The one with Jaden walking on his own

Jaden started walking on his own on 6 April 2011, 3 days shy of his 14 months old mark. Of course I was super excited and I recorded many videos to mark this important milestone.

Here are some funnier ones:

Where is the bone? Let Jaden show you ;)

This one shows how he sprints down my car porch, which is rather flat, but to him it's like a big slopey mountain.

Streamyx is fixed!

One reason why I am not able to blog as often as I like is because of my Streamyx at home. I have subscribed to Streamyx for almost 4 years now and it has been a nightmare thus far. It is down 80% of the time, and Telekom's Lousy Customer Service doesn't help at all.

But I am glad to say that a technician came to my house this morning and he seemed to have fixed the problem. And now I am surfing without problem, YAY!! ^_^

I hope this will last permanently so that I am able to blog more often, posting more photos and videos at ease.

We love IKEA!!

I brought Jaden to IKEA today because I wanted to buy a new high chair for him, and I have my eyes on this:

His existing high chair is fine, but the backrest is too high and he is always soaking wet after his meal because it's extremely warm sitting inside there:

You can't really see the backrest of the high chair from this picture but I am still putting this picture up because Jaden looks so cute here feedng himself a piece of his favourite chicken flavoured Baby Bites ^_^

IKEA is my personal favourite - I LOVE IKEA, period.

I can easily find over 70 items in my house from IKEA, hohoho.. And I think Jaden loves IKEA too, see how much fun he had today:

Kissing a bunny soft toy

Checking out the price tag of the comforter

This bed is nice, mummy...

This wall light is nice too..

I like this egg chair mummy... (it's RM299 *gasp*)

I think this is a girl's bedroom, but this strawberry is so big can I eat it?

Mosquito netting? I haven't seen this before

Oooo... this carpet is fun

My mummy is having lots of fun too, see, she puts this strainer on my head

Total K.O. after shopping s hard at IKEA

He fell asleep in the car seat on our way back home. And he had poo'd in the diaper -_-

As I was cleaning his buttocks (while he was still sleeping), something funny happened. I was so focus on wiping his buttocks I didn't realise he started peeing. I heard him whining and when I look up, I see his face is wet because he shoots his pee on his face!! Boys! hahaha.. so funny and so poor thing.

Today has been a super fun day ^_^

Bye Bye old highchair.. Hello new highchair

Hello, long time no see :D

Wow, I have not been blogging for almost 3 months! Jaden got middle ear infetion in January, I resigned from my job in January, CNY and Jaden's 1st Birthday came and past in February... I keep thinking to myself, if I dont blog about these events soon I will forget all the details!! oh my oh my...

Here we go:

Middle Ear Infection

January was not a very happy month for me, because Jaden kept falling sick :( We reckon it's because we have switched him to a day care centre since early November and there are around 20 over babies at the centre. He was sick every other week since December and I was taking emergency leave from work so often it really stressed me out.

This time round it started with some mild cough and fever which lasted for only 1 day, on 11 Jan. I remember my mother was in PJ then so she helped me take care of Jaden at home.

15 Jan, a Saturday, Jaden developed fever in the afternoon, his temperature was very high and very sudden. The fever lasted for about 5 days and linger at 38.5 degree celcius to 39 degree celcius. We brought him to 3 Doctors from 15 to 18 Jan, why 3 Doctors? Because I panicked when the fever did not subside and the temperature always rises very quickly to 39 degree celcius every 4 hours. 3 Doctors and none of them diagnosed him with Middle Ear Infection! One of them even diagnosed him wrongly with Roseola.

We realised something is very wrong and it is definitely not roseola when I see yellowish liquid oozing out from both of his ears. After seeking advice from my cell leader's wife, Agnes, I brought Jaden to SJMC on 21 Feb. The good Doctor diagnosed him with Middle Ear Infection and prescribed him with Antibiotic Ear Drops and Oral Antibiotics.

I was also sick and had been coughing my lungs out since early January, and with this episode with Jaden, I lost 3kgs after painstakingly taking care of him day and night. It is after this excruciating experience that we finally decided to stop sending him to the baby centre. The caregivers are really good, and they love all the babies there, but even the Doctor advised us not to put him in a centre with too many children because they tend to pass the germs around, and we just can't bear to see him keep falling sick anymore.

