 'Baby Signs: How to Talk to Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk' . When Norelle was about 4 months, I started some simple signs with her like 'milk, fan (as she's very much amazed with it) and 'bath'.

I am still doing the signs with her and have been adding on some new signs whenever the needs/situations arise. But she more or less getting the 'idea' of it when I do the 'milk' sign, she knows that it's time for her milk feed. And she will show me her widest grin when I show the 'bath' sign. Which means, she gets to play woth the water.

I am thankful to Jamie from Baby Signs for bringing in the program into Malaysia and would definitely encourage mothers to take up the signs. But I do know that many people will be hesistant or having doubts in 'signing' with their babies. Most often associate signing to people with hearing diabilities or mute. But we are teaching our babies about signs everyday without us knowing/realising it. For instance, we will 'shake' our head when we say 'No' or 'nod' our head when we say 'Yes'. Those are signs. Or, we teach our baby to wave their hands when we say 'Bye-bye' . That is a sign too. So, signing is actually a very natural way of us trying to communicate with our babies. And babies are way smarter than we think. They actually understand what we are trying to tell them and by seeing them 'communicating' with us using signs, it's the most rewarding feeling.

Mummy, faster take my picture, I don't know how long I can hold on to this post.

First time sitting in a swing - and loving it!

A bunny in a sack

Sleeping time is one of Norelle's many 'work-out' rountines. She does the rolls-turns-tosses-flips routine in her sleep. We practice co-sleeping which means she sleeps with us in the same room and is sharing the bed (not exactly - she practically owns the whole King-sized bed by herself) with me. HY has been kicked out from the bed and he has been sleeping on the floor since then. We have the air-con on most of the time, and with Norelle's acrobatic moves in the bed, it's very hard for the blanket to stay in place. She was kicking off her covers every night and we were going bonkers with sleep deprivation.

Then I read about 'sleeping bag' for babies. The sleeping bag is not like what we use in camping trips. Sleeping bag for the babies is soft, mostly made out of cotton and which, as it turns out, was the norm for babies in many parts of Europe. So I decided to try it on Norelle. Now, at least I can rest assured that she is properly covered and the sleeping bag also tends to minimized her 'acrobatic moves'. All these equal to longer and better sleep for all of us.

Norelle in her sleeping bag - do you like her just-out-of-bed look?

Christmas comes early?

Last Saturday, I received a nice surprise. Crystal came over in the afternoon and I went out to open the door gate for her. Then I saw it. In the postbox, I saw the handle of a paper bag sticking out from it. So, I opened the post box and a small paper bag was in it. I took it out from the post box and inside there's white cloth being rolled up and tied with a nice golden ribbon.

I imediately untied the ribbon and the cloth unfolded to a white Ralph Lauren Polo shirt. It's very obviously that the shirt is for Norelle as the size indicated for 18months. And I searched around in the paper bag but couldn't find a single card, paper or a note. So I do not know who sent it. I phoned HY and asked him but he was as puzzled as I am. HY went out in the morning and he said he didnt noticed the paper bag in the post box. So 'the sender' must have put the pressie in the post box after he left.

I felt suspicious and at the same time intrigued by this mysterious 'sender'. It's like Santa just delivered a Christmas pressie down the chimney but left unnoticed. I did asked around but to no avail. It was a nice surprise but on another note, this whole incident is a bit creepy. Hahaha...I don't mean it in the bad way, just that I only thought this will only happens in the movie.

So, whoever the 'Santa' is.....THANK YOU....

An early Christmas pressie

A stroll in the park

HY suggested that we should expose Norelle to other things instead of shopping malls (hehe...:P). So a few months ago, we started taking her to the park at TTDI. We usually go on a Sunday morning as the weather is still cooling and the air is fresher. The first time, we brought Norelle to the park, she didnt quite warmed up to the idea (too many greens..hahahha) and she started crying after a while.

