Kailey’s baby milestones
Kailey, you can now sit up (sitting up from laying down position is no toughie), and is beginning to crawl!
How did the crawling happen? It started one morning when we were all chilling out on the floor mat, ‘Por Por’ left a plastic bag on the other side, big sister was about to walk over to pick it up, you were very close to the plastic bag, still it wasn’t within your reach limits, so, what you did and impressed us all was, crawled/pushed yourself quick to reach for it! Now that you’re still fine-tuning your crawling, I’m surprised to see that you’re already trying hard to grab the rails on your crib trying to pull yourself up! I can’t wait till my baby babbles ‘mama’! 
Kailey in her new look
To shave or not to shave, this was the question on my mind for quite a long while (for the last 6 months!). Finally, mommy went ahead and ask my hair stylist to do the job now that Kailey, you’re 7 months old, because 1. some people kept saying that thicker/fuller/darker hair will grow back after shaving 2.you’ve started loosing your baby hair, and has a bald spot at the back of your head, I can see hair growing back, but they’re very fine hair, besides, I was thinking, after shaving, the hair will grow back evenly, not a longer patch here and a shorter patch there, if you know what I mean. I think you still looks super duper lovely w/o hair!
Happy Halloween!
Today is Halloween, and there’s a party at your school! The previous two years, you were the cute little devil, this year, you picked out your costume and is a cute ladybug!
Carissa’s Reward Chart for Good Behavoir
Recently, you seemed to have a hard time carrying out daily routines, such as, brushing, showering, sticking to bed routines. So, mommy came up w/ your very first reward chart (*I’ve read that the best age to start one is at age 3, when at this age, kids have started to realize that they could be in control and make decisions by themselves, therefore, parents may take this opportunity to encourage them to behave well by rewarding them, stickers, turn out to be one of kids’ favorites.*). The items on the first row will not remain constant, Mommy will keep modifying the items on an irregular basis depending on progress. (to be con’t…)
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Quote of the Day
We went to the Ocean Park the other day (read blog dated on Oct 18th) and I came across this quote a few days later which I couldn’t stop grinning after reading:
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.” Lyndon Baines Johnson (36th President of the U.S.)
Oh Gawd, we did order fish at the Ocean Park!
Some fun sisters time
This morning, mommy let Kailey play around on the floor mat, and big sister suddenly came up w/ this idea showing Kailey how to crawl around, I had some fun time sitting back watching you two interact. Too bad, Daddy was still sleeping and had missed out all the fun!
Seriously taking night weaning into action
After reading my friend, Lisa’s blog, she inspired me into writing this and that I have decided to once in a while to write something regarding myself, and not just keeping this blog straightly baby-related. I guess the girls can spare me some room in here.
OK, this is what I seriously need to put into action after reading Lisa’s post.
Now that Kailey is turning 7 months old in less than a week, she’s still waking up in the middle of the night wanting me to feed her, and if luck happened to be on my side, I am able to sleep for a straight 3 hours, if not, 2.5 hours (there was one time that Kailey slept 5 hours, and I was so close to happier than winning the lottery! Trust me, I woke up feeling a new me!). As much as I love my baby, it’s also important to maintain my health and my well-being, when I read to the part that Lisa says her immune system is shutting down and she gets sick easily, I so agree to her! Credit to consistent sleep deprivation, I’m suffering from ear fluid imbalance every now and then!
Kailey’s weight gain looks great, so, I have every reasons to wean her night feedings! Even her PD was surprised that I still wake up to feed her and gave me the go-ahead-wean-her-for-the-good-of-yourself signal (Note, he treats my ear-fluid problem)! In fact, every night I made sure that she goes to bed with a full stomach, but still she will wake up every 2.5-3 hours asking to be fed…WHY?! Plain simple, because she is so used to being rocked to sleep! Babies sleep patterns are different than a grown-up’s. They wake up in between their sleep, and when a baby like Kailey who is so used to being rocked to sleep, wakes up in the middle of the night to know that she’s alone in her own crib, she will want to find someone/something to calm her back into sleep. Come to think of it, I do contribute to this sleep pattern by nursing her to sleep a lot of the times.
