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March 18, 2010
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Mama, Who?

We went to see another nursery today, one suggested by Mommy L. Mommy L asked me to go as she wanted my opinion. The nursery is about 20 minutes walk uphill for me. I wasn’t going to register.

But Nora felt so much at home there, it’s unbelievable!

Susan, the carer who showed us around, asked if she could hold Nora. So I passed her over. I was thinking… well if she’s going to go to nursery, might as well get to know the people.

I really liked the layout of the nursery. Each three different age group has their own outside space and the inside space for the babies is huge! The children are all occupied and happy.

And best of all when I asked about availability, they said they could accommodate Nora!

When it was time to leave, Nora laid her head on Susan’s chest. She was very comfortable. I think she will thrive in a nursery environment and won’t miss me much. I felt a twinge of sadness.

At the moment Hills is my second choice nursery. The Hospital’s nursery is my favourite, due to it’s location and huge and wonderful outside space. But since Hills has told me that there will be space for Nora, I shall send her there first.

So, my mom will be here in May to look after Nora for a month, and then off to Hills it is. Unless, of course, I win at the horses.

March 18, 2010
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Carrots v Sweet Potatoes

They are both orange and I cut them into identical sticks. Both were steamed but I put the sweet potatoes in the oven for a few minutes.

I pass one carrot stick and one sweet potato stick to Nora yesterday for tea.

She looked at both, discarded the carrot and at the sweet potato.

She might be only six and a half months old, but she knows the difference between a carrot and sweet potato.

I have to find another trick to make her eat her carrot!

March 16, 2010
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There’s an Elephant in the Room

Jules told me he was heading to the shed. I asked him to have a peep into Nora’s room to see if her blanket is still on her and she hadn’t kicked it off during her tantrum.

Jules came back in the living room and said ‘I can’t tell… there’s an elephant in the room’

When Nora sleeps on her bed, she has Cookie Monster and Laura the elephant to keep her company. Seven times out of ten, she will put Laura on her while she sleeps and block my easiest line of vision when I want to check on her.

I think she uses Laura as a trap so I’ll try to tiptoe into her room and step on the squeaky floor… to alert her… Mama’s in the room! Time to wake up and cry and get her to cuddle me!!!

Seven times out of ten, I get caught.

March 16, 2010
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Help

I really need help when I go back to work!

I’m not at work at the moment and my days are spent on looking after Nora and do the household chores… and there’s just not enough time to do everything. From morning until night I’m forever doing the dishes, laundry, cooking and ironing; and the dishes, laundry and ironing never seem to recede!

Home seem to be in a constant mess.

So, when I go back to work… I really don’t know how I’ll cope.

March 14, 2010
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Proper Meals

I’ve been giving Nora finger food more as snacks rather than proper meals. She has had eggs, pears, apples, baby corns, carrots, sugarsnaps, roasted sweet potatoes, peppers, strawberries and a bit of fish and chicken.

Just realized that I’ve given her quite a variety of food! I think she likes eggs best but she can’t have eggs everyday! And I also think she’s getting bored of steamed carrots. Maybe I’ll roast the carrots next time.

Soon, I will try to organize proper meal times with proper menu. So I better start on a timetable for her meal times and what she’ll be eating.

The sooner I do it, the sooner she’ll learn/realize that eating could curb hunger. Until then, she will keep on having her milk… she will let me know when she wants to reduce her milk intake… the way she let me know that she no longer wanted breast milk.

March 9, 2010
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Ayam Sedap

That means, delicious chicken.

I made some chicken in Thai red curry last night and tore the chicken breast to shreds. Passed a piece to Nora and she chomped on it. She seemed to love it, so I kept some for her so that she could have some today.

Since I didn’t organize my day properly, she hasn’t had her lunch. Don’t worry, she has had her milk feed, just not food. But I did give her another piece of chicken before her 2pm feed and she smiled when she took it off my fingers. I guess she really does like it.

March 7, 2010
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First Tooth

Nora held my finger, put it in her mouth and bit it. Nothing unusual… but today I actually went ‘OUCH!!!!’

I looked in her mouth and there it was a tiny little tooth budding out from her lower gum!

Can’t believe how happy I was to see that tooth that I called my mom to let her know.

