Self feeding...19months 8 days

She didn't sleep the very 1st day that I let her take her afternoon nap at Delcare. But she slept on the 2nd day onward. Yesterday she slept for 1.5 hours and today for 1 hour. Adrian and I went to pick her at 4.0pm and she was happily eating her snack. She didn't cry a bit when she saw us.

I am very happy to see that she has really adapt to childcare and is very happy there. Her teacher told me Giselle self feeding skill is much better and accurate than her classmate, Amanda, who has been there longer than Giselle.

Hence I had let Giselle self feed again for dinner and I must say her skills has improve alot since the day I started her at Delcare. She has also learnt many songs like:

1) Twinkle Twinkle Little stars

2) I love you, you love me

3) 2 little dicky birds

4) I am a little teapot

5) Shimmering dinky do

6) Humpty Dumpty

Adrian and I had wanted tp bring her to Esplanade for a walk tonight but it was crowded and we thought of parking the car at Millenia walk. Giselle and us enjoyed this evening very much as she was running around happily... I just let to see her happy face :)

19 months 5 days - 3rd day of CNY

Giselle has been busy doing house visiting with us over the last 3 days... Her nap routine had all been messed up. She only nap about 45 min during the day and so I will try to make her sleep early at night to compensate back.

Her appetite has been quite good and she could finished her meals. I cooked her favourite macaroni today. Everytime when I sing twinkle twinkle little stars, she will sway from side to side. I had started to tie her hair to 2 pony tails and she looked really pretty and adorable.

Tomorrow she will be going to Delcare again and I am sure she will have ''blues'' after 4 days of break.

Chinese New Year - 19months 3 days

Today is the 1st day of Chinese New Year and we had brought Giselle to Suntec City before we went for house visiting.

When she reached Adrian's parents house, she was very afraid of the crowd and kept sticking to us. But later, she was fine and began to enjoy herself as well.

Overall, she only napped for 45 mins at Carrefour and couldn't sleep at Adrian's parents house. She immediately fell asleep at 6.30pm in Adrian's car on way back home. She must be really very tired.

KL Christmas Trip 06

Age: 17 Months 8 days
Trip: 23 - 26 Dec 06


I had managed to made her sleep at 6.30pm the nite before. Giselle had to wake up at 4am on the day of set off. And I had prepared her porridge overnite. She slept in the car for about 30mins when we reached the Tuas check point. She was basically fine throughout the journey but when she reached the KL exit tollway , she began to get very cranky till we reached Traders Hotel.

We had updgrade the room to a suite with executive club access. Giselle simply enjoyed this lounge with Ethan. Both of them like to take off their shoes and ran about, imitating one and another. I basically fed Giselle with porridge and bread, eggs and waffles in the morning. Lunch will be milk at times. Evening will be western food, snacks during the day.




She is bascially well-known in the lounge for spilling drinks on the table. Luckily the service staff were all very patient and understanding. She loves the playpool found at the park in front of our park. Weather was fine in KL and KLCC was just 10 min away from our hotel.




Trader Hotel overall was very nice. Our whole family enjoyed our stay there. On christmas eve, there was even christmas carole singing at the lounge and Giselle and I enjoyed it together. But she fell asleep 10mins after they started because she was really tired.


Basically she slept well over there but on the 2nd and 3rd nite, she did make a little noise. She loved the bathroom and myself and her actually had the chance to shower together.


I bought a lot of clothes and 2 pairs of shoes for her which were quite cheap. She loved seeing the water fountain at KLCC and the huge christmas tree there.


When we were at the department store, she refused to hold our hands and like to wander off by herself. Then Adrian and I wanted to teach her a lesson by hiding ourselves when she kept looking for us. The look of her lost face was so pitiful when she cried out loud, and couldn't find us.. I can't imagine how she will feel if she really lose us outside one day.

We extended our stay for another nite. On the last day on 26th dec, we brought her for a dip at jacuzzi. She loved it. Initially she was very resistant to the pool, bubbles and hot tub, but after that she was ok. We took some pictures at our room with the Twin towers as background. She would always remember the building has Twinke Twinkle little stars.

