That's It!

It looks as though I'll have to stop breastfeeding HN. Even though I still express every morning while I was in KL for a conference last week, my milk supply has dwindled steadily. HN isn't letting me off so easily, though. She still insists on suckles after every bottle, despite me telling her mommy's milk isn't quite enough anymore...

Pulled Elbow

I guess it's bound to happen sooner or later, given the no-holds-barred way HN frolics around... but she still gave us a turn. Friday evening and we'd just came back from SP, and she'd just finished her bath and was playing and rolling around like nobody's business (as usual). When suddenly she started wailing LOUDLY.

I ain't worried yet.

And she doesn't stop wailing after a few minutes.

I took a good look at her and somehow it seemed that her left arm's not quite right. No swellings, no bruises, no nothing, yet she's holding it a bit limply.

Oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap.

I tried to get her to grab a ball, she takes it up slightly, wailed even louder, and drop it away. I gently raised her arm, she shifts her shoulder as if to avoid touching a nerve, and screams.

Oh CRAP. I insisted that we took her to the pediatrician RIGHT AWAY.

Well, the pediatrician quite promptly confirmed that it's a pulled elbow (i.e. "mild dislocation of the elbow which is the result of the lower arm slipping out of its normal position at the elbow joint", OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH I can't stop wincing as I read and typed that!!) after ruling out accidental swallowing something, tummy upsets, fractures etc. She put things right in a jiffy (as promised by all the articles I looked up later) and prescribed some pain-killers, and assured us that all is well now, but we should avoid touching her left arm for a while (strictly no further massaging!!!) and especially not lead her by the left arm.

Quite understandably, HN was still sniffling as we left the clinic. I said to her "well you'd better not play so roughly from now on." To which she sniffled, whimpered and nodded her head vigorously.

After tucking her in that night, I googled some more, and learnt here that pulled elbow occurs slightly more often in females (check), and in the left arm (check). Most common cause is axial traction i.e. a pull/yank on the child's hand or wrist; 2nd most common cause is a fall; some cases have been reported after rolling over (check).

Come the second morning, HN was still miserable and kept fussing and crying, although she's using her left hand and arm more. I insisted that we head to the pediatrician's again for a follow-up.

You know what? The moment she saw us changing clothes, she stopped crying. There was even a hint of a smile when I put her in her car seat. And she was beaming when we reached the clinic, the rascal! And sure enough, the pediatrician confirmed that the arm's alright after observations, but acknowledged that it's probably still tender, and that HN would make the most of the oppotunity to get extra hugs out of us. HN was given a generous patch on the elbow, and we were on our way.

By late afternoon, she was her usual mischievous and frolicsome self, rolling and dashing all around again. And that, reader, if you were reproaching me for the seemingly cold-blooded, calm tone of this post, is why I can write thusly 2 days after the fact. I was a miserable, emotional wreck on Friday night and Saturday morning, nearly driving MC up the wall too.

And once is quite enough, thank you, so HN, you'd better honour that promise about not playing so roughly again. EVER!

写写画画

宁儿上个星期开始就似乎爱用手指在墙上比比划划。TVIQ 的 Øistein Kristiansen 的节目看多了吧。就试着在她面前写字（好久没拿笔了，真是罪过），又试着给她一枝笔，看她什么反应。结果今天⋯⋯



话说回来，她那天也试着单手拿着一双筷子对着碗比划，但那始终太早了吧喂！

自己来吧

嗯，这其实已快是一个月前的事儿了⋯⋯

话说自从牛年农历新年一过，知道安娣就快抱孙后，就忐忑不安地时不时忧心着宁儿的看护问题。安娣也是有点舍不得，所以起初就说，试试看同时顾两个吧。就试试吧。就这么样，十月中，小人儿回家来了。

两个星期后，安娣投降了⋯⋯

小人儿也是个大嗓子，再加上有小肠气的缘故，不得不多些心机看顾他。宁儿又正值最好奇好动。在多方考虑后、和母亲商量后，我还是决定带她回大年，由我和母亲轮流带她。

始终不希望，不能接受小孩子好动、只希望小孩子如若古早时乖乖喝奶不乱跑的人们，言语不慎间伤害了宁儿（还有我）。绝对不要。

歩こ、歩こ！

For about a month or even more now, HN had been able to walk by herself but was very reluctant to let go of our hands or any supporting furniture.

Then finally on Deepavali Day (that's last Friday and I'm posting this on Tuesday), at MC's colleague's open house in Kulim, she was so taken up with a fluffy gorilla toy that she took it with both hands and walked around everywhere to show it off. Since then there's no stopping her — except when she's adamant that she wants us to walk with her.

