Miserable Weather

We had a warm weekend last week, it was 35 degree Celcius. We have postponed our pick-your-own cherries outing to this coming weekend. However, we still went to market to get some groceries. Yong Shuan follows us everywhere even we just want to buy a bottle of milk. I used to dress him up with body suit due to the windy weather, not any more on Summer, has to be short sleeve / sleeveless, sometimes just nappy.

The following is the series of photos I tried to snap Yong Shuan barefoot. I have to hold the camera close to the ceiling of my car to get these.


We passed by this baby toy shop, thought of sharing this with grandparents the cute toy car.


When we came back around 4pm, Yong Shuan was very unsettled. We bathed him, changed his nappy, fed him, finally we found out he needed a FAN.

Lie Down Modelling

Two piece wear from Mummy & Daddy

Body suit from Aunty Christina

" Mummy, why most of my shirts featuring animal? Can I have Cars next time ? "

Elmo on the Blog

I thought I can keep this Elmo shirt for Chinese New Year as red color is the prosperous color in Chinese's belief. When I try to put the shirt on Yong Shuan, OMG, I have to let Yong Shuan wears this now and cannot wait for CNY.

Kids Talk - 75 Ways to Encourage Children

I found this poster when I do my filing for Yong Shuan's Booklet. I thought it is something worth to share with all the mummy-to-be out there. I got this from my council maternal nurse office, sponsored by Victoria Government, Australia. These are just part of a long list, you can go to Best Start for the whole list of them.

In the family

1. Please
2. Thank you
3. How thoughtful
4. I love you
5. What a lovely smile
   
6. Thank you for sharing
7. You are a great help
8. I'm very proud of you
9. That was a kind thing to do
10. Let's take turns
11. You are playing so well with your brother/sister
12. You did a great job with your chores
13. How was your day?

With Friends

1. You are fun to be with
2. You're being a wonderful friend
3. That's excellent sharing!
4. Being together is great
5. Your friend is being very caring

Reading and Language

1. What do you think about that?
2. Brilliant idea!
3. That was very polite
4. Well spoken!
5. Shall we read together?
6. I would love to read you a story
7. Let's sing a song

Well Done

1. You're on the right track
2. You can do it!
3. Good thinking
4. You did that well
5. Way to go!
6. You seemed to really enjoy doing that
7. You must have been practicing
   
8. Good Trying
9. I reckon you could have a go at that
10. That's the best you have ever done
11. That's a real improvement
12. You remembered everything!
13. I'm proud of the way you worked!
14. Fantastic!
15. Good work!
16. Amazing - How did you do that?
17. That took effort
18. Now that's what I call a fine job
19. You planned that well
20. Good on you mate
21. You've tried hard
22. You're a star!
23. That's Wonderful!
24. You're learning fast
25. What a good idea!
26. Well done - You should be proud of yourself!
    

Week 16

"Daddy, I am sleepy ! Please leave me alone! "

My first Double Chocolate Muffin

Finally, I made my first Chocolate Muffin. The original muffin mix comes in chocolate flavor. I added some milk chocolate chips so I call this my first Double Chocolate Muffin. Muffin is normally served in the round shaped muffin paper cup, however I have dumped all the mix into my "only one" square bake ware.

I baked this while my baby boy Yong Shuan is having his long afternoon nap. Luckily the process did not take long. I only needed to bake for 25 min in the oven. So the time is just right from the beginning of the flour mixing to the tasting of the Muffin at the end and yet Yong Shuan was still having his sweat nap.

More Prone Position Exercise

"Mummy, see.. I combined my prone position exercise with my left eyebrow trick."

My first radish cake

Last weekend, I made my first radish cake. When mum stayed with us last time, she taught me how to make the Yam Cake. This time I changed the main ingredient to radish and added some minced pork, dried prawns, mushrooms to make this "mild salty" radish cake.

The truth of the "mild salty" taste : Unfortunately, I did not put enough amount of salt to the flour mixture before I put them to steam.

Our Lemon Tree Continued...

Sometimes ago, I posted the lemon tree photo in my blog. This week, we noticed all the blossomed lemon flower has become small lemon, all over the tree.

This Spring is great time for most of our backyard's member. We were surprised our Kaffir Lime tree blossomed too.

还记得我在不久前有放了我们家后院的柠檬树开花的相片，上个周末绍闻在后院工作秧长豆时, 我们有新发现了。




当然，是要给大家看看柠檬树开了花后结果的相片。



同时，谢谢妈妈精心的播种，我们很快可以有自己种的辣椒吃了。



让我们最喜出望外的是我们种了快两年的“发疯柑”树终于开花了。

It's time for the prone position practice

The maternal nurse has been reminding me on Yong Shuan's regular appointment that I should keep doing the prone position exercise with my baby.

He has been practicing well.

Yong Shuan's Stat at 14th week
Height = 60cm
Weight = 5.7kg







Lately, we noticed Yong Shuan explored a new regime in his exercise.

He now knows how to use his arm to assist himself to roll. What an amazing milestone ! It is wonderful to see your own baby grow and keep learning new thing at a time.

Oh ya... the nurse actually mentioned that we cannot leave YS on his own on the bed or sofa as he might roll himself and fall.