2011/06/24

瘋狂的大人 Hannah "Driving"

家裏有小孩,全家都熱鬧起來。有時候其實小胖丫頭也沒做什麽,大人卻自High的要命,一個個都返老還童,極盡想象、耍寳之能事。

大家興奮雀躍的要命,小丫頭一定覺得我們莫名其妙,真是一群瘋狂的大人。

比方説,Hannah 和一般她這個年紀的Baby一樣,躺著會揮揮手手踢踢腳腳,很正常啊。旁人可能覺得稀鬆平常吧。可是到了媽媽阿媽阿姨的眼中,她的運動馬上就有不同的意義。

“哇哇哇!你在練武功啊?你好厲害哦!實在太厲害了!媽媽都不會。” 媽媽超“客觀公允" 的驚嘆。

新店阿媽端詳了一下Hannah的武功招式,下了更高明、更公允的評論:“她是在開車啦,媽媽都不懂。他超厲害的,已經會開車了。”

哇,真的耶!真的很像在開車耶!!我女兒兩個月就會開車了。真是太了不起了。哇哈哈哈。。。

於是一群大人就開始興奮無比的要Hannah表演開車。。。。

。。。真是全都瘋了。也好,這樣應該不可能得什麽產後憂鬱吧。。。High成這樣。

Hannah has such a magical effect on the family. Since she's been around, pretty much everyone around her became a three year old again. We totally goof around when we spend time with her. Sometimes, Mommy is just certain that if Hannah were able to understand our conversations, she'd think we are all crazy.

Below is a video of Grandma, Mommy and Auntie watching Hannah waiving her hands and legs. Now, most people would think that's an ordinary thing for an infant to do - but Grandma had the brilliant idea that our Hannah was actually not just randomly flinging her limbs, but ...DRIVING!! 

Just look at her - she's totally trying to control her steering wheels and steping on the break/gas pedal.

Mommy made some independent observations of Hannah's movements and confirmed without bias that Grandma was completely right!

So we all became really excited that our two month old can "drive" now and kept on trying to make her show off her new skill in the video.

A bunch of crazy adults.


什麽都參一腳 Want to Participate in Everything

Hannah 吃定小姨婆了。巴巴的什麽時候都要人家抱。賴皮死了。

連小姨婆都說:我真是拿她沒辦法,被她吃的死死的。

弄得小姨婆連煮飯都要抱上她。

小傢伙一邊看小姨婆煮飯,一般就應景的自己先啃起自己的小雞翅了 - 將來一定是個會偷菜吃的小胖丫頭。

Hannah has Grand Auntie wrapped around her little fingers - making Grand Auntie hold her all the time. Meal prep is no excuse!!

She will even chew on her own "baby wings" while watching Grand Auntie cook - a self reliant little one.









2011/06/21

跟小阿姨撒嬌 Stick Like Glue to Little Auntie

Hannah 想無尾熊一樣賴在人身上時,真是讓人難以拒絕。


So hard to resist Hannah when she hold on to you this way.

嬰兒洗脖子 How to Wash Hannah's Neck

奶奶示範怎麽洗米其林寶寶的脖子。小胖丫頭胖到連脖子都不見啦 - 肉肉下巴下面還會藏一堆污垢,媽媽想幫她清,她叫的活像媽媽在殺小豬 - 奶奶的技術就高超多了,她竟然連吭都不吭。

Grandma demonstrates how to properly bathe a baby. Chubby Hannah often accumulates dirt/dead skin in the creases of her neck. Whenever Mommy tries to clean it for her, she screams like a little piggy being slaughtered. Grandmas skills are clearly superior in this regard.


