Cur Cur B Then and Now

Well here it is: the long overdue post documenting CLM at 20/21 months.  Oh, I'm just what, 2 months late?  Better late than never I guess.

So CLM back in October of this year really liked doing certain things:

• Hides behind 爹爹 when he knowingly pissed me off
• Loves pushing buttons (dishwasher, monitor, rice cooker, woowoo 機 or any other electronic or whatnot).  As long as it has buttons, CLM's pushing 'em
• Picks up things that he's not allowed to be picking up.  When caught he says: "俾媽媽" thinking we'd believe that he picked up the item just to bring to me (sneaky)
• Favourite saying: "唔係唔係唔係唔係..."
• Loves eating "meat meat".  Chicken has been coined "gok gok meat" in my household
• Started drinking his milk from a straw and termed it 奶googoo or  奶奶goo.  Milk from the source is now 奶奶ja
• Somehow, the "but da but da" sounds just evolved into a random "拔 da 悲" here and there as he learns more words and sentences.  Sometimes CLM will still purposely make random "baby talk" babbling just for fun
• Loves clamping his little clammy cold hands onto my thighs when I change out of my pants and hearing me scream "凍凍凍!".  Proceeds to chase me around the room hoping to get more screaming from me
• Asks for 爹爹 specifically to come into the shower to 拍拍水
• Still scared of woowoo 機 (Roomba) and when we ask him "woowoo 機咬邊個?", he answers: "woowoo 機咬婆婆!!!"

Fast forward a month (November) and he talks way more, starts singing songs, loves watching 恐龍火車 (Dinosaur Train) and gets more particular on who he wants feeding him, what he wants to eat for lunch/dinner, where he wants you to sit (ie, "爹爹坐梳化!").

文生 was basically out of commission the entire month of November OT-ing so I spent most weekends out and about with marmar and CLM doing random things like grocery shopping without the Man.  We decided to check out Fairview one day and saw that the Christmas decor was exactly the same as last year so I took a picture of CLM outside of the Lego Store in front of the exact same tree.  While comparing the photos I couldn't believe how much CLM changed in the span of a year.

 

For the record, I was downtown on November 7th for a meeting and brought CLM with me to the Financial District.  He had so many firsts that day!

• Walked on a downtown street.  Never ever saw so many cars, streetcars, and woh woh's!
• Took an escalator
• Had a fat laan jaa moment (meltdown) in public at East Chinatown.  He was completely sprawled on the sidewalk, screaming.
• Ordered a "kid's meal" off the menu.  Mind you, CLM didn't finish it but it was definitely a first "outside" meal that was ordered just for him!!
• Finally sat front-facing in his car seat because my car broke down and we had to go home in my aunt's car which doesn't have UAS.  To make my life simpler, I just faced CLM forward.  He LOVED it!  So many 巴士's and 媽媽車車's to see.  By the way, all cars are 媽媽車車's apparently.  How nice.  "好多媽媽車車!!!"  Yes BB, just like how dinosaurs are woh woh's.

Me Time

Work continues to be crazy as we prepare for the Urban Towns at Bayview & Briggs opening and the phone calls just keep on coming in for UV1.  Occupancy issues, sigh... this is Richmond/Rosewood all over again!

For the last few days, I've been having trouble falling asleep before 4am and that's sans caffeine.  Which probably means I'm just really wired from the day's work and can't doze off despite being exhausted.  Me, the adrenaline junkie, aiya~  So I told myself I'm going to unwind tonight and do something for myself after CLM goes off to bed.  In no particular order, I wanted to do up a long overdue scrapbook page; start making a photo calendar for the grandmas for Christmas; try to fix my three MS mice; bake a cheesecake (I was going to do that when CLM was 7 months.  AND... he is now 20 months...poo).  Well, since CLM didn't head off to bed until midnight, I just managed to look up how to fix the mice (yay, the internet) and did one whole page!  Hoot!  Feels good to get something accomplished.  I can't believe a simple page like this took almost 3 hours to do.  Must be getting rusty!

Doot 嘴-ing with Cur Cur B

Knock on wood, CLM has now FINALLY started sleeping through the night.  He has been consistently going to bed around 11pm and waking up around 6:45am to 7:30am.  I can finally say "it got better".  He currently has six teeth and I can see the next ones coming in so I guess I should cherish these 7-hour stretches of sleep while they last but of course I have to be wired and can't sleep.  FML.

