Archive for August, 2008

From sleepless bunny to sleeping beauty

“Still sleeping? It is already 3:00am!” I said to myself, “DD has slept for five hours and skipped one meal. Should I wake her up or not?” Yes, DD can sleep five hours straight at night now. She has transferred from a sleepless energizer bunny to a sleeping beauty. But it took her an entire [...]

tags | datetime August 12, 2008 12:29 pm | comments Comments (0)

Froggy princess

I think DD’s previous life must be a cute little froggy. I call her froggy princess. She likes crooking her two legs when she sleeps. When she is frustrated, she kicks her legs into the air, strongly and persistently. When she wants to get away from my holding, she kicks her legs against my body [...]

tags | datetime August 10, 2008 3:14 pm | comments Comments (0)

Million-diaper baby

Of course DD is not a million-diaper baby, otherwise M and I will go broke (imaging using one million diapers for the first few years of life?) But DD does consume a lot of diapers. Definitely she can be called a thousand-diaper baby. Let’s do a simple math here: Normally children can start toilet training [...]

tags | datetime August 7, 2008 1:14 pm | comments Comments (0)

Baby’s growth, month 1

The following is the checklist DD did during her first month. A lot of her behaviours fall into the last category of “what your baby may even be able to do.”

tags | datetime August 5, 2008 1:23 pm | comments Comments (0)

Never-ending fight againt constipation

I thought I had managed to control constipation. Obviously I was wrong. This time it was much worse than it had been during my pregnancy.

tags | datetime August 4, 2008 12:53 pm | comments Comments (2)

Tricking vs. anti-tricking

DD changed every week as she grew up. How to put her to sleep became one of the biggest issues for me. Each time after I invented or discovered a new trick, she quickly identified it. A seesaw battle of tricking and anti-tricking had been on between us…

tags | datetime August 1, 2008 3:36 pm | comments Comments (0)