好想趴

片段中, Alyssa 好想趴去拿前面的玩具,可見她的脚及屁股有所行動。 爸媽希望她快些學會趴，然後她便小些尖叫(因想要玩具但又拿不到)。

練坐

最近媽媽常要 Alyssa 練坐，似乎還要一段時間才會。

新床 !?

前幾天幫Alyssa 開水沖涼,見她越來越重(其實只有7kg, 相對比她大三天的表姐要輕1kG),單手抱她去開水便越來越辛苦。媽媽竟想到用洗手盆暫放 Alyssa。 她似乎也很喜歡，可以視作為新床了!

Teething Rubber

Since 2 weeks, Alyssa prefer teething rubber than pacifier. Even if Mami gave her a pacifier, she was not sucking but chewing it (both the soft part of the pacifier and the hard outside part of the pacifier. Don't know when the teeth will pop up......

Drink milk by herself

Alyssa could hold the bottle for 1 minute like that and drank by herself. Mami wonders when she can even warm her own milk or prepare her own formula :-), then Papi and Mami can go on vacation without Alyssa.

First visit to a Christmas Market + 2nd level stroller

Today, Papi transformed Alyssa's stroller from the 'bed' mood to the 'sit' mode. Early in the morning, the weather was not good, it was snowing (our first snow this year in Düsseldorf). It was so cold.



However, in the afternoon, the sky brightened up, so we decided to go out to the Christmas market.



We parked our car at Kaufhof next to 'Kö' and we saw the same bears as last year. They are moving and quite funny to look at for Alyssa.



Then, we continued our way to the Old town to the Christmas market.


Finally, it was so cold that we ccouldn't resist a sip of the Glühwein. Alyssa wanted to try too. She will have to wait for at least a decade first.
Other than the Glühwein, we had the yummy Crepe with Nutella and Bratwurst. Yummy. Let's get some Reibekuchen next time.

Breakthrough after 1.5 months

If you have read about the post 'Once upon a time', last Saturday, we had a breakthrough.

Mami tried to think why Alyssa drink so little (one of the record she had is that she was being last feed at 5am and then until 5pm the next day, she drank only 150ml. Gosh... so little milk, this baby girl must be on diet) during the day and wake up one/two times during the night (sometimes at 1am and then at 5am) to nurse. This is indeed very tough for a working Mum!!!

One of the thought was what if we bottle feed Alyssa solely (instead of breast feed) at home for 1-2 days during the weekend to see how much milk she drink. One amazing thing we found out last Saturday was that Alyssa drank indeed not so much during the day (may be also just 150ml during the day) but she could drink a lot in one go at night before sleep (she could consume 290ml in one go!!!!!!!!).




Several amazing things happened after this experiment:

1. Sleep through the night for one night since the last 1.5 months - Amazing thing that happened at Saturday night is that she could sleep through the night ever since Mami got back to work. However, even though Alyssa could sleep through the night, Papi and Mami was so used to get up twice at night, we woke up even Alyssa was sleeping.

2. Drink more than 200ml last week in the daycare centre (within 9 hours of her stay there).

3. Seems to gain a little bit better weight. Alyssa gained only 1 kg for the last 3 months. But she seems to gain more last few days.

However, this magic spell of sleeping through the night was not working continuously last week during the weekdays. But it gives us a new insight of how to tackle Alyssa's drinking and sleeping problem.

Mami thinks may be Alyssa finally realizes that she need to drink bottle at home too and there is no point to wait until getting home to drink from the breast. Therefore, then she drinks more during the day at the daycare.

Sling - Level 2

Alyssa turned 6-months old last week. Mami suddenly remember that now she can start to wear Alyssa with 'hip hold' with the sling. See how happy Alyssa in the sling is. We are now at level 2 of sling using!!



The picture below was the level 1 - "cradle hold".

Half year old

Happy 'half year' birthday to our dear baby Alyssa !!!!
Mami and Papi wish you a joyful and fun-filled childhood !!! Mami cannot wait to hold your hand and go walking and playing in parks.

Playing with Angelina

Here is Alyssa's little friend Angelina, she has beautiful HUGE eyes :-). Seems 3 times bigger than Alyssa's.

The two little ones could hold hands. Cute :-)

Alyssa: "Angelina, you are a good girl."


Alyssa: "Try my hand, it is sweet"




Angelina: "I guess your pacifier is sweeter, let me try"



Alyssa: "No, it is too personal to share."

First time in Switzerland

Last weekend, we went from Friday to Monday to Switzerland to visit our old friends. We drove there, Alyssa had good long naps in the car.



We arrived at the foggy "Black Mountain", GPS didn't show us to the correct address. Sonja had to come to pick us up and show us the way. German GPS....
Finally, we arrived at her place and meet the very first time little Angelina, she has HUGE eyes, she is so sweet.


Daddy and Alyssa posted in front of the famous Luzern wooden bridge. We have tons of these photos, but this is the first one with Alyssa (... actually with Alyssa's stroller)


This is the "black mountain" view when Mami and Sonja (plus the two baby girls in the strollers) went out for a walk. Lovely snow mountain view.

Once upon a time

Once upon a time, a little baby girl called Alyssa could sleep for 10 hours straight without waking up during the night. That was when she was 3.5 - 4.5 months old. Ever since her Mami went back to work, she drank very little milk during the day (at the daycare) and decided to wake up during the night to see her Mami and to drink her milk then (sometimes even wake up twice to drink milk and may be another one time just wake up and need some help to get back to sleep).

Her Mami wonders when will the long missing 10-hour-sleep come back..