Meal variety

Jaden's meal developments:-

Wheat and Anchovies rice cereals
Oats and Prune rice cereals
Orange flavoured rusks
FIsh and pork ribs porridge
Corn / Tomatoes / Chicken stock + Sweet potato porridge
Teething Rusk (stick)
Oranges
Apples

I just bought Brown Rice with Yogurt and Raspberries rice cereals and also rice with chicken rice cereals. Going to let him try that tomorrow. Wonder if he will iike it?

poo-ky poo-ky gila babi sial

So angry today! So So So angry.. first it was the traffic jam after the rain and all traffic lights at the main roads all not working. Every kiasu driver don't want to give in to another. ##!!@@## High Blood Pressure I tell you driving in KL road. Then I come back to Joy telling me that petrol price is going up again and then only I read it at Star Online that it will go up Rm2.70 a 40% rise from the previous price.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday announced price hikes for petrol, diesel and electricity.

He said the new price for petrol is RM2.70 a litre, effective midnight tonight. The price goes up by 78sen from the current RM1.92, a hike of 40%.

Abdullah also announced that the price of diesel would be increased by RM1 from RM1.58 to RM2.58.

He also said that Tenaga Nasional Bhd would be raising electricity rates by 18% for homes and 26% for business users.

The announcements are part of the new fuel subsidy plan.

Abdullah also announced a RM625 annual cash rebate per vehicle, for owners of private vehicles with engine capacities of up to 2,000cc, as well as pickup trucks and jeeps with engine capacities of up to 2,500cc.

Owners of private motorcycles with engine capacities of up to 250cc will receive RM150.

Payment will be made via Money Order upon renewal of road tax, from July 1.

For owners of private vehicles with engine capacities exceeding 2000cc, road tax will be reduced by RM200.

Owners of private motorcycles with engine capacities above 250 cc will get RM50 reduction in road tax.

WTF is wrong with Malaysia? Salary all remain the same while expenditures are all rising like mad. I am telling you soon, the economy in this country will rot and all graduates would rather work overseas than to come back to their own country to work cause the way the money works in this country is sucky to the maximum!!!! Only the richer gets richer especially the cronies!!! *Ptuii!!!*

I love you o.Oh my Bak Chang!

Bak Chang time is back again. Mmm.. Can't get enough of these tasty rice dumplings with pork fillings, duck egg yolk, mushrooms.. too bad Hubby says I can't have chesnut. If not I would have gobbled my share down. Anyway it is still good and yummy and tasty and mmm.. you get the point. *sigh* I can go on forever with bak changs. Same goes to mooncakes. I simply just adore mooncakes. I love being Chinese. There are so many types of food celebration all year long. Kan bagus?

As I am typing this, there is a bee flying around the kitchen area. AArrghh its coming at me... got to take cover dulu..

(after like 1/2 hour of hiding in the room) Ok.. there is no sign of the bee? Has it flown out yet? I hope so.. if not I hoped its been killed by the fan!

Back to my love professing for bak changs. Aunt Lin gave each Hubby and I 8 bakchangs. Mine is without the little dried shrimps and nuts while Hubby's has two types. The normal one that everybody usually have and another is the nyonya one. Hopefully next weekend Hubby and I can get up real early to learn how to wrap a bakchang from Aunt Lin..

i want more bak changs!!!!!!!!!!!

Fishy fishy

Yesterday, Hubby had to go into the city for a meeting so I 'tapao-ed' Jaden and both mother and son went over to Aunt Lin's while waiting for Hubby to finish working. All the babies were asleep when we arrived. Jaden was then fed his wheat and anchovies rice cereals which he took rather a long time. I think it must be because his TV programme was not switched on. He eats faster when the TV is on while I feed him. He must have taken more than 1/2 hour before he finished the 5 tablespoonfuls of rice cereals.

Xian Xian woke up and got so excited seeing Jaden there. Now both of them are so much more aware of each other's existence that it was so cute to watch. Both reaching out their hands to want to touch each other. I dare not tho to let Jaden go touch Xian Xian because firstly, Jaden's fingernails might scratch the other boy, and secondly, Xian Xian is sick. In fact, I think most of the babies that Aunt Lin was taking care of was down with fever and cough at the moment. Now I am looking out for signs of all those unwanted virus in Jaden. Praying hard that my breastmilk will work wonders and that his immune system is as strong as mine.

