Dear Dyl Dyl,
The milestone of the month is FLIPPING! You have perfected turning from back to tummy on the bed – but not the other way round so you would call for us when you get stuck. With your newfound abilities, you shift(sometimes rotate) a lot more in your sleep. This is very disturbing to the newfound light sleeper aka your moma.
This month, you have discovered your feet! And what a “sock”-pulling experience it has been. Your yanking off record time is 5 seconds for booties and 30 seconds for socks. Precisely the reason why I bought only 2 pairs of booties. Come to think of it, your 5 pairs of mittens lasted you for 6 weeks before it became impossible to keep it on you; awake or asleep. The elders have advised to keep you healthy, you should have your feet covered all the time till you are at least 6 months old. What shall we do with a 4 month old who yanks his socks off all the time? Solution: Put it on while you are asleep. (Results: The advise WORKS! He didn’t fall sick in the first 7.5 months except for 1 time he was running a slight fever after immunisation. Before 10 months old, he fell sick twice at 7.5 and 8.5 months old.)
These days, you are more aware of your surroundings and watch our faces very intensely. However, you havn’t seem to notice the dogs. You are not all clueless though. On the day of the World Cup opening, you napped for 3 hours in the evening in anticipation to watch it and refuse to sleep at your usual 8pm bedtime.
You have been spending more time in your cot than I would like you too. Correction. YOU spend almost ALL your time in there. It’s your sleep, poo, pee, drink, play area. YES, your NEW pattern to lie down in your cot to drink your milk. There was one day this interactive bubbles read a chinese story to Grandpa and he flipped a page to prove his point. From then on, book on his right, playgym on his left. To encourage you to practice flipping and improve your motor skills, she added a piano for you to play. This keeps you entertained while Grandma get busy with her chores. Since you came home, Grandma advocates responding to you when you cry so that you grow up to be a happy and independent little boy. There is no way a newborn can manipulate adults. She’s right. You could self entertain yourself for as long as 40 minutes with this arrangement. In turn, we give you loving koala bear hugs when we carry you upright.
(To upload cot playgym video)
To further prove her point, you wouldn’t scream your head off when we do not give you attention.
In these 4 months, the only investments we made for your playtime is a battery operate fan, playgym and Sophie. It has been fully optimized several times a day and it is really all you need for the first few months. I figured this will keep you busy till you have learnt to crawl.
What I am most pleased about is I have been latching you once a day. The closeness, the tingles running through the body, the bonding. It’s AMAZING! There is no way I can describe that feeling. There was one morning I couldn’t have a letdown. You happen to wake up so I latched you to empty the milkbar. With soft morning rays shining in, trickling of water from the pool and birds happily chirping outside, it set the ambience for mother-son bonding. I am falling more in love everyday.
Love you more and more each day,
Moma
