Baby Einstein

I got the 1st Baby Einstein video (DVD) for Charlotte at her 10th month - Baby Neptune. It is all about discovery of water around us like rivers, lakes, rain and etc. Charlotte responded very well because of the music and the pictures are all very lively!

Recently her daddy went to US and I requested him to look for a few more Baby Einstein DVDs for Charlotte. Her daddy got her 2 more - Baby da Vinci & Baby Wordsworth.

Baby da Vinci is about introduction of the body for babies and toddlers. They'll learn to identify their head, shoulders, knees, toes and etc. Charlotte used to confuse herself between eyes and ears, after a few sessions she pointed correctly now! She even started to follow the action when she hear the song "head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes..."

We have just started to introduce the other one to her, Baby Wordsworth. It is also a playful and interactive video introducing things from around the home like chairs, tables, piano, couch, book, dog, swing and etc. One day, I asked her " Charlotte, where is the piano?" She then pointed her little fingers to the piano we have at home. Good job!!

Personally, I think Baby Einstein is a fun and educational entertainment for babies and toddlers. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it anywhere in Penang. I went to The Curve yesterday and found one of the stores carries it, both DVDs and VCDs. Of cource I bought another one for her, Numbers Nursery! (I guess by now you would be able to guess what is this video about)

More about Baby Einstein: http://www.babyeinstein.com/

Right At The First Try!

Charlotte is spending the week with her cousin Christopher while I am working from KL for these couple of weeks. Unfortunately, Christopher is having cough and running nose and I am very worried that she will get it soon.

I noticed that she started to have mild running nose yesterday but luckily Brenda did bring along her medicine. She is usually very difficult to feed and it was no difference yesterday except she got over it sooner with Christopher around.

She also observed how Christopher blow out the mucus from the nose later at night and I tried to have her to do the same. She did it right at the first try!! I thought that was great as it helps to easy the feeling instead of us rubbing it off (she hates it whenever we do that).

I am very proud of her and I do think that she is a fast learner. She knows how to use a harmonica, with both exhaling and inhaling the air through her mouth to get different pitch. She did it right at the first try too!

Charlotte: "I can help!"

We took Charlotte to TESCO last night for groceries shopping. See what she did after we were done with we our shopping...

She practically pushed the cart from the top floor all the way down to the car park on the ground floor. When we arrived at our car and unloaded all the stuff from the cart, she still didn't want to let go of the cart and was throwing tantrum. Luckily, Brenda (our maid) managed to sweet talked her and carried her into the car.

She was exhausted and thirsty, she first took her water bottle and drank like nothing she has done before and later finished the 6oz milk without a fuss. When we got home, she was already asleep!

Visit to PD

Charlotte's previous PD visits were not very pleasant and basically she cried from the moment she entered the PD clinic until she came out. We bought her a doctor toy set few months back as I read that teaching and preparing her would make our next doctor visit more pleasant for both parents and child. She responded really well at home when we were playing with her with the stethoscope and the rest.

Charlotte had her Triple Antigen booster on Tuesday morning from Dr. Rama but that visit to the PD was still not up to our expectation. There was a little improvement i noticed though, she didn't cry the roof off this time but she still didn't like to be put on the scale, didn't want to be touched, even with the stethoscope. I brought the toy set along but it wasn't very useful simply because Charlotte has such a strong chatacter that when she cries, it is really not easy to distract her with other stuff, toy, food...you name it.

Never Too Late?

Well, I guess it is time for me to start a blog for Charlotte. I have to admit that this is a good way of keeping memory and sharing the joy of watching my princess growing. I hope soon she is old enough to be able to read and I can share this with her.


I thought I should just start with how Charlotte looks like, then and now. She is 18 months old now (yup, lazy mom, didn't start a blog until now). This is her latest picture on May 5th, 2007, it was her first trip to the Air Itam dam.

Bubbles Bubbles

This is Charlotte's first visit to the Air Itam dam. She started to say "bobo bobo" (bubbles) just few days back and we thought it's a good idea to bring her out to a wide open space and blow bubbles for her...she enjoyed it!

My First Kiss!

Oops, too early for this? I think Charlotte is going to be a very good kisser, see how she did it with her cousin, Christopher...




First kiss? No way! Mommy and daddy already took it long long time ago!

First Christmas!

We didn't have a big Christmas party but it is a family tradition to have gift exchange, for children only. Last year (2006) was Charlotte's 1st Christmas (2005 Christmas was her 1st actually but she was practically just a new born then) and she received many gifts from her aunties, uncles, grandparents and of course from mommy and daddy too.

We got her a party dress from a children boutique at the Penang Plaza. We let her wore it on Christmas day and took pictures while she was exploring her presents.

First Birthday!

Charlotte's first birthday and first thing happened to her was...falling off the bed!! She woke up in the morning and decided not to wake up mommy and daddy, she crawled to the end of the bed and the next thing i heard was "waaa.....!!"

Charlotte slept with us, in our bed (1 king size + 1 super single) all along and she usually will make noise or wake you up but not roaming around on her own. Also, I was very confident that I am such a light sleeper and I usually woke up with just the smallest toss, lightest sound. My heart broke when I saw her crying, face down on the floor. Didn't know what to do, I picked up and try to calm her down. Of course, later hubby and I trying to check if everything is ok with Charlotte, making sure there was no broken ribs...To distract her further, we took her out for a walk in her new tri that we bought her as a birthday gift.


Birthday Party at EQ

Langkawi - Berjaya Langkawi (Oct 2006)

I am trying to back date some of the interesting events that I thought I should be posting it here before I got too old and forgot about it...

We went to Langkawi in Oct 2006 during the Hari Raya Puasa holidays. It was Charlotte's first holiday trip and also her first aeroplane experience. We decided to take plane because I was afraid of getting sea-sick (not Charlotte) and not able to enjoy the trip and taking care of Charlotte. She did very well for that short flight, practically slept through the journey!


Charlotte enjoyed playing in the swimming pool. At first, she was a little skeptical this sport but later she didn't want to get out from the pool! We didn't bring her swim suit (didn't buy one for her actually) and so the first day, she was swimming with only her undies. We bought her one the next day and that's her first swimming suit.




Charlott's first:
1. Flight
2. Swim Suit
3.Cable Car Ride
4. Buggy Ride
5. Sleeping by the Pool Side

It was a very fun vacation for both daddy and Charlotte, but mommy was totally exhausted! Charlotte was so "hong so" (playful?) that she didn't want to eat, didn't want to "pangsai" (pass motion), didn't want to sleep for that few days. Worse thing was, she cried hysterically evernight after we came back from the trip for about 1month. So now, I'm still having phobia of going for a holiday eventhough my husband has been proposing for the last few months.

Chinese New Year

Time flies, it's Chinese New Year again! This is Charlotte's 2nd Chinese New Year, see how much she has grown since last year...

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We put on her cheong-sum that I bought from China during the new year's eve and we had reunion dinner at Ah Mah's house before we went over to KongKong's house. This has been our practice since we got married (2 reunion dinners after one another, at both parent's place).

I was so worried that Charlotte might not be able to sleep well that night because of the fire crackers that people would normally burn at midnight. Luckily, our neightbourhood was pretty well "behaved" this year, and Charlotte was able to sleep through without major disturbance.

Finally, 1st day of new year's day! Charlotte got her 1st ang pao from mommy and daddy before we headed out to visit to grandparents and friends...

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