Wow. Such a longish title of this post.

It’s true. I have witnessed her on how she removes the cover of her feeding bottle for many times, and she’d really drink her milk when the bottle is given to her. This time, her daddy saw that after the cover was removed all by herself, she also knew how to put it back!

Amazing, isn’t it?

Not only that, she also knows how to close and open the “monitor” of her interactive laptop, and, yay, tap the keyboard, too!

Yay!

And so her daddy and I witnessed it at one o’clock in the morning.

She rolled over and touched her feeding bottle, which was on the left corner of the bed. As she was touching it, she was saying something, sort of, “a-ah” to her daddy. That would probably mean, “daddy, please give me my milk!” I told her daddy to give her the feeding bottle. She licked the outside of the bottle with her tongue. She must be very hungry. I told her daddy to let her lie on the bed, and give her the milk. She abruptly sipped the nipple of her feeding bottle. Whoala! She now knows how to ask for her milk without crying!

Amazing, isn’t it? I just am so thankful everyday to God for giving us a very gifted baby.

We just went to the clinic for baby’s monthly checkup. Thank God, she gained weight and increased her height. I was overly worried the past three weeks because she wasn’t drinking her milk well. Thanks God for Green Barley!

Update:

When she woke up at 10a.m. this morning, she did it again. She rolled over, touched her milk. But the most surprising thing she did was to touch the arm of her daddy with her right hand, while her left hand was touching the feeding bottle. She was telling her daddy to give her the milk. Whoala!

A few weeks back, I blogged about my singing baby. She was four months the first time I witnessed how she lulled herself to sleep; a habit she got from me. I always sing to her the Lullaby song or I Do by Mark Wills so she could fall asleep. When she sings, she can really hit the note. Whoala!

This time, we noticed that she is familiar with two songs already – the Lullaby and the I Do. When I say familiar, she can actually sing with anyone who sings the two songs. She does not only hit the notes, but, also she can get the tempo of the music.

Last night, as I was lulling my baby to sleep, I sang the Lullaby song, and she sang with me. I changed the song to sort of vocalization “a-ah-ah!”, and she giggled. She smiled whenever I said the “a-ah-ah!” to its highest level. I sang the I Do, and she sang with me. I sang the Lullaby again, and she sang, too. But when I changed it to “a-ah-ah!”, she would smile and giggle a lot. She knew it’s not a song. She knew that I was making fun last night. Her daddy cried because of happiness. How come a five-month old already knows how to distinguish between a song or not! Alleluia!

Just then, the unexpected happened. She said, “a-ah!” Read the rest of this entry »

My ears smiled. My heart cried.

I said the words, “i love you”, to my baby, which I often do to her.  Then her daddy heard her say it back. I didn’t hear it well. I repeated saying the words, and she answered back the words “love you” for three more times. I was happy I couldn’t cry. Then when she was drinking her milk, I said the words again. In between her sucking of the bottle’s nipple, she said “i love you” or “love you”, and she was looking at me when she said those words. Those meaningful, loving words were directed to me. My throat got dry. Tears welled in my eyes. I cried hard. I covered my face with the blanket because she was looking at me. My hubby cried as well. When I looked at the eyes of my baby, her eyes were misty, too.

I smiled and kissed her. I said sorry for the many times my temperament went wild. I told her once again that mommy’s just extremely worried because she isn’t drinking much milk. Right now, she’s having confusions over her feeding bottles. She thought the nipple of her bottle is the same as her spoon. Oh no. Had I known that feeding her with solid is just like weaning her from her milk, I shouldn’t have given her solid yet. I should have waited until she reaches her 6th month. But, glad that she ate a lot this morning after drinking green barley.

Her daddy pleaded to tell him the words, too, but to no avail. She just looked at me. She may have said early on the words “daddy, dad” but not “mommy” yet, but to be able to hear the words “i love you” is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me. My sleepless nights and restlessness for barely five months now vanished instantly. I felt energized. Read the rest of this entry »