Tanya is 6 months! =)

In a blink of an eye, another month has passed; and I haven't updated my blog this past month :( Many things have happened, like Tanya flipping over (finally! late, i know), Tanya thriving on her organic rice cereal, but I'm waiting til her to be 6 months to start other foods. I wanted to try avocado but couldn't ripen it. Gonna try again this weekend with a brown paper bag =), me returning to the poly for training of a new system we'll be using, and me finding out from there, much to my disappointment, that my pump output is too low, so we've started supplementing her with formula. Basically its been too busy for me to update much. Now I've just finished my training so waiting for half hour more before knock off =) thats the problem with training in the office, you have to hang around until knock off time anyway. bleah. Her appointment with PD for her jab is next tuesday. hopefully got chance to update more often.

Updated: reading backward then realised that I didn't mention she is NOT sleeping through the night yet =P indeed it was a fluke, but it happened again last night. So hopefully this means she is just about ready to sleep through..?

5th Month jab

Brought baby to PD for her 5th month jab. Very good girl leh! First time i think she slept through the night w/o waking up for milk. But hehe i think is fluke lah. Will give her more time to sleep thru night =) and at the PD, didn't cry at all when taking her injection! surprised me really. The first jab she cried until the babies outside oso cry lol. 2nd time she cried a bit when the needle went in. Today very good, din cry at all. Plus finished the rotarvirus vaccine in the syringe. =) Now she totally exhausted and cleeping. Love you my brave baby girl!

Bye Bye Baby

Today for the first time, I left baby in the care of my in laws, for almost full day. They came over for her morning bottle feed as per normal and then brought her home as usual. I went over for lunch bringing along her next milk feed. Then since I need to go back to work on 20th, I suggested that I leave her there and come back again at about 3pm with her next 2 feeds. My in laws agreed so here I am, home alone sans baby :( very mixed feeling. wonder how will it be like when i go back to work

First solid

Had really wanted to wait for her organic food to arrive before starting her on solids but there was some delay. I couldn't really wait liao so used the nestle sample pack to try. hee; would rate it fairly successful with most of it going into her but of course i didn't mix a lot. also the mixture was disappointingly watery. doesn't seem like 'solids' at all. lol but she seemed to enjoy it =) will post up the video after ming compress it. now; should i continue tomorrow?

Feel like a dog

coz i keep looking out for the postman these days lol i love getting stuff from the mail. feels like buying surprise presents for myself! lol sis says i should go back to work, then not so eng haha

i ordered some stuff online, like milk tea, rompers, sleepers and baby cubes.
i got my hands on some milk tea and fenugreek online in preperation for me going back to work. Boss juz asked me come back late march for training so must get ready le. rompers and sleepers coz baby juz outgrows clothes so fast. need more home clothes for next stage. although i juz bought many stuff from the pumpkin patch and fox baby sales, but i guess those are more for outing use?

and... baby cubes! hee juz can't wait to start solids. waiting for my organic food to arrive. hope i dun cave in and start her first. would like to start wif organic leh. but i already washed out all the cubes haha. i also opened my nestle cereal =) if the cubes dun arrive soon, i juz might start her le...

o yes! and my new patchwork blanket is completed! A-Z series! Thanks to my cousin who recommended it as a way to teach Tanya the alphabet! hehe altho she a bit young now. but she loves her personalised one. the alpahbet one is bigger so can last her when she outgrows her name one =)

Baby ball games

look what i found online



Fantastically Fun Ways to Play with Your Baby or Toddler with Ball Play
Did you know that a simply ball can provide so much fun for your child? I had no idea until I accidentally discovered ball play. Read on to see the ball play exercises that excite every young child.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/439876/fantastically_fun_ways_to_play_with.html

4th month - ready for Solids

Many things have been happening in her 4th month. I would say she's much better now, more stable and predictable, aside from me trying to train her and some nights she still wake up and dun wanna slp. But she's taking well to the bottle now. We decided to stick with NUK even though she takes well to Evenflo too. I like the air flow system that reduces her colic. So we went to buy the NUK glass bottle so its BPA free, albeit a bit more costly.

I'm super looking forward to starting her on solids. I've placed an order on an organic BP for Bellamy's. Their tiny tummies are not yet equipped to digest chemicals like pesticides etc so many recommend starting off with organic food. I also stocked up on Heinz jar foods. haha probably after her 5th month jab on 6th March, we'll start the solids with the bumbo, since haven't buy high chair yet.