Development on Track

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Today is a public holiday in Brunei in commomeration with the Birthday of Brunei's Army. Enjoy your holiday Brunei people! Anyway, Rania had another visit by her community nurse, Nurse Vivian. As usual, I was asked about her development so far. She is on track with everything! What can she do now? She can crawl a little bit, but still need a lot of practice. She likes to play bubbles and raspberries. She understands peek-a-boo game too. Apart from that, she is now expert holding her own bottles too. Latest, Rania also tried to stand by holding on to big furnitures or couch in front of her. Caught her a couple of times doing this. Yeay!

Her current weight now is 5.84kg and ength of 64cm. Nurse Vivian said she needs to gain more weight as she is slightly lower than other babies her age.  The next plan is to start taking some meat in her diet, that includes mince chicken and beef. Exciting!

Project Runaway

Monday, 30 May 2011

Do you know the program called Project Runaway? Myself and Grandma are up to something fun these days! Grandma just bought her new gadget, a Singer Overlocker. It was her dream to buy that machine! Got it for her as a gift for mother's day and belated birthday gift too. She really deserve that gift after all she has done for me here in Brisbane.

Back to our project matter, we are going to make her Baju Kurong and a dress. Grandma will be in-charged of making the patterns, and sewing the actual Baju. My job will be to put on some beads on them. I never actually put beads on any my own clothes before, I guess this is kinda experimental for me! There are plenty of designs that I can follow online too. Will see how it goes!

Rania's Latest Photo

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Hello everyone! Take a look at her latest photo! She has grown chubbier and got more hair too. Hehe..

Crawling Superbaby - Another Video

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Princess Rania is just getting much better each day! Take a look at another video of her practicing her crawling skills. Still need practice, but one thing for sure, she is getting much faster!

Crawling Superbaby - The Video

Monday, 23 May 2011

Princess Rania is getting much and much better each day with her crawling skills! Took a video of her just now in-action trying to reach for her toys. She is actually getting more faster too. Mommy and Grandma has to get fit too, will need more energy trying to catch her! Hope you enjoy the video. Feel free to comment! I actually viewed this video a couple of times, made me want to cry actually. So proud of her, love you so much princess.

Crawling Superbaby!

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Princess Rania has made a very wonderful progress! Rania had managed to crawl short distance. Yeay! We let her practice a lot for the past few days by putting interesting toys in front of her. To get into the real fighting spirit, I put on her Supergirl outfit too! She is indeed a Super Baby!

First Step

Almost there! I want that toy!

Success!

RBWH Wall of Honour

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

In my last year's blog post, I talked about a Royal Mum Honour Wall put up at one of the hall in the Royal Brisbane Women Hospital. This Honour wall consists of all Mum that had their baby at the RBWH. The lists are updated every December each year. I was very excited to see that my name was already in the lists too. Yeay! The year at the end of our names, simply means the year that we had our baby at the hospital.

A Walk at Roma Street Parkland

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

My first year PhD confirmation is coming very soon. This is compulsory for all research students. Been busy trying to read all the relevant articles. I have to prepare 40 pages of robust literature review as well as a 30 minutes presentation. Should I be scared? I try not to!! Hehe. Talked to other people who has done it too. Some advices were just to keep myself updated with all the available research papers available in my field of work. Sounds fun isn't? Hehe.

Anyway, in need of some time out and relaxing walk! I've always wanted to go solo walk to Roma Street Parkland. It was my first time to go there too. The scenery was very beautiful and I took a couple of photos of some of the areas. The location of this park is actually not that far from our home, just a couple of stops. My husband love gardening so much too, I think he will also love to see this place.

Shopping Adventure

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Today our Princess Rania went for a little bus adventure to Westfield Shopping Mall at Chermside. It was actually the first time for Grandma to use bus to go to Chermside. She said it was not that tiring because the stop was quite close to the Mall itself. As for Princess Rania, she really enjoy shopping too because she got a lot of things to see around her. Currently, it is very cold in Brisbane. Mommy and Grandma bought her cute sweater for her to wear at home as well as for going out too. We were actually very lucky because some of the big shops were on sale! As for me, I found a Superbaby T-shirt for Princess Rania too, very cute! I wonder when she can wear them.

Her looks before shopping.. Mommy, buy me lots of clothes and new toys! Hehe

Waiting for the bus at Normanby Station

Sweaters and Superbaby shirt



Yeay! She got new toy:  Lulu in Tutu!

Arrived home safely








I Love Books

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Princess Rania's 31st Blogpot;

It has been a while since my last post! I have been busy trying to learn so many things such as talking. crawling, etc. As you can see, I'm a very busy baby :p Anyway, ever since I was in the hospital, my Mommy and Daddy loves to read me books in malay or english. I still love books until now because Mommy and Grandma always read simple books to me. Right now I'm learning colours and alphabet. It is very challenging but interesting!

Solids

Thursday, 12 May 2011

It has been 2 months since Rania started taking solids. She loves them very much! Initially, she can only take a little bit of rice porridge. As time goes, we have started to give her some mixed vegetables and fruits. She love bitter vegetables more than sweet ones. But once in a while we gave her a little bit of crushed sweet pears and bananas. Her favourite solids is still warm rice porridge. Rania is currently taking solids about three times per day. But on top of that she still loves her warm milk!

New Tooth :)

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Exciting news! Princess Rania has two first teeth emerging on her lower jaw. Yeay! We can actually see them  everytime she smiles or laugh. Because of that she had a little increased body temperature. She feels more comfortable when she is able to nibble on something especially her toys, books or rusks. Bought her some teething rusks from Woolworth especially for soothing her tender gums. She seemed to love them very much too.

Learning to Sit

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Princess Rania has started to learn new motor skills. She is currently 5.5kg and her age based on her due date is 6 months and 3 weeks. Her latest exciting activity is learning to sit while playing with her toys and reading books. She is getting much better everyday. Our little Princess used both of her hands as support while trying to sit. She looks cute when she does that! Apart from that, our little Princess also started to learn crawling. Right now, she can crawled backwards just a little bit. Soon, she will be able to master it! Yeay!

Gifts From Wawa and Nini Saba

Sunday, 8 May 2011

While Wawa and Nini Saba were here last March, Rania received very special gifts from the both of them. Both gifts are useful for her to learn to start walking. At the moment, her legs are quite strong already to stand with support, of course. She is learning! Thank you for all the wonderful gifts. She really love them, she play with them almost everyday!

Baby Walker: Gift from Wawa Salambigar

Isle Playtime: Gift From Nini Saba

Rania's Development to date

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Based on her due date, as of today, Rania is now 6 months and 2 weeks. She is growing very steadily and getting more responsive to her surrounding. She can do a lot of things now! Current weight is 5.4Kg.

At around, 5 months and 1 week, she was already a rolling pro. It is now very challenging to change her nappy because she likes to roll to her left or right to grab anything that she can see. Rania love to bite anything that she likes too, especially bright toys. That is why we have to watch her really carefully. Her favourite snack now is baby bites. 

Rania is also a feeding pro now. She already started on rice porridge and Heinz crushed veges and fruits. Rania seemed to like bitter things than sweet things. Rania also started to show authority to all her belongings, when people start to touch or play around with her toys, she will get a little upset sometimes. Mommy is not an exception! Ocassionally, we also caught her waving good bye when we were about to go out the door.

What is interesting is that, about a week a go, she is able to sit on her own with her hands as her support. The longest that she can do is about 1 minute! Not bad! Soon, she will be able to sit on her own, looks like! Yeay!

Overall, she is progressing very well. Mommy and daddy so proud of you little Princess!!