Sunday, July 20, 2008

How do you like my hair style?

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The hairdo by Papa... :P

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Ooh... my dream might come true because my baby was carrying the polar bear and danced around with it to Ella's song as it was blaring from the CD player last night. :D

I guess it all boils down to all the dancing we've been doing with ZX since he's about 6 or 7 months. He would squeal with laughter when we carry him bouncing round & round, shimmy and shake.

Nowadays, he will start bouncing, shake his upper body, moving his hands or dance around (literally round & round until he lost balance/dizzy and fell) whenever he hears music. Strangely, he doesn't react to classical music or soft music without the boom boom beat.

~ Mamabee is tapping her feet

One O'Clock Jump

Last week, I was showing ZX how to jump. And so he learns. Initially, he'd just lower himself and got up without lifting feet off the ground.

Now at least one of his feet will go slightly off the floor. And if you're sitting down, he'd come tapping on your knee, utter a sound while pointing to the floor asking you to jump with him.

Hop my little boy, Hop!

~ Mamabee is dreaming her boy will lindy when he grows up...

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Vroom Vroom!

"Chia!" ZX will exclaim pointing to the car zooming along the road down below. Then he'd go "woo wooo" in the up & down sing-song voice which sounded like the vehicle engine and motion. Sometimes he would also say "tik tak tik tak" while doing the clenching his hand and open it up again, this was what my eldest sister taught him a month ago about the car signal.

I wonder if he's relating the sound to the car signal or to the car itself... hmmm.

~ MamaBee loves to hear "tik tak tik tak" :D

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Revelation

I’m resisting writing about the unhappy times and not so glam stuff because I want to look good and also not be reminded by it in black and white… on the other hand, this is a place where I can rant and sometimes realize things when I do spill the beans.

These days, H and I are having difficult times with ZX. From our views, he’s becoming more stubborn, bad tempered and whiny. If things aren’t going his way, he’d whine then cry and throw his tantrums… doesn’t want you to go near to console him and keep on crying… Very often, our patience is really tried. At the point when we lose it (normally not at the same incident), I’d beat his bum or simply ignore him. H is worse, he’d scold very loudly and beat his buttocks hard. Well, what we did only provoke more of his crying. I know this but at that very moment, it can be hard to control our emotions. Ah what an excuse!!

As I look back and try to see things from ZX’s point of view, I can see that he wants to be independent and not be controlled. He’d convey his needs with his baby talk, pointing and body language which sometimes not easy to be interpreted by adults, that add to his frustrations.

So last night and this morning, I went along with him, holding back and just let him be until he’s ready. Guess what… it’s so much easier and without much whining, screams and struggles. He also slept better last night with no nightmares.

It’s really not easy being a parent, much more so being a first-time parent. Teaching and learning is going both ways here, between the parents and the child.

~ MamaBee is guilty as charged.