好累，好爱睡⋯⋯

决定了！以后若太久没上来更新就用这个标题来灌水！>:D

该骂的时候就要骂！

最近宁宁越来越皮了。喝了奶不肯睡觉，还绕着床沿走来走去对我笑⋯⋯

一天忍无可忍，大喝一声：

“不要太过分了厚！”

乖乖，果然奏效。宁宁马上收起了嬉皮笑脸，快手快脚爬上床，自己躺下，扭了几下头，就⋯⋯睡着了。

哼哼，果然要骂。但她爸爸就心疼了。

所以说啦，妈妈总是扮演坏人的角色⋯⋯

你牵动我的每一个思绪

今早一起身就听到你的哭声。后来就听安娣说你又排便不顺了。

怎么了呢？是妈咪给你喝水不够吗？还是吃太多“好料”了？又或是假期太多太多东西玩，你忘了要每天嗯嗯？

结果，一颗心又七上八下了⋯⋯

我要走要跑！

开斋节假期带慧宁回 SP ，一下多了两老，再加上屋子空间宽阔了，这小瓜竟一发不可收拾地一直要人牵着她走路。

她是走得越来越稳了。所以就更加兴致勃勃。出去吃顿饭，没十分钟就又要下来走，还一桌一桌去和人家打招呼。

在中环广场时由于没有心理准备，忘了带鞋子出去，结果⋯⋯这小瓜竟然就赤着脚，绕着广场走了一圈又一圈。真是“虾虽”死了。

流水账

啊好久没更新了。又忙又没心情。TMD 新闻天天没好事，有时真的好后悔把孩子生在这个国家。

Anyway. 慧宁也满周岁了（撒花！撒花！）臼齿也已长到第四颗了（但痛死她了）最爱听辣歌跳舞，但高手唱的慢歌也会忙不迭拍手，如许冠杰啦，孟庭韦啦，潘越云啦。

上个月开始就已经会坚持要自己喂自己了。成功率大概是 40% 吧，总可以吃到好些饭粒。有时还会很好心的要喂爸爸妈妈。

困扰已久的便秘问题可能可以解决了，因为医生让换了 Novalac IT 奶粉配方。专门针对便秘的特别配方哦。价钱有点贵就是了。现在喝着的是医生给的 400g 罐装，外头货源确定中。

会说的单音有 papa, baba, mama, lala （只出现过一次但唱了好久）, gigi, chichi, shhhhh⋯⋯

最爱拉着我的手，陪她整屋子走，但就是不肯放手自己走。也还不太会平衡就是了。而且只让我牵，她爸爸要牵她都不让。

最爱和人抢滑鼠，抢键盘。还抢电视遥控。每每进入设定画面就把遥控交回给我们，要我们“修”。修好后又把遥控抢回去了。

发烧

Started Friday evening (Good Friday) and it's now Monday... teething?

UPDATE: OK it's roseola! a.k.a. 假疹. Alarming as the fever can get pretty high, but apparently it's harmless and the only treatment is to let it run its course. She really had a hard time when the rashes erupted — was up the whole night and kept clinging to me. I couldn't put her down at all. We could only get some sleep around 4am. When dawn came we bundled to the hospital. Thank goodness she had some relief with Calamine...

But the poor thing's lost precious weight... A sick baby is a sad sight to behold.

Babbling

Hui Ning started babbling again: "Awawawawawa. Wawawapapawawabaawa..."

UPDATE: 3 days later and now she's developed a very nice pattern of "papa, papa, papa, pa pa pa paaa. papa."

捉迷藏

话说昨晚宁儿又在学步机里溜达呀溜达，就撞上了玻璃门。怎么知道这小瓜就忽然拉起了落地窗帘，躲了进去⋯⋯

MC 还在唤着她“慧宁跑去哪里了？”

她还竟然会又躲了二、三秒⋯⋯才又忽然掀开窗帘，露出两只大门牙对她爸爸笑得卡卡声！

而且，同样的把戏又在玩了两三次才甘愿。

现在的小孩子哦⋯⋯

Second tooth — and mayhaps a third!

We noted a second upper front tooth sprouting last night. And this morning the babysitter told me she suspected then a lower front tooth is coming out as well, but it's a bit further in and we'd have to feel for it.

Crooked teeth? Say it ain't so...

再次挂彩

小瓜今天又再挂彩了。吃完晚饭，还在车上时，妈妈还摇了个电话来问慧宁有没有乖（还好啦，还……好……＊心虚＊），没想到一回到家安娣就抱着个瓜出来和我们报告……玩得太得意忘形了，一个跟头栽到地上，嘴唇给牙齿敲得——破相了！

红色的血流呀流……虽然给她喝了些水后就止住了，但安娣还是担心伤口会发炎什么的，就马上抱她去看医生。

结果……车还没开到路口，这个瓜就已经乐不可支地笑呵呵，跳上跳下了。（这么晚了还有得逛街，yeay!）（yeay 你个头啦，没把人吓死。）

到了诊疗所，见到医生还对医生笑呵呵，搞得医生有点难以置信这个瓜十分钟前才刚摔破嘴唇。看了伤势后，确定没有大碍，只是拿了些消肿药以防万一就是了。

只是啊，从此以后“大只虫”这个外号是更加摆脱不了了！

Finally - A Pearly White Tooth!

After much grizzling, howling, mewling and frustrated gnawing — the first signs of a single hard, pearly white front upper tooth appeared this morning!

Stand -- at 7 months 3 weeks!

OMG She's standing!



This means the the bassinet has to go then. Sure, sure... look smug about it all.

Little Jedi in Pink

Pretty in Pink.

MC turned out to know more about Star Wars than I did. The moment he saw Hui Ning in this new dress, he made a beeline for the camel humps at the Penang Municipal Park.