Babysitting Aston for Dummies

It's been a while since hubby and I went for a holiday.  Well actually our last holiday was when I was only 5 months pregnant with Aston.  Geez....time does really fly! Aston is now 9 months old! Anyway, hubby's aunt from Singapore is in town for the Christmas holidays and hubby offered to send her back to Singapore  and take it as a chance to bring Aston on an overseas road trip.

After much thought, I've decided not to bring Aston along and have our post baby holiday instead.  I hinted to hubby that it's going to be a holiday where we are going to catch up on all the lost "woo hoo" time in the bedroom.  Oops too much information there! Anyway, hubby's eyes got big and he agreed without much hesitation.  Well frankly I am also looking forward to this "woo hoo" holiday of mine that I splurge on the hotel that cost a whooping RM1000+ a night.  Yes, you got that right and with RM1K a night is not even a presidential suite mind you.  Oh well, after consulting a girl friend of mine who is an expert in luxury hotels especially in Singapore I thought to myself that it will be money well spent.  I told hubby that this will be a once in a lifetime experience for both of us.  I can't wait for tomorrow because tomorrow night I will be sleeping in a 5 star hotel in Singapore that comes with a butler service!

Now...back to Aston.  My mum offered to babysit Aston while we go for our holiday.  Tomorrow will be the first night Aston sleeping over at grandmama's condo.  Deep down I can't let go.  It's a catch 22 really.  One hand I can't wait for my "woo hoo" trip but the other hand I can't let go of my son! Everyone asked why just one night.  Even hubby asked why not make it two nights.  I told hubby No 1 I can't afford another night in the hotel.  No 2 I miss my son.  I told hubby if I can enjoy this trip then we can plan for another longer trip that is also provided that grandmama is OK with the babysitting.

Anyway, I am so worried for grandmama and for Aston that I actually email grandmama a schedule hopefully everything will go smooth during the day.  The guide to babysitting Aston as follows:-

7.30am  Wake up

             Feed Aston 180ml** milk

             Change Diaper

8.00am  Walk around the garden 

8.20am  Aston Watch Brainy Baby Dvd

             I will shower / boil his porridge / prepare his breakfast

9.20am  Feed Aston breakfast (cereal mix with 2oz** milk (should be about same consistency as porridge.  If too thick please add water.  If too runny mix in some mashed fruit) + small portion of mashed fruit (eg banana/papaya/apple/pear/golden kiwi without seeds)

10.00am Morning nap for Aston (he usually will fall asleep between 10.30-11.00)

11.30am Wake up

              Change Diaper 

12.30pm  Feed Aston Lunch (porridge)^

1.00pm-3.30pm Playtime

4.00pm   Feed Aston 180ml** milk

              Afternoon nap for Aston 

5.30pm   Wake up

             Bath time

6.00pm  Feed Aston Dinner (porridge)^

6.30-9.00pm  Playtime

9.00pm  Feed Aston 210ml** milk

             Change Diaper

             Bedtime* (he usually fall asleep between 9.30-10pm)

*Tip: Off the lights leaving a night light or pitch black is fine with him.  Try to keep the room as quiet as possible.  Soft music is fine.

** Note:180ml water = 6 flat scoops of milk powder

            210ml water = 7 flat scoops of milk powder

            2oz water = 2 flat scoops of milk

^ Please include either one meal red cabbage in the porridge each day.

I know I sound like some control freak but I cannot help it.  I know for a fact that if Aston's routine is disturbed even if it's caused by Aston himself he will be one cranky baby the whole day!

Fingers cross everything will go smoothly !!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !!!

              

            

Aston's First Class

Aston and I went to Bangsar Village to check out Gymboree last Thursday.  It was a pity that when we arrived the class just ended not long.  Nevertheless, we got the schedule and price and I registered Aston to attend a trial class today.

I was so excited for him today.  I was hoping that he won't be too overwhelmed during the class.  After feeding Aston his lunch, mummy quickly got ready and packed his diaper bag and off we went to Bangsar Village.  The traffic was pretty chaotic due to the rain but nevertheless we arrived just in time for the class.   A staff checked Aston's temperature and gave him a sticker with his name and stuck on his back.  I quickly put on my socks and put down the bag and I sat Aston down on the mat.  There was only one baby at that time attending the class so Aston was looking at him and exploring at the same time.  Just less that 5 minutes the class started.

The class started with a welcome song with hand movements.  I must admit I was pretty uncoordinated with Aston.  I think Aston must be wondering what am I doing.  Anyway, throughout the whole song Aston was looking around especially to the baby next to him.  After the welcome song, we continue with another song which I can't remember but this time it involves both the hands, legs and hugs.  I then have to lift Aston up on my shin and move him up and down and side to side.  I must say pretty good tummy work out there!

There's a socialising time where parents suppose to get to know each other while the child play with some balls.  Today's topic was family tradition.  I couldn't think of any and just came up with bubble bath! Yes... I said that my mum used to give me bubble bath when I was young and so this tradition is being carried on with Aston till today.  I thought to myself maybe this is not very suitable for Aston because he did not show any signs that he's enjoying himself neither did he cried so I guess he doesn't mind? Anyway, when the instructor took out the beach balls and asked them to kick it to their friends Aston was a champion.  He just kick and kick and kick.  Everyone was so amazed with his legs.  So I guess he's beginning to enjoy the class?

Mummy started to get tired after carrying him to do the kicking but the lesson must go on.  We moved to the slide to encourage Aston to crawl but he just refused to move.  He rather be in a sitting position instead but after some encouragement he manage to move just one or two steps forward.  During this time, another baby joined the class.  After trying to crawl up, we then moved him over to slide down.  Then we moved to the opposite side to encourage them crawl through the tunnel but Aston did not moved an inch while the other baby friend was already crawling in from the opposite end.  We ended up at the swing, then on a "log" then we went back to the center and that's when the instructor took out the parachute and blow bubbles which Aston is the only one trying to catch the bubbles.

Overall, I think Aston will enjoy it more once he starts to master his crawling skills.  As for me, I think I can treat it as my workout for the week.  So, I got sucked in to purchase their package which cost me RM2000 for one year but this also includes music class for him.  I think Aston really like music so I'm looking forward to bring him to his music class maybe this Sunday or starting next week.

