Julie

There’s a fun fair in town just beside Aeon Bukit Tinggi shopping mall. Euro Fun Park they called it. Since my SIL and her daughter was here last Saturday, we decided to bring the little ones there. Moreover it’s Jonathan’s first time so we want to see how is his reaction towards the whole event and rides. I just can’t remember how long ago since my last entrance to a fun fair.

We have to pay for an entrance fee and it’s not cheap…RM3 per adult and RM2 per children. I don’t remember we have to pay to enter during my time many years ago. RM2 for each token and the minimum token per ride is 2 tokens. Truly, it’s expensive…maybe…comparing to my time.

We headed first to the Ferris Euro Wheel and that required 3 tokens per person so that was RM6 per ride just for a few circles of round and round and don’t know how may rounds. But it was all for the sake of Jonathan so we were willing to pay for it…just for this time!

While on the Euro Wheel, he behaved well. He looked around up high in the sky but he was very quiet.

OMG, look at this timid boy. Again, scared like a kitty cat.

He clinged to us most of the time we were at the fair. He is not used to the bombastic sound and music with scarry witch voice. I hope he don’t do that to his girlfriend next time…memalukan.

We headed to Super Jet, another children ride. It is sort like jets on the tentacles of an octopus where it brings you up and down and round and round. Shy to say, both of us (what a big kiddo huh?) sat on the same aeroplane. With Darling’s weight, I can feel the whole thing is going to tumble on our side. The most secure person is Jonathan who we placed in between us. He was so calm. I guess he was shock with Mommy screaming beside him.

That was all we had. After all, I was felling a bit nausea after the Super Jet ride so we headed home and my lunch and dinner just went all into the toilet bowl.

The fair will be here till 31 October 2008. We may go there again with my “Children Next Door”.

Hope you enjoy your weekend, folks! I definitely am cause we are going to the beach. Praying for a good weather.

It is not a grand one as many would have thought it would be for a child’s first birthday. We are so tempted to have one for Jonathan boy after seeing many parents out there were talking about and making plans for their child’s first birthday party. We think he’s too young to understand all the fun, perhaps we’ll consider a party for him next year when he knows better what birthday is all about. So long there is a cake with candle and Daddy, Mommy singing birthday song, Jonathan definitely a happy kid.

Everyone says time flies…Jonathan boy is one year old now. As I was swaddling him one night, I suddenly realized how big he is now. No longer the fragile baby I was holding 12 months ago. No longer can fit into my folded arms. From a 4kg baby to a 10kg boy. From 53cm to a height of 72cm. No longer a baby but toddler.  We are putting more efforts in nurturing him as he is understanding things-you-do and things-you-said. He is getting more demanding and starts to show his temperament so therefore our instructions have to be clear and more stern now. 

He could take one or two quick steps depending on his mood but has yet to walk or I can say refuse to walk. Whenever we hold his hands to guide him to walk, he gets agitated, pull his hands away, sit down and ask us to carry. This is call a “ho mia” (in Hockien) baby, an old aunty was telling me. Few days ago, I noticed that he has started crawling on four instead of combat crawling.

The spoon is his new interest now. There was once I brought him to shopping mall, he sat quietly in the stroller playing with the spoon without disturbing me or asking me to carry. He is most happy when you give him a spoon with a cup/bowl. Once, he refused to eat until I let him conquer the spoon. I only let him practise self-feeding occassionaly as I hate the mess after that.

He is excellent in sipping from straws and also feeding cup. He could now hold his bottle and feeding cup high up. Time to wean him off bottle? Perhaps I should start weaning him off pacifier? Or wean him off my breast? But that’s so convenient…I don’t have to carry milk bottles, milk powders and hot water everywhere I go.

Jonathan boy started to say “ma ma ma ma” or sometimes it sounded like “mum mum mum mum”. He is either referring to food, his pacifier or Mommy. So Mommy is the happy one now. Worth all the effort I’d put in for him. *Big grin*