Day: August 10, 2008

Cassandra Turned 4 Months Old

on 9 August 2008. How time flies. My 2.75kg (at birth) little baby has grown so much and is now 6kg+ and she’s my living dumb bell for she wants to be carried all the time.  I can hardly have a peaceful meal these days as I will be carrying her with one hand and holding my spoon with the other hand.  This little rascal can never sit still and loves to kick her legs and arch her back (with her hard head hitting my boops) even when she’s seated on my lap.

Baby C now loves to flip over and whenever she’s placed on a flat surface on her back, she will attempt to flip over.  She even flips over in the middle of the night when she’s awake. It’s as though she wants to keep practising her new found feat.  She also loves to blow bubbles with her own saliva and loves to suck on her fists and thumb. 

Baby C can hardly fit into her S size diapers now and since I still have half a packet more, I am racing to finish off the diapers and thus she’s on the disposable diapers most of the time.  I’ll still put her on cloth diapers a few times a day, after she has done her poopie business.

Baby C loves to interact with family members and will smile and coo when she’s being talked to.  She will laugh loudly when I bury my face into her neck and give her loud smooches.  She’s really very very adorable and everyone just can’t get enough of her.


Alycia can’t keep her hands off her baby sister and was beeming when my mum let her carry Baby C.


Alycia looks like a pro baby sitter here, with one hand carrying her baby sister and the other hand entertaining her with a rattle.


Obviously Baby C felt uncomfortable and cried for mummy to rescue her!  Look how dejected Alycia looked here.

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Homemade Jam And Bread Spread

My mum made some homemade jam and bread spread before she came to visit us last week. She made peanut butter, pandan kaya (a bread spread made of coconut milk, sugar, eggs and screwpine leaves juice), strawberry jam, green bean or mung bean paste and red bean paste – all with reduced sugar as I don’t like them too sweet.


From left : 2 bottles of red bean paste, green bean paste and pandan kaya (my mum used the juice from 40 blades of pandan or screwpine leaves to make 2 bottles of kaya).

I loved the paste so much that I ate them on its own and they tasted just like ice-cream when they are chilled. The paste went very well with bread, toast and crackers.

The pandan kaya was cooked in a pot under low heat (stirred continuously for an hour) whilst the green bean and red bean paste were made partially in her Kenwood breadmaker.  Before throwing the beans into the breadmaker, she soaked the beans overnight.  After the beans were soaked, she boiled them in a pot of water for about half an hour or until the beans were soft.   Once soft, she blended the beans into very fine paste before throwing them into the breadmaker together with a little sugar. 

I told my mum that she can even open a store to sell her homemade jam and bread spread.  Maybe I can even set up an online store to sell her jam…. another food for thought….

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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY