Another "busy" afternoon!

Today was a busy day. Mom got me dressed up; and just heard Mommy said, " darl , we are late, we gotta rush!"

Then pretty soon we were set to go.. ( You know i am too young to figure: where to be) Hahha a..As long it's fun place for me .. So who cares!



( This is where i am the whole afternoon!!!)


Leng Lui Josephine "jie jie" and Me ( New face for Sothys' Young Baby Super Model -Don't Play play Ooh)!



Both pretty aunties are beautician - " I guess is to beauty Mommy ( who always screamed at her looks nowaday! " Hahhahahha


Right, we were at Aunty Josephine's beauty saloon - The Powder Room. ( Aunty Jo, you have to pay for the advertising fees oo) Daddy and Mommy did their facial here. I couldn't remember much as i was strolled to a room, where Daddy and Mommy was lying down and two pretty aunties starting to "mess up " on their face by putting foam, cream and etc.. Like how Mommy helps me to shower daily ! Looks interesting .. why my folks still on gown and never go butt-naked like me??!!! Emm..

I couldn't recall how long it was.. but it was long enough for a nap. The next minute i woke up; daddy was done with his facial, but Mom still on hers..

( to be continued..)

Outing With Ken and Dylan Kor Kor

( Ken and Dylan Kor Kor )
Hey folks , let me hold the camera!!!!

Aha... don't get cheated! This was half-way through.. The TOM YAM RAMEN ~ Syiok or not?

Us lol at RAMEN HOUSE @ Desa Park City .. Mommy, the Camera woman, always not in shot!

Kicking Balloon

Lunch at Eden , the curve.

Aiks.. Kick Kick Kick ...

Me in Action--- Kicking Balloon

Do you know the benefit of BABY MASSAGE ?

( Enjoying My body Massage)
(BB zoe: Don't envy yo.. really nice .. OooOOOoo.. Love it! )

An article to share by Mama Zoe

Baby massage is something with which most of us are aware of. What I am trying to do is to give another angle to what is known about baby massage.

Many cultures have used massage as part of baby care for centuries, and research shows it can have many benefits. Not only does massage enable you to learn about and respond to your baby's body language. But it is also a wonderful way to make your baby feel safe and secure by showing that he or she is loved and cared for. There are no hard and fast rules for baby massage, other than to ensure you are doing it safely.Your first year baby and you will discover together what works best for you both. Please bear in mind that massage is something you do with your infant, not to your infant.

It is strongly suggested you seek guidance and education on massage techniques from a qualified baby massage therapist, midwife, or other health care professional to ensure you are doing it safely. A ten minute massage, two or three times a week assists in strengthening the parent-infant relationship, babies love it and it can assist in alleviating baby ailments too.

In today’s society, parents have heavy workloads and both their jobs and at home which can directly affect quality time spent with children. Infant massage, an age old tradition, is simple, free, can be administered almost anywhere and has a host of emotional and physical benefits for both parents and baby. A child with a strong sense of attachment is more likely to grow up confident, assured and happy.The parent-infant attachment is rooted in the very early months of life, so by its very definition infant massage has a deep effect on the emotional well-being of the infant and can be used to attain a sense of security for the growing child. The emotional benefits of infant massage, such as quality, one-to-one loving touch, can also be experienced by fathers.

No one here has time to spend on useless stuff .You are going to read this post about baby first year and if you read it carefully, you are sure to gain valuable information about baby massage.The task of developing a regular and restful sleep pattern for a new baby is often an exercise in frustration and confusion for many parents. Research has shown that hospitalized infants grow more rapidly when correctly massaged. This is due in large part to the fact that massaged babies actually spent more time being quiet and calm, yet alert, and that when they did sleep, it was deep and very restful. This resulted in a more structured sleep pattern, as well as longer sleeping periods at night.Doing a massage right after getting home from work will help a parent reconnect with baby after a hard day, and will help both baby and parent relax and unwind.

Once you and the baby have developed a routine you will have a skill that will calm and quiet your upset child. There will be times when this is just what is needed; not food, not a fresh diaper, but soothing, relaxing touch that a parent can give their little one.Even when circumstances cause a change in their routine or environment, a daily massage can be the hub of your baby’s nighttime routine and the element that helps them prepare to fall into a deep, restful, restorative sleep. In addition, learning to relax in our busy world is a skill parents need to nurture for themselves as well as for their children. Studies indicate that the positive effects of practicing infant massage are just as profound on the parent’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being as they are for baby.Infant massage has also been shown to positively benefit those infants with eating, gastrointestinal, bonding, attachment,weight gain, overall development challenges, which can also affect a baby’s overall sleeping patterns. Massage also helps infants learn about their body and stimulates brain function, and the interaction between parent and child during the massage can stimulate the child’s mental faculties as well, resulting in increased mental capacity.