We tried again the following Sunday, and it was better. Now she is getting used to the idea. She started paying attention to the trees, greens, people running around, etc. We let her touched the tree leaves and even dipped her legs into the stream (man-made stream). The TTDI park is nicely landscaped. And it provides good jogging/walking tracks so that you can get a good workout surrounded by litterally trees and the sounds of the birds chirping.

It's a good idea after all to take a stroll in the park once in a while. As cliche as it sounds, try to go back to nature and take a step back and enjoy those beauty that GOD has created. It definitely will do you and the world some good.

It's obvious that I'm not a morning person

Mummy and daddy, stop dancing around the tress. You two sure cheered me up with your 'Bolloywood' act.

Updates...

OK. A little updates on Norelle. Seems like she is (really) on her way to recovery this time. She had diarrhoea for about a week. Brought her to Paed and was sent home with some ORS (Oral Rehydration Salt). Her appetite was low (again) and she couldn't held any food in her. Once she had cereal/milk it came right out again. Despite this, amazingly, she was still her usual self - actively crawling, climbing up and down. And all my hard work of training her to sleep through is haywired. Since she only took smaller amount of milk each feed, she started crying for milk in the middle of the night.

When her diarrhoea persist, we changed her milk powder to lactose-free milk powder (advised by Paed). YUCCKKKSS!!! when I first smell the lactose-free milk. It smells like soya sauce. How on earth Norelle going to take that???? True enough, she rejected it. She rather go hungry than drinking the milk. In the end, we have no choice but to gave her the usual milk powder.

Thankfully, the diarrhoea has stop (fingers crossed) and she is getting better and eating more. HY and I on the other end, were totally shacked from all the endless nights. I can just collapse anytime soon (hopefully I won't).

Anyway, I know all these will only make her stronger and bring us closer as we understand and realised that we all need each other so much especially when one of us is sick. That's what FAMILY is all about. Without one or the other, it will never be WHOLE.

Good night and GOD bless.

Hmmm...is mummy going to make me drink the yucky milk again??

Norelle is 8 months old

Hi all. Norelle is 8 months old today. My baby is a big girl now. But not in terms of her size though...she looks smaller than other babies at her age. Or rather, she is a petite baby. Not underweight, just petite. Small bones I guess, like me.

She is on her way to full recovery after her 1-month stint of endless sickness (fever, baby measles, running nose and cough) Her appetite is up again which means I will be occupied during night times making purees for her. I am not complaining, in fact, I enjoy doing so.

She is quite clingy to me now. Having her 'velcro' to me once she sees me is no fun - AT ALL! Just hope that this phase will pass soon. Other than that, she is fine. Always flashing her BIGGEST smile (no teeth yet) to everyone and displaying her endless energy.

Now she is starting to respond to me when I talk to her or ask her some questions. When I ask do the 'milk' sign, she will go and pick up her milk bottle and she will look at the aquarium when I ask her, "Where's the fish?". She will look for her rubber duckie when I ask her to. Well I know all these seem easy/small compared to other babies at her age but nevertheless, I am so proud of her achievements. The fact that she understands what I am saying is already a great feeling and having her responding to me is a bonus! I am looking forward to have more interactions with her.

The 'shy' look (only for 0.05 milisec)

At 8-Month Old - doing what she does best - SMILE :)

An eventful day

This gonna be a looong post…

I was on leave yesterday as my parents-in-law went for their routine check-up at the hospital. I started the day at about 8.30am (which considered later than usual) as Norelle slept in longer. The reason for that? The night before yesterday, she slept in about 9+pm and I was dead tired so I slept earlier as well. At about 12+am, I was woken up by her cry - usual. And she fell asleep again after I stuffed the pacifier into her mouth. And I did the most natural thing, sleep and man I did sleep like a baby. You know why? Because while I was in La La land, I was woken up by a loud THUD! And the next thing I know - Norelle was screaming on top of lung. I turned to her side and to my horror, she's not there!!! Yup, you guessed it right - SHE FELL OFF THE BED!!!!!! I jumped off the bed and found her face-down lying on the floor. I carried her up and pacified her. She cried for a while more and fell asleep again. Then I looked at the clock, it showed 6.40am...which meant I had a straight 6 hours of slumber. It felt so good but on the other hand I felt bad as I couldn’t prevent Norelle from falling. So for tonight, I placed a mattress at the side of the bed – for that ‘Just in case it happens again’ scenario which I hope it won’t.

