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Caleb is now almost 6 months old, and weighs almost 8kg... feels really solid, can almost sit up on his own and is starting to get into push-up positions (he is almost ready to crawl).
He knows what he wants and tries hard to get it... he stretches for it, tries to crawl, rolls towards it, and ultimately demands for it if he still can't get it.
He is starting on semi-solids... he knows when he is about to be fed, gets really excited about it, yells if he is not fed fast enough, gobbles everything up and demands for more (explains the fleshy cheeks and thunder thighs!)
He is really quite fun to play with now... responds to your coaxing and promptings, makes noise and laughs out loud, looks inquisitively at stuff, and plants a big wide smile when he sees you laughing and smiling at him.
He has two very sharp lower front teeth... he has already left a permanent mark on my thumb, the meat on your shoulders gives the most succulent bounce that satisfies his gum itch, anything and everything is a teether... can't imagine when the upper teeth comes.
We thank God for such a happy, cute and healthy boy... people who know me will know that his good looks is a real blessing from God :) I do pray too that if the next child is a girl, that she looks like her mum, hehe...

Thumb in mouth! Extremely happy and cheeky!

Pretending to be innocent :)

Always happy... almost always...

Boy boy making Grandma happy

Grandpa having fun with Caleb

Auntie Chin with Caleb!

The famiLEE photos are now complete, thanks to Yoey! So here's Auntie Chin (2nd youngest auntie) with little Caleb. Boy boy was certainly enjoying himself that day, so many grand aunties and grand uncles carrying him. Not to mention the Great-grands as well.

It's not all fats, there are muscles too!

Caleb 'conquering' the big bolster. This is his policy, "Nothing is too big for my mouth! I'll try everything and anything to satisfy my gums!"

Feeling a bit tired, but totally satisfied after that massive struggle.

Up and about again. Inadvertably with something in his mouth :)

A satisfied boy... a satisfied daddy too, had fun taking photos :)

More photos from KL trip

Here's more photos from the KL trip. We stopped over for a few hours in Malacca (Melaka) to recce a few apartments with Caleb's uncle as he is going to be there for a year training to be a pilot. Boy boy was as usual his happy self when he has new things to see. There was a nice evening sun setting over a small airport and I couldn't resist taking a few photos, of which we had to steel our eyes open... so we didn't stay long as boy boy's eyes are still developing.

Check out the fats in my thighs!

Mummy and I in a nice Melaka apartment resort

Is that mummy and me in the mirror?

The 'nucleus' famiLEE :)

FamiLEE

The photos of FamiLEE with the newest member of the family (the previous newest member was Jennifer, wife of cousin Kevin, who both took real good care of us when we were all in KL) are finally ready and posted.
It's a pity though that I didn't manage to shoot any of Auntie Chin with Caleb. Any uncles or aunties has that photo? Can you send it to my email for me to upload onto the blog?
Btw, I'll be sending a CD with the original jpegs to Sydney, so watch out for it :)
See you all again sometime soon!

Grandma and Grandauntie! ... now Great-grandma and Great-grandauntie!

Sabah Yi Poh (Grandauntie from Sabah, now in Perth :)) and us!

Tua Gor (Eldest Auntie) with the 3 of us.

Xi Zeh and Xi Zhim! (4th Uncle and 4th Auntie)

Xi Zhim having a good look at Boy boy...

Gor Zeh and Gor Zhim! (5th Uncle and 5th Auntie)

Gor Zeh having fun with Caleb!

My youngest auntie... Auntie Yen!

Uncle Jeremy, Auntie Yen & Yoey!

Caleb with his new bath tub!

This Rubber Ducky Bath Tub is a portable blow up bath tub that was given to us by 2 friends, Big Boned and Big Wheel. It is only now that boy boy is old enough to bath/play in it. Superb gift, holds water well, comes complete with ducky mouth which makes ducky sounds :)
Thanks ladies for the gift.

Enjoying himself

Caleb definitely enjoys his new bath tub, he has so far not cried at all even though he might be in a groucher mood. A recommended buy, since the friction is quite good and boy boy doesn't slide down, which makes it so much easier and less tiring to bath him. Furthermore, since he likes to sit up and play with the water, being able to do that keeps him happy.

