Samuel's 1st solid food

Samuel is now 6 months old and he just started to take solid food. I am giving him rice cereal, mix with formula and warm water.

Previously Samuel was taking Snow Brand formula, now I am slowly changing over to Enfa. I'm still checking on Samuel to see whether he is suitable to take Enfa or not, as many babies who are taking Enfa have constipation problem. Anyway, different babies will have different reaction. It's quite difficult to find perfect formula for babies.

I tried to give Samuel rice cereal when he was 5 and a half months old that time, but he did not know how to swallow, so I stopped. Now, he has no problem swallowing and likes the rice cereal too... :)

妈咪，母亲节快乐！

This is my Mummy Dearest. She is the most wonderful woman in this world. She is very patient, loving, generous and supportive. She is very strict to all her children, but that is for their own good.

I remember when I was in secondary school, I always followed my Mom to the wet market, and the aunties

would said," Oh! Is that your daughter? Oh... you two look so alike!"

I think our smile look alike... :) And our eyes too.

My Mom got married to my dad when she was 23.

And they have 4 children, I'm the eldest.

My mom is a housewife, a Super Mom. She takes care of everything as my Dad's working outstation and seldome at home. When we were still schooling las time, she woke up as early as 5am everyday. She prepared wonderful breakfast for us, packed us the lunch box (so that we had something healthy to eat during the recess), drove us to school, cleaned the house, prepared lunch for us, picked us up from school, sent us to tuition classes, drove us to church... EVERYTHING!! She did EVERYTHING for us.

妈妈，

我终于明白作一个母亲的感受，无论什么事情，孩子终是排在第一。看到您那丝丝的白发，就知道您为我们费尽了多少心思和青春。

妈妈，

您给我的爱，让我知道幸福的滋味。

您给我的关怀，让我感受到无限的温暖。

您对我的包容，教我知错能改最了不起。

您给我的教诲，让我成为有用的人。

妈妈，

直从我上大学到现在，每年的母亲接我都没在您身边亲自给您献上祝福，我觉得好内疚。

我好希望此时能飞到您身边，给您一个拥抱，亲口对您说，“妈咪，母亲节快乐。”

妈妈，

我希望您能天天开心，不要烦恼，不要犹豫，因为主耶稣说：

“ 凡勞苦擔重擔的人，可以到我這裡來，我就使你們得安慰。”

{馬太福音11:28}

将您的烦恼、重担和忧愁，交给天父吧！

妈妈，我爱您！祝您健康，靠主常常喜乐！

* 世上只有妈妈好，有妈的孩子像个宝，投进妈妈的怀抱，幸福享不了。*

Happy Birthday, 慈!

8 May... it's my sister, Christine's birthday.
Christine is 1 year younger than me, we're really close to each other. We used to sleep together on 1 queen size bed, since we were in primary school, until I left home to study in Malacca. Of cause we got arguments sometime, but we got over it very fast and got friend friend back really fast.

Sis, if I'm not mistaken, we never celebrated your birthday together until last year ooohh... You celebrated your happy birthday in S'pore last year, do you remember? 
Sis, miss you so much! I wanna wish you a very happy birthday and may all your wishes come true. Love you! *kisses and hugs*

Samuel's first collection of books

We didn't go many places during our stay in KL last weekend, as we didn't stay there for long. We decided to drive back to Kulim on Saturday, so that Hubby could have 1 day rest at home before going to work on Monday. He was really exhausted after long driving hours.

So, we only went shopping at 1 Utama before we headed home. We went there on Friday and it took us 30 minutes to get a parking. We didn't buy anything for ourselves, but for Samuel. But we did get ourselves a scoop of Baskin Robin ice-cream and a strawberry milk shake! :)

My 舅母said, it's good to let babies to start looking books at early age. Don't let them watch TV too early, or else they will lose interest on reading books. I am quite concern about this as Samuel is really attracted to TV. So we grabbed some books for Samuel!

Happy reading, son! :)

Trip to KL

We went for a short vacation in KL last weekend, together with Jane, Michael & baby Serene . We went down to KL on Thursday, as we wanted to go to Singapore Embassy in KL to settle something. We started driving as early as 5am and stopped at Ipoh for breakfast for about 1 hour. Samuel slept soundly throughout the journey. He only woke up when he was hungry and went back to sleep after finishing his milk.

We reached KL around 11am. After we got the things done at the embassy, we headed to my 舅舅's (my mom's younger brother) house in Klang. My 舅舅 has 5 children, and I love hanging out with them. I enjoyed the stay at his house very much. Anyway, we reached 舅舅's house around 3pm (it took us about 3 hourse as hubby got lost on the way). In the evening, after I gave Samuel a bath and we had enough rest, we went for a walk around the housing area.

 ~[from left] My little cousin (Samuel's little 表舅), cousin Heng Ying, Samuel, cousin Grace and AhOo (their little doggy)~

We enjoyed the stay at my 舅舅's house. We should go to KL to visit 舅舅more often. :)