Benjamin Teh’s Blog

Yesterday, Ben was a bit over excited and rough and he did not know what he could and could not do unto mei mei. He tried to carry mei mei by grabbing her body, tried to kiss  and touch mei mei with a little too much pressure. We have to keep warning him to be gentle. Today, he did it very well (see photos above), he was gentle towards mei mei and he was not rough anymore. Anyway, we still have to keep watching over him and monitor him, he can be unpredictable :-p

Mei mei has long fingers and toes

Mei mei has very good appetite, always looking for milk

Ben always like to mention “daddy, mama, ben ben and mei mei” whenever he saw photos of 4 in a family. So today, we took one our very own 4 in a family photo for him

Mei Mei

Ben Ben

How much look alike are they?

Daddy brought Ben to see his baby sister in the evening. Once entering mama’s room, Ben was excited to see mei mei, pua pua was trying to clean his hands first but he could not wait, we had to stop him from touching mei mei. Once we had his hands cleaned, he climbed up to the bed and observing mei mei sucking for milk from near and he laughed

Just now before he slept, daddy said “Ben Ben was happy today because….” and he answered “because go to see mei mei”

Above are some shots during Ben and mei mei’s first meet.

Just taken out from Mama.  Daddy separated them by cutting the umbilical cord Looks bigger than baby Ben but actually 0.12kg lighter than baby Ben at 3.2kg

Overdue for 3 days, baby anniina’s head which was still high up yesterday, suddenly decided to come out on 04-02-2010 at 7:42am. The whole labour only took 3 hours, 7 hours shorter then the labour of baby ben. Baby was 3.2kg and 50cm. Opened eyes the moment her head was out of mama’s body, cried almost immediately and the moment she was put on mama’s arms, she looked for nipple She has much hair

Mama, you did a very good job

Dr Ng even praised her for not taking the painkiller jab I think she has mastered the art of labour…. maybe can go for the 3rd one :-p Mama used to have low placenta which blocked buried the whole birth canal and Praise God that it moved totally away at the 8th months of pregnancy, else we have to go for c-sect.  Also thank God that no induction needed at all. In fact, we suppose to do induction on coming Monday if baby was still inside the tummy.

Also, I would like to thank Dr Ng here, he is indeed a very good doctor, the best, I would say Highly recommended to those who are pregnant if you are in Penang

Last week, Ben was showing us how he will care for his baby sister

Today we supposed to be in the labour room, welcoming baby Anniina but somehow baby decided to come out later. Her head has not gone into the canal yet. Maybe she wants to celebrate birthday together with daddy

Anyway, at anytime she might decided to come out

This photo was taken last week, mama at 39th week pregnancy, still pretty, stomach still not very big

Ben has just turned 2 years and 4 months. Daddy and Mummy are happy with his progress especially his oral skills. These a few months, he is able to say the words such as ‘the’, ‘for’, ‘and’ , ‘on’, ‘under’, which he used to skip before. Now he says- under the sea, on the chair, it’s for Ben Ben, It’s not for Ma Ma, let me go, it’s gone etc. He makes sentences about what he sees such as – they are eating, nobody’s there. etc.

Besides English, he has picked up several Burmese words from his grandma and also can sing 4 Burmese songs. He can sing about 20 English nursery songs so far such as Ba Ba black sheep, Row Row, London bridge, Rock a bye baby, Hickory Dickory, Ding dong bell, hot cross buns, 1-2 buckle shoe, twinkle twinkle, Marry had a little lamb, Itcy Wincy Spider, Old Mcdonald, Bingo, Hey diddle diddle etc. He picked up most of these at bed time. Reading for him stories and singing rhymes at bed time is still ritual.

But his Mandarin is still limited

As for his behavior, it changes at times. When he was around 2, he was negative and always refused to do what we say or what we do for him. He used to shout “No no no no”, “cannot cannot cannot”, ” I don’t want, I don’t want” etc. And, wanted to do everything by himself. Recently, he’s become possessive and likes to say -”Mine, Mine”, “It’s mine”, “it’s not for you”,” it’s my place”, it’s my car” etc.. Sometimes, he doesn’t let us sit on sofa as he occupies the whole sofa.

We are waiting to see what’s next.