The little bibibak continues to test my patience daily with his new-found interest of lugging out all my bottles of Tide and lining them up nicely along the window sill.  Where he gets the energy I have no idea.  Well, to prove he is no match for mammie, I hid all the bottles.  I'm so mean, lol.  Will do an update on his recent development when I have more energy/time.  Since it's now after 3:30am and I have officially screwed myself over sleep-wise for the third night in a row.

Off to bed, my dear.  Now.  Please.

Here Comes Curzilla!

This is it!  Today is the day Curtasee goes to HK!  I'm so excited, except we're leaving for the airport in 3 hours and I'm still not packed yet.  Aiya~

I'm kinda nervous too, since it's CLM's first trip.  I'm afraid I might forget to pack something, or certain things will get lost, or squished... maybe I'm just too excited to go, haha.  Been getting butterflies in my stomach since the weekend too.  Sigh, was never this nervous when I traveled with Tinlop.  Sheesh.

Finished week 2 so I won't get too behind while away

Last week was pretty uneventful except for booking the flight.  Most time was spent getting stuff ready and totally psyching myself out for the trip.  I plan to blog throughout the 3 weeks and hopefully can keep up.

Anyway, off to pack or I ain't going nowhere, lol.

T-4!

Only four more days before CLM flies to Hong Kong!  Wah!

A week ago, I found out AC was having a seat sale and combined with Tinlop's discount code, I managed to score tickets (that were supposed to be $1,800+ as per end of December when I last checked) for $1,257!  If only I had booked a few hours earlier, we could have gotten the tickets for almost $100 less.  Aiya, and two days before the sale ended the seats to HK were all gone already.  Yikes!  Unfortunately, 文生 couldn't get time off so he'll miss CLM's first birthday as well as our anniversary.  Yes, my bad and horrible timing.  :(  We will Skype on the day of and celebrate when we come back.  Promise!

I'm so excited!

I hope the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit is still on when I come back from HK.  Wanna see the Futalognkosaurus in action.
Now try saying that three times fast.  Foo-what?  Never mind.

I was texting back and forth with Edward the other day and the following conversation made me LOL:

Ed: So Curtis first bday in HK?
Me: Yup, haha.  How's that for a birthday present huh?  Lol
Ed: He's too young to appreciate it... he might be more excited if you give him an avocado

lol...so true...

Minimalist

Here's to a brand new start to Project 365!  I'm so happy that I kept up and finished last year's P365 and although some weeks were completely CLM dominated (well, he was the subject of most my life last year, lol), I'm pretty satisfied with most of my pages.

This year, I think I'm going to take on a different approach to scrapping the photos.  Inspired by "one little word", which seem to be all the rave in blogsphere these days, I'm going to stick with mine: minimal.  After all, less = more a lot of the times.  So, I will stick with simple layouts, simple embellishments and minimal flare but still lots of journalling (or I shall try, lol).

With my OLW in mind, I finished my P365 cover page in record time!

My one little word:  MINAMAL

Hopefully I can finish scrapping my first two weeks soon.  I don't want to fall behind!

New Year, New Beginnings

... and that's a wrap!  Twenty twelve is over already!  I'm happy to say I've accomplished quite a bit in the past year.  I've turned a new page in life by welcoming my dear CLM, conquered a short bout of PPD, successfully finished P365, and discovered a new appreciation for those around me, especially Mom.  Not to sound cliché, but I LOVE YOU MARMAR!

So!  Catching up with where I left off: CLM has not been sleeping very well again!  What's new? Last night, he woke up at 12:45am and didn't go back to sleep until after 3am.  Then he woke up this morning at 6:30am.  I have no idea how this boy can go with such little sleep.  Not that he makes up for it during the day at nap time either.  He's the first baby I've met who developed dark circles under his eyes due to lack of sleep.  WHAT am I going to do with him?!?

Parties amongst parties to screw up CLM's already screwed up sleeping schedule.  Poor CLM.

