Captured

Zachary will be crossing the borders of Singapore for the first time in a few weeks time...we will be attending a church camp in Johore (Malaysia) for a few days in December. In order for him to successfully do that...we needed to get a passport for our dear boy. The application processing part was easy...capturing a decent head shot of him was not!

Laughing out loud!

Zachary has started laughing out loud...full bodied, body shaking laughs. It is a joy to see and hear him do that. But you must be pretty funny to make him laugh like that! Will try to figure if i can post videos on this blog....

What were u thinking of Zachary?

Recently, Zachary has taken to sucking his dummy in this manner...with the lower half of the dummy in his mouth. When i tried taking it out to re-align it, give him a few minutes and its back to its orginial position. This cheeky boy of mine!

6 months and counting

He turned 6 whole months last week...and i guess its good for me to take stock after each month...
- Zach is alot more cooperative now that he is slightly older...but he still has his cranky days and his day naps are getting shorter and shorter! Not good!
- He is ever willing to smile and chuckle at anyone...trying to entice them to play with him or carry him. But he does reserve his sweetest smile for moi!
- Still plodging along with his solids. He is still not too keen on sweet potato although i have pureed it and am still trying hard to find organic fruits and vegetables for him. That means sacrificing the freedom to go on shopping sprees as organic stuff is NOT cheap! Probably going to give up this quest for all things organic soon...quite impossible to find a variety of fruits here. Seem to be losing interest in his milk though. Have been pumping after every feed, trying to keep the milk supply up! Such a battle...
- He is displaying a insatiable amount of energy nowadays...need to sign him up for gymboree or go for swimming lessons soon. Need to use all that energy up or i'll go crazy.
- The only thing he will sit still for is story time. Other than that...even the TV doesn't quite keep him still. I dread to think of the time when he can crawl, walk and jump!
- He is able to sit on his own for some time now...without toppling over.
- He is drooling ALOT!!
- He has lost interest in his hands..now the feet.
- He is using his vocal cords alot more...the sounds he make sound like complaints.
- He is curious and distracted by everything around him. That makes breast feeding quite impossible at times!!

Thank God for the past 6 months...am still learning and perserving through the hard times.

A mind-boggling habit!

Recently...Zach has taken to smacking his own head! While breastfeeding him, he seem to enjoy using his palm to smack his forehead! We suspect that he likes the sound it makes...cos he is now into smacking anything and everything in sight...our shoulders when we carry him, our thighs when we sit him on our laps, our faces when we carry him, his car seat when he is on it, his high chair when he is on it and the table when we its in sight. I wonder what goes on in his little mind!

Mummy...i don't like sweet potato

Just when i thought this whole experience of trying new foods on Zach is going so well...he decided that he doesn't like the taste of sweet potato and throws it all up! After all that effort of boiling the sweet potato..mashing it with a fork...pressing it through a sieve, and digging it out of the ice trays after it has been frozen to be stored in plastic containers!
I am determined to try again...maybe when he is in a better mood. I am very reluctant to let the effort go to waste!!!