2011/06/19

不要弄我啦 Don't Mess with Me

在遇到蚊子之前,Hannah 的世界真是一片美好。每個人都寵她,逗她開心,隨她差遣。

可是蚊子先生才不買Hannah的帳。季節一到,蚊子一多,第一個被開刀的就是Hannah。誰叫她皮嫩肉香的。

一開始Hannah根本不懂美好的世界裏,竟然有蚊子這種壞東西,任蚊宰割。在基隆的第一個晚上超慘,被咬了30個包;到了新店阿瑪家,大家都沒被咬,蚊子就“專寵”她一個,一個個包又紅又腫。弄的她哇哇叫,一直抓。





後來,高雄阿公阿媽弄了愛心蚊帳來,新店阿媽又弄來了電蚊拍,蚊子危機就算是緩和了。

也不知道是蚊子的教訓,還是長大了,Hannah 從那不久以後遇到“不歡迎的觸碰”(手指戳她的臉啦,騷她的癢啦)就開始會揮著小胖手踢著小胖腳趕走人家。

這兩天媽媽被蚊子咬了好幾個包,血肉一向更引蚊子的Hannah竟然一個包都沒有。。。難道已經變得比媽媽更會趕蚊子啦??!!

以下是Hannah手腳並用,趕小阿姨瘙癢。一瘙她的癢,她就手手腳腳都擧起來,好像玩具娃娃哦!


Hannah's baby soft skin attracts more mosquito than anyone else in the family. She once got more than 30 bite marks on her  face and hands overnight when everyone else in the house barely got affected. Grandma and Grandpa from Gaoxiong had to come to her rescue with a new set of mosquito nets.

Not sure whether it's the learning from the mosquito experience, Hannah will now wave and kick to keep off any unwelcomed poke/tickle with her chubby arms and legs (see video below - Auntie Xuanxuan tickling Hannah). Maybe that's why Hannah remained untouched when Mommy received several mosquito kisses this weekend.

學唱歌II Learning to Sing II

這兩天在新店阿媽家,阿媽常常和Hannah玩唱歌遊戲- 當然是唱Hannah能發出音的‘啊啊歌’啦。

Hannah 跟別人都不太肯唱,跟新店阿媽倒是很認真的想要把歌唱好。所以教唱歌就變成新店阿媽的絕活啦。

比起一個月前,Hannah 現在好像知道這首“歌"是有好幾個“啊”組成的,而且音都不一樣。所以她現在每次跟著阿媽唱,都不是像以前只念一兩聲“啊”。都會很認真的連發一長串的“啊”音。

不過小妞似乎也知道自己五音不全,常常又伸舌頭,又皺眉頭,又張大嘴巴的努力調音,很想讓音更準確,可是又不知道是哪個關鍵不對,有時候努力到都會嗆到自己的口水呢。好好笑哦。

媽媽常常只照到每段練唱時間的最後一小段(沒辦法,Hannah和阿媽都不會事先通知練的唱時間地點),所以大家將就看吧。

Hannah had a few days of intensive singing lessons with grandma this week - singing "ah" up and down the scale again. She really only responds to Grandma as far as singing lessons go.

She now seems to grasp that there are multiple "ah"s in her "song" - so you hear a string of "ah"s from her each time she sings (instead of only one or two "ah"s as before).

Sometimes, Hannah also seems to observe that she's terribly out of tune (or at least that her "singing" is not quite the same as that of grandma's); that's when you see her frowning and attempting to adjust her tongue/the shape of her mouth to imitate better.

She would even choke on her own saliva in her attempt. Now, that's dedication.

Since Hannah's singing lessons occur at random times of the day at random locations, mommy often was only able to catch the last parts of them (if at all). So here is a short compilation.


Hannah 愛“讀書”Hannah "Reading"

Hannah還沒出生,媽媽就興匆匆的給他準備了一些嬰兒圖畫書。滿月的時候巴巴的找出來給她看,沒什麽大反應。那就算了,收起來以後再説。

這兩天突然又想起那些書,拿出來給她看。這次居然看得目不轉睛,還會啊啊的做出點評。哈哈哈,真是好玩。明明看不懂,還‘朗朗上口'

這下子大人們有福了,小胖妞啊啊叫的要求我們抱著她到處看時,就可以繼續坐著,拿幾本圖畫書把她打發一陣。別人是書中自有黃金屋,我們是書中自有半日閒啊。


Mommy had bought a bunch of baby picture books for Hannah; but she showed no interest in them when she was one month old.

