Jed's Full Moon Party 满月 🌕

So it's supposed to be tradition to celebrate the baby's first month. We had a 满月 (Man Yue a.k.a. Full Moon) party for him at home. We didn't have one for Shane when he was a month old because we just moved to Philadelphia and had no friends. Since we are now in New Jersey, and we have some Singaporean Kakis that we hang out with, I thought it might be nice to throw a mini party.

We invited the Liwosos, the Humberts, Lee Teng & kids, Lynette & Family and our next door American New Yorker neighbour who loves different culture and traditions. Mum cooked a whole variety of food from sticky rice to curry chicken to Sardine sandwiches which we had not eaten since we were kids. I made a tray of red eggs (that I guess symbolised prosperity). We also sort of put some decoration up with the photos that Kalai took for us a few weeks back.

The feast cooked by Mum

With the Liwoso Kids

Jed slept throughout the party. But I'm sure one day, he will see what he missed out on (probably not that much... lol)

My 9month old baby!

Shane turns 9 months today. We are so very excited because that's 3/4 of a year old! 

Over the last 2 weeks, it seems like he's suddenly caught up with his developmental milestones and surpassing them too. It's like one day, he decided to start crawling. 2 days later he's tarted standing and walking (assisted). Just this morning we woke up to find baby Shane standing up between us. Somehow, he managed to get up  with nothing to grip on. And he's also learnt to sit down slowly instead of plopping down on his bum. Very very proud of my little one (which parents wouldn't be proud of their kid...).

Baby Shane is now starting to like most of his toys (I used to think I had wasted my money on a lot of his toys. But now that I see him actually playing with them, I feel that it's all worth every penny spent!) and he's definitely taking a liking to the new car he's got!