And I should really say that on Monday was another proud moment for me when we were at baby yoga, Nora was sitting on the yoga mat without my support! She was still a bit wobbly but she sat on her own!!

So the past few days she’s been sitting in her rubber ring playing with her toys and I didn’t have to keep on putting her upright every two seconds.

So proud of my little ‘big’ girl :)

March 3, 2010
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Kung Fu Nora

Nora kicks like mule and has ninja hand movements!

When she lies down, she likes to stamp her heels. I think we’re in trouble with our downstairs neighbour because of this!

Nora is an early riser. Once I’ve put the kettle and sterilizer on as the start of her milk preparation, I would pick her up and put her on her gym mat, which is on the front room floor. I think our neighbour’s bedroom is underneath our front room, and I guess Nora’s been waking her up with her heel stamping exercise! How do I know this? Jules got a text from her at 5am telling him to keep the noise down while playing his shooting game. Since Jules was asleep at 5am, there’s only one other culprit!

Well, Nora could, kind of, sit now anyway. So, I won’t put her on her gym mat. I’ll put her in her rubber ring instead and she can sit there and play with the cups Aunty Alice gave her!

As for her ninja hand moves, it’s amazing what she can reach and grab when I turn my back to her for just one second! A couple of weeks ago she was sitting on my lap as I was having breakfast. I turned to get my tea and she had a handful of beans in her hand!

This morning, I was trying to clear her nose with the sucking device thing, and she managed to grab hold of the tube every time I think I managed to hold her hands away! We had quite a battle this morning, as a result, she has a nasty scratch on her right cheek! Oh well… what’s a battle without a war wound?

Nora just has to realize her mama is a ninja herself and she’d better show me some r-e-s-p-e-c-t

Oh… took Nora to feed the ducks today and stopped at the playground. She sat on the baby swing and loved it!

March 2, 2010
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Six Months

I really can’t believe that Nora has been in our lives for six whole months! Sometimes it feels that it was just yesterday we came back from the hospital… sometimes it feels like she’s been around forever!

One thing for sure, I can’t imagine my life without her.

She’s suffering from separation anxiety at the moment. And I guess I’m not really helping by letting her sleep with us in our bed… but I love cuddling her in bed, even if it means I don’t really get a good night’s sleep.

I will try harder to put her in her own bed. We’ve decided to get her a grown up bed! Well, it’s an extendable bed… it grows longer as she grows taller. I know some people don’t agree with us on this. We are going to put a guard on the bed… and maybe bubba will fall off a couple of times. Kids and accidents happens. We can’t molly cuddle them all the time, wrap them in bubble and wipe all the bacteria from every surface.

If we get a cot, she might get her head stuck between the slats and knowing her, she will attempt to climb out and the fall from the top of the cot will be higher than the fall off the bed.

Anyway, she’s six months. She’s a big girl… wish she’d slow down. I want her to stay small a bit longer!

February 28, 2010
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Leaving Do

It was a sad day on Friday.

We had a lovely ‘leaving do’ for Mommy L. Yes, I know leaving do’s are for those who leave their work place but being a mom is an unpaid full time job so she deserved a leaving do before she goes back to her 9 to 5 job.

At 1pm we met up to head over to Earlsfield’s One O’clock Centre. Four mommies and four babies. It was kind of nice to have a little group. Usually I go there with Mommy L or on my own… When I say on my own, I meant Nora and me. We met up another mommy and her two children there and took over the sensory room!

The mommies chatted and the babies played.

After that we head over to the pub. I’ve been to that pub with Nora before… but then she was just one baby, we weren’t very sure how they would react with four babies!

We didn’t have to worry. The guy behind the bar ran to the door and held it open for us and gave us a warm welcome. He then suggested places for us so we could sit comfortably with our babies. What a service!

We toasted to Mommy L and chatted and chatted and chatted. We ordered some bar food and the babies loved the chips… OK the mommy loved the chips but we can’t appear greedy now, can we?

It was sad when it was time to go. I could see Mommy L was really sad… and I was thinking ‘This is horrible!’ and I’m sure I will bawl my eyes out when it’s my turn to return to work… which is not long to go. How I wish we could afford me staying with Nora for a bit longer… but we have mortgage and bills to pay… and soon Nursery on top of that!