The books got shelved quickly without Hannah's blessings.

When mommy remembered the books again this week, Hannah was ready (at least ready to stare at the pictures). She would even 'comment' on the pictures endlessly - using words no one understands.

Mom and Dad are overjoyed to find another energy saving way to entertain Hannah - anything other than being her 'human-horse' for 3 hours is a salvation.

超級愛笑的 Happy all the time

Hannah 越來越愛笑了,跟人玩的時候、早上起床的時候、笑的咯滋咯滋的,特別歡暢無憂。真是一個快樂寶寶。

Hannah is such a happy baby. She laughs and smiles a lot now - especially in the morning and when played with. She has such a carefree and joyful smile.

2011/06/07

睡覺大作戰 Bedtime Battles

讓小胖丫頭睡覺,有時候真是場硬仗,她精力旺盛的時候,大人們就慘啦 - 明明睡覺時間已經到了,她卻興致勃勃的對著你傻笑,要你陪她玩。

她又還是個有理向她説不清的傢伙,急死了旁人,她也是傻乎乎、笑眯眯的。

戰勝小胖丫頭不容易,所以要拍照紀念一下。

Sometimes we truly have to fight to get Hannah to sleep. The little imp would smile innocently and look at you with such interest and delight, as if to say: "Time to play? You want to play with me?"

Ah, bedtime battles are no cake walks - and victories must be documented with pictures.

我投降了,吵嗎媽的是小豬。
I surrender by sleeping like a little piggy.
難以相信我怎麽又輸了。
I can't believe I lost again.

這次是怎麽輸的?
How did I lose the battle this time?

無條件投降。
Total surrender.



天啊,又來了,餵奶來哄我睡覺。
Here we go again, I can't believe it's another bedtime bottle. 

我會用我的奶嘴寶劍戰勝周公的!瞌睡蟲不要靠近!
I shall fight off sleep with my paci sword.


2011/06/05

鑽狗洞 A Safe Hiding Place

也不知道是不是想要尋求更多的安全感,Hannah前陣子開始喜歡的抱抱姿勢之一,就是“鑽狗洞”躲到人的腋下。

鑽鑽鑽,躲到狗洞裏睡覺,或是肯雞腿(拳頭),都沒人可以看到。

好安全啊!

Perhaps to search of more sense of security, Hannah sometimes prefers digging a hole under our armpits as her hiding place.

What does she do in there?

Apparently napping and chewing her fist.

Ah, good girl. At 7 weeks of age, she already knows to avoid getting caught napping. Important skill to have for work and school ^_^

超會撒嬌的 Can't let go of her

書上說、奶奶也教,小孩不要一直抱,要不然她就一直需要你抱,就放不下來了。

可是好難啊,小傢伙好會撒嬌啊。

趴在人身上,賴賴賴。。。好可愛啊。

實在太厲害了。


尤其是小姨婆,根本擋不住Hannah的撒嬌大法,索性理直氣壯的說:

“能抱到幾歲?趁現在她要你的時候趕快抱吧。”

“千萬不能拖嬰,她哭他們才不會理她,太可憐了。自己咬咬牙抱吧,事情以後再做沒關係。”


哈哈哈,真是寵啊。Hannah太厲害了!!

看看Hannah是怎麽給小姨婆下蠱的^_^

I know the books all say that if you just harden your hearts a bit and not hold your baby as much, she will eventually learn how to entertain herself and, therefore, allow you to have more free time for yourself.

But it's so hard to do with Hannah - she would cling onto you, with both hands grabbing your shirt as tightly as she could, to express how much she needs you.

None of us have much resistence to her tactic. This is especially true for Hannah's Grand Auntie - who declares in total surrender:

"Heck with the books - how long can this possibly continue anyway? The longest we'll have to do this (holding her all the time) is maybe until when she's 3. Just hang on."

Hahaha. Looks like Hannah won her battle with Grand Auntie. See pics below.


