Finally... After 1 Year

I still remember, a year ago, during my confinement, I was craving for Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, but I never bought it... You know.. when you keep postponing, at the end of the day, you wont feel like buying already.

So this time round, I refused to wait and postpone cos I knew what would happen if I waited and reconsidered :P

So this is what i've bought for myself:

Blackberry Curve 8900, known as Blackberry Javelin

I know i know.. some of you might ask, why not BB bold?

This is the only BB that is kinda feminine :P

I asked Adam if there's any other color... white? red? pink also can la... LOL but sadly, there's no colorful blackberry around yet! I heard BB bold white color is coming out soon though, but still the size is too big for me. :)

So far i'm enjoying the phone. esp the blackberry messenger. love it to the max!

TV Time

I let Keira watch TV every morning (and afternoon and night sometimes :P). Her favourite show is Veggietales, in particular: "Lyle the Kindly Viking", a musical cartoon show!

And this time round... she is being super relax and lazy... look how she sat!

Attention to all mommies and daddies! Letting our children watch too much TV is not good, no matter how educational the show is. The reason is our kids will be too used to fast movement, they are more inclined to watching than listening. in the future, when they attend classes,they might be slower in catching up because not many schools teach thru TV program I guess (at least not in Msia), but instead the teachers will be writing on the board or reading or talking out loud, so... the kids get bored easily and they wont be able to focus after awhile. So... try to limit the TV time okay?!

Flash cards are GOOD!

The bottom line is parents must set aside time to teach their babies or tods or children.

I have to discipline myself in teaching Keira too. So to all parents, let's JIA YOU together!

4-5 Oct '09

Looking forward for the next trip!

keira was singing along with the 3 bears...

Toddler Soon.....

Time fliesssss.... Can someone stop the time plssss??? I know noone can :( It's not that I dont want Keira to grow up, but it's just too fast... if time can move a lil slower...

At 10 months and 20 days, my lil girl likes to climb here and there. She understands 'no', and just yesterday she made a sound that sounded like "no no no no no", but she said it "nay nay nay nay nay", I'm still finding out if that's what she meant. She said that when we put her on the sofa instead of letting her crawl and climb around the living room, she said that too when I put her on the baby car seat.

She ate all kinds of food already :P Doesn't sound like a good parent ey? But I just can't help!! I let her try quite a lot of stuff like buns (normal gardenia bun, banana bun from Bread Story, the bun from Mc.D set meal, sponge cake etc), siakap fish @ a Thai restaurant (it was a lil bit spicy), kuewtiao, noodles, beehun, rice, fried egg, coffee (AHAHAHHAHAHA juuuusssttttt a bit) and a bit of bubble tea (jjuuuuuuussstttt a bit of the tea). Sometimes I just want to see her reaction. But really, it was just a lil bit, not more than a drop!!!!

But of course, that's not what I gave her regularly. On normal day, I would cook porridge with either beef or chicken or fish with pumpkin or sweet potato or carrot or some other vege and potato. No salt no sugar nothing... So usually I let her eat healthy food la :P

I love to give her hard boiled egg yolk too (esp when i dont cook and i let her eat rice cereal). Somehow I feel she is smarter after she eats that. LOL.

Have I ever told you that she loved to throw things on the floor, and oh actually she liked to look at them drop to the floor. Sometimes she looked cute when doing that. Well basically she looked cute all the time. HAHA...

She waves bye bye, she gives us her fly kiss, she lifts up her hands when we say "Hooraaayyy", she claps her hands, she dances when we ask her to do so, she has some funny expression which never fails to make me laugh, and she loves it when i laugh, and she will pout and come to me when I pretend to cry. Even when I just bow my head and be quiet, she will be worried and come to me and pat me.

She sat down quietly and looked at how I trimmed her nails. I so like this moment.

