High Chair for Baby

Now that Raelene can sit quite steadily, I put her on high chair during meal times. I've been using bouncer chair, but since the chair does not have shoulder straps, and she's getting more and more active everyday, it is no longer safe using the bouncer. She would just try to peek what's underneath the chair. Yeah, she's just that curious.

This high chair is especially bought from Indonesia and hand-carried all the way to Singapore. This particular brand, BabyDoes, is so much praised and used by my friends. Even my friend staying in Singapore would go to Indonesia and carry this high chair to Singapore too.

I asked my relative to buy it for me, and my hubby carried it to Singapore. I didn't check the chair by myself though, just fully trust on friends' recommendations. But, it turned out that this high chair is the new model from BabyDoes, meanwhile the one receiving all the praises is the old model. The tray table of this new model cannot be adjusted as the old model. What a pity. And what a waste of time and efforts of bringing this high chair all the way to Singapore. Oh well, lessons learnt.

But Raelene surely enjoys sitting on her high chair. I guess because it allows her to see more things around her from her high chair.

Quick mommy! Food please!

Well, at least the chair color looks good. Hohoho

My First Pearls

It's quite exciting to see those pearls poking through her gums. I spotted white spots on her gums when she was 7 months old, and yet her teeth just don't really poke through all the way yet.

But now she's 8 months old, she can already flash that teethy smile. Hoho. Kinda miss her toothless smile though. But am more excited waiting for the next teeth to show up.

My Much-Awaited Pearls

I am still cleaning her teeth using gauze cloth. Not sure when I should start cleaning her teeth using toothbrush. My mom said that it might be too early to brush her teeth using toothbrush, but am not certain whether this holds true as nowadays there are just so many things developed to cater baby needs. Do share your opinion though. Really appreciate it.

Sit Down Properly On 8 Months Mark

Time has passed very quickly. It just felt like I've just given birth to my daughter, Raelene, yet she's already 8 months old now, and counting. The sleepless nights and very very tiring night feedings are only vague memories by now. It is so much fun playing and communicating with my little one. She's surely one social butterfly (oh well, at least I hope so by seeing how active, playful and cheerful she is). Do you know the feelings when you just can't get enough of the smiles, the laughs, even the cries sound so irresistably cute to me.

Just took some photos of Raelene when she turned 8 months. She surely loves the camera, especially if accompanied by jiggling her rattles, she just kept on laughing and squealing non stop. Am I just so blessed being able to stay home and spend so much quality time with her.

Here are some of her photos.

She can sit steadily now. Something she never really do before, as she prefers to crawl than anything else. What a milestone to remember.

She just loves the roly poly 8. Kept on playing with it. Picking it up, put it in her mouth, taste it, throw it away. Then pick it up again, taste it again, and the cycle just keep on repeating.

Ooh. I hope I can be the one to discipline her when she grows older, since my hubby is almost never around except on weekends. Hope I have the heart to do it. Hoho. It's gonna be a tough job though, being the "bad cop" to my forever-will-still-be-my-little pumpkin.

First Swim

It was just yesterday when I finished feeding my baby and put her on her stroller. I sat down and was busy with my laptop. Next couple of minutes later I checked on her, and she was busy looking at both her palms. She turned both her palms forward and sideways, then she looked at her arms.

Guilty feelings strucked me when seeing her with no rattles no nothing to play with, and instead just looking at her own palms and arms. Goshh. Then I decided to bring her down to the swimming pool for her first swim. All these times I've been trying to postpone swimming for her as the water is pretty cold for me. But seeing her like that, I decided for her to try out swimming.

Next thing is I was holding her in my arms while standing next to the pool. Acting as if she knew I was going to put her in the pool, she closed both her ears with her hands. She always do that whenever she feels uneasy, tensed or scared. I put her on my lap, she still had not touched the water yet. I touched the water and luckily, the water was pretty warm, as it has been a hot day.

I started by splashing water on her feet, getting her to use to the feeling of the pool water. She gave no reaction, then I slowly put her on the floater. She was so tensed, her fists clenched while holding on the floater. She was so still and didn't move any body parts until the next 10 minutes. Hahaha. But she was being a really good girl with new experiences. She didn't cry nor being cranky. Look at her tensed face.

My First Swim

She was being so quiet and still, although I know that she actually enjoys playing with water. Whenever I bathe her, she always squeals so happily and keep on splashing the water until I am almost completely wet.

Can't wait to bring her for another swimming to get her used to new surroundings and experiences. (^-^)

My Little Pumpkin

My baby girl has started crawling pretty smoothly, although she still has many falls. She likes being mobile as she is very active baby.

Love to play with her all day long. All the baby coos and baby mumbles. So adorable. This is her picture taken when she's 6 months old. Fyi, she is going to be 8 months old by next week.

I believe all moms out there agree with me that motherhood is the best experience ever. No matter how tiring it is to cope with housechores and taking care of baby altogether, a little smile from baby just wipes all the tiredness away and pumps in energy to new full level. Love you baby.