25th December 2009
St.Matias Rasul
Family Mass @ 8.30 AM

Today was X'mas time and it was the first X'mas for Fritz. We, me & my hubby, wanted to share the joy of X'mas to Fritz as a new member of the family. We went to the church nearby our house. We attended the family mass at 8.30 in the morning. We had prepared the present a day before and had wrapped it with the fancy paper so it looked nice.

Three of us entered the church and it was so crowded with the sound of children there. Then we put the present under the manger where the others children had put their presents there too.

The mass ran so silent and holy. But most of the children couldn't stay for long time inside the church. Mostly, they got out from the mass and saw some fish outside. Fritz also did the same thing... ;p

Here the pictures taken after the mass...

Yay.....Fritz is 9th months now....and so many things happens this month

Here they are:
- loves to watch advertisements and he can stop his all activities when he just only heard the sound of his faves advertisements
- looses his appetite so much this month and the worst is happened a week before his 9th months
- learns to eat on his high chair and say bye-bye to his old chair
- explores all the things he has seen...everywhere...everything....
- is cranky and pamper so much....need lots attention and stay beside him along day
- is crazy on Opa's stick and get the opportunity to touch and hold it finally....like the precious gold!
- shakes his head often and it looks funny when he did it
- can give his hands when he wants to be carried...ant the most is when he didn't want to eat and produce lots of cry and need to be carried...*sigh*
- more nap & less meals, vice versa
- likes to (the real) sit on his pram during windows shopping in the mall
- is more active to roll here and there in the bed and sometimes he has bumped his head into the wall
- plays with his hands still be his fave ones and fingers are the most
- learns to sit and stand up with help
- plays with water in the tub
- produces more voices and says "papa"
- loves to smile this months and looks so cute and more handsome.....ooooohhhh......

Moments:
1. 1st X'mas mass
2. attending a friend of Oma's Javanese Wedding Party....and we thought we worn the wrong dress code which mostly they worn batiks....;p
3. meeting college's friends of Mom at Taman Anggrek's Food court
4. gathering in great grandmother's house at Kemayoran to celebrate X'mas

Almost a month, Fritz is having difficulty in eating his meal. Everyday I got heavy stress facing his appetite. I tried many kinds of meal to him and tried to make it easy for him, still he refused to finish his meal. He only ate for 2 or 3 spoons then I should push the spoon to him to eat it. He started lost his appetite when he was going 8th months and it was getting worse everyday. Before, he could eat for 3/4 of usual meal then two days ago he just ate for 2 spoons. Then I should fight with him to finish it and it made him lots of cries....

Today....in Christmas's eve....he can finish his 3 times meals without any cries...Yay!!

I think it's all my fault. I have plans for him, in this month, I was going to make him can eat his cereal rice without being strained. The fact, he couldn't accept it and I got so many refusal from him. Then, I realized it, so I changed my mind. I gave him the strained cereal rice again to him.

Maybe next month, I will be more careful in giving his meal. I will not do it in a rush anymore. I will start softly and smoothly.

I'm sorry, Fritz.....Momma loves you....and always wanna give you the best....;)

Since he was able to sit down (even I'm still holding his armpit to make him stable), I put him again on his tub during his bathing time. He didn't much enjoy it in the first day. Few days after, he tapped his left hand on the water. Then, he likes to splash the water now and likes to play with the floating things there...hahahhaaa...

The picture was taken in the 2nd day of his bathing tub day....and still not really much enjoyed it...

Daddy has a topless partner now at home. It was taken after Fritz was having his dinner. All his shirt was getting so messy so I took it off of him. Then....tadaaaaa.....topless partner of Daddy....

Fritz has been exploring Opa's stick for a long long time ago....When Opa is walking around with his stick, Fritz always put his curiosity on it. He can't take off his eyes from it.

And then his dream becomes true, he can touch the stick with his own free hands.

I didn't get why he were so wondering with the stick....ck..ck..ck...

Since Fritz was a baby, I always did massage time every morning as a bonding between me and him.

Then, as the time goes on, he didn't as enjoy as he was still a baby before.

Now, he became so active and always wanted to move around when I tried to get massage him.

Recently, he showed his refusal during it. He cried along the massage time nowadays and sometimes made me *grrrrr*

Sometimes I put him inside his playpen. Beside for his safety, of course, to make me easier to go here and there to do something (usually preparing the meal for him or washing his dishes) without he realized that I'm gone. He always becomes sooo busy in his playpen coz I put lots of his toys inside it to make him choosing which one is his fave ones.

Talking bout his safety, now, he moves so fast from one side to other sides and that makes us worry if he will fall down from our high bed. Putting him in his playpen, at least, it makes us a little bit unworried even he just wanna play there for few minutes.

Few days ago, Fritz was showing his eagerness to sit down rather than lay in his lazy chair during his meal time. To avoid falling down or something bad happen to him, I decided to put him on his high chair though he wasn't stable enough to sit by himself.

After few days, he got use to with his new high chair. He is able to sit nicely there.

So, his lazy chair will be old fashioned for him. Then...bye-bye dear old chair which always accompanied Fritz since he was 3 months old.

