Rabong!

Dear Baby,

Yesterday was the first day of the fasting month and a public holiday and you got to be with mommy and daddy all day. Mommy also decided to try and fast and hopefully it won't affect your milk supply as much. You were nursing all day yesterday, mommy noticed didn't leak at all. I don't know if that's a good thing. And you had a very long nap of almost 4 hours, it helped with mommy next to you to nurse you back to sleep.

In the evening, we walked over to atok and nenek's house as there is a family function. We all wore red just for the heck of it. You were running around playing with your cousins and various family members belonging, mainly keys and mobile phones. Mommy gave you a slice of watermelon which you ate while playing. When it was time to break fast, there were catered food and mommy took for you a spoonful each of the two different rice that was available, some chicken off the bone, and bamboo shoots (rabong). Needless to say for the relatives that hadn't seen you eat before were surprised to see you eating them. They were just generally surprised that you ate by yourself anyway. All mommy did was put the food on the plate and placed it on the coffee table for you, and you would pick on your food as you toddle along doing all the various things you seem to do.

It was the first time you ate bamboo shoots. The first time was at Nini Noi's place when she cooked it for dinner, you just woke up from a nap and didn't want to be with anybody and sat on mommy's lap, and mommy was eating rabong and you had your plate of food too but you decided you wanted to eat off mommy's plate and took the rabong and kept on taking more as you finished the ones in your hand. Nini Noi and Nini Boy had a good time telling the relatives what you have been eating during one of the many family functions we've attended past month or so.

It was during one of those family functions that one of the relatives saw you eating a slice of cucumber, and she went all huffy and said oh it's not good for you and suggested for you to be given a slice of jelly desert instead because it is 'soft'. I think between the cucumber and the jelly, cucumber wins hands down. And that's when that particular relative got a list of all the food and vegetables especially, that you have been eating. They were surprised. Babies don't eat such thing they say. Well, this baby does.

In a few days we're going to have dinner with a friend of mommy's who's daughter is your classmate in your Kindermusik class, we'll go straight after class ends. I wonder how dinner will be like for all of us...

Love,
Mommy