So we slept in a bit later and started our day as usual. Changed her diaper and brought her down to the living hall and let her play by herself as I went and prepare her breakfast. Fed her cereal with 2 cubes of peach and broccoli mixed with sweet potato. Not too bad. She finished most of them except a little left over for the broccoli. Too thick I think. Then she poop so I prepared her bath. After her bath, she took her morning nap at 11am. She woke up an hour later (she morning nap is usually 2hours) and she refused to sleep again. Then I dressed her as I was meeting my girlfriend for lunch. It was my first time driving with her being all alone in her car seat at the back.

I went to pick up my friend at Phileo Damansara 2. She was OK as the distance was quite near. Then we headed to Decanter at Setiabakti for lunch. The place was nice and cosy and the food was great. Norelle was at her best behavior where she did not fuss when seated at the high chair and was extremely smiley. I ordered escargot and steak pie for me and some toasted bread for Norelle. She enjoyed her bread so I managed to have my lunch in peace.

Then we headed to The Curve as I wanted to get some small microwaveable containers for heating up her purees. I managed to find the microwaveable snack cups by Nûby at Anakku. A good buy at least I am now able to store some cereal/purees in them when going out. I also bought a pair of shoes for her and also a new teether and a pair of pants (on sales, ok) and a pack of Healthy Times Apple Cinnamon Puffs!!! Hehe...I am a happy Mommy. But I was not able to get the Baby Yogurt as apparently Cold Storage had run out of stock??? Both Baby Heinz AND Baby Yoplait!!! There you see..I did not buy the whole departmental store back, ok.

She slept in her pram at about 4+pm, as I did not want to wake her up from her nap..I walked around for about 2+hours then we headed home. She was still tired and continued sleeping in her car seat and we when reached home at about 7pm, I woke her up as I do not want her bedtime to be interrupted. Then MIL came and delivered my dinner – I love my MIL and about 9pm, I wanted to prepare Norelle for her bedtime and she gave me a good night work-out – she pooped. I had to washed her and ‘fighting’ to dress her up (our usual routine before sleeping) and fed her milk and then she’s off to her La la land – leaving me with sweaty body and a good soiled diaper to be washed…..

So there you go. Quite an eventful day huh? Miss HY terribly (another 22 hours to go before he comes back from Bangkok)

Good night.

Twinkle twinkle little Moon

On Tuesday we celebrated the 'Lantern Festival' a.k.a. 'Moon Cake Festival'. The nite was bright where the moon was big and round and shone brightly thus literally like a star. The weather was fine too. Not too hot, a bit breezy - just the perfect day for this ocassion. As usual, dinner with my in-laws where my MIL (mother-in-law) whipped up a good 9-course dinner leaving us all like the smiling buddha - the smile on the face as well as the tummy too :P

Did the most natural thing - 'played' with lanterns and candles. More like me carrying Norelle looking at her cousins, uncles and aunties lighting up the candles and lanterns. Took some photos of Norelle where she tried to crush the lanterns everytime we went near them.

Snapshots of Norelle

Just a simple slide show that captures Norelle's milestone so far. Enjoy. Oh, please turn on your speaker when viewing. Thank you.

I am a Star!

span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#339999;">Well, not quite. Just something that I did for Norelle (not exactly, I just uploaded her picture)..Thought it's quite fun and surprisingly easy to do :)

Anyone who's interested, give it a try...here

Norelle's a Mummy's Girl

Hahaha…see? There’s definitely no mistake about the result. Norelle is truly a mummy’s girl. She’s got all the good genes from me…:). But I do think that she has daddy’s nose. To be frank, even HY and I cant really tell exactly who she looks like. Maybe a bit of him and me - the fact that she's OUR baby :)

And oh, I want to thank Vivianz for sharing this wonderful site with me.

