Our baby's milestone

Though I'm keeping a notes of my JyellaBear's monthly Milestones, I might as well share it with you here incase I lost my copy.

0 month old
- I don’t know if smiling can be considered as milestone, but she were just few days old when we saw her first smile, though we know that this is just a random smile, for Daddy & Mommy this is of course a big thing.
- Kicking is her favorite past time.
- Starting to lift her head.

1 month old
- She already have a good sense of sight, she's now responding by smiling when she see someone, usually in the morning when you greet her good morning.
- She stared to have interest in watching.
- When taking her a photo or a video, She's curiously looking on the camera.
- She also have a good sense of hearing at 1 month, she turns towards familiar voices or sounds. That's why whenever Daddy came home from work and she were already sleeping, I won't allow him to talk loudly because the moment she hear his voice she will open your eyes and I need to put her on sleep again.
- She can lift her head forward while holding her hands and gently pulling forward.

2 months old
- She can hold her head up for a short period of time.
- She is imitating us when we are sticking out our tongue.
- She randomly talking or rather shouting words like ooh's and ahh's...
- She is attracted on colourful things, such as toys or pictures. Especially color yellow.

3 months old
- She's now able to hold her head steadily.
- When she saw someone eating, she also move her lips as if she were eating too.
- She's now trying to roll from back to front though she always end up crying because she cannot do it yet.
- She now know her name, she turns her head towards someone calling her name.
- She attentively watchs TV.
- She smiles more frequently.
- We started practice tummy time, though she usually cry when I started putting her on her tummy.
- She now know how to put her fingers on her mouth and start licking them. And now prefer her fingers more than her pacifier.
- The sound of a motorcycle engine will stop her from crying.

4 months old
- The first time we hear the sweetest sound we ever heard. Her laughter.
- She now learn how to grab things.
- She's now learning to hold her feeding bottle by herself.
- Aside from licking her finger, she also loves to lick her toes.
- She's now able to roll from front to back.
- She smiles back whenever we smile at her.
- She can now sit down with full support
- She wakes up Mommy & Daddy in the morning by babbling random words.
- She will put anything she can grab on her mouth.
- She reach for food when she see someone is eating.
- She's now interacts in playing.
- She can stand for a short time with full support.

5 months old
- She can now sits down with a minimal support.
- She's now able to roll from front to back and back to front.
- She can drink on a regular glass.
- She loves pouting her lips.
- She can now stand longer with full support.

6 months old
- She's now able to roll back & forth faster
- She started eating solid foods.
- She's now standing with a minimal support and started to take a few steps.
- Her first teeth are starting to show up.
- She reach out when she wanted to be carried.
- She's now reacts on a program she's watching. She laughs, giggles, shouts, dance, clap her hands, and stomps her feet.

7 months old
- She's now able to walk with walker or by holding her hands.
- She knows some tricks like "clap your hands" and "close, open".
- She now have 2 teeth on her lower front gum.
- She can sit down without support.
- She's now standing on her own while grabbing onto something.
- She's now on "nangingilala" stage. Most of the times she only want either me or her lola to carry her. But when she's in hergood mood she will allow her daddy and her lolo to carry her.

8 month old
- She can now crawl, though it’s a scoot type of crawling.
- She can now recognize names of people and pets as well.
- She love dogs and cats, when she see them on streets she will look at them and say "whooo" as if she were calling them. One time while we were outside the house and she's eatingbiscuit, she accidentally drop the biscuit and a cat ate it. So I give her another piece, but when she saw that the cat were about to leave because she already finished eating the biscuit that has dropped, she happily throw another biscuit to the ground for the cat to eat it again,
- She's learning to pull herrself up to stand though she's still a little wobbly and still needs a little push from Mommy or Daddy.
- She can now understand some commands like "opps thats bad or stop it" and "come on, let’s go".
- Says mamamama & dadada randomly.
- Learns another trick, the "give me high five or apir"

