Riding on a Trike.

This is what we do when both children wants a ride on the tricycle. Don’t ask me what we will do when the baby becomes a toddler and wants to pedal too. We’ll think of something then. :)

Zhixin @ 11 months old

 

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• Zhixin has 7 teeth. He’s special like that. Four big ones on top. 3 little ones on the bottom.
• He still consumes his 6 x 80 ml ebm a day. plus nursings as much as he want.
• On top of that he eats alot – fruits, porridge (aka congee), snacks, soft rice.
• My only concern for him is that he doesn’t like to drink water, so I limit his intake of biscuits, cakes, and anything that is dry or heaty. and no juice either.

Physical Development and Communications

• Zhixin has graduated from his commando crawl and can now consistently crawl on all fours.
• He goes into his turbo-crawl mode when he sees his uncle, or when chasing after Huirou on her bicycle. or when Hubs starts peeling oranges. ( He goes mum-mum-mum-mum ah all the way to Hubs)
• He’s also able to climb onto low furnitures (1-1.5feet is nt a problem to him) The only thing is he does not know yet how to get down the proper way.
• Yesterday, Hubs witnessed (and supervised) him climb the full flight of stairs in our house!
• He can pull himself to a stand and lower himself gently by holding on to furniture.
• He mainly still expressed his delight by laughing and shouting and his distress by crying.
• When Huirou take away his toys he will quickly cry. Sometimes he even cries when he thinks she has pushed him on purpose. So young, yet so soon to tell-tales!

Character and Temperament

• When he wakes from sleep, he seldom cries. Sometimes he will sit up and call me but sometimes he will not, forcing me to be alert all the time.
• He is very playful. Some of the tricks that he plays to make us laugh: pretending to cough. pretending to bite. spit at us. bite and pull out blankets, toys, water bottle.
• He will also pretend to drink by sucking and then as soon as I remove the water bottle he spits all the water out.

Zhixin is now at such a delightful playful stage. In the day he plays and plays and when it’s time to nap he falls asleep in an instant, all tired out.

Chalk Drawings

(Drawing was done on 21-05-2010)

I apologise for the horrible picture; our tiled driveway don’t take chalk very well. That’s a picture of me, with the 2 children, originally.

When I told Huirou that in the original picture it was me playing with her brother, she became upset and proceed to “erase out" her brother . (that’s the smudge on the bottom left corner)

Jealousy?

Change

We have all heard it often enough:

Once the baby arrives, your lives will change.

It’s true you know.

Especially after the second one.

We used to go out during the weekends doing whatever. Outings need not be planned around nap times.

We washed our sheets every 2 weeks or so, not every 3 days.

I needed only 15 minutes in the morning to get ready. Not 1.5 hours plus another 30 mins to persuade little children to put on their shoes and get into their car seats.

Even our reading changed to some of the books like these :

The books were also never chewed, scribbled and salivated upon. And heaven forbid that they be this tattered after only 6 months!

There were many big changes for us and some arguments along the way. We’ve had to make changes to our lifestyle, and habits. Some say that these are sacrifices that we make as parents and some merely view it as a temporary change in pace. But no matter what, all I know is:

I wouldn't want it ANY other way.

Zhixin @ 9 months old

(Note: I am not old yet, I just realised I forgot to schedule this post while wanting to write 10 mo post….)

As usual, a picture :) That’s what everrrryone wants.

 

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• Zhixin now consumes 80 ml (almost 3 oz) of ebm 6 times a day at the baby sitter’s house. At other times we still nurse on demand. Same as before.
• He’s eating a fair amount of solids at a sitting.  I am regularly letting him have meats and vegetables on the low allergy list. He eats all fruits that we eat. He seems to like the processed cheese that Huirou offers him but we are still careful to limit his salt intake at this age.
• He is not too fond of drinking water. And I have not tried to offer him any juice lest he develops a preference for them.
• Right now, he has 4 cute little teeth. two on top and two on the bottom. However, in his mouth the teeth can appear much bigger and they are still quite sharp!

Physical Development and Communications

• Zhixin is definitely crawling much faster these days. Still commando crawling, but much faster. (which incidently damage the collars of all his clothing, and dirties the front too)
• He has better balance and can catch himself if he happens to topple over while sitting.
• He loves to play obstacle course with the cushions and pillows on the floor.
• He’s very interested in whatever his Sis is doing. Often screaming in excitement at little games that she comes up with.
• When he meets familiar people he holds up his hand to say hello, and when we go out or leave the sitter’s he waves bye bye.
• When he’s happy, you find him bouncing and clapping. A sure fire way to achieve this is to sing the beginning lines of The DoReMi Song.
• He can speak at least 2 sounds now. And they are very important ones. Together they form 3 very important words to him. Baba, Mama, Mammammam. That’s right! He can address Hubs and I and to demand food! In case you are curious, he waited to say Ba after he says Ma so as not to hurt his dearest father’s feeling. (But Hubs is insisting that he said Ba first. He’s of course wrong in my blog)

Character and Temperament

• Zhixin like loud noises, the television and is only quick to cry when hungry or tired. Other than that he can be left alone most of the time.
• He’s also very tolerant of the rough love that Huirou gives him. Whenever she pushes him or scratch him, if it’s not too painful, he take it all in stride.

Ahhh! Nine months old is a wonderful age to be at, isn’t it?