Ethan's Reaction
One of Mund's aunt is a stay in nanny for a 2 month old baby, and 2 other children. She want to visit us but she can't leave the children at home, so she bring them along. At that time, Ethan was playing by himself on his crib. While we were chatting away in the living room, I heard Ethan crying a little, probably because he's bored cause nobody is around. So, I brought him out to the living room with us, since he like crowds so much.
Then I bring him to see the baby, I tell him that it's a 'didi'. The moment Ethan saw the baby, he dislike him immediately! He cried and threw a tantrum. He doesn't want to look at the baby and kept himself closer to me. Hahaha...I calmed Ethan down, I told him that 'Mommy loves you', and he was Ok for a while. Then he turned around and peeped at the baby, and again, he cried soooo loudly. I need to carry him away...
Could it be jealousy? Well, Ethan is only 3 and a half month old, how could he possibly have such emotions? But how else could we explain his strange behaviour?
Indeed a Blessing in Disguise
For 3 days in a row I need to hide in thick blankets and heavy clothings as I was shivering uncontrollably. It'll occur whenever I start to feel tired with muscles aching. Then, it'll just hit me out of nowhere. It's a very weird kind of sickness. It'll only strike once a day. And how do I recover? I need to sleep it off. I would wake up sweaty and hot, which is actually a good feeling when a while ago I felt like I was in a freezer. Luckily Mund is with me all the time, else I don't know if Ethan can survive by himself.
2 of my high school friends came to visit me and my small lil family. One of them is a flight stewardess and the other one actually migrated here after finishing Form 2. It's a coincidence that 2 of them met up, and this is the 2nd meeting we have together. First time was when I was still pregnant. This time of course the center of attention would be Ethan.
Mund and I thought that Ethan would be a bit shy as we seldom have visitors. All of the sudden there's 3 leng luis (one of them is a friend of my stewardess friend) with us, we thought he would be uneasy. We did inform Ethan earlier that there would be visitors. So, how did he react? He was soooo excited!!! I asked him to call all the jie jie, and he did, at least in his own language. Well you know how the situation can be when there's 4 girls around and Mund as well, it's rather noisy. Ethan liked it so much, he joined in the conversation shouting and screaming trying to outdo all of us. But it just last for a while before he's crying, wanting to get his sleep. Mund and I was indeed surprised by his antics.
Poor Us
Guess what?? Well, everyone is sick. It started with Mund and then it spread to his mom. But, she had gone back to Malaysia two days ago. And then Ethan is down with runny nose and cough and yesterday, I have flu also. I felt sooo cold, that I wore 2 pants, 2 clothes, socks, wrapped myself in 2 thick blanket and cranked the heat up. After popping some Tylenol and slept for like 2 hours, I was feeling better. At least I woke up feeling not as tensed. Luckily I asked Mund to take a day off at work to look after Ethan. I knew I couldn't manage without him. But the sad news is, that got Mund fired. Sigh... I hope that this is a blessing in disguise.
Ouch!
My breast start to be very sore, so I had to put off nursing Ethan. I have to offer him the bottle instead. At first I start with baby formula and he dislike it so much, he cry and scream and reject it. Then I thought it's the formula that he dislike, so I tried to mixed up breast milk with the formula, but that didn't work either. So, the 3rd attempt, I gave him pure breast milk from the bottle, and surprise! He still hated it so much he throwed a big tantrum. Only then I discovered that it's not the content that matters, it's the bottle. After 6 hours of trying, I gave up and let Mund do the job. I went to take a shower and when I returned, Ta-daa! There Ethan is nicely sucking up milk that Mund offered him.
I guess it's the absence of my presence that let Ethan know that there's no other way he gonna get the breast from Daddy. So it's either to go on hungry, or to drink up from the bottle. Even now when he'd started to accept the bottle, it's still harder for me to feed him the bottle compared to Mund. Either that, or Mund is better at disciplining Ethan than me. Maybe Ethan can feel that I give in rather easily compared to Mund.
Up and Up He Goes...Grrr
I let Ethan to be on his tummy everyday to get his daily workout. Nowadays he can lift his head up to 90 degree, but it takes a lot of his effort. Whenever he does that, he'll grunt and make a lot of noises, just like muscleman when they lift weight. It's really cute, cause as if he's really the muscleman!
He also start to have a lot of version of his cooing. I think he'd probably covered all the vowels, you know, those AEIOU thingy. And he normally coo when we talk to him, as if he's having a conversation with us. But don't talk bad about him, cause somehow, as if he understand, he'll put up a sad face or cry. I think probably he's catching the tune or feel of our conversation. But there's one time we were talking about something else, he thought that we were talking bad about him, and so he cried. Haha... and I need to calm him down saying that we weren't talking about him. Funny, ain't it?
