Sophie says "I have my own pizza!"

At CPK kids meal:

8 month pumping award

Yay!

Meimei tries some bananas-frustrated because they are too slippery!

Jiejie dominates the banana scene!

Olivia loves peas!

Straight up peas plus milk tastes so green...

Sophie's birthday ice cream treat

Can you believe she used to be the girl who didn't like ice-cream? We used to be able to eat desserts blatantly without having to share with her.

It's cold but now she loves it!!

Macarons

No, she doesn't enjoy all sweets (good). But she loves macarons.

Just like Yee-ma and me!

Jellyfish!

This is me and Sophie-rolly polly me and Sophie who enjoys opening and closing the kid's door.

There is no jellyfish in this photo. It's Sophie's new found favourite, and my all time favourite. Lychee jelly in bubble tea (see my hand) which she affectionately calls jellyfish!

Loves veggies

She's a VERY messy toddler - still loves to eat with hands, without bib and grabs her hair with her grubby hands. But I'm very proud to say that she LOVES veggies!

She loves COCONUT!

A crab feast at Santa Barbara

First time getting both our hands dirty for crabs with wriggly Soph=success! I only suffered some strawberry stains on my clothes.

3lb Rock crab for 25bucks comes with soup and salad. What thick shells!

Soph checking out the menu with a big sister from Taiwan. She told us she has a younger sister who's three!

Wierd but great tastes!

We went on a spontaneous trip to Solvang and Santa Barbara this weekend. Felt pretty relaxed this time because I wasn't too stressed out about Soph eating enough or sleeping at the right times. I figured that if she's hungry she'll eat. If she's tired she'll sleep.

At Solvang for lunch, we ordered a table of super unhealthy food. Fried chicken with fries,  chilli, and kid's meal meatballs dinner for Soph.

A table of good food and guess what she chose to eat? The carrots on the side! She ate all the baby carrots in the fried chicken dish and the meatballs dinner.

About 10 sticks or so. And didn't really care for anything else. Not even the fries or fried chicken?!? What a healthy eater!

But she really likes jam too. She can just scoop up mouthfuls of jam without bread. Yuks, so sweet.

She even dipped the Danish sausage into jam and ate it. Toddlers are so weird. She doesn't like cakes or cupcakes or custard puffs. Shakes her head violently at them as though they are poisonous. She doesn't get excited about ice-cream either. i think she hates that it's cold. But she loves the free madeleines from Paris Baguette. 

Jollibee bee

Sophie chomping on Jollibee drumstick in the car. Oh so unhealthy, but besides bread there was nothing else for her to eat. She loves chicken recently!!

Sucking...

Chewing off the cartilage...

Crunching away at the bone...

Yummy!!

Better with eating

Sophie has been improving with her eating habits these days. She has been spending a good amount of time at the dinner table eating her porridge/yogurt, and gnawing away at chicken and broccoli and peas/corn. I think it has a lot to do with taking away her milk before meals. If we give her milk before meals then I think she's not hungry enough so she gets very restless. 

This was dinner time at the Korean food court. She finished all the broccoli and peas in her tub and proudly slammed it on the table when she was done. She did alright with the rotisserie drumstick, but at least she tried. She ate a couple of fried dumplings and requested for more of the Korean rice. The most peaceful dinner outside with Sophie to date.
Of course when she's full and settled, she will not waste a extra minute in her seat, shouting 'All done! All done!", pointing at her bib and shouting "bib-bib!" which means that she wants us to take her bib away so she can get out.

Up and running again!

Running amok in the toy store.

Having a nice cheap $1.99 breakfast at Ikea.

Yummy at Taiwanese food

Posing with some cool Taiwanese dudes.

We pigged out over this weekend, having Taiwanese, Filipino, and Shanghainese food over three meals.

Loves her udon but refused to wear a bib for that meal. So scruffy!

Harvesting

Since we started planting our tomatoes late this year, so we are getting our tomatoes late too.

Finally plucked one tomato!

The dying bell pepper plant, whose leaves keep getting chewed up by snails/birds/what not is actually surviving and there are a few flowers now. I wonder if bell peppers will really come in time.

At least we have strawberries. My dying-surviving-dying-surviving strawberry plants that have followed us from Kiely Blvd and more strawberry plants I bought last year are actually really perky this year. Their leaves are all proudly facing the sun and an abundance of strawberries (sour).

Nonetheless, Sophie loves going to the plants and poking her finger among the leaves looking for red stuff. Everytime I pluck one, she gets really excited and demands it. I hosed down the strawberry, bite off the leaves and then she greedily scarves it down. That's why I never manage to take any photos. They are always gone so quickly. 

Graham samples at TJs

Sophie Sophie happily trying out graham crackers at Trader Joe's.

She got really upset when her cracker fell to the floor-screaming like the world was coming to an end. What's a momma to do? Pick up the cracker from the floor, broke off a tiny piece and gave it to her as consolation. Haha.

Baby loves pizza!

Sophie is trying out some samples at Trader Joes. They were promoting their flatbread and did an easy pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese over the flat bread to become pizza. 

What a delicacy!

Feeding herself with a spoon

Typically during mealtimes, I hold a bowl of food and feed her. I also give her an empty bowl and spoon to tinker with, otherwise the restless babe won't be able to last till she finishes her food. Sometimes I scoop some food into her bowl, hoping that she will scoop some into her mouth. Recently, I noticed that when I put some food on her spoon, she is able to shove it pretty accurately into her mouth.

But yesterday, she managed to scoop from the bowl and into her mouth! Voila! Messy messy, but she will definitely get better over time. Yi-ma says she was amazed by the way Sophie holds onto the end of the spoon.

Sweet juicy peach!

Hello summer means plenty of fruits to eat nowadays! We have a bursting fridge of oranges, peaches, nectarines, cherries (2 kinds), grapes, lychee, watermelon, blueberries. And Sophie definitely loves her overly-ripe softie sweet peach. Watch her chow down!

Sophie replies to 好吃吗?

"Nods-nods-nods..." to raisins in her cup.