Mummy's New Toy

I indirectly bought a new toy few weeks ago.  Why I mentioned indirectly? Well, I actually used my credit card points to exchange for a Lebensstil bread maker.  I was very eager to start baking and I thought since it's homemade bread I might as well make it healthy all the way so I bought some organic flour.  I even bought plain white bread flour and wholemeal! The day that I bought the ingredients I can't wait to start baking.  I dug out the weighing scale and what not and started putting everything inside the baking pan as per the instructions that came with the bread maker.  Tick..tock..tick...tock walking in and out of the kitchen peeping through the window on the machine I thought...oooh looking good! However, I remembered my mum told me that baking bread at home will make your house smell like a bakery but all I can smell is yeast!

Tick..tock..tick..tock...the whole process takes 3 hours by the way I still smell yeast! The moment it was done I quickly took it out and I was so disappointed.  The bread did not rise as much as I imagine and the smell was definietly nothing like bread.  Therefore, attempt no 1 FAILED!

Attempt number two I tried wholemeal instead.  Went through the whole process as per the instruction and this round I even tested the delay baking.  Delay baking means you calculate how many hours later you want your bread to be ready from the time you press start.  The delay baking was perfect.  My bread was ready at 7.30am as per what I've calculated but this round my bread did not rise!! My bread end up resembles a banana cake! Attempt no 2 FAILED miserably!

After two attempts I complained to my mum and dad and decided to pass the machine to them to have a go.  I even pass them the yeast and flour.  They were also eager to start baking and at their first attempt the bread was so delicious!! After one week of having the bread machine my dad decided to return it to me with recipe and instructions.  All this while I did not activate the yeast! Lousy instructions from the machine! Anyway, my parents even bought me high protein bread flour, wholewheat, yeast and mix grain that include physillium husk, flaxseed and linseed.

Again, I waited till we finish the loaf of bread at home and started baking white bread.  This time I let the yeast to activate.  Waited for 10 minutes no reaction! It's suppose to be bubbles but I do not see any bubbles! So I waited and started stiring the mixture and end up waiting for 30minutes! I knew something is not right but I still continue and as expected my bread rise just a little bit more compare to the "banana cake" but the texture is still lacking.  However, this round the bread taste much more like a bread.

My last attempt was just two days back.  I decided that I'm going to go all out this time.  Wholemeal + mix grain.  If I fail again, I'm going to give my parents the machine and get them to bake me the bread instead! I started with activating the yeast..waited 10 minutes looking good! Put in the rest of the ingredients and started baking and YES this time my house smells like a bakery and the bread rised! Yayy!! I'm so happy that I can't wait to bake another one when I have the time.  I plan to take photos the next round I'm baking.  Honestly, after having homemade bread you wouldn't want to have any commercial bread anymore! The bread is so soft and fluffy even after 2 days!

Aston's Progress @ 8months

Lately, I'm on a lazy mummy mode that's why it took me so long to finally update Aston's progress.  All the free time I have during the day I've dedicated to Astro on Demand (AOD).  Yes! I've turned into one of those stay at home mums who just watches TVB dramas all day long.  I must admit I salute mums who manage to actually keep up to date with the episodes while taking care of a child or a few of them.  I personally find it hard to keep up especially with AOD as the timing of the episodes are fixed and everytime when the episode that I'm looking for starts Aston is either awake or cranky.  So I will spend whole day chasing episodes after episodes especially when we first got it installed as the show that was being broadcasted was near ending so imagine I had like 25 episodes to catch up! Now is all good because a new series just started and Yes I'm now awaiting for the new episode to start tonight! This is how updated I am with my dramas!

Back to Aston, he's a big boy now.  Everytime I carry him to have his bath I will surely comment while carrying and kissing his cheeks telling him that he's my "big baby".  Daddy said this comment is a classic mummy's boy (ie a mother who will never let go of her son).  He's grown so much now that I can hardly carry him to wash his hair but I still want to do it until the day he really retaliates.  Now I still am able to control him while washing his hair but I think in another month or so I won't be able to do it anymore.  He's also able to sit on his own unsupported for a very long time and recently he manage to manoeuvre himself from lying down on his tummy to a sitting position.  He's also able to crawl just a few tiny steps to the front to grab a toy but he will not move anywhere else if he's gotten what he needs around him.  I can't wait for him to start crawling everywhere in the house to explore.  I know it's going to be tough chasing him around but I'm sure he will be happy once he knows how to do it.

Aston is still having 2 solid meals a day with 3 milk feeds.  I have yet to introduce him to any meat.  Still introducing him vegetables and fruits.  I think I will start introducing him white meat after going for a check up on the 16th December.  However, these few nights he woke up in the middle of the night and refused to return to slumberland until I feed him his milk.  So, today I started giving him 3 solid meals a day with 3 milk feeds.  Let's see how tonight goes! Hopefully, it's really due to hunger that he's awake in the middle of the night and not just being a rascal.

At 7 months he was being introduced to the below 10 fruits & vegetables.  At 8 months, mummy slacked a bit because she ran out of ideas on what to introduce to him so mummy started mix and match.  The ones in bold are what's being newly introduced this month.  Mummy also started cutting the vegetables into small pieces for the porridge instead of using puree.  The porridge does taste better but mummy have to be very careful as sometimes the vegetables are not soft enough especially carrots, onions & potato.

1. Sweet potato

 2. Broccoli

 3. Pumpkin

 4. Cauliflower

 5. Avocado (he hates it)

 6. Banana

 7. Apple

 8. Baby Spinach

 9. Potato

10.Pear

11. Papaya

12. Cabbage

13. Lettuce

14. Peas (hardly giving now because can't seem to blend into smooth consistency)

15. Golden Kiwi (without seeds)

16. Yellow Capsicum

17. Yellow Onions

18. Carrots
19. Yellow Squash

Here are some photos of Aston at 8 Months

My two front teeth

I can sit steadily and bite the teether

I am 8 months old today and we went to the immigration department to pick up my passport!

Daddy & Aston having fun infront of the ipad

Aston's Progress @ 7 Months

 I'm shy to admit that this post is way outdated.  In another 16 days Aston will be 8 months! Time really does pass by with just a blink of an eye.  I've been busy lately with Aston demanding more of my time and also cooking.  Yes, it's been a while since I step foot into the kitchen.   Ever since my FIL went for his long holiday I've decided to brush up my cooking skills and at the same time give myself a test whether I can be a typical housewife (ie ensure all 3 meals are taken care at home rather than eating out).  Well on this matter, I must say I'm quite proud of myself that I manage to do it all 3 meals most of the days with the help from our house maid of course!  I even did meal planning on a weekly basis so that I don't need to go in and out of supermarket.  

