Baby Kayla is 8 months old!

It's an exciting month for Kayla! - She was selected for the Baby Idol Contest under the category of "Chubbiest Cheeks" and made her first overseas trip. More details to follow...

Her new developments in her 8th month:

• Waving hi/goodbye with her hands (imagine a 招财猫 hand gesture), and mimicing sounds akin to "hi" while she waved
• Calling "papa" very accurately and FREQUENTLY (*Note: Jealous tone), and stimes "yeye". Once in a blue moon she will go "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (when she is constipated?!?) 
• Leaning forward from a sitting position to a crawling-alike position, in the end, flopped on her tummy on all fours. HA!

She still hasn't learn how to crawl yet, probably due to laziness or lack of practice bah. So we decided to buy her a new walker for her to "exercise" her legs when we saw this very interesting Chicco Dance walker at the Robinsons sale...

PAID!

In her walker, she has managed to move quite a number of steps and move around in the house. Who knows, she may skip crawling and go straight to walking stage!

"Hey! I can strike a pose with my new hp toy!"

As for solids, I've let her try more veggies over the wkends when I've the time to make:

• Broccoli & Carrot puree, with white rice cereal
• Spinach & Carrot mash with white rice cereal

We've also bought new toys for her to develop basic skills - a shape sorter and a stacking toy. I pose a challenge to my husb - to see who will succeed in training her on mastering the skills of either sorting shapes or stacking the toy.I chose the shape sorter and him the stacking toy. Wonder how long it will take her to know how to sort/stack them successfully?

Sitting on her new baby floor mat to play games (to watch TV actually)

Now more about the Baby Idol Contest!

I signed Kayla up for both the "Cover Baby" and the "Baby Idol Contest" held by Mother & Baby magazine when I happened to see the contest forms in a magazine sometime in February. After few weeks later, I was thinking that she must be not selected as I hear no news from them. Coincidentally on the very same day I received a call from them and came to know that she has been selected for the "chubbiest cheeks" category (there are 3 categories for this contest - Chubbiest Cheeks, Enchanting Eyes and Beautiful Smile) for the "Baby Idol Contest". I was so thrilled & excited when I heard the good news!

The semi-finals of the contest was held at Mother & Baby Fair @ Expo on 19 Mar and the whole Yam family, including her grandpa, grandma, cousin Dawn, cousin Dyan and their parents, made their way down to support her! What a big family event huh!


One of the parent has to give a 30sec introduction about the baby, and anything to make her chubby cheeks prominent to impress the judges.. Quite unsure what to say and was quite nervous on stage too. hee.. Luckily Kayla didn't cry seeing so many people & cameras in front of her. Instead she went dazed..... haha...

Before the final round of "catwalk" with all the semi-finalists, Kayla actually slept while waiting.. So... she is the only contestant who actually sleeps during the contest. See evidence below:

Even open mouth big big lor. Confirm sound asleep. Not aroused by any commotion around her at all.

Close-up of her sound-asleep-look in the arms of her favourite papa:

Lastly, her first overseas trip to.... JB!

Kayla with her passport (Picture taken earlier in Feb)

Kayla on the causeway

We went to JUSCO shopping centre and finally ate our long-missed A&W & had our root beer float! Yummy!
We quite like JUSCO shopping centre - big, clean & spacious. Kayla kept screaming and shouting at her top of her voice at the shopping cenre, does it mean that she likes it there too? Well, we would love to bring Kayla there again!

Baby Kayla is 7 months old!

At 7th month, finally she has completed all her vaccinations that are supposed to be completed by her 1st year old. She had become braver along the way and only whine a while shortly after her jab, then resume to normal self pretty fast.

Progress for this month:

• Being able to flip back from tummy to back (hoping she can start to crawl in the next few months soon!)
• Trying her very best to grab our handphone, TV controls or whatever within near distance.
  
• Feeding on cereals (slowly making cereals/porridge as part of her meals 2 times a day)
• Trying on new foods like Japanese sweet potato (she loves it and wants more! Hoping to progress further and let her try different kinds of foods at this development stage)
• Being able to hold her teething biscuit by herself, and putting it into her mouth
• Tossing the teething biscuit from one hand to another

Some Personal bonding time between Kayla & Mummy

She knows how to look at the camera and smile when I told her so. Now we can start to take more self-portraits together when Papa not around! haha..

Also played games with her that made her laugh out happily! Made me love her and adore her even more...

Kayla's first visit to the Singapore Zoo!

We have also brought Kayla to the zoo for the first time! She doesn't seem really keen on the animals cuz probably she's more attracted by the people (KPO like mummy!), and can only see when bring her nearer to the animals. So I think the only animal she saw at the zoo is Penguin cuz that's when I carried her near to the pool tank.

Our experience is she gets hot n tired n cranky easily so it cant be too adventurous a trip for us. Most of our time spent inside the KFC (for lunch) & Ben's & Jerry (for ice-cream!) then she will have her lunch and sleep inside the air-conditioned place too.

"Papa, where shall we go next?"

Gave her the teething biscuit to keep her occupied, if not she very cranky n keep wanting to be carried

I am tired liao..zzZZ...
Bye Bye