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Progress with her fingers at last! She’s finally getting over her ‘fear’ somewhat, and has occasionally reached out to hit her rattle and touch her storybooks. She’s very adept at grabbing my fingers though…I love how she squeezes it so tightly with her teeny tiny fingers (she also grabs my hair and yanks pretty hard…me no likey that… !).

Doesn’t she look like a little boss in this photo? Looks like she’s gonna fire someone (probably me) for not doing a good job…”

As Elena has started to show an interest in books and the TV, hubby and I hunted high and low for a small chair where she can sit comfortably in. My mum saw the Fisher Price Space Saver booster chair at Mom’s Care @ Ikano, but I wanted to hunt around to see if there are other options first before purchasing it. Can you believe it…I went to SIX baby shops at 1U (Mom’s Care branch @ 1U, both branches of Chicco, Mothercare, Bebehaus, JJ’s baby section), and NONE of the shops sell booster chairs. In the end, we drove to Ikano and bought the chair that my mum saw. It’s actually a booster where you can strap onto the chairs at the dining table when baby starts on solids (instead of using a high chair which I’m pretty afraid of coz I’m paranoid that it’ll topple). However, we’re placing it on ground level for the moment so that she can use it as an armchair to watch TV and for us to show her books and flashcards.

Here she is, watching her DVD…

Now that she has her own armchair, I’ve started her on the ‘Your Baby Can Read’ DVD series which I read about at Babylicious’s website (which is a veritable treasure chest of information!). Initially, I expected her to get bored after a few minutes, but surprise surprise…she sat through the whole starter DVD! Since then, I’ve let her watch the show everyday. After three days of watching, I noticed that she would make little sounds or get excited at certain segments…I wonder if it’s because she’s starting to retain information in her head?

I’ve also been the unlucky recipient of many kicks and pinches from her recently. She delights in kicking me in the chest, and the more I pretend to be hurt, the happier she gets… Her fingers are also always on the move, opening and closing, opening and closing, and whenever she can grab any part of my body, be it my neck, face, arm…she’ll give me a nice hard pinch! Unfortunately, my…erm…nipples came in close contact with her fingers recently…she not only pinched, she pulled AND pinched at the same time. Twice. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you…owieee….