Anyway, back to Aston.  Looking at him really confirms that he's grown so much over the last 6 months.  He's also much more demanding and very vocal! Well, he's able to turn very quickly and infact it was so quick that he fell off the bed once.  It was lucky that he fell onto the side where I've placed his playing mat and at the same time hubby was sleeping there so hubby's bolster cushion his fall.  Nevertheless, my heart skipped a beat the moment I heard the 'thump'.  Hubby quickly picked him up and hold him tight as he was crying his lungs out but he stopped just less than 3 minutes after consoling him.  You must be wondering where was I and why I left him on the bed without supervision...well I was on the bed with him but I was too distracted with the iPad and I lost concentration from supervising him.  Yes..lousy mother I am.  The whole time every now and then I will look at him making sure he's never at the edge of the bed but just that one minute my worst nightmare happen....A very big lesson I learnt here.  So ever since that incident, unless I am going to lie on the bed watching him the whole time without any distractions I will not place him on the bed.  I will put him on the floor mat to play instead.

Back to more happy occasions, Aston's been taking his solid food really well and loves it to bits.  He's been introduce to quite a variety of food and vegetables but there's still so much more to go! Up to date, this is what I've introduced him:-

 1. Sweet potato

 2. Broccoli

 3. Pumpkin

 4. Cauliflower

 5. Avocado (he hates it)

 6. Banana

 7. Apple

 8. Baby Spinach

 9. Potato

10.Pear

Typically, his daily routine is as below:-

7.00am              Wakes up

7.15am              Breakfast  (7oz milk)

7.30-8.00am      Walk around the garden

8.00-8.15am      He watch Brainy Baby while I quickly freshen up

9.00-10.00am    Morning nap and I quickly have my breakfast

10.30-11.00am  Morning snack (usually I will feed him fruits/vegetable puree that I have not introduced him before)

11.00-12.00pm Play time

12.00-12.30pm Lunch (7oz milk)

1.00-3.30pm     Afternoon nap

3.30-5.00pm    Play time

5.00-5.30pm    Dinner (Vegetable puree + Rice cereal mix with 2oz milk)

6.00pm            Bath time

7.00pm            Last feed for the day (7oz milk)

7.30pm            I have my dinner

8.30pm            Put Aston to bed

This is how he moves around on the bed by pushing his butt up and kicking the bed

His disapproval of Cauliflower

Enjoying his personal hair wash 

I am 7 months old today and I can reached out for things

Enjoying his time in the tub

Being hormonal again??

I've been feeling very emotional again lately.  Not too sure whether it's due to my hormones or it's just me full stop.  When people say our lives will definitely change when a new bundle of joy arrives well it is very true.  It is so true to the extend that it had affected me so much that nothing else in the world matters except for Aston.  Not even my husband matters to me anymore.

At times, I even felt that his presence is not important anymore as long as I have Aston with me.  I know this sounds very bad but it's true.  Some days especially weekends if we're all at home, I rather he is not at home and out with his mates because I felt that he's disrupting our daily routine.  Perhaps I'm just being too rigid and doesn't like it when the day doesn't go according to schedule.

Sadly, I really feel that I'm drifting away from my husband.  Here I am crying by myself composing this blog while my son is taking his nap.  How sad can my life be? I never expected an addition to the family will affect me this way.  The three of us should be a happy family but somehow I do not feel that happiness.  I see friends who have children and are still such loving couple but here I am thinking that my husband is not important.  Sometimes, I don't even feel like talking to him so I choose to hide in the room and sleep or just mingle with the ipad till I'm tired.  At times, I even wish that we don't sleep in the same room! Should I see a shrink? or perhaps maybe I should return to work and life will be better for me?

Why must I feel this way? Why can't I just be happy and contented that I'm so lucky I do not have to work and can spend time with my son while others doesn't have the opportunity to do so?

Another Achievement by Aston........

Two weeks ago, I started Aston on semi-solid food as advised by his paed.  I started off with rice cereal.  I am a lazy mother so I bought instant rice cereal instead of boiling porridge for him.  Well, the doctor did mentioned that the first time attempts they may just take just a few teaspoon or may not even take in any ! Anyway, went to Cold Storage and bought Earth's Best Organic Rice Cereal.

According to the packaging, it is USDA organic which means no growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids or potentially harmful pesticides or herbicides.  It is made with whole grains and iron fortified.  Most importantly, there's no added salt, sugar, flavours, colours or preservatives.

As advice, by the doctor we must introduce one food at a time and test it out for a few days just incase there's any allergy reaction.  I tested the rice cereal with milk/breastmilk for 4 days.  I was very excited more than Aston himself during the first feeding as I do not know what to expect.  It was a pity that I didn't manage to take any photos because I was feeding him alone and I couldn't handle holding my camera and feeding him at the same time.  Anyway, the first feed I made it rather watery to see how he reacts to being spoon fed.  The first spoonful I put it near him and he didn't know what to do so I touched his lips and left some cereal for him to taste.  Second spoon I tried to open his mouth with the spoon with a little bit of cereal.  Third spoon he's beginning to get the hang and start sucking out of the spoon.  It was so funny because when he sucks the cereals started flying everywhere and then he will give this big smile telling me that he's enjoying himself.  He managed to finish everything on the first trial itself which is just one tablespoon of rice cereal.  Second day he was still sucking out from the spoon but I tried to get him to open his mouth everytime the spoon is near him and tip the cereal into his mouth.  He didn't had any problems swallowing so I thicken the cereal slightly and he enjoy every bit of it! 

After the fourth day, I moved on to sweet potato puree.  I made the puree myself.  I bought some organic japanese sweet potato from Jusco and used the Thermomix to steam and puree it.  

Thermomix

All I had to do was to put the sweet potato into the steaming basket (the little basket in the picture) put in some water into the stainless steel pot/jug and steamed for 25minutes (until soft).  Then I poured the water away and put in the sweet potato into the stainless steel pot/jug and puree away! I then freeze them using ice-cube tray and once frozen I transfer it into ziplock bag for storage in the freezer.  So everytime, I just take out one or two cubes and warm it up using the bottle/food warmer.  

All geared up waiting for his food 

Yum Yum Yum!!

More more more!!

Yummy sweet potato I like!

Home made Sweet Potato Puree

Can't wait for the spoon to go in

Finished and satisfied!

As you can see, he no longer sucks from the spoon.  He will eagerly open his mouth waiting for the delicious sweet potato to be fed to him.  At this very moment, I've moved on to broccoli and it is very obvious that he doesn't enjoy it as much as the sweet potato.  Nevertheless, today is the 3rd day on broccoli and he manage to finish one cube which I'm very happy.  Will try to upload photos him eating broccoli if papa can help us take photos again.

