Photolog of Athena from Birth till now....

13 Mins Old
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@ 8 Months

She's 8 months' old today

Yes, indeed. We have crossed another milestone and she's officially 8 mths' old today!!! Wow, time passed really fast :) Still, i cant wait for her to walk and talk, like my niece now. In case some of you are wondering, yes, she still wakes up at least 3 times at nite. I have learnt not to have any expectation...

Called up kindermusic yesterday. Yes, the kai-su-izm in me are thinking of enrolling her some classes over the weekends. Actually, i think deep down, i jus want to have some programs over the weekends so that i wont feel so tired entertaining her 24 hours. At least i have some distraction for her. :p Dunno y but except for Kindermusic, cant seems to find other classes available for her. In case, some of you scold me abt the KS thingy, fyi, she's put on waiting list for her age-group in all the lessons available over weekend. So obviously, i am already too late....

My younger sis has been contemplating whether to work part-time (not tt she's really on 9-5 timing now) so that she can spend more time with her gal. She's a tutor in a private tuition center. Her working hours are like 4pm - 9pm eg... but 6 days' week. And yet, she complained. Especially my niece is ready for playgroup now which are usually in the mornings, so she's concerned tt her time with her gal is shortened. Unfortunately, i think financially, it will be tight on her family. i told her it's a matter of life-style. My best fren quited her well-paid job to be a stay home mum and her hubby prob earns abt $2.5k - $3k monthly. Yet, they survived. Wat it means = less toys for her child, less clothes for herself and less eating-out. And no more facials, manicure and pedicures of cos!!!! Which my sis is quite ONZ on such things...

I told her tt in my case, i only see my gal not more than 2 hours during the weekdays. I am back at my mum's place abt 7++ pm while my gal is usually sleepy at abt 9++pm. (Mayb tt's y during weekends, i am so uptight abt spending every of her waking moments with her) and yet, staying at home has never crossed my mind. Cos' i always believe in providing best for my gal. In terms of food and future enrichment classes. TT's when my sister tells me tt her priority is different. She rather spend time with her gal physically vs sending her to the best pre-school. While, i think i rather earn $$ and send her to better pre-schools. So am i too mercenary as i prefer to spend $$ to let other pp teach my kid than teaching her myself? Am i really spending too little time on her????

These are the questions tt i've been asking myself everyday.... so this morn, instead of continuing to sleep when she wakes up at 6am (i usually passed to the maid after i feed her and go back to sleep), i woke up and spend at least 30 min with her b4 hubby bring her to my mum's place...

So now, the day has yet to be started and z-monster is attacking me now... ZZZZZ.......

Baby Teeth

Yup, it's confirm. Bb is growing teeth! She has 2 obvious ones at the bottom of her gums and we can see slight ones on her top.

And, bf is a teenie weenie painful now. Ouch!!! However, she still cant crawl which she shld be since she's coming to 8 mths now. How, the kan-cheong devil in me is worried abt missing this milestone. Does that means that her motoring skills are slower than others? A mother's worries seems to be endless......

She's happily eating cereal and porridge now. My mum told me tt she's not drinking milk much. Oh, but she love her porridge! It prob could be the fact tt she's eating new food now which looks and taste more interesting than her milk. hahahaa....

But she's still not poo-ing daily. She could be constipated as long as no-go 4 days' in a row... My mum is worried, i am worried and her gong-gong also worried... PD said she shld go daily when she eat solids. But for Athena, it seems the other way rd. Sigh... another worry...

Short and fat???

Brought bb to see a newPD at Hougang mall over the weekend. We are planning to give her one of the optional shots and instead of bringing her to see Dr Ong that is always super pack (u have to wait to 45 min - 1 hr even with appt), we decided to give the new PD a try.

They open at 9am and we were the first patients, mayb tt's y she spends quite a bit of time with us. I told her i am a bit concerned abt her ht as she's only 64cm now. When she plotted the chart, her height belongs to the 25% percentile while her weight is a hefty 8.21kg (it belongs to the 75% percentile). So as parents, of cos' my concern is whether she's going to be short and fat.. Dr Tay laughed at my concerns. She ensured me tt bb may shot up in any of their growing yrs. And given tt both hubby and me are quite tall, she shld have inherited our tall genes. Well, hopefully so. Me dun wan bb to have short and stumpy legs like me :P

She is a young mother too and she breastfed her boy till he was 10 mths old. So she can relate much to our concerns. One good news i heard is tt i shldnt excercise too much when i am breastfeeding cos, the milk will become too acidic... Hurray, hurray. What a perfect reason not to excercise. Haahaaaa..... she also mentioned tt flash cards work but only for stay-home mums. She tried doing tt but lack of time and committment, it doesnt really work for her. :)

Chinese New Year!!!

It's baby's first CNY and we are all so excited!!

I kept some of new clothes from frens to be wore only during CNY. And will ask hubby to upload all those dresses tt she wore on this blog. She looks so adorable with her dresses and botak head. :P

Actually i had a hard time finding dresses for this CNY. As i am still breastfeeding, the dresses' neckline must be wide enf for me to feed her. Finally i bought the dresses but to my dismay, the red one which i specially bought for the occassion cannot be wore on the first day cos Rabbits "fan Tai Sui" this year. So preferably not to wear red... sigh, no choice but got to make do with some other dresses. This yr, i also decided not to rebond my hair. One key reason is tt bb is learning to pull my hair. I discourage it, firstly it's painful, "ouch" and also hygene reason as she will put her hands into her mouth after tt. So i got to tie up my hair and if i rebond, it's a waste of $$ if i need to tie up.

We can also finally recoup the $$ we've been giving out for the past 4 yrs. Heehee.. actually havent count her angbao yet. Will keep u guys posted.

Let me bug hubby to upload the pix...they are really cute!