flashback: anton lee @ 1 month

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

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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

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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.

awesome

You gave Mommy a jaw-dropping moment this morning. After you had your milk, Mommy made you sit with her arms around your tummy to support you.

Then . . .  Mommy let go.

You propped yourself with your hands with a look of amazement on your face.  You must have been saying to yourself, “Oh gosh, I am awesome!”

Or. . .  was that a look of bewilderment at why Mommy was raising so much fuss?

5 months!

How time has flown and how fast you have grown!

Mommy and Daddy can’t get enough of you. We love watching you play, sleep, giggle in delight, and listen to you babble. We love rubbing you all over, hugging you, kissing you, tickling you.

You now sleep through the night and wake up between 4:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.  Mommy made the mistake one time of pretending not to notice you, in her haste to finish her book. Bad move. When Mommy came to pick you up at 6:00ap.m. from your crib, you also pretended not to notice her. Ha.

Except for Mondays and Tuesdays when Mommy has to be at the office (really) early, you and Mommy play for about 30 minutes after you wake up, then Daddy talks to you, then you have your milk and bath, then Mommy reads to you, and then you bring Mommy to the carpark (of course, Yaya  carries you, afterall, you are only 5 months...)

You love reading now! You know when you were seven weeks old, Mommy was a bit worried that reading did not interest you much. But on your 12^th week, that was your Christening week, you just suddenly showed much excitement as Mommy read to you.  Mommy is now starting you on “soft” books so you can read on your own. You got startled the other week when the hard cover of your book hit your head.

You can now quickly roll over; sit assisted or while propped against pillows; hold fast to your toys; touch both your toes; and suck your two thumbs at the same time! We can pull you into a sitting position, and make you quickly “stand” on your toes. You smile at the cute baby in the mirror, you like looking at the Horse and Anton Knight pictures glued to the wall, you love being raised up and down, you like listening to Mommy recite to you your personal details, and tickling your tummy amuses you no end.  You also now like sleeping on your tummy.

We made last Thursday our first project: A Valentine’s card for Daddy. Looks like you found the project quite delicious!

Here’s one this month that touches Mommy’s heart. When she comes home from work, when you are already fast asleep, you wake up at hearing Mommy’s voice somewhere in the subconscious labyrinth of your nocturnal state.  You raise your head like a meerkat, Mommy picks you up, you snuggle up against Mommy, and then drift back again to dreamland.