Aston's First Sickness...... :(

Never did I expected Aston's first sickness to be so severe.  I was expecting more common sickness like cold or cough but sadly Aston's first sickness was Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).  I was in shocked firstly to discover his urine was no longer yellow but brownish on the diaper and it has a strong smell.  I told papa about it and he said maybe he's heaty.  I knew deep down that something is not right about Aston because I also noticed that he showed discomfort for a few seconds and after that sudden outburst he will be fine.  So I told papa I suspect he's in pain when peeing.  Anyway, I didn't want to push it to papa to bring him to the hospital because I know papa will think that I'm over-reacting.  So I told him, we'll see what happens after lunch if still no improvement we will go see doctor.

After lunch, I told papa to check his diaper and he found a few droplets of blood on the diaper.  I told papa to just maintain the diaper as we need to show it to the doctor.  So off we went to Aston's paed in Pantai and told him what happen.  We had to take a sample of Aston's urine and the doctor suggested that we do an ultrasound to make sure everything is OK in terms of his kidney down to his bladder.

The urine test came back there's bacteria in the urine and thankfully the ultrasound shows that everything is normal.  So doctor said that it's probably a bacteria infection.  I asked how does he get the infection and doctor said Uti is hard to tell.  It's either through the blood it enters the kidney or through the penis up to the bladder.  He mentioned that there's always bacteria around that area and usually even if they go up to the bladder, the bacteria will be out when we pee.  The infections comes about when the bacteria manage to stay in the bladder and start to breed.  Anyway, doctor prescribe Aston antibiotics (Augmentin) for one week while waiting for the lab to culture the urine to see what type of bacteria it is.  It turns out that it is E.Coli.

Aston is a very strong boy.  Eventhough he was sick he didn't show any signs of sickness at all except for the discomfort.  Usually symptoms of UTI is unexplained fever (no cough or cold).  I guess it was a blessing in disguise that it was quite severe to the extend that there's blood in his urine for us to find out he was not well because he did not have fever.  Otherwise, we would not have known that he was not well and I cannot imagine if it was not detected early.  After the trip to the hospital his urine was back to clear yellow but the smell was still not normal.  Noticed that the smell lasted for about 5 days.  He was also very cooperative in taking in his medication.

One week later, we went back to check his urine and thank god that the bacteria has been cleared.  Yayyy!
 

Aston's Progress @ 6months

Aston turned 6 months last week and to me all of a sudden he sound so grown up.  He's no longer the small little baby that just eats, poop and sleep.  I must say he is one matured little boy.  He loves being around people but it does not mean that you have the permission to hold him.  Yes he has developed separation anxiety.  He just like to listen to adult conversations as if he's part of the conversation.  He will be even more delighted if we include him in the conversation.

I Tried watching babyTv on Astro with him but he don't seem to be interested at all.  I even bought Brainy baby DVD's and that also couldn't really capture him.  At most he will sit for 20 minutes but out of 20 minutes only 8-10 minutes he was watching.  The other times he will look around and try to squirm out of his chair.

Anyway, I decided to make his 6 months old a memorable one by bringing him to his first appointment.  The appointment is to the barber.  Yes, my FIL need to make appointment with his barber to cut Aston's hair.  Both papa and I was very excited for his first hair cut.  I even brought some toys for distraction just in case he started screaming at the top of his lungs.  When we arrived at the barber I carried Aston and sat on the chair.  (It was my first time sitting on a barber's chair too!!) The barber cover Aston up and we told him the style that we want.  Aston was trying to look at the barber when he started touching his head.  Daddy quickly took the toy out to distract him.  Half way through Aston had the urge to bite so papa gave him his fingers.  I think papa was very nervous I told papa to give him his teether he end up giving him his pacifier! Anyway, at the end of it all 3 of us yeh yeh, papa and me were so proud because Aston did not shed a tear.  We quickly went home and papa gave Aston a quick bath to rinse all the hair away and I also had to take shower because I was covered with Aston's hair and we went to Gardens to have lunch.

Before leaving the house to go for his haircut

After his first Haircut 

Another achievement at 6 months is mummy drove Aston to visit greatgrandpapa, grandmama & grandpapa at Bukit Rimau just the two of us! Aston behaved very well.  I was very nervous at first but when I arrived at Bukit Rimau I felt so proud of myself.  Anyway, I fed Aston his lunch and make sure that his diapers are changed before leaving the house.  I couldn't see him because the car seat is rear facing and he is sitting at the backseat.  I gave him his beanbag and a toy hoping that it will keep him occupied.  Anyway, he did not make a noise and somewhere in between he fell asleep.  It was a pleasant drive I must admit.  As for the returned journey, he fell asleep again.  I even went to Gardens once just the two of us to have lunch and we had a short walk because he started getting a little bit cranky sitting in the stroller so I left.  

Found him in this position after arriving home from one of our outing

Aston's Progress @ 5months

I haven't been blogging for a few weeks now mainly because Aston been super cranky.  It was so bad that I didn't even bother switching on the laptop like how I used to do because I know for sure I won't have time to do anything on it.  I suspect that it was due to his teething that he's been in a foul mood the moment he is awake.

At 5 months, Aston can now turn over from back to tummy with his hand stuck occasionally.  When he's in the mood he will babble all sorts of sound that will crack you up when you listen.  On top of that, he can now throw tantrums by shouting really loud with his hands hitting the bed and legs kicking.  He's feeding was unpredictable because he does not finish his feed anymore.  At times, he will ask for feed 2 or 3 hours from his last feed at times he can drink 6oz!  He knows how to use his hands to push away the bottle when he doesn't want his milk so I do not force him to finish it because all he does is just spit it all out.

Doctor said that he can start having semi-solid food once he complete his 6 months.  Couldn't imagine how fast time flies.  My hubby reminded me that I've stopped work for 6 months now and I still can't believe that I'm now a stay at home mama!

This is how Aston looks like at 5 months...

Grandmama, Great grandpapa & Aston

I left him lying on his back...went to throw his diaper and this is what I came back to.....

Turned by himself without getting his hands stuck

Confession of a Full Time Mama

I've been a full time mama coming to 5 months now and I must say it has definitely changed my life.  Friends told me that it's not easy being a full time mama both mentally and physically.  They rather return to their full time job than being a stay at home mother.  Well, I fully agree with them.  It is exhausting at times especially when Aston is cranky.  This is the time where you wish someone is there to relief you just for an hour or so to sober up unfortunately being a full time mama I do not have that privilege.  Like it or not I just have to turn a deaf ear to Aston's cries and continue my "work" which never ends.  When you're working you can still look forward to the time where you're off for the day or weekends or looking forward to long weekends or public holidays.  Well, sad to say all this does not mean anything anymore because whether it's a weekday or weekend it does not make any difference.

