A Baby’s Full moon
My nephew, Jonathan marked his first month of arrival. This day also marks the end of confinement period for the mother as she now is allowed to bath (asif!) and wonder out of the house freely. The feeling is something like getting out of jail after 10 years in prison. Really!
Being an Aunty to Baby Jonathan, I got up early in the morning (asif!) wandering in my garden and neighbourhood picking 7 type of flowers. You will know what is it for later.
The Baby was signed up for a medicure session…
… a pedicure pampering….
… and a new hairdo…
…. and of course the beauty centre which is run by none other than MsJessieling get an angpow. Hopefully she will be as fatt as the figure inside there 😉 . The finger nails, toe nails and hair was wrapped individually with a red paper or angpow packet.
Well, the folklore said that the womb is a dirty thing so after being in the womb for the past nine months, the baby is to remove some of the bad luck by shaving or trimming of his hair. But, but, why want to keep bad luck in red paper? *tsk, tsk*
The Baby was then adjourned to the spa for his flower bath.
Placing of mortar pounder will make him as brave as Tarzan and coins is for properity. Well, how about the flower? Errr…. is it so that when Baby Jonathan grew up, he will have a beautiful wife? *tsk, tsk*
Now, he is a clean Baby adorned in his new clothes. We gave the jewelleries a pass since I’m not into the jewellery folklore. All it, a one month old Baby is treated like a King or the Malay saying, “Raja Sehari”.
Moving on to the kitchen, these are the things to be given as gift to relatives & friends announcing the arrival of the new born. The red eggs looked rather spectacular.
The eggs symbolised a new life and red is rather a auspicious colour for chinese.
Ang Koo Kuih or Red Tortoise Cake means longevity and prosperity.
I was told, the tortoise shape (right in the pic) to be given when you had a baby girl. And when you had a baby boy, you have to gave both shapes. In olden days, the round ang ku (left in the pic) is shape into a cylinder.
The typical Foochow family must have Red Wine Mee Suah.
Fyi, this is not cooked by me. I prefered my broth to be rich in red wine and not so dialuted. However, Hokkien family would not miss on the Yellow Festive Rice or Nasi Kunyit which I cooked for the later evening banquet.
That evening, Jonathan was certainly pictured like an “Angel”, very well behaved and only dissapeared twice to his personal bar for feeds.
Looks like everybody get into the “pass-the-baby” game.
This is my blog, ok. So I get to beautify my own picture with The-King-Of-The-Day *ngek.
… with maternal Grandpa
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… with maternal Grandma
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… with paternal Grandma
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… with Da Yi (Eldest Aunty)
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… with Shan Yi (3rd Aunty)
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… with maternal Grand Uncle (Angpow. Yay!)
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… with Church friends
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(Look at his eyes. Looks like mother hor. Look at his hair so thick. Aiyah, such a beautiful genes. The Mother must produce more babies) Those are the things I heard that night. Crappy!
Here he is, end of the day after drifting in and out. Dozing peacefully none than wiser, being the King-Of-The-Day!
Giddy Tiger said,
November 13, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
I still can’t understand why the womb would be considered dirty lo…
Happy full moon Jonathan!
Kimmy said,
November 13, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
Bravo… another award winning post. Thanks for being a helpful aunt and volunteer photographer on the full moon day. Cheers.
etchen said,
November 14, 2007 @ 5:13 am
Soooo cute!
selena said,
November 14, 2007 @ 5:22 am
congrats to Jonathan on reaching the full moon.
sooo much hair! sooo hemsem! just like his father lorrr 😉
Pink Cotton said,
November 14, 2007 @ 9:53 am
ohhhhhh
now i know why need to cut hair after 1 mth…
then the nails n hair put in ang pow liao give to who leh??i remember my mom kept my umbilical cord in an ang pow long too ‘x’
keeyit said,
November 14, 2007 @ 10:56 am
Baby full moon lo.. congratz.. I can the family full of happiness from the photos you post !
Baby also do not want to cut hair.. Hahaha.. Actually quite hard to help the baby to cut the nail.. 🙂
wuching said,
November 14, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
the womb is a dirty thing? asif!
Purpose of life discovery with Kimmy Sia » Blog Archive » Jonathan’s full month said,
November 14, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
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sasha said,
November 14, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
dirty meh? I love bb smell so nice wan…
jam said,
November 14, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
Wow, the longevity noodle looks so delicious! Now, I can triple confirm you are a foochow. I am too. So rare to find one in blogsphere.
Kyels said,
November 14, 2007 @ 5:44 pm
The womb is perceived as a dirty thing because of certain reasons. Even the labor room is considered a place which is not “clean”.
Anyway, congratulations to baby Jonathan!
😀
Daddy said,
November 14, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
Wow.. Looked like my dear mummy going to get another baby.
jazzmint said,
November 15, 2007 @ 12:48 am
happy fullmoon…wah he really looks like daddy
twin said,
November 15, 2007 @ 2:32 am
hmm i like the smell of babies. he looks like 2-3 mths old .. not at all 1mth. he’s got so much hair .. so cute!
jonzz said,
November 15, 2007 @ 6:15 am
Aww.. nice post. Happy full moon to Baby Jonathan.
jonzz said,
November 15, 2007 @ 6:25 am
Oh, I did your tag by the way.
Baby portraits said,
November 15, 2007 @ 8:06 am
You mention that “the baby is to remove some of the bad luck by shaving or trimming of his hair.” Is this tradition of shaving the baby’s hair very common?
The Queen says: Yeah, it’s rather common but Parents nowadays will trim the hair only. No one like to be seen with a bald baby.
athena said,
November 15, 2007 @ 9:05 am
this aunty very good horr….
Happy Full Moon Jonathan!
Bernard said,
November 15, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Such a cute little fellow. 🙂
Simple American said,
November 16, 2007 @ 3:07 am
Gosh I learned a lot in this post. I just knew about the red eggs and confinement. Neither of which we did. My missus is too modern I guess. I remember the red eggs for my nephew though. He slept through all of his red egg dinner. Now he is in High School.
Wahlau.NET said,
November 16, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
he has the same hairstyle as his father..hehe
Er yi Siew Chyi said,
November 17, 2007 @ 7:11 am
I really missed the fun of celebrating my nephew’s full moon. Jang, thanks for the picture. I feel as I was there. Baby Jonathan can really look and observe at someone so intensely. Kimmy, I can’t waot to see you guys in December. God bless BB Jonathan 🙂
Annie Q said,
November 26, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
Happy full moon jonathan..
Look at the red wine mee suah..slurrp slurrp..drooling….
Eden said,
November 27, 2007 @ 7:49 pm
miss you Jonathan.
miss the ang ku too 😀
zara's mama said,
December 11, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
So many steps to take.. For us.. just makan, take ang pow. X-(
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