She called PAPA very loudly everytime papa not in the room. And of course, papa never failed to show up each time she called. She only called mama in the time of crisis =.=

She is very bubbly and talkative. She talks a lottttttt..... A typical girl la basically.

Sometimes I wish to have another baby soon, but.... in order to give Keira the best, I think I should keep to my initial plan, to have the 2nd one when Keira is 3 yrs old. HAHA....

She is turning into a toddler in less than 2 months!!!!!!! Oh gosh....... It's time to think about the birthday celebration. Where and whom to invite.

Anyway, again it's a long blog, but I have to assure you that raising Keira is such a fun, beautiful, and fulfilling thing. I can't stop thanking God for her in my life, of course my hubby plays a big part in making it easy and exciting!!!

After So Long...

Hmm.. let me count, the last time I went to somewhere out of town for vacation was....... i mean really just went to do nothing...... was.... during my honeymoon???

After Keira arrived, I had never arranged any trip to anywhere unless it was necessary, ie chinese new year or family related events. but this time round, we went to Genting highland (and Keith just planned it 3-4 days before) just to do NOTHING and to relax and to refresh ourselves. It was not as tough and complicated as we thought. Keira was very easy to be taken care. She was so obedient throughout the journey. We really almost did nothing but to play and relax (of course there was still a lil bit of works here and there) but I can say I enjoyed it :)

Keira loved the weather there, she slept for almost... hmmm.. 10 hours!

Oh in case you haven't known, she has been sleeping thru the nights for almost 2-3 weeks now. I know I know some of you envied me... LOL... I didn't do anything actually, she JUST slept thru! Thank God!!! :P

Well... photos will be uploaded soon yeah! but for now, I just write down whatever i remember, if i wait til i have the pics, probably i've forgotten most of the things i'm gonna write now.

Btw we went there with Sam and Eunice :) a wonderful couple that just got married for almost 1 month. And we met up with Ooi, Yen Fen and cheeky Dylan there. On Sunday afternoon, after the check-in, we head off for dinner (yeah we reached quite late), then we took those trains (whatever they were called) that toured around the mall. Keira loved it! Didn't do much after that, just walked around the mall, enjoying the windy and cooling night. The next day, I woke up before 8am expecting Keira to wake up soon, but because the weather was pretty cold, she slept til 9:30am.

We spent about an hour or two and played ... hmm.. we called it "time-zone" game back in Indo. what do you call here? Basically you put in some coins and you start to play the games. Honestly, it was quite fun but tiring as well, cos we forgot to bring Keira's stroller, so we took turn to carry her. At the end, we exchanged all the tickets we won with one towel for Keira and one children book for teacher Eunice ;)

when we reached KL, we went to Segambut and ate the tomyam. It was usually very very very delicious (hot spicy sour and sweaty... oops I mean the food was spicy and sour but the one who's eating would be sweaty), but probably because we went right before they closed, the soup wasn't as fresh anymore. So it was quite disappointing. In case you don't know, inside the soup, they put lots of big prawns, scallops, oysters, fish, squids and clams. *yummy* I used to crave for the tomyam btw. but this time round... *sigh*

Anyway, we had a GREAT weekend ^^ something that we should do every now and then I guess.

I know it's a long blog, so probably I should write another separate blog to update you about Keira. Cos she has grown so much, and there are just so many things I have to tell you HAHA...

Photos coming up soon yeah :)

Erin, wonder if you're reading this blog? ahaha... see i've updated my blog!

Bunnie...

I "printscreen" to show you my favourite bunny...

*swt*

Long Time No Blog

Jilly: Hi, I know your eye is swollen. But can I ask you a request?
Juli: brb... BS :D

(few mins after)

Juli: Jill wassup?

Jilly: oh ya about the fav... I have a request...

Juli: Sure

Jilly: UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!

Juli: =.= (you cant see the emoticon here, basically it's my favourite bunny :P)

Jilly: I knew you would give me this bunny!

