Little Miracles · Growing Up

Milestone after milestone

October 21, 2009 in Growing Up, Hannah, Milestones | 2 comments

Two days ago, on Monday, Daddy lowered Hannah’s cot level. It was beginning to look really dangerous, the way she would very quickly hold onto the side of the cot and hoist herself up on her feet, sometimes trying to reach over the cot. At that time, the cot side was at the level of her tummy! Now, it is the same level as he mouth…and she has discovered that the cotside tastes incredibly yummy…

At least now I can safely put her in the cot sometimes, when I have to urgently attend to her brother.

My little girl Hannah has been growing up so rapidly the past few weeks, I find that it is inevitable that I need to post a milestone post now before her 8th month update comes along!

She has begun crawling really really well now. Sometimes when she doesn’t see me around and wants to look for me, she will crawl all the way from our living room to the dining and kitchen. If she is in her *manja* mood, she will wail and cry while crawling!
She can stand, while holding the edge of her cot or the couch, or our hands, for support.
Sometimes we have even caught her beginning to cruise!
Since she can now sit steadily, we can put her in a baby chair when we dine outside in restaurants. (soon, when I introduce rusks, she will have more things to occupy herself with)

She has cut her first two teeth! I can see two bottom incisors sprouting!
And she is getting increasingly difficult to bathe. Each time, she will want to grab onto my stool or the bath tub and try to stand up!

Green fingers

October 21, 2009 in Ethan, Growing Up | No comments

Last Friday, when I picked Ethan up from school, he greeted me with a big smile, holding a plastic vase filled with a piece of sponge with some stalks of flowers in it. On the plastic vase was his very own name, and he was VERY proud of it, I could tell.

He told me he made it in school. (I just LOVE all these stuff he brings back from school!)

And when we reached home, he wanted to water it, so I assisted him in sprinkling some water on the flowers.

And then he wanted to give his plant some sunlight. I asked him to put it near the sliding door. He put it there for 1 second and said, “That’s too much sunlight…”

So we put it on our shelf instead.

Last weekend when all our relatives came over for a visit, Ethan was proudly showing off his plant to everyone.

I’m wondering if I should get him new flowers when these wilt away in a few days’ time….

This is the way he writes!

October 20, 2009 in Ethan, Growing Up, Milestones | 1 comment

We do not believe in forcing our child to write or forcing him to hold a pencil or pen, when he is not ready. We would rather he take his time to play and learn and discover it on his own. That being said, Ethan has always loved numbers and alphabets. And he LOVES experimenting, especially on his doodle pad.

One fine evening, he surprised us by using the square-shaped mold from the doodle pad to *write*. He calls it “draw numbers”. At first he wrote 1 and 2, and he was mighty pleased when we applauded. He then proceeded with other numbers.

And writing this was his own idea…watch…

Ironically, that is also how Pete and I write the number 9.

But when I ask Ethan to write 6 after that, he looked at me with those sweet adorable eyes and shakes his head, “I don’t know how to write 6, Mommy!” LOL

Oh, how I love my little boy!

Blowing Raspberries

October 15, 2009 in Funny Moments, Growing Up, Hannah, Milestones | 7 comments

This could be the start of another very very chatty chatterbox in future! 🙂

The Power of Sibling Influence

October 7, 2009 in Ethan, Food & Feeding, Growing Up, Hannah, Parenting | 2 comments

…or is it a form of (healthy) competition?

When Hannah was on medication a couple of weeks back, we asked Ethan to *witness* her taking the medicine using the syringe. By the way, if you are not already aware, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to feed Ethan medicine. He would kick and scream till the cows come home.

Anyway, Ethan was very intrigued watching us feed Hannah. Hannah, on the other hand, was initially receptive of the medicine, but after a few rounds, she knew how to turn her head away when she saw the syringe. Only Daddy knew how to administer the medicine in one swift motion 🙂

A few days later, Ethan started sneezing. So I asked him, “Ethan, are you sneezing?” He said, “Yes”. I said, “Do you want to take some medicine? You’ll feel better after taking it, and then when you are all better, Mommy will take you swimming.” He paused and kept quiet. I continued, “I’ll ask Daddy to shoot the medicine into your mouth like Hannah, okay?” He said, “Okay.”

And I almost fainted.

I asked Daddy to get the medicine ready, and MIRACULOUSLY Ethan allowed his Daddy to give him the medicine without any fuss. After that he downed it all with some Milo.

Therefore, do not underestimate what Hannah can do or influence at her young and tender age. 🙂

I can ride the train too!

October 5, 2009 in Growing Up, Hannah | 4 comments

Thanks to Ethan Koko who very generously allowed me to ride his favorite toy vehicle, the choo-choo train! 🙂 Hannah’s feet cannot yet touch the floor though, but she has a really firm grip on the steering wheel!

Hannah in action (a.k.a. Learning to crawl)

October 2, 2009 in Growing Up, Hannah, Milestones | 1 comment

“I push myself up like this…”

“There…I’m on all fours. Now what?!”

“Eh? Smile for the camera AGAIN??!!!”

“Lemme try lifting my butt up…”

“I put one knee forward…like this, Mommy?”

“Gonna try to sit up on my own now…”

“That looks interesting…wonder what it tastes like…”

She’s almost there!

A wave of delight!

September 30, 2009 in Growing Up, Hannah, Milestones | 1 comment

When we reached Hannah’s sitter’s house today to pick her up, Ethan exclaimed loudly, “Hi Hannah!” when he saw her. Hannah squealed in delight, lifted her right hand up and waved! 🙂

She is SO the sociable little baby!