Yum Yum

Since Caryn started eating cereal at 4 months old once in the morning, she has been taking it quite well. In fact so well that at 5 and 1/2 months, she's eating it for breakfast and dinner. Each feed is about 2 big scoops (Similac scoop size). The speed she swallowed it down her throat is really encouraging! haha.. Most of the time when we put it in her mouth, the cereal is gone down almost immediately!

Compared to her elder sis who still takes an average of 1 hour to finish her meal at 3.5 years old, Caryn is really a delight!

She loves fruits too. Besides banana, she has tasted rockmelon, honeydew and apple. No rejection at all. Very encouraging to see her eat everything :)

I want that banana!

When will the double eyelid permanently appear on the left eye? I'm still waiting... Meanwhile, Caryn looks as though she has inbalanced 'big, small eyes'.

Here's the tale about the banana. I was eating a banana in front of her and she stared at my moving mouth. So I decided to let her have her first taste of a banana. When placed near her mouth, she sucked.. and sucked.. until her lips get quite messy. So I took out, wipe her mouth and continue biting my banana.

Whoa!! Came sounds of protest on a red, hot face! Translated to English, it simply means: "I want that banana!"

OK, at least I'm glad she's more receptive to trying out new food than her sis.

Target to Meet

There're targets to meet at work, and that by itself is stressful enough. Now, there's yet another target to meet, set by the PD, that is, Caryn have to gain at least 500g per month.

My tiny, little Caryn weighs 5.2kg at 4 months and is still at the 15 percentile. Hmm... is the pink weighing scale at the hospital inaccurate? Maybe I'd put her on the blue weighing scale during the next visit.. hehe.

Length-wise, she's ok as she's at the 50 percentile.

But her arms & legs looked quite chubby, although not very chubby, I mean she doesn't look as though she's underweight. Anyway, PD suggested we start her on semi-solid, ie cereal.

When it's time for the jab, I knew exactly what to do. Judging from the previous experience that she would stopped yelling with the pacifier on, I stuffed the pacifier into her mouth even before the needle poked her this time.

Guess what? I was right! When the needle went through, she was shocked for a spilt second and recovered almost immediately by sucking the pacifier. No cries. No sound at all, except perhaps the sound of sucking.

Wow! PD says she's a brave girl.

Wow! The wonders of a pacifier, thank goodness! I thought to myself.

Caryn flips

After a few days of intensive practising, Caryn finally successfully flips :) She was training hard for 3-4 days, as she would sound as tho' she uses a lot of strength, erh.. erh... But she never gave up! She even tried rolling in the middle of the night when she woke up. Perservance pays off, and now there she is, she would just flip in the blink of an eye.

Lifts up head at 16 weeks

Another milestone achieved.. Caryn can lift up her head on tummy position at 16 weeks. While doing so, her saliva drips continuously.. hehe.. maybe her pearlies are emerging? Oh yes, although she's still toothless, she shows interest when she sees the adults munching our food. This little girl at 3+months has already tasted small mouthfuls of rice, bits of soft fish & happily swallowed all :)

At 3 & a half months, she had another of her first.. haircut, done by Ah-Ma.

Tiny, little baby

Caryn is still a small, small baby at 3 months, weighing only 4.7kg. PD commented that she has consistently put on 600g per month for the past 3 months, although she is expected to gain more weight. My 2 other friends' babies born in Dec 08 are around 7+kg now! So you see the difference?

Smiley & Chatty

My mom noticed that Caryn is now more responsive & can play with her, such that she smiles readily when talked to. She's a sociable baby and enjoys cooing with the people around her. I joked there's no need to buy any toys for her as her JieJie is the walking toy. She's so easily amused by her JieJie's every move. Even in the midst of pooing, she'll stop to watch her JieJie when the latter enter the room. She simply adores JieJie!

I've also observed that her eyelashes has grown longer.

I hope it will eventually be as long as her JieJie's :) Even the malay massage lady noticed about JieJie's eyelashes & asked me if she's of pure chinese descent, as very few chinese has such long, beautiful eyelashes.

Btw I'm still patiently waiting for Caryn's double eyelids to appear ...