The Clan

Si Jet udah diajarin buat naik tangga, dia kayanya udah confident, cuman masih belum berani turun tangga, masih suka mikir.

Jet has started learning to walk since 2 weeks ago. KN warned us that it will be hard to watch him in 1-2 months time..

To celebrate Jet’s 1st birthday, Oma wanted to give him a small birthday party in Surabaya. We thought it would be a good time to go back as Ama and Engkong haven’t seen Jet for awhile too. So we flew to Surabaya on the 28th July.

Jet wasn’t eating and sleeping well during his stay in Surabaya. But nonetheless he’s still a good entertainer, Oma, Ciknga and Makco were very happy having him around the house. He managed to pull his best personality when he’s around people, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case when he’s just with his parents.

Oma held a small-ish birthday party for him. It was held on Resto Nine, which is quite close to where I live.

After few days in Surabaya, it was time to go to Ambon, Lina’s hometown. There he’s eating and sleeping pattern have improved, that’s also probably due to the fact that it was rainy and cold for most of the days when we were there. On the first few days, he was ill, he’s got minor fever for 1-2 days, but thankfully it wasn’t anything serious. This time Ama and Engkong also gave Jet a small birthday party. As Ambon has quite a few of beautiful beaches, we had planned to take Jet for swimming, however the weather prevented us to do so.

After about 3 weeks in Ambon, Jet, Lina and Ama came (back) to Surabaya, spent another 4 days there and then flew to Singapore. I think in Singapore Jet and Lina were having their best time for this holiday. Most notable is their visit to Sentosa Island, where Jet finally being able to taste the sea water as well as touching big snake (hii.. ). I was told that Jet also took a liking to San and Lisye’s dog Mavin.

Now Jet is back in Sydney, he doesn’t want to sleep in the cot anymore (as he hasn’t been sleeping in the cot for weeks).. We are planning to get Jet to sleep on his own on a separate room to us, not sure how’s that going to work now.. But we shall see.

Jet is turning 1 today, boy time does fly..

Had a great time today with the Pelitans, there were lots of baloons too..

Jet also has grown 2 teeth this month, couldn’t get a good picture showing his teeth though.

Last easter weekend, Jet came down to Shoalhaven to join the annual Focus‘ Church Camp.

Car trip hasn’t been a problem for little Jet. We’re stopping @ wollongong’s maccas.

Jet enjoys his bible reading everyday too!

On the way home, we stopped at Kiama

I haven’t updated this blog for awhile now, I had been pretty busy and didn’t feel like blogging for awhile.

We went to Newcastle on January long weekend. We had a good time and Jet seemed to be enjoying himself as well.

In the speech department, starting about 2 months ago, Jet had been able to say “mama” and meant it (usually when he cries and wants Lina to pick him up). Couple of weeks after that, he can say “papa” and relate the word to me. In the last few weeks he has been talking quite a lot, he talks to himself and he talks to us, his (baby language) vocabulary has also grown.

The last few days, we tried to get Jet to sleep on his own on his cot, this is still a struggle for us. Usually, he falls asleep at our bed, and once he sleeps, we then move him to his cot. We decided that he needs to start being little bit independent from us and thus trying to get him to sleep on his own. He doesn’t take it too well and now is having a regular crying session (1-2 hours) before finally tiring himself to sleep. We hope that he’ll adapt to the new situation soon and stop crying.

Another concern that we have is that in 2 weeks time there’s church camp, which means another break from the habit we are trying to set for him. Furthermore in 2-3 months time we are going back to Indonesia, which will have a huge impact on the his routine and habit.