Another Update

Hann and I are weekend parents as my mama is babysit Callum at hometown. Almost every weekend, we travel back to Kuala Kangsar for several purposes - transport breast milk, visit Callum, my cutie nieces and everyone at home. This time round, I hardly spend precious time with Callum as I am sick since last week. And I don't get to sleep Callum at night. With afraid that I might spread the bacteria to Callum and cause him fall sick.

Before I get into the bus, I waived to Callum bidding goodbye. What surprises me is, Callum he slowly raise his little hand up yet holding his fist to bid me... Be it happens in conscious or coincidently, it makes me reluctant to step into the bus!

Without failed, I am able to snap tons of photo. In case, I miss him alot, I can at least looking at those pictures taken. Well, Hann and I were taking turn in looking at the pictures taken in handphone and camera on our way back to kl. At night, we repeated before sleep.

Callum, do you know how much daddy mummy love and miss you?

Growing fast

Stepping into the month of October, Callum is now aged 3 months old. I've missed the moment when he grows in seconds, minutes... Thus, I cherished the moment we had during weekend. That is the only time we spend together.

In his age, he probably can sit upright when propped up by blankets or pillows.
There is once, I put him on the couch for photograph purpose. He seems toppling to the side. I guess, Callum needs more training on his sitting position. Thus, there we have our second hand bumbo. I always put him on the bumbo for a very short moment so that he able to see things in different view. And I guess my mum found it useful as well. I get to tell that, Callum was putting in his bumbo when my mum is preparing the formula. It's particularly useful when you need your hand free for a short period.

And now, he knows and recognize my voice from the phone! On the other end, when I talk to him, my mum reported that, he curiously looking at the phone. It makes me miss him alot. He is playful at this stage. Whenever I talk and play with him, he can react and smile. His smile can kill me seriously and it interpretes that happiness is showering him at every moment.
He can make alot of noise now. When I put my face near his mouth as if he is kissing me, he is able to make some noise and knowing that i'm playing with him.

Recently, we have putting him on his tummy so that he get to train on lifting his head thus strengthen his neck. He likes to 'perform' whenever I take out my camera for recording. Sometimes, he behaved lazy particularly not getting enough sleep. In a way, he complaint not to train by shouting out loud without crying.

However, he might get to behave badly when he is in sleepy mode. Hann commented that he has a bad temper. And I personally know that it is inherited from my gene. He can get angry when you feeding while talking by crying out loud and push away the bottle. The new trend is, Callum wants to feed only in his room. He refused to drink milk in a bumpy car journey. Ha!

Interesting Facts

Image from internet.

I always think that breastfeeding will take longer time for women to loss weight a.k.a. gain back their figure in prepregnancy. I was wrong until today I get to read that -- after one month of breastfeeding, women are expected to lose one to two pound. The reason for the steady weight loss is that the process of lactation uses the extra body fat that was stored during pregnancy. After the first three months, breastfeeding women generally lose weight more rapidly than bottle-feeding mothers and return to their prepregnancy weight sooner.

I'm using breast pump to extract breast milk and bottle feed baby Callum. I wanted to try direct breastfeed him but he refused to suck it. I suspect that he been fed using bottle in the hospital and he already used to the slower flow of milk from teat as he "drink at own pace". Breastmilk will still flow out even if baby Callum is not sucking it once it's been "triggered".

Before I get back to work, I have this idea. I wanted to stop feeding baby Callum with breastmilk as I need to tie to some dietary where some foods are root cause of colic. On my way back to KL, I re-consider my decision on this. As I really reluctant to leave baby Callum at home, I'll miss him a lot.

Since I'm leaving to KL, nothing I can give him, why not I continue to give him the best first food of baby, breastmilk.

By having this in mind, I continue to feed him with breastmilk.

53 Days After Delivery

I spent 53 days in hometown ever since I gave birth to baby Callum. I came back to KL yesterday, "physically" prepared myself back to work. I left my house with heavy heart as I will only see baby Callum once a week or even once fortnightly. Worst thing happened where the night before I left, baby Callum wasn't feeling good. He has cough at night but "looks" fine in the day. Thus, I go back to KL as planned.

This morning before I left to do shopping for working outfit, I received a call from Doris. Saying that Mama is bringing baby Callum to clinic now... Omg, that means baby Callum is not getting any better after a day. I am so worry... I wish I could rush back to hometown now. Well, I've got my bus ticket now, it's tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.

Hope everything will be fine...

Baby Callum, mummy will be back and take care of you soon. Mummy and daddy love you so much!

Tulips From Holland

Every year, when Mothers' Day is around the corner, we start thinking how to celebrate this special day. With celebration or even simple greeting, only indicates that we show our love to mum or as an appreciation. I believe most of us are taught in a way that Carnation is symbolize love and gratitude. It uses to show our love and gratitude to our parents especially on Mothers' Day.

Ever since I get to know Hann, living in KL and get to mix around with his family. I get to experience that, Tulips are use in Mothers' Day as well. Hann has got a cousin sister who works in Dutch airline. Every Mothers' Day, they have such a good brain that bring back Tulips from Holland and sale it at shopping complex. I'm not sure about the pricing however for sure, the cousin sister will distribute the Tulips to every mother in the family.

Tulips were my favorite flora when I was young. I should say, till I meet Tulips, I've lost my love to it. Maybe it doesn't last longer than any type of flower. It needs to shower with ice water else it will dry out. I managed to catch it before it dries out.

Playing macro with my Sony T2

As usual, Hann likes to play around with the light with assistance of Efficient Agatha.

Another shot.

What Daddy Get for Little One

When Hann is doing shopping, I can clearly know what type of shops he'll pay a visit. Most likely bookstore, toy shop, gadget/electric appliance store, and likely souvenir shop. However, there was once he went for his gym. I was waiting for him at the knitting shop to complete the sweater for him. Guess what, Hann went into this clothing shop. He bought 4 pieces of baby cloth! How amazing that a guy would do shopping for his son. Though, ocassionally Hann did accompany me for baby-essential shopping and my own shopping, still I found that it's quite surprise me. I should start to use to it as his father's love starts to grow.

One Fine Day

photographer: Hann

Back in April, I was watching this Singaporean series called Little Nyonya. As the name Nyonya, the whole series is recording the lifestyle, custom, and Nyonya food of a Nyonya family. According to the series, a Nyonya should always spend their time in the kitchen. Somehow, it's important to have a good cooking skill (to cook Nyonya food, of course) as well as crafting skill like embroidery and beading (bead shoes). Well, what's attract me the most is the Nyonya food itself. The director captured alot of the scenes in the kitchen where the Nyonya food is prepared. I felt hungry especially I watch this at night, not to mention craving.

Thus, I decided to make this kuih Nyonya called Kuih Dadar. Recipe extracted from Amy Beh cook book. I made this before at home when I was in secondary. During that time, mama was beside me and give instruction on what to do and she even prepared the grated coconut ready for me. Now, I do it myself from scratch. Surprisingly, it turns up to be quite ok. It wasn't that hard though. I follow extactly the recipe and the end product received quite good comment. Too sad to say that, I forgot to take picture of the end product. Recipe can be found here.