At the Supermarket

Chloe the dancing queen

Chloe had always had a strong response to music with a strong and upbeat rhythm. So when played her some music videos from Hi-5, it really got her going.

Happy 1st Birthday Chloe!

Well, the little fellow is now one year old. What a year it's been for us all, watch Chloe progressing from here...

to here...

Happy Birthday Chloe! With plenty of love from Daddy, Mommy, Ah-gong, Ah-ma and plenty of aunties and uncles as well!!

Speaking of uncles and aunties, Auntie Leeling, along with Zayden, Auntie Jasmine and Uncle Kenny dropped by to celebrate the big day with us, and brought some lovely gifts for Chloe. With 2 active babies around, all that needs to be done is for someone to grab the cam and start snapping...


Chloe sitting on her new toy from Auntie Leeling, a pink horse ride


Enjoying Chloe's other new toy from Uncle Kenny and Auntie Jasmine, a 'multi-media centre' together.. the calm before the storm


So Chloe is watching TV while Zayden is about to enjoy his pacifier...


Chloe spots the pacifier, or rather the chain holding the pacifer, and swoops in for the snatch...


Zayden isn't about to give his pacifier without a fight and puts up a valiant defense...


The battle royale continues, and the parents have to step in to break it up...


Peace is finally restored, the former combatants now standing side by side for a pose...


Friends again.... hehe

Chloe gets chatty

When we visit frens and relatives, Chloe always seemed to be very shy and demure, esp given the bashful looks she would give when she was caught staring at someone.... people will think that she is very quiet and everything...

Well, at home, it's another matter.... here's Chloe, caught on camera tonight by Ah-gong, acting her real normal self.... haha

Celebrating Chloe's 1st birthday

Well technically Chloe's birthday is 25 April 2009. But if we follow the lunar calendar, today is considered her birthday too. Since we are all gonna go over to tai-ma's place anyway, we figure, why not celebrate it early today, with more people as well...

So here it is, Chloe's first birthday celebration, in pictures.

Ah-ma & mommy leading Chloe in offering a prayer to the ancestors

The Birthay Cake

Daddy & Mommy with the birthday girl

Ah-gong & Ah-ma with Chloe


Chloe posing with UNCLE Zhiqin and AUNTIE Jiahui.....

Chloe and Mommy cutting the cake

Last but not least, some video footage...

Almost a year now.... some updates

It's been a while since we did a progress report for Chloe. So what has happened since our last update.

1) A change of location...

... for Chloe's baby cot. Since mid-February, we have moved Chloe's cot into our room.... Ah-ma just had a cataract op and doctor's orders was for her to refrain from bending down or carrying heavy objects, 10kg babies included. To help out, Daddy, Mommy and Ah-gong took turns clearing leave to help out at home with chores and to take care of Chloe. Daddy and Mommy also decided that Chloe's days of sleeping in the living room should als be over. In the begining, it was intended for Chloe's cot to be placed outside so ah-ma can help to take care of her in the night, tending to her early morning feeds. With the relocation, Daddy and Mommy now took over the duties of coaxing her to bed every night and preparing her early morning feed.

Initially, the transition wasn't entirely easy for her or for Daddy and Mommy. Chloe has been used to sleeping on Ah-ma's bed most times at night, often late at 10 plus. Now we have to get her to sleep earlier, and on a different bed as well. Funnily, we are now sleping earlier as well; when Chloe sleeps, so do we. Well we need to. These days,we wake up earlier to feed her at 5plus. Since we can't get back to any reasonable length of sleep, we might as well just bath, dress up and go to work early... this saves us from the ERP charges and we get to start the day early.

And of course, having Chloe sleep with us also gives us more bonding time. Where she would cry in the past if we tried to make her lie down on our bed, now she is quite ok to hang around with daddy and mommy, even sleeping the whole night with us on our bed on a number of ocassions.

2) The baby who doesn't like milk

Since probably her 4th to 5th month, Chloe has refused to drink milk from the bottle while awake. We resorted to feeding her milk when she was asleep. Later on, we even tried spoon-feeding when there were times when she woke up halfway thru the feed and absolutely refused to cooperate. Lately, it has gotten more difficult to feed her either way. She would squirm and wiggle her way out of mommy/ah-ma's arms when we tried to feed her while she's asleep. Spoon feeding is no better as she would cry the minute she ses us with milk bottle kept warm in a cup of hot water. I think she is absolutely teriffied of the metal spoon we used to feed her milk with.

Vexed and concerned over her phobia of drinking milk, we sought advice, going all the way to Jurong East to visit a TCM phyisian who would massage her and prepared some powdered medication for her to take. This seemed to have worked for now as Chloe had been more cooperative during the milk sessions. A marked difference from the time when 3-4 of us are all needed to spoon-feed the milk/hold her down on the rocking chair/perform tricks to keep her engaged/cajole her to drink. Here's hoping that the improvement continues.

I dunno if this is a result of her teething issues. Chloe has 7 teeth now, and it might be possible that the teething pain is causing her to dislike drinking, tho strangely she is ok with her solid food. One thing for sure, she likes to bite at things these days, like her clothes, our clothes, any hanky, even her own socks... oh we gotta wipe the floor more often too... her dripping saliva is all over the floor as well.

Still all in all, Chloe's doing allright. She is not drinking as much as we would have wanted, and she is still not interested to learn to crawl - she can walk if assisted tho - and she is developing a bit of a temper as well. But her weight/height are above average still, and she is now more at ease going to tai-ma's house, becoming less clingy and allowing others to carry her... Talking about carrying, she is just super fond of being carried, and when she wants to be carried, she will pat the nearest one of us to get our attention and raised her arms, ready to be carried.

You spin me right round, baby right round.

Chloe hasn't learnt to walk or even crawl yet... but she can spin.... yeap, lil chloe likes to turn round and round.... catch her in action here...