cottonbunny, will you be renting your own tank of helium to blow up the balloons? I'm thinking of buying balloons too, but not sure how many I need, or how I want to blow them up (normal air or helium).
bbjun, katelee, I'm convinced to buy a Beco now! Hehe... where did u girls get yours from? And how much? I think I came across some website selling at $250, is that the normal price?
ahnet, all my friends write in to these authorities when they get fined for things, e.g. illegal parking etc, and they usually get the fine waived. So you might as well just try. Like what bbjun say, just say first time there, didn't see the sign...?
Cassey, remember that block of organic tofu that I bought? I give S a quarter of that, augmented with other stuff like cereal + veg/fruit. Recently when I was reintro-ing solids to her, I just gave it to her neat. She loves it. But of course, a quarter block isn't enough as a meal, I was just starting her off small. Most vile combo to date: tofu+yogurt+avocado.... yeech... But she supped it all up.
fatmom, S' fever has gone off (hopefully for good), thanks. I know Ikea, Giant and pet shops also sell safety gates. In fact, most pet shops sell Lucky Baby safety gates haha! The one I have (I think it might be lucky baby?) doesn't require drilling holes, it's the tension kind, push against both walls to hold itself up, if u know what i mean.
dolly, welcome to the club... oops... Apart from falling off the bed, S just yesterday fell from standing position and hit the back of her head, cried very hard. Then just now, before bedtime, she lost balance at my bed's headboard, and hit the corner of her eye, and cried till got no sound. Sigh....
bbaug, S is the same, doing all that pulling herself up and standing for few secs without support, and starting to cruise etc, so she's completely into that now, and doesn't look like she's bothered to learn to crawl properly. She does what looks like a butterfly stroke on dry land. My mum and my friend both claim they saw her crawl proper, but hb and I haven't seen it, so we don't believe it haha!
Bluedream, oh dear, hope A has a speedy recovery! If it's viral, does it mean he doesn't have meds?
Yoplait: Hey, how come I've been to so many Cold Storage and Market Place and have never been able to find the YoBaby?? It's not the same as Petit Miam right? But anyway I'm happy feeding S the normal Paul's full fat yogurt
Recently bought another brand, Dairy-something-or-other, also good.
Carrying baby: I've been carrying baby a lot. She's super clingy, esp over the last couple of weeks when she was ill, so I can't get anything done unless I perch her on my hip and bring her along with me. When she's being carried, she likes pointing at things that catches her eye, expecting that we will carry her over to it. She's been doing this pointing thing for about a month now, and she does it all the time! We find it quite funny actually, I like it
We touch our own pointed finger tip to hers and say "ET phone home...."
Gymboree: I signed S up for Gymboree! Anyone interested, quick quick sign up by today (Sun 28th Feb), cos Harboufront branch got promo. You get $30 off their package price, and get 3 free classes (can use free classes for any of their programmes that's suitable for your child's age, it doesn't have to be the programme you signed up for). Very good deal!
Cleaning babies' hands: I try to do that more now, and am very religious about soaping up my hands. When we eat out, I also wipe down high chairs with antibacterial wipes. I think public high chairs are disgusting...
I placed some small letter mat around my sofa and the areas that he like to pull himself up so when he fall, he will not hurt so much. 