This what happens when your 2 year old forgets that she’s got a baby sister who sits on the floor most the time, picking up things that she isn’t suppose to.
What you see if KR after chomping down on a non-toxic green marker that Arianna uses to color. I’m not worried coz its non-toxic but even so, it’s looks so scary! I know my Mum would freak out but never fear, Nanna…it’s all good. :) Washes out very easy and well to!
Yesterday, I heard the bestest news ever from my best friend! :) We met when we were in college and although we didn’t hit off on the spot – I thought she looked weird dressed up in those really silly elephant pants, somehow, we ended up being the best of friends! :)
We share all our secrets, hopes and dreams, heart aches and heart breaks, and most of all, we share our happiness and I dare say that she is the other sister I wished I had – I have a younger sister, you see. :) Anyhow, yesterday she told me excellent news which is….she’s is expecting her 1st baby!!! How exciting is that???? :)
I was over the moon and still on this baby-high really. lol You’d think that I was the one having the baby. :) Although I cannot afford to get her any certified diamonds, I’m certainly looking forward to making some clothes for her baby. :) I don’t know if she reads this blog but I hope not! At least KR will have a playmate about her age. Can’t wait to see bub…I think she/he should be arriving in Sept so I told her to hang on and have bub on 22/9 – my birthday! lol
Congrats, piggy…so happy for you and Roger!!! ((hugs))
My day is never dull when both the girls are awake. More so if they are both in a good mood and leave alone! lol That said, I’m so blessed to have them really. They are good kids and I really couldn’t ask for more. Of course there are times when I just want to sell them off to the gypsies or when it gets really bad, I’d give them away for free – heck, I’ll even pay for postage but more often than not, I wouldn’t. :)
These days, KR is more independant and can stand her own. Meaning that if Arianna tries to bully her by snatching something she was holding, she’d be sure to voice out that she won’t have it that way. It’s really funny to watch. :P And sometimes, when she is in a foul mood, I normally just hold her up and she sits at the pc with me while I am online but because we have 2 desktop computers [yes, plus a laptop too! Unbelieable right?], she normally sit at the one where there is more leg space coz otherwise, we’d both get squashed!
Anyway, whenever she is at the pc with me, she can never keep her arms to herself and always ends up messing the keyboard and opening up multiple window using short keys which I never knew existed! Less than 1 year old and she knows more than me….how unfair! :P I dont always have her in front of the pc is you’re thinking that I do, but the occasional times that she is, it is so not easy to do anything.
All thanks to the long arms of Kathleen-Rose! :)
I’m kind of lagging behind with the updates and pix so this is the latest I could come up with. :) This time, it’s only KR coz somehow, I don’t seem to be taking many pix these days. Don’t know why….anyhow, here they are. :)
Kathleen-Rose at 8 months
These are some of the reasons why people have kids. :P So we can take silly pix of them now and use it as bribe in the future! *lol*
Helloooooo….. :) *cranking her neck to catch a view of me*
Sitting in Daddy’s chair like the Godfather. Arianna has a similar shot as well. I will have to dig it out one day to compare. :)
Pulling funny faces. She loves this and this is one where she’s scrunching up her nose. :P
Development wise, I’d say that she is no different from Arianna except when it comes to solids of course. I am trying to get her to fast-track in the department but you really can’t. They take their own sweet time really. Never mind, as long as she is eating, I think it’s really alright. Weight wise, I think she is also doing well. I’m not sure what her weight is but it is enough for me to sometimes wish she could walk up the stairs by herself! lol
Finally, we have teeth! :) Yes, I can actually feel the sharp edges hence, it is official. :) At the moment, I can only feel one but I can see the second bottom one coming up as well. So it wont be long before I can get her to chomp on rusk and cheese sticks. :) Vocally, she has quite a pair of lungs on her. She can stand her own if Arianna were to grab a toy from her. She definitely voices out her disapproval quite clearly. And once, when Arianna accidentally bumped into her, light….o my, she made sure I knew about it. Screamed her head off! You’d think Arianna kicked her in the head! lol So I think I foresee a whistle blower. lol
Other than that, I am still enjoying this babyhood very much. As long as I get her at the right time and put her to bed then, we are good. Otherwise, it would be like hell on earth!! Also, I dare say that if she is asleep at MIL’s, Ted and I can easily slip away for a coffee by ourselves. We can’t do any Paris vacations just yet but I think it won’t be long before we can truly do it! :) It’s definitely something that I am extremely happy about.
I can’t believe that she’s growing so fast. I always tell her to not grow up too fast coz I’ll miss her but I know it is impossible. But her growing up so fast gives Ted a reason to bug me to try for another!!! >.<
KR is 9 months now and technically, she is still toothless. I think babies are just so adorable when all you can see if their gums when they give you a big smile. :) I simply cannot get enough of it but most recently, I could see a tiny white speck and suspected that it was teeth.