You may want to give it a try and give your own judgement. Do let your little one enjoy the massage session :) !

Who do you think i look like?

WHO DO I LOOK ALIKE?

Ohh No .. Ohhh no .. Not again... Comments .. and comments!!!!

Always hearsay:

"Ivy, she looks like you"
" No.. looks like TY . Esp her forehead, and the chubby cheeks.. "
" Ehh.. i think she has your chubby cheeks.. hahhaha "
" Her hair looks like Papa, .. ."
" Her eyes looks bigger than both of you ,pretty gal.."
" Really can't seem to figure out who she looks like.. "
" Does her hair looks like yours?? Don't you or ty have curly hair ??"
" She looks more like her dad nowaday."
" I think she looks like her Poh Poh .. "
" No.. she looks like Ma3 Ma3.."
" She has her grandpa's hair.." and etc

Hey ppl, guess what... i have got the answer : Please read my Look-Alike Meter. No point keep guessing ..

Result shown : I am 50% like Mom and 50% like Dad.. I think that's pretty fair .. hahhaa.. having both GOOD genes.. :P

New Milestone

Hi, Ma3 Ma3 and Gong3 Gong3 in Miri! How're you? Miss ya lots





( Lately Mommy & Kakak are kinda busy with CNY preparation, therefore, i have not been blogging since then, sorry yeah ... Tell you :Earlier i was throwing my tantrum at Mommy as to let me down . Now, i knew she was actually helping Poh Poh with cookies. Sorry Mommy, i don't mean it. So now daddy always tucks me to bed at night. Really miss mommy lots!)

Time flies.. I am three months old now.

And yes, I have made my first "Turtle turning" hahhaha.. even i looked a bit clumsy, somehow, i made my first turned nicely. ( Don't you laugh at me" ) - Pics Shown above!

****** By Mommy ********
For the past three weeks or so, before i stripped my baby for her morning bath, she will engage herself in this weird routine. She raised one of her legs, and it goes “shake shake shake shake” for about five seconds. Very amusing to the adults’ eyes. After some weeks, her movements weren’t so jerky anymore, she started doing leg raise. These daily activities really looked silly and funny to me until recently, i realized she was doing them for a reason. She has been practicing rigorously for this stunt called “roll over”! She can’t really roll over yet, could only roll over from her back to her sides. Babies, we don’t really need to train them, they will roll and crawl and stand and walk when they know they are ready.

Bare bottom

by Mommy on 18/01/08

Lately, I have this feeling that the poor baby is very uncomfortable being wrapped up in her diapers. I almost could feel the heat and itch the diaper caused her. So I decided to air her bums and let her goes bare bottom after her morning bath. This should be good for her skin.
I thought I am being clever, but the project ended up in a mess. For two days, the same thing happened. She decided to wee wee during her bare bottom time, thus wetting her whole body. Thank goodness it didn’t get into her mouth. Luckily I anticipated this scenario and protected her play mat with a rubber sheet, else I would have more washing up to do. Maybe I need to let her pee prior to letting her goes bare bottom.

mittens and brighter child

written by Mommy on 18/01 /08

As a typical anxious mom, I have been deligently reading books on parenting. My lastest baby manual, “How to Raise a Brighter Child”. Yah, I am on my way into raising a super baby….haha.

Anyway, it enlighted me in quite a few ways. For example, it believes that “developmental landmarks in early childhood can be speeded up by changes in the environment….major gains can be achieved by relatively small changes in an infant’s surroundings.”. I begin to review my baby’s environment and her daily activities. Feeding, diaper changing, cuddling, some playing. I realised my baby’s hands are still mittened ( which is a grieve mistake according to the book, since “baby needs great freedom and opportunity to touch, to move about, to manipulate objects…..from constricting clothing and from a confining bassinet.”), and most of the time, I only watched her play.

So I decide to do a small experiment. Her mittens were removed. She is still placed on her gym playpen with some toys hanging above her, but this time, I guided her hands to reach out to bat the objects and opened her hands to let her touch and feel them. Interestingly, she started paying much more attentions to the hanging objects, and her fist wasn’t tightly clasped anymore. On the second day, she begin kicking excititngly when I laid her onto the playmat, before her usual staring and uncoordinated hands movement. About a week has passed with this daily activity (which I myself am getting bored with), something remarkable happened today. She stared intensively at the hanging toy for a minute or so, then reach out her hand and bat at it. This was repeated a few times until her started to feel tired, perhaps frustrated and begin crying again.

Now I am convinced that stimulation does speed up a child’s development. But to what extent should I push her to her next developmental milestone. Should I interfere with the child’s natural development at all? Do I really want to give the child a good head-start, or am I just anxious to satisfied my own ego. I guess !

I can ..