2011/05/28

開始喜歡飛高高 Playing with Grandma

Hannah 開始喜歡玩飛高高了(出生的時候不覺得她特別愛玩這個,現在明顯開始喜歡玩“溫柔版”的飛高高了)。小胖妞自己要出力的健身不愛玩,別人要出力的玩意兒就特別愛玩。。。真是精明啊。

Hannah enjoys activities that demand efforts from parties other than herself (thus, no to tummy time and yes to Grandma facilitated flights). She's indeed our daughter :P

2011/05/25

健身時間大罷工 Tummy Time on Strike

你們大人以爲我這麽好騙啊。上次“游”了半天,寸步難行,再一次(第三次)健身時間,我就不幹了。(鏡頭前的長頸鹿先生等我表演,已經等到發呆了)。

Hannah shall not be manipulated - she refused to perform on her 3rd tummy time - she may be young but she has learned that swimming generally doesn't get her anywhere on land. (Mr. Giraffe in front of camera is dumb founded watching an infant going on strike).

健身時間 Tummy Time

第一個孩子照書養,Hannah 現在每天都有健身時間,其實主要就是趴在地上,理論上來説,小孩會擡頭,用手撐地,加強頸部和手的肌肉。可能是才開始(這是第二次),咱們小胖妞好像拿不太到竅門,表演的活像是在旱地溺水。

Perhaps due to lack of practice (this is her second time), Hannah's tummy time basically looks like she's drowning on land.

2011/05/21

補 - Alan小哥哥 & Emily小姐姐 到香港找 Hannah (Cousins Alan & Emily visit Hannah in Hong Kong)

補記一下Alan 和 Emily 來找 Hannah 的 影片。Hannah 那時候2周大。 可以感覺小哥哥小姐姐覺得Hannah 好新鮮哦。小朋友真是可愛。

This video is from April when Hannah was just 2 weeks old. Cousins Alan and Emily came to visit and were thrilled with the novelty of a new baby. Kids are so cute! 

千金小姐 Diaper Attack

養了小孩才知道要換的尿布這麽多。Hannah 天天快樂、天真、大方、無辜的送媽媽黃金千兩 - 真是生了個千金小姐啊。

以下的照片是小妞幾天前非常爆炸性的噴出萬兩黃金,光聼聲音就知道這是“要立刻洗澡”級的“佈施”。

媽媽和阿姨一陣慌亂,要抱她起來去浴室,又怕黃金太滿會掉出來,只好連著尿布墊將她提起來,狼狽萬分。

媽媽百忙之中還記得拍照留罪證 - 只是這個小混球一臉“我做了什麽嗎?”的無辜 - 可見文明還是需要教化的。

Hannah blew through her diaper with so much poop that just by the sound of the business, we knew it would require a bath to clean up.

Here she is - looking all innocent when we picked her up along with her changing pad on our way to the bathroom.




2011/05/20

餓拳 Hungry Kongfu

Hannah半夜餓醒之前,都會先閉著眼睛,用力的打拳,吆喝,好像要把餓蟲打走,好繼續睡覺一樣。

她開始打拳,媽媽和新店阿媽就要立刻準備擠奶,溫奶,餵奶,換尿布了。因爲如果她拳打完,還沒有奶給她喝,小胖妞就要放聲大哭了。

以下影片紀念一下Hannah的半夜“餓拳”(醉了打拳叫醉拳,餓了打拳就叫餓拳吧)。媽媽是被他吵醒準備好奶才開始錄,所以只拍到尾聲 - 那時她已經快哭了。

Before Hannah gets up in the middle of the night due to hunger, she usually performs some Kungfu moves with eyes closed first. It is as if she could literally fight off hunger.

We've learned to leap into action and get her milk prepared as soon as she starts her Kungfu session - as the session would be followed by all-out-wail if milk does not intercede before its end.

Below is a video of Hannah's Kungfu session. As you can see - the session is near its end and Hannah is about to explode into tears - Mom missed the beginning as she had to get milk preped before she started videotaping.

No one dares to risk Hannah's Kungfu session ending without milk.

