This is such a long post it took me almost 3 weeks to write. I wanted to publish this on 1st of January lols.
Most of the pictures and recollections are from my Dayre account, which I updated every single day for the whole of 2015. This is also why I hardly blogged here hehe.
I guess it’s a really quiet 2015 as I am no longer working full-time. Just picking up temp jobs here and there (stuff that I could do at home) and blogging of course. I did lunch catering and supplying yummy pork cracklings to a watering hole for a few months due to my sudden existential crisis brought on by full-time motherhood. I really enjoyed it but I have since stopped due to cost factors (GST and rise in tolls are real!!!). So anyway, if you have any writing jobs etc please show them my way, thank you very much!
Sorry I digressed. 2015 was nice year, I really enjoyed watching Liam hit all his milestones and becoming the cutest toddler in the world hehe as you will about to see too.
Again I remind you, this is a lonngggggggggggggggggggggg post so please empty your bladder before reading (I assume all 3 of you are interested in my life!).
January 2015
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It’s been more than half a year after Liam was born. We finally got to have a proper family outing after many months of house arrest due to Liam’s prematurity (his doctor advised us to stay indoors for a whole year but we could only manage 8 months). So what did we do for our first outing? We chose to have tea at Carcosa Sri Negara. It was really nice to dress up a little and hang out with my fambam :)
January is also a month where Liam got a mysterious insect bite under his eye. He looked terrifying lol. I was surprised by how calm we were about it, I guess after going through those weeks in NICU, a little swelling under the eye felt like a breeze haha. We did read up a bit and it’s probably just his young baby skin’s reacting to an ordinary mossie bite as he still had not developed antibodies towards them.
And it’s the month he started to get very amused by ME! :)
February 2015
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A lot of firsts for Liam in this month. I know this post should be mostly about me but really, who are we kidding? His life is my life now hahaha.
February was the month Liam celebrated his first Chinese New Year! Doesn’t he look like a proper chinese person? Heheheh.
Had CNY dinner with the girls and it’s the first time Liam was properly introduced to them. He was very charming and well-behaved :)
Liam’s first exposure to banana leaf rice! He was such a darling, charming all the waiting staff as usual.
He also took his first shopping trolley ride and loved it.
And I have to include a picture of him having fallen asleep while touching his toe. Too adorable!!!!
March 2015
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In March, I wrote a blog post on the reasons my son cries. Please read it cause it’s funny!
Liam experienced his first baby spa with his buddies. He absolutely enjoyed it, the massage and the swim.
Look at how happy he is getting a butt rub hahaha
His first tooth started to sprout around this time too.
This is also the month where he started “talking”.
He also started to pull himself up to a standing position.
March is also hubs’ birthday month so I took him to a French restaurant to celebrate. Liam was very well-bahaved, I was so proud of him!
We had a family photoshoot with the talented Samantha Yong.
April 2015
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Liam chilling by himself while me and hubs went to play some stupid game at Tesco.
He got very friendly with his own reflection :)
April is also the month we had to lower down his cot cause of this….
One of the hardest things I had to do was throwing away all these frozen milk that I produced. Was too lazy to thaw them for bath etc and I needed space pronto so in the bin they went :(
Someone also started to develop a temper with arching back and all.
Liam finally learnt how to crawl.
And he also knew how to use the walker with some assistance.
But not that great at it….hehehe.
May 2015
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In May, I went for a 2 hour foot massage with a baby strapped to my chest. I was nuts and I will never ever do it again lols
And then got further value with a foot spa at home. Thank you Charlie’s poop.
I celebrated my first Mother’s Day. Hubs took me to Mei by Fat Spoon for a nice lunch.
Hubs also took us to Cherating for a Mother’s Day treat. It’s Liam’s first beach experience :)
We took Liam to swim at a friend’s condo. He got submerged for the first time.
We even got his WTF expression underwater lols.
We brought him to Daddy’s barber. He’s been many times since, hope he gets familiarised and won’t throw a tantrum when the time comes for his first haircut (which is a long time away at this rate hahaha).
June 2015
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I started SnapChat and I still love it now. You can follow me at kimberly.low you will find lotsa videos of me and Liam haha
Baked my first red velvet cake and gave it all to my lunch catering customers.
Certainly a special month as we celebrated Gareth’s first father’s day :) I took him to a nice seafood restaurant and we had a proper feast!
