pony tail(s)

recently I've been coming home from school with a ponytail (i.e. ONE ponytail)...

My teacher ties for me.

~ photo taken at ah-ma's kitchen ~

One day, I came home in this and my mummy can't stop laughing at me.

humph!

nice what.

Tip:

photo taken from sammydress.com

It's easier to tie toddler/baby's thin hair with these elastic phonecord hair bands.

available in all hair accessories shops.

Lelong Lelong

Mummy's getting rid of some of my baby toys and clothes.

Mummy and I love them all and she was considering keeping them for my children

but reckon I've outgrown them and we really need to de-clutter!

Come see and get them at the flea market stall she's setting up at

Blk 106 Lor 1 Toa Payoh s310106

tomorrow (Sunday) 13 May 2012

9am to 2pm
We've got toys + baby girls' clothes + nursing dresses and tops + teenage girls' clothes (not mine, nor mummy's) + other barangs.

Some of the items include

Fisher Price Baby's First Blocks

(shape-sorter)
Selling at $5

Fisher Price Snail Pail

Shape sorter cum stacking toy

 Selling at $5

Munchkin Snack Catcher BPA Free
this is not a toy but a snack container that prevents the snack from spilling yet allows baby to put his hand in to take a snack for himself 
Selling at $3


All these and more going from $1 onwards.
come and support us!

All pictures taken from www.toysrus.com

self-feeding with spoon

Me feeding myself with a spoon at 14.5months.
Sorry, don't know why can't upload the video.

Mummy breathed a sign of relief when I finally managed to feed myself with a spoon.
She had hoped that I will be able to feed myself before I turn 18 months cos she's worried that my new school will not actively train me to self-feed.

Anyway, here's what you need to make baby self-feed less messy.

1. bib with catch-all pocket/ tray.
I'm wearing a Bumkins Superbib, available at Mothers Work Baby & Kids, Tanglin Mall Level 3.

My korkor used Sassy EZ-Clean Pocketed Bib and Crumb Catcher Feeding Bib.
(click to see my korkor feed himself at 17months)
These were great too but they comes with cloth binding while the Bumbins bibs are full nylon so it dries faster.

2. Bowl with suction base
(keeps the bowl on the table and from moving about)
Mine's from Sassy - comes with lid so we can bring the bowl out.

3. Newspaper
to cover the floor below baby's high chair so you can just wrap up the messy after the meal.

Babies, have fun feeding yourselves!

My first solid meal

12.12.2010 6 months 4 days old

This is the day I start on solid food.

My korkor helped me put on my bib.

Eagerly waiting to taste solid food.
Organic Brown Rice in this case.

Super Baby Food Tip: use a cup instead of a bowl so that Mummy can hold the bowl cup more easily.
Tip from Jade's Mummy: Beware of Baby grabbing the cup!

Tip from Jade's Mummy: Use a soft tip spoon cos it's gentle on baby's gums.

Super Baby Food tip: Have a wipe-cloth ready. Not for baby to chew on but to wipe baby's mouth, hands, etc.

As you can see, Baby gets messy during mealtime.

Super Baby Food Tip: Give baby a little water after and between meals. Water will help her kidney dilute the more concentrated waste products of solid foods.
Common sense tip: Water helps baby pass motion more easily.

My first solid food experience's been fun though messy.
Appears to Mummy that I will love food like my korkor did, rather, does.


Stock list:
Ikea High Chair with removable tray
Combi soft tip Spoon with Case
Pigeon MagMag Spout Cup

Mirror Mirror on the wall

Mirror, Mirror on the wall cot,
who's the cutest of them all?

Haha!
I like looking into the mirror on my cot.

Mirrors are great toys for babies!

check out how mirrors can help babies develop here.

Rhinestone Babies

Received a surprise gift yesterday!

comes in a nice little package like this.

Wow! it's a romper with my name in Rhinestones!
Glam or what?
Finally, something that's not in pink. haha.

Thanx, Auntie Michelle.

If you're interested in getting a customized baby tee/romper , check them out at
www.rhinestonebabies.com

cute girl needs bottles

me at 2 months 3 days

Thanx, Hong Ah-yi for this romper!

For those who are thinking of getting me a gift,
please get me these

Medela milk bottles.

Mummy has so much excess milk, all our bottles are in the freezer now.

Golden butt

Not so long ago (actually even now), people use cloth nappies

that's my Mummy when she's a baby in 1977.
Notice they didn't even use safety pins but a cloth belt to secure the nappy.

My parents did try to use cloth nappies for my korkor...
until one day...
my korkor's motion dropped out of his cloth diaper from the opening meant for his leg.

So they gave up on cloth diapers and switched toimage taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Pampers NewBorn - disposable diapers.

