Someone's gotten his funny bone tickled

Out of the sudden during his dinner, he started taking out his bib and throw on the floor, going into bouts of giggling and laughter.

Mommy also did the 'Eee' sound cos the bib was dirty (full of porridge crumbs) and he actually threw on the just-mopped floor and that triggered another bout of giggling and laugther.

He's full after repeating the sequence several times and I end up finishing his porridge. No wonder my waistline is expanding!

Some of the screaming is made by him, I call it shrieking

Zach decided that standing while playing with his toys is much more fun than going circle - he probably realised that it is getting him nowhere. Muahaha.. standing is his new hobby now.

Standing to play his activity station

Standing while trying to read his daddy's magazine

Something that I can't capture, he is standing while holding on to my legs, usually when I am in the kitchen, either washing the dishes or cooking.

Varieties

Since mommy is no longer working and feeling hardworking lately, she decided to introduce more new food for Zach.

Zach's been eating porridge twice a day and he stopped taking cereal on weekdays but only had them on weekends. No wonder mommy have to sell away his unopened cereals cos it is impossible to finish all of them!
Today is 'western' menu for Zach. Peach puree with barley cereal for breakfast, butternut squash with alphabet pasta for lunch and Mango Chicken with Broccoli and Carrot for dinner. He loves everything and finish them in record breaking time. All less than 10minutes to finish his meal. Keep it up.

Butternut squash alphabet pasta

Mommy oso bought finger paint from Robinsons few days ago having seen how Zach kinda enjoyed himself during the Julia Gabriel trial class last month. I placed brown mahjong paper on the floor and pour 4 different color of the paint of a plate and stripped Zach down to his diaper.
He's abit reserved but not long after that, he is covered with dark green paint and even his hair n face is not spared. Hahaha..

What's for tomorrow? He will need his weekly fish porridge and for playing wise, flour?

We finally went down to select Zach's photo from the shoot with Sean Lau last month. We were quite pleased with the outcome of the photos as we were not placing high hopes on it since Zach were cranky that day. I am now planning for his next shoot - maybe will source for another type of shoot.

These are some of my personal faves

Weee... I love Bubbles

Mommy indulge me in buying 2 big bottles of bubble bath from California Baby range.. it comes with a wand that will make bubbles. I love bubbles..seems that most of the trial class that I attended before ends with the teacher blowing bubbles at us.

It was fun and Zach loves it..more to come!

Photobook

I am attempting to create Zach's first photobook at www.artscow.com and it is taking such a looooong time to complete.

Happy 9 Month Old, Zach

I skipped Zachary's 8 month old post! I was so caught up with other things that I did not feel like blogging it then.

Woohooo..Zachary is 9 month and 1 day old today. Another 2 months and 30days to his 1st birthday (did I calculate correctly?)

Zach enjoying his brief play in the water - smart boy covered the necessary part! Hehe

My boy has been a very very cheeky monster of late. Mastering several things, some of it I am so glad he learnt but some, not so.

One of the skills of sucking his index finger - read that it helps to soothe babies

Standing up
He's good at this. I can't really recall when he mastered this skill but he decided to let me know he can stand up on his own one fine morning while I am playing with him by the cot.
What is the trying next? His downward dog pose and squatting, a sign that he wants to stand up unaided.

Haha..caught in action

Oh and I almost forgot, he can crawl and move to sitting position and vice versa swiftly. I mean realllll quick especially middle of the night when he wakes up crying..u put him lying he will sit up almost in split second. Hahaha

Rambling
Unfortunately for mummy, his first word is Pa Pa and not Ma Ma. I am jealous actually because I've been the one slaving for him yet his first word is not for me. Sigh.. I should get over this sadness because as long as he is rambling and getting more talkative, I am contented.

Separation anxiety
Is something that I was hoping he will not have. Arggh..he is like a superglue! I can't go 10cm away from him without him crying and with added tears!! Gosh, it was so different a month ago when I can do my own stuff with him playing on his own (I am still within his watch) but now, I need to be in skin contact with him everytime he is awake. TOO MUCH!!!

Look at that gloomy face

Off late, he developed some real funny habits: sucking my knees, eeew.. and worst, having an affinity with hubby's bolster. All daddy's saliva (yucks!) and whatsoever is there and it stinks (I think it does but daddy loves it) and Zach loves it too. He must have his daddy's bolster before he can sleep at night. The bolster war between Zach and his father. Lol...

Sucking his finger and enjoying his daddy's bolster - trying to nap

I love the pix above, taken yesterday during a trial class at Stage & Such. Not a very fabulous class so far but I felt the babies had fun crawling ard. The 3 of them looked so solemn..hahaha

Swimming Time

It's the 7th month of the Chinese calendar which is also the Ghost Festival month. Old folks believe we should not bring kids especially babies out during this month hence no late nights for Zach and definitely no water activity as well.

Since mommy will be in between jobs real soon and will be going back home for 2 weeks, she decided to get Zach a pool.. when you can't go to the pool, bring the pool home. Hahaha... bought one for less than $20 at Toys R'Us and a new float for him. We (the parents) got so excited over the pool, we set it up immediately and let him have his swim cum bath together..

I love the pix when his daddy is smiling at him

We also decided to shave him once again because his hair is so sparse and messy and worse is he keep scratching his head as though it went unwashed for weeks (I wash his hair twice a day!). He looked so much different with shaven head, fiercer compared to with hair, he look like a girl (from daddy) and cheekier (from mommy).

Zach with his stylo hair

Not enjoying his haircut

Mom, I do not want to be a baldie anymore