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!

At Ah Ma's House - Pics taken

Hugging Gu-Gu's Pooh bear ...:)



Statue of Liberty!

I am 14 months old and can walk now!

Yo! Cool yeh?

What else, but watching the little black box?

I Can Walk!!

Exactly on the 1st day of my 14-month old, I can walk! Po-Po witnessed me from aside walking for a long time up and down in our living room in the afternoon. She has to quietly observe me without saying anything, as once I hear someone talking, I may stop walking and my bum will land on the ground.

The next day, Mummy was very excited to witness me walking all over our living room. She thinks that I walk in a very cute way like a penguin with my bulky diapers moving according to my leg movements, probably because I just started learning how to walk :)