As a result of our decision, I tendered my resignation to my dear Boss on 25 Jan, and now I am a SAHM! My friend Adeline taught me this abbreviation, she said: What?! You blog and you don't know what is SAHM? It's Stay At Home Mum la! :p

I am a SAHM now, woohooo!!!

In the past, I would pray to God every single day I send Jaden to the babysitter. I pray that one day I will be able to quit my job and stay home to take care of him. I am SO glad God answered my prayers!! Thank you Jesus! MUAKS!

Now that I have quit my job, I will just leave the hard work of earning a living to my dear husband, hehehe..

Chinise New Year

This year we didn't go back to Kuantan for CNY, we celebrated with my family in Kuala Lumpur. All of us checked into Grand Millenium Hotel on 2 Feb and checked out on 5 Feb. This is Jaden's 2nd CNY, last year he was only few days old when we celebrated CNY in PJ, and I was "enjoying" my confinement period at home (*bleh*), this time round CNY is more fun, and I dressed him up in lots of CNY costumes :)

We celebrated Jaden's 1st birhday at Jogoya Restaurant on 4 Feb with this nice cake from Secret Recipe:

The cake was yummy and relatively cheap compared to other 3D cakes from Just Heavenly & some famous bloggers, so we ordered the exact same cake for Jaden's 1st Birthday Party at home on 9 Feb.

For the 9 Feb Birthday Party, we invited both my sister's family and my sister in-law's family, my 4th brother in-law, my Cell Group leaders, and Dixie (my MIL was her babysitter). My MIL, who is a great chef, cooked 90% of the dishes. She cooked super delicious yam rice, pork in dark soya sauce (lo bak) and fried birthday noodles.

*SIGH*.. I do not have any pictures from the party taken by my camera to post on this blog because I was robbed on 11 Feb and my camera's gone *SOB SOB* All the precious birthday photos are gone *SIGH AGAIN*

Here are some photos during the CNY from my sister's camera:

Reunion Dinner with the whole family on 2 Feb 2011 at Grand Palace Restaurant, Pavilion. I bought 11 pairs of bunny ears for all the kids to wear ^_^

At the pool side after breakfast on 2nd day of CNY.

Jaden: ......

Jaden: THADA!!

My beautiful niece Grace dressed in a Korean Traditional Costume ^_^

Dinner at Tony Roma's... Pavilion again

Grace: hehehe, Jaden is so cool as Superman!

Had an early celebration of Jaden's 1st Birthday on 4 Feb 2011 at Jogoya Restaurant, Starhill KL

Photo with Papa and Mummy

Jaden grabbing his cousin Timothy's hair

Photo with Jun Yee's family

Sharing a joke with Xiao Yee.

Xiao Yee = Jaden's Best Friend

Sharing a joke with Mummy ^_^

Back to the hotel, climbing all over cousin Timothy because he was wearing a Mickey Mouse pyjamas and Jaden luuuurrrvveee Mickey Mouse!!

Photo session on the last day at the hotel. Jaden in one of his many Chinese traditional costumes

Datuk and grandma taking picture with all the grandchildren. Look at my Jaden, trying to escape from grandma, hohoho

Jaden: Lemme go... I am sleepy... I don't wanna take photo

Grandma: .... *help*

Datuk: -_-

Grandma: phew.. great... please sit down Jaden

Datuk: Thank God I am carrying Joyce and she can't flip and turn like Jaden yet

Finally, a decent photo with everyone looking at the camera :)

Group photo

Have a prosperous year ahead everyone! ^_^

Jaden's favourite TV programme

At 11 months old, Jaden's favourite TV Education programme is 'Super Why!'. It's aired at 8.18pm every Monday to Friday on Astro TVIQ Channel 552. The show helped us a lot because Jaden will sit quietly in his high chair and eat his porridge while watching the show ^_^

This is the theme song from the show:

"Hip hip hooray, the super readers saved the day!

We changed the story, we solved the problem.

We worked together, so hip hip hooray!

Hip hip hooray, the super readers saved the day! (x2)"

It's becoming my favourite song too :p

Jaden says Ma Ma!!

Today, 6th January 2011, Jaden says "MA MA" for the first time... yippie!!!

^_^