Yesterday Noah did something funny when i placed him on his gym blanket, face up. He started kicking his legs against the bed, as if he was swimming-breast stroke style, except he is facing up, and inched himself headward quite a bit. He really enjoyed this movement, so he kept kicking. Just when i was thinking what would happen once he reached the end of the bed, Noah did just that, another hard kick, his head was at the headboard and couldn't go any further. What's more, he kicked so hard, that his head banged on the board, it must have hurt, he started crying bloody murder.
Later we put him into his crib after he fell asleep around 9pm, an hour later, he has turned himself 90 degrees in his crib, while sleeping. ZM was startled when he went to check on Noah, where did he go?!
Noah seems to have the desire to skip crawling and going straight to walking. Often he demanded us to hold him up in our lap so he could look around. Today, we discovered a new game. I held him up then let go for a brief moment(both hands were still next to him torso), he fell, i caught him before he hit any surface. He LOVED it so much that he laughed out loud. So cute.
He also finally started acknowledge the cats' existence. He would even watch them fight for a few seconds. (He has noticed the dog since end of September, a few days before Yangmama came back from her China vacation, during which Anita stayed with us).
Another thing he started to enjoy is to watch animated clips on laptops. For example, he could watch up to three music video on this playlist before he got bored.
On our large bookshelf, we have English books in some cube, and Chinese ones in others. Noah showed a lot more interests to the Chinese sections than to the English ones. Probably because Chinese characters are pictorial?
While putting Noah to sleep, ZM would sing all kinds of tones, from revolutionary peking opera to Chinese pop. I only sing one song, Ella's Summer Time. I started singing this to him since he first discharged from the hospital. In a week, he caught on and singing this seemed to calm him down and eventually put him to sleep. But recently, this song started to affect him differently. Instead of putting him to sleep, whenever i sing this song, he would wake up and start laughing. What gives? Is he showing how much he loves the song? or is he laughing at my singing?! I would have to ask him that when he grows up!
Summer Time, When the Living is Easy
Fish are jumping, and the Cotton is High
Your Daddy is Rich,
and Your Ma is Good Looking
So Hush little Baby
Don't You Cry...
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