CraZY Crazy FP Sale!

Mummy got to know about a crazy toy sale from the SMH forum. She "lugged" back 7 huge bags of toys for me! Mummy thinks that these are really great buys as all the toys on sale are Fisher Price (FP) or Mattel products, which are at least 50% off the normal selling price.

Items bought:-
1) FP Laugh & Learn "Song & Story" Learning Chair
2) FP Laughtop Laptop
3) FP Royal Potty
4) FP Doodle Pro
5) FP Little People Series - Dinosaurs
6) Dora the Explorer Talking Backpack
7) Geotrax Series - Train and Rail (to be opened only after Karis reaches 2 yrs + )

Total amount spent is around $200, which amounts much. But, it's worth it - as Mummy thinks that afterall, FP products are safer, more reliable, durable and educational.

Zoo Trip

Mummy brought me to the zoo together with Zoe jie-jie and Amy auntie today. Today, I enjoyed lookin at the lions from the glass panel. We went to the sealion performance as well. Seems that I am more interested in the people that are sitting around me, instead of the main cast of the performance - the sealion, though :) On the other hand, in my previous zoo trip, I enjoyed watching the elephants performance and imitated how the elephants moved their gigantic long noses :)

Swimming Again?! - After less than 24hrs

Sexy, happy Karis looking forward to a swim - again after less than 24 hrs!
Karis peeping out from swimming float
Karis & Daddy
Karis happily enjoying her walk along the poolside!
Adventurous Karis walking all over the pool!

Mummy, Daddy & I enjoyed our swim in Safra Club @ Mount Faber in the morning!

Swimming - After such a Looong Time!

This swimming outing is a very last minute arrangement for us. Amy called to ask whether we would like to join her and her gal Zoe. I thought that we might not want to go for the swim and see how it goes, since Karis has yet to take her usual late morning nap. An hour later, Amy called again and my thought was that we will just go ahead, since Karis just does not want to sleep! In no time at all, I immediately rushed to pack all the necessities for the swim at NTU Alumni Club.

It's been such a long time since Karis has gone swimming (think at least half a year ago?). I'm a bit apprehensive that Karis might fear water and find that the scene of water in a swimming pool is too overwhelming and frightening for her. However, she has proofed me totally wrong! Taking only few seconds of warm-up, she bent down and used her tiny hands to splash the water gently the first time, and after which you can imagine that I have to be at my highly-alert mode every second throughout the swim, as she is so excited playing with the water, wanting to climb up the water slide and slide down for one moment, and wanting to sit and rock enthusiastically on the water animal rides the other moment. The most enjoyable and fun moments came when we went to the jacuzzi pool (without having the bubbles jet). We laughed at Karis, seeing her so instinctively relax at one corner of the jacuzzi pool and smiled with satisfaction. After her relaxation, she became excited again and kicked her legs in the water vigorously :)

The swim at the jacuzzi pool must be so soothing for her! She slept while on our journey back home until 7pm! Seeing Karis being so happy throughout the swim has brought me the simple yet lasting and priceless happiness.

1st Trip to Bird Park

Karis standing near the glass panel with the penguins inside. Karis lurves penguins! Looked at the penguins for quite a while, baby-talked and pointed at the penguin in front of her.

Above: Auntie Amy, Jie-Jie Zoe, Mummy and the busy-on-the-move Karis :)

Below: As a gal who likes to befriend jie-jies and gor-gors, here is Karis befriending Zoe :)

Above: Totally tired out after the bird park trip!

This is my first trip to the bird park. Daddy has free bird park pass from his company, so Mummy, Auntie Amy, Jie-Jie Zoe and I went to the bird park together on a weekday.

As I love to chase after the common small pigeons along the road, Mummy thought that I might appreciate the bird park trip. However, it seems that I enjoy zoo trips more, as the birds in the bird park are a bit too huge for me to chase after, and I am a bit fearful of the bigger birds. Well, Mummy has planned a zoo trip for me this coming Wed or Thurs again before she starts her new job in mid May :) She is very happy that she would be able to maximise her time with me during this one month. This would mean that I will have a lot more outings and gai-gais in these upcoming few weeks :)

Thoroughly Enjoyed Myself at the Zoo!

Today is such an eventful day for me! In the morning, we set off to the zoo together with Aunty Amy & Zoe jie-jie. This is my 2nd trip to the zoo since I was 4 mths old. While Aunty Amy & Zoe jie-jie departed earlier around noon, we continued our exploration in the zoo till almost 4pm. After which, Mummy and Daddy brought me to Anchorpoint shopping centre to catch up with Annie Yi-Yi and Uncle Keith for a dinner. I was quite hesitant to befriend them initially, but guess what? In order to break the ice with me, you've just got to give me something :) In no time at all, I was very friendly and spontaneous to both Annie Yi-yi and Uncle Keith.

Karis with big zoo map! Let's see, which animal should I visit next?

Side view of Daddy and me.. Looks alike, right? Ha!

Karis the "gardener" in action..

Ms Einstein with calculator E=mc*square
I quickly run to take a picture of Karis upon seeing Karis' einstein hairdo. This is her natural hairdo due to hot weather in the morning and after scratching scalp with her fingers.

