My Baby Turns 1!

Today marks another important milestone for both my baby and me. We made it - full 12 months! Which means that she could eat almost everything now - no more fear while I silently congratulate myself for successfully breastfeeding her for a FULL 1 year. Yes, except for a few times of formula milk when she had jaundice and also nappy rash during her 1st 2 months (but that was really rare, just a couple of times for 1 or 2 days, the most).

By now, I've introduced her to a vast variety of new food:

Strawberry, Raisins, Corn, Oatmeal biscuit (introduced by my babysitter), Ginseng soup (accidentally given by Daddy, who misinterpretted Amah’s message that she could drink it already, but was actually referring to Sze Yi), Tau sar piah, KFC (just a little bit), mee suah, pau, etc.

I took the day off since my parents were here. But I still sent Sze Juin to the babysitter in the morning since I had some things to settle. In the afternoon, we went to fetch her before we went for lunch. Hubby took the 2nd half off, and we went to pick up Sze Yi from school before we all went for lunch in Queensbay Mall. After lunch, we went back to let them have a short nap. Then in the evening, we took them down to the garden for a walk.

Sze Juin was very excited as she got to ride her sister's tricycle. We got Sze Yi that for her 1st birthday - and she could only cycle all by herself at about 3.5 years old! Either the front pedal was a little too hard to cycle, or she's not strong enough to manage that earlier. Anyway, it's good enough that the tricycle could last this long :)

We only opened the presents at night, after dinner.

The sisters playing with the ride-on cum walker (pressie from Mommy & Daddy)

Initially, Sze Yi wanted to sit on it once hubby assembled that. But after we told her that since it's Mei Mei's present, Mei Mei should have the first ride. To our surprise, Sze Yi willingly accomodated. But of course, after that, she insisted to play on it as if it was hers.

Jie Jie with all her 'babies' on the lion - except Mei Mei!

More presents to follow - which of course Jie Jie enjoyed more. She got the privilege to help Mei Mei unwrapping them.

Hehe, not this time, though. Mei Mei somehow knew how to open a present by now...

At this point in time, she could already called Mommy and Daddy very clearly. In fact, she could really communicate with us now, by letting us know where she wanted to go, or what she didn't want to do. She also showed that she understood us when we asked her questions. Too bad that she didn't want to take milk from the bottle anymore when at home (not even from Daddy or Amah). She would rather wait for me to return home. That means, only one person can bottle-feed now - the babysitter. As for sleeping, it's harder to put her to sleep now when Jie Jie was around. She wanted to play instead. So sometimes, it's easier to put both of them to sleep together, provided Jie Jie would keep her mouth shut and remained quiet - usually when she's sleepy.

Happy birthday, dearest baby. Mommy, Daddy and Jie Jie love you loads!