Well, I've always wonder why people always say that once you are a stay at home mum you will automatically be categorize under the "Aunty" or worst "Si-lai" group.  Now I fully comprehend! First of all dressing up or putting on make up is only reserved for special occasion.  Why? Before we step out of the house we need to get Aston ready (ie feed/change/prepare his next feed to bring along etc etc) which usually take about 30-45minutes to completely get him ready to leave the house.  Only after that I will go shower, pump milk, change and groom myself which usually take another 30-45minutes and all this are done in a hurry so therefore, what mood is there to dress up nicely and put on make-up when by the time you are about to leave the house you're already sweating from rushing around in the house like a mad women?  Perhaps I need to revamp my wardrobe to be more of a modern mum dressing because whatever that I had previously definitely do not suit taking care a baby.  For example, I can kiss wearing denim mini skirts goodbye because I always think that I may have a major boo boo when I bend down to pick Aston up from the stroller.  Tentatively, I still do not wear spaghetti straps or Baby-Ts because of my nursing bra.  Yes! I still cannot get over the full cup and thick bands and straps on the bra.  Hence, loose fitting tops are my best bet and when I'm at home I've conquered and took over most of papa's T-Shirts.  Definitely an "Aunty" trait there!

Second and most important is social life which at the current moment my best friend now is not even my husband but Aston.  Yes, I can forget about having yum cha sessions till wee hours in the morning with my friends or just have a nice and quiet dinner with my hubby.  We can forget about romance! Some days I think I talk more to Aston than to my hubby because by the time hubby gets home from work I'll be too tired.  Sometimes I sleep so early that I don't even see him till the next morning and when morning comes we have brunch together and he will be off to work again.  Nevertheless, because I refused to be in the "Aunty" category I still try to have short yum cha sessions with my friends.  My next step is to go out during the weekday with Aston just for the sake of not staying in the house for so many days in a week!

Well, despite what I have written above I still do enjoy being a stay at home mum.  I get to witness all of Aston's first actions.  For example, Aston's first smile, laugh, hand sucking, drool, all the coos and ahhhs.  Just like today, if I was at work I would have missed two things that Aston did.  First I actually witness he slept on his side for the very first time.  Second, I also witness he nearly manage to turn over.  I saw him struggling to turn his upper body.  He made many attempts but in the end he got stuck and called for help.  His lower half of his body was already turned over.  He's head also turned over but he couldn't turn his shoulder over.  I just helped him by pushing him a little and then he looked at me with a laugh.  It is moments like this that makes it all worthwhile.

By reading this blog you will probably think that the cons are more than the pros by being a full time mama.  For me, it is not.  To express my joy and happiness as a full time mama is hard to put in words.  You will have to experience it to know what I mean.  No matter how many happy things I write in this blog you will never truly understand until you go through it yourself.

Aston's Progress @ 4months

We went for Aston's monthly check up and vaccination last week.  Aston now weighs 7.3kg and his height is 61cm.  He can now hold his head up quite steadily during tummy time and enjoys doing tummy time too.  He can turn to his side only if he feels like doing so.  He is also able to sit up right with support and at times papa will sit him on his lap and watch tv together.  We also noticed that he's quite interested in TVB dramas.  Somehow, when we are watching TVB dramas he will look at the direction of the television.  I tried changing it to BBTV on Astro and he does not show the same interest.  He will be looking here and there trying to move away.  We even downloaded some flashcards on iPad but that scared him! I have tried a few times and after looking at a few flashcards he will burst out crying everytime! Will try the flashcards again when he is 5 months old.  

Feeding Aston now is getting tougher as he knows how to use his hands to push the bottle away and on top of that he recently found out how to play with his tongue so even if I hold the bottle tightly and make sure it does not come out of his mouth when he use his hands to push it away he will use his tongue and start twisting and twirling the teat till all the milk start flowing out of his mouth which then you have no choice but to remove the bottle and wipe the milk.  After that, he will not allow you to put it back in anymore.  Even if you force it in he will repeat and start twisting and twirling his tongue around the teat and at times he will even start making cooos and ahhhs with the teat and milk still in his mouth! When he's not drinking his milk he will stick his tongue in and out which is actually quite cute I must admit.  Not to mention the endless supply of saliva drooling out of his mouth especially when he starts playing with his tongue.

Aston is very talkative especially when he's in a good mood.  He will make all sorts of noise from high pitch to low pitch from loud to soft and he will even pause to wait for your response and at times he will even laugh out loud after listening to our response as if he understood what we are saying.  Needless to say when he's in a foul mood he will still make all sorts of noise but it is no longer pleasant to hear and you wish that he will stop as soon as it starts.

Aston's 4 months old photos.....

4 months and 1 Day Old

Enjoying Tummy Time! 

This is as far as I can turn.......

Playing with my tongue

Aston Growing Up Fast!!

Aston is now 4 months and 1 week old.  We've been bringing Aston out shopping for the last few weekends and I must say thankfully he enjoy going out with us.  He will either sleep or look around in his stroller while we walk in the mall.  However, we have yet to venture into not so baby friendly malls because for all our outings we usually will need to use the baby changing room once to change and feed him.  Still can't come to terms in changing him in the public toilet eventhough there's a changing station provided because mummy herself don't even dare to enter public toilet in certain malls let alone to change Aston in there!

Anyway, last Saturday we went to Gardens and I manage to buy some clothes for Aston.  Yes, Aston is growing out of his existing clothing and I spotted 70% off fisher price clothes in Robinson so I quickly grab a few.  Mind you I've bought some already the previous week.  Papa also went to Carrefour to grab mamypoko because they were on sale.  It's been a while since we last seen it went down to RM40.89 for the jumbo packs.  If you see the amount of mamypoko we have stock up it looks as if we are opening a shop soon! We left Gardens early because we had plans for dinner outside with our relatives so I wanted to let Aston rest at home and bath him before going out again.  He was so exhausted that he slept while we were having our dinner and only woke up just in time for us to go home.  He was drowsy in the car on the way home.  When we arrived home I quickly changed him into he's pyjamas and he fell asleep after less than 5 minutes of fuss.

Sunday, we went to Pavillion.  He slept on the way there and was very chatty while we were having our lunch.  After lunch we went to Toys R Us inside Parkson and papa bought him another toy! Papa spend quite some time showing Aston a few toys and cloth books to Aston to see his interest and it was quite clear that there are certain toys Aston showed excitement and will keep on starring at it and there are toys that just couldn't catch his attention.  Papa also asked should we buy him his feeding set and I told him is too early because we only start to introduce solid food when he is 6 months according to the doctor.  Anyhow, I still went to have a look and noticed not all are BPA free! So I told papa that we'll look for others and left Parkson.