Bub took his first mall ride and loved it!
Liam was beginning to show a good sense of humour. Here he laughs at his own yawn hehe.
Liam started to become more exploratory, which means….more getting stuck lols
Here’s one..
Another one…
And another one…
July 2015
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My favourite month because it’s my birthday month! And also Liam’s. And also my best friend Jayna’s :)
First we celebrated Jayna’s birthday. Jayna is Liam’s godma.
Liam ate strawberry for the first time. He hated it.
We did waterplay at home. I am obviously posting this picture because I will never get to keep these boobs forever.
Got my son his first passport.
Liam learnt to get down from a sofa, finally!
He also ate crackers for the first time.
And he has the perfect tongue dance hahaha.
Hubs got me an Anova precision immersion circulator for my birthday….which means I can sous vide food at home now!!!!
And then he treated me to a fabulous dinner at Dewakan. 13 courses with a baby, we were pretty damn brave and crazy.
Liam also celebrated his first birthday! Here, he’s holding his birthday card from granny Susan.
August 2015
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First we had a party at home to celebrate Liam’s first birthday. His adjusted age was only 10 months but who’s counting? Haha.
Then we flew to Europe for a 3 week holiday! I blogged about Liam’s inaugural flight.
Liam met Aunt Jean for the first time.
Had a picnic with granny Susan by River Severn.
Liam finally learnt how to clap his hands to “If you’re happy and you know it” song.
Of course, there’s no shortage of Liam getting himself stuck…. this time on top of a suitcase lols.
Besides England, we drove to France (Dunkerque), Belgium (Brussels, Westvleteren, Ieper and Antwerp), Holland (Rotterdam and Amsterdam), Germany (Villingen-Schwenningen) and Switzerland (Schaffhausen). We did a lot of driving and Liam was, for most of the journey pretty good.
Here, he moved to the music we were listening to in the car.
And also visited LooLoo, my best friend and maid of honour who now lives in Germany.
Looloo took us to Rhine Falls in Switzerland, what a magnificent sight!
I also joined the Bersih 4.0 in London while babywearing Liam and we took a picture with Clare Rewcastle Brown. Hope 2016 is a better year for our country :(
And we had a family tongue dance in London’s Primark haha.
September 2015
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Liam ate his first chicken nugget OMG!!! It took all my mental strength to not freak out and remove it from his hand haha.
In this month I baked my very first cinnamon rolls. So delicious and easy I should make them often as it’s so much easier with a breadmaker to do all the hard work of kneading and proofing. But I have yet to make more hahah #lazy
Liam got stuck, what’s new?
He’s also taken to giving me heart attacks every now and then. Here he’s climbing up the sofa like a monkey.
And this lucky boy also got to meet the celebrities in the form of Hi-5. He doesn’t know it yet but he will probably be very thrilled with this picture one day :)
October 2015
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This is our wedding anniversary month. We didn’t do much but I felt much loved as the husband bought me the holy trinity of nasi lemak for anniversary breakfast…paru, sotong and seeham :)
Liam also got stuck on top of the footstool. Sometimes he forgets that he knows how to get down.
Doesn’t stop him from getting onto the footstool all the time though….
And boy has he developed a character. He learnt how to say no at mealtime grrrrr
And that’s why he deserved to be bullied by his father hehehehe
November 2015
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November started with Liam getting stuck. Yeap.
I even have a video hahaha. Great parenting eh?
Hubs took me to eat at In-N-Out popup restaurant. We found out about it quite late and made it in the nick of time. In fact we were the last customers before they closed up! Worth the drive.
I sewed a pair of shorts for Liam….it was horrendous. He was horrified as you can see.
This is also the month that Liam had fevers for a few days and eventually admitted to hospital for a night as there was a dengue scare.
Fortunately it wasn’t dengue and he probably was just having a particularly bad teething phase.
We found out that he was suffering from diet related anaemia though as I hadn’t fed him much meat except for fish…I felt quite shitty for being so stupid. Now he gets meat everyday!
Had a babycino after getting better. Not his first but he’s too cute in this picture!
And finally, Liam walked properly for the first time!
December 2015
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Before we knew it, it was December.
I attempted to make pulut panggang. Too much work, haha I will stick to buying them in the future!
Liam went to his first book fair. He had a ball pushing the plastic trolleys all over the hall.
He also pooped on the throne for the first time, yipeeee!
