Happy 11 months!

Chubs is 11 months old today!

Was at my in-laws' and going through chubs' photos when we hit upon an idea:

HAHAHAHA... that was us trying very hard to include chubs in our family portrait! The portrait was taken at least 4 years ago, even before Hubs and I got married. I look veryyy different right!

Due to the fact that my MIL is suffering from her recurring back problem after her HKG trip, we brought chubs home for the night. Lovely Youjin, Lynette and Mad decided to pop by for a visit because they haven't seen us for the longest time (Ok I know we last met for XY's dinner but to me that seemed such a long time back compared to our meeting frequency last time).

Upon seeing new faces (not new NEW but faces other than family's), chubs was very excited and active and refuse to go to bed until we had to "force" her to. She was crawling all over the kitchen and living room, playing with all the random items found in the house and refusing to stay still for a picture. As we were tired from chasing her around we did not want chubs to stay way beyond her bedtime, we tried to coax her to sleep in our bedroom at 9ish while the guests entertained themselves outside with the TV and whatnots.

poor girls have to scramble around my house (for a decent picture) with the active chubs who kept crawling speedily around the house

things adults do to amuse babies ... that hairband on Mad's head was given to chubs by my Uncle

At 11 months old, my chubs:

• is able to say "Mamii", "Dada", "DaaaDi", "Nai nai", "Hello"
• can stand up without support
• is cruising steadily and speedily along tabletops and sofas
• can manage 2-3 steps unassisted in her cot/playpen/our beds
• has increased her milk intake to 210ml per feed
• is hungry ever so often probably due to the fact she's becoming very active
• can self-feed herself Gerber's using "pincer grip"
• poos 1-2 times daily

HAPPY 11 MONTHS OLD, CHUBS!

footsteps of her 1st birthday getting louder ... ...