Grubbs n Critters

January 7, 2011

5 months

Category: Spud: Stories and Updates

This is what some parts of Spud looked like when she was about 5 month (21 weeks old foetus) in my stomach…

Funnily enough, we could never get a good image of her whenever we did an ultrasound. She’ll have her hands covering her face all the time, legs kicking and kicking, making it impossible for our doctor to scan us a good image of her. All we knew throughout my 41+ weeks of pregnancy and told by Dr. Ah-Chai was that the baby has an egg-shaped head, big belly, long limbs and large feet.

When I described that very sentence to Aunt Antsy when she asked for ultrasound updates, she remarked that I just described an alien to her. She promptly sent me an image of one: blue in colour with one eye on the forehead! (Only good friends takes the piss out of you!)

At 5 months now, Spud is fortunately looking nothing like an alien. She’s still considered rather large when compared to our neighbour’s almost 7 months baby girl, but we know that she’s healthy and getting to her baby milestones.

She can now sit (very) momentarily without assistance. She’s got quite strong legs and able to stand pretty solidly for a while, and if she’s supported from under her arms she’ll bounce up and down. Everything she grabs goes into her mouth. Recently she’s discovered that she can reach the tab of her diapers and pull them off every time she’s being changed…and I realised I have started saying the word “No” more than necessary.

She’s also taken to purposely coughing away just to get a reaction. Her squeals are getting louder and her toothless smiles, contagious. She is Spud at 5 months in flesh, and is enthusiastically learning something new everyday

I can’t wait to go for her first swimming lesson and introduce her to solids in the next few weeks!

Small talk

Category: Baby Milestones

Overhead Silver Bullet’s morning chatter with Spud as he was bathing her :

“I’ve got a runny nose again. It is going to be running a lot. I hope it’s not going too far; otherwise I’ll have to find it again.”

All this said with a big huge smile in a sing-song manner, soft spoken voice while talking to a squirmy baby as he was about to start her morning bath routine. Raising an eyebrow, I literally had to do a double take and ask him to re-confirm the content of what he said after hearing what I thought I heard he said.

My husband has got a weird sense of humour.

Microwaved Chocolate Cake

Category: Food

Here’s the low-down courtesy of Vicvanvinkle:

This is a microwaved Chocolate Cake in a Chinese Soup Bowl. All in 3 minutes!

It looked quite yummy that I was genuinely amazed and intrigued that this was baked in a microwave oven. I wonder if it takes a special type of microwave to bake a cake ( I ‘m that outdated as I don’t know of any microwave that has a baking function) or how much modification to the recipe is required for it to turn out like it did.

Now, that is what I call creativity!