Sherry's Café: The 12th month

Rayray turns ONE today and I honestly cannot believe a year has gone by! That 3340grams of little pink baby was in my arms exactly a year ago and I struggle to remember how little she was!!!

Oh hey you!

and here she is on her first birthday!

I no longer have lie-ins in the morning, I have a routine too as I am a GF mummy! Though I do look forward to seeing Rayray's little face every morning as it just brightens up my day! Life is so different with a baby let alone being a full-time mum but I still enjoy it and would not have it any other way.

Rayray has really started growing into her little face as well as her personality! She is generally an easy-going, happy and cheery baby but she could be a little madam sometimes too!!! She moves around like a little worm during the day and still loves her bath time. I have noticed that she is rather observant, especially we have been going to various classes in the last month and it amazes me to see how every baby differs from each other. Whenever we go to a new place, she would spend a good 5 minutes or so looking around before doing anything. We were at a music class last week and the teacher played the violin in the end of the class and she was the only baby that had her eyes glued on the teacher for the entire duration while she played.

Height - 80cm

Weight - 10.8kg

Eating - Three solids meals plus one bf before bedtime. In the last two weeks, I replaced her morning bf to goats milk and things went pear shaped. She started really enjoying it and couldn't seem to get enough of it on the first day but by lunchtime she was a completely different baby to much of our horror! In hindsight, it could be any reason but it coincided with the fact that she started having goats milk. We were out at lunch and instead of sitting in her high chair, socialising to all the waiters and waitresses and people at next table as she always does, she was whiny, grumpy and would not eat her lunch at all! By that evening, she probably only ate a fifth of her usual dinner portion and started screaming.... The second day she had the worse wet nappy ever! And it went on for the whole day and boy, she was not a happy bunny. It must be her tummy upsetting her so I stopped giving her goats milk on the fourth day. She was tired, lethargic and just very grizzly. Three days ago, I tried giving her almond milk and her tummy so far has been fine but she doesn't seem to like the taste of it. I am also still debating the fact if almond milk is right for one year olds as the research I have done so far tells me not and I am thinking to give goats milk another go. Anyway, I have derailed and will have another post on weaning.

So here is one variety of what Rayray has for breakkie: Scrambled egg with tomato and toast

BEFORE

and AFTER

so Yes this is how much she can eat! but it's not always the case and she likes variation at breakfast so I try giving her different food everyday!

Sleeping - Rayray started waking up in the middle of the night for two weeks and it really drove me nuts as I was so used to her sleeping through the night! I didn't know what caused it but as a mum I just had to suck it up and thankfully she has since slept better. She also seems to nap much better at lunchtime!

Development -

Claps when I say 'clap clap'

Lunchdate after her first ballet class and just look at how she is sitting! lol

Loooooves standing up and she can 'hold' the pose for a good 15-20 seconds now

Knows who mama, dada are and says wawa and nana rather often on top of 'baba', 'gaga' and basically just loves 'talking'!

Has mastered crawling even better as well as climbing stairs. She can climb up to coffee tables and her little rocking chair

Understands when I say 'come here' as I hold my hands out and she would crawl towards me

Dressed in her PJ for Children In Need at ballet class. I was surprised to see how long her hair was!

We had a little gathering lunch on the Sunday before Rayray's birthday and it was lovely to see friends and G & J's little newborn, Weisin!!!

This is half of the table .....

A little family portrait

Oh and this is me - very happy as I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight:50kg! YAY

We also did 抓週 i.e. a Chinese custom of telling a child's fortune by placing various emblems before him and letting him choose one on his first birthday.

Here are the 18 objects we prepared

It didn't turn out to be as eventful as I anticipated! She normally goes for things she has not seen but this time, she went for spring onion, chopsticks, hammer and a chicken drumstick! hahahaha We all thought it was hilarious that the things she chose were elongated and chopsticks and drumsticks symbolise she could be a foodie! Well, she does love her food!