Christmastime is always an excuse to get together with friends and family to eat and chill so poor CLM's schedule was all screwed up!  Since the oyster party at Karen's, where he got freaked out from all the people, he's been crazy clingy and kept waking up multiple times at night.  Funny thing is, he will wake up, climb up the side of his crib and stand there yelling for me to go get him.  The other night was pretty freaky when I happened to look over to his crib in the dark, and suddenly see a little hand reach over the railing.  Totally reminded me of some random horror flick.  Then his little head poked up.  哎呀, 阿媽心血少啊!

Besides babbling at a mile a minute, nonstop "boo" 口水, CLM does the funniest goodbye gesture.  It's very 含蓄.  We call it "含蓄的拜拜".  So 含蓄 and so cute!  He still likes long, thin sticks in which he can pass from hand to hand and rap on hard surfaces to make sounds.  When he's up to it, he'll occupy himself by throwing an object like a highlighter across the room, crawling up to it to pick it up, then throw it in the opposite direction so he can crawl towards it again.  Keeps repeating it over and over until the highlighter ends up somewhere where he can't reach, lol.

Food wise, CLM is still an avid avocado lover.  Still enjoys eating his plain, unflavoured yogurt, his Mum Mum crackers and recently started liking blueberries and Cheesestrings!  He is finally experimenting with putting things in his mouth.  Good thing it's only food, haha.

 I'm so happy with my new toy!
For the record, we named the moose"含蓄的 moo-sie" because we can get one of its antlers to wave a 含蓄的拜拜.

I hosted the 12th annual oyster party at Karen's this year and despite the nasty freezing rain, everyone showed up!  It was great!  Yummy food, slurpy oysters, fresh sushi and best of all, great friends to eat all the food and spend the evening with!

Between all the parties and gatherings I'm glad I had a chance to get a much needed 40 minute massage over the weekend.  Haven't had a massage since going with 可可 in July!

Here's to an upcoming year of great health, good laughs, and hoping everyone will 心想事成 (and I hope to get more sleep, lol)!

2013, here I come!

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This Christmas is extra special because of CLM!  I can't believe he'd be 11 months in a few days.  Oh, where did the time go?  CLM's first Christmas means lots of love from family and friends.  Which also means my entire living room floor is covered with gifts for him.  Yep, I can't wait to clean up, lol.

The last month has been really hectic.  Actually, super hectic would be an understatement.  It all started when 文生 caught a cold which he spread to CLM.  In turn, got mom sick and then inevitably, I got sick too.  That damn cold stuck to CLM for 3 weeks!  The first week was pretty brutal with CLM waking up every 1-2 hours because he was so congested.  Then he started sneezing, coughing, and just when we thought we were done being sick, he threw up five times!!  Poor guy!  Luckily he didn't have a fever so we just had to let the virus ride out its course.  Boy, it took waaaay too long.

Development wise, CLM's been taking many steps!  He is now quite a fast crawler although he still doesn't like crawling.  He's definitely a careful cruiser but loves to "run" when we're holding his hands.  He won't sit still for very long anymore as he's always wanting to get on the floor to walk!

I finally finished week 49 and 50 of P365 tonight.  I was so tired today after battling a mall of frenzied last minute shoppers and a long tedious wait at the passport office, running on just 3 hours of sleep, that I took a nap before dinner.  Of course that meant I'd not feel tired to sleep at my usual bedtime so here I am blogging.  Might as well get something accomplished, lol.

Being sick sucks... and for three weeks!  Poor Curtasee!

Finally a decent presentable photo of 文生 and I at the Greenpark Christmas Gala.
I love the odd excuse to get dolled up!

I really should head to bed since it's present unwrapping time in just a few hours!  Although I've already "unwrapped" my present from Ray: my new Galaxy Note 2 (aka new toy!).  More on Christmas presents, oyster party under freezing rain, and other miscellaneous things in another post.

Night!

Okay, I REALLY Jinxed It

Okay, so I really did jinx it.  My dear CLM woke up every hour the last two nights, rendering this poor mammie a walking zombie.  I'm pretty sure it's because he's congested although he sounds fine during the day!  I think poor CLM caught a cold from 文生.  Who happen to have gotten a flu shot... go figure!  I better not get sick again...

Yet another CLM dominated page!  I gotta get out more, LOL~!

