He doesn't wake us up when we're sleeping

The great thing about Zach is that he doesn't disturb us if we're sleeping (unless he wants milk). There was one time when he poo-ed and was lying down next to me with his butt in the air. I was dead to the world. My sis-in-law came into the room and asked him what he was doing and he said, "Zz poo-poo, mummy sleeping" but he didn't want to follow her outside. My brother came back to find him in the same position about half an hour later and convinced him to go outside to change. I think they were pretty amazed that he'd rather be uncomfy than to wake me!


photo taken in Melaka during Good Friday weekend

Recently, we were in Melaka for the Easter break (poor Aidan got left behind with my in-laws) and I had fever (caught it from the kids!) so I was sleeping in the hotel. Zach didn't want to follow his daddy, so he stayed behind with me. He amused himself for an hour plus playing and watching TV whilst I slept.

Photo taken at 9 mths


It's been a horrid month. Aidan and Zach took turns to have high fever (40 degrees). I had to take Aidan to the hospital for a blood and urine test to ensure it's not UTI. Thank God it wasn't. He went to see a gastro specialist as well as he kept vomitting. Horrid, horrid. He's STILL having a runny nose and phlegmy cough. It's been nearly 2 mths. Argh! I'm wondering if he would have recovered faster if he was still on breastmilk.

Poor Zach also had a swollen tip on his privates for a day as well due to some sort of infection. He was miserable and so were we. Like I said...horrid month.




Zach loves feeding Aidan

In terms of development, Aidan's cruising and climbing. He also loves eating all sorts of junk like cake, biscuits etc and begs us for food like a puppy when we're eating. With Zach, I was very careful with what I fed him but I relaxed a lot with Aidan. Hah.


He has 2 teeth and has started eating beef, eggs and prefers textured food rather than mush.

Weight: 7.93kg

At 8 months, Aidan can
- sit without support of arms
- climb the cot and playpen like a monkey (!!)
- slowly go from standing to sitting position by himself
- high-five
- hold his bottle to drink milk from start to finish (before that he only held it a little while)

At 8.5 months, he can
- cruise a little bit around his cot
- wave bye bye (or attempt to anyway)
- clap hands (without sound, in a very excited manner)
- cries when people take him away from me (just when I thought he doesn't recognise his mommy!)

My dream is...that one day both my boys will play happily together and I can have some mummy alone-time. Wishful thinking...


Zach actually loves playing the big brother. I think he can't wait for Aidan to grow big enough to play with him. He's already ordering him about..."Aidan, come here. Aidan, go there. Aidan, hold this."

One day, my hubs overheard Zach saying to Aidan, "I get for you ok?" when he saw Aidan's ball rolling under the table.


He loves it when we put both of them together on his car or rocking-horse.

I thought I'd take some time to record Zach's schooling experience before I forget.

Zach starts school at 8.30am and finishes at around 11.20am. He gets to do some arts and craft, storytelling, play-gym and songs. He also has breakfast there (buns, biscuits, cake etc). Hmm...sometimes I wonder if I'm paying too much $$ just for him to "play". But then, I remind myself that I'm paying for the clean environment and the teachers (I love them!).

When I do get to meet with the teachers, they'll always tell me the same thing, "Your son is very quiet." I'm totally unsurprised because that is the EXACT SAME comment that my mom would hear from my teachers throughout my schooling years. So...like mother, like son.

When I pick him up after work and ask him what he did at school, he'll always tell me about his friends (he'll name each of them and tell me if they were present and what they played with), which play-gym he went to and what he ate.

There are some mornings when he doesn't want to get dressed to go to school and asks me to stay at home to play with him instead. He'll kick up a fuss when we try to wipe his face and put on his uniform. So sometimes I wonder if he likes his school. But I found out this week that he actually really likes it. It's school holidays this week and he actually cried when I dropped him off at his grandparents' place instead of at school. Today, when we turned into the road leading to his grandparents' house, he said, "Why? Why are we going to Grandpa's house? Zz wants to go to school!". Well, I wonder if he'll still be saying things like that when he's at Primary School? Hah.