Come To School Early…

I notice that I haven’t talked about Rachel’s school a lot. Maybe I should start.

First of, her class is closed for a week from 26th July to 30th July, as 2 of her classmates are down with HFMD.

Secondly, we’ve heard lots of amusing remarks/conversation she’s been telling us. I can’t remember all, but what I heard today tells me I should be ready for more challenging topics of discussion!

Rachel : Mommy, that day hoh, when I want to go home hoh, P.S.Heng (a guy friend she’s been mentioning a lot) told to go home, sleep earlier and then wake up earlier, brush teeth and come back to school earlier.

- and then she was smiling sheepishly -

Me : Err, ok. Did he tell that to everyone?
Rachel : No lah. He only told me.

Aiyoyo!!!

> Hanging up new photos…

We’ve been wanting to alternate the photos we hung in the house, to include photos of Nicole!
Have we gotten it done? NO!
WHY?
Well, I have selected the photos, but I haven’t gotten around to getting it printed in the 5R and 8R sizes we want, since we bought the frames to match the current photo layout… Read more…

Nicole : 7 Months Old…

Height : 66cm
Weight : 7.6kg

I have yet to get her height and weight, as I didn’t realise that she’d be 7 months, SO SOON…
She didn’t really grow much this month did she? Hmmm…

Diet & Sleep :

• 6oz water (with 5.5scoops of formula) this month…
  Why diluted? Because she was constipated! I gave her vege and all, but there 2 weeks where she’ll only do her big business once in every 3 or 4 days!!! So I decided to dilute her milk, and VOILA, the day after milk was diluted, she’s been doing it everyday (max missing a day)…
• Ever since her teething episode subsided, she’s been getting up 1 or 2 times a night, not asking for milk, but just probably just seeking comfort, wanting to be carried and wanting to be near us… I’m really hoping she’ll sleep through soon, *yawn*…
• Having 1 solid meal (replacing one feeding) in the morning and another fruit/cereal snack in the evening…
  In comparison to Rachel, the amount of porridge this feisty little girl can swallow about 2 times the amount, but milk wise, much lesser…
• In addition to last month’s food, she’s been introduced to:
  • Broccoli
  • Cauliflower
  • Spinach

Characteristics and Dexterity :

• Can sit unsupported
• Can stand supported but still not too stable
• She’s very moody… Many things that I listed below, she can do when she’s feeling like it, but when she is concentrating on something else, or if she’s not in a good mood, she’ll just ignore you…
• Can flap her hands up and down when we tell her to say BYE BYE
• Can lift her hand to our face and then pull it down if we ask her to sayang
• Will put her hands towards ours when we ask her to Hi-5
• Can look towards certain people in the family when I ask her ‘where is who and who’… However, sad to say, I’m out of that list, I don’t know why… The people she can identify most of the time:
  • Rachel (ALL THE TIME)
  • Tecky
  • Tina
  • Her 3 grandparents
• LOVES TV (which I really really dislike but can’t control because Rachel wants to watch TV)… She’ll watch the commercials or certain cartoons… She’ll try to push away anything that is in her way, or she’ll tilt herself away from what’s blocking her, so she can watch the idiot-box!
• Can pass toys from one hand to another
• Still very quiet when it comes to babbling… She will make more sound around Tina (the maid/sitter) or Rachel, but it’s still very occasionally only… A few sounds which I can hear from her:
  • Maam-maam-maam
  • Bah-bah
  • poo-poo

  I’m actually a bit worried on this, as she’s a little too quiet (for my comfort)… Even when she whines to get attention, it was just whining with the throat without opening her mouth…

• She’s VERY sticky!!!! When she see me, and if I’m not carrying her, she’ll whine and cry until I carry her, and at that instant, normally she’ll lie down on my chest for a while before she look around…

She likes to stand, but then isn’t stable…

p/s: I haven’t been taking enough photos of Nicole, feeling pretty guilty about it…