Xavier @ 8 months

What Xavier CAN do:

-Say 'mamamamamama', 'daaaadadadada' and 'aaaaaaaaa....aaaaa'
-Crawl very fast
-Bottom shuffle
-Cruise around furniture while holding on
-Pick up any object, look at it, pass to another hand, then hold it with 2 hands and put into his mouth
-Watch education programme with a smile for a while (short attention time)
- Scream when anyone takes away the object which he is holding
- Move alot when I try to take his photo
- Turn to crawl position whenever I put him lie down to change his diaper or clothes..I must learn to do it quick!

What Xavier had for meals since 6 months old:

- cereal with breastmilk
- carrot
- pumpkin
- raddish
- spinach
- sweet potato
- Japanese potato
- banana
- kiwi
- apple
- papaya
- rusk
- other leafy vegetable
- beetroot
- celery
- brocolli
- cauliflower
- onion
- tomato
- corn
- green peas
- chicken
- rice (porridge)

Voted his favourite so far:
- cereal wt bm
- rusk wt bm
- combination of sweet potato with others root vegs or leafy vegs
- combination of brocolli, raddish and carrot
- papaya

CNY Happenings

CNY 26th January 2009 to 9th February 2009
- Photos explains more than a thousand words...........

I can't seem to be able to link the slide show from Picasa but for the meantime, do check out at

http://picasaweb.google.com/cassire22/ChineseNewYear2009?authkey=qUagO204K70&feat=directlink

NZX ~ Festive Fun~tasy

4th January, 2009 - argghh... I have problem pronouncing this place.. easier to call it NZX. NIUZEXUI is a new commercial square located in Ara Damansara, near the Subang Airport.

Yes, this post is delayed but I appreciate my dear friends' suggestion Rachel to visit the "Festive Fun~tasy" happening in NZX. In this event, there were display of lanterns of the Disney Characters and the entrance fee for adult is RM 10 (I forgot the fee for kids) and we can redeem the souvenirs inside.

I also met Rachel's friend, also name Irene with her family and she's a blogger mom too.

To conclude, this display is suitable for kids like lil' Phil (and older kids born in the 70's....haha) who enjoy taking photos with their favourite Disney cartoon characters.

Enjoy the photos!!

Blogger moms with kids

above: same pose but different background

with DONALD DUCK

with "Finding NEMO" lantern behind us...

Rachel with lil' Philip




Xavier is still innocent and don't know about cartoon yet..

"Gong Xi Fa Cai" ~ Xavier's FIRST Chinese New Year

The Year of the MOO MOO or rather the OX is here!!

I was so excited as it is Xavier's FIRST CNY celebration.. So, the CNY plan are as follows:

CNY EVE: Dinner at Grandparents' (Daddys') house
CNY 1st DAY: Visit Grandparents and relatives (Daddys')
CNY 2nd DAY: Lunch at Grandparents, then fly to Kuching
CNY 3rd to 6th DAY: Stay with Grandparents (Mommys') and visit relatives and friends (Mommys') and fly back to KL on 6th DAY.
CNY 7th to CHAP GOH MEI: Celebrating at home and dinner at Grandparents on CHAP GOH MEI (woohoo!!! as this is extra Public Holiday due to Thaipusam which falls on Sunday)

~GONG XI GONG XI~~

New Year 2009

~WELCOME TO YEAR 2009, Xavier!!!~

This year will be another exciting year of challenge, learning and fun for Xavier as I have some plans already for the year 2009.

May God bless Xavier abundantly, guide him and keep him healthy always.

Love always, Mommy Irene

Xavier from 0 to 6 months

Merry Christmas Xavier!

~OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE~

Filled with wonderful door gift which inside is written,

For unto you is born this day a Saviour

A light to the World

"We are glad that you are celebrating Christmas 2008 with us"

~Steven.Irene.Xavier~

Our lighted Christmas garland at home

Our Pre-Christmas outing in The Gardens, Midvalley


Our 1st Chrismas gift from our dear friend Susan Jong
Another Pre-Christmas outing at IKANO. Xavier meets Mickey Mouse

~~~~~CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER~~~~~

We celebrated our first Christmas Eve Dinner with Xavier at Shun Restaurant in Subang Jaya.....oooo...yummy Japanese food..

Menu:

Drinks: Green Tea (Two Hot and One Cold)

Steven's Meal: Beef Bento Set

Irene's Meal: Salmon and Terriyaki Bento Set

Xavier's Meal: Mommy's Milk

After the sumptous dinner, we attended the Christmas Mass at Church of Divine Mercy, Shah Alam for the 10.00pm mass.

Xavier's Christmas gift from Ah Kong and Ah Ma from Kuching. They are the major financer of the stroller which we bought from Jusco at One Utama. It's a reasonable "Sweet Cherry" brand. This is Xavier's favourite pose!! Head tilt to the right at approx. 45 degree angle and two or three fingers half way in the mouth and STARE at the photographer (that's me!!)

~~~~~CHRISTMAS DAY~~~~~

We had OPEN HOUSE ala potluck on Christmas Day between 12.00noon until 5.00pm. I invited many friends who are mainly in Facebook and some additional sms and emails.. I found that Facebook is very effective as approx. 90% of the guests received and responded to it!! ...yoohoo..

We are grateful for the warmth and cheer brought by our lovely friends on Christmas Day.

Thanks to Mei Han, I have two male reindeer at home... :D

Wonderful Christmas gifts, mainly for Xavier