We were strolling outside Parkson and went into a stand alone shop that sells majority Japanese brands.  We ended up getting stage 2 Pigeon feeding set and feeding dish which comes with stage 1 spoon and a section for grinding food.  Yes, we are one very anxious parents.  Aston is only 4 months old and we have started getting accessories for him to start his solid meals when he is 6 months old.

Stage 2 Feeding Set

Feeding Dish

Papa, next we need to check out his high chair :) Ikea next weekend? Oh no... is Aston jab day.  Oh well, no hurry! Thank you papa for buying so many things for Aston! Aston and mummy love you very much!! Muuaks

Thank You Grandmama!

Grandmama's Masterpiece

Grandmama comes over to visit once a week and bring me lunch.  Two weeks ago grandmama tried to get Aston's hand and foot print as a keepsake.  Grandmama thought it will be easy just stamp on to get some ink and stamp again on the art paper.  Unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as we thought it will be!  At the end of the day, Aston's hands and feet including the nails are blue.  I told papa that Aston's is turning into Avatar because we couldn't fully cleaned the ink especially those underneath his nails.  Oh yes! Aston did tasted some of the blue ink.  Thank goodness they are non toxic!

Anyway, looking at it now I think is worth going through the trouble! I hope Aston will appreciate what grandmama did for him when I show it to him when he's older.

Notti Aston!!

I'm beginning to think that the superstitious saying where babies are very "sensitive (siu hei)" are true.  It was just slightly less than one month ago that I blogged Aston been sleeping too much well..well..well... Aston showed me what he is capable of doing exactly the opposite!

Everything went well this morning so I thought it would be a good day for both of us...I was so wrong! He woke up at 8.15am this morning still yawning away but was not very cranky just making a lot of goos and giiisss.  I tried to put him back to sleep but judging from his response it was very unlikely.  So I decided to bring him out for his morning walk.  After the walk, I lay him back on his crib and he managed to dooze off after a few eeees and ahhhs.  He woke up 30 minutes later and I fed him his milk.  He only manage to drink 2oz! The day went on fine until about 45 minutes later he started to fuss again.  I fed him the remaining milk but he refused to drink.  15 minutes later I tried again and he drank another 2oz and fell asleep.  30 minutes later he woke up again and was in a very cranky mood.

I tried feeding, burping, walking around the house nothing works! He refuse to play or even chat! He just lie there making noise as if complaining about something which I wish I could understand because he's been making the same sound so many times.  I've been feeding him every hour and tried to calm him down but nothing works not even his pacifier until I blew my steam.

Yes... it was unbearable anymore.  I remember clearly it was almost 5pm I raised my voice at him and he was silent looking at me as if he understood.  Then he fuss then I said NO MORE CRYING with a stern voice then he stopped and looked at me.  5 seconds later just when he was about to start he's complain I repeated with a stern and loud voice NO MORE CRYING and he stopped.  Finally, after a few rounds he couldn't care and just continue fussing and complaining I raised my voice again and told him he's a naughty boy and mummy don't like naughty boys and I teared! I couldn't stand the look on his face.  Eyes wide open looking at me innocently.  I continue telling him no more crying while tearing! I even gave him a light spank on his thighs which shooked him.  I felt so guilty for hitting him so I continue to tear even more! I just repeated to him that he's a naughty boy today and I don't like it.  Then I walked away to clean his bottle and when I returned to the room I saw him already asleep!

Anyway, he only slept for half an hour.  He woke up and I quickly get ready for his bath.  After his bath we went downstairs to say hello to yeh yeh and then he started fussing.  I fed him and he fell asleep.  I hope he will sleep till midnight for his last feed and then sleep all the way till next morning.  Fingers cross!

Short of Supply........

Recently I noticed that I can't express as much breastmilk as before.  Previously, I manage to yield close to 4 oz each pump.  Lately, I'm struggling to even get 3oz! I can't figure out what went wrong because I did not change anything.  Perhaps is the food? or perhaps because I never nurse Aston direct?

Anyway, Aston will be turning 4 months on Monday.  I sure hope that I can continue to provide Aston with breastmilk until he start taking solid food but judging from what I've yield for the past week it has been very demotivating.  Even though I do not feed Aston breastmilk exclusively but at least some is better than none I suppose?

I heard fenugreek helps to boost supply.  Will try to get some over the weekend and try it out.  Fingers cross hopefully I can still continue for another 2 more months!

A Family Day Out

It was a fruitful day yesterday.  That's how papa always puts it if we come back with at least a shopping bag.  Anyway, we left home at about noon and we started of by delivering some durians to grandpapa in Tropicana.  We then head to Taman Desa to drop off Russ for his weekly grooming sessions and the three of us head to Pavillion.  Aston was sleeping not long after we left home because he was up very early yesterday.

Aston was wide awake when we arrived Pavillion.  Papa and I agreed to have lunch at Din Tai Fung because we found this is the only Din Tai Fung that is baby friendly.  We noticed the other branches are so crowded that even without stroller we already need to squeeze through in between chairs and tables to get to our seats.  So we quickly agreed to have our lunch here since we can bring in our stroller and both of us were craving for xiao long bao.  Yes, xiao long bao been at the back of our head for weeks now but because all the outlets that we know request us to park our strollers outside we thought we had to wait till Aston is able to seat before we can have our xiao long bao!

We already planned ahead that we need to go one floor down to the children's floor to get Aston's toys and I planned to buy him a crib mobile.  So we took a stroll first before going down one floor and we were quite pleased so far with the lift as compared to those in mid valley which we had to wait for at least 10 minutes before we could squeeze in!  Anyway, we went into Parkson and realised that the toys department is actually the same floor with Din Tai Fung! We thought oh no we need to walk in and out of Parkson to go the toys department.  Anyway, papa bought a baby book by Lamaze from the children's department and as we walked to the cashier we found a lift inside Parkson! Yay...Pavillion baby friendliness +2points.