My suspicion was confirmed coz I can actually feel the sharp edge now! :) And with this new found ‘tool’, everything need a chomp before anything else can happen. This also includes the plumbing fixtures especially the faucet in the bathroom! We certainly have to be careful when we are in the shower just in case the worst happened. But till todate, we havent heard from anyone just yet. Hence, all is good.
Now I just need to get her used to washing her hair, the same way. :P
http://www.faucet.com.
The link must only contain the phrase plumbing fixtures.
It’s official, I think I’m definitely at the end of the road when it comes to bf-ing KR, directly that it. She won’t nurse at the breast anymore hence, I’ve been expressing with the pump as often as I can. I knew that once she stopped at the breast, the supply would drop but I didn’t expect it to drop so much!!! :( Anyhow, rather than dwell on the fact that I can’t express much these days, I’ve decided to purchase some nursing tea that I previously mentioned.
I may have gone a tad bit overboard coz I ended up purchasing this and this. I don’t know for sure if it will work or not but if it doesn’t, then I’ll just treat it as my normal daily dose of tea, but if it does….guess I can officially open the milk bar again! :) The other thing that one of the girls from my forum told me is to make nursing cookies which contains flaxseed and brewer’s yeast. And it MUST be brewer’s yeast and nothing else. So I might try that out too, aftter I get the ingredients of course. :)
Now, what’s been happening with KR? Well, she is more than happy to take her milk in the bottle which is weird coz Arianna never liked it and first had her bottle when she was close to 1 year old. KR can already hold the bottle up to feed herself! The funny things about KR is that when she does drink her milk, she must have it upright. Eg. she has to be sitting upright with her head tilted and not lying down. If I attempted to feed her by trying to get her to lie down, all hell breaks lose and she will scream her lungs out! I really don’t know what’s with that.
And the last 2 times she had her milk, she insisted that we stood up and give her the bottle. Too much right? =.= But I guess things could be worst, eh? On the solids front, she’s having more mashed foods now as compared to pureed. I admit that we started a little late on solids but I think this slight change in texture just means that she is ready to move on to more coarser textures. That said, I have been meaning to give her cheese sticks but member got no teeth so I don’t know what good it will be and also if yogurt and cheese would give her any bowel issues. I might just try a small piece and she how she takes to it and then take it from there.
I seriously couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this today while waiting for my train to work, it’s my first day! :D Anyhoo, I was minding my own business waiting for the train when this rather heavily pregnant woman sat beside me. At first I really didn’t notice her at all until I saw her lighting a cigaratte!! @.@
I mean seriously!!! She was that heavily pregnant that if she went over a speed bump, she could seriously go into labour. She was that preggers. And what the heck was going through her mind to be smoking in this condition is beyond me. I had half a mind to tell her off that if she didn’t care that she died of lung cancer, have pity on the innocent child. Poor thing is not only getting unwilling poluted because he/she’s got a stupid cow for a mum, but also facing the potential of ending up an orphan if that cow gets lung cancer and dies on him/her!! And to top if off, she was polluting MY air space!! That’s just super unfair and selfish of the mum-to-be, imho.
I know of friends who have quit because they found out they were preggers. In fact, one of them totally gave up even after bub came along while the other one just went back to her old ways of clubbing and drinking after bub came along. That is another one I cannot understand…but who am I to judge right? Haiz, how people can be that selfish is beyond me la.
And a very sad one at that too! :(
About 4 days ago, while watching Harry Potter, Ted laughed out loud and it sort of took KR by surprise and she wasn’t impressed by it and began to cry. So after calming down, she was very fussy and didn’t want to nurse. I just assume it was because she was upset, had teeth coming in and also coz I did have some wine that night. However, since that day, she has refused to nurse any more. Hence, I have been expressing milk as often and as much as I can as I did not see this coming. On top of that, my backup frozen milk also finished faster than I could stock up coz of this unexpected turn of events.
Needless to say, that as much as I have been pumping, my supply has dwindled so low that it’s not funny anymore. In fact, it’s quite sad and pathetic. I had aimed to continue bf-ing her until 2 yrs old but now, she’s only 9 months come 28/1/10 and she’s already weaned herself off me. :( I am very sad and upset about this. I feel that I have shortchaged her, health wise and that this will cause her to lose out on the goodness of booby juice. Also, I just absolutely hate to pump. I think it takes such a lot of effort when I could just easily pop one out. *sigh*
Hence, she’s current on 1/2 bm and 1/2 formula to begin with but last night I tried her on all formula and she was ok with it. So although I am still expressing I don’t know how long the supply will be in for. As it is, it takes ages to get 100ml from both boobs sometimes. I have to literally squeeze the living daylights out of them. *Ouchies indeed!* Seeing that I am also now back at work for awhile, it has become a little handy with formula. While someone I know is trying to stop breastfeeding as she feels that she’s done her part and that it is difficult looking after her bub full time coz she is sleep deprived from late night expressing, I am one who is trying so hard to get back on the horse!
