Milestone

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Yesterday Alman turned 3 months and 5 days. In full view of his Mama, Abah and Tok, he made a successful full turn on the cloth mat without any help, bobbing his head and holding it up for just a few seconds! The applause brought me running out of the kitchen just in time to save him from  possible suffocation as the adults were getting carried away by his showmanship. That he has…I caught him grinning as he was turning on Tok’s bed later, and holding the grin at the end of the feat.

Two weeks ago when Alman had his second antigen shot, Dr Wong told us he weighed 6.3 kg, about twice his weight at birth. No wonder I had lost 1.5 kg despite not keeping strictly to my back porch gym routine since Alman’s mum went back to work. Now I should be more conscious about keeping my back straight and to be more graceful when I do the “up and down” (timang2) which he enjoys so much, as my own dumb bells (which are gathering dust) are 3kg each. Poor Alman, I also use him to do the squat sometimes. Well, he gets upset from lying in his rocking chair too long and prefers to be carried around. I do try to complete at least 5 minutes on the stepper daily, but actually I break more sweat from dancing up and down the living room with Alman. For he loves moving to classic rock on Astro 860 or golden hits on 861, rather than the sweet tunes on baby tv. His toothless glee bursts into giggles sometimes as he catches my thrill at singing along with oldies like “walk right back” and “sunny”. They say classical music is good for a child’s intellectual development, so I keep “Opus” as well as Quranic recitations from channel 106, for alpha wave time…when he is falling asleep.

We have to go to One Baby World in Taman Permata this weekend and check out that colourful vinyl playmat we saw earlier. It felt cool and nice when we tried it lying down. It would be great for Alman to practice his rockin’ and rollin’!