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12th dec 2009 - the milk bottle

2010-01-01T22:47:00.000-08:00

everybody has thier first something.....well this is the first for naomi!!! since the big milk dispenser is going back to work, naomi has to practise feeding from the bottle..
she was pretty hungry (as alsways)....so bottle feeding was a breeze for her. the lil t-rex did not put up any fuss!!!!

The Drawing of the Father

2009-12-21T16:13:00.000-08:00

Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest
Dec 22, 2009

The Drawing of the Father

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him . . . —John 6:44

When God begins to draw me to Himself, the problem of my will comes in immediately. Will I react positively to the truth that God has revealed? Will I come to Him? To discuss or deliberate over spiritual matters when God calls is inappropriate and disrespectful to Him. When God speaks, never discuss it with anyone as if to decide what your response may be (see Galatians 1:15-16 ). Belief is not the result of an intellectual act, but the result of an act of my will whereby I deliberately commit myself. But will I commit, placing myself completely and absolutely on God, and be willing to act solely on what He says? If I will, I will find that I am grounded on reality as certain as God’s throne.
In preaching the gospel, always focus on the matter of the will. Belief must come from the will to believe. There must be a surrender of the will, not a surrender to a persuasive or powerful argument. I must deliberately step out, placing my faith in God and in His truth. And I must place no confidence in my own works, but only in God. Trusting in my own mental understanding becomes a hindrance to complete trust in God. I must be willing to ignore and leave my feelings behind. I must will to believe. But this can never be accomplished without my forceful, determined effort to separate myself from my old ways of looking at things. I must surrender myself completely to God.
Everyone has been created with the ability to reach out beyond his own grasp. But it is God who draws me, and my relationship to Him in the first place is an inner, personal one, not an intellectual one. I come into the relationship through the miracle of God and through my own will to believe. Then I begin to get an intelligent appreciation and understanding of the wonder of the transformation in my life.

some ameteur photos of lil t-rex

2009-12-16T01:24:00.000-08:00

the difference

2009-12-16T00:52:00.001-08:00

Spot the difference

Naomi at just a 2 weeks old....

Naomi at 5 weeks old........

the burping process

2009-12-16T00:26:00.001-08:00

Conventional Ways of burping.....
...says that out of 3 methods, the two are:
1) having your 4 fingers on one cheek, while you thumb on the other cheek, while the other hand patting or gently rubbing the back to get the bubble of gas out of baby's little tummy. just like what is shown below.

2) or.....if that doesn't work, and the little one is still uncomfortable in the tummy, hold her up against your chest and gently pat her back to get the darn air bubble out to relieve the uncomfortable feeling......for the parents it probably would be more then just the baby's tummy...they would have to go tru the continuous cries of the poor child. and when the glorious burp do come out......every one is praising our Father in Heaven... in fact....we thank God more for a burp then anything else in the world!!!!

Naomi's way......
is not the conventional way....but rather a more comfortable modified way of the conventional way of burping...

the conventional way is way way way tooooo uncomfortable....let alone suffering the tummy ache!!! little t-rex wants us to spread our palm flat, so that she can rest her little head sideways, while she sleeps and wait for the burp to come out!!!!

what a genius!!! so small yet innovative...anything to get comfy!

full moon

2009-12-15T19:09:00.000-08:00

naomi at 1 month

one month, and with a very satisfied tummy!!!

at 7.30pm on 3rdDec, 4 little friends (cousins) came to celerate naomi's full moon.

Danielle, Debbie, Yohan and Little Enoch are naomi's bfs. ......welll at this point of time...the only friends! well....they all have something in common with naomi,.....when they see me, they have to get their tummies filled too!!!! look at the satisfied looks attheir faces.....so angelic! after makan, all of them also turned to...........
THISSSSSSS............ GREMLINS everywhere!!!!

phases

2009-12-14T03:07:00.000-08:00

little t-rex smiles are like beautiful butterflies fluttering around but disappears fast!!!
however, one day while doing nothing but just staring at her, i managed to capture the different phases of naomi's facial expressions leading to a bawl (or rather a loud ROAR!!)

hmmm am soooooooo comfortable... this is wonderful!