The light at the end of the tunnel...(soon)

Updates. Norelle's fever has finally subsided (last Saturday) and so happy seeing her being smiley and happy again. Well, she's not 100% of her usual self but that's enough seeing her getting up and playing again. She's still a bit weak and her appetite is low. She doesnt seems to be hungry and not so much interest in taking her milk. She has not been on solid for about a week and me being the 'gung-ho' type, tried feeding her pureed carrot and broccoli on Saturday morning. She took a few spoons of them and that's about it. It's fine with me even though I have to pour away most of the them. And I tried again on Sunday, it got a bit better. She managed to finish 2 cubes of pear puree and 1TB of multi-grain rice cereal. But her milk intake is still not back to normal.

After the fever, I realised that there were some red bumps on her back and soon after, her whole body and face were covered with all those red spots (like heat rash). Hubby did a quick search on the net and found that it is Baby Measles. It happens usually after a high fever and there is no cure/medication for it. And it will usually stays on for few hours/days.

Sigh...one incident after another. And now at night, she wakes up every 2 hours - wailing on top of her lungs for no reason. Her cry is so loud and heart-wrenching. Sounds like she's in pain/fright/ or something....I really dont know why...She doesn't want her milk, she's not cold/hot and she can barely open her eyes (can tell that she's really tired and still sleeping) Could it be she's experiencing trauma from all the mid-night feeding of medicine? I really don't know the answer and seeing her crying unconsolably makes me sad and lost....

Hoping that the light at the end of the tunnel will appear soon...real soon....

Fever, fever go away!

Since this morning (about 4am) Norelle's forehead was quite warm. Took a temperature and it read 37.5oC. Fed her paracetamol and about an hour later the temperature subsided. Phew! HY and I didn’t manage to get enough sleep and I kept waking up taking her temperature every now and then. Have no idea what causes the fever – could it be she’s teething?

Morning came and off we send Norelle over to MIL’s. Called home while at work and Norelle was pretty cranky (as expected) and she vomited. Felt so helpless seeing her like that and even more so when there’s nothing I could do to take away her discomfort. She’s still having fever now – her temperature raised up to 38.2oC. She was very tired and she slept early (at 7.30pm). I fed her paracetamol again and she vomited it out together with her milk. But she continued to sleep even though her clothes (and mine) were covered with puke. My heart ache looking at her being so weak and fragile. Just hope that the fever will subsides and I want to see my cheerful, active, smiley Norelle again….

I like food!

Since Norelle hit 6 months, I have started semi-solid with her. I have exclusively breastfed her for the first 6 months of her life and on the day she turned 6 months, I couldn't be happier. I'm not saying that I dislike breastfeeding her (I do support breastfeeding - so mummies who are reading this, do continue with the good work!) I was eager to let Norelle trying out her first food besides milk. I have read up a lot on weaning and already printed out quite a fair of baby food recipes so, I just cant wait!!

Ok, I started Norelle with Heinz's baby rice cereal mixed with little breastmilk. I was all prepared with the feeding essential and prepared the cereal. Then, I put Norelle in the Bumbo seat and laced the bib around her neck. I got the sippy cup ready, wipe cloth, some hot water (just in case I need to dilute the cereal) and most importantly my great enthusiasm! In my mind, I pictured Norelle would be eagerly awaiting the cereal where she will open her mouth big and wide and taking every spoonful of cereal with great sense of joy :)..Ahhh, wouldnt it be so perfect..just like on the tv???

*Snap* , then I was hit with reality! She hardly opened her mouth and when she did, I fed her the cereal and ....she gagged and *phui* out all of them! Then she squirmed her face and shut her mouth tight!! Next, she started to wiggled her way out from the Bumbo and she wailed!! I gave up after merely 5 minutes of feeding her.

But that didnt deter me from trying. Everyday my MIL (mother-in-law) and I tried and tried again feeding her the cereal and she did took a teeny weeny bit of it. Well, that's an achievement. And this lasted for almost a month. Into her 2nd week of semi-solid, I started making some purees for her. I made pear puree for start. Well, that seemed to do the trick. She was eating a bit more with the pear puree. And now in her 7 months (one month since she started solid) she is taking it well, in fact very well.

