Bruce Lee in the Making 16 Nov '08

That was what ashlynn was doing throughout our dinner at T2. Daddy is off to KL again...

Mummy

Gabby's Birthday Celebration at East Coast Chalet 15 Nov '08

In the morning, we brought Ashlynn for her 9 months developmental assessment. She did not gain much weight, still hovering at the 7.7kg mark, while babies of her age are way off 8kg. Sigh... Her head circumference, height and weight are all in the 25th percentile. So she is considered proportional. What was checked:

1. Her measurements.

2. She had her hearing test. The nurse first took a toy and threw it onto the bed. Ashlynn was seated on daddy's lap. Ashlynn looked at the toy while the nurse held a buzzing device on both her left and right side. Ashlynn was supposed to take her attention off the toy to where the soft buzzing sound came from. It took some time for her left ear as there was quite a commotion outside the room and she was distracted by the noise.

3. Ashlynn was put on the bed. The nurse moved a toy in front of her. In a split second, ashlynn chased after the toy and the nurse praised her.

4. The nurse asked about her feeding patterns. Again, we were told to feed her egg yolk.

5. The nurse placed a little cube on her palm and ashlynn tried to pick it up with her fingers.

This assesment should free of charge as no one told us to proceed to the payment counter. I would say that it is not bad given that it free.

Later in the night, we attended our Carrin's baby boy's 2nd birthday celebration at East Coast Goldkist Resort last night. I had to bring my students for the Mediacorp Sudoku Competition in the afternoon, so we left ashlynn at granny's place. At about 6pm+ when the competition finally ended, I rushed to meet daddy and ashylnn at simei and made our way there. Luckily we made it in time for the cake cutting.

Ashlynn fell asleep when we reached the chalet. So we left her sleeping in the stroller while we had our dinner. Within minutes, we peered through the windows and saw Carrin carrying her. So fast wake up already. She looked puzzled and blur with so many people around. She took some time to warm up and regain her active self. I swear I heard her blabbering to herself. Very soft though.

I think with the stimulation at the chalet, she cried quite a few times in the night. She was screaming and wailing her heads off. I didn't know what was wrong but I changed her top as I felt that the design in front may be prickling her? It is an ON sleepsuit I bought recently.

Mummy's khakis of 13 years?

Gabby with daddy & mummy
Ashlynn being entertained by all the aunties & uncles

Birthday boy

Rheanne with the birthday hat

Mummy

New Stunt 13 Nov '08

Ashlynn just mastered a new skill today. Take a look at the video.

Mummy

Ashlynn's First visit to the Zoo - 09 Nov 08

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, the sky has just cleared after a heavy downpour overnight. We had planned to bring ashlynn to the zoo as we had free admission tickets (grandpa's company family day). He couldn't make it though as he had to work on the day. So me, daddy, granny and ashlynn went ahead.

Mummy woke up early as usual to cook ashlynn's breakfast and prepare some sweet potato and broccoli puree. After that we set off to pick granny up. Ashlynn refused to nap on the car ride to the zoo and we were worried that she will be tired there. Luckily she was rather well-behaved at the zoo despite the super warm weather. We were carrying her most of the time as we wanted to let her see the animals more clearly.

I would think that it will be better if ashlynn is older and can walk. She will enjoy herself more. Yes, she was captivated by the moving animals, but still yet to appreciate these creatures. We will definitely bring her there again when she is older.

On the whole, it was quite an enjoyable trip. We went to MacDonald's after that to cool ourselves down with icy refreshing drinks. Then home sweet home.

Ashlynn's "mum mum"

Waiting to go out

Excited Ashlynn

Happy trio

Nice pic taken by daddy

Self-entertaining in the stroller
Granny 见牙不见眼. We forgot to bring her cap. So granny lend ashlynn her hat.
Time for a pose!
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Ashlynn captivated by the animals

She can fan herself. haha...

Ashlynn is so scared to touch the statues

What is she looking at so intently?

It's this!

Sweaty girl
Close encounter with the peacock

Mummy

Ashlynn's Feeding Times 10 Nov '08

We tried to adjust her feeding times yesterday. But it turned out that she was quite unhappy with the new timings.

