she starts to walk.....

finally, baby ziqing has decided to start to walk by herself, without support, not for long distance yet, not even from the entrance of the room till the windows right inside the room, but it is a start. *happy*

day by day, she is gaining confidence to walk longer and longer distances. initially, when 2 of us sits at one end, she will look and "mentally" gauge who is the nearest to her and decides to walk (without support) to that person. clever huh? this few days, she will push your hand away and try to walk away from you, but just a few steps to maybe the table or the chair. also, she will stand still for about 30secs (?), trying to stand properly and be more stable before she starts walking towards the person.


though she is still not walking by herself for long distances, i think it is an accomplishment for her. it is really amazing to see how fast she grows day by day, all the changes and development in her. *beams*


today, she is 14.5months. :)

the day that I was so happy

actually I had wanted to share the below experience here on my blog when it happened that day but somehow I couldn't blog on my iPhone, so i wrote it on my fb. I think I should have it noted down here in the event that one day my fb account would be gone or something... haha, paranoia.. so here it is again. for those who have already read it, u can close ur browser now.

date: 18th oct 2010

day: Monday night

baby did the most amazing thing just now...
for the past 2 weeks, she has finally decided to call mama... *happy* =) for the past few days, she actually look at me or pat me when she calls out mama... *double happiness* =))

every night I will carry her, pat her to sleep while singing songs or recite nursery rhymes to her. I will also name each and everyone of her family members and tells her dat we all love her. it goes something like dat.. "mama sayang (means love) qingqing, papa sayang qingqing..." and so on until I finish naming every single one. usually, she will just listen but just now she did the cutest thing! when I went on the 2nd round starting with "mama sayang qingqing....", she pulled out her pacifier from her mouth, opened her eyes, looked at me, smiled and whispered "mama"... den she put back her pacifier and close her eyes. ohmigod!!! I was so amazed! so I finished the 2nd round of names and started the 3rd round again. this time she did exactly the same thing but did not open her eyes (must be already dozing off). *beams*

love love love!! I'm in heaven ~~ =D

happy first birthday to my little baby ziqing....

It has been a year! Time really flies...I can still remember vividly the day I was at the hospital, waiting for baby zq to arrive, bearing with labour pains (before epidural saved me!), hubby accompanying me, hubby helping me to count "1-10" in the labour room, hearing the first cries from baby zq, struggling to breastfeed her, receiving all the well-wishes from families and friends.....etc....

::About Baby Zq at 1 year old::

1) she LOVES milk, each feed is 240ml

2) her feeding schedule: 2 times porridge (with meat and vege of coz) and 3 times milk per day [need to start introducing cereal for her brekkie)

3) weighs 11.4kg (not overweight, as she is tall too!)

4) able to call "papa" but not "mama" :(

5) able to say "baobao" (carry), "ball", "mum-mum" (only happens when she is distressed, hungry for food), saying her own language which only herself will understand

6) her definition of sayang is to lie her head onto whichever part of the body she can reach (be it us or her toys)

7) likes to point with that index finger of hers, directing us to go wherever she wants, or point her finger at you, waving and say "orh-hor"

8) has a fetish for remote controllers and keys

9) likes doraemon (or so we think)

10) loves to play peek a boo with whatever available

11) crawls at a super fast speed

12) able to pull herself to stand and walk with support at increasing speed (but still dare not walk by herself)

13) able to slide tummy down from the bed

14) able to understand what we are saying to her (2-way communication!)

15) starts to be naughty, knows how to scream and cry loudly when she does not get what she wants. [need discipline!]

It has really been a long way...from a little baby who only drinks and sleeps to a big yet little girl now who knows what she wants..oh and before I forget, point no. 16) she is a creature of habit (quote from my sis), anal about things that are not in place. For example, her papa will put his socks on the floor (which is to her eyes, out of place) when we go over for dinner at my mama's, baby zq will point and say "orh" repeatedly until the socks are out of her sight. Like yesterday, PIL brought her to a friend's house nearby, there was a leaf that had flown inside the house. She kept pointing to the leaf until they had to pick it up and throw it away. I do not know if she is going to be someone who is 洁癖 or a 管家婆 in the future. But point to note, if she is the one who messes up and throw things all over the floor, it is okay! -_-'''

Anyway, back to the birthday celebrations. Guess she will always get to have 2 cakes, 1 in sg and 1 in jb. We had her birthday celebration on 12th Sep in SG at my mama's. Family and relatives only. Oh yah, and her first birthday cake! Ordered a customised doraemon-themed birthday cake for her and she was happy! (actually, I think she would be happy and excited with whatever cake in front of her, haha)

Play time with her 小舅舅 who is just 5 days older than her..

Actual day 16th Sep Birthday celebration in JB.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, my dear girl....

now we know....

before i start blogging about the "biggest event of the year", i found out something last night...

hubby and i went out shopping yesterday evening while zq was sleeping..we had dinner out too so by the time we came back, it was close to 8pm...zq was playing in the living room and when she saw us, her face lit up and started crawling towards us at a super fast speed....hubby and i were standing at a distance apart, she "sped" past hubby and came towards me...i thought she was crawling into the room, but she stopped at my feet, held on to my legs and tried to stand up....once she stood up, she started hugging my legs...."awww~~~" she missed me....*smile*


so i carried her up and asked her to sayang me, she laid her head on my shoulder and kept patting me...sweet!! :)MIL and FIL were around too and they were like "oh she misses her mama!" hubby was then trying to prove a point that zq only wans me to carry and not him, so he asked her if she wans to "bao bao", and guessed wat? she stretched out her arms for her papa! haha....hubby was shocked, all of us were shocked (coz usually, she doesn't want her papa to carry her)....so hubby carried her and she started to also sayang him the same way as she did me....hahha....so sweet.....


i concluded, she misses both of us....but she wans me to carry her first....


so laogong, dun always snatch her from my arms and make her cry.....wait for your turn...she do miss u too!

i'm excited..

wanted to post this up last night coz i was really excited....but just realised i couldn't blog using iphone....so last night's excitement had to wait till today to share with all....

i'm excited because tomorrow is my baby's first year birthday celebration (though actual day is on 16th, which we will be celebrating in jb, so 12th will be the celebration in sg)..


i'm excited because i've ordered a customised cake, doraemon's theme, just for my baby girl..


i was excited last night because i've just texted the baker and she has already baked the cake! and she was moulding my little girl at 12am last night!


i was excited last night because i just can't wait to see how the cake turns out!!


just for my baby and also for all, i've developed about 400 photos of her since the day she was born till 11 mths. i've already put them all nicely in 3 different photo albums...final 'project' is to add some slips of paper to the albums to show others and also to remind myself the different months and occasion to which the photo was taken...


i was really excited last night for sunday's birthday celebration, but the excitement was a bit dampened as my baby had a slight fever this morning =(..i will make sure she rests well today and get well enough to enjoy her BIG DAY tomorrow...