16 mths 10days

Had a playdate at my house today with 2 other toddlers. Giselle had fun playing with them. i myself also learnt from other mummies how they teach their kid at home. Don't know why Giselle has been getting cranky during the evening whenever we brought her out...

Busy Buddies Class, 16mth 7days

Giselle was quite clingy to me during the initial 15 mins of the class. Luckily she started to warm up when the teachers played with her.

Throughout the class, she couldn't sit still. During the water colour play, as usual, she refused to participate in the stamping on colours on paper. The theme for today was '' star''. Hence the kids were asked to stamp colours using star fruit. I think mainly she didn't like to get dirtied.

During snack time, she refused to eat the food on her plate and kept wanting to get out of her chair and run about. However, during the last part of the class, she enjoyed the swing very much and began to mingle with other parents as well. Teacher Su-Lin said she is very friendly and sociable. And it is normal for Giselle to be fearful of the water colours but once they cross the hurdle, they would love it.

Today she kept calling ''ma ma'' non stop again :)

16 mths 4 days

Giselle finally made another advancement in her motor skills, that is, to climb on the dining chair and take the things on the dinner table.

Brought her out for dinner and Adrian carried her. She kept calling ''ma ma, ma ma''.

Mummy Changed her Hairstyle

AGE: 16 MONTHS 2 DAYS

Taught her to say "rice" today and she pronounced it as "race". I changed my hairstyle ( to short crop) to day and thought she may not recognise me. When I reached home, she just smiled at me, then came over to hug me telling me she can still recognise me and still love me all the same.

She fell from the blue Playskool walker and hit her left face, as usual, a stick of Pocky will do the trick. Cookie is the 1st word that she knows how to pronouced 2 sylibus.

Brought her to Vivocity an she was really cranky as she didn't have enough sleep. She was screaming and heads were all turn to me as usual,

Once reached home, after her usual milk, she slept within 5 mins on her bed.

Hit Herself 2 times in A Day

Giselle hit herself 3 times today:

1) While crawling over dad and hit her face the wall

2) Bang her hand against the glass door at Mt Fabar Safra Japanese Restaurant.

Adrian and I felt really heartpain. Today she naturally said "Cookie" when I asked her what's my hand holding (pocky). She had also said "Mug" when i was holding her milk in my hands. Though she did not pronounce it actually but can see she has made a great advancement in speech.

Guess she is of different stage where her speech is acelerating. She has also started to call me "mama" when she sees me now.

BusyBuddies Classes

Find Giselle is more sociable after her bzbuddies class. Been thinking if I should let her join. She likes to wave to babies now when she sees them on the street. Adrian and I are so proud of our little girl.

BusyBuddies Trial Class

Her trial class for Busybuddies started today. I was surprised that Giselle was actually quite sociable. She did not stick to me during the class at all. In fact, she loves to mingle with other caucasion kids.

During the water colour play, teacher Su-Lin asked all kids to wet their hands with colours and stained on the papers. I striped Giselle down to her diapers to prevent being dirtied. Giselle was frustrated by the colours on her hands. Teacher tried to calm her down by assuring her that it was ok.

When she discovered there was a sink with tap nearby, she kept going to the sink during the song session at the rainbow mat. I enjoyed attending the lesson with her though it was very tiring that I have to swing her, catch her back to the group when she wandered off.

Bicycle Ride with Daddy at East Coast

We went to East Coast today and Adrian decide to run a bicycle and bring Giselle round. I joined in the fun but boy, I have difficult setting the momentum as I have not ridden a bicycle for so long .... hahaha

1st Zoo Trip

Today was Giselle 1st trip to the zoo. She was quity feary of the animals. The parrot looks very cute as 1st look, but when it sqwak, Giselle got scared and cried. Basically she enjoyed the walk throughout the trip.

However, she felt tired and fell asleep at the playground of the zoo. We did not take the tram but walk instead throughout. We did not even bring any stroller with us. Luckily, Giselle was quite cooperative throughout.

