Our morning usually starts at 07:30 when she rolls over to get off the bed to join daddy in the bathroom. It’s almost a relieve as that means an extra 30 mnts for me before she started patting the bed giggling next to my ear.

Other times when I don’t feel like getting up, I would grab her into my arms and we’ll cuddle back to sleep again until 8:30am. There’s a new routine at home, which is a great improvement, that Bri starts to drink her milk again. It has to be warm with a little bit of sugar (or strawberry flavored). She sits on my lap while watching Barney and drinking milk through a straw. Yup, Barney is part of breakfast routine. I usually put one “Fun on Wheels”. After milk we go for  a cup of yoghurt  and then snack on a slice of bread, sliced oranges, scrambled egg with parmesan cheese or plain hard boiled eggs (in pic above). I let her wander around and play with her toys or let her help me making a cup of coffee.

About 10am we’ll finish half a bowl of breakfast – I try many variations because she gets fussy sometimes: oatmeal in milk & maple syrup, corn & chicken soup or beef & rice. Several weeks ago she had a new habit of gagging during meal times. She seems to take food better now and *fingers crossed* has stopped her gagging games for now.  Whenever she refuses a meal I try new trick, to let her feed herself with the spoon. There’re lots of claps and cheers whenever she manages to put a spoonful of food into her mouth. She is so proud of herself.

Oh, Barney dvds that I ordered through Ebay has been delivered last week. 22 of them. Plus another 5 series that I downloaded from torrent. Definitely a big help from the old 7 dvds that we keep playing over and over. My gosh! I’m so relieved. Oh, granny and grumps will also bring some more Barney dvds from New Zealand when they come over in October.

Funny to watch Bri’s reaction to new movies though. She ignores it most of the time, play on her own and messing with my computer, then she’ll run back to the tv when she hears familiar songs especially when Baby Bop is singing. After a couple of times, she will start to memorize the movie more and will sit tight unblinking until the end.

This afternoon we went to the Japanese restaurant on the 3rd floor. Her all time favorite food is Miso Soup with clams and chawanmushi (steam egg in bowl with shrimp, chicken and shiitake mushroom). Thankfully she is not allergic to shrimps, mushrooms, peanuts or chocolate. I would like her to have try as many food as possible, exploring the texture, taste & smell. She used to like salmon, now she likes shrimp. She’s had Indonesian curry, Indian lentils, asam padeh baby version (using red bell pepper instead of real chilies), seafood pasta, sweet corn on the cob and all kinds of rice.

Salmon sashimi – this is really yummy!

California handroll, with avocado shrimp, crab and caviar. My girl loves the caviar