Finally - A Pearly White Tooth!

After much grizzling, howling, mewling and frustrated gnawing — the first signs of a single hard, pearly white front upper tooth appeared this morning!

Stand -- at 7 months 3 weeks!

OMG She's standing!



This means the the bassinet has to go then. Sure, sure... look smug about it all.

Little Jedi in Pink

Pretty in Pink.

MC turned out to know more about Star Wars than I did. The moment he saw Hui Ning in this new dress, he made a beeline for the camel humps at the Penang Municipal Park.

こんにちは赤ちゃん

I finally found the video, song and lyrics to this Japanese song, こんにちわ赤ちゃん ("Konnichiwa, Aka-chan" or "Hello, Baby") I first learned it from my Japanese teacher many years ago, and apparently Hui Ning loves it when I sang it to her...

こんにちは赤ちゃん

唄　　梓みちよ（1963）

作詩　永　六輔

作曲　中村八大

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　あなたの笑顔

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　あなたの泣き声

その小さな手　つぶらな瞳

はじめまして　わたしがママよ

Konnichiwa akachan, anata no egao

Konnichiwa akachan, anata no nakigoe

So no chiisana te, tsubura na hitomi

Hajimemashite, watashi ga mama yo

Hello baby, your smiling face

Hello baby, your crying sound

Your tiny hand, your round eyes

Nice to meet you, I'm your mama

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　あなたの生命

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　あなたの未来に

このしあわせが　パパの望みよ

はじめまして　わたしがママよ

Konnichiwa akachan, anata no inochi

Konnichiwa akachan, anata no mirai ni

Ko no shiawase ga papa no nozomi yo

Hajimemashite, watashi ga mama yo

Hello baby, to your life

Hello baby, to your future

This blessed happiness is papa's wish

Nice to meet you, I'm your mama

ふたりだけの　愛のしるし

すこやかに美しく　育てと祈る

Futari dake no ai no shirushi

Sukoyaka ni utsukushiku sodate to inoru

The symbol of two people's love

I pray to bring you up, healthy and beautiful

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　お願いがあるの

こんにちは　赤ちゃん　時々はパパと

ホラふたりだけの　静かな夜を

つくってほしいの　おやすみなさい

Konnichiwa akachan, onegai ga aru no

Konnichiwa akachan, tokidoki wa papa to

Hora futari dake no shizuka na yoru wo

Tsukutte hoshii no oyasumi nasai

Hello baby, I have one request

Hello baby, a little sometime with papa

A quiet evening, just the two of us

That's what I'd like, so good night!!

お願い　赤ちゃん

おやすみ　赤ちゃん　わたしがママよ

Onegai akachan

Oyasumi akachan, watashi ga mama yo

So please, baby...

Good night, my baby. I'm your mama

The last two stanzas are hilarious, no? :-)

Roooooooolling

Hui Ning mastered the art of rolling over 2 nights ago and can't stop doing it. She rolls whenever she "senses" that she's on a large, wide, flat surface. She even sleep-rolls. Funnily enough, she never rolls if she's in her crib, as if she senses that there's no point trying. However, she does try to roll in the bouncer, much to the horror of all present! And on occasions when she's really too tired to roll over successfully, she gets really frustrated and babbles angrily. That's the double hair-spiral in action, I suppose.

Nursing tops from Blessedmums.com

A while ago Dr C told me about Blessedmums.com, where you can get some really trendy nursing tops. They're quite reasonably priced too, especially when they're on "crazy offer".

The website wasn't very up-to-date with information on availability and one of the models I wanted was all sold out, and another wasn't available in the colour I wanted. They were very fast in informing me via SMS  the very same evening, so I was able to specify my alternative preferences immediately.  They confirmed everything just as fast this time, and I received my orders 2 days later.

You talkin' to me? Huh? Huh?

I was sitting by Hui Ning's bouncer, reading the newspaper, when she got bored at staring at the world outside and started staring at me.

"Hmmm? Whatcha lookin' at, Hui Ning? Huh? Huh?" (complete with the head motion and all)

"Huh." went Hui Ning. Complete with a slight raise of the head.

*Blink.*

"What's that? Did you really talk back to me, kiddo? Huh?" (With head motion.)

"Huh!" (With head motion!)

"Huh?" *head*

"Huh!" *head*

"Huh?" *head*

"Huh!" *head*

"Huh?" *head*

"Huh!" *head* *giggle*

(repeat... for about a dozen times)

We both ended up giggling helplessly.