Refusing to Drink Milk - 31 Aug '08

I dunno what's wrong wif ashlynn but she has started to reject milk again. We usually give her 180ml (that was the volume she was drinking a few weeks back). These days, she is like a preset timer. She will struggle when she hits the 120ml marking. we will try to pacify and make her drink. then second time is at the 80ml marking. I wonder how she knows when to stop. Daddy is better in making her drink. I always fail to get her to drink and I will lose my temper. Yesterday I tried scolding her, hitting her little palm. But still no use. Daddy will try to engage in weird positions to make her drink.

Look at the pics.

Ashlynn wif her retro hat at Crystal Jade. Yes, it's the one knitted by granny. She started slipping down her baby seat so we took her out after awhile. She is bitting on to something all day long. But no signs of teeth yet.
I put on a hairclip for her and daddy laughed non-stop. Ashlynn not knowing that she is being mocked at, joined in the laughter. Silly baby...

Mummy

1 Week Break - 30 Aug '08

It's the start of the Sep hols. Looking forward to spend a fruitful one week with ashlynn. so far we have plans as follows:
Sat 30 Aug - Vivocity shop shop
Sun 31 Aug - BJG, visit to ah ma's house and collect stuff from BP.
Mon 01 Sep - Hep B vaccination at Tampines Polyclinic and Singapore Flyer!

Though looking forward to the break. But it is not exactly a break after all. I have got 3 piles of Add Maths Prelim papers to mark, exam sitting arrangement to plan, invigilation schedule to relook at, SEM, E-learning day and most important - my little princess to look after. Feel kinda stress that I can't complete my work. Lucky granny say I can bring ashlynn over so that I can do some work.

Seems like ashlynn is not drinking well again. I hope this will pass soon.

Made pea puree for ashlynn today. She took it well with her cereal and was able to finish most of it :)

Ashlynn with her new toy

Ashlynn and her new friend
Smiley ashlynn


Pea pureeMummy

Sweet Potato Affair - 24 Aug '08

It has been raining on and off since friday. We brought ashlynn out for breakfast at Ah Mei Cafe at East Point followed by grocery shopping. Happened to see some sweet potatoes and decided to make sweet potato puree for ashlynn today.

It was a total disaster making the puree. Firstly, it took me 40 min in all to steam the sweet potatoes until I found it soft enough. Secondly, I didn't manage collect any juice from the steaming process. All I had was the water vapour. Thirdly, after blending the sweet potato, it became a huge lump of plasticine looking lump which I could fling about and bounce. Not wanting to waste my effort, I added some hot water to soften it and mixed it with the rice cereal to feed ashlynn. Lucky she ate it without much complaint.

Think I will never make sweet potato again as later on, granny and ah ma told us that sweet potato will cause air in ashlynn's little tum tum.

I kept thinking I bought Japanese sweet potatoes. Daddy told me he saw that it was Vietnamese sweet potatoes on the packaging. How blur can I get.

Looks horrible right? This is how it looks like after adding water.
Mummy

Saturday - 23 Aug 2008

Ashlynn is due for her 3rd Hep B vaccination today. We brought her to Tampines Polyclinic and were waiting for our turn when the nurse came forward to inform up that she can't take her jab today!! Reason is because her last 5-in-1 jab was less than a month away. I was quite mad as I remembered asking Dr Keoy can or not. He said no problem. What a wasted trip. After that we went to Parkway Parade for lunch and stock up on a couple of electrical appliances from Best Denki. We bought a steamer, a handheld vacuum cleaner, a shaver and mini slow cooker. We only paid $25 in all as daddy had a $300 voucher from a lucky draw.

In the evening, we met up with our usual clique to celebrate Carrin yiyi's birthday. We had our dinner at Jack's Place at Great World City. There, we realised that ashlynn was able to sit in the baby seat and she was actually quite steady in it.






Mummy

Solid Foods Update:

Ashlynn's Solid Foods Diary:

22 July: 1 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30ml BM/FM

03 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus one spoonful of Gerber pear puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

06 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of Gerber banana puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

09 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of homemade apple puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

10 Aug: 3 level teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of mashed avocado mixed into her rice cereal. She doesn't seem to enjoy it that much.

12 Aug: 3 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM. Pumpkin as snack. She likes it!

17 Aug: 3 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM plus homemade carrot puree. She likes it! But I think I didn't puree it well, so she regurgitated her milk a few times. 1/2 Heinz teething rusk mixed with 30 ml BM. She enjoyed it so much that she keeps wanting more. Cried when she finished everything.

18 Aug: 3 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM plus homemade steamed papya. She likes it.

Her Heinz rice cereal is finishing, she is starting on the Nestle rice cereal probably today.

Mummy

Home Alone - 16 Aug '08

Daddy was away for reservist, leaving ashlynn and I alone at home. How I spent the day - did some simple housework, feed her, make puree, play with her, do my school work while keeping a watch on her, eat, snack, watch tv. I realised that alot could be done if we stayed at home instead of going out.


Ashlynn had pumpkin puree during her snacktime.



Taking care of a baby is really not easy. When ashlynn was younger, she needed to be carried all the time. She had lots of skin problems which made us heart pain. And she also had drinking problems which got us worried. Now she is older, she is always out to do dangerous stunts and we have to keep contant watchout for her.