學唱歌 Learning to Sing

Hannah 出生一個多禮拜,新店阿媽就發現她特喜歡聼人説話,聼不懂但是超認真。


三個禮拜大的時候,媽媽發現她愛聼人唱歌,有一次抱著她唱歌,一停下來,她就啊啊叫,只好一首接一首的唱下去。

接著所有的人都發現她愛聽人說話、愛聽歌,全家掀起了一陣大家開唱,大家練自言自語的風潮。

新店阿公爲了將她定住,讓阿媽可以煮飯,引吭高歌了一個小時。

新店阿媽自己編了一大堆有的沒的小調,外加平劇和百老匯歌曲,連媽媽都沒聼過阿媽唱這些歌。

阿姨還上網復習兒歌大全,曾經為Hannah小姐賣力演出一個早上。

説話方面,應該屬稚穎阿姨最所向無敵,因爲這個寶貝阿姨從小就天天跟他的熊娃娃們練習“單向聊天術”-完全不需要對話,就可以跟她的熊娃娃和Hannah天南地北煞有介事的聊半天!實在太厲害了。媽媽要看齊!

Hannah太幸運了,所有的人都卯起來變花樣跟她玩,只是五花八門的對話和歌曲,常常聼的她耳花繚亂 - 用崇拜又有點不解的表情,張大嘴巴傻傻的看我們在那裏舌燦蓮花。

她這麽小,舌頭相對口腔根本太大,再羡慕也無法模仿我們的言語和歌曲啊。

Hannah五個禮拜大的時候,新店阿媽靈機一動,索性抱起她用啊啊啊唱音階- 因爲啊不用動舌頭。

結果Hannah還真的認真地聼阿媽的“新歌”,欣喜的發現“這個我也可以”,像模像樣的模仿起來呢。真是把大家都樂壞了。

現在和Hannah練“啊啊歌”就變成阿媽最愛玩的遊戲之一了。

We discovered early on that Hannah loves listening to conversations and songs. Once, she even protested vigorously in my arms each time I paused singing!

Miss. Yeung's preference has sent everyone in the family scrambling to perfect their monologue skills and learn songs we otherwise have no interest in.

Auntie Xuanxuan went online to learn a whole collection of nursery rhymes and gave Hannah an entire morning of free performance.

Auntie Ruby busted out her incredible monologue skills (mainly perfected by years of talking to her stuffed animals daily). She can talk about everything under the sun with Hannah and was pleased that Hannah is more responsive to her than her toy bears are.

Everyone came with their own bag of tricks to entertain Hannah. Hannah is mesmerized and looks at us in awe when we talk and sing.

Frankly, at her age, her tongue is too big relative to her jaw for her to pronounce the vast majority of the sounds that came out of our mouths.

When Hannah turned 5 weeks old, Grandma had the brilliant idea of singing "Ah" up the scale to Hannah - since pronouncing "Ah" does not require tongue movement.

Lo and behold, Hannah listened intently and started to make efforts to sing along. We all got a big kick out of it.

Singing is now one of Grandma's favorite games to play with Hannah.

救苦救難觀世音菩薩 - Life Saving Play Mat

Hannah長得好快啊,不止身高體重直綫上升,而且簡直天天都可以在她身上看到新的花頭。可是越長大,需求也變越多越挑,常常整的我們四五個人都對付不了她一個。

記得剛從醫院回家的幾天,只要把她喂飽,換好尿布,她就一聲不吭的睡覺。

沒兩個禮拜,小姑娘除了喝奶換尿片,就還要人家陪玩、陪説話、帶她到處逛。而且對抱的姿勢,看的地方/東西,都很有意見,而且只要她醒著,就要有人陪。真是我的天啊!

就在一群大人求救無門的時候,我們驚喜的發現Hannah可以自己在媽媽買的遊戲毯(外加韻如乾媽給的鏡子玩具)裏頭,雙手雙腳踢毯子上面吊的動物,頭一下看左右兩邊鏡子裏自己和動物的身影,一下看上面的動物搖動,就這樣一次自己耗上20-60分鐘。

真是人類偉大的發明。我們戲稱這個玩具為“救苦救難觀世音菩薩”-- 哈哈哈,可見大家這幾天伺候小傢伙伺候的多狼狽。我們真是太沒用了,慚愧啊。

As Hannah grew, her need for us to constantly entertain her grew with her. Everyone became sort of overwhelmed after a while.