16mths 6 days

She slept from 2pm till 2.45pm. Woke up and continue to sleep till about 3.45pm. Woke up again and drank milk. After which continue to sleep till 5.30pm.

We opened up the masak (cooking toys) for her. She was so happy. Adrian started to demostrate to her how to play. Giselle kept turning her head and smiled at me like she was giggling at Adrian for being so ''childish''. haha. Really very funny. After she learnt how to play and cook, she began to feed both of us with her ''food''.

She was so happy tonight and kept running about in the house. Put her to bed at 9pm and she only managed to fall asleep at 10pm

Her 1st Birthday Bash!!!!

We didn't really want to make it big party as she may not know anything. Hence, we just gathered all our family members and some really closed friends to celebrate this event for her.

Started to blow up some balloons and the morning. At about 11.30am, came the caterer and guests started to arrive from about noon time.

SHe has received lotsa of presents and everyone just wanted to carry her. We sang birthday song while she just stood on the chair in front of her Strawberry Shortcake cake we got from her. After that, we blew the candles for her. She was really tired and after her nap, she tore open the presents happily . She has also receive quite big angpows from our relatives.

Fever

Giselle's body was slightly warm when I picked her today from sch. She was very lethagic and wanted to sleep early. Then her fever started. From 38 degree to 39 degree.... Can see she was not feeling well with the fever and runny nose...

Really very heartpain to see her suffering like this... Just hope I could take over her sickness. Adrian and I had to keep sponging her. Fever medication doesn't really work. I have to wake up in the middle of the night to check on her and sponge her.

Wrong Leg... hahaha

Brought her to Vivo City last Sunday. She was enjoying herself at herself at Giant Supermarket and even held on to the wrong leg of a stranger. She saw her daddy and didn't dare to look up whose leg she was holding because she was very scared. Hahaha

Then when the stranger spoke to her, she ran like crazy to her Daddy, crying of course.. Really very funny scene.

This week, Wang Lao Shi told me that she was a ''leader''. When she told Giselle to sit down during class, she would purposely lie down on the floor and wiggle like a snake. 2 of her classmates saw that and followed the same action as her... **faintz** So Wang Lao Shi pulled her up and scolded her.

Then Giselle also started to play with Tissue paper in school. She kept pulling and pulling, wasting all the papers.

Just 2 nights ago when I was flashing cards to her, she could say '' What's this'' when she didn't know what was the picture.

Everyday when I picked her from school, she would be very happy to see me and will start to play and jump around after hugging me. But at times it can be also very difficult to make her sit down and wear shoes to wear for the school bus.

Another Contest - Motherhood Mag

Giselle photo came out in the April 2006 issue of Motherhood magazine. Personally I like this pix alot so I sent in to try my luck for her.

MamaBaoBei Magazine

We were invited by Sarah Tan of EPL publishing in Jan 06 to appear in their issues of MamaBaoBei Magazine. Mainly both of us to be taken in some pose shots in their studio. The following are some of the issues that we have appeared in.

Feb/Mar 06 , Jun/Jul 06

Her Jumperoo

Today Parents Magazine - Feb 2006 issue

Giselle appeared in the magazine which I had sent her photo for a contest. The theme of the contest is "I want to be a super hero" and thought the photo that I have sent in was really appropriate.

Her 1st Dip in the Swimming Pool

She's officially 6 months old today and we decided to bring her to Mount Faber Safra for a dip in the pool. She was skeptical about the water and din have much expressions on her face. I didn't want to go into the pool as I need to wash her up after that.

Her Newly-Found Skill.....

This is what she's very good at when she is 5months 11 days old

1st Mouth on Cereal during Christmas Eve

Had started trying the Heinz Cereal on her today and she had fun eating them. Haha

Her Very 1st Hair Cut!!!

Suddenly wanted to trim her hair as her hair has been dropping really alot recently. Brought her to Blk 57 Lengkok Bahru to cut. She wasn't feeling very comfortable during the cut and I had to carry her when the auntie was cutting it.

Her is how she looked b4 and after (can see she has a "curry pok" after the haircut, hahaha) :