Huirou's Many Faces

This little girl is very expressive nowadays. It is an understatement when I say that she wears ALL her emotions on her sleeves. One moment she can be happily giggling away, suddenly she will be yelling on top of her voice wanting something.



When I scold her yai yai (naughty) She makes a sad face and usually will cry if neither Hubs nor I proceed to console her

When she needs to use the potty she goes hmmmmph hmmmmph in a rather unladylike manner. But it gets our attention because it is so unlike all the other little (or big) sounds that she makes. She does this for both pee and poo, though.

When she is surprised, or want our attention diverted to something she sees she goes ohh! and points.

She is constantly keeping us on our toes, and when she goes to bed at night, I sigh in relieve and Hubs will recount the number of times that she went from smiley to cry-baby to smiley to cry-baby to smiley to cry-baby to smiley with a few diva antics thrown in for good measure.

Huirou's 1st Birthday Celebration

We had a small intimate celebration for Huirou at home on the weekend before her birthday. I ordered cupcakes because we planned to share them on Jonathan's birthday with friends.

The cupcakes were from +wondermilk.

Hubs and I sang Happy Birthday loudly and clap so hard our palms were red.


Huirou, being Huirou, was oblivious to all our attention-grabbing antics (we were trying to get a nice photo). She was paying attention to the cupcakes. Somehow, she knew they are edible and was trying to grab them

After 15 minute, I got angry (Snap lar! she's smiling) and Hubs got frustrated (You think so easy, meh?) so we decided that the pictures are good enough. (yaya, we'll post them later) This is one where she's trying to say hi.

Beijing Olympics 2008

What the Olympics have got to do with a baby, you ask?

Well, this is Huirou's first olympics.

Although she doesn't quite know yet what all the excitement is about, she senses the excitement in the air.

Instance #1,
we were having our dinner at a Nasi Kandar outlet near our house one evening, and as usual plenty of people were glued to the screen. Fine, alot more than usual. Infact, the place was packed. It turned out that we arrived 20 minutes before the badminton semi-finals ends. People were cheering and routing for our very own Lee Chong Wei. Huirou was laughing an clapping to the "YES! YES! YES!" shouts of the crowd.

Instance #2,
Since by now we know that Datuk Lee have won the semis, it is natural that we watch the finals too. This time, at my home in Ipoh comfortably. Although the "crowd" is much smaller, we were plenty excited. She laughed and laughed at us cheering (oklah, also to our aiyah's....) Needless to say, I was watching her more than the game.

I will remember how suddenly, during the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, my baby became so excited over an event she barely knows about.

Huirou @ 11 months

Huirou at 11 months is very very mischievous. It is getting increasingly difficult to get her to pose for a picture. So, I expect to have a lot of candid shots in the months to come. Let's see what have she achieved this month:

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• She weighs 7.3 kg the last time we visited the doctor. It's not much but she's happy and healthy.
• On a daily basis, she eats 2 meals a day ( a heavy brunch, and a light dinner), at least 3 bottles of milk a day at the sitter's and nurses on demand at home, various snacks (fruits, rice puffs, bread) throughout the day and at least 5 oz of water, somewhat depending on thirst.
• Usually takes 2 naps a day. Once, she took a 2-hour nap during lunch and lasted till bedtime.
• She's also cutting four teeth on her top jaw. But currently, only three is visible; Adding the bottom teeth she now has a total of 5 teeth.
  

Physical Development and Communications

• Huirou mainly moves around the house by crawling or cruising along furniture. We have also left sturdy boxes for her to push around, which she rather enjoy.
  
• She is able to dump things out of containers and put them back in.
• She opens and closes her hands when we sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"; She does the same action when asked to wave "Bye" but with one hand only. Subtle, huh?
• When she see children of any age, she utters : didi ; and she calls herself jeje
  
• She can address her papa accurately, with a rather serious looking face.
• When she wants to go upstairs she points.
• When she's excited, she huffs and puffs, and race towards her goal, whether it be nursing or going out.
  
• She recognizes some "words" although she cannot utter them. Among her favorite? Nen-nen (milk), kaikai (going out) and bumbum (bath). She will also stop momentarily if we shout out NO. or UH-UH.
• In fact, she remembers what she's not supposed to do and will look at us if she's near the "forbidden zone"
• When we say "no biting" she smiles and will teeth the object but will not actually bite.
  

Character & Temperament

• She likes to help with folding laundry by unfolding whatever I have folded. In fact, she likes to roll around the unfolded laundry on the bed.
• In the mornings, she lazes in bed with us. Once she's awake, she starts smiling.
• She laughs easily and seldom cries. When she's upset she whines.
• She is not timid at all. She just laugh at the loud bangs that we think will startle any baby.
  
• Her stranger anxiety have improved by leaps and bounds; She now will allow just about anyone to hold her- as long as she's not tired, hungry or in a bad mood.
• She loves to be read to, and will help by turning the pages. Cloth and board books are the easiest for her, but she will need help with actual book pages.
• Loves to play peekaboo. and if you follow behind her while she's being brought upstairs she gets real excited.

The biggest development of all this month is subtle but is the most precious to me of all. She has grown rather independent and can play on her own for some length of time. Previously, she needed to see or at least hear somebody. Sometimes, she will surprise us by waking up from her nap without crying and sit on the bed to play.

Little Gestures from Daddy

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It is moments like this that reminds me that it's not how big our wedding was or how much money we have lack ; it's the way he does things that is. Not one day. Not one week. EVERY DAY.

At Granma's place I usually stay home while Hubs go get us breakfast. He will get everything that I like to eat. My stomach's growling as I type this! Luckily, Pulau not that much food variety to choose from. Imagine if he's from Pulau Pinang :P


Then, there's this thing where he tries to avoid Huirou looking into the sun. If he is in a situation where that cannot be avoided, he will shield her eyes with his hands.