Took 2 spoonfuls of fish porridge for Jaden to try from Xian Xian's daily feed. I was so confused when I scooped the porridge on to Jaden's blue bowl because Xian Xian's porridge was a little brown in colour while Jaden's was really white only to found out later that Aunt Lin actually poured a little soya sauce into Xian Xian's bowl. No wonder la that boy finished all his porridge and eats it without any resistance. Nah! I did not give Jaden any artificial flavouring other than natural sweetness that the ingredients gives out.

*sigh* My son is now playing peekaboo with me from the living room. So kesian he is now playing by himself. Gotta join him now. *gRin*

I am an addict

I have now officially become an addict. *sigh* Of all people. I thought I would be able to stay away from the addiction but it gets stronger each day. The more I see it, the more I am addicted. There is no turning back. It is no big help when one by one your friends are hooked to it. Even my own Hubby. This addiction really gets me high and makes me happy. The moment I get to lay my hands on it, I get ecstatic and excited. Just like a little girl who can't wait to get her hands on it. Do you know what I am addicted to?

My Sunday

Jaden had already finished his oats and prunes rice cereals. Now he is eating wheat and anchovies rice cereals. Its for Stage 3 babies (8months and above). So far so good. He did not show sign of repulse at the taste and smell of the rice cereals although I know I would not even want to have a spoonful of it. *gRin* I also bought for him teething rusks that are of stick shapes so he can hold on to them and bite it instead of the round cookie shape ones.

Woke up early this morning compared to my usual Sunday sleep @ 1230pm, well I think 10am is really early for me when my little boy is still fast asleep at that hour. The reason I woke up early was to want to prepare myself to meet my cousin. Thankfully she let me know at about 1030am that the visit is postponed and I went back to sleep straight after till about 1230pm when Jaden woke me up and both of us went out the room to have our meal.

Finally I found a cloth book for Jaden. Of all places guess where? Toys'R'Us! I was thinking maybe Borders, MPH or Popular but well, at least we got him one! It is about this little pig who went to the market, this little pig stayed home, this little pig had roast beef (so salah right?) this little pig had none and this little pig went "Wee Wee Wee" all the way home. There is a lot of things inside the book for him to play with and he chose to eat the pig's legs! ahahahhaha Lamaze sure has lots of development stuff for growing up infants!

Its been raining cats and dogs almost every afternoon now. Makes one even sleepier than ever, or perhaps just one person in particular which is my Hubby. He told me to wake him up a little earlier than his weekend sleep and now he is still fast asleep with Jaden napping away beside him. I tell you the boys in my family just loves each other's company when it comes to sleeping time.

I have cooked rice for dinner. Prepared tiny dices of garlic and cili padis, de-frosted the mince pork... just wondering should I start cooking now or should I just wait for Hubby to get up and cook them instead. Afterall, I might make a disaster out of those raw materials and then we will end up not eating home cook food pulak. To be on the safe side, think I shall wait for Hubby to cook.

The crab that comes with a shade

Finally after surveying possible baby swim floats, I found the perfect one. Its made for 6-18 month old babies with a sunshade.

I was looking for the normal yellow baby float (such as the picture shown above) that I saw most of my mummy friends bought but I just can't seem to find it even in Toys'R'Us.

Then I saw this...

but it was way too girly right? It wouldn't suit the macho Jaden's personality. I was tempted to get it tho.. just because it was really cute. Then.. I saw the perfect one! The one with all the description that I was looking for. *sigh* It is the most pricey among all baby floats found hanging at the section but I could not care less. Afterall its for the leisurely safety of my baby son.

presenting the crab with adjustable sunshade baby float. Cute kan? Colourful kan? I loved it! It was just too bad that Toy'R'Us only imported in one type of this float from Aqua Leisure because I would have bought this if it were there..

Its the ticklish turtle sunshade float. But the crab would do... Jaden loves red colour anyway. Now I can't wait to take him for this first swim!

Next would be shopping for baby sunscreens. Not sure if Baby Blanket Sunscreen is sold in Malaysia. It sure looks like a whole good package to apply onto a baby. Or maybe California Baby Sunscreen. Browsing thru the net, I came across this which really see to my needs for my little baby. Banana Boat Baby Tear-Free Sunblock Lotion SPF50.


Hmm.. Just crossing my fingers hard that I can find a good baby sunscreen in our local pharmacies.