Malacca Trip (Part II)

Ethan woke up at 3am crying loudly. Guessed he was having bad dream, he was ok in our arms but will cry once we put him on the bed. After a few trials, he managed to continue his sleep till 7am. Had breakfast at hotel, fed Ethan with the fish porridge, seems delicious for him as it was his first time to have a taste of meat.

We went to the Menara Taming Sari (the 1st revolving "Gyro Tower" in Malaysia) after breakfast at 9am, but it only opens at 10am. Get "conned" by a friendly talkative lottery uncle there, wasted RM30+RM10 to buy lottery tickets from him. Any winnings? Of coz NO!!
While waiting for the ride, we walked to the nearby A Famosa. Ethan dozed off in his dad's arm, oh well 9-10am is always his first nap period.


Next the ride up to the Taming Sari tower. We were lucky that we got 50% discount for the ride as it was weekday. And again...thought Ethan will get excited "flying" so high but he did not show much excitement...probably sleepy? Hmm...



Since it was still quite early to check out, we went to the nearby shopping complex. Nothing much there...but my boy got excited riding on those "musical machine" (no idea what those things called). He screamed when we try to get him down...haha.


After checkout from hotel, we headed for a lunch at the Marco, the one that we missed yesterday. Ordered those famous Nyonya dishes like Ayam Pongteh, Asam Fish, Cincaluk Egg...Well, the food was ok...nothing to shout about. Headed home after buying some portugese tarts which taste good.

Malacca Trip (Part I)

My parents paid us a visit in October 2010. They have not seen Ethan for almost 6 months. Ethan was already asleep when they reached at about 9pm on the 2nd Oct. When he was up the next day, I brought him to the guest room to meet his grandparents. He started to cry loudly when I left him alone with my dad. Haha...I guessed he was having stranger & separation anxiety! Anyway, he warmed up quickly & he accepted them pretty soon.

After breakfast, we went for a Malacca trip. It was Ethan's first long journey. He started to scream & got fussy after sitting in his car seat for more than 1/2 hour. After failed to comfort him, we had to get him out from his car seat. Finally we reached our destination after 1.5 hour journey. Initially we planned to have our lunch at the Marco Nyonya Restaurant but it was full. We ended up having our lunch at Bibik Nyonya which is just a few shops away from the Marco. The food were so-so but the durian chendol was good!

We checked-in to the Hotel Mimosa after lunch. Got Ethan to have a nap and took a rest ourselves before going out for a stroll early in the evening. Luckily the weather was good, not too sunny & not rainy too. We spent more than 1/2 hour to wait for the river cruise, felt like being cheated by those boatmen that the next boat will be in 5 mins, a few boats passed by but none stopped to pick us...and finally we were informed that it was their shift changing time, so we gotta wait for a while more. At last, we got onto a boat. We were expecting Ethan to be excited in the boat, excited to see the river, the houses & scenery...BUT he has more interest in the boat men!! He kept on looking & smiling at the boat men throughout the cruise...duh!!


We headed off to Jonker Street after the cruise to hunt for dinner. Failed to find the fried ice-cream as broadcasted in the The Railway show. Wanted to go to the Jonker 88 for durian chendol but it was closing already...sigh...no luck. We ended up simply enter a shop for a dinner of Nasi Lemak (which is just plain white rice), asam laksa, nasi rendang and mee. Ordered banana & durian chendol too...well...thumbs down for those dessert.

Went back to hotel after the dinner, Ethan was looking blur as he was exhausted and sleepy already. Bathed him in the hotel bathtub and he really enjoyed it. Han fed him with milk while I took my shower. To my surprise, Ethan knocked off right after drinking the milk without needing us to rock or pat him as usual. He's really exhausted...poor boy.

6th Month

We brought Ethan to the pedia for his 6th month Hep B vaccination 3 days before his exact 6 month. He was 8.3kg during the checkup, his weight gain started to slow down compare to previous month.

Ethan is finally entering his 6th month. He's encountering lots of new "adventures" since his early 6th month. He started to learn his commando crawl. First he start pulling himself forward with one hand, then two hands then his hands and legs which makes him pretty fast even on his tummy! Now he's starting to pull himself up on his feet and knees but not able to really crawl yet.

We recently bought him a multi colored ball, well that really got him excited for all about 10 minutes. He'd get so excited that he'd occasionally get on all fours only to plop down on his tummy but that didn't really slow him down. At first when he get's near the ball he's just so excited that he'd swipe at the ball with one hand which makes the ball roll away from him. What surprised me is the second time he gets near the ball again he doesn't just swipe at it but slowly extends his hands to grab it instead. It's just so much fun playing with him now because he can really get so excited sometimes.