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Coming To 9..

Sarah will be 9 mths old soon, to be exact, on the 8th of February 2008 and it's time to renew her milk contract with mummy. The kind folks of various formula milk companies have kindly sent many free samples to assist mummy in weaning Sarah from breastmilk. Unfortunately, Sarah has not been very receptive in accepting formula milk. The most she's drank is probably 30ml. This little eating machine has finally found a food she dislikes! What to do.. To renew or not, that is the question. I wish it were elementary my dear!

My First Tooth

Munch Munch, Chomp Chomp

Sarah's finally restored her appetite (and enthusiasm!) after the earlier bout of fever. She's back to her 'ol self, getting excited waving hands in the air and chiong-ing towards her food, or 'informing' us loudly that she wants a share of whatever whenever she sees anyone munching food, or she'd stroll around the dinner table on her walker patting our legs and butts just in case we missed popping rice into her mouth. Thankfully she's eating all foods, vegetables and fruits (even apples, papayas, and bananas too!). She especially loves her avocado 'n yogurt, and drinking water from her Magmag straw cup. Yes, she 'desperately' learnt how to drink from a straw, so she can have a share of mummy's coke too!

It sure is a joy seeing Sarah eat, and everyone simply loves feeding her!

My First Mosquito Bite

Creepy Crawler

Mr Panda

Me and my favourite pal, Mr Panda

Teething alas!

Finally at 8 mths 2wks and 4 days old, Sarah's got a tooth sprouting out! It's the bottom left middle tooth. Grandma spotted the tiny little white dot this evening when cleaning her mouth during her shower. Oh oh! But Sarah's rather touchy about people meddling with her mouth so no one can take a good picture of it now. It seems like she'll be able to chomp on the CNY goodies afterall *hee*

Sleep

For the first time today, Sarah slept thru the night. No night wakenings, no looking for pacifier, no asking for milk milk! How fantastic.. We hope it'll last for the days to come :)

Physical Development Stage

The above chart is compliments from Fisher Price website. Sarah is currently between the stages of cruising and standing, though she seems to rather enjoy falling. My! my! Soon she'll be able to walk. Anyhow her crawling doesn't seem to good (she still uses her head as an extra support when moving forward; otherwise she'll 'cheat' by flipping towards the object), but perhaps Sarah's destined not to be one of the graceful crawlers. Hmmm, Mummy needs to change the earlier post on 28 Oct '07 from "Attempt to Crawl" to "I can crawl!" *heh heh*

The morning after..

Miss Baby Universe pose.

Check out that pout!

*Opps* Caught trying to escape

Sleepy Head 1 waking Sleepy Head 2
(so that Sarah can take her chow-chow back!)



Daddy! Wakie wakie!

TV addict :)

Fever! Milder now..

This evening, Sarah went to The Kids Clinic to test that the fever wasn't a symptom of the dreaded urinary tract infection. Thankfully the result was negative. Dr Lillian concluded that it is merely a fever infection from the influenza-A bug that is going around. *Whew* What a relieve! Nonetheless, daddy n mummy will continue to monitor Sarah's condition to ensure that the fever does not escalate further through the night.

Anyway, during the visit to The Kids Clinic, Sarah's face immediately lit up with happiness, and was back to her smily self the instant she saw Dr Lillian. Temperature when we left the clinic = 37.4c (normal). Price = $69. What a price to pay just because our baby missed the doctors' face *hmmz*

Teeth *sighs* We all thought that the fever was a result of Sarah going through the teething phase. Unfortunately, though Sarah's gums were red, Dr Lillian said that it doesn't look like there're any teeth sprouting anytime soon! Well, I guess Sarah won't have any teeth to help her chomp down on the CNY goodies.

Fever! Higher!

Sarah's fever hadn't subsided despite taking 3 doses of fever medicine prescribed by The Kids Clinic. The highest reading for today was at 38.8c! Dr Lilian suspects that it might be UTI. Poor baby! We pray that its not UTI but a bout of fever from teething..

Fever!

During the wee hours on Sunday morning, Sarah developed fever!

Dance the cha cha with me!

Aunty Yati has been teaching Sarah how to walk. This is Sarah's version.

Little Bear

Mummy's been training me to wear a hat, especially since the weather's so unpredictable these days. She thinks a hat will protect me from the hot sun, and kinda shelter my pretty head from the rain. But I hate wearing hats. This is a photo of Sarah, after umpteen attempts to remove it..

*Ahh* Of late, Sarah has been making faces whenever she smiles. She either wrinkles it up like this, or gives a toothless grin (whilst blowing loads of saliva out!). The latter is hard to capture as the photographer has to avoid being drenched =p..

Scaling Mt Bolster

Sarah is so pleased when mummy praised her.

And in return, Sarah decides to stick out her tongue at mummy.. *Hmm*

Sarah in a Destructive Mode

See how nonchalent Sarah is, leaning back on her high chair whilst smacking poor Mr Duck. She barely flinched when Mr Puppy-Dog flipped right in front of her. *sighs* And she couldn't care less when Mr PD jumped off the table.. Oh dear oh dear..

Outing to East Coast Park

Va-va-vroom!!

First encounter with sand

First time dipping my feet in the sea

Pomelo Girl

Por por says that I'll grow more hair if i put this on..