On Saturday, I took Curtasee shopping at Fairview Mall.  OMG, I remember why I can't stand shopping on weekends, let alone in the month of December!  People are so pushy and rude!  I shake my head every year thinking why people bother with Christmas shopping, when they forget the real reason behind Christmas.  Sigh.  I contemplated taking Curtasee to see Santa, but decided against it because I know he's going to start squirming and then crying, lol.

I have a feeling December is just going to fly right by and before I know it, I would have completed my first ever Project 365, survived my first year as a mammie and Curtasee will be one.  Oh Em Gee...

Happy Ten Months!

Curtasee is ten months today!  Wow, time flies!  and for once, I didn't get an earful from the pediatrician about his poor sleeping habits.  Yay!  My dear CLM now weighs 20lb 10oz, currently between the 25th and 50th percentiles, meaning his weight gain was a little better (but still room for improvement, lol) since his last appointment 2 months ago. His sleeping habits have gotten a little bit better as he slept for 3 nights in a row until 6am!  Mind you, bedtime got delayed until midnight but still, sleeping through is sleeping through.  Yay!  Last night, CLM only stirred a bit at about 1am but slept right until 7am!  I sure hope I'm not jinxing it!

This week, CLM learned how to make funny faces.  He's sooo cute when he scrunches up his face and squeeze his eyes shut.  I wanna *meet meet meet* him!

* Pinch pinch *

I think last week we had the final few days of nice weather.  It was warm, sunny and just beautiful!  I took CLM to visit my boyfriend Angelo at the Shiu Pong site at Yonge and Finch.  I miss him!  It's been so long since we last saw each other.  He was so surprised to see CLM.  LOL~!

Better Late Than Never!

Busy busy!  I was so swamped in the last two weeks that I was falling a bit behind with posting my P365 pics.  Just posting.  Haha, I did get them done!  Really!

CLM's sleep has regulated a bit this week.  The week before was brutal!  Mind you, regulated means back to two wakings a night.  Trust me, I'm thankful already, LOL~!  The drooling has subsided a teeny tiny bit so I guess the teething has slowed down somewhat as well.  He's been pretty "talkative" lately and has started jabbering on and on sometimes, so cute!  Every morning now, first thing, he cracks the biggest smile at me.  Aaaaahhhhhh, my heart melts every time!  Even with my eyes half closed!  Did I ever mention that I love him to bits and bits and bits???  文生 is finally not a "stranger" to CLM anymore as he's finally comfortable being around him and not bawling for mammie.  Such a sweetie pie, that CLM.

Mike has given us some truffle oil and I've finally found time (and efforts) to make some pasta to drizzle some on.  Sooooo yummy......

Check out that sweet smile from Curtasee!  Totally made my day! and the next day, and the day after ...

Chestnuts, avocado pits, tissue, grapes, empty boxes, vitamin bottles, rubber ducky (aka gaep gaep) - the list of CLM distractions goes on ...

I received the Greenpark Christmas Gala invitation last week which means the end of the year is near!  Geez, I still can't believe how quickly the year flew by.  CLM will be ten months in 10 days... already!  Only six more weeks to the new year (and a successful year for P365).  I wonder if I'm going to keep up with it next year?

Blow Me Away!

An entire week of wet and rainy weather certainly did a number on my mood.  Was feeling so lazy and didn't want to do anything productive!  Finally got some decent sunshine on Friday and it was perfect timing too because my favourite Starbucks holiday drink is back!  Here's to the beginning of a season of warm, satisfying gingerbread lattes... mmm... in love.

One of my favourite P365 pages.  Really happy with how it turned out.
 CLM finally attempts to crawl... after Halloween chocolates, aiya~

Still no teeth yet for CLM (not complaining, lol) but the drooling is still on full blast.  Poor guy has a rash on his chin from the constant wetness meaning constant facials for him (aka slapping on cream)!  The last two nights were particularly painful (for both him and me) with the hourly, smack-on-the-hour wakings.  Hopefully tonight will be better.

CLM spent his first Halloween... at home.  LOL.  It was cold and raining out so we didn't want to risk him getting sick.  Who said you can't trick or treat at home?  Keke.  Good thing too, because by golly, I think he finally attempted to crawl... toward candy hahahahahaha~!

Feeling Bleh!

A full week of nasty cold, wet, windy, rainy weather (due to hurricane Sandy from our southern neighbours) and a quite clingy CLM had me feeling so bleh that I didn't feel like finishing my P365 post.  Not to mention last week was pretty uneventful.