Look at what she did last night. I was pumping at the table and she was sleeping. Somehow the phone rang and woke her up. She starting flipping continuously in all directions and ended up on the floor between the mattress and the table. I couldn't save her as I was halfway through pumping, so I decided to let her learn a "lesson". Yet she happily laid there banging the leg of the table and even attempted to flip onto her tummy with the space constraint. Later on, when I was done then I put her back onto the mattress. I left the room to keep the milk. Within minutes I heard a "bang" sound and realised that she has flipped again and I guess she hit herself against the leg of the table. She cried and I guess she knew it was her fault. She stopped crying immediately after I picked her up. Really, babies at this age needs constant attention.

When will daddy come back :(

Mummy

More Pictures of the Wongs

Ashlynn's new toy
Mashed avocado

Ashlynn having her "breakfast"
Ashlynn can sit without leaning back

Ashlynn enjoying the taste of her spoon
Act cute
Waiting for her food
First taste of avocado
Mummy's recipe book
Daddy & Ashlynn at Sushi Tei
What is daddy telling ashlynn?

Funny face

Act cute again?

Look at her little belly! She hasn't pooped for 2 days when this pic was taken. hopeless dark rings on mummy's eyes. sob...

Cool ashlynn

Our princess in new clothes from Elle

At Coffee Bean at Parkway Parade - one of our favourite hangouts on Sundays She is amazed by the "V" hand sign.
Mummy

Quiet Ashlynn 12 Aug '08

Ashlynn doesn't really like to talk. She is very quiet most of the time. I wonder if it's normal.

She has her first taste of pumpkin today prepared by granny. Granny said she will prepare it for her everyday. Erm... no need to be everyday right? Can include some variety of foods mah...

Mummy

Some Photos...

Homemade apple puree

Waiting for food

Trying the taste first

Finish!
Activity time!

All in red. Happy National Day!

Mummy

Food Dairy

Ashlynn's solids diary:
22 July: 1 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30ml BM/FM

03 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus one spoonful of Gerber pear puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

06 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of Gerber banana puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

09 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of homemade apple puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

10 Aug: 3 level teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus 2-3 spoonfuls of mashed avocado mixed into her rice cereal. She doesn't seem to enjoy it that much.

I guess the the avocado might not be ripe enough. And i should have pureed it. Coz it seemed to chunky for ashlynn to take. Later in the afternoon, bits of avocado came out when she regurgitated her milk out. I will hold back avocado for awhile.

Today, I intend to prepare a few servings of apple puree and freeze it so that granny can use it in the next few days.

Mummy

Happy National Day Singapore - 08 'Aug 2008

Really had lots of fun with ashlynn and daddy this weekend. We didn't do anything special in particular, maybe I know I am having a long weekend ahead (monday is a school holiday), I can enjoy myself without feeling too stressed up. There is still a pile of work to clear, but who cares, family is my top priority now. We went down to takashimaya baby fair on sat. We spent a lot just at the fair itself. Finally we bought a car seat for ashlynn. It was a maxi cosi - Toby model priced at $438. The original price was $600+. We also bought other stuff like potty, 4 for $10 clothes, crawler toy, food storage containers and wet wipes. We went for dinner at Sushi Tei and walked around for awhile. Fed ashlynn then back to the baby fair for a second round before we returned home.

On Sun, we did housework, went to east point for lunch and did our grocery shopping then went over to granny's place for awhile to pick up something. We took a nap. It has been ages since I took a nap with ashlynn around! Thank you daddy for helping out so that I can rest. Initially we planned to go to centrpoint for the robinsons sale and also to the mothercare outlet to collect ashlynn's nestle goodie bag. But because it was quite late already, we decided to go parkway parade. Mummy bought a book - First Foods. It's on weaning and intoducing solids. Daddy bought a pair of pants from G2000.

On monday, daddy has to go for reservist. again!! so mummy won't be bringing ashlynn home at night for the week. sob...

will update photos later cos mummy left the cable in school.

Mummy

Over the Weekend 02 Aug - 03 Aug '08

Sat

We brought ashlynn to POSB to open an account for her expenses and savings. We din put the account under her name as we wanted more flexibility over the transfer of funds in this account.

Mummy had school activity so daddy brought ashlynn to Weirong uncle and Meiping yiyi house to play. After that we went to the NATAS fair but is was super duper crowded. We decided to come back early morning on Sunday to avoid the crowd. Went to ikea tampines and bought 2 packets of bibs for ashlynn.

Went home early to put ashlynn to bed. She had a long day outside and didn't sleep much.

Sun

Went to NATAS fair in the morning. When we reached there at 11am, it was already very crowded. We bought our admission tickets and went for breakfast. Walked around and decided that we will travel to hong kong at the end of the year. Without ashlynn. kinda bad of us. But she is still too young. We left without booking as we wanted to think about it. Went to ah ma's house for lunch. Then went to Autobacs to buy air filter. Went for early dinner at East point and to buy Similac for ashlynn. Went home to bathe and feed ashlynn, then we went back to NATAS fair again. Finally settled for the ASA free and easy package. $893. So ex! Anyway, will be looking forward to this 4D3N trip with daddy.

Ashlynn's solids dairy:
22 July: 1 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30ml BM/FM
03 Aug: 2 teaspoon Heinz rice cereal + 30 ml BM/FM plus one spoonful of Gerber pear puree mixed into her rice cereal. She likes it!

This lazy mummy has not explored and read up more about introducing more variety of solids to ashlynn. will do so soon and update in the blog.

Ashlynn on bumbo. She can now seat for quite long and is steady.

Deep in thought...
innocent look
Mummy