After paying we took the lift up one floor to the toys department but the moment we went up Aston got cranky.  I told papa that he's hungry and we went to look for the baby changing room which is just outside Parkson.  Pavillion baby friendliness +2points!  Then papa reminded me that the breastmilk is cold.  Oh noooo!  I totally forgotten about heating up the milk when we were at Din Tai Fung! You see for the past few outings, we will bring one bottle of breastmilk out and we will heat up Aston's milk by requesting for a bowl of hot water where we have our lunch.  I asked papa that is it really cold and he said yes! I could tell that Aston is hungry because we fed him before we left which is about 11.30am and at that time is already 2pm.  So papa did what he hope will work by warming the milk using a hand dryer.  Thankfully, the baby changing room was equipped with a hand dryer.  Yay...+2points! I will give a +5points if it also comes with a WC like the one in Gardens.  Anyway, papa heated as much as he could and I took a deep breath and gave Aston cold milk and he rejected the first round.  Papa heated it more which I think a tinge below room temperature and we tried again and he finally took it but he didn't finish it.  It was good enough for us to continue our shopping.  So to all dads' out there hand dryer can also be served as bottle warmer in emergency cases!

Papa bought a crib mobile and not long after we left Parkson Aston is sound asleep in the stroller.  We took a slow stroll around Pavillion until the pet shop called to inform us that Russ is ready to be picked up.  I know papa was very tired yesterday because he woke up at 7am! So I told papa let's pick up Russ and go home.  Papa fixed up the crib mobile and gave Aston a bath.  Aston was crying for his milk after his bath and fell asleep after drinking his milk.  Papa also slept together until dinner time and Aston continued his sleep until this morning.  Mummy also was drained out by the end of the day.  Overall a successful family day out.  

Being Hormonal??

To my galfriends whom I used to spend so much time together that people started to think we are lesbos oh yes you know who you are! I'm not having a mid life crisis ok unlike someone whom we used to know!? When I meant "being hormonal" I literally meant it...because I'm feeling the effects of post pregnancy eventhough it's now coming to 4 months since I delivered.

Effect No 1 --- Sensitive Skin

I've been popping zits like nobody's business lately and it's all around my chin area and occasionally between my mouth and nose.  If it's a mole I will look like Cindy Crawford but unfortunately it's a huge pimple! I have red patches all over my cheeks and 'T' zone.  My skin felt like sandpaper everytime I washed my face.  It used to be smooth! I hope this will all go away soon.  Feeling very down everytime I looked into the mirror.

Effect No 2 --- Hair Fall

Hubby agreed that my hair fall is outright SCARRY! Yes! That's how he puts it.  The amount of hair loss everytime I washed my hair is so bad that I felt like I must be balding somewhere! Everytime after my shower I looked at the drain cover it scares the s**t out of me because is full with my hair! In addition, everywhere I step my foot in there are strands of my hair on the floor.  Aaarghh!! I think I'm shedding like my dog! I hope this will end soon because I'm very worried that I will get bald patches at such young age! What's going to happen when I have my second child! ?

Effect No 3 --- Heavy Bottom

I've been repeatedly trying on my pre-pregnancy clothes and sad to say it looks like I'm not getting back my body.  A simple Baby-T and jeans somehow doesn't flatter me anymore.  Simply because my tummy is oozing out of my jeans that I had to hold my breath to button up.  I'm not requesting to have a flat tummy because it was never flat before but at least not a muffin top! I bought a pair of gap jeans that's suppose to be bootleg but because I had to accommodate my huge hips it looked like a mum's jeans when I put it on! How long more do I have to wait or is this permanent?? I still want to look good in cargo pants!! 

Let's hope and pray that all this will end and I'm back to being myself and a cool mama to Aston.  

Sleeping too much?

It's such irony that now I'm blogging about Aston sleeping too much in a day.  I know I should be happy because many parents wish for their child to sleep more but sometimes I think to myself that should I be worried? Take today for instance, he woke up at 8.30am and was still yawning away but couldn't fall asleep till about 11.45am.  He woke up again at 12.30pm and then fell asleep again 1 hour later.  At 1.30pm he slept all the way to 5.30pm!! And at 7.00pm he started to yawn again and slept at 7.30pm till 8.30pm.  He slept again at 10.15pm.

Is Aston sleeping too much? I tried feeding him extra since he skipped one feed I assume he will be very hungry after he woke up at 5.30pm but he didn't manage to finish it.  Worry number 2 is he drinking enough milk? Worry number 3 is it because he spend so much time sleeping that he is not pooping? It has been 3 days since he last poop.  Even though the doctor reassured me that it's OK if he does not poop daily but how many days gap is healthy? Doctor just told me as long as the stools are soft is OK.

Luckily when he's awake he's quite alert and we manage to squeeze in some chats and tummy time otherwise I will have Worry number 3 is he being stimulated enough?

Worries of a first time mum..........I guess it will never end....

Lousy Mommy!

I had a rough day with Aston today and I must admit that I brought it upon myself.  Yes, it hit me hard today to make me realised how incompetent I am as a mother.  Aston woke up a little cranky this morning but it was manageable.  (I miss the 2 month old Aston where he greeted me with a warm smile every morning).  Anyway, I insist no matter how cranky Aston is I must follow strictly to our daily routine hoping that one day he will just get used to it.  I've also read a few websites that advices a routine makes babies calmer as they know what to expect.

Anyway, when he woke up this morning I knew that he was still tired but having trouble falling back to sleep.  I thought I could repeat what I did yesterday... well actually I wanted to repeat what I did yesterday because whatever I did yesterday worked very well for Aston.  So, I picked him up and took him out for a walk in the garden thinking that I can still put him back to sleep again after the walk because that's what happened yesterday.  Unfortunately, today I didn't manage to put him back to sleep.  He got even more cranky after the walk and the moment I lay him down he started to fuss and cry.  So I picked him up again and carried him for a while and tried putting him down again.  He cried again! By 10.30am I fed him and he calmed down.  I wanted to wait till 11am because that's what happened yesterday.  He finally took his nap at noon and at the back of my head because I wanted to repeat what I did yesterday so badly that I kept thinking his next feed will be at 5pm just like yesterday.

He woke up roughly about 2pm and I was thinking to myself that he will sleep again because he didn't manage to take his morning nap.  I tried comforting him and did what I could for him to fall back asleep but failed.  I picked him up and put him on his play gym and he wasn't really enjoying his time there but I kept him distracted.  I thought maybe because he still wants to sleep ( he slept till 4.30pm yesterday) so I tried giving him pacifier and his beanbag but he rejected and started to cry very loudly.  I picked him up walked around the house put him down on his chair and finally at 3pm I decided to thaw my breastmilk thinking maybe he may want to have an earlier feed.  I tried putting him back on his crib but he started crying very loudly.  I carried him and this time round it didn't soothe him.  This is the first time that when I carry him he is still crying! I started to worry that could it be because he has not poop since yesterday and struggling to past motion? Could it be wind in his stomach? Could it be he's 'siu hei' since I blogged yesterday that things are better or that when 'yeh yeh' asked whether Aston got 'kacau' or not I will always defend him saying no he is very good boy.  Yes...it came to a point where I started to be superstitious.  In the end, I didn't know what to do I bought an application from Apple called the Cry Translator.  I tested the application and it says HUNGRY! I thought hmmm.. let's see how accurate so at 3.30pm I fed Aston (my initial plan of earlier feed was 4.30pm) and all this while Aston been trying to tell me he's HUNGRY!!