An uneventful week!

Finally got my sushi fix though.  Yay.

So sleepy.  So cold.  So bleh.

Sushi-less

Those who know me well know I'm a crazy sushi fan.  I'm very particular with my fish and won't just go anywhere to satisfy my cravings.  Somehow I've been pretty unlucky lately that whenever I feel like having my sashimi fix from Taro's that it's ALWAYS CLOSED.  Meaning, I've only thought of having sushi on Sundays and Mondays when they happen to be closed.  So on Saturday, I thought I was ahead of the game and yet nope, they're closed for the week.  Just my luck.  No sushi for me!  :(  The cheapie Korean-owned sashimi platter from last Sunday obviously didn't do anything for me... sigh.  Instead, plastered on the door of the pitch-dark Taro's was a poster advertising 和食祭り on November 12.  OMG, I soooo wanna go!  $150 a head though, but so tempting nonetheless.

Week 42 is on time baby!

Last week CLM had another three nights worth of constant wakings (what's new?), a couple of days of super fussiness and then two days of being an absolute angel.  Every day is a new surprise with him, LOL.  Today, he's discovered that if he kept banging his back against the back of the highchair that he can move it across the floor.  I don't have a single clue how he figured that one out but he did.  I wonder if he can magically "figure out" that he could sleep through the night?

Caught Up! Phew!

Inspiration just comes and goes, that's for sure!  I truly fell behind with P365 last week because I couldn't get the layouts for week 39 or 40 to look half decent.  The lack of sleep of course doesn't help things at all because whenever I open up Photoshop, I'd feel like clicking the damn "x" and just closing it again.  LOL.  Last night I realized that week 41 has past so I sacrificed 2 hours of much needed sleep to finish the two layouts.  Surprisingly enough, I managed to scrap week 41 to my liking really quickly and finished week 40 as well.

Last week was pretty uneventful, except for making my first ever Edible Arrangements inspired fruit basket.  Danny's birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year so I spent an hour before bedtime cutting up the fruits and trying to make it presentable to bring to the office the next day.  Not too shabby even if I say so myself!  Now I understand why EA charges an arm and a leg for their baskets.  It's a lot of fruit and work!  Especially after planning and executing a last minute evening of hot potting at 公公's.

At the sacrifice of two hours of much needed beauty sleep, I'm caught up!

This layout took waaaaaaaaay too long to finish

The week before was Mid Autumn and this year mom decided we'd stay at home to eat.  We switched things around and made turkey!  Ya, turkey for Mid Autumn, exactly one week before Thanksgiving.  All thanks to an inherited (and defrosted) gobble gobble from 葉太.  My first time making turkey and stuffing too!  It turned out pretty good, to my surprise.

The co-chef

The bird.  Yes, I know it's upside down, stop laughing.

On another note, construction's been going smoothly at the office until Carlo decided, well, he didn't like the colour scheme.  So... we're renovating again.  Yep, already!  The floors are coming out, the walls repainted again and things redone.  Just when we thought we're seeing the end.  Sigh.  Well, he's the one with all the money so whatever.  Meanwhile, I'm the small potato that was pretty happy winning a $10 gift card to Walmart from McDonald's Monopoly.  My first time winning any non-food item from that damn game.  The years and years of playing Monopoly... well, okay not really because I gave up on it many many years ago.  I guess I was just lucky!  HAHA~!

Okay, it's 11:15pm and I'm going to now rush off to bed.  CLM is sleeping in MarMar's room tonight so for once in 8.5 months (who's counting anyway?) maybe I can get 8 hours sleep.  OMG, I'm excited just thinking about it.

I'm off!!

Anti-Crawling

Finally!  I'm finally done week 39 of P365.  For over a week I've been putting off finishing the page because I didn't like how it was turning out.  Finally I sat down and really worked on it and thankfully, it was slowly starting to come together to my liking and now it's done!  CLM's lack of cooperation didn't help of course.  Most nights I take a look at the page, sigh, then go to sleep because I'm so exhausted.

CLM turned 8 months last week and of course, his pediatrician gave me an earful for him not sleeping the night.  Sigh, how do I let him cry when he pulls out his hair while he's at it?  Aiya... Apparently his weight gain slowed down a bit (CLM was 19lbs at the checkup) and I should keep trying to stuff him.  Like turkey.  LOL.  If only it was that easy.  I should tell him to try and stuff a live nosy turkey.  See what he says.  LOL.