You can imagine the delight when we found that Hannah can entertain herself for 20-40 minutes at a time on her play mat - kicking/grabbing/looking at the toys above her and looking at herself and the toys in the mirrors on two sides.

We jokingly call the play mat "The Savior".

好奇寶寶 - I want to see!!

Hannah 是個好奇寶寶(見天才爸爸事件2)。從兩個禮拜開始,基本上只要是新的環境、新的人,她都會兩眼睜的大大的研究,非常認真的樣子。新店阿媽常常驚嘆:“你還真的看得懂啊?那麽認真。”

大小姐哭閙,我們實在搞不定,怎麽抱、怎麽哄都不對時,十次有九次半,只要把她帶到一個她不熟悉的房間,或是去不常去的頂樓和樓下大門口晃一下,她就立刻不哭啦。

隨便你怎麽抱,隨便你哄不哄,小姐現在沒空,有好多東西要看,沒時間閙你們,要我哭我眼睛還會閉起來,那不就看不到啦,機會難得,這種賠本生意小姐我是不幹的。

這個時候,Hannah的兩個小眼睛會睜的雪亮,咕嚕嚕的轉,還會努力的調整她那個笨重的小頭,看能不能找到更好的觀賞角度,很是有趣。

前兩天,鏘鏘鏘。。。好奇寶寶走運了 - 媽媽晚上把她帶到龍潭姨婆家。

全部沒看過的姨婆家!!!

哇哇哇,不用吃奶,不用換尿布,不用哄,一聲不吭。Hannah一附恨不得全身上下都長滿眼睛樣子(這樣眼科生意就紅啦),趴在姨婆身上到處看,小頭晃啊晃,什麽都好看的不得了,過了平時的睡覺時間,卻一點睡意也沒有。

最誇張的是,後來姨婆把她放到沙發上,自己躺了老半天,大家也沒逗她,她卻能靜靜的躺著自己看東看西,一聲不吭,一點睡意也沒有。

媽媽和阿姨驚嘆:“哇,小傢伙到新地方,真的看不完耶!”

燕燕阿姨充滿實驗與逗小孩精神:“真的嗎?她真的在看嗎?”說著就拿手去擋Hannah的視線。

爸爸是眼科醫師的Hannah小姐一看不到,就立刻診斷出這不是視網膜、黃斑部、眼壓、眼内炎等諸多問題,主要是 - 被擋住了!!!!

看不到,就不要被擋住就好啦!!(不知道醫師門診這樣說會不會被打)

於是Hannah就很快的把頭撇開 - 不要擋住我啦!!!

哇哈哈哈,我女兒實在太聰明了(趁她還沒有辦法考零分回來讓我們認清事實之前,媽媽先自我陶醉一下,哈哈)。

只見燕燕阿姨擋Hannah視線的手越動越快,Hannah的頭就越躲越快,把大家都逗樂了。媽媽趕快找出相機,拍下“燕燕阿姨鬥Hannah” 的最後一段。


Hannah is a very curious baby (see Clever Daddy incident 2). She loves new environments and would study them with such intensity that Grandma often couldn't resist asking her: "Do you really understand what you are seeing?"

Whenever we've exhausted our bag of tricks to appease her, 95% of the time, we just have to take her to an unfamiliar room/space to get her to stop crying immediately. In a new space, we often could literally hold her any method we wish, not talk or play with her, and she'd still be perfectly content rolling her eyes and her little head around checking out the new place. No time to cry now - you adults need to find other ways to entertain yourselves.

Two days ago, Mommy took Hannah to her auntie's house - which she's never been.

Boy, so much to see!! Hannah was perfectly quiet being carried around by her Grand Auntie - no need for food, diaper change, or entertainment. No desire to sleep past her bedtime.

Most amazingly, even after she was put down on the sofa, she remained quiet, alert and content without needing anyone to engage her.

