I finally got down to doing it. I made and froze 2 different puree and they should last at least 2 weeks. Hope she likes them!

Calvin set off for his 9-day HK trip this morning. This is his first time away from Gabby for so long. When I went KL for 3 days, I came back to a daughter who sticks to her Daddy all the time. Calvin was worried that Gabby may not want him after these 9 days... Well I really don't think that's gonna happen. Gabby loves her Daddy too much!

Gabby and I are counting down to the day that her Daddy comes home. We miss you!!!

We were worried that the taste of avocado may be too strong for our baby's liking. But we've been unduly worried. Calvin puree'd half an avocado for Gabby yesterday while I expressed. And we added some fresh breastmilk into the avocado puree for her.

She took her first mouthful and concentrated on tasting it. Within seconds, she smiled and opened her mouth wide for the next mouthful. She's enjoying it!

Today, I puree'd the whole fruit for her and she really enjoyed every mouthful of it. She almost finished everything! I tried it myself and eerrm... don't think I can enjoy it the way she does.

The fever, rash and teething discomfort disrupted her love for food the last few days. Now, I'm just glad that she's gotten back her appetite.

The teachers in school are suggesting we start giving Gabby a proper dinner meal. Her current feeding routine is such:

~7am: approx. 100ml of BM at home
~11pm: 180ml of BM or however much she can drink in her half asleep mode

We always call her cheeky baby, cheekadee, cheeky B.. that's because she's really cheeky. Cheeky B was down with fever yesterday and she developed rash all over her body today. We decided to bring her to the PD. Calvin was carrying her as we went down the stairs. Halfway down, I offered to carry her. My cheeky B actually turned away from me!! She didn't want me to carry her! I was quite shocked and a little sad at that instant. I told her that Mommy's sad and I turned away.

One flight of stairs later, I offered myself again. This time round, she turned away again, but with a cheeky grin on her face! She was teasing Mommy!!! Haha... it was really funny. I tried again and she did it again, with yet another cheeky grin. I think we tried that like 4-5 times and each time, she had that same cheeky grin. She seems to enjoy teasing Mommy. Finally, before we got to the void deck, she reciprocated with a wide happy smile.

The whole episode was just so amusing. That was our 9-month old cheeky B.

Fetching Gabby from school at the end of the day is the most joyous thing to do. My mom has been raving about how happy Gabby is when she sees Po Po walk into the room every evening. So since both Calvin and I aren't working today, we get to experience that for ourselves.

We hid behind the door to peep at her, to see what she's doing. Can you spot her?

She seemed to have noticed that someone has walked into the room...

And she realised it's her Daddy and Mommy!
This is what makes everything worthwhile after a shitty day at work!

She started her sprint towards us.

Go go Gabby!

She's determined to get to us as fast as she can. And she's really crawling like a champion now, even though she hasn't learnt how to crawl on her knees.

Yes! Right into Daddy's arms!

Collecting her reward for the race... a kiss from Daddy!

This boy is very cute... when we walked into the school this morning, he saw us and called out "baby....". Then he ran over to us. Teacher Belle was holding Gabby out to him and when she asked him to hug her, he did just that... and when Teacher Belle asked him to kiss her, he did just that too! Innocence...

I miss my baby's hearty laugh!

Mommy is in KL for a client workshop... alone in the hotel room missing you and Daddy terribly. Can't wait to be home with you again... hug you, kiss you, carry you, feed you, play with you.. just spending quality time with you and Daddy, just the 3 of us.

Mommy loves you and Daddy will be kissing you extra everyday on my behalf.

Be good, be blessed and I love you.

And I love you too, Gabby's Daddy!

It already sounded yucky, doesn't it? I love broccoli, but in puree form?? hmmm... But Gabby can only take puree.

I tried doing it with my usual fruit juice blender. FAILED. Went to get a hand held blender and it's a blast. Easy and fast. With this, I can make a lot more puree variety for Gabby. Yeah! It's quite fun.

I tasted the puree and indeed it's yucky. But when I fed Gabby with it, she loved it! She was screaming for more!!! Well done girl!

It was Children's Day 2 days ago and Gabby received a present from her teachers in school - her first Children's Day present! We gave her the present today and she looked rather intrigued by it. She tried to figure out what it was and it was interesting to look at how she explored the box.

~ Hmmm... what is this? ~

~ Hey... there's another side to it! ~

~ Eh... there's something sticking out... ~

~ I gotta tear? ~

~ Tearing is FUN! ~