So, there are 2 things I’m seriously putting into action:
1. Make sure I stuff her stomach one very last time before I retire for the day and I do this by feeding her formula and adding cereal to it.
2. Ignore her cries in the middle of the night and if the cry went really bad, I’ll go ahead and offer her a bottle of water (read that if we kept offering plain water, they’ll very soon learn that night-time feeding does not taste yummy and will stop their feeding demand).
When I’m writing this, I have started this plan for 2 nights, and it seemed to go pretty well, she slept for a straight 4 hours after I stuffed her w/ a bottle of formula + cereal before I sleep, the cry in between was not bad, cried for a minute or so, she realized that it was useless or just too tired, dozed off again, water bottle was offered and refused, then dozed off again.
I am hoping that I can help her sleep through the night within a couple week or less.
The binky vs thumb…arrrgh!!!
Kailey, mommy has always wanted to take a picture of you sucking your thumb, but no clue why every time I tried to do so, I ended up waking you, or perhaps you’re just camera-sensitive? Finally, I managed to take a few shots! This is what has been going on for quite some time, we started you with a binky from the 1st month, very soon, you’ve figured out that you have to cry for the binky or that this thing does not come handy in the middle of the night (binky was taken away after you fell asleep to prevent SIDS), so, you’ve just decided to ‘graduate’ yourself to your thumbs, which comes in very handy.
I don’t agree to this idea at all, because this is a tough to break habit. So, I went back to offering the binky whenever it was necessary, hmmm…but it was already too late as you’ve already learned that your thumb is really more handy and probably softer to the feel, you just completely refuse the binky! So, I guess binky weaned and now we’re in a different stage of your babyhood.
Uncle Vincent’s last day in Hong Kong
…and we went to the Ocean Park before he flew back home to Boston…Uncle Vincent, we all are already missing you a lot, & by the time I’m writing this, you’re still on the plane, snoring, probably… !
We spent half a day at the Ocean Park, arrived there at around 1pm, had a quick lunch at the Bayview Restaurant sitting next to a terrific sea view which made lunch very enjoyable. First stop after lunch was to the new Chinese Sturgeon Aquarium. The Chinese Sturgeon, AKA, living fossils, are very rare pre-historical speices given to the Ocean Park by the China’s National Aquatic Wildlife Conservation Association. If my memory serves me right, there were a total of 5, but one died because Ocean Park made a careless decision by housing them in a big tank along with other attacking species, anyone keeping a fish tank knows well that this is something you should avoid! Anyways, the sharks made way and now the Chinese Sturgeon are housing in the used-to-be Shark Aquarium. Next, we visited the Reef Aquarium, Jelly Fish Spectacular and last the Panda habitat before we called it a day and I was all burned out!
And we have bought our very first theme park annual pass! With this pass, we’ll be heading to the Ocean Park more often before the next Summer is here again!
Buffet at The Langham Place
We had lunch buffet together with 爺爺、嫲嫲 and the entire Yuen’s family on an Amber rainstorm day at The Langham Place in Mongkok, but good thing was, by the time we started heading out from home, the rain had stopped. They had quite a variety of food, but then of course, like we always were, we love sweets, and were mainly interested with the dessert selection offered, sticking to our ‘family tradition’, first thing there, we checked out the dessert bar, they had all sorts of dessert ranging from cheese cake, chocolate cake, bread pudding, ice-cream, pancake, Tofu-fa, to name some of them. And…did I mention a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN?! This one is always my little princess’ favorite! Dipping in marshmallows, strawberries, kiwi, were not just yum yum but fun as well! Of course like our regular meals at home, I had to make sure that my little princess did have a proper meal with carbs, fiber, and protein, etc…before sampling the desserts, an empty-calorie only meal is never an option! But it was not easy and I only managed to make you swallowed down a few mouthful of noodles and some fish balls.
The question, where was Kailey when we were having lunch buffet? She was staying at home w/ 公公 and 婆婆 cause we think Mongkok is too packed and dusty for a half year old to handle.
