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Long time....

Friday, May 21, 2010

Oh wow...I havent been signing in to my blogspot account for donkey months.
Im still alive. =)
And no, I have not given up on my blog. After almost 6 yrs of blogging, I am of course not ready to retire.
My world revolves around my family as u would have alrd know by now.
The daily things that I do at home with the lil kid is pretty routine, like tidying the hse, tidying the hse, tidying the hse, cooking, cooking, cooking, changing diapers, changing diapers, and still changing diapers, .....but well, lucky for me, I try to spice up the life at home when no one is around, and with the lil kid asleep.

From the day I stayed at home, we have adjusted a fair bit of schedules to fit the new lifestyle, and I believe it will keep changing, man, who said life at home wasn't dynamic...haha
Recently, I decided to reduce the bb's nap to single session (but longer hrs) per day.
So now, when she knocked out at abt 1.30pm, i have my own time for abt 2 , 3hrs or more.
I have more time to chat with my frens and rewatched Nigella, Curtis Stone, 3plus1 and more on my dvd player. Since before bb was asleep, I had to finish most of the chores, if not, i would hv woken up the light sleeper bb.
It became my very own quality time. sweeeeet.

The lil bb is very chatty now, and of cos in her own language. While sometimes I know what she is trying to tell me, other times, I just had to tell her to speak to me in english.
And she likes to call for me everytime and anywhere. 'mummy, mummy, MUUUUUmmy'...it's so sweet...but let's countdown to the day where i will find it a nuisance. (would i?)
Her fav show now is no longer Barney and frens, it has got to be Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The character toys that we bought for her from HK disneyland will sit with her thruout the show. I could see her matching the characters on the TV as quickly as she could. Though she is always slower... :)
It is always exciting to see her doing things for the first time. And I can't help but to flash her my proud smile of satisfaction.

It's time for me to return to my writing here so that I could pen down the memories before i forget... :)

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bbTara's 1st Semi Solid Meal...

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The day has arrived. Much anticipated...another of her milestone. =)
Saturday, 2nd of May..

We decided to mill our own type of semi solid for her.
And after some discussion with the PD as well as experienced frens/blogger, we arrived at organic brown rice for a start. That equates to no instant cereal mixture for our bb.
Not that I boycott the instant cereals, but the fact that I am a SAHM, means I shld make myself useful....
and, after reading the ingredients on the cereal tin, it affirmed our decision (the manufacturer included palm oil, corn starch for god knows wat reason!?)
Thanks to a singaporean fren who stayed across the border, he bought us the first pack of organic brown rice which his son is also taking. =)
The method is pretty simple:
1) wash the brown rice thoroughly,
2) pan fry the washed brown rice until dry
3) mill the rice in a miller until powder form
4) store powder in fridge

To cook, I inherited ryan boy's mini slow cooker, and according to the consistency i want to feed bbtara with, I scoop the powder into the cooker, and add cooked water accordingly. I started off with slow cooking the rice powder for 1hr. When I am ready to feed, I scoop the porridge out and mix with bbtara's milk.

bbtara ready for her 1st meal....

her first semi solid feed...

thanks to my sista who was also around, we had an extra pair of hands, to take video haha
she was rather cooperative for the first session.

had to change a bib cos the first one got messy!
That concludes the first meal, it took us 45mins, with my sista and ryan boy using toys and music to distract her so that I can feed her in a 'tidy' manner, heh heh...
looking forward, I have alrd been feeding her daily for the past 1 wk. now, it takes her abt 25-30mins to finish her porridge, a new schedule is fitting in nicely....Thank God!

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