Teething terror

Keston turned 5 months on Sunday. Has it been 5 months already? I still vividly remember my hospital stay and confinement period...ok 5 months in adult life seems short, but 5 months in a baby's life is like an eternity!!!

Keston's started teething like I mentioned earlier but the last couple of days have been abit of a nightmare. He's got diarrohea and he's been exceptionally cranky and fussy. The teething gel helps a teensy little bit and yet I'm reluctant to have him 'eating' the gel. He's quite restless in his sleep at night and so he's sleeping with me for now. How now brown cow? When will this saga end?

Keston's 1st Christmas

Merry Christmas my little darling! You're the best gift I could ever ask for.

My little cutie pie

We received one of the nicest compliment today when someone commented that Keston's so cute that she feels like getting married and having a child :) It made my day!

The flipping monster

Ever since Keston's learnt to flip, he's become such a handful.
First we must learn 2 important things about Keston:

1. He only knows how to flip from his back to his front and not the other way around.
2. He hates being on his front and refuses to lie down. He'd rather stay in push up position than to let his face touch the ground.

Keston the flipper flips every single moment of the day. His regular ongoing activity is
-Flip over to his tummy
-looks around and stays in push up position
-starts drooling abit
-struggles to stay in push up position
-arms become weak
-whine
-cry
-mummy or daddy quickly roll him back on his back
-IMMEDIATELY Flips over to his tummy again

and the whole cycle starts again. So you get the idea what we do all day!

For the past 3 mornings, we've been awakened by his yelp cos' the moment he woke up, he flipped and after staying up for abit, calls for help to be rolled over. Gone are the days of blissful sleep-ins while he self-entertains! Keston's great at self-entertaining. Most mornings he's up before we are but he'd quietly play by himself in his cot till it's time for milk. But now when I hear the yelp, I will nudge HW to go over to Keston's room. HW will then bring Kes over to our room and proceed to fall asleep. I will then be tasked to put Kes back to sleep.

See lah, I wanted him to flip..and now that he's flipping, it's giving me a headache :P

PHOTO updates!

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Keston and his gym(s)

The first gym we got for Keston was the Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium Gym. He liked it quite abit but I felt it wasn't helping him with any developments so I itchy fingers sold it away to buy new gyms to try.

So we bought 2 new gyms last week.

Fisher-Price Baby Play Zone Kick&Whirl Carnival and

Fisher-Price® Baby Gymtastics™ 3-in-1 Rockin' Gym™

To start of with, I fixed up the Carnival gym for Keston. The moment we put him in, he looked terrified. We thought turning on the music woul help but it made him cry instead! The best thing was, he was so scared he actually shit in his diapers!!! Hahaha...just a splatter but still....We persisted and tried for a few more times at different timings of the day. The best he could do was ignore the gym and look everywhere else! But it was pretty evident that he's never gonna like it. Frankly, the gym doesn't work very well. Firstly, the baby is meant to kick some board to activate the music but the board's at a 90 degrees angle to the floor and pretty awkward for the baby to kick. Secondly, you need to hit pretty damn hard before anything happens to the music...and it was such a biatch to fix up! I'm critical cos my boy doesn't like it. Heh! So anyway, we brought it back.


Next I fixed up the Rockin' Gym. This cute little gym can be converted into a rocking horse for future use. This gym is so much easier to assemble. And the music is soft and bubbly so Keston was at ease. When baby tugs or bats at one of the hanging toys, it activates a 'triiiing' sound into the music being played. Keston loved that (while I worry about how many batteries I need to standby)...and he'd bat at the toy, hear the sound...wait awhile and bat again. It really does help develop his fine motor skills me thinks.

Cough baby cough

Keston's been coughing on and off the past few days and so we brought him to see the doc yesterday. He's got abit of phelgm so have to take medicine again. We kept contemplating letting him self-heal or to medicate him. Still not sure cos I don't like the idea of him taking too much medications.

So Keston's 7.1kg now at 4mths 2 weeks.

A couple of nights ago, I finally braved touching his gums and indeed the white spots are his pearly whites emerging and not some random ulcer. The weird thing is, his emerging tooth is neither his upper middle nor his lower middle. It's at the incisors. Oh dear, we have a little vampire in the making!

Yesterday night, I finally witnessed Keston flipping. It was one of those blink and you'll miss it moments cos he was so smooth and quick. I had the option of running to get the cam or sitting still and watching. I chose the latter and so, no videos again!