Original Feeding Schedule:
6.30am - 150ml FM
9.30am - porridge
12.30pm - 150ml
4pm - cereal with puree
7.30pm - 150ml FM
10pm - 150ml FM

I find this timing really weird. Porridge for breakfast? And cereal as tea break? Seems like no proper lunch and dinner. I don't want Ashynn to grow up with weird eating times.

So, we decided to implement a new timing:
6.30am - 150ml FM
9am - 150ml FM
11+pm - porridge
3.30pm - cereal
7.30pm - 150ml FM
10pm - 150ml FM

It turns out that Ashlynn was very angry and refused to drink a single drop of the milk at 9.30am.

Granny said she will try to improvise further and we shall see how's her feeding times today.

Mummy

Adventure with Daddy-08 Nov

Hahah finally got a chance to bring Ashlynn out on my own, yes only 2 of us.... :P

Went to fetch Ashlynn from my mum to meet Mummy at Redhill MRT.... She showed me a lot of new tricks she learnt- Showing the thumbs up sign and also pushing the toys blocks through the hole with her fingers....

Below are some pics before getting ready for her adventure ride....

Ashlynn first trip on bus and MRT with Daddy wasn't a bad experience.
She was a good gal during the trip, look here look there on the bus and the MRT as well. (her usual Kaypoh behaviour). Maybe she was a bit naughty when she tried to grab the lady (next to us)'s handbag which is quite colourful.

I think people around us might find a man and baby a bit weird as I find that a lot of people were looking at us when we came into the train. Maybe they thought its a "Nai Pa Bai Fen Bai" sequel?
Hahaha......

Maybe Ashlynn next trip with daddy would be her swimming lesson, shopping trip....etc? Who knows......

Daddy

A Weekend Packed with Programmes 09 Nov '08

Yesterday was a busy day for us. In the morning, daddy and I did household chores. As usual I prepared ashlynn's porridge. There was no time for me to prepare any puree for her :(

We rushed to IKEA for lunch as I need to get photo frames for my graduating class. We had lunch at the forever crowded cafe and I actually brought along ashlynn's Yoplait baby yogurt to feed her there. She ate about half of the tub and daddy finished the rest. The tub is simply to big for a baby to finish. I think Yoplait should consider reducing the volume and reducing the price! I don't think I will buy it again. I suspect ashlynn was not taking the yogurt well. But for the restof the day, she kept vomitting her milk out. Quite a number of times actually, which was unlikely of her. She has actually stopped vomiting milk out ever since her little tummy grew bigger to accomodate more food.

We spend quite some time there, especially at the kids department as ashlynn was fascinated with the wide variety of colourful soft toys there. Daddy and I were, too attracted by them.

We were trying to see which toy she likes
The ugly shark is going to eat up baby Ashlynn!!!!
We thought ashlynn will be fascinated by the lights on the x'mas tree. It turned out that she is only interested in the price tag!
Ashlynn looks like daddy?
Or mummy? See, she is even trying to imitate my pose! :) haha.. I think there was a similac pic of us in an earlier pose and I am wearing the same top.
After that we went to GIANT to do grocery shopping. Heinz was having promotion - 2 for $2.48 (if I don't remember wrongly). We bought the custard and dessert flavours but in the end these 2 were not on offer! We also bought her stroller fans - 2 for $9.99. Quite worth it but the colours were not too attractive. After that we rushed home as it was almost meal time.

Ashlynn's 1st time on the trolley. Not too successful. As she bent and hit her face against the side of the trolley. We ended up carrying her for the rest of the shopping trip.
After her meal, we rushed off to United Square to collect her Polo Ralph dress. It is very pretty. I hope she can wear on CNY next year. We may let her wear for Christmas depending on how much ashlynn grows by then. We shopped around and felt that ashlynn was more cranky than usual. She might be tired (from the long day), teething (suspect that her 2 upper teeth are sprouting out) or just naughty.

In the night, she started crying pitifully halfway through her sleep. We didn't know what happened. Daddy was not able to calm her down. We quickly applied the Detinox teething gel for her. She was still wailing off. But when I carried her over, she stopped crying. haha... She prefers mummy? Jealous daddy said it was because the detinox was taking effect. Sour grape! hahaha...

We are going to the zoo today. More updates when we are back!

Mummy