Last Saturday, 文生 and I were trying to coach CLM to crawl (so far he's shown no interest whatsoever in crawling) so we put a cordless mouse on the bed just out of reach for him to get to.  After a few stretches, CLM figured out that if he pulled the bed sheet, the mouse would come to him.  All attempts at crawling just stopped right then and there.  Smart boy.  Honestly, we think he might just skip the crawling stage and head straight to walking.  Since he can stand unaided for all of 5 seconds now.  未學爬先學走.  Aiya.

An Apple a Day

Last week I saw on FB that a friend of mine took her kids apple picking.  I usually dismiss those "fall" type photos as I really don't want to remind myself that winter is just around the corner but the word Gala caught my eye.  I love Gala apples (and Fujis)!  Now I know for a fact that Mar Mar loves picking apples and we haven't gone in ages, so I suggested we go this weekend.  As I guessed, she was totally excited!  Especially since there is no admission fee (just the admission fee alone for nearby orchards for four of us would have been enough to purchase half a bushel of apples - and that's a lot of apples).  Only drawback is: the orchard is in Bowmanville.  Which I thought wasn't that far.  Well, it's not that far.  Only forty minutes east on the 401.  East of Oshawa.  Ooooops.  Haha~!  We went anyway!

The day started off really gloomy (and rainy) but good thing by the time we got there the rain had stopped.  The sun came out just as we were leaving so the weather was actually perfect for us!  A little muddy, but very comfortable.

My faves - Royal Galas

The rain on the apples just make them look THAT much fresher!

The farm was picking McIntosh, Cortland, Empire, Gala apples and just started the Red and Golden Delicious ones this week.  Mom and I aren't fans of tart apples, so we skipped the Macs, etc and went straight for the Goldens first, then the Galas and finally the Reds.  Unfortunately, the Galas were the only ones that were ripe enough to be really sweet and we found the Red Delicious' to be a little tasteless still.  Mom thinks they need a few more weeks on the tree.

We ended up with mostly Galas (I'm not complaining) and loaded up a whole bushel worth of apples.  All was fine and dandy until one of the bags broke and our perfectly fresh apples are now either brutally bruised or injured!  Noooooooooo!!!  We can't possibly eat so many at once!  Especially since we "sampled" close to a dozen and a half of them already while picking.

I had a feeling it would be a bad idea to bring the stroller for CLM so we brought the carrier.  It was great since CLM kept me warm for the most part.  But of course, since he was also warm and fuzzy, he slept through most of the apple picking.  Oh well, next year!

Crazy sleep patterns again this week.  Yup, broken record, I know.

It has really started getting cold this week.  I get up for my morning shower and have the "OMG it feels like winter" chills so I know it's time to pack away the summer clothes and bring out the sweaters and long sleeves.  文生's friend gave CLM a gift cert for Jacadi so we decided to use it since it was a whopping $100 one.  Little did we know that a freaking onesie costs $79!  I absolutely refuse to spend that kind of money for something that CLM will wear for only 2-3 months!  So we ended up getting a sleep sack...OMG we still had to pay $76 extra.  That place is so expensive... maybe we should have just given the gift cert to someone else...

肉都赤埋...

Office-less

I head to the office on Monday last week and after a short lunch hour meeting, I lost my office!  In the span of just a mere 10 minutes we've decided to make it into a "preview" sales office, take down walls, remake the kitchen, redo the flooring, replace the ceiling and lights, get new furniture... all to be done within 4 weeks.  Basically an Extreme Office Makeover that can be featured on HDTV, lol.  It's so noisy and dusty here!

CLM is still not sleeping as well as I like him to.  I think I've finally just accepted the fact that he's just like that.  No use to try and change it as it probably won't.  At least not with a lot of tears (mostly from me, lol).  I get a couple of weeks of decent sleep (average 3.5 hour wakings and yes, that is good sleep already) and then get struck with a few consecutive days of hourly wakings (like last night).  There is really no reason to get mad anymore, not worth it since the cycle resumes itself anyway.  Plus the poor dude can finally figure out if I'm mad or not.  Now I know to be careful because I can freak him out easily.  I love how I can giggle for no reason and he'll laugh with me though.  So sweet.  The other night he woke up at 4am and just stared at me and smiled (then giggled)... I freakin melted!!!  Despite being so sleep deprived, I couldn't help but hug him tightly and smile back.  Well, then he kept himself up until way after 5am...