I made mince pies for the first time. The mince was storebought though #cheatbake
Liam and I dressed up as flapper girl and newspaperboy for a prohibition era party :D
Had our annual Xmas party and it was wonderful :)
Liam ate lemon for the first time and he was unperturbed by it haha
He also learnt how to get down from out extra tall bed. It’s quite scary to watch but he does it like a pro now.
Hubs took us for a staycation in KL to usher in new year. We didn’t get to see fireworks though cause they closed the rooftop a few hours before midnight -__- but we had a nice time swimming when it reopened the next day. Don’t ask me where this hotel is cause I will not recommend it haha. I am sure you can find it yourself if you’re resourceful enough.
Me and Liam eating traditional local desserts from a stall in KL. We had so much fun playing tourists in our own city :)
So there…my review of 2015 done. Did you read everything? I think 3 weeks really isn’t so bad for a post this long haha. As promised, it’s really more about Liam than me haha but that’s alright because he is my life <3
I don’t really have resolutions for 2016, I just wish to be a better person, better mother, better friend and a better wife. And sew some stuff my family and I can wear out in public.
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To read about my highlights in previous years, click:
2008
2009
2010
2011 (this one was a cheat, honestly was too broke saving for the house until no activities hahaha)
2012
2013
2014
what a nice post! such a joy to see throwback pics of Liam in his chubbiness again! cant wait to see more sewing from u. woohoo!
Yes. I read all the way through. So nice to see the pics of the lil man growing up over the months. Here’s to a better 2016.
You’ve done way better than me. Blogging is almost fading away in my life now with work & baby & life. Keep it up.
Try Dayre! Much more manageable with a bub.
Kimberly, What a great year you, Gareth and Liam shared. 2016 will be more interesting and exciting. Liam will soon utter first words, by the end of this year he will speak in short two and three word phrases.
You and Gareth will grow as a couple and family!
Looking forward to your life and it’s adventures!
i’ve said it once and i’mma say it a million times (again)— I’M IN LOVE WITH THE LIAM!!!! wahey…! can i come hang out with you and your kid some time?! :D heh! i’ll never forget dropping your gift off from bookaxcess at nearly one in the morning with your crazysmiley lil dude still up and bouncing! WHAAAA? you and g are the coolest moms and pops EVAHH. lots and lots of love to you, kim. thanks for being as amazing as you are. i’m so glad i got to know you. more power to the davies’ in 2016.
BIG FAT HUGS & KIZZEZ!
I took 5 days to read and comment. Haha! I actually opened this a few days ago and looked at the photos. I started to write a reply then realized it would be too long so I put it off till the next day.
I read the entire post then next day and thought it’ll be too late to formulate a response so I left it for the next day (again). After the second procastination I got caught up in work and your post was open in my browser for 5 days before I finally sat down to comment today.
It’s really good to hear about your year, it seems like an awesome one and you’ve really taken to your new role as a mom. It’s really heartwarming to see that, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I like the video of you making him laugh, you look exactly the same as when I’ve first met with you. No joke, you haven’t aged a year! It’s amazing…you really look as awesome as you did 10 years ago, Kim.
Eh, I’ve never seen a baby spa before. Interesting, didn’t know there was anything like that.
What a waste of the frozen milk! Someone did it in London (made ice cream out of human milk) in Convent Garden (I think) a few years ago before it was pulled by health and safety. I’ve never tried it before, was offered it once, by a coworker but I didn’t know her very well so I politely declined. I would have loved to try yours though coz I know you (at least in my mind).
The underwater shot is nice, reminds me of a cover for a Nirvana album, it was a stock photo of a baby swimming after a dollar bill.
Kai’s Plato is literally beside my place. I live in Cascades, the building next to it. I have walked over for lunch and dinner before (not to Kai’s though). As such I also recognize the mall where Liam took his rice, Encorp Strand. It’s always very quiet, I only got there for haircuts.
You look fabulous in the inflatable pool. But then I think you look awesome in the nasi lemak shot too, you have really good genes and you don’t age much. Also, you’re always so slim. It’s a good thing.
Oh, and I didn’t hear about In N Out coming here either. I’m really bad with grapevine things like this – no one tells me and I don’t bother browsing FB for fun so I’m always a bit clueless. I’ll love to go to things like these though, PM me if some interesting pop-up ever happens.
Lovely Christmas photo! Take care Kim! :)