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how the cycle begins...........
phase 1

this is how little naomi looks before she awakes.....you think she is sleeping blissfully sound and will need another couple of hours of snoooooze! but you can think all you want.

phase 2

walah! she's awake....and mind you....this is after 2 microseconds of phase 1!!! the big yawn....shows she is still sleepy and she would just dose off after this yawn...but looks can be deceiving.

phase 3

Naomi realizes she is awake and awake in this really big unfamiliar world!!! she doesn't like it! the facial expression here is proportionate to the noise she is making, which is about 20-30 decibels.

phase 4

wait a minute...whose sitting in front of me and what's that contraption!!! T-rex realizes i am there with a camera in front of me....she stops to wonder.

phase 5

No....she decides she doesn't like this protruding object in front her....and she doesn't quite like the big world, i reckon..... the facial contortion her is still proportionate to the little roar.....hmmm about 50-100 dB.

phase 6

the roar changes exponentially to her crumpled face!!!!! this time it's probably 1000-5000 dB.....or so it sounds to anyone passing by!!!! naomi decides....she REALLY dislikes the situation she is in....and probably her tummy is growling at the same intensity as her vocal cords are!

MoMMMMMYYYYYYY am HUNGRYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

the comfort phase

hmmmmm! yummy and she is really satisfied.......back to phase 1!

this is how t-rex looks after being satiated.

gremlins- week four

2009-11-26T20:19:00.000-08:00

continuing from last entry:

week 4 of little t-Rex's life.

we found out, an even scarier word then 'the burp' ....... it's

COLIC!!!!!!

well, we didn't see it coming, we did expect it but it's here to haunt us.

this is how Naomi looks like normally

Naomi : so cute, pretty and serene.

when she opens her eyes, she looks like this

this is how she is during the evenings, from 7.30pm to 10.30pm or later in the night till midnight.

Naomi....she's a hand full!!! no one can say what causes colic and the worse thing there is no cure to it!!!!!it's crying session non stop and this t-Rex can roar really loud, for 3 hours!

mother-hood to a baby dino (naomi)

2009-11-22T20:26:00.000-08:00

the blog, was actually supposed to be about geology and and prehistoric stories about dinosaurs, rocks and sediments.......but as what EVERY new parent will start.... they'll start a blog about their newborns..... i gather, they will do this for a year or two, before they give up, until they get the second child! so this is again to another new beginning..... a very tiring but rewarding one, but nevertheless challenging and patience trying. the first day of Naomi, was WOW.....thank god labour pains don't last in geologic time scale!!! God is gracious. Nov3rd 2009, Naomi Mary Thomas was born. she immediately latched and i was the happiest mother!!!! she is adorable and very cute.....only to know that in couple of weeks time, she had turned into t-rex!!!! first week she latched and didn't let go. but that was good, because milk was stimulated and breast feeding was not as hard as some say....there was enough milk for baby.

Naomi just 2 hours on earth

dad, mum and new earthling....naomi

at 1 week....... naomi was latching and growing and also turning yellow!!!! i checked as soon as she was born, she was not green and thank God she didn't have tentacles!!!!! but now....she was turning yellow. thank god the jaundice was just mild. no need for photo therapy. naomi was latching.....but non stop!!!! soreness started...and i began to understand the many woes of a mother in breast-feeding....by the grace of god, my wonderful hubs and bestest friend was there ALL the time, every minute trying to help me elevate the pain. He is such a darling!!!

naomi's 1st bath at home!!!!

changing her clothes seemed impossible..cos she was so small we thought we were going to break her limbs. little did we know later...that she LOVES bathing...... with very minimal noise from the parents, grandparents or the person bathing her......

infact, she loves silence at ALL times......so NO baby talk, or cooing....this t-rex dislikes all these immensely!!!!

at 2nd week, naomi was latching for long hours and also crying!!! ALOT!!! i know we will never know why!!! drinking was about at least 2 hours!!!!! talking about drinking machine!

at 3rd week.....she was drinking and also crying alot....but now....she also wants to be burped!!!!!!!!!! the blessed burp is more precious then diamonds i tell you!!! the sound of it is sweeter than U2's or any christmas carol!

burp!!! we need enormous amount of patience to get it out....if not we'll suffer!!! the BURP!!! it's scary!

guess who's feet are these?

i have more to write...but am just so sleepy and tired..... so will continue when..when...i don't know..maybe when i get our 2nd dino!