Twins?

I have twin blood in my family, my dad was a twin, which means I might have twins in the future, and this may be how it might look like with twins? :)

Me and my teether

This series of 3 photos show the transition that Caleb goes through with his teethers... first the serene, yummy, 'it's feeling better now' stage. Then comes the 'hmm, the more I bite, the more I feel the itch, need to bite more, it's more itcy, need to bite more' endless cycle till he becomes quite aggressive with his teether and usually becomes quite agitated. Finally comes the 'ok, daddy/mummy took the teether out for me for a while, feels much better now, hehe' stage.

Show you my aggressive look

Did I look cute doing my aggressive look in the previous picture?

Hogging on to the KL photos

Wife has recently accused me of hogging the KL photos and not publishing them for the family to see. I showed her all that I had on my laptop and showed her that I have already posted whatever I had. Was reminded by her in no uncertain terms that Caleb took photos with many individual members of our family (or rather... many individual members of our family took photos with Caleb), so where were the photos?!?!?
I panicked... it my mind, the scenes of my family having fun with boy boy, taking photos with him, making him laugh, many aunties trying to coax him to look at the camera came to my mind. Oh yah! ... Oh no! Where were the photos?!?!? Surely I had not deleted them by mistake?!?! I've always been very careful with uploading, filing and archiving my photos.
Then it came to me, and this time I had the upper hand. The laptop which was brought to KL to download the photos into was not mine, but my wife's! Hah! I calmly reminded her of that fact, and transferred the photos to the rightful laptop.
So to cut the long story short... to the Lee Family... sorry for the late posts of the photos, and here's the reason... I was forgetful :)
Am filtering through the shots now and make sure I only post the nice ones, the 'unglam' shots will be sent to you guys either via email or CD, hehe.

Learning to sit

The series of photos below were taken when we were teaching Caleb how to sit up on his own. It's probably quite difficult for him considering all the upper body fats that he has, hehe. But he has done remarkably well... still needs some support but at least he is enjoying himself as you can see below.

I hope no one is looking at me closely... they might discover that I am actually putting my thumb into my mouth and not the teether. Hehe, it's a clever deception that I thought of myself! Clever eh?

Tired I am, yet, get rid of this itch in my gum I must!

Lining up my teethers... I'm gonna slurp, bite, grind them one by one. 

There's one simple pleasure in life... and that's is to satisfy my gums! 

It's great that I can eat all these things... too bad they don't allow me to eat my thumb, that's the most delicious! 

My very own... 2 bottom front teeth!!! 

Haha, Daddy is so funny... he's a clown. 

Me teething, me bite. 

Practising my freefall stance... Daddy says he wants to do it some day, think I'll do it with him, so I'm practising. 

Spending time with family

After the wonderful time we had in KL 2 weeks ago, last weekend was yet another time of great family reunion and a great reminder of how much we have been lulled into the ways of the world, placing greater emphasis on work, material gains and anti-social entertainment, but have forgotten the ones closest to us, the ones whom we can truly depend on and who will depend on us when things get tough... our families.
Patrick Morley (writer of the book Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror) wrote in his book that we often give most of our time to people who don't really appreciate our time and neglect those who truly need our time. How true... so it was great and wonderful to have been able to spend quality time with the extended family in this past month... all thanks to Kelvin and Karen Lim! A new cousin-in-law has been added to the family!
You'll see Caleb with his 3 generations of Papas below... once again, I thank the Lord for the blessing of Caleb, for him to bring joy to his great grandparents and grandparents. Somehow, he has the wonderful knack of knowing when to put on his best 'show' :)
For any of the cousins that might be reading this blog... let our generation spend more time with our elders yah?

P/S : Scruffy is going into the highly regimented organization tomorrow morning, we're praying that he adapts well and will be a light in a place where hope is scarce :) Scruffy, don't worry, I think you'll look good in green, it somehow makes one look slimmer... you should have seen me when I was in there man!

Caleb with his Papa! 

Caleb with his Grandpa!