Baby's latest hobby? Zipping!

What is Baby Claire's hobby? It is zip, unzip, zip, and unzip all zips she can find in the house. It can be a purse, a bag, a cushion, a jacket, etc.

I wonder what is the fun of zip and unzip, and zip stuff again and again. Well, at least that keeps her calm and focus without running around the house the whole day. I can also relax at the sofa watching her doing that too. :P

She is even capable in unzipping very small coin pouch, and took out all the coins. Now, she loves to challenge herself to more difficult items to test her zipping skill.

Cheers,
Deariebear Mommie

My first bath together with Baby Claire

During my April vacation, Baby Claire and I had our very first bath together. Don't ask me what it took me so long. I just feel paisei or embarrass to have someone looking at me naked. Furthermore, I was afraid that she might catch a cold while bathing.

I am envious of what is shown in the TV commercial with a mother having fun with her baby in the bath tub. Now she is 15 months old, and tried a few times playing at the swimming pool, she should be"stronger", I'v decided to give it a try.

Baby Claire's usual bathing tub

Before I go into more details, this picture shows how do we usually bath her. Familiar? Yes, a baby bathtub! I love this tub because it fits nicely for her as well on top of the toilet bowl. Every night, I am still using this tub because I am able to bath her slowly without her standing up or running around the bathroom. :)



Ok. Back to our topic. To start things slow, we used stools bought from iKea and we bathed together sitting down.

I am not so adventurous to try our big bath tub at the master bedroom's toilet first especially if Justin Papa not around. I feel safer this way because the floor is pretty slippery and we have yet bought any slippery mat.

When Claire looked at me naked for this first time, she was giggling, and trying to pinch my nipples. She found it funny seeing mommy naked. :P After that first time, we had morning bath together for that few weeks and now, almost all morning on the weekends. Though, she found it fun bathing this way, she is still trying to adjust herself to have water spray onto her hair, which sometimes is a bit hilarious to see her struggling with water into her eyes..i am a pretty naughty mummy :P No No, not only me. Daddy too! He will say "I will SPRAY AND SPRAY onto her eyes! Wahahahaha".

I guess the next step will trying out the bath tub..and sorry..no photos will be taken. :P

Cheers,
Deariebearmommie

SAHM for two weeks with Baby Claire

Sometimes during my school's vacation break, I will try to take at a week off so that my in-laws are able to take a short break from taking care of our little Claire. This time round, I took 2 weeks in late March to early April which was kinda exciting yet a bit worrying for me as the last time I took more than a week was last Sept 2013. That was like 6 to 7 months ago. Will I able to handle this cute little "monster" by myself? Especially now she is so active. Can I survive?

Before I begin to worry about this and that, vacation came and here I was with Baby Claire enjoying our 2 weeks alone together. What did we do together and what I've learnt about her during these few weeks? There are so many things which I would love to share what I had discovered and it will be slowly revealed in the coming posts. Thus stayed tune!

How is my experience being a SAHM? To be honest, life as a SAHM is tougher than a working mum, well..at least for me. Stress from work is a different level as compared to having a child constantly vying for your attention. As we do not hire a maid to help out, I will need to do a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, etc I was pretty exhausted after end of each day. Those are the challenges I faced.

HOWEVER, if given a choice in life, I will still choose to be a SAHM. Spending time with Baby Claire is priceless. Though she is always on the go and sometimes I wonder "Is there a stop button on you???", I am fascinated how much she progresses and grows, and how she can be so happy on small little things like playing with a box, going to the playground, zipping and unzipping bags, etc. I learnt from her Life can be simple and yet happy at the same time. :)

I also learnt that I need to let go of certain things. E.g. toys will be everywhere in the house like in the bedroom, kitchen cabinet, tabletop, floor, and once I found a ladle inside the toilet bowl, etc. I need to take care of my poor back and stop picking up every single toys that she throws on the floor. I might as well clean up after she sleep because a few minutes later..the house will be back to the same messy look.

Another thing that I love being a SAHM is that I will get more hugs and kisses from Baby Claire. Though sometimes I feel irritated that she kept pestering me when I am doing my housework, I feel I am needed and important. :)

That being said, I am so looking forward for my next vacation with Baby Claire perhaps in June or Sept this year. :)

Below contains some of the FUN pictures taken during these 2 weeks and some of these photos may reveal what I am going to write in my upcoming posts.

Love,
Deariebearmommie