Less Keith Pictures

We are taking less pictures of Keith recently because of quite a few reasons

• Elaine felt that he looked much older now with no hair and had lost the cuteness too :P
• We have got busy scouting for another car. We have decided to sell off our Honda City. After 22 months we have only run it for 15,000 KM (Indirectly we are using on an average of only 15KM per day) It is decided that we lose the car now and pay the loss than to keep paying RM10K+ on installment. We are indeed under-utilizing the car!
• Keith is requiring more attention and thus harder for us to take care of him while taking pictures :P

Many of you might think that the first reason was absurd but we'll proof it with the following pictures of our new "tai ko" in the house

Anxious Keith

I have mentioned in my previous post that Keith likes to scan the living room in the morning. Elaine seems to have found out that if you respond to his stare or coo he will look happily smiling but after a while he sill start his "demand" to be carried by shouting/crying out loud.

Elaine told me not to snap so much pictures of our "botak" Keith

I guess all babies/toddlers tend to be more active in the morning, even Nicole but she have improved a lot recently too, I hope I didn't say this too early. At night she is much more quiet, talk less, less active and easier to care for too.

His mummy said, "Look so small also know how to seduce people to carry him already."

Today's note : Yesterday Johnny, Melinda, my eldest maternal aunt 大姨(Melinda's mum, also my "kai ma") their daughters, Juliana and Melissa, and Hoe Wah (Melinda's youngest brother) came to my restaurant. Hoe Wah has moved down to PJ and he will be staying in SS2. I heard that he will start working on the 1st June

Keith is trying to turn himself

This have happened for quite a while already but Elaine manage to snap these pictures a day before Keith was a quarter years old :P

Normally Grandma would place Keith on the sofa in the living (on his big pillow) and he would either be sleeping or do his "air" swimming stunt. But recently he is starting to scan the room and when he sees Elaine, Grandma and I, he would stare at us and looked excited. He would even start to smile when we talk to him....... He would "sort of" laughed when we carry him. Whenever we carry him he would try to lift his head too.

Although his size and weight is considered normal but I do realise that most of the other babies who were only a few days older are much more bigger size than Keith is.

Look at him trying to turn himself



He was so lazy that he took a nap sideways

Keith's EBM Supply Abundant

I'll say that now we have quite a big supply of EBM in the fridge now. Elaine have managed to fill up almost the whole freezer compartment with 46 bags of 6oz (Enough to last Keith for 2 weeks). Our problem now is we still have excess of 1-2 bags to freeze daily so indirectly the supply will keep on increasing and we are already out of space in the freezer.

Look at all the liquid gold




In fact I think Elaine is doing a rather good job in keeping up to Keith's demand for BM because his taking is still at 3oz but at shorter interval (1.5-2 hours) Keith just turned 3 months old yesterday and we are already getting ready with the "M" size disposable stocks. She deserves all the credit :) All I did was just to wash down the pump and bottle, and packing the EBM to the bags for freezing.

Then we have this small clown, who would imitate what Elaine does with a container, acting as though she was so busy expressing then feeding it to her teddy bear :P

Grandma couldn't take the picture but Elaine manage to take it down.

P/S - Anyone out there whom know how to install the PPP Tools code into blogspot? Please help me! I couldn't seem to be able to get it to work :(

Keith's First Hair Cut

Actually it is more like his first bald head than a hair cut :P

He really gave us a big surprise because he was rather surpirisingly very easy to handle during his haircut and his jab. Not that he was totally easy because he did cry quite a bit yesterday too (a little more than usual), like when we put him on the weighing machine (he was unhappy because he was still sleeping then), for his diaper change because he pooped twice and for his milk. Elaine was rather pleased because she managed to direct feed Keith today and this is also the first time we didn't use powder during our outing. (Btw, we were rather puzzled because the powder somehow got black stuffs in it and we wondered how it got contaminated)

Keith's hair cut cost RM10 at the Indian Barber shop in OUG (next to Ah Loy) The guy really knew what he was doing and he was being very careful. And we were all very happy with his service because Keith was 100% unhurt in the process.

Initially I was the one whom was supposed to hold him down but I knew that he was more attached to his grandma so I requested her to carry him instead. During this time Elaine was in the car waiting because she told us that she couldn't bear to see her baby kena torture wor. Anyway she got scared because her BIL told her that the barbers uses the knife (that they use to shave men's beard/moustache) to shave baby's head. I dunno why she believe his story while I tried to convince her that they use the electrical shavers but I think she have no confidence in me gwa! Back to Keith, Nicole and the maid sat on the chair next to Grandma and Keith. Nicole did looked a little scared. I stood by the side prepared to distract him in case of any struggle/cry. Since he was ok so I took some pics lo.

As for his Paed visit, the doctor comment on Keith's Cradle Cap, his rashes on his hands and legs (possibly due to allergy so doctor suggested to go 100% on BM). Keith
gave the doctor and the nurse a long stare and he did cry out for 2-3 second when the doctor gave him his jab but he was quiet almost immediately.

