Happy Birthday, Mama!

Today's mama's birthday and dada's sick-like-a-dog day. It's still an awesome day nevertheless.

The day started with Elle baked mama a poopy cake early in the morning! Mama had the afternoon off just because she didn't feel like working on her big day.

It's really sweet of dada to have Elle held on the gift and gave it to mama. Elle was so excited (looked silly though) when we were singing out loud the birthday song at a upbeat tempo. She just couldn't get enough of the strawberry swirls on the cake.

I love you both!

I digg pig trotter!

See how much Elle enjoys her pig's trotters! It does make changing diaper a breeze. She'll hold up her legs and stuff them into mouth, remain focus on her pig trotters and leave us alone with the diaper changing.

Ba-ba-ba-ba

Major milestone for today is Elle's mumbling strings of "Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba", which makes mama very jealous of dada.

There's an outburst of "mama" happened about a month ago while I was feeding Elle. It didn't melt me in tears though. She was in a very cranky mood that she refused to eat. However, mama never gave in so easily. At one point that she was too frustrated with the always-in-her-face spoon, she jerked her head away from me and screamed out "Ma-ma Ma-ma" at her dada for help.

Calling dada "Ma-ma"? We had quite a belly laugh workout.

Black Friday

We survived through the thanksgiving day with no internet connection. Our plan of doing online shopping on Black Friday this year was basically ruined. By the time we're back online, half day had been through.

Not much of a die-hard doorbuster in us. Hin "doorbusted" the computer stores at around 10-ish in the morning and there's no surprise all the good deals were gone and he came back empty handed.

Wrestling through the crowd with a baby attached was a lot more challenging. After a little bit of shopping, we quickly settled down in our usual suspect place. We had much fun hanging out there and be chilled. Elle was our entertainer. We had a "No cheesecake for Elle" drama documented at this tabblo.

Happy Gobbles!

Bath time, fun time!

Monkey see, monkey do

Elle's appetite is back. It makes feeding her a breeze. Happy tears rolling in our eyes! Believe me, we felt dreaded in every feeding for the past couple of months. She must have put on a pound or two in these few days. Oh boy, she sure feels heavier when we carry her in our arms.

We spent the afternoon lounging at B&N again. After Elle awoke from her power nap, she started busy bossing everyone else around: jumping on our laps like a monkey, looking at people over our shoulder(left, right, left, right), sitting on the table flipping/tasting the magazines, babbling and blowing raspberries in every directions.

There was one 3-years-old-ish boy sitting across our table kept staring at every movements Elle made. Elle stared back and blew raspberries to him. Guess what, after a few minutes, the little boy couldn't resist blowing raspberries back to her. How sweet and funny! Right before we left, the lady sitting at the next table threw us a compliment of "Your baby is so much fun"!

Baby is so much infectious.

Humping baby

OMG! Baby humps!

It's astounding, yet hilarious when Elle starts doing the "humping" thingy a couple of days ago. When we hold her, she rocks her body like riding a horse, screaming happily but no Yee-ha yet! Some said it's a movement some babies learn before moving on to crawling. So, let's see if Elle's going to crawl soon.

This humping one is just as good as the farting thingy we experienced in our first day of parenthood. We are amazed at how unpretentious a baby acts in every way. Elle's farting away like caring no one in the world. Her helicopter farting sounds never fail to entertain us. We laugh our ass off and anticipate the next fart coming around.

She's always our sweetie pie no matter of she farts, uhh.. or humps.

My first snow day

While I was still curling up under the comforter and snuggling myself in bed, Hin yelled out "Look out the window!". Oh mine, it's white! Snow's raining down. This is Elle's first snow day. Her face looked pretty frozen up. It's freezing.

I hold bottle

A lazy, lovely weekend

We were packed with plans and spent lots of time on the road for the past couple of weekends. It's really nice that this weekend we got to simply lounging around at home, enjoying a cup of joe with cheesecake at B&N and making a grocery trip. No rush, no hurry.

Little Miss whiny has turned around. Elle is in way better mood now! We have introduced tons of flavors to Elle in these two days: French fries, apple pie, cracker, pot pie, pea and chicken porridge. I know, quite a few are junked food that aren't suppose to be given to baby. Well, what can I say. It needs a really strong will to resist giving our little sweet bug a bit taste of what we ate. We surrender to her drooling open mouth and wistful begging eyes almost everytime.

These are Elle's signature bird-beak mouth. She is making this face all the time now.

Miss Whiny

The worst combination of 3 vaccine shots, a flu shot, ear infection, cold and cough makes Elle a very cranky whiny baby.

It is darn easy to push her little whiny button. A change of holding position, she whines. Feeding her bottle or baby food, she whines. Taking bath, changing diaper and clothes, she whines whines whines. This is a very emotional phase for Elle the she has massive needs of cuddling, hugging and comforting.

The amount of antibiotic given to Elle for her ear infection scares us a bit. Elle is very cooperative when we’re giving her medicine like baby Tylenol. She would even smack her lips and stuck out her tongue for more. But NOT for this antibiotic. It doesn't smell appetizing at all and it definitely doesn’t look like one teaspoon to us. A couple of days ago, seconds after giving Elle a tiny bit of antibiotic, waves of milk pouring out of her mouth and washing me over like a tidal wave. She threw up the whole bottle of milk she drank minutes ago. It horrified us like a sudden heart attack.

I miss my sunshine.

6 months old

Dear Elle,

In a blink, you're 6 months old today! You're packed full of belly laughs. Seeing your mischievous face simply makes us want to shower you with kisses and sneak in a nibble or two.

Remember you were so pissed off about being held in our arms and rocked back and forth like a little baby? Instead, you would let us hold you against our shoulders, faced-out with leg dangling in the air, your beloved grandpa's superman hold which you would fall asleep in it, or in some unordinary, ludicrous ways that beyond imagination.

We were overjoyed with tears when we found out you love being held in our arms lately! Forgive mama and dada always try to wrap you in a cradle, and rock you a little while whenever we can. We want to redeem the joys we missed when you were a little baby. Nevertheless, you're a big baby now. But, mama and dada still enjoy it a lot!

The way you look at us, resting your head in the crook of our arms, holding onto our shirt, just melt our hearts.

love,
Mama

6-month checkup

Elle's singing "Ah..Aah..Aaah.." cracked up her doctor during her 6-month check up this morning. She weighs 17 pounds 6 ounces and is 27 inches in length. Her weight drops to 75 percentile and height climbs up to 98 percentile. The doctor kept assure us she's an above average baby that we shouldn't be too worried about her not eating enough. Elle's having a mild ear infection in her left ear. That explains the foul smell coming from her ear. She got another 3 shots in her legs today. Poor baby!

My big tub

Elle is so thrilled over her new big tub we picked up from IKEA on the weekend. For months, she had been jam-packed in her hand-me-down infant bath tub. We could only fill up the infant tub with about 2 inches height of water. Once Elle got inside the infant tub, the water level was already at a very-dangerous-overflow mark that a kick or a twist there making water splashing all over.

The big tub has room for rubber ducks now.

Meet the birthday boy, Gabriel

Viv and Wil were throwing a birthday party for Gabriel to celebrate his 1st birthday. Elle gave Gabriel a couple of drooling birthday kisses. How lucky was Gabriel, eh?