yes, anton CAN

 

YOU TURNED SIX MONTHS TODAY

 

you can

 

 sit unassisted for brief periods

 



 

respond when your name is called

start to crawl on all fours

 

touch your foot
(and suck it too!)



 

 

play peek-a-boo

squeal in delight

giggle and coo!

 

 

 

and yes,

we've given you

your first

sweet potato!

 

 

happy half year

belluzzo

mommy and daddy
 are so

proud of you!

 

 



happy half-year!

Good morning world! I am 6 months old today!
 

You give us immeasurable delight

You make us realize our infinite capacity for love

You show us reservoirs of strength we didn’t know we had

You teach us patience

You instruct us in humility

You coax us into pure silliness

You draw us to take this world and ourselves less seriously

You drive us to strive to become better human beings

You lead us to look beyond ourselves

You open our eyes to see the grandeur in the mundane

You unravel to us the infinite complexity of the universe.

 Thank you for blessing our lives, little one.

 

flashback: anton lee @ 5 months

"Most of us would do for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves."
                                                     - Polly Berrien Berends

5.25 months

5.5 months

5.75 months

 

flashback: anton lee @ 4 months

"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness"
                                     - Charles Baudelaire

4 months

4.5 months
(thank you tito sven and tita cris for my cool toy!)

4.75 months

flashback: anton lee @ 3 months

"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback look. The more you give, the more you get, and the more you feel like giving."



                                                                   - Penelope Leach

3 months

3.25 months

3.5 months

flashback: anton lee @ 2 months

"I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him."
                                                             Margaret Drabble

2 months

2.25 months
(thank you tito ed, tita alpi, and sam for my shirt!)

(Uber delayed posting)

2 ½ MONTHS!

You are growing fast Anton Lee Thomas! When we went to the paediatrician 2 weeks ago, you already weighed 4.1 kg and measured 55 centimetres (about 22 inches). You are no longer a newborn fragile little pebble … you are now our huggable, squeezable, adorable belluzzo.

2.5 months

You had your second set of shots two weeks ago. You’ve had your DTaP (contains diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and an acellular pertussis/whooping cough vaccine), IPV (polio vaccine), and Hib (vaccine aimed at thwarting the hemophilus influenza) as well as your second dose of Hepatitis b vaccine. You quickly amused yourself looking at the toys at the pediatrician’s clinic and when the doctor gave you the shot, you cried once and quickly settled down. We carefully watched you the next 24 hours and we were relieved that you took the vaccines without any adverse reaction.

Mommy has gone back to work two weeks ago. Sorry belluzzo, Mommy has to wake you up early. She wants to bathe and feed you before she leaves home. We both sleep in during weekends.

You still wake generally twice during the night. You have a habit of smiling after feeding that Mommy can’t help playing with you a bit before she sends you back to bed.

We have also increased your milk intake from 2 ounces to 2.5 ounces every 2 hours. Your lola, who stayed with us the first week Mommy went back to work, has noticed that you are still quite hungry after each feeding. She was right. Since we’ve increased the volume of your milk, you have ceased screaming after having your milk.

2.75 months
(hey ninang Kat, that's you holding me!)

You are now starting to slowly crawl. You can raise your head now while on your tummy and can move yourself 360 degrees. You are also learning to grasp things. You can now hold your toy zebra for brief periods.

Your favourite toys the past two weeks: Giraffe and Penguin, who can give Vanilla Ice a run for his money.

flashback: anton lee @ 1 month

"What gives mother love its difficulty and grandeur is the fact that it implies no reciprocity."
                                                                       - Simone de Beauvoir

1 month

1.25 months

1.5 months

1.75 months

flashback: anton lee @ 0-4 weeks

 "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

                                                        - Plato

2 days

1 week

2 weeks



3 weeks

4 weeks

 

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Shamzz and I (part 2)

Sanger5, see how much Anton has grown (and how Shamzz has managed to retain his size)! Ha ha.

1 week & 3 days

5 months & 3 weeks

give me an "A"!

You started crawling around your second month, sliding yourself this way and that like a little uod.  It did not take long for you to discover that you can move faster if you use your knees as well.

Lately you have been practicing coordinating your arms and knees.  You raise your arms, then your knees, squirm about, move forward… oops, you lose your balance! You don’t give up.  You prop yourself up again with your arms, raise knees… wait, that’s your butt up in the air, bello.

Persistence - that is an admirable trait that you are learning. Genius is over rated. Of course an IQ score of 190 is not something to be sneezed at, but as Malcolm Gladwell explained in his The Outliers, "knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys." And these days, clever boys seem to be dime a dozen.

Remember the story of the Turtle and the Rabbit which Mommy told you about? The race does not go to the swift, or to the strong.  It does not always go either to the Mensa members.  The race is mostly won by those who persist, those who strive, and those who do not give up.  Mommy used to have a favourite champion figure skater. Her name was Dorothy Hamill.  Hamill fell on her face several times before she won the gold medals. Whenever she’d fall, she would sing, “I put myself up, brush myself up, start all over again!” 

Dear Anton Lee, we are giving you not only an “A” but an “A+” for effort. We have no doubt that very soon you will be crawling faster than the speed of light (in a manner of speaking)!

5.5 months!

"Mommy, Mommy,  I can't let go!!!!"

We tried to make you sit in your tub this morning while we were bathing you. You held on to the sides of the tub, as if hanging there for dear life.

Something tells us that you are going to be much better than Piscine Molitor Patel in besting a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker in the middle of the deep, blue sea.