HARRODS or MERCEDES - and it's SOPHIE's

Friday, July 10, 2009

Sophie 1st anniversary

A day before we were planning to throw out a party for Sophie, we went out to be on a boat. Malacca cruise is actually located in just walking distance from my late grandma’s home. We took the boat around 8 pm with my sister’s and her kids, my cousin and my younger sister. You can’t imagine how excited Sophie was looking around, pointed something she saw and she babbled a lot. We were glad she managed to not fall asleep till the boat has turned back to departure location.

Mommy.. look!! The funfair.. i wanna go daddy..

With her cousins, Mak Lang and Uncle Ahmad

Actually the party was celebrated not even she was 1 year, she’s only has 15 days to become 1. That’s why I called it Pre-birthday which actually we were thinking to celebrate her actual birthday with bigger party in our new house, but we not succeed I would say. Anyways, her Chocolate Indulgence from Secret Recipe that special decorated for her written “Joyeux anniversary Sophie “which means Happy Birthday Sophie. It’s written in French though we are sure our aunt and uncles could not understand that.

Sophie got gifts from her 2nd cousins and uncles/aunties and in reality we did not expect to get anything from them. The celebration was just for ‘makan2’ purposes and too cherished some moment on her birthday party. We were grateful to have them around and many thanks for make it happened.

9 - 10.. Sophie was great!!

During her 9 to 10-month-old, apparently Sophie was quite a fast learner. I think all babies at her age were always been fast learner since they were so enthusiastic and also observer. I was actually worried with her mobile when there was so much mess in our house that time. Her toys are everywhere, the stuff here and there and no matter how many times we’ve clean the chaos, it turned up to be much more messy.. hehe.. maybe we are bored to death with our rented house.

Sophie babbling started to sound like more real words, and I would respond as if I understood what she was trying to say. Well, although her understanding of words far outpaces her ability to use, I knew magic happened. She could respond when I or Hubby said something and she’s so keen to look up when I pointed something to distract her. Furthermore she seems to understand when I said something nice and praise her, she seems pleased and contented. However sometime I did not know how to communicate with which is I couldn’t find any phrases or sentences in making a conversation with her. I should learn more how to communicate with baby.My little ones started to understand the word "no," though she seems to ignore and may not obey it just yet. What I know at this stage, it's best to try to avoid the tendency to use baby talk because I believed hearing the right words is better for Sophie's development.

Soon after that I noticed some words or gestures I actually understand, as well as other forms of communication. Sophie also loves when I sang her nursery rhymes, which we bought for 2-3 months ago. She enjoyed when I was demonstrating the actions that go with words even she couldn’t understand what I was doing actually. The worst part was, when I stopped she would cry and asked for more and more. That was really tiring repeated singing those rhymes.. hehehe..But surprisingly, she would imitate my actions such as clapping her hands together and moved her head for peek-a-boo.

At mealtimes, she was able to grip a cup and drink from it independently and we already introduced her with Vitagen and yogurts which she loved most. Her demands on foods quite unpredictable and we always had a problem to give what she needed. Her weight was not as expected for her age; this was concerned by her pediatrician, Dr. Azam. He said supposedly Sophie have to have almost double from her birth weight. Sighhh…

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Her Fisher Price 2 in 1 walker

It was her first walk with her FP walker.. practice makes perfect huh?!! Please ignore all the mess around our family hall, you know how messy it was in our rented house.. urrghh.. so please do ignore ye!!

Poor Daddy...:(

It was Sunday morning when Angah and we have decided to go to Bukit Belacan for picnic. My mom has cooked nasi lemak for us, luckily she had time to do that since she has 3 daughters who was really not real good cook.. hehehe.. That was our 1^st time took Sophie out to picnic to this kind of place, meaning despite of org2 tua advice, that is not good to bring baby to the beach, sungai2 yg dekat dgn hutan.. etc..etc..

Picnic was amusing with Sophie was so excited yet feel cold which her lips became blue and pale. I thought she couldn’t take the coldness of the water but yet she still do not gave up. I was the one who worried that she could get cold and fever.

The next day, her daddy was not feeling well and he’s getting worst. His temp was high to 40 deg C which I believed there was not a normal fever. I took him to the nearest hospital, SJMC, and they took his blood for dengue analysis. He had no clue on this; there are no symptoms but only the fever. Her daddy had 2-day MC and the result has came up and confirmed he had a dengue fever. Apart of the bad experience in SJMC’s management, everything went good enough for him to recover after 1 week and ½ . Alhamdulillah.. Thanks to Angah and Yusliza for visiting us. Sophie said thanks to her aunts and Fariz.