My korkor has tried other brands like Mummy Poko & Drypers.
Mummy Poko New Born is soft and good too but it was too slippery on my korkor's butt so it kept sliding down his backside. Drypers was good too... until my parents found crystal-like stuff on my korkor's butt especially when the diaper is heavily soiled. So Pampers is THE brand for newborn babies. When it was my turn, the hospital which I was born in used Fitti. So we brought home and used the pack from the hospital. Mummy thinks Fitti is rough at the edges though my papa thinks it's similar to Pampers. but it just nice bao liao end up at my umbilical cord stump so it kept rubbing on the stump and it dropped prematurely causing a mild infection. sigh. now we change back to Pampers.

Pampers New Born Cheapest S$8.45 for a pack of 24 at NTUC Fairprice.
(correct as at 30 June 2010)

So what happened to all those cloth nappies?

Oh... we put them to good use - bed linen, blanket, swaddle cloth, towel, etc.
That's me in the picture, in case you were wondering.
Cloth nappies are great! cos they're so thin - suitable for the humid weather in Singapore.

As for wiping babies' backsides,

image taken from www.unfpa.org.pk

My Mummy remember helping to tear cotton wool from these rolls of them and make them into cotton balls. My grandparents will then use the cotton balls, dip them into water and wipe my XiaoYi's butt when she was a baby back in 1988.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Nowadays, we use baby wipes.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Pigeon's baby wipes are the best so far - no smell and not too wet, not too dry.
others are either too fragrant or too soapy.
the box's great for home use - making sure you take only one piece of wipe with each pull.

image taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Otherwise, you can get the refill pack cheapest from NTUC Fairprice,
pack of 3 x 82 for $9.85 (correct as at 30 June 2010)


To keep baby's butt free from diaper rash, apply a barrier cream (nappy rash cream) after cleaning baby's backside everytime, before putting on the diaper.

image taken from www.eczanemonline.com.tr

Mummy recalls seeing this Drapolene cream being used for all the babies at home so she tried that on my korkor and the effect was not good. It was quite useless for a baby (i.e. my koror) who pass (a lot of) motion after every feed.

They then switched to Desitin.

Desitin Nappy Rash Cream comes in two types:

1. Desitin Creamy (blue box)

Picture taken from www.gmarket.com.sg

Desitin Creamy smells nice, can be applied and wiped off easily.

but for maximum strength, or bad case of diaper rash, use
2. Desitin Original (white/purple box)

Picture taken from happydays-shop.com

But be warned: Desitin Original's got fishy smell and more difficult to wipe/wash away.
Super effective though.

My korkor's Pram

When my parents were choosing a pram for my elder brother (korkor),
they wanted these features:

1. reversible handle
(so that baby can see you while you push the pram. especially useful when baby is fussing)

2. Large wheels
for smooth drive over big gaps.

3. Four-wheel drive aka 4 swivel wheels
Say, if you are buying a car and it has a 2-wheel-drive as well as 4-wheel-drive model, and you do not have limited resources, which will you choose?
4 wheel drive, right?
Same logic.
It is easier to manoeuvre a 4 wheel drive pram than a 2 wheel drive.
This is especially so when u reverse the handle and a 2-wheel-drive has the steering wheels behind - very difficult to manoeuvre.
Hence, a reversible handle should come with a 4-wheel drive.

4. Reclinedable back rest (suitable for new born baby)

5. Leg rest/ pan
Papa thinks babies are very poor thing cos their pram usually doesn't have Leg rest or leg pan so babies' legs are always hanging in the air plus their legs are too short to reach the bar below.

In the end, they settled for a Capella Stroller which has all the features listed above.

That's my korkor, Hann, with his pram in the picture.

For me... of cos I'll using the same pram.
it's very durable you know?
I'll be the 3rd baby using this.

When my brother was a baby, Capella was the only brand that has prams with 4 swivel wheels.

Currently, those Capella strollers that come with leg rests are very heavy (8kg+) compared to my korkor's 5.5kg.

8.9kg CAPELLA Adonis Premium Stroller S707 ('09)
Picture taken from www.babysuperstore.com.sg

Actually 5kg is not considered lightweight, but it's ok for my mummy cos she will just push the pram from our door all the way to the mrt station and off they go for their outing.
Mummy often found my korkor asleep in his stroller upon reaching home from an outing.
Looking forward to my own outings with Mummy!

Combi has since caught up and their COMBI Miracle Turn series also have 4 swivel wheels.
Heard its wheels are small though.
Combi is more expensive than Capella though.

TJT450 - Combi - Miracle Turn
picture taken from www.babysuperstore.com.sg


As for the very popular (for some reason unknown to my parents) and expensive Maclaren, they are not in the consideration for my parents at all cos they think the design is mechanically unsound.
See my korkor's previous post on this.