"Goodness, she's really soaking this place up." Mommy and Auntie Xuanxuan commented.

Auntie Yanyan proceeded to block Hannah's vision with her hand to test whether Hannah was really looking. Hannah turned her head to dodge Auntie Yanyan's hand. Auntie Yanyan's hand followed Hannah's eyes to block them again...

Hence commenced the Hand-Eye chase in the video below.

天才爸爸 Clever Daddy

都說一個領域的新人常常能帶來從所未有的創意 - 作爲新手爸媽,爸爸媽媽的創意也不少- 有些讓阿公阿媽姨婆舅公們覺得有意思,有些則讓大家想要想要敲我們兩個的大頭。

不過既然這篇是媽媽寫的,就出出爸爸的糗吧。。。哇哈哈哈。以下兩篇其實還蠻天才的呢。


1。媽媽懷孕的時候讀到,有的嬰兒一點點光就會七早八早的起床。爲了不要早上四點就被小孩叫起來,很有遠慮的請新店阿媽搞來一大捆不透光的窗簾布,煞有介事的跟爸爸商量:“你看我們要不要換過臥房的窗簾啊?”

天才爸爸想都不想就說:“不用吧,如果是怕小孩見到光會太早起來,就拿那塊布把他蓋起來就好啦。”

哈哈哈哈。。。連換窗簾都免了,很有創意的吧!

(後來Hannah其實是個肚子餓或睡飽了才起床的體貼甜心,到目前爲止光線對她好像不怎麽影響睡眠,倒是媽媽爲了喂母奶,每天兩三點就要起床。。。也不用等到四五點太陽出來了。陽光根本是個次要問題。。。慘慘慘:P)


2。Hannah從滿兩週開始,就表現出對身邊事物環境的無限好奇。睡飽了就要人帶她到處看,從不同角度看身邊的事物,環境。她會用腳腳踢踢要人換地方,會啊啊啊的要我們把她抱高一點(視野比較好),會想辦法將她的小腦袋晃到不同的角度(換肩膀等),就為了把身邊的事物看個清楚。不順她的意,她就眼淚汪汪的抗議。她抗議的樣子標準的好笑,一手握拳高擧亂揮,嘴巴大聲啊啊叫,再不理她就會開始踱腳噴淚了,真是笑果一流。

我們雖然欣喜她對世界的好奇,但是整天當小胖丫頭的“人馬”真是累啊。小胖丫頭才不管你現在是在忙什麽,說要逛街,就是現在、馬上、立刻。。。爾等不得拖延偷懶。

有天在新店阿媽家才開晚飯,躺在桌上的小胖丫頭就開始啊啊叫了,媽媽跟爸爸說:“她想要換角度看了,你去抱她吧。”

爸爸靈機一動:“我知道了,下次去買一個圓桌轉盤,吃飯把她放上面,大家夾菜時轉來轉去,她就可以一直換角度,我們就可以安靜吃飯了。”

我的老公太有才了!!!

附上爸爸幫Hannah拍嗝的照片,很有架勢吧!


New people often bring new ideas to a field. Well, as rookies in the field of parenting, we've got plenty of creative ideas - some win more approval than others; and some are just plain funny. Since Mommy is the one writing the blog, let's just share a couple of Daddy's creative ideas for laughs.

1. Before Hannah was born, Mommy had heard that children would sometimes get up too early (and, therefore, get their parents up too early) if their bedroom windows let in too much sun. To prevent this serious problem, Mommy quickly secured a large roll of 100% light proof window treatment fabric and consulted with Daddy: "What do you think? Should we change our drapes?"

Hannah's brilliant dad: “No. We just have to cover her with that fabric."

I guess that would indeed be less work.

2. Hannah's curiosity became evident to all her caretakers 2 weeks after birth. She would really study her environment, make people take her to see new rooms or different angles of the same room and even swing her head so she might get a different/better view.

In case you might have trouble understanding her, she would kick, yell, wave, cry ... until you oblige. "Thou shalt not be dumb or slothful." says her Highness.

