Jayden won a photo contest

Jo sent in one of Jayden's 4 months old photos to participate in the MumCentre Pic of the Week contest, the same photo that we have developed for our parents. Everyone says Jayden looks very nice and cute in that photo. And guess what? Jayden won the prize!!!



From MumCentre Malaysia, Pic of the Week, Teoh Tze Loke (Jayden's full name) is the winner of the week under Baby Category. The caption that Jo has entered for this photo is "Little fella who is cheerful and cheeky!".

I just received email confirmation from the organizer. Prize will only arrive in 3 weeks to 1 month time, still not sure what the prize is. But, I am happy for Jayden!

Jayden refused to breastfeed

Jayden and I have been enjoying nursing very well and everything goes smoothly since he was borned. I have no issues in nursing, except that I experienced sore nipples and engorgement at the beginning stage.

But Jayden refused to breastfeed last Saturday. I felt so rejected, worried and upset. I was wondering why this came out of sudden and for no reasons! I started blaming myself. I blamed myself for changing to a showel gel that may changed my body smell to something that Jayden doesn't like, I blamed myself for taking sour soup the night before that may caused my breastmilk tastes differently, I blamed almost everything that I can think of... I broke down and cried!

I have given myself a target to continue nursing, at least until Jayden turns to one. Only three and a half months more... I was so close to it yet so far! I couldn't wait until the next time I needed to nurse him, but he refused to it again! I had no choice but to express my milk and feed him using bottle.

Later only I found out that Jayden maybe on a nursing strike now. I feel better because Jayden doesn't reject my breastmilk from bottle. He may be just too lazy to suck from breast. Jo comforts and supports me by checking out articles regarding nursing strike. I will try out those ways in getting Jayden back to nursing. I'm not sure whether it works, but I will try. And I will start doing power pumping to maintain my milk production.

I hope everything back to normal soon......

My helpful boy

Jayden is 8 months plus now and becomes a very helpful boy. He helps to move things from one place to another, switch on/off aircond or fan, switch Astro channel, tear off unwanted envelopes and many more......

That day, he was so busy around the house......



First, he helped to adjust the weight machine. He was so concentrate but realised my existence later. He looked so innocent when he found me taking a picture of him.



Then, he wanted to help on the rubbish. We stopped him. He crawled to another place.



Then, he busy on newspaper......

That is not his busiest day, but definitely a packed one.

Jayden 'helping' house chores

Since Jayden can move around the house freely with his walker, he likes to go to the back of the house - kitchen and laundry area. He becomes excited when he sees the kitchen door is opened. He will then laugh out loud and run quickly all the way from the front to the back! I find it very funny!

That day, he managed to 'walk' down the step and enter the laundry area while Jo was there. Again, this little fellow was curious in everything he saw and wondered what his father was doing.



He found his father taking out his clothes from a big white box. That was the first time he saw a washing machine. He was looking at the washing machine, probably amazed by it!



Then he found his father hanged his clothes high up at the clothes hanger. The hanger was too high for him to reach. He observed carefully in everything Jo did.



Jayden found me taking photo. He looked at me... proudly.
Hey mummy, I'm good boy today. I didn't mess up anything but helping daddy!

I wonder when can Jayden really helps in house chores...

给爸爸的一封信

爸，

很久没有这样叫爸了，感觉这称呼是多么的亲切却又遥远。爸是不是也和我一样想念着这一个称呼？

爸过得好吗？我永远没有办法看到爸在那里的一切，但我一直相信爸是看到我们的。有时候，我甚至会感觉到爸就在我的身边，在我消极无助的时候给我力量，让我继续努力往前走。

爸，我长大了。我不再是那个坐在爸腿上，玩弄着爸的胡须的小女儿了。我也不再是那个常常睡迟，要爸载我到学校的小女儿。以前那个调皮爱撒娇的小女儿，今天是别人的妻子和一个孩子的妈。

爸看过子乐吗？我除了希望他能够像他爸爸那样的爱护家人和细心体贴，也希望他能够像爸一样，有一颗善良温柔的心，还有对凡事都保持着正面积极的想法和态度。

今天是爸的生日，祝您生日快乐！我爱您！

莹

Jayden exploring the house

Jayden can move around the house freely with his walker. He is curious in everything, especially those he saw but couldn't reach last time. He is exploring......



Erm... what is this?
Let me get closer and have a look!
Not sure daddy or mummy allows me to touch it...



Ah ha! That's my bathing stuff!
What's more inside?
Maybe I can climb out from this walker and crawl over to have a look??



This is daddy's and mummy's new year decoration!
Yeah! I can touch it...
Erm... strange material...

Sometimes he is very quiet and serious in observing things he sees or touches.
Sometimes he talks a lot...
Jayden is growing very well, so does his curiosity!

Jayden in his walker

Jayden is not as stationery as before. He needs to move around, explore more things. We think it is time to get him a walker.

We bought him a 'boy-walker', with aeroplane autostyle and pilot stickers around the walker. It also has a few buttons that play different nursery rhymes when you push on it. It is a new big toy for Jayden.



Jayden was checking on those functions available on his 'aeroplane'. He was looking here and there, and accidentally pressed on the music button. Everything looks very interesting to him. He didn't realise this is something that can move him around.

At the beginning, he doesn't want to stay in the walker for long time because he can't control it well. We let him manage it slowly. Now, he wants to sit in his walker the moment he sees it. He can now move it forward, backward, sideway... around the house!

There you see! Cheeky Jayden in the walker......

IT savvy

Jayden is full of curiousity!

For things like remote control, camera and handphone, he will
1. crawl to it
2. touch it, swing it up and down a little
3. grab it closer to his mouth
4. lick and put into his mouth

That day he found something bigger - laptop! This is new to him.



He couldn't swing it up and down or put it into his mouth. He sat infront of it, looked like he was using it, typing some documents... ha!



And that was what happened to the laptop:
Keypad #6 is out of place!