Got a set of Ladybird’s Baby Touch books from Singapore for Gabriel.

I think he absolutely loves it.

I think the one he’s holding is just the right thing for babies his age — they are made of cloth (and some plastic, I believe). This way, they won’t hurt themselves with the book. But besides that, the plastic makes it noisy and babies just get intrigued by the noise… It’s called the Baby Touch Snuggle book.

Anyway, Gabriel stayed up quite late last night. He just didn’t want to go to sleep and made a lot of noise (not the crying type, but rather it seemed like he was ‘talking’). Mrs Tai said while I was away, he was very quiet. He would go to bed early, etc… But last night when I got home, he just didn’t want to sleep… He’s happy to see me?!? I was jokingly telling Mrs Tai that maybe he’s complaining to me about how bad Mrs Tai had treated him the past week!

I like this photo very much…

Gabriel and I

It was taken a few days back by Mrs Tai at the garden just opposite our house…

Mrs Tai told me that she noticed Gabriel’s now starting to learn how to ‘move’ himself while he’s lying down. She first noticed it yesterday when she woke up to find his legs facing her, but didn’t think much of it. This afternoon, she saw him move himself! She put him straight and a few minutes later, he started to move his legs and in a short while, he’s moved 90 degrees…

Dunno how else to explain it… Imagine the hands of a clock at 12:30 and then 90 degrees to make it 3:45.

And this evening, I saw him remove one of his gloves. Don’t really know if Gabriel just got lucky or what. But Mrs Tai says she’s seen him do the same before…

Time really does fly… He’s now able to do a lot more and pretty soon, he’ll be running around the house breaking stuffs…

Honestly, they do! I don’t know why but babies just smell very, very nice…

…And I’m addicted to the smell.

Gabriel’s getting very cheeky and naughty these days. We did not give him a pacifier and we don’t plan to give him one. so, he started to such his hand (he can’t just suck his thumb because he’s wearing gloves). Whenever we catch him sucking his hand, we’ll move the hand away.

Lately, he started something else. He’s beginning to such his lower arm instead. The first time I realised this was a few days back when I say blue-black marks on his arm. Mrs Tai said he’s been sucking his arms. This evening, I caught him doing that again and this is the result…
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The past two weeks when I was on leave, I would normally get up only at about close to 9am. Mrs Tai gets up much earlier to feed Gabriel. After feeding him, she would actually put him on our bed. It was then that I started to notice ‘weird sounds’ that happens around 8am in the morning — the sounds of someone huffing, groaning and panting.

I got curious and started to investigate… That is when I discovered a ‘health freak’ on my bed doing workout!

Gabriel showing a step-by-step guide on how to do the reverse crunch

The left photos shows the ‘wrong’ way. The right photos shows the correct way — both legs are up!

It is Gabriel’s first day with the babysitter as both Mrs Tai and I went back to work again today…

It was difficult for the two of us as we’ve grown very attached to Gabriel, especially Mrs Tai. She’s been with Gabriel all the time for the past two months.

As for me, my company’s holiday shutdown (for almost two weeks) allowed me to play catch up since I was not able to spend time with Gabriel during his first few weeks due to the office relocation and also my red eyes… So everyday for the past two weeks, I woke up with Gabriel lying next to me, helped change diapers, fed him, played with him, talked to him, etc… But today, there was very little of above. I hardly got the chance to hold him… Don’t think I even got to talk to him (either he was asleep or I was cooking).

I wish I can just work from home and be able to spend more time with Gabriel…

The baffled and the excited expression…

In ecstasy and in boredom…

Getting ready to smile and then smiling…

The cheeky look and the laugh…

And this one is his favourite expression…
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Gabriel has actually got 2 beds but 3 sleeping places… He has got 2 baby cots — one which we had bought for Seraphine and the other is a hand-me-down from Mrs Tai’s colleague. Besides the two beds, Gabriel sometimes end up sleeping on our bed…

This morning, he found a new ‘bed’…
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Gabriel didn’t seem like he was feeling too well last night. Since yesterday, he had ‘vomited’ a few times. We took him to the UMMC around midnight but the doctor said he seemed fine. Doctor explained to us that what we saw were not really ‘vomiting’. But the doctor said that if we’re worried, we could always come back the next morning or seek a second opinion. She was wrote us a referral letter as well.

We took Gabriel to the paeds this morning. Paeds also said he was fine and that what we saw was not really called ‘vomiting’. After that, Mrs Tai and Gabriel spent the rest of the day at my parent’s place. In the afternoon, Mrs Tai and my mum took Gabriel to the barber I use. Gabriel is the 4th generation from my family to use this barber’s services.

Wanna see how he looks after the haircut…?
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