I wish we could exchange boobs! Her supply is just overflowing…. *sigh* She doesn’t know how blessed she is!!! I wish I could tell her that when you have a baby, it’s no longer all about ‘I’….’I’ doesn’t exist anymore once you’ve had a baby. It’s no longer about you, my dear. But because I do not want to hurt your feelings and tell you that perhaps you were not ready to have this child yet, I am keeping my mouth shut. I pity your baby….I really do. Anyways, I think I might look into getting some sort of nursing tea to help with the supply like this and this. I’m waiting to hear back from the girls in my sewing forum and see what feedback I can get.
Someone also mentioned to me that I should eat more during meals which it actually suddenly occurred to me that I hadn’t really been eating much lately. Just not really that hungry and well, kind of lost my appetite. Even Ted has noticed that I am not as crazy over food as I used to be. And no, I am not taking those products my friends keep insisting is the best weight loss products around. I am not trying to lose weight at all. If at all, I am just maintaining my current weight. I can’t afford to lose too much weight as I’m sure it will effect KR in more ways than 1.
ALSO…..did you know that KR’s formula milk is more expensive than Arianna’s??? It’s insane, I tells ya!! Anyhoo, off to wallow in sadness over this lost of a most intimate and precious bond…..
If you haven’t noticed, Arianna hair has grown a fair bit. I guess for most of the time, I tie it up coz it’s summer now and honestly, although it’s HER hair, I get all ‘rimas’ [a loose Malaysian term for uncomfortable] because her hair is all over her face and in her face and omg, it just drives me nuts! It’s no help that Ted is always at me to leave her hair down. I know she’s got nice curls and I like them lots too but certainly not in this weather, I will not. Perhaps come the cooler weather, I can just tie up the front bit which is causing the most irritation to me. :P
Sadly, with those curls comes lots of tangles. :( Yes, and as much as I hate having to comb her hair, I have to otherwise it will get worst over time. I keep forgetting to get that de-tangler solution which is formulated for kids hair until today. I knew I married Ted for a reason. :P He remembered to get it while he was out and it has been God-sent I tell you!!! It’s an organic based one which is great and apparent is a brand that is quite exposed in the world of kids with tangled hair. And it is a wonder!!! O, wait a minute, did I already say that? :P Well, I just had to say it again.
Being a hot day today, we had the kids out on the balcony in buckets of cool water and after about 1 hour, brought them in to have a bath and I washed Arianna’s hair. Immediately after, I dried her hair and gave the spray a go and omg, tangle-free!!! No more whinging and whining from the little miss…thank you God!
Anyway, this just reminded me of the time when I was growing up and had all this skin issues and I was always getting stuff to help cure them. Anything would do and if it worked on someone, I’d give it a go. I should have realised that I should have gone with a exposed acne solution rather than to try everything on the shelf. But thankfully, those days are behind me. I sometimes wonder and I really do hope with all my might that the girls do not inherit this awful skin gene for me.
I would not wish it on anyone at all, especially my girls. *Fingers, eyes and toes crossed*
I actually just recently noticed that Arianna tends to sing along more when certain songs on telly comes on. This is mainly all the shows that she watches like Chuggington, Waybuloo and some ads on tv too. It’s so funny coz she pretty much sort of hums along and then suddenly there is this outburst because she knows for sure what the word is or if it sounded like a simple word she could pronounce.
Even MIL commented the other day how she was singing and was very happy to hear it. I just think it’s hilarious and I hope to catch it on camera or at least record it. I think it’s just priceless! :) And someday, just imagine how I could use this to blackmail her. Hehehe….I’m so cunning like that. :P
Other than singing along, I have to say that I am constantly being surprised at how much her vocab has really expanded in such a short period of time. Sometimes, she just carries on and babbles at such high speeds, I could swear blind that she was talking in tongues or something! More often than not, I get tired from listening to her carry on non-stop coz it must be tiring on her mouth to carry on like that but it doesn’t stop her from chattering though. lol Thank goodness we have not had to seek any emergency medical assistance to un-twist her tongue or anything that sounds remotely as crazy as that! :P
I gotta admit though, the house will be so quiet once we go off to Malaysia and I can see why Ted is so dreading it. Poor Daddy!
