Quick General Updates…

Oh my, I just so don’t know where to start… There’s just so much I want to do, need to do, but just haven’t had the time nor energy nor inspiration to do!!

Periodically, I have been blogging – but mainly pics and a little writing – so pls excuse me if I go on and on and on today…

1) At this moment in time, Chloe is having her morning nap – a rareity may I add! She has been napping lesser in the days now… She used to have her morning nap (9:30am – 12midday), afternoon nap (3:30pm – 4:30pm) and then early evening nap (5:45pm – 6:30pm) and then 7:30 – 8pm was bedtime… Now, you’re luckily if she naps at all!! You probably think it’s no big deal… BUT it is! I used to do so many things/chill out during these nap times.. Now everything is on hold and I need to wait until she sleeps at bedtime… And do you really think I wanna be catching up with the days’ stuff when I’ve been faffing around with Chloe all day? Ummm – I so don’t think so!

But on a better note, Chloe sleeps generally throughout the night now… She sleeps at about 7:30 – 8pm (I feed her just before bedtime)… and then she wont generally wake up until 6 – 7am…. So it’s fab in that respect (if only I slept earlier and then I could take full adv of the non-disruptive sleep!!!) I say generally cos ofcourse there will be days that she will surprise you with her wake-up calls every 3 hours!!! Ummmm!

2) As well as not napping well now, Chloe in the day, is a light sleeper (whereas before, she would be in deep sleep)… So any faintest noise, a sneeze, the door, the tv, footsteps would just startle her and wake her up and then it’s a complete mission to get her back to sleep! Also, she much more curious now – and although tired and showing signs of tiredness, she just doesn’t want to sleep! So setting the comfortable napping setting is a mission also… But what really helps is air-con… My gal just lurves aircon! (Oops – I lurve aircon too!)

3) Chloe has completely by-passed the pacifier and bottle – Wahay!!! Since birth, Chloe has spat out the pacifier and rejected the bottle! Ummm.. Was starting to panic a little cos what would I do when I stop breastfeeding her and I need to feed her cow’s milk?!?! Well, I recently bought her a sipper cup and yip – she loves holding it and can slowly sip from this sipper cup… Also, she can also sip from an ordinary cup so yip, it’s all good and I’m happy about that!!!

4) Chloe is generally a quiet baby until she cries – where neighbours on the upper floors remind us of her screams! Chloe “babbles” on a bit more now and is more “talkative”… It’s nice cos at last, you don’t feel so stupid! Talking to a baby that doesn’t repsond verbally or physically to you is just so not stimulating and soon enuf you run out of ideas!!!! But then again, now that Chloe is more interactive, her attention span is VERY short and I find myself running out of ideas to entertain her!! So yeah – trying to keep her interested is SOOOOOOOO hard!

5) Solids and Chloe – she dislikes rice cereal (but I make sure or try to make sure – that’s if she doesn’t keep spitting it out!- that she finishes it all… It’s not much, so no excuse! ;p )
I’ve started giving her carrots, pumpkin and brocolli.. She loves carrots and pumpkin but Oh man, it so makes her poo stink! It absolutely pongs! Although good for her, feeding her solids is so much hard work compared to breastfeeding alone.. so much preparation/mess/washing! Listen to this, I’ve been a good mummy! 2 days ago, I prepared home-made food for her!! Yip, you heard me right! Food from scratch!! Was so excited being in the kitchen for a long time… But that excitement didn’t last too long after the motor of the blender over-heated, the steaming process of the foods took a little too long and I was over ambitious in the amount of food I thought I could prepare for the week! The proportions were SOOOO wrong… This was the week’s foods – 2 brocollis, 1 pumpkin, 3 sweet potatoes, 5 potatoes, spinich…. The result was so much steamed that I didn’t have enuf ice-cube trays to put them in! Umm, practice makes perfect!

Must dash now.. 30 mins later, Chloe is awake… *Racking my brains to see how to entertain her!*