Milestone: 15 months (449 days) 8 Nov 2011

- knows how to use her index (mostly right hand) to point things that she wants

- knows how to take an adult hand to grab things to bring it to her

- when she doesn't get what she wants, she would hide her face in her hands and fake cry. sometimes even have her head down to the table or floor to fake cry

- knows how to "kiss bye"

- still don't know how to walk on her own; but can walk by holding on to adults fingers ; still lack of confidence

- knows how to take things and bring it over to adult to define she wants to eat it (snacks) or to be read to

- still can't self feed herself properly.

- knows how to drik from straw sippy cup (heinz - but the straw is quite hard to suck even adults find it hard to suck)

- knows hot to drink from a cup on her own, not very good but still acceptable.

- don't like meat. still need to be puree to be fed

- can chew fruit/vege steamed cubes well now.

Recipe: Scrambled Egg Salmon

Ingridients:

2 eggs

1 palm size salmon (1 piece fillet)

10 ml milk (2 tablespoon)

pinch of salt (optional)

Method:

1) Beat the eggs lightly

2) Add in milk

3) Add pinch of salt

4) Pour egg in non-stick pan (before that, lightly grease it)

5) let it cook for 30 sec- 1 min.

6) Add in chopped salmon

7) Using spatala, fold it inwards and outwards (aka Scramble it)

8) Once egg is cooked (but not over cook like fry egg) - ready to serve

Verdict: Passed!

Recipe: Pancakes

THis is the most easy recipe for pancakes

Ingridients:

1 Egg

1 Cup of Self Raising Flour

1 Cup of Milk

Method:

1) Mix them up the ingridents, stir them but don't over stir as it would be a bit tough

2) Low heat pan - put in some butter and quickly put in the dough. If you let the butter shimmer too long it would be burn feel and the pancake would be "blackish". Nevertheless if you can't control the butter well, use vege oil (eg: olive oil).

3) Let it cook for 1 min and then flip over for another min. Remove from Pan.

Recipe: Apple Crumble Pie/Cake

Ingridients:

1 1/2 cup self raising flour

115 g butter

1/2 cup caster brown sugar (50/50)

1 egg, lightly beaten

1x440 g tin fruit (approx 3 - 4 granny apples)

1 tablespoon of cinamen (optional)

Method:

1) Shift flour and sugar

2) Add butter in and mix it to resemble crumble (don't use electric mixer, normal wooden spoon would do or better use ur own hands)

3) Add Egg and mix again

4) Press just under half mixture to a 20inch greased lined pan - make it like a pie shape

5) cover with fruit (if fresh apple - shimmer it for a while to make it soft - sprinkle the cinamen on to it - if u got a sweet tooth, add a some brown sugar to it and give it a last mix)

6) Top it off with remaining "crumbles"

7) Baked at 180'c for 40 mins (but i think 30 mins is enough.. so depend on ur oven as mine got a bit burned at the side)

8) Dust with icing sugar or serve with Vanila ice cream

Recipe: Cream Cheese + Avacado spread

Its a simple combination.

As recently tigerbaby dislike cream chese (eg: Kiri, Laughing Cow) so I am thinking of ways to increase her interest again.

Indeed, cream cheese (one cube) with half a avacado (or more) works. if you feel it is a bit too dry, add a bit of water or milk would do. I haven't use yogurt because I would like to give it as another snack but i think yogurt would go well with these 2 as well, logically.... *to be experiment next..*

If the toddlers not interest at all, not to worry, mummies can just whip it off with a ham sandwitch.. it goes Heavenly ~~

Milestone: 13.8 months (416 days) 6 Oct 2011

- Tigerbaby has grown taller a bit as she can now stand up and her nose can touch the tv stand. Hands stretching to touch the wireless / cable box which is place way back.

- Likes dancing. When she hear music, she would shake her bum and swing her hands left right if it is really good music she like

- loves pointing at things with her Right hand (2nd finger)

- loves digging into things

- likes to take things and put them back to their orginal spot *kinda like this !! :)

- Loves dishwasher and always trying to figure out how to pull it open *she does try to observe me to learn and found out where the handle is but couldn't figure out the pulling part...

- can climb down sofa's (she would do a 180 degree turn so that her legs goes down first with her butt next)

- Loves rice!!

- Start to bite and pinch. Loves bitting my thighs while she go around the chair (whilst i am sitting on it). Loves to pinch my neck whilst I am putting her to sleep. arghh those little monsterous fingers of her... and devlish teeths!!!

Reasons I bake...

BlurDad asked me this question many times, why do i bake so much.. and instantly my response is.. for Crystin snack! as i don't know what else to give her. Blurdad is not much of a Cake/muffin person. He is more into "fry" stuff. However as he asked me this question few times, I made me start thinking deep inside, why do i love baking... *well more of muffin baking ...* reasons are simple.

1) Muffin is a nice snack (small) for tigerbaby. easy to bring around as well

2) To prepare takes only 15 mins and to bake takes another 15min.

3) Ingridients are simple and smaller quantity than a cake

4) I enjoy the smell of fresh baked muffin ~~

5) I too can have a snack on-the-go. As some stay at home mom would understand, sometimes there really isn't much time to even have a proper lunch if your little one wakes up and seeking full attention. One muffin munching on while playing with your little one seems to go much easier than making a sandwitch. :)

5 good reasons to bake muffins~~