Spring Forward

This morning you just wanted to stand forever, must have been at least 5 minutes. We thought you were stuck because you didn't know how to sit back down but when dad offered you an arm for assistance you didn't seem to be interested. Your thighs were shaking a bit. You must have really liked standing!

You had 4 teeth coming out at the same time: three on the top and an outer one on the bottom.
Dad was playing peekaboo with you after you woke up from your nap in the car so I took some pics that shows off your glorious teeth.

We had a nice lunch visit with your friend Zeke. The last time we hung out with them was when he was a week old and you were one month old. That was almost 8 months ago! Driving to them with you in the car was the first solo trip I ever did, roughly 20 mins each way. This was back in the days of sleep deprivation, unbelievable summer heat and the urge to get out of the house and speak to an adult. I psyched myself up to visit Trilby and her new baby. It was so nerve racking. I wasn't sure if you were going to wake up in the car at any second and need to be breastfed or changed. I drove you to their place and miraculously you were asleep the whole way there and pretty much slept through the whole visit. Once you woke up, I fed you and we went back home. On the way home I was thinking "wow I think I can actually do this" until you started crying, after which I vowed never to leave the house again. 

No concept of sharing yet

Fear

Usually you get startled by loud noises but today you seemed actually afraid.
Dad was using the food processor and you jumped at the noise, looked at me and started to whimper.
I guess now you will no longer be fearless.

Month 7

Mom got a haircut and perm with Auntie Rina at Chura. I can't believe we were there for 3.5 hours! After about an hour I asked the hairstylist how much longer is it going to take and she said another two hours. Another two hours?? Why does it take so long to be beautiful! The whole time I was worried about you, that I wouldn't be able to make it back for your bedtime feed. We also had to go get Mexican food at your dad's request. I didn't make it back in time but we got Chipotle. Dad took good care of you and you were sound asleep. You had lots to drink at your midnight feed though.

The rest of the month we chilled with Rina. Your aunt is very laid back so she didn't mind that we stayed home quite often. She wanted to practice cooking so we would often go grocery shopping (at first almost daily) to get the recipe ingredients. Her food was very delicious though and it's such a treat to have dinner made for you. She also took care of you a lot and loved to put you down, dress you, and dance for you while you were on the potty (peepeepeepeeeee).

First time Rina dressed you. She was nervous.

We discovered your new favourite song is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and she