You snooze you lose!

These photos speak for themselves. Not the best lighting, but Mrs Kong has done her best to salvage them.

Obviously JW's dexterity is not so advance yet. Poor JW: look at the expression on his face!

Bath Time

Getting a baby hair wash from shampoo boy Mr Kong

Posing.... :)

JW has his warm bath in the evenings, just before his baby massage, milk, winding down and sleep time. It calms him down and signals that his milk feed and bedtime is around the corner. We have stuck to this bath routine since he was 4 weeks old and it has helped settled JW for his bedtime - most of the time!

We love our bath time. We love the water on our backs and hands. In the special bath tub popo bought. We don't really like water running over our eyes though.

At the rate JW is growing, we won't be in our baby bath tub for long more! Can't wait to bath in the big bath tub with the rubber duckies and bath toys...

7 months old

JW in his favourite corner of his cot

JW loves play. He loves peek - a - boo and loves anyone who will devote time and effort to play with him. At 7 months old, our little baby can sit up well, flip onto both sides - and back with little effort, protest when a toy is taken away from him and does baby push ups (in his effort to get on his knees and begin crawling). He is working on the crawling bit, often creeping backwards and whinning in frustration instead! :)

He knows his mummy and his papa now and gives his papa the biggest smile ever when papa returns home from work. A sight for sore eyes at the end of a hard day!

Solids

first bite

We started introducing solids into JW's diet when he turned 6 months old; slightly more than a month ago. The day was greeted with much anticipation, as we have suspected JW's readiness for months now and only held back because we were warned that he may not be ready due to a immature digestive system. Yes, another one of those differences in experience in caring for premie albeit only a month early.

give me more!!

At the first sitting, JW was super excited at the sight of the bowl, food and spoon. He grabbed Mrs Kong's hand and shoved the spoon into his mouth. At the end of the meal, there was another round of crying as there was no more food!! Poor JW, not enough to eat when he clearly wanted more.

We had stopped solids after a few days of introducing rice because it seemed to have given him a tummy ache at night. A month on, we have started him rice cereal for the morning and rice & carrots for lunch & tea.

Today's menu: rice and pumpkin!