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Elena turned four months old this week, and the whole family went out for dinner to celebrate. Gosh, I never knew how tiring it was to just go out for a short trip…it feels like we packed up half her stuff just to go for a two-hour dinner. She cried all the way there (I think she was felt too hot sitting in the car seat), but fell asleep at the restaurant, waking up only at the end of our dinner for her feed. We bought a little cake to celebrate, and managed to take some photos of her and my parents together.

New trick of the week
She’s learning how to hold her milk bottle! For the past week, whenever I feed her (but only when she’s not really really hungry), her hands will come up and curl around her bottle. However, once she has satiated her initial hunger pangs, she’ll start playing with the bottle. How?

1. She curls her fingers around one of the fingers on my hand that is holding the bottle and gives it a good yank. Sometimes, she does it hard enough that I end up dropping the bottle.
2. She’s in a ‘biting her fist’ mode these days. So sometimes, she actually tries to insert her finger into her mouth while the teat is still in there. Once she gains entry, she uses her fingers to push the teat out and then, in goes her fist!
3. She uses her palm to push away the bottle.

Oh, and I suppose I need not mention that she only does it when I feed her?

Sleeping
She’s still sleeping through the night, yay! However, she doesn’t take very long naps during the day unless someone is there beside her. I’ve noticed many times that after patting her to sleep and putting her down on her mattress, she’ll open her eyes slightly and peek out from underneath her eyelashes to check if I’m still around. If I am, and if she’s sleepy enough, she’ll close her eyes, give a contented sigh and fall back to sleep.

On one occasion, I put her down on her mattress only to find that she was still awake and boy…the disgruntled look she gave me was hilarious! And not only that, when she saw that I was looking at her, she rolled her eyes and juling-ed me before closing her eyes (while her mouth was still pursed up in a ‘I’m not satisfied’ look). At that moment, her wai kong happened to walk in. Elena opened her eyes slightly to look at him (but she didn’t move, only her eyeballs moved towards the doorway), and then closed it again, pretending to be asleep. Seeing that she was (purportedly) asleep, my dad walked out. As soon as he disappeared, she peeked out from underneath her eyelashes at the direction of the doorway and smiled. And then she turned back to me and juling-ed me again…

Feeding
Looks like 4oz every three hours is no longer enough. She’s asking to be fed at every 2.5 hours now, so I think we’ll have to increase the quantity to 5oz soon. Breastmilk factory is experiencing a drought due to zero demand…I predict my factory is going to go bankrupt soon.

Development
She loves it when we carry her under her armpits and let her stretch her legs. She’ll give me a huge grin everytime I carry her up! Sometimes, I wiggle her body from side to side while singing ‘La Bamba’ and she smiles every time!

She’s still watching the ‘Your Baby Can Read’ starter DVD…I’m quite impressed that she has been able to sit through the full DVD every single day! I’ve ordered the flash cards from Babyland (Set 1 was unavailable when I was there) and I’ve just received a call from them that the stock has just arrived, so at least she’ll have another thing to keep her occupied during the hours when she’s awake.

And how ’bout Mommy
My hair is DROPPING…‘nuff said.