Now she is looking forward to take her solid and I have since introduced quite a fair of variety of food to her. She has tried (so far) pear, carrot, sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, spinach, broccoli, apple, and chicken. I made all the purees before hand and I freeze them in air-tight containers. It's actually fun doing all the purees and seeing the food turning into mushy state :)

So what's next on her menu??? I'm thinking of zucchini and something with cheeseeeeeee...

Busy munching away - she loves spinach

My new found Abilities (so far...)

For the past few weeks/months, Norelle has achieved quite a lot at her age. Let's see...

@ 4 months she managed to flipped over succesfully and since then she wouldn't want to on her back and that makes our lives more challenging especially when changing her clothes/ diapers.

@ 5+ months - out of fun, one evening I tried putting her in a 'sitting' position just to 'try' out. To my surprise, she managed to hold on to that sitting position (no aid) for about 10 secs. I was estatic. Later on, I tried again and she did it again. I was so happy that I snapped so many pictures of her (more or less in a same position) till to a point where she got a bit awestruck - there, she got her first experience photographed by a 'papparazi'...:P

@ 6 months - she has been sitting quite well on her own at this time (but will still tumble over when she got excited). During the day, she'll be put in her cot (at MIL's) as my MIL does her chores. So, one fine day, she was playing in her cot and suddenly she started pulling herself up using the cot rail. My oh my...this girl is really daring. And the best thing was, when she managed to stand up, she will gave you the BIGGEST grin where you thought she strike the lottery! And from that day onwards, she has been busy 'perfecting' her new found ability. But this 'hard' work of her also resulted in many bumps on her head/legs/hands, etc. Now somehow it makes my life easier (sometimes) that I just put her in standing position when I change her clothes/diapers.

@ 7 months - Just few days ago I realised that she started to raise her cute lil' bum in the air as in getting ready to march forward but tend to stop everytime her bum was high up in the air. Then today she finally able to move forward on her knees - no more 'crawling' like a snake. It's still a funny sight seeing her getting on her 'fours' and doing the proper 'crawling'....

My baby is really a big girl now...

Norelle and her standing 'stint'

The Beginning

Hello. Finally Mummy and Daddy set up a blog for Little Norelle after Mummy had spent quite a fair numbers of hours sitting in front of the computer.

Ok, let's start with the basic. A little background on the Little One:Norelle Chew Zeen Hsiu arrived 6 days earlier than EDD on 30.01.2007 at Subang Jaya Medical Center @ 1406pm weighed 3.37kg. Such a beautiful baby and already busy suckling her little fingers when she was out. She loves to smile and even does that in her sleep. And oh, she was the 'biggest' baby at the ward.

Since birth, Norelle has developed her own character and here are some of the things which describe her -

Norelle likes:
attention food (ooohh.....her favourite)
to be carried (even though Mummy will try every hard not to do that often)
to watch TV (in this case it's educational programme like Baby Einstein and Baby Signs)
to bath (she loves the water so much but used to wail like no tomorrow when she is younger)
to go 'kai kai' (more like tag along Mummy)
to be in the crowd (she is such a PR Queen - always put forth her 'BEST' behaviour)
to be in her Baby Bjorn
to 'bully' her Yeh-yeh (paternal grandfather - trust me she is good)off course she likes to manipulate her daddy (what do you expect?? She is his Little Princess)
Last but not least...she loves to SMILE =)

She dislikes:
to drink water (to her it's like forcing poison down her throat)
to be left alone (not exactly alone - just out of sight)
her milk to be too warm/too cold (has to be the exact temperature!)
to change diapers (I wonder her back and bum have torns as she doesnt like to lay down)

Well, so far this is what I can think of. Will definitely add on as time goes by.... Stay tune for more exciting updates of Little Norelle!

Baby Norelle busy suckling her lil' fingers