Hmmm.. Jill.. is it considered that i have updated my blog? AHAHAHAHA

uMist

Yo....

To those people that have breathing problem... or dry throat.... or sinus.... Let me recommend this product to you... uMist by OSIM.

After using uMist, my hubby didn't have dry throat... my baby didn't have blocked nose and basically the room is not as dry even if we turned on the air conditioner the whole night. It's worth buying...

Working @ Attributes Marketing Sdn Bhd

Sounds like working in some marketing company ey? Actually it's not. Attributes Marketing is the bookstore owned by my church. I was transfered from Culture to Attributes in Sept. Just 1 word to describe my current job... BUSY!

For the first time in my life, I didn't have time to check facebook, or chit chat in MSN, or twitter... I just didn't have time to even think about it...

I still have a lot of things to learn... Well, so far so good.

I'm also the wedding coordinator for the church. There are many weddings coming up from Sept all the way til January next year. Many more to come, I believe. :) Marriage is a beautiful thing... One of the best things that can ever happen in some people's lives (like mine).

Will update about Keira soon....... (btw she is getting cheekier... and today she hit me!!!!!!!)

Keira Does Love The Car Seat

She was inside the car seat throughout the journey to JB! and back to KL too :)

Hoorayyy to "The First Years" Car Seat!!!

(look at her left leg =.=")

Keira's Car Seat

Keira is considered quite tall for a 9 month chinese baby girl :D, she could hardly fit into her infant car seat which is supposed to last til she is 1 year old.

We went to so many places to find a nice affordable and good car seat for her. After searching for weeks, we finally decided on buying "The First Years".

It's a very comfortable car seat I think. I read many good reviews about this product. The original price is RM999, but we bought at discounted price RM799.90. :) One outstanding feature about the car seat is it is easy to take off for washing. And the only thing that I dont quite like is the color. We wanted a pure black one, but they didn't have one.

We bought the car seat at the right timing... cos we are driving back to JB tomorrow!!! I'm so excited to meet up with the other children and my mother in law. Not many people miss their mother in law one ler? Hahaha... Even though she doesn't have much expression and she didn't talk a lot... but she is a very nice person. And whenever there's anything I'm not sure about babycare, I will give her a call.

And end of next month, Keira's auntie, poh-poh, gong-gong, jiu-jiu... all wil come and see her :) and the following week (end of Nov) Keira will turn 1 year old!!!!!!!!! TIME FLIESSSSSSS............

I love love love love to be Keira's mommy...

More Like a Mommie Now...

I woke up at 7am to go to the wet market with Rina this morning. The last time I went was when I was 9 months pregnant. And now Keira is already 9 months. :P

I have a weekly meal planner now, guess why? Because I'll start working in Subang, a place where I'm very familiar with, therefore... I know where to find all kinds of food. So, I make a decision to stick to what I've planned (or at least something close to what I planned :P). Furthermore, I really think as a good wife, I should try cook healthier food for my hubby (at least on the weekend). And I'm gonna try more variety in cooking Keira's food too.

So far, Keira loves to eat porridge. Usually I add chicken or beef + carrot or sweet potato or pumpkin + spinach or brocolli. The smell of beef porridge is the best!!! it smells so yummy. This weekend I'll try fish + carrot or pumpkin. Oh ya, she likes egg yolks too! One of her fav food! Probably I'll try to cook her barley in few weeks time, or oatmeals should be good too! =D

Life of a mom is fun and exciting! Love it to the max!

Shower Time is Fun

When I Have to Bring Her to Work

Sometimes I have no other option but to bring Keira to work with me! Out of 8 hours in the store, I think I could really work for only 2 hrs. Few things that I did:

Bribe her with food... I know this is not recommended by the experts. But but... how?

When she was bored with her own toys, I would give her whatever I had to distract her... (would keep an eye to supervise her though)

more food would give me few more mins of silence...

hush.... sleep my baby... so that mommie could focus on work...

i forgot to take the pics while other staff were playing with her...

