Gary Phang & Alicia Lee

Emelee crawled faster and faster nowadays. She is able to look for us in our room when we called her. This few weeks have been busy for us with lots of traveling. Sometimes this has taken a toll on Emelee as her sleeping time has been occasionally interrupted. The next major traveling will be 2 weeks holiday to Shanghai from 1-15 Nov. Can’t wait to see Emelee on the plane! Praise God, most of her air fare has been covered as recently I won some cash in a contest.

(picture on shows with her godmother)

Yes, she can murmur “papa”. Why not daddy? Probably our babysitter teaches her. Never mind, I m happy though.

Today, I am home alone with Emelee. Mummy went to Masjid Tanah, Melaka for a short mission trip. Leaving me taking care of Emelee single handled for the first time today evening and tomorrow. Babysitter looks after her in the morning. So far manageable except her appetite changed today and probably she ate too much porridge in the afternoon. And guess what, she already slept before 8pm during feeding time.

The days we can let her sleep in one location are over. She starts pulling herself up, grabbing on to any available piece of furniture and then standing while holding onto it in a steady way. She also crawled around the house and keeps us busy to ensure she don’t grab whatever within her reach and put into her mouth. She is really energetic lot. ~sigh~

Applied a passport for Emelee for our coming trip to Shanghai. I can say the Immigration department has improved a lot. No more long queues, stuffy office, and sour face officials. It took us only 2 hours to get the application submitted, fee paid (RM150) and passport collected. Enough time for us have our breakfast. And there was special counter for disabled, senior citizens and child below 2 yrs.

Emelee is doing well. Praise the Lord. Nowadays she slept quite early and wakes up early in the morning at about 6am. We let her drink some water and she continues to sleep until 7am. We have begun introducing formula milk to her to reduce reliance to Alicia's breast milk. And she adapted well to different diet - cereal, porridge, fruits.

Time flies. Emelee was already six months old. She is getting adorable as day goes by. Now she knows how to win our hearts with her smiles and antics. She is able to sit upright fairly well now and sometimes trying to stand up instead by holding on to anything within her reach. She starts crawling all over the living hall with ambition of venturing into the kitchen. Seems like the day where we can leave her alone in the same place are over. Thank God she can play at her own in the living hall while we prepare ourselves for work every morning. Of course, we have “natural” alarm every day as she woke up by 7am, by 7:30am she will start yelling at us to bring her out from her room. Solid food was introduced to her and she likes it very much, without resistance as we usually read in articles. Praise the Lord! My overtime nowadays is to tuck her to the bed at night; praying, worship and rock her until she sleeps. And she is getting heavier and it is quite challenging though, my hand start aching.

Pictures taken on 12 Aug.

A face full of curiosities!

Yup, here am I, wishing it myself. How great it is if my daughter, Emelee can wish me blessed father day now. Anyway, my wife has done that today and hope Emelee will do that in future. Blessed father's day to every father on earth. And most important, Blessed Father Day to our Father in Heaven! You really made us proud and blessed!