Huirou's Grandparents

Huirou have 1 each of Granpa and Granma.

They are same in some ways; and different in some other ways.

Huirou's Granma is shy in front of the camera, but is very concerned about her well-being. Every once in awhile, she will call me and ask how she's doing. She's most concerned about her nutrition, constantly reminding me to feed her this and that... which takes like 1 whole hour! And whenever we visit her, she makes sure Huirou is comfortable, and learnt some new skills.

Whereas, Granpa never fail to remember to have his picture taken with Huirou. Infact, he'll act all kanchiong wanting to remove his glasses and all so that he look immaculate in those photos. He is most concerned about who takes care of her when I go to work and always asking us (Me and Hubs!) to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of his youngest cucu (malay: Grandchild)






So you see, although Huirou's Granparents seldom see each other, and are mostly different; they still share a common love for their youngest cucu.

About taking pictures of Huirou

It is never easy to capture images of Huirou. She doesn't automatically smile for the camera. It takes a lot of effort (waving/ jumping around/ making funny noises) and the right timing for a good picture. For this I am thankful for digitals, coz it's free to take take take then delete delete delete.

Sometimes she lunges for the camera thinking that it is a toy, making for many pictures of her with her finger in the way. But then again sometimes because of this we get really really good close-ups of her in play.

Most precious to me of all is in her expressions when she's just being herself. I sometimes keep even the "bad" photos just because there's a little bit of her personality showing through.

Climber on Board

Like the title says, we've got a brilliant climber on board. See for yourself her daily antics ....

Crawling

This video was taken last month, just when she was proficient enough to crawl AND push around toys. (Okok, it's supposed to be her potty but she thinks it's tooooo pretty to poo in ...:) )

Huirou @ 9 months

My little one is growing up very fast. In 3 months, she will already be 1. Just last month, Aunty YokeSim was talking about how we oughta celebrate Huirou's 1st birthday in Ipoh. Then last week, another aunt bought Huirou a PoohbearPillow as a birthday gift.

Huirou is very active nowadays. She scrambles around whichever way she can and often pokes her cute little nose into every dusty corner of the house with her innate sense of adventure. Her curiosity usually lead her to perform all sorts of acrobatics that may include:

1. Crawling over, around, underneath and on top of furniture, boxes, pillows etc...
   
2. Pulling herself up to stand using furniture (or our legs!)
3. Getting from crawling to kneeling.
   
4. Changing directions or positions suddenly on short notice.
   
5. Grasping objects firmly that we find it difficult to take away anything that she holds,
6. Screaming out loud when we succeed.
   
7. Utttering monosyllabic sounds. We heard bababa and nana and dididi and jejeje. But it may just be us hearing things ...
8. Grabbing food out of our hands and feeding herself snacks (80% of which will land on the floor, on her face, in her shirt etc etc)
9. Trying to turn her book pages before I finish reading. And each page of her book consist of only one word o_O
   
10. Playing simple games
• hide-and-seek ( I hide behind the curtains and she lifts it up, anymore complex she thinks I went away)
• Will crawl faster if we follow her from behind on all fours (with some stalky music)
• Will try to avoid our fingers while being tickled, but will laugh happily when we succeed
• Make a funny face and she will smile happily, often with nose wrinkled and eyes shut.

Huirou has recently taken to yelling out really really LOUD whenever she is bored. This has been driving me up the wall; and contributes to Hubs increase migraines. We are hoping that this phase will pass quickly so we get our sanity back. It is a phase, right??

Oh, if you look closely at the above picture, you can see her 2 pearly whites!