Everyone in the house is Hannah's human horse now - make no mistake, it's a ton of work to endlessly carry a wiggly 5kg+ baby everywhere - no bathroom break, no meal time, no sitting down for a little bit ...no slacking.

One night when Hannah started yelling during dinner at Grandma's place, Mommy turned to Daddy: "She wants to see from a different angle now, could you take her around?" 

A light bulb went off in Daddy's head: "We need to get a lazy susan and put her on it. This way, she'll be exposed to all sorts of angles as everyone turn that thing to get their food ... and we will actually be able to eat!”

Hahaha...

I married a genius.

Below are pics of Daddy giving Hannah a spanky (burping her). He's pretty good, huhh?!








2011/05/19

靠靠 Clingy

Hannah這傢伙還不會講話,但是靠依賴溫柔的靠靠,把大家哄地團團轉。新店阿媽說她靠人的時候,活像一隻小猴,媽媽覺得圓圓的活像個小肉丸。

Hannah survives by clinging onto anyone who would let her.












滿月 One Month Old

Hannah 滿月已經過17天了。媽媽懷孕時就想幫她記錄一下成長,結果Hannah一生下來,全家就忙的天翻地覆。每天好像也沒什麽事,可是光是弄她的吃喝拉撒,外加哄哄小傢伙,就累死了。現在來補記錄一下吧。

滿月體重:4.8kg vs. 出生時3.3kg
滿月身高:56cm vs. 出生時 49cm

會的玩意:

10天左右 換尿片會把兩隻腳擡起來等大人換,明顯喜歡聼人説話
18 回到臺灣,第一次發現她對新的地方充滿好奇,會啊啊啊的要求大人帶她到處看 從此每天都需要帶她到處看 真是可愛又可怕。
25 脖子越來越有力氣了,抱和趴的時候有時可以成功的把頭換邊。
27 會跟著聲音轉頭,看看誰在説話。聼人家説話,可以非常專心的聼很久,超有興趣的。

還有很多其他的成長變化,比如:
1.越來越會笑了,早上心情好的時候,會衝著人笑,甚至會笑出聲來。
2.手手會抓東西,抱她的時候她會抓住你的衣服或肉,怕自己掉下來。洗澡的時候如果抓得到你的衣服他也會抓,怕自己淹死吧。。。真是個愛惜生命的傢伙。
3.手手腳腳都越來越有力氣了。

Hannah’s really subjected everyone to slaving after her in the little while she’s been in this world. Her mom and grandma’s life objectives have tentatively simplified to 3 goals: keeping Hannah fed, changed, and not crying … and we are barely making it (and sleep deprived too). Babies are so much work!

Lucky for Hannah that she’s so incredibly adorable – her mother, for one, would confess that any other project requiring this much work would be abandoned or be up for some serious corner cutting or other forms of abuse immediately.  

My grand realization thus far: Yes! It’s really true: You have to teach babies everything (except crying and pooping).  According to the books, we have lessons like “using your neck”, “fine motor skills” …etc. to look forward to teaching her. I didn’t think these skills need to be taught! But then what if Hannah grows up unable to use her finger to scrape cookie dough from a bowl ... that would certainly leave some permanent emotional scars. So we better get some formal lessons ready.

Hannah did learn/become better at a few things on her own during her first month of life (Thank goodness). For those who care, here’s the short list:

1.      Hannah laughs/smiles a lot more now, especially in the morning. She will smile back at people smiling at her when she’s in a good mood.
2.      Hannah knows to raise her legs when we change her or when she wants to be changed.
3.      Hannah tracks people and voices with her eyes and loves listening to conversations.
4.      Hannah loves to look around and would demand that the person holding her patrol the house so she could check out her environment.
5.      Hannah will grab the shirts (or the skin) of the person holding her to enhance the safety of her position (or so her mom thinks).
6.      Hannah has started to lift her head. Her arms and legs are also a lot stronger now.

Also, Hannah gained 3.3 lbs and grew 2.75 inches in her first month.

All in all, we survived the first month. Let’s hope things become easier from here – as we can’t imagine what harder would be like.