Sweet Karis in a toy vehicle :)

Stars and Other little findings

I overheard Karis spoke a muffled word "sh-dar", while her hand was clasping and unclasping continuously. To my surprise, her tiny hand is holding on to a paper that contains a colourful star. Her natural instinct is to clasp and unclasp her hand whenever we sing the song "Twinkle Twinkle little Star" to her, so this time round she has associated the picture of star with the song :)

Other little findings on what Karis has said : -

Ch-ch-ch : When she overheard birds chirping or see a bird
mao-mao : When she see a cat

*Scream* loudly and very excitedly : When she see a dog (Oh.... scared Mummy off! What if the dog retaliates back?!)

Yi (Means "one" in Mandarin) : Use her fingers to symbolise "one".
No-moh (Mummy seems to overhear this from Karis' whisper a few times) : When she is tryin to say that either there is no one around, or the music has stopped, or something has been lost or cannot be found etc.

Ye-ye : When she see a grandfather picture on a flash card

Discovering the Beauty of Accessories

It's exciting to see the growth of our gal each day. Just a month ago, she expressed out her fear immediately upon seeing Daddy wear this cap, probably cos to her the cap is able to make Daddy have a 360 degree change to another totally different person. Now, she kept asking us to wear the cap while she waits in her curious expectancy to see our change upon wearing the cap.

In my great eagerness, I have been always on the look out for kawaii hairclips for karis. All along, she will always pluck out the hairclip immediately after I place it on her as she may either find it uncomfortable, or she just want to take a look at the hairclip.

Recently, after placing hairclip on her, she will usually point towards the mirror in my bedroom and ask me to show her how she looks like. Upon seeing herself, she will smile ever so sweetly and gently at herself in the mirror. Now, she seldom pluck out the hairclip and the smile just stays there :)

Our gal has discovered the beauty of accessories!

All ready to throw the ball!

Satisfied look after throwing ball :)

Carrying and nibbling my favourite
doll. Always with me ever so faithfully
to be nibbled :)

Visit at Kinder Clinic

I am so busy, happy and friendly walking all over at Kinder Clinic! Mummy witnessed an incident that when I am taking a phone to "imitate" talking, I chased after a gor-gor and passed him the phone to talk. My gesture seems to scare off the gor-gor. I chased after the same gor-gor the 2nd time again and as before, the gor-gor was scared of me and ran over to his mummy.

Well, probably it's because of the new-found freedom that now, I know how to walk, and I can walk all over the place!

Dr Terence Tan commented that I am a very very active baby, and I am a strong-willed baby, upon observing how enthusiastically I am playing with the toys in his room:) For the first time, I said a loud and clear "Bye-Bye" continuously a few times to Dr Terence, as I am relieved and glad to know that I can finally step out from the doctor's room that I am so fearful of :)

False Measles

It's been a series of episodes on the false measles that I had - and the symptoms in fact started a month ago...
Here's the sequence of the long story : -
- started off with running nose and cough for a few days
- recovered from running nose and cough
- middle of the night - sudden high-fever
- fever had lasted for 3 days
- The day after fever stopped and completely subsided, my hands and body "feels" colder than normal.
- The next day : sudden surge of rashes appear on my back and neck
- Went to our GP doctor, and Dr Lawrence said that it is measles (Got a shock out of mummy & daddy)
- Two weeks later, went to visit a PD recommended by daddy's colleague (This will be the only time and the last time we will be there, as the PD is so rude and fierce!! - Mummy is shocked and quite disgusted to know that a PD can be of such a rude and fierce nature to adults and babies!) He prescribed sundry lotion - does not seem to work well on me.
- A week later, we went Kinder Clinic to visit Dr Terence Tan. He prescribed a steroid lotion to be applied on my affected skin areas. Seems to work well - been applying this lotion for the past 2 days only and it seems that there is improvements. As false measles is infectious, I have been "enclosed" at home for at least 2 weeks without stepping out of the house. Started stepping out along the corridor during the 3rd week. Dr Terence and other Doctors said that measles is a virus spread by others.

Throughout the one-month ordeal, mummy and daddy thinks that I have been very strong and very unaffected. I am still busy doing my usual stunts of climbing, crawling and digging things out etc.

Here's some description about false measles searched in the net : -

Roseola infantum (Exanthema subitum)
Roseola infanturn affects mainly infants from 6 months of age and children less than 3 years. The clinical profile mimics measles very closely, i.e. a prodrome of fever, blocked nose and cough for 45 days and then a maculopapular rash appears. However, there are features which clearly distinguish it from measles, i.e. in roseola:
(a) the signs and symptoms during the prodrome are less severe,
(b) there are no Koplik spots,
(c) when the rash appears, the fever begins to settle and the patient is much better,
(d) the rash appears on the trunk first and then spreads to face and extremities.
Very rarely aseptic meningitis or encephalitis can occur. The Singaporean layman considers it as measles and it is important to inform the parents that it is not measles, otherwise they will refuse measles immunisation as the child "already had measles". They should be told that it is 'false measles' and is due to a totally different virus. This virus belongs to the herpes group of viruses and is chiefly due to human herpes virus-6' (HHV-6) although recently, a newly discovered herpes group of viruses, HHV-7, can also cause roseola.

We thank God that His protection is still always upon me and my household!