Why does this boy not sleep?!?

Poor Mushu... so violated, LOL~!

On Thursday I finally received my long-awaited mbna rewards World Elite Mastercard.  I recently found this card to be the perfect supplement to my Smartcash card that gives me 3% cash back on gas and groceries which I've been using for a few years now.  The new card looks awesome, gives me 2% cash back (so now I can get 2% instead of 1% on everything else I buy besides gas/groceries), has no annual fee, all the perks of my other card, plus purchase protection and concierge service.  SWEET!  Not to mention I got $100 as a bonus just for getting the card.  I'm totally digging the look!  So prestigious looking, lol.

New Skills

Everyday, as CLM learns new things, I'm amazed at how these new "skills" are just magically discovered without anyone particularly teaching him.  Last week, just out of the blue, he started to "boo" 口水; lately he learned how to make high-pitched noises; over the weekend, we heard him say either 抱抱 or 婆婆 a few times; and today he kept babbling "baba".  Beebee, what happened to "mama"?

At the same time we've noticed that he has a strong fascination for fabric/clothes tags.  He's always reaching for them to "read", lol.  What's really funny is how he always wants to spin around when he's held, making it difficult for us to hold him since he's always wanting to do 360's.  As soon as we spin him around to face one way, he twists his body so it faces the other.  Rinse and then repeat.  LOL.

A week full of CLM!  The most CLM-dominated page ever...

As usual, CLM is extremely nosy and needs to be part of everything.  Which is good in a way because we know he's interested in the world and is eager to learn from it.

Summer's Over!

I can't believe it's September already.  I recall writing about how quickly the summer's flying by but as soon as CNE comes and goes, it signals the end of the summer.  Well, it's Labour Day already and it's back to school tomorrow for many.  Sigh.  Time, can't you just slow down a teeny bit?  I think keeping up with P365 make it seem like the weeks go by even faster since I'm constantly doing the layouts.

CLM looking kinda "inch" LOL~!

I was so upset my iPod fell out of my purse the other day and the screen shattered so I had to get it replaced.  Fifty five freaking dollars!  That, or pay $170 for a refurb replacement from Apple.  Of course I chose the former.  Sigh, 無啦啦破財.

Wait, I just remembered, I started blogging around the time of CNE which means.... my blog is four years old!!  Wah!

Phew!

Phew!  Good thing that non-sleep phase was short lived!!  Six days of torture to look back upon.  Thank goodness for blogs, lol.  That doesn't mean CLM sleeps better than before though.  Just better than waking every hour and half that's all.  Still no teeth yet, still drooling like a running faucet and fingers are still the preferred teething mediums.  Mar Mar gave CLM a piece of 芥蘭 to hold on to tonight and he chewed a good inch off of it!

I'm glad CLM's food repertoire is slowly growing and definitely can't complain since he's pretty open to eating his solids.  His favourite (in my opinion) is still avocado and I think Japanese pumpkin follows quite closely behind!  It's so funny to see him chewing on nothing every time he sees us eat.  LOL~

CLM is sitting up quite well but still hasn't made any attempts to crawl yet.  Changing him is harder than ever since he's always fascinated with the diaper wipe box so he's always trying to roll over and reach for it.  We're teaching him how to high five and 請請 these days and while he can do it after a few prompts, he quickly forgets it.  He's learned how to splash water when taking a bath so now we can't bathe him on the kitchen counter anymore.  At least not unless we want to wipe the floors after, lol.

CLM's been to three weddings already!  Last week we went to our first ever weekday wedding, right smack in the middle of the week.  Food was good, company was better!

As August comes to an end, so is the summer...sigh.  Days are noticeably shorter and nights are definitely cooler.  Time just flies by so quickly!  Week 34 gone already so that means only 18 more weeks until the new year.  I'm so proud of myself for keeping up with P365!

Since it's now 2:30am....it's Curtasee's seven month birthday!  Happy seven months my dearest Cur Cur!!