Getting Smart!

Jayden's mummy :- "

24th October 2008 - Tonite was a rainy and cold nite. As usual on tis Friday evening, i went off for aerobics class. Although the weather was cool tonite, i still sweat like crazy and was terribly exhausted. My stamina had worsen so much compared to previously when i was so devoted to modern dance at PowerMoves. Wow... i felt so lack of oxygen during my workout, and after tat i felt terribly sleepy when i climbed in hubby's LandCruiser to drive myself back home. Moreover the weather was rainy and cool and wid the pitter-patter on my windscreen, i felt even drowsier. So on the way home, i took out my handphone and called ngeebang. As usual, ngeebang will make some silly jokes, and wid his laughters accompanying me, i can at least keep myself awake.

When i reached home, i dragged myself to 102. Then i greeted my hubby and my darling son. Jayden was so happy to see me, and as usual he'll crawl over to my legs to greet me. Luckily he didn't insist me to pick him up and give him a hug today, for i was terribly wet from all my sweat. Then i went over to another corner to place my bag and my stuff. When i looked at Jayden, he was standing facing our shelf, and his cute little finger pointing to my bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar while smiling mischieviously at me. Hahahaha... i couldn't help but burst out laughing. I understand immediately wat he was trying to tell me.

I bought this bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar some way back a few months ago to make seakelp pickles. I only needed a little amount of vinegar though, but apple cider are quite expensive and getting the bigger bottle was a better deal. So i bought the bigger bottle of the vinegar and ended up, I have to start drinking it before it's expiry date. I read tat consuming apple cider vinegar can oso help our health in alot of ways such as lowering blood sugar, cholesterol perhaps, maintain weight, and alot more which i couldn't really remember. So I make it a habit to drink a glass of Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with Amway's Acerola Cherry everytime after my workout when i reach home. Moreover, my throat owest feel so dry for i must be quite dehyrdrated from all the exercise, and a glass of tangling and refreshing drink definately helps me to cool down before i go and take my bath.

I guess ahDen must be monitoring me for quite some time now, without me realising. He was pointing to my bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar to ask me to start making my usual drink! He is really so, so, so cute! Somemore he was chuckling and giggling at the same time. When i told hubby wat ahDen was trying to tell me, hubby seemed a little unconvinced. So he asked Jayden, "What is ahDen trying to tell mummy?". In response, Jayden point again to the bottle of vinegar and both hubby and I bursted into laughters. Sigh... he is really starting to understand our speech more & more. Besides tat, he oso starts to pick up our daily practices and beginning to understands more.

Another cute encounter happened yesterday. I washed his shoes on Wed noon for it was very dirty now. Then yesterday morning, i brought them out to dry on our balcony, right under the hot sun. When ahDen saw his shoes outside on the balcony, he seemed confused. He must be wondering wat are his shoes doing out there on the balcony. He must had felt funny at the same time, for he was chuckling to himself while looking wide-eyed at his pair of shoes out there under the sun. After a while he went off to play wid his toys. Then i took the opportunity to ask him, trying to test if he understood wat i was saying, "ahDen, WHERE are your SHOES?"

I observed him for awhile, and then he pointed his little finger in the direction of the balcony and point to his shoes on the ground! Hahaha.... so cute! I told hubby wat ahDen juz did, and again hubby asked him the same thing and again he gave us the same response, pointing to his shoes trying to tell us his shoes were out there on the balcony. =))

Tat time i was beaming all over. Deep in my heart, not only did i feel happy bcox my baby is getting smarter day by day, ironically I oso felt a tiny pang of sadness. Knowing tat my baby is growing up day by day, I kinda miss the time when he was juz a little helpless baby, relying so much on me. Those days are bound to be over pretty soon... as a matter of fact, REAL SOON! ;( But of cuz, i need to view all these from the positive aspect. Jayden is growing up fine day by day and yes, although he's venturing into toddlerhood now, he'll forever be my little baby in my eyes! ;)) "

'monkey' in 102

Jayden's mummy :- "

13th October 2008 - Looking after ah Den is really like looking after a monkey. He never stops moving around, never stops playing, never stops to rest once he is awake and the only time he rests is when he is sleeping. Today tis little monkey even learnt how to climb up the chair. First attempt, he didn't succeed. Tat was around noon time, and i'd bathed him so i juz let him play around before giving him his nap. When i saw tat he tried to climb up the chair, i juz let him be, knowing tat he'll never give up trying unless he realised tat it's impossible for him to achieve.

However, tonite amazingly he succeeded in climbing up the chair by his own. His daddy saw it and tot how clever his son is because he can climb up the chair by himself. I told hubby tat ah Den had been trying to do so the whole day, and he oledi had lots of practices until tonite, he finally got wat he wanted, tat was to stand on top of the chair by himself. Wat really attracted him was this very laptop, seated on top of the table, as well as the mouse and the rest of the stuffs we placed on top of the table. He's bored playing wid the rest of the things in the room and now he's aiming for the stuff on top of the table - his 'unreachable' toys!
Wat a 'monkey' my son is! How come my baby is so naughty and so active? Really becoming more & more like monkey! Enjoy watching him demonstrate his climbing skills. "

1st Clip : Jayden polishing his climbing skills around noon time!