When closing the store, I had to carry her together with the walker/stroller/car-seat to the car... then carried her back to the store to get the rest of the stuff... and then locked the door and "shutter" while carrying her. For one moment, I thought I was quite a supermom!

Love, Hug, Kiss...

When She is Quiet, This is What I Mean...

As mentioned earlier, when eating... sometimes Keira is very "guai" and didn't move much... but she still looks busy... as always....

Macam Macam

You know... when someone has lots of patterns, or expressions, we like to say "macam macam ah you..."

Haha... that's what I always tell Keira... "baby.. you macam macam ar..."

As she is growing, she has more and more expressions. I didn't manage to capture most of them (and i accidentally deleted one more pic)... but here's some of the remaining...

And even when she is eating, she has so many sitting posture, standing posture, and sometimes she would just be contented & happy enjoying the food and din move much :)

I scolded her for trying to stand while eating (but it's actually my fault, why didn't I fasten the seat belt at the first place?) so.... after getting scolded, she would show me how unhappy and sad she is...

Can't imagine when she starts talking, she will surely be a super duper kepoh and bubbly baby.

Oh ya before I end this blog...

Daddy bought a vest with hoodie, a tee shirt (din let her wear here) and a denim skirt for her :) she looks so cute on them...the vest is a lil bit too big though... *giggle*

I missed the timing (when she was smiling and ready for camera), this is when she started to get impatient...

Many Things Have Happened

Many good and bad things have happened throughtout this week.

The good thing is Keira has totally recovered *YAY* and we just gave her influenza vaccination today. She is quite tall, 71cm now. But her weight has been around 7.5kg, today she is 7.4kg. But the doctor said it's very good, nothing to worry about. Ideal weight. Another thing that really makes my day is what the doctor has been saying everytime we see him. Keira's social skill is very very good (above average). He was so surprised when Keira called Papa just now, and the fact that she can wave bye-bye pleased the doctor too.

Keira didn't cry during the jab. She showed her dislike-expression of course, but right after the jab, she smiled, babbled, played.. she was just happy! :)

Another good thing is, I'm changing job on September. Not that I don't like my job now, but the other job allows me to do more things. I'm quite restricted now, due to the work location. I'm excited about what I can do in the future. The fact that I can lead CG, have Bible study, involve more in ministry, fetch Keira earlier ;) and also be in the same office as my hubby hehehe...

The bad thing that happened ler... *sigh* it is kinda sad to see people that I love drawing back from serving God. It bothered me so much, but nothing much I can do. I tried my best. But it makes me realize that there are still sooo many people that I need to take care, it's a lesson learned.

End of this year I'll be travelling to Taiwan. Did you see any news lately? The typhoon and mudslides convince me that I shouldn't bring Keira with me. So she will either be with my MIL, Auntie Linda or my mom. After that I'll go to Korea, again won't be bringing her. Have important meetings over there. Then end of Jan we will have staff retreat to Hanoi. This trip baby will come along. *Yippie*

Eeeee.... Daddy's First Time....

Daddy has no choice but to clean and change my nappy after I poo poo...

:D

Books for The Next 2-3 Months

As you guys have read, Keira has not been so well these few weeks, so instead of just reading thru the internet, I bought a book by Dr.Miriam Stoppard. I bought one babycare book by the same author when I was pregnant, and it was quite good.

Actually there's one more book, which is very thick, by the same author, also about childhood illnesses and the treatment, but that one costs too much. So I bought this one, only RM33.95.

Besides, I also bought a book by my favourite author, Dale Carnegie. RM31.90 only.

Hopefully it's as good as the other one that I bought... "How to Win Friends & Influence Them"

It's time to enhance my parenting skills again :) Bought this fabulous copy... Sold more than 3,500,000 and it has been one of the best selling book for 20 years. I'm expecting a lot from this book... RM45.50.