He finished his milk and fell asleep immediately.  Then I recalled back how silly of me.  Of course he's hungry his last feed was at 10.30am!! I have been taking care of him for 3 months now and I still can't tell that he's hungry! I need a cry translator to tell me that he's hungry! I felt so guilty as I could have been starving my child! Poor Aston..! I'm such lousy mommy! I told myself from now on forget about what happen in the past even the day before.  Just do what's necessary to keep Aston happy!

Lazy...Lazy....

I think it has been two weeks since I last update my blog.  Why? Well, Aston's been really cranky recently especially in the morning and after I got him settle down I felt so tired that I just want to lay back and watch my tvb dramas.  In other words, I'm just lazy!

Till today I am not sure what went wrong.  We were doing so great and all of a sudden one morning he woke up no longer smiling and cheerful.  He will fuss and struggle to fall asleep and this goes on till about 11am.  He doesn't nap long so when he's awake he will fuss again.  He seems to be tired all the time! He doesn't have interest to play or do anything besides from being carried and bath.  The worst part is I can tell that he's sleepy but before he gave himself a chance to fall asleep he will get agitated and start to cry.  He can be sucking his pacifier, eyes closed and hugging his beanbag but agitated and frustrated at the same time.  Mommies out there...is there a reason for this?

Anyway, now that I'm blogging again today that shows that things had improved.  I have adjusted his schedule accordingly and *touchwood* things been better these few days.  From this I realised that I'm so lucky to be a stay at home mother.  Babies really do change overnight! I mean just one morning Aston woke up and he's schedule changed which I obviously didn't know which causes all the frustration between us and papa too! It was like one day he woke up and decided that he needs more sleep and drink more each feed but fewer times a day!  Now one feed of 5oz can last him for about 4-5hours.  At times it can last up till 6-7 hours during the night.  It took me two weeks to realise this! Shame on me! Nevertheless, I am quite concern with the amount of sleep in a day that he needs.  Here I am thinking that they sleep lesser as they grow older.  Well, I've thought about it and came to a conclusion that just let him be to avoid more frustration down the road.  I think he has my genes.  We love our sleeps!

Time really flies... Aston is 3 months old now.  The last check up he weighs 6.52kg and his height is 58cm.  As I mentioned in my previous entries I will do my best to take photos of him every month so here goes....

Aston 3 Months and 1 Day Old

Yay! He can finally lift his head..not for very long though

Recently he found a new toy...his hands

16 June 2011

Aston woke up at 1.30am for his feed.  Papa fed him because papa said I looked very tired and more over papa was not asleep yet.  Aston woke up again at 5.30am.  Tried the pacifier trick but it didn't work so I guess he was hungry.  I fed him and burped him.  Again, he didn't fell asleep instantly so I lay him on the crib and I expressed my breastmilk.  He fell asleep while I was expressing my milk.  I went back to bed thinking and hoping that he will wake up about 9.30am.

Well, he woke up at about 8.45am.  As usual, I went over to greet him and he returned with a big smile.  I told him that I'm going to feed him first, then change him and we will go to the garden for a walk.  So that was exactly what we did.  During the walk he was yawning and yawning so I thought he wanted to sleep again.  So I lay him down on the crib with his pacifier and just watched him.  He started talking and talking and it gets louder and louder that it really cracks me up.  He even have facial expression! Today he made some new sounds and they are loud! I really wonder what they mean.  It was so loud that papa woke up thinking the house alarm went off.  At about 10.30am I calm him down by giving him his pacifier as I didn't want him to get over excited and not able to take his morning nap.  He fell asleep after 10 minutes or so.

Papa went to work while I quickly freshen up.  At about 11.00am he woke up again but he didn't make much noise.  He was just staring at the cot bumper and he's eyes were kind of drowsy looking.  So I let him be until 11.30am he was just lying on his crib staring at the ceiling fan, cot bumper basically looking around the room.  I picked him up and fed him but this time he couldn't finish his feed.  He looked very distracted and was always smiling away.  Could it be his vision are clearer than yesterday? Anyway, it was just less than 1oz so I let it go and burped him.  I put him down on his rocking chair and we started to chat.  I think he found a new sound that he can make because he repeated that loud noise that papa thought it was the house alarm.  It cracks me up everytime I hear it.

I placed him on the playgym as I needed to express my breastmilk.  He didn't look too enthusiastic about it but he didn't fuss so I let him be.  After I was done with expressing I thought he was tired so I put him down on his crib but he's eyes was still wide open.  After 10 minutes or so I picked him up again and we had tummy time both flat on the bed and supported by pillow.  As usual after 5 minutes or so he started to fuss about it.  This time round he looked tired so I put him back in his crib and gave him his pacifier and he fell asleep about 1.15pm.

Grandmama came to visit and bought me lunch today together with grandpapa and uncle Kenny.  Aston only woke up at about 3.30pm.  Grandmama fed him and played with him for a little while before they went home at 4.30pm.  Aston was a little bit moody so I thought he wanted to sleep more.  I put him on his crib and observed him and he show no sign of doozing off.  So I decided to pick him up again and we did some tummy time.  Not long after he started fussing again and this time I put him back in his crib and he fell asleep.

He woke up again at about 5.30pm.  I quickly express my breastmilk so that I can bath him after.  Papa came home early today so he bathed Aston.  After bath, as usual I'll take him downstairs to say good night but this time yeh yeh was taking his nap.  So came back to the room thinking maybe we can have a chat first before feeding but he started fussing.  I thought he was sleepy which I think he was so I tried putting him on the crib to sleep but he fuss even more and started to cry.  He even refused the pacifier so I thought maybe he wants his milk before sleeping.  So I quickly prepare his milk and papa fed him.  True enough he finished the milk and yeh yeh came up to check on him because he was crying so loud.  Anyway, yeh yeh stayed in the room talking to papa and Aston just listen quietly.  At 7.15pm I told papa Aston needs to sleep.  Aston was over tired so he got frustrated because he couldn't fall asleep.  It took him nearly 20 minutes before he stop fussing and calm down and fall asleep.

Yeh yeh called for dinner and papa shouted OK from the room and woke Aston up.  He got really cranky and didn't sleep until 8.00pm.  Hopefully, he's schedule is not disturbed today as he was a little moody today......