Two weeks after that we went to Terengganu for a vacation cum his fren’s wedding. Sophie’s daddy has booked Awana Kijal for a vacation that we really had fun in there. Sophie as usual very excited in the pool, where we couldn’t handle her enthusiasms on ‘swimming’ talent.

Bkt Belacan picnic.. note that Sophie was shaking cz it was so cold

Yet she still couldn't wait to get in the water

Party buih with mummy.. see.. Sophie wanted to taste the bubbles

@Awana Kijal, swimming lesson with daddy.. push..and kick..

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Sophie @ 8 months

Sophie had growing so fast. During her 8-month-old, she managed to cruise around and holding onto furniture for support. She’s so mobile while she has started crawling when she was 7-month-old. I have her full breastfeeding till her 6-month-old and she started to eat her solid food soon after that. She’s still not used to formula milk but as my milk supply was decreasing, she had to get used to it. I was sorry for her but I was always trying my best to accommodate her needs.

Her exciting development included the babble, which she would say the same syllable repeated over and over again. She loves birds.. she knew how to said bird eventho she only like 8-month-old. My hubby and I bought lots of toy and books for her. We try to educate her as best as we could since we have just limited time with her during weekdays, that was the least thing we could do.

Sophie experienced her very first solid food

She loved experimenting so much with her both hands, that I didn’t have clue which hand she inclined to. I have heard that handedness does not usually become obvious, not until her 9 months. But then, I believe little ones tend to be ambidextrous, and maybe until they start school. Oh ya.. she also has started her ‘swimming class’ with her mom and dad when she was 5-month-old where we had a career talk in INSTEP, Terengganu. I’ve bought her very first bikini and glad she loves been in the pool.

Her first swimming lesson

I noticed Sophie also became more assertive and expressed her likes and dislikes. Whenever I tried to put aside her toys, she would object and get her toys right away. Sophie is inclined to dislike everyone else, in fact she would also preferred me rather her daddy. In other words, Sophie started being so clingy and showed extreme attachment to me, which I kind of like this ‘separation anxiety’ but sometime it worst when I couldn’t do anything else not even to take a pee.. see my point? Hehehe…

O yeah.. Sophie's baby teeth starts coming in

This video was when she actively started to crawl...

Sophie's very first EID

We spent first few days in Pantai Remis as this is Hubby's turn to celebrate Eid first with his families. Sophie had fun with cousins, have seen some fireworks, enjoyed kutip duit raya..

Sophie felt asleep all the way from her Opah’s home to Melaka. Normally, we will celebrate Eid at my granny’s home in Malacca. Since we are all live in KL except my 3^rd sister, we know that Eid in Malacca much more enjoyable rather to stay and celebrate it in KL. We have lots of family in here plus it is quite pleasant to be around little cousins, aunts and uncles.

Last time we had ‘cukur jambul’ for Sophie placed in PR so we have decided her Aqiqah wil be held in Malacca during this Eid. When we arrived, her aunts, Mak Long, Mak Ngah, n Mak Lang were really excited to see her with her lovely baju kurung we’ve bought at PJ. She’s real cute on that.

We spent time in her Nek Zizah’s and my granny’s house, she was entertain by her little fans, such her cousin, Aiman, Amer, Alisa, Akiff, Haikal, Hakim and Ariff. Yeah.. all of them sound similar which we always have problem to identify each of them. Apa la mama diorg ni… hehhe.. soon after that, her Granny said the ‘qurban’ (goat) has been arrived and will be located at Uncle Udin’s house. We were going to have a look and it was quite a big and pretty goat. This talented uncle Udin also has decorated the swing for Sophie, I would say it was really beautiful swing I’ve ever seen in my life. Well, yes.. she has no reason putting her on that swing but that’s the only deco for Aqiqah ceremony. She’s not used to be on the swing since we taught her to be sleep on her cot itself.

Sophie enjoyed entertain by her cousins and her grandpa

Aqiqah was fine, the event was totally awesome with the helps from my families, and Sophie was stunned with her lovely swing. She got lots of duit raya, some token from the event itself and some of it from her aunts and uncles, and from our colleagues. The total? I think she was getting so much than I had when I was younger – RM1200 ++. Well started for her savings now.