March 30th, 2008 | Babies | 1 Comment
Baby Clarisse is definitely a late toother. She’s now 10 months old and her first pearly white has yet to erupt. The symptoms and signs of her teething is pretty obvious now. And I can see two small whitish bumps on the bottom part of her gums. Could it be anytime now?
Drooling, oh my gawd, she’s drooling much more than I had expected. Baby Clarisse has always been drooling a lot but the past few weeks were simply terrible. She had to wear a bib at all times or else her shirt would be all wet with her saliva within 15 minutes. And I guess it’s true that one of the symptoms of teething is mildly choking on her own saliva. Sometimes baby Clarisse would choke a little during her sleep and wake up with a cough or two.
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March 28th, 2008 | Household | No comments
Stop boiling water with an electric kettle. Use the gas stove instead. This alone will save tons in energy bill. I swear by this rule.
I’m not exaggerating when I say my husband has a habit of leaving his PC running for days on a stretch. The only time he turn it off is when it rains or going out. That is one bad habit I would like to see him change. Shutting down PCs at night would definitely save on energy usage.
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March 28th, 2008 | Parenting | No comments
While having a chat with my girlfriends last night, we touched on the topic of child safety. Specifically, how to prevent children from getting lost in public places. You know how kids are and their tendency to run about despite numerous warning and advice.
One of the first precautions that pop up was to harness your child. Putting a leash on your kid, like walking your dog, literally. Child safety harness is a bit of an extreme if you ask me but according to my friends, they have no problem with it even if it attracts unwanted stares. Better safe than sorry as they say. The world is not getting any safer is it, particularly Malaysia.
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March 28th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
A few days ago, I mentioned about buying an extra mattress to put in the living room.To my surprise, my in-laws bought one yesterday. Great, or so I thought.When I was feeding baby Clarisse in the living room today, they brought out that piece of new mattress. Upon touching it, I was dissappointed how thin the padded material felt. The purpose of me wanting to get a new mattress is to cushion her fall whenever baby Clarisse spend time crawling or practising to stand in the living room. This new mattress however is made from such a thin piece of sponge that if she were to fall head first onto the mattress, it won’t do much to cushion the impact at all. I didn’t even bother to ask how much it was. It must’ve been cheap from the looks of it.
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March 27th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
We ordered take-away from a wantan mee stall for dinner earlier in the day. While Papa was waiting for the food, a doggy came near the car. I wind down the window and baby Clarisse stood up to watch. The doggy remained close to the patch of grass in front of baby Clarisse. We hang around for a couple of minutes even after the food is ready because baby Clarisse got so excited watching the doggy wagging it’s tail, roll around and jumping about just a couple of feet away. Then Papa drove off. Immediately Clarisse started to cry. Cried her heart out in fact. It took me a while to console and calm her down. She cooled off when we reach home a few minutes later.
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March 25th, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
Baby Clarisse will be 10 months tomorrow. The past week has seen my baby Clarisse cruise all over the crib holding onto the rails. The size and thickness of the rails are just perfect for her little hands to grasp tightly so she has no problem cruising around the crib. She can’t cruise as well when her hands are placed onto sofas or against the wall, places she can’t quite grab onto well enough for support.
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March 25th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
For the past few months, I’m slowly getting back to my pre-pregnancy exercise and sporting regimen which includes tennis, brisk walking and jogging on a daily basis. It helps that my husband loves tennis and jogging. We’ve been playing tennis for the past 10 years before my year-long hiatus after conceiving baby Clarisse.
My fitness level has plummetted to the extent of hitting rock bottom. I could barely push 5km jogging or last more than an hour on the tennis court. And please, don’t ask me about my weight and body shape as I don’t need to feel more miserable than I already am.
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March 24th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Driving a Corvette or wishing to get one? Chances are you’re into performance automobiles as most Corvette junkies would confess. Let’s face it, Corvettes aren’t famous for practical family cars that get you from point A to B everyday. Neither aren’t they known as your family’s mode of transportation for school going kids or shopping housewives. We have Volvos and Toyota for mundance tasks like these.
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March 23rd, 2008 | Personal | 2 Comments
My baby’s first meaningful word? It’s not papa or mama I’m afraid. Instead, it’s … ‘SDAHHH’ which means star for you and me.
We bought some glow-in-the-dark stars and moon a few days ago. Stick the lot on the wall and wardrobe. Baby Clarisse loves it so much she often look towards the glow-in-the-dark stars with a smile and say ’sdahhh’.
On the downside, she gets a bit too excited whenever I switches off the lights just before her bedtime and that makes it harder to get her to sleep.
March 23rd, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Having bought several types of pillows hoping that it could provide support and relief to my neck and spine, I think it’s time for me to try something difference and more expensive: An ortho-pedic memory foam countoured pillow. What a mouthful for a block of foam that cost several times more than the most expensive downs and feather pillow I’ve bought in the pass. It claims to offer the most precise support and alleviate the symptoms of neck, head and spinal pain. I’ll be on the look out for one when I’m out shopping this weekend.