Photo updates later!

Keston flips...

10 December 2008- Keston does his first full flip

It started in the morning when the little tike was as usual practising his half flips, which ends with him lying on his side. When I was getting dressed, he suddeny did a 3/4 flip, which meant his shoulder and body were basically parallel with the bed, with only 1 hand stuck under his stomache. He stayed in this awkward position for minutes until I told HW to show him how to complete the flip. HW 'taught' him to pull his hand out from under him and to create a momentum with his bum so he'll end up facing down. HW then proceeded to roll him back to position.

5 minutes later, we carried him out to the living room. I went into the kitchen while HW was checking his phone. It took all of 10 seconds when I heard HW shout excitedly. I came out to find Keston on his front, in push up position! So smart right? Teach him once and he learns immediately! Haha..let's just ignore the fact that it took him all of 4 months and 1 week to even start his attempt while other babies were flipping at 3mths!

Then later at night when I was playing with him before he goes to sleep, I again demonstrated to him how to do a full flip. I snucked out to my room to check my mails. Heard a yelp. Dashed out to the living room to find him in push up position again! Arrghhh! I want to see how it happened! So I then armed myself with the camera and began filming him, determined to document the process. But of course it's Sod's Law that when I try to film it, he doesn't perform.

So anyway 2 full flips in a day. Yipee!

On a separate issue, Keston got attacked by the mosquitoes again last night! This time on the other side of his face, 2 on his right eye and 1 at his nose. Poor baby looks horrid and it looks horribly itchy! He's sleeping with us tonight until we get his bed sorted. We dunno yet if it's bed bugs or mosquitoes but he's getting his mattress sunned tomorrow and I'm getting him a mosquito patch.

First trial class

Keston went for his first Kindermusik trial class yesterday. It was not until the night before that I realised the timing's gonna be a killer. See, the class is from 11.30am to 12.15pm and we aimed to reach there at 11.15am.

The problem is, Keston wakes and has his first feeding at 8-8.30am...second feeding at 12-12.30pm. If so, he would need to be fed during the class. The alternative would be to wake him up at 7 to feed and to feed again at 11 just before the class. Alas, we both overslept....actually we 3 overslept! Keston only woke up for milk around 9am! So I was, in a way, glad cos the next feeding would be at 1pm after the class ends.
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BUT Keston ALWAYS takes a morning nap. He needs to sleep around 10 till 11.30, but of course we were in such a rush. Feed. Babygym. Bathe. Change. Prepare milk. Rush out of the house...Keston didn't get to nap at all. He slept in the car on the way to Tanglin mall, but that was like 15 mins only.

So 15mins into the class, he started getting cranky, refusing to lie down on the floor. And I had to bearhug him almost throughout the whole class. Bah. Didn't get to swirl the scarf above his head or to twang the colour robe...he didn't even want to listen to me reading him a story. He just wanted to cuddle. And then just before the class ended, I realised I should have just given him his pacifier! *whacks head* stupid stupid stupid. So I whipped out the pacifier and he sucked on it sleepily. The little bugger closed his eyes finally just when the class ended. Sigh~ Waste money siah!

Next time I must remember to go for class at 1pm!

Attack of the mozzies!

We got a fright in the morning yesterday when we saw multiple (8 to be exact) red spots on Keston's little face. I kept thinking it was HFMD or Chicken Pox. As I've seen neither, I could only guess. Doc says its just insect bites, don't need to put anything and it will clear away by itself. So sian, not handsome already...Also Doc says the white spot on Keston's gum looks like a tooth emerging. But its like at the incisor there so dunno to believe him or not. For now Keston is still a happy baby although he's quite distracted and struggles abit during feedings these days.

At 4mths 1wk, Keston weighs 6.955 kg.

As of 4mths 1wk (4th Nov), he has officially started trying to flip. I was getting worried that he'd never ever be able to flip since he doesn't even try. And when I read about all the other babies flipping when they are 3mths old, I thought to myself 'Xiao liao! Keston's never gonna flip, he's gonna go straight to crawling!' It's not even as if he has a huge butt!

Anyways, he's doing half flips all the time now. He lifts his legs into the air and pushes it on his left so he lies on his left side. Then he tries to turn his face around so he always ends up lying flat on his face, which freaks me out for a second until he turns back again.