Grubbs n Critters

February 2, 2013

Funny fashion

Category: Random

Fashion is just getting stranger by the day. Metal spikes protruding out of a men’s shoe, and on top of that, the guy was carrying a man-bag which resembled not too far away from a purse, complete with skinny jeans that was worn way too low below the waist.

He was alone (so that means he was not carrying his girlfriend’s bag), fussing about with his iPhone and definitely much too busy to notice anything else as he got into the BTS with me. It gave me a chance to snap a picture quickly and silently. His shoes looked menacing and deadly.

I thought it was a classic case of fashion faux pas. Either that or I am getting old and old-fashioned and completely out of touch with the “real” world of what’s defined as cool and chic.

Having to wear nursing bras and/or grandma’s underwear is not included in the context of being “out of touch” with fashion..

8 months

Category: Squirt: Stories and Updates

The days of when Squirt was able to stay where I last plopped him is now long, long gone. Squirt’s now a little critter and crawling like a champ. Just a week after turning 7 months, he started to pull himself up to a stand, and, he has not stopped practicing since.

By now, at 8 months old and in between crawling, he is cruising comfortably along anything and everything within reach just because he can, and now trying to use only one hand. He has also figured out that if he loses his balance while standing and not able to reach anything to maintain equilibrium, he would need to lower himself down to a squatting position. Sometimes, he forgets and tumbles over.

Squirt loves his sister – he lights up every time he sees her and is happiest when he sees her running around like a headless chicken. He laughs when she plays “catch” with him – as if he understands the game perfectly. He loves watching her and I think Spud is his biggest motivation to learn how to walk as fast as he can!In fact, he could easily walk some serious steps when supported.

He has been quite the blabbermouth since he started crawling. From simple cooing, his babble-vocab now consists of sounds like “ Tataaaaata“, “Mmmmmaaaamaaa” and”Daadaaa”. He has also been very vocal when he comes to things that he does not want to do. He screams, he struggles, and he scratches and he pushes.

Changing his nappy and cleaning his bottom has become near impossible missions as we struggle to keep him on is back. He gets super annoyed when we try to feed him while he was busy doing something else. He is almost always distracted and could hardly ever finishes his bottle of milk in one seating these days.

Otherwise, Squirt remains our pleasant, happy, shiny and smiley child. He is finally sitting up (and it has been hard to capture a picture of him sitting!) – but not for long, for he prefers to crawl around or continue to improve his standing and scooting skills.

At 8 months, still no signs of any teeth. He has, however, begun to imitate facial expressions – like scrunching up his nose and purse his lips all at the same time while sniffing up as hard as he can (a comical sight). He seems to know what “kiss” means as when you ask him for it, he would clumsily plonk his face on you and give you a slobbery kiss with his mouth open. Endearingly cute.

Did I mention that Squirt is a very happy and smiley baby yet?

Ready…

Steady…

and… up!

Related post(s):
Spud’s 8 month update

Eavesdropping Spud

Category: Random

As willful and defiant as my daughter can sometimes be, there certainly are many things about her that makes me smile, particularly of the things she said.

I’ve started capturing the little random things she blurted out as and when, and there is no doubt in my mind that these would surely bring back some fond memories in the years to come.

The sweet innocence of a 2 year old child can be oh-so-endearing – and here’s the first few to start with:

“Well done, Mama, well done. Good job!” says she, as she saw me sitting on the toilet when she caught me peeing or pooping during the earlier days of her potty training.

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“Mama, you’re cute. Very cute, Mama, very cute,” says she to me out of the blue. This was quickly followed by, “I like your rubber band, Mama,” she added as she tried to take the band off my hair.

What do you know – isn’t it awesome that my daughter thinks I’m cute! (Although, between you and me, I think she had meant it for the rubber band…)

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