2nd Clip : Approximately 9hrs later, he finally succeeded in climbing up the very same chair!

Oct upDates

Jayden's mummy :- "

3rd October 2008 – Today we’ll be flying bek to Kch again. Tmr wil be CheeYong’s big day and we’d promised to be back for his wedding dinner. I oso lost track of count how many times ah Den had flown by air til now. Today ahDen and mummy have Express Boarding so we are among the first to board the AirAsia plane. Knowing tat it’s festive season ~ Raya ~ and the plane wil definitely be packed, we’d spent additional and paid for express boarding so we can save ahDen from the inconsiderate ppl pushing around even though there’s supposed to be a queue. Sigh!

Every time I know tat it’s time to go bek home using AirAsia, my heart starts to worry. Sigh! I really don’t understand why the airline don’t give priority to pregnant ladies and oso mummies carrying babies or toddlers. Sigh! I wonder if it’d ever come across their mind tat carrying a 10kg++ object, and yet ‘fighting’ wid the crowd to get a place in the queue, is really very tiring. Sigh! Why I say ‘fighting’… educated and civilized ppl are abundant nowadays, but whenever u r in the queue to board an AirAsia plane, u suddenly realized there are no longer any educated and civilized Malaysians! Sigh! Really very pathetic!!

Of cuz we got pretty good seats on board today - cox we paid extra. AhDen is really becoming more n more familiar flying by air. He’ll pull out all the magazines and snack menus from the seat pockets in front of him, and today amazingly he tried to turn the lock tat holds the table in place. Hubby and I both think tat he finally realized there’s a table that can be stored when not in used there. Luckily his fingers are still not tat strong yet, or else there’ll be more jobs for daddy and mummy! We bought a packet of Milo for ahDen - RM6, and daddy keep on 'bising'... hahaha - and I gave him a packet of baby rice crackers. Wow… he was really having a good time flying!


Jayden trying to take out a piece of his Baby Bite!

Hmm... Having a nice slurp of Milo!

Putting a piece of rice cracker into his mouth.

Chomp! Chomp! So Yummy!

Feeling full. Burp!

When we reached Kch tat nite, we had light dinner at home before going out to haf dinner wid my mum and sisters. It’s my mum’s birthday today, and luckily we can still make it in time to celebrate with her. My sis ahFang made reservation at Ah Tou Seafood the day before and after dinner we went back to mum’s place to cut her bday cake. Happy Birthday ‘Nye-Ma’!

ahDen's Nye-Ma's bday cake!

Nye-ma wid her granddaughter and grandson!
Look at cute Esther sticking out her tongue!

My mummy wid all of us!

5th October 2008 – On this Sunday nite hubby came back real late for dinner. He was very, very busy til we had dinner at 8.30pm but of cuz I let ahDen had his dinner first. After dinner, we didn’t plan to go out anymore. In the afternoon around 2.30pm, we went over to my sister’s new house at 8th Mile. AhDen had such an enjoyable time there… me too… sis ahMing purposely kept some mooncakes for me to eat when I come back to Kch. Hee! She oso made fruit salads and a nice pot of hot tea for us tat afternoon. Luckily I had a nice & full meal for teatime tat afternoon, or else I definitely wouldn’t be able to wait til 8.30pm for dinner tonite.

While resting at home tonite, ahDen made some really funny sounds. He kept on saying ‘ka ka ka ka ka… “ continuosly and it sounded really cute. So I quickly took out our camera to record it. So cute! Really wonder wat he’s saying. “Ka ka ka ka …”

Take a look at Jayden's "kakaka" video clip.

7th October 2008 – A normal and real bored Tuesday afternoon. Hubby was terribly busy rushing to get his work done b4 we haf to fly bek to KK again, so ahDen and I had no choice but to stay at home. The best place to put ahDen when babysitting him is in our room. Tis is bcox with the closed door, he’ll have limited accessible space. Sigh! As usual I let him played around before giving him his afternoon nap, and seeing him playing by himself can be pretty amusing. In this first clip, he laughed when he saw me pointing the camera towards him, then he got down on the floor, clapped his hands and moved over to look for new things to play with. Hear how he chuckled… really a naughty boy!

1st Clip - ahDen's Mischievous Laughter

Tis 2nd clip ahDen is even cuter. I was watching my normal afternoon video series on tv, so i let ahDen played around by himself. Suddenly he crawled hastily over to the place where the sunlight shone on the floor. With the curtains tied back, the afternoon sun shone right into our room, and it amazed ahDen to see a big yellow patch of sunlight on the floor! He banged on the floor, and tried catching the yellow patch on the floor. I immediately got our camera to record this but when I got back, he wasn’t playing wid the sunlight anymore but he was trying to catch floating tiny dusts in the air. At first I had no idea wat he was doing, but when I sat down beside him and with the sunlight shining in thru the window, you can actually see tiny particles flying around. Hahaha…. ahDen was trying to catch dust in the air! So funny!"

2nd Clip - ah Den playing dust-catching!

Kids are really kids! So naive lor... 'hen tian chen' lor... ;))