Happy Birthday Mama!

Is it just me or does everyone find it hard to buy a birthday present for their parents? It seems that they already have everything they need. Nor do they go after the latest models like we do. Anyways, yesterday was RH's mother's birthday so I decided to bake her a cake to surprise her as well as show off my culinary skill. As usual, the decoration part caused me to be dumb-founded.

{Family Picture}

{Homemade Birthday Cake - Chocolate Mousse Cake}

Rare Moment

Here is a rare picture of C smiling. He rarely smiles by the way and this one is only a half smile. What he really likes to do is to scrunch up his face and wince.

{Half - smiling}

{Holding his own bottle}

C is old enough to hold his own bottle to drink. Showing off with one hand in the above picture.

My my, what shall I play with today?

Little C is now able to pull himself up from a sitting position and so he is constantly trying to pull himself up by leveraging on almost anything (stable or unstable), pillow, bolsters, sofa, magazine holder, chairs, coffee table, playpen railings.......

And here, he is using his toy box to pull himself up.

{Where all all my toys?}

{Now, where did mom put my shape blocks}

{I spot my shapes block}

{Woah, reaching down for it}

{Finally, got it! Why did mom have to put it there anyways?}

{Figuring out the mechanism}

{Moving on}

{Coming up on the sofa}

{Woops, coming down again}

{Maybe if I use my teeth to bite the sofa, I will not slip}

{Urgh, its not happening}

{I did it, I did it!}

{Boy, did my teeth hurt!}

All soaped up

Look like Daddy!

One morning after his bath, his hair is still wet and so you can brush it to the side.....once his hair dries, it will go back to being straight and all facing the front. He looks so much like papa in this picture. Well, like papa when he was a toddler at least.

Previously, when people say that C looks like RH more than he looks like me, I would so indignantly reply that he looks like me. Only recently, do I notice that he does indeed look like RH more. :(

So much for carrying your bb for 9 months...and going thru all the pregnancy blues. Who your bb resembles depends on genes, not efforts.

I have often anticipated C's first words and wonder what it will be, papa or mama! Of course, I want him to say mama first and even cheated by teaching him only mama and not papa. But then, all of you know from my last post that his first words are "papa". Urgh!

Loved C to bits, fed him a tiny lick of curry yesterday and his whole face turned red, sticking out his tongue and almost wanted to cry from the spiciness.......Hahaha, it was kinda funny to watch. I am an evil mummy but I believe that children should be asked to taste all kinds of food so that they would not be fussy eaters but I think C will be more careful from now on to accept any food from me. Hehehehe, I should have videdeoed the whole thing.........

Vacation Time

My in laws came last week for a visit and they had a great time catching up with C. C was sick pretty much the whole time they were here and so was not so active. He was also very cranky, refusing to be carried by anyone except me and S (our domestic helper).

But all in all, I think my in laws had a great time with him cos the last time they came, he was still not able to stand or crawl. By the way, C is now able to crawl faster, sit up on his own with more confidence. Able to stand up from sitting position by himself, able to stand for a few seconds without holding on to anything, able to cruise and able to say "papa" which is a real treat for RH except that C was not actually referring to RH when he says "papa". Hahaha!

Anyways, here is a picture of C in the baggage trolley when we sent RH's parents to the airport. He was dressed in his Sunday best! And I think he was just a moment away from being checked in together with all the luggages.........I am sure that my in laws were just very tempted to do so anyways.

{Sneaking in a little yawn}

{Hurray!}

I want to stand up!

Here is a video of Caleb standing up in his playpen. You can also see the little one trying to move sideways but not so successfully.



Here is of him crawling or should I say half crawling. C is not able to crawl the whole ten yards. He will try to sit down and rest after a few crawling steps....

I am beginning to sound like those mothers who are so immodest when it comes to their kids. But when you take care of a little child from young and you see him develop skills, first learning to flip then to sit then to crawl, somehow you just get a sense of wonder and amazement and dare I say, pride?