I have decided to let my folks know that I can smile, coo, and gurgle.
Not too much though, so I get what I want when I do those things. Adults are so easy to train!
I can also flip over from my stomach to my back. Mommy put me on my belly for my daily exercise, but I showed her! Don’t mess with a 12 weeks old !

Pacifier ??

When will my parents learn?
My folks bought me a pacifier but I was not fooled.
Every time they pop it in my mouth, I give it one or two obligatory sucks and then spit it out. You can’t fool me!
No “diet nipple”! No artificial ingredients or coloring!
Give me the real thing! Heh-heh!

BB ZOE ~ 18th Jan ( 3 mths old )

Struggling to flip-over

Eiek eiek.. ( trying hard to turn-over today)

Don't you think i am only 11 week-old; i am a strong and brave gal! Today, mommy laid me down on her bed, and i was struggling to turn-over as i got so bored lying down and facing the ceiling with the glaring lights all the time. Sometimes, i wondered why my world is so "Blank" ( my eyes glazed over) . So today, i decided to make a different! Leading myself to change the environment is kinda tough earlier.Yes, i never give up!

See i am struggling on .. ( Video clip below) Thou, you may laugh at my funny action. Dude, don't forget you all were once like me, k ?

Happy New Year 2008!

Happy New Year to all of you.. May all have a prosperous year to come !

May I have more and more toys... Gegegegeggege.. :P

Happy Birthday Han Xu Kor Kor

ACTIONS:

Hawaiian Beach Boy " Han Xu the Hansome"

A bunch of "Monkey" Us.. lol

Wishing wishing

It started with Mom busy around setting up something... then not long after, the song ..

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday , happy birthday , happy birthday to Han Xu..." and it repeated again..

Daddy carried me out from my usual "changing room", and i was asked to join in to take group photo.. AwwOo.. Loved taking pics!

Hehehhe ... Let's see everyone in "The Party"

Here a Gift for Han Xu Kor Kor :

Sorrie, Moi not so good yet ! Hope you like it - ( Trial)

Cranky day

@11/1/2008 by Mommy

Cranky Kiddo?

Very tired but refused to sleep?

Still wanna watch tele?

Cry for no reason?

Tired but still wanna move around?

What are you gonna do about it?

I was so frust the other day when Zoe just refused to sleep, still move around and cried loudly cos she was so sleepy but just don't wanna sleep. So I....

I wrapped her up with sleeping sack like a "cocoon".

And she gave me a cheeky smile

And she really fell asleep! She nap for about 45 minutes in this position. Not bad....just gotta make sure you use a very thin layer of "wrapper" otherwise she will be too hot! Try it, it works!

My favourite Lullabies

@January 8th, 08

Hey..mommy helped me to put in my favourite lullabies in my blog and named my Music Station "JOJO the BEAR". So, on your speaker and enjoy the music.

I must listen to the first lullaby( in my JOJO music Station) everyday - especially if mommy going to put me to sleep.. she will humm this lullaby to me.. honestly.. we all dunno what is the title of this lullaby. Anyone has any idea?!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MOMMY, I LOVE YOU!! *KISS

My Secret Friend

I have a secret friend now. I'm not gonna tell you all who is my secret friend, even my mommy dunno who.Is not JOJO neither NONO the bear bear that Mommy bought for me. My secret friend, let's call him "SF".

Every morning when mommy places me on her bed, while she is preparing for my bath, I will talk to my secret friend. We exchange conversations and secrets. "SF" is real joker, he always tell me jokes and make me laugh. Sometimes when I lgiggle too loud, mommy will come and peep at me. I'll immediately stop laughing and look at mommy with a serious look. Mommy must be wondering what happen to me...Hahah


Mommy: Baby thought I dunno who is her scret friend. I have found out who he is..haha.. Do you all want to know? But dun let baby know that I tell you all, ok? I have taken a picture of her secret friend.. tell me if he looks handsome.. really wonder why baby loves to talk to him so much...

Baby Zoe: MOMMY!!! (screaming at mommy in an angry tone)..

Mommy to Baby Zoe: Yes.my darling .. I didn't mention anything...As you said "IS SECRET!!!"

Mommy to you(whispering): Will show baby's secret friend's photo to you some other day. In the meantime, you all have fun guessing who is the secret friend..*grin*

My New Hairdo!

Poh Poh ( The Trevor Sorbie II) in Action


See.. I am enjoying ..

(My Make-over)
Do you like my Crew cut? ..

January 6th, 08

Today, Daddy reminded Mommy to trim my marvellow curly hair as it's getting long and making me sweaty. Not that Mommy wanted an easy way out; she thought of sending me to hairdresser ; just it's "hassleless" to both. But Poh Poh said not to spend unnecessary money oo.. so she decided to be my hair stylist. *Wink*

Poh Poh started having me make-over. Earlier was pretty enjoy as Daddy was carrying me.. I never "yai yai" , however, as i was so eager to see how my new hairdo like?! I felt impatient! ( But i didn't cry)

After a few minutes..