We don't need to buy expensive toys for children actually. With common things around us, they can explore much more than we think. I almost never bought expensive toys for Fritz as we didn't have enough budget to do. If I should buy it, I prefer the useful ones. The toys had we bought was the piano toy with lots of songs and animals' sound (he can listen more than one song and the sound of more than one animal) and the beach ball. And the cost was under one hundred rupiah of course. Heehhehe....The rest of his toys were being given from the relatives that their children have grown up already and they didn't use those anymore. Save the money for the other things it's more important than we buy the useless one, right??

So, Fritz just plays with the common things around him. Such as the remote control, fingers, pillow and bolster, paper, bottles, etc that you can find it around your house. I think is useful to introduce him with the common things around.

Welcoming December month, means Christmas time!

Finally, we arrive to the end of the year and will be coming the new year. I love December so much while half of people in the world celebrate Christmas together. Even Jakarta is not the one who decorate it's city with lots of decorated tree (only malls who decorate it well to attract the people to come) and snow is coming through, but I like the breeze of Christmas.

Long time ago, when I was a little, I always face the Christmas time with decorating X'mas tree (of course), going to the church with family (absolutely!) and raining time (hmmm....love it so much). And I never forgot, I always watched some X'mas movies in TV. It showed Home Alone (ughh...my favorite ones while Culkin was so cute there) and Sister Act. For me it's really complete Xmas ever!

Then during my teenage to adult time, I faced it with going to the church together with friends not with my parents anymore. Having time lots with friends and still never forgot to watch those kind of X'mas movies. Giggling each others and hanging out together with friends.

Now, my X'mas time is changed. I'm a mom and I have a duty to introduce Jesus, Our Savior, is coming to the world for us and to save us from the sin...and also Saint Claus!

Hohoho...Christmas is coming toward us!!

The hardest lesson that people have learned is being a parent and mom especially. Yes we can find lots of books that related to parenting ones but nothing can figure it out how to teach and grow children by facing it with the children. I mean, books contain theories and growing children isn't easy as theories, right!

Since I have Fritz, I'm trying hard to learn lots bout parenting. How to deal with a little born baby until now he is almost 9 months. I was the one who taking care of him in the day. Start from breastfeeding him (of course me is the only one right!), taking a bath and all his preparation of it (prepare the soap, shampoo, diaper, shirt, pants and the pail), changing his diaper all the time he must to change it because of poop or maybe it's so full until preparing his meals.

Sometimes it's quite easy for me but sometimes it made me frustrated. I should face him 7 days 24 hours...means everyday, everytime with Fritz. Surely, I enjoy it so much, though sometimes I really...really need my time...leisure time.

Ahh...time flies fast....and I believe, I'm gonna missed the time with him everyday when he will be a man later. When he will be hang out with his friends or maybe having a date with a girl....

This is Fritz's face when he woke up in the morning. Actually this wasn't exactly the first face when he had just opened his eyes. It was the face when he had woken up for almost 5 minutes after.

He usually wakes up early in the morning, not really early. He wakes up at 6.30 and the late wake is 7.30.
Sometimes he plays with Daddy after that but sometimes Daddy has gone early so left him in his bed.

6th December 2009
Lunch time @ Kampoeng Aer
Alam Sutera

December is coming and two of our families members are celebrating their birthdays. My brother is celebrating on 5th and my nephew in law (ii Ling2) is on 1st of December. Then my mom decided to ask her to celebrate it together in one place. On Sunday, we decided to choose Kampoeng Aer in Alam Sutera as our lunch place.

Fritz spent the day with full of joy and laughter with uncle Tito and ii Ling2...We were in the same car with them and he showed his happiness along the way. We went to BSD junction and Fritz got a new hat with a name in...whoaaah....cute hat he had!

Ingredients:
1 pack of red Agar-agar Swallow Globe brand
600 ml of liquid milk
150 gr of sugar
100 gr of fresh strawberry, roughly chopped

Directions:
- Mix the red Agar-agar, liquid milk and sugar all together
- Stir well until dissolve and cook until it's boiling
- Remove and put in the pudding mold together with the fresh roughly strawberry that has been put in before
- Let stand until hardened pudding
- Serve

Ingredients:
1 pack of Agar-agar Swallow Globe brand, chocolate flavor
2 tablespoons cocoa
600 ml of liquid milk chocolate
100 g of cooking chocolate, chopped
3 tablespoons of sugar
1/8 teaspoons of salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch, dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water

Directions:
- Mix in order the Agar-agar powder, chocolate powder, milk, cooking chocolate, sugar and salt
- Put the pan on the stove, cook until boiling
- Add cornstarch solution, bring to a boil again
- Remove and put in the pudding mold
- Let stand until hardened pudding
- Serve

Recently, I noticed that Fritz really loves to see some advertisements in TV. He always stops his activity and stares at the TV to see those. The most (I noticed) favorites advertisements he loves to are the provider 3 and Samsung Corby cellular phone. He can totally stop his activities when he just only hears the tones.

I even don't know why he can admire those advertisements so much. For me, it's such only an advertisement and maybe for him, it's really so interesting for him. The others advertisements he (not really) loves are Gulaku, XL (cek beiby cek 123) and LG. What an amazing boy I have!!