His latest Bio-stats
Weight: 5.45kg
Height: 60.5cm
OHC: 39.5cm

Before his hair cut



During the cut


The shot after the hair cut and his shower



View from the side


The cover up (But we took it off after an hour)

Keith The Hand Eater

I realised that Keith is beginning to like to put both his hands into his mouth at increased frequency, thus we have to end up binding him up again. Today we will be taking him for his hair cut, his 3rd month jabs, to take his MyKid

Grandma kept insisting that she give him those Pearl Powder before we take him for his jabs. Well, got to respect them although I don't like the idea but she is Keith's babysitter so we might as well go along with her.



And I might as well leak a bit of info regarding my headache here too. I'll be leaving the restaurant, meaning I will no longer be a partner/worker of the restaurant after the end of this month. I'll pass out more details as I deem fit because right now I have many things to arrange for. I have already decided what I am gonna do but will reveal it as it is confirmed first. As for the reason why I am leaving the restaurant, I'd like to keep it to myself first.

Going to Ipoh again tonight (part II)

Seems like there is many (part II)s recently in my blog, huh?


Well this is how would 72cubes of "chou dau fu" looks like the tofu, which I transported to Ipoh for my sis on Thursday night. Phew! my bonnet smells like ...... $#1T

Anyway my BIL bought it for me and, as soon as he brought it to the kitchen, one of our staff shouted

The staff: "WHAT IS THAT SMELL!!!!! SMELLS LIKE $#1T!!!!!"
Luckily that time was the slow period in the restaurant.
My SIL: "It's only Chou Dau Fu la"
The staff: "How come you people put something that smells as awful as that into your b1@rdy mouth one?"

Hahahaha....... he was very shock at the number of tofu we bought in total - 100 cubes :)

Reached Ipoh at about 1am and we moved stuffs from my sis's MPV, a Chevy Nabira to my small City, luckily mine have the ultra seat so we manage to squeeze in more stuffs on the passenger side as the bonnet was totally full. We reached home at about 3.30am with Keith and Nicole slept all the way. As soon as we arrive Keith was already crying for his milk. But when Elaine fed him his bottle he wouldn't want to take it. Now Elaine is scared that Keith is no longer attached to her, guess he is more attached to grandma.

I also notice that Nicole is a little more quiet (but she still shouts once in a while!) But I do realise that she is also responding more to my resquests too.

This is how our boy looked like the next day.

We have decided to shave his head this coming Tuesday!!!!!

Also during this preiod of time, I am truly thankful for all the support I got from Elaine, my mum, my sis, Melinda and my uncle(舅父) and his wife(舅母) and also those whom have help me indirectly. I truly appreciate all that you have done for me, in this time of such desperation.

Going to Ipoh again tonight

Well we've all decided to drive down to Ipoh again but this time we're not doing a restock but driving the gang home instead.

The reason why we made this decision so suddenly is because

• My sis's MPV is not in a real good condition
• I will not be able to do it on this weekend
• Last and not least I was able to buy "chow toufu" today. Did I tell you that grandma bought 80 cubes when she returned to Penang and now we are buying another 80 cubes so that my sis can distribute it when she returns :P

I will update more of this trip on my later post. Sorry for the short post but recently my life really sucks and I might be making a very BIG decision soon :(

Grandma's check up today

Well grandma went to the hospital today for the follow up visit after her blood taking for tests. Her BP is not that great and are on the high side so she will have to care about it. Good news is Keith is coming back with the rest of the gang this weekend...... Nowadays whenever I call grandma, I can hear him on gooing on the other end while I am talking to grandma.

Recently there is 2 major problems happening in my life. One is my sis related and the other is mine. Well some of you might have heard about it..... yup the rumour is in fact true but I might reveal it later on after everything cools down. But for now I might just wanna lay low for a while :( Too many things are happening at the same time.

All I can say now is that I am truly lucky to have my family support :)

Gonna restock Keith's BM tonight (part II)

This is to briefly post what happened this morning

The stocks were filled into 2 ice containers because we have 43 bags of 6oz to transport. We were only able to start our trip at about half past midnight because we couldn't close earlier as there were still customers coming in. (Pstt! Don't tell the cops that we ate while driving because we didn't have our dinner yet.)
Reached Ipoh at about 2.45 am. While we were busy moving grandma's stuff from my sis's car into mine and Keith's stuff into my sis's. Elaine got busy with Keith :P Those who went to Ipoh with my sis is Nicole, her father, maid, grandma and of course our Keith.

Nicole was her usual style with the cool type attitude (she is always like that when she is about to go to sleep) and kept clinging on to her father.
Upon my observation, Keith definitely have grown. He is putting both his hands into his mouth (not sure whether should we continue on swaddle him) and Elaine kept scolding him, "Notty boy, mummy beat beat! Dun put in your mouth, notty boy!" (I wonder if he understands her :P)
He is also seems to be gooing more and is even responding to out small talks with him and sometimes with a smile too. He seems to be able to hold his head much more steady now. (Felt that when I carried him)

Though we were rather sad to have to start our return journey, we have to because Elaine and I still have to work the next day. At about 3..30am we left Ipoh and reached home at about 6am because I have to stop a couple of times to refresh my sleepy mind :P

So sorry due to time constrain and poor lighting we were not able to take any pictures.