Guess what! I turned out to be so FUNNY after the cut! *slap head*Mommy "complimented" on my hair by saying " Wow Zoe, you received a hair cut from Trevor Sorbie huh!!"

Make peace with my curly hair, loves it and lives with it ..

@ 2 months written by Mommy

Ever since Zoe was borned, I have received many compliments from family members, friends and even strangers on her hair. Here goes:

1) "Wow, she is so cute as her hair is curly n black - like artist BO2BO2- Flim Start in HK"

2) "How nice, She has so much hair!"

3) "How come her hair is so curly ? Wow, how nice ..can save money no need to do perming then.. "

4) "Comelnya, rambut baby you macam Patung lar"

5)"Wow, rambut panjang dan banyak hor!"

6) "She has marvellous black hair, looks adorable!"

See below and you would know why we get these comments. :-)



BB Zoe : I get comments ( people thinks is cute) everywhere i go!

Like and Dislike

I like

1)Mommy to be with me ALL THE TIME
2) being cuddle by Daddy, being hug by Mommy, and being being rocked by Poh Poh in my giant bouncy chair
3) Mandi all the time - Mommy told me when i was in her womb, she always went for a swim.. No wonder I LOVE WATER .. hehehe
4) Mommy humming lullaby to make me sleep
5) Mommy and Daddy talking to me
6)Mommy sings my shower's songs
7) they pat my butt
8) sucking on mommy's breast when i feel insecure or discomfort
9) looking at mommy's and daddy's colourful t-shirt
10) being carried and walked around
11) Mommy massaging me after my showers - "Making few real good ~~~ :)"
12) Mommy telling me stories
13) ATTENTION

I dislike

1) being alone while I sleep
2) water always made me choke
3) hungry and sleepy at the same time
4) mitten - as i couldn't feel my fingers at all!!!
5) wet diaper make me feel discomfort
6) wiping my mouth
7) gas in my stomach made me in pain..
8) my unvoluntarily and uncontrolled hand movement during my sleep
9) being pinched at my cheeks .. :~( Is irritating!

Outing with Aunty Veron

Is another "visiting me " day! Dad and Mom brought me out for gathering at 1Utama Shopping Mall. Today we met up with another Mommy's friend, Aunty Veron.
PrettyAunty Veron & ME
"OOoo... She is so cute! Look at her chubby cheek..eeee... "

OUCH!!! ( CUBIT CUBIT again) Urghhhh... I started to feel irritated with all the adults. Just don't understand why they like to pinch my face. Don't they know is MY FACE!!!!! and Please i have feeling too...

****

As usual another "happening" day; they will choose a Kopitiam to Chit-chat .. *( while i will be having my "kit-kat" hahhah) Wondering is that all the adults will do? Always have tea and coffee talk.. blah blah blah .. ( Whatelse~ life, marriage, work and ME again)

I couldn't bother much then, as i was tired. Seems like i just enjoyed new toys during every outings! Hahhhah a..

****
( Continue..)

Dad & I at Salabianca Boutique 1U

Next, usually Mom will disappear for awhile. Dad will take care of me.. wondering what's mom doing again.. Ohh No...Her usual SHOPPING SPREE .. never ending!

Mom was looking around for CNY clothing, and guess what.... We ended up in few shops but she couldn't even find one!

Only heard she kept saying " Do i look plump on this? I think i am fat .. and ...."
Ohh dear, Poor Dad! I hope i wouldn't be like her .. :P ( sorrieeeeez Mommy)

Da jiu , Dad & I ( What a coincidence! We met Da Jiu &Da Jiu Mu at 1 U)

The New Year Revolution !

* At Italian Restaurant@ the Curve - New Year Luncheon!

My poh poh

My Xiao Jiu from Miri

My dearly daddy .. . Look at me~

( My beloved "Xiao Jiu" & Me) (Aunty Wan Lan & daughter, Venice Jie Jie)

Me the princess!


( Dad, Mommy and Me) ( CHeers.. everyone!)

Written by Mommy

A few years back TY and I decided to follow the tradition that whatever happens on the first day of the new year will happen the rest of the year. Therefore we always aim to enjoy our very first day of the year; while also trying to ensure that the small luxuries of life continue to come our way to a fulfilling year. Luckily, the three of us were in good health today; and this year Ty and i feasted on tasty Italian Meal with family members and made deposits into our bank accounts for the "good fortune". Whatever works, right ?

Zoe, on the other hand, should look forward to a year full of good eating, good sleeping and good playing. The most important is growing up healthy! Oh yeah.. and 365 days of looking cute in her adorable wardrobe of clothes, and with us around company her through all her growing.