Friday, August 31, 2012

Baby Yang Updates

It has been months since I updated my blog.
My baby Yang is now 6 months plus. I would like to jot down some milestones just to keep as reference.
On 30 June 2012 (at 4 months and 20 days), he started to roll over without us helping to push his butt.
During last week of July, he had fever and diarrhea, then we realised his first tooth erupting from his sore gums. No wonder he had been gnawing a lot.

On 16 Aug 2012 (around 6 months), he had his 3rd Hepatitis B jab and weighed 8.1kg (only slight increase from last month due to his sickness) and measured at 71cm (a sharp increase from 60cm at 3 months). Not bad, considering he has a short mum but luckily his mum managed to find a tall dad for the sake of taller offspring. Haha!

I started introducing solilds to him as below and I am glad that he eats everything I have prepared:
5 months & 2 weeks: 1 scoop of Organic Mix Cereals once per day
5 months & 3 weeks: 2 scoops of Organis Mix Cereals once per day
6 months: 2 scoops of Organic Mix Cereals once per day + strained organic veges like carrots, pumpkin or brocolli. Sometimes 1 scoop of Cereals in the evening
6 months 1 week: Organic rice porridge with mashed veges like carrots, pumpkin, brocolli and 1/2 tsp of organic coconut oil. I fed him only once per day.
6 months 2 weeks: Same as 6 months 1 week preparation but I feed him 2 times per day. Added salmon (mashed) a few times and he likes this combination.

He is fully fed on breastmilk. So this mum is busy with lots of daytime expressing and night time feeding. Hopefully after introducing solids, I can decrease my expressing frequency from 4 times to 3 so that I can do more work at home.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Something New

Hubby (Fiance at that time) and I bought our first car when we started working in Johor. We had some savings that we brought back from working part-time in UK. It was quite substantial for fresh graduates like us after converting those British Pounds to Malaysian Ringgit. So we were able to buy a new car even before we got our first paycheck.




Our first car, Proton Wira

For 10 years, we used this car to cart us to and fro our workplaces, outings (Cameron Highlands, KL, Melaka, Pahang, Singapore) and occasionally our plantation. We did not really take good care of this car except scheduled servicing. Car washing was never a priority.

After 10 years of usage, the car began showing its age with more and more repairs needed and the amount for repair/ service was increasing each time. Our family was expanding. From two of us as a couple to two girls and one baby on the way. Using saloon car was not feasible anymore because I insisted our girls must sit on booster seat with seat belt and baby would need to be in car seat. Two booster seats and a car seat would not be able to fit into a saloon car. After much consideration, the solution was
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to purchase a 7-seater car.






Since January, we are able to enjoy more space in the car. I look forward to more outings as a family of 5 after my confinement in March.