9 months
- She can now do tricks such as clapping, align, apir/high five, close-open.
- She's pointing towards things she want.
- She now master the pincer grasp.
- Already allowed to eat/taste almost any food except egg which her pedia prohibited until she reach 1 year old.
- She can now crawl on fours.
- Loves french fries a lot but since it's not good for her we have to control her fries intake.
- She also love the apple medley/apple banana/apple mango sauce snack that I bought for her, before 1 sachet can last her for 2 days, now 1 sachet a day is not enough for her.
- Walking while someone assist her.
- Can climb up the stairs.
- She love books more than her toys, whenever I put her in her play area where her toys and books are scattered, She will always grab a book first.
- She love TV commercials especialy those who has kids as commercial model.
- She always dance whenever she hears music, even the sound of the piano in church and her musical rhymes in her toys can make her rock her body.
 - She loves Mommy so much, whenever she see me I always got a big smile from her. And when I'm home on weekends/holiday she won't let go of me, if I pass her on her Lolo & Lola even on her Daddy she will start crying.
- She likes cats and dogs. She gets stunned with cats “meows” and she “talks” to dogs. Whenever she see dogs she usually says "bawo" while reaching her hands towards the dog as if she's saying "come here".
- She call me "Mamamama" and her Daddy "Ade".
- She call her Lola "Uwa" and Lolo "Owo"
- She love to stay outside.
- She intentionally dropped whatever object/toy she were holding.
- Always shout “AH!” loudly.
- She always pull herself up to sitting position the moment she wakes up.
- She can stand and sits down while holding/grabbing unto something.
- She can walk holding on to railings/furniture, shifting one hand from the other.
- She can associate words with action: Say frog (our ref magnet) and she looks at the frog, same for dog, cat, lizard (usually at the ceiling) and fish.
- She just had her first carousel experience (thanks to momsie & papsie).

10 months
- She really love the stairs, when I put her down on the floor, she will quickly crawl towards the stairs and will climb up. The crazy thing is, she's not using her knees to climb up, instead she's setting her foot on the steps of the stairs.
- We call her little "daldalita" because she's now so noisy, She  keep on babbling words we cannot understand.
- I think she is now on an emotional stage called "separation anxiety", She's now gettting upset and cry whenever I leave home for work, or when I put her down on her crib and will leave the room.
- Can do tricks such as "show your tongue", "flying kiss", "wave goodbye", "dance".
- She now have 3 teeth on her upper gums, and another 3 on lower gums.
- She now know how to bite foods.
- She know how to swipe her forefinger in playing candy crush while Daddy is holding her hand to help her in which candies she need to switch.
- She can walk alone while pushing a plastic chair (our improvised push along walker).
- She love water so much, she enjoys playing with water more than playing with your toys.
- 3 days before she turned 11 months, she can already stand on her own for 10 seconds maximum without holding on anything.
- The next day, she was able to do atleast 1-2 steps before falling down.
My dear baby every month you never fail to amaze us with every Milestone you achieved, always remember that Daddy & Mommy is always here in every step of your life! But please don't grow up too fast Mommy still enjoying everything on you.

-♥♥♥-

Who is Jashley Bear?

Jashley is our little princess first name, but i usually call her Jashley Bear because she is huggable as a bear. =)

Our Jashley was born October last year, as of this writing she's now on her 11th month. I gave birth to her via C-section due to minor condition on my part. She is our first child and a honeymoon baby when we got married February last year. She is surely Daddy and Mommy's blessing from above.

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For our baby girl

I know its been a long time since I posted something here, I always have something on my mind that I  wanted to share here, but most of the time I am busy especially now that I'm already a Mom, a working Mom actually. I barely got a spare time now, before when I heared some Moms says that bathtime is their only "me time", I always thought that its just an OA (Over Acting) statement until I experienced it myself.

Anyways, since I do have spare time today, I decided to update this blog and share here things about Our Baby Girl, its again my way of documenting things about her that we can recall later, because who knows, I might not remember every single detail about her by then.

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DIY: JUST MARRIED Banner

Another last minute DIY is our Just Married Sign. Sorry I dont have the picture of the step by step since I am already running out of time that moment. But here is the step by step process on how i did it.

1. Cut a piece of fabric, the shape is depends on what flag shape you wants.
2. Glued some decorative ribbon on top par of your flag
3. Use buttons to create the letters J-U-S-T_M-A-R-R-I-E-D and glued it to your flag shape fabric.
4. Then attached the flags to a string/yarn.
5. Your JUST MARRIED banner is now ready for action.

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DIY: Flower Girls Headbands

One of my last minute DIY is this Headbands/Headdress for my little girls.

In creating the flowers you will need a fabric, a circle templates in 2-3 different sizes, scissor, candle, and a brads/embelishments. 

First cut a circles on fabric, 

then with your candle heat the edges of the fabric so it will curl-up slightly. 

Do these on all your circle fabrics. Then stack around 6 pieces of the circle fabrics, 2-3 piece on every size. Then add a crystal, pearl or any brads you have. 

Its time to create your headbands, you will need a simple headbands, the fabric flower you create, ribbons, fabric glue/glue gun and other additional decoration you think can be used.

I just wrap the ribbon to the plain headband then attached the fabric flowers, a silver ribbon and the string with stone & pearls that i bought from national bookstore.

And here's the final product.

My DIY Headband in action. =)

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DIY: Hanging Photo

Another DIY is a our picture display for the registration table. I just simply layout a polaroid style pictures of us and print it on a photo paper. I want to hang these pictures using a wooden clips but of course I dont want just a plain clips, and since I don't have time to do a DIY letter blocks to spell out our name, I thought the covered button with letters will be a perfect alternative. The step is just the same as my covered button for the pen holder. But this time I use stamp letters to achive a consitency in font style & size. 

1. Cut a piece of fabric, the size depends on your covered button size.
2. Stamp the letter using the stamp letter & stamp pad.

3. Then follow the instruction on the back of the carton of this covered buttons on how to attach the fabric on the button. Just make sure that your letter is on the middle part of the button.

4. Attached your finished covered button onto the wooden clips.

5. Do these on every letter to spell out your name/words.

6. Tie one end of the string/yarn into a bottle and the other end to another bottle to create something that will look like a clotheline.
7. Bring out your photos & time to clip it into your clotheline using your wooden
clips.

While clipping the photos on clothesline I suddenly realize that my name was too long and I cannot fit it all. So I decided to just use our nicknames "BRY♥MEI" 

My DIY Hanging Photo in action but because of the strong wind in the venue the pictures kept on flipping over.

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DIY: Guestbook Pen & Pen Holder

It's been 3 months already after our wedding, I thought I will not be busy anymore but because I got a lot of work to do, plus my family visit me here last month, and that honeyko♥ & I are going to be a parent now, I become a little busy and almost forgot that I need to update my DIYs so I can share it with the soon to be Brides out there.

So here is our DIY Guestbook Pen. It is actually a permanent marker with a fine felt tip that can write in a glossy surface or even on glass, and it dries fast so no smudging compare to those gel pens that you need to wait to dries first when writes on glossy surface. I bought this from DAISO for 2 singdollar for 3 pens. At first my plan is to wrap a jute string around the pen beacause I saw this inspiration on the internet, but since I cannot find a nice jute string here and I think this look will be more on rustic style compare to a shabby chic style, I tried to think an alternative for a jute string and that is yarn, the good thing about the yarn is I can have the color that I want and I i think it is more comfortable for my guest to hold the pen since yarn is soft compare to a jute string.

Pen & Yarn from DAISO

Anyway let me tell you how I do it. You just need to do 2 somple steps:

1. Wrap the yarn around the pen, both the body & the cap. 

2. Then put a fabric flower on top end part of the pen. (the fabric flower I used is a scrapbooking embellishment which I collect, but if you don't have a pre-made one, just  google some tutorial on how to do a fabric flower.)

The Mummy Pen..haha..

Easy right? I think you can also Use some fresh flowers If you can't make the fabric one. 

Because I'm not happy that my pen will be just laying on the registration table so I also create a pen container. You need a small piece of burlap fabric or any fabric you want, a covered buttons, a permanent marker, a mason jar, string/yarn and a glue gun. Then follow these steps:

1. Cut a piece of fabric, the size depends on your covered button size.

2. Hand write the letter with a permanent marker.

3. Then follow the instruction on the back of the carton of the covered buttons on how to attach the fabric on the button. Just make sure that your letter is on the middle part of the button. 

4. Attached your finished covered button onto the string/yarn.

5. Tied it into the mason jar. You can put a little glue at the back of the buttons to secure it in place like what I did. 

The final product

By the way this is my inspiration.

And that's it. Hope you liked it. 

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