I am NOT the centre of the Universe

2009-09-22T19:06:00.000-07:00

Just recently....i was having a really good conversation with my bestest friend...about how, nowadays youths, tweens and even the twenty-somethings were so often inward looking... and everything is just 'me. myself. and I'. He also made me realize than even the TV programes, the new cartoons, the movies for 'kids' have characters that only concentrate on the individual character! every body wants to be like Hannah Montana or rather the actress' personal life or worse still, Zack Efron (whoever he is!). A four year old girl, told me one day, she wanted to be Hannah Montana!!!! she was only 4! what's she gonna do? wear lipstick and tight fitting leather pants and jacket and walk around the mall now? well she may...and what have these so-called 'examples' done to be followed so ardently? did they help the poor or fly to the moon? nooooooo they just looked good and pretty in their newest outfits and because of their good-looks had a lot of friends/fiends!!! worse still all they concentrated was how they looked, whether they were made happy that day or whether they got their prized 'catch' for the day or not!

where as in the 80s and 90s in comedies and kids shows, we never even bothered who were the characters or the actors or actresses....all we remember was the story line and the message the director of the movie/tv series was trying to tell the tv addicts. I don't remember who acted in 'different strokes' or 'the cosby show' or 'the famous five'......but all i remember was their good story lines and life's lessons on how to live as a community of people in this world! although, i've come across recently, good cartoons and movies like 'Up' or 'the story of desperoux' (i can't even spell the mouse's name!!!) that had really good story lines, and character building messages. of course.... these cartoons and movies won't make it to the highest top 10 movies, and probably won't last long. even transformers the cartoon which was loved due to the original cast of just a trailer that changed into optimus prime, is sadly....oh so sadly, adulterated and hollywoodified by the blasted female character which had no place and right to be in the movie! how sad!!! i know the boys were definitely NOT looking at the vehicles....but just talking about her after they saw the latest movie!!! how sad, again.

Even in blogs of some and books...people talk and talk and talk and write gazzillions of words about themselves, and how the future is so bleak for them...or how others should do things for them so that they should be comforted by acts of others. there is no such thing as 'what am i going to do for so and so to help them get tru the day?' what am i gonna do for the poor boy who just passed by me smiling his widest smile wearing only torn clothings, hoping i give him a penny for some sweets he's been eying for a few days?' or that lady who passed by me counting the few coins she had, so that she could buy a school bag for her std 1 child who was starting school the next day?'

I am NOT the centre of the world.....ppl, i think it's time to live knowing and realizing we're NOT the centre of the world.

and for all those who live sacrificial lives like our parents, pastors and achens and brothers and sisters, friends who are around me to remind me than i am not the centre of the universe.....kuddos to you!!! thank you for being my hanna montana and zack effron.

here's a good devotional from RBC. please read

copernican moment
Sep21by poh fang chia

He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through Him and for Him (Colossians 1:16).
Psalm 33The Lord’s plans stand firm forever; His intentions can never be shaken (v.11).

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a theory that marked one of the starting points for the scientific revolution of the 16th century. His hypothesis was: The earth is not at the center of the universe.
Recently, I had what for me was a “Copernican moment.” I was reminded that I am not at the center of the universe. The world doesn’t revolve around me. When I’m busy, work still piles in. There are still needs to be met and family matters to attend to. In short, I say anew that the world doesn’t move at my pace, in my terms, nor in accord with my preferences.
Though we might wish it to be otherwise, life is not all about us. For the world was created to revolve around God, not people. In Psalm 33, we read that:
• All nature revolves around the Lord (vv.6-9). He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the ocean in vast reservoirs. He spoke and the world began. It appeared at His command. It operates in accordance to the laws He has set.
• All nations revolve around the Lord (vv.10-12). All plans and schemes cannot stand up against God’s. Ultimately, it is the Lord’s plan that will stand forever. His intentions can never be shaken.
• All lives revolve around the Lord (vv.13-19). God sees the whole human race. He made our hearts, and He understands everything we do. And He has the power to intervene in our lives and deliver us from situations spinning out of control.
We need to live a God-centered life, not a self-centered one. As we revolve around Him today, let’s submit to His commands and follow His ways.

leaning something new.... or re-learning something old.

2009-08-20T02:28:00.000-07:00

i think the best thing a human or anything close to a homosapien can do during it's, his, or her free time is to learn or study something new......
this site i found in the internet is one of the best sites to go during free time....or anytime when you think you are free...

http://www.brainpop.com/

dinosaurs taken from national geographic society

2009-08-18T03:14:00.000-07:00

cool dinosours from cretaceous to jurassic!!!!!

First Times

2009-08-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

This would be my few firsts.......
1) being on line in our own house
2) having our own dial in phone.......in our own house
3) trying this outlandish idea of blogging..... i wonder how long this blogging business will last for me.