Buddy leopard crawling

Watching buddy learning to crawl is so uplifting and inspiring.

Buddy had got on his fours and knew how to move forward and backwards by pushing off with his knees but he still prefer to leopard crawl in his own way

Note to buddy - "It does not matter how you gets around, it is getting mobile that is important."

Potty Training Day 4

Today, buddy went public for the first time since we started letting him poo in the potty! We left home at 6am in the morning to the army camp to have our military ID processed. At 8.30am, buddy did show signal of pooing. This is what I told him, "Sorry baby, I do not have the potty with mama, are you able to hold it until we reached home?"

Babies are so remarkable, buddy seems to understand! He made it the whole time without an accident. He didn't even seem to have to go potty until about 30mins after we arrived home. And indeed, buddy had a success on the potty, i just tell him "you did it" and show him what he did.

Buddy was so proud of  himself! Not as proud as his papa and I were, of course!

He never ceases to amaze us!!!!

Well, wish us continuous luck!!!

Stage 1: Potty training - Pooing

Being a stay at home mom now, I can get to spend 24/7 of my time with my little buddy. The bonding between us is getting extremely strong and I know that this special connection will continue to grow!!!

My little buddy is 7mths 2wks old today. Although he still do not have the verbal skills, he'll communicates by sending out signals and cues. There are different cues for hunger, tired, bored and need for closeness. And now, he added another special nonverbal cue for pooing- he will fart and stare in space whenever he needs to poo and grunt while he's in the act of pooing.

For 3 days, he has been pooing in his froggy potty :) Keep up the good job, buddy!!  I'm going to establish a schedule for potty and hopefully will let him fall into a daily rhythm.

Our Sunday Morning

Target is having super deal for Fisher price baby toys- BOGO 50% off. I've got buddy a laugh and learn puppy $19.99 and a turtle shape sorter $10.59. After promtion and stacking with a $5 and $3 off coupon, I only paid $18 for both toys... ;)

Our Late Saturday Lunch

This week is our 3rd week in USA, brought mum to try out her first fast food - chick-fil-a. She ordered the classic chick-fil-a chicken sandwich. Her comments - sandwich is too big and dry. Indeed, the food was not as nice as it used to be!!!

Anyway, little buddy love the playground area in the restaurant but he's too young for it...all he could do was to give us an envious look when he sees other children running around the play area. This is what we told him, your turn will come soon, be patient buddy !!!

A nice aunty in the restaurant passed buddy a balloon. This was his first experience with a ballon and he's so fascinated with it. LOL! We have also started training buddy on his fine motor skills - pincer grasp. He has started to use his thumb and forefinger to pick up his favourite puff. Although the success rate is only 1 out of 5, we are happy about it. It is all about buddy enjoying this important hands on learning experience. Way to go, buddy!!!

Our sleeping baby

This is my sleeping baby. He bring so much joy everyday. No words can describe the blessing God has given us by letting us be your papa and mama. You put so many smiles on our faces. We just love every moment we get to spend with you :)

We love you, muacks!!!

Starting of my long weekend!

Friday, is family day so Hubby do not have to report to work!!! Yeah... we are having 4 days of super long weekend :) So, we have a change of plan. To avoid the crowd, we decided to make a trip to Allen on Friday instead of Saturday.

We started our day late at 11am, we had home cooked porrige and our little buddy had his yobaby yogurt before we set off to Super Target. I'm so...so... into couponing and had a crazy time there. I bought lots of stuff and paid only $10. So proud of myself LOL!

This is what I've bought:

• 2 Garnier Shampoo $0.98 each
• 2 Garnier Condition $0.98 each
• 8 boxes Magnum ice cream for $0.50 each
• 2 boxes of quaker chewy bar $1 each

Super satisified with my buys!!! This is something you can never achieve in Singapore.

Anyway, our next stop is Allen. They are having pre-memorial day sales. The sales are really good! Most of the brands are having additional 40-70% for clearance items. We took about 5 hours to walk through allen.. Phew super tired day! Had our dinner along Legacy Drive and headed home at 10pm. Our little buddy was totally knock out in his car seat on our way home!!!

Picture time....

now i'm looking forward to tomorrow cuz we are having our first BBQ gathering in USA!

New food on the menu

Today, little buddy had mixed vegetable with baby rice for brunch. It's make up of spinach, carrot and peas. The puree is green in colour and it does not taste good. I don't like it. I hesitate for a second whether I should offer to little buddy.... I did and he just love it!!!

Lesson learn: My personal taste in vegetables should not determine which vegetables baby should try out.

So far, little buddy is having 2 servings of vegetable and 1 serving of fruit per day. He had banana puree for late lunch as snack and green bean puree for dinner. He took his milk 3.5-4 hourly interval at 200ml.

Plans for his next week menu:

Vegetable - Broccoli, Cauliflower and cottage cheese

Fruit - Avocado with banana

Might be adding Parsnips to the menu but I'm still exploring :) 

Our First Long weekend - Memorial Day

I'm so looking forward to the long holiday weekend coming up. An extra day with my hubby and little buddy. So far the only plans we have are our date with Candy and lynn to Allen premium outlet and to grab our BBQ stuff at Taiwan supermarket.

Memorial Day weekend always seem like the official kick-off to Summer picnics and BBQ. Here's hoping our BBQ on Sunday evening will be a good one :)

p.s just gotten huggies swimmer diaper and sunscreen for little buddy. We are all set for our first dip in the pool.

Disturbing papa while sleeping

Little buddy trying to disturb while papa is sleeping. Cute! Love this clip...

Peek-a-boo

Little buddy loves playing peek-a-boo! He will holds a blanket over his face and then swipes it back down over and over again. I say "where's Xavier?" and then "I found you!" and we both crack up. Loving every fun moments!

Naughty little buddy

Our little buddy loves to throw toys and hanky on the floor...anything you can find on the high chair will be found laying on the floor in seconds. I think that's how baby learn about cause and effect. It's just fascinating to him!!! Oh, that's my naughty boy!

First Stroll

Did our first stroll outside our apartment this morning. Wanna to let little buddy try walking on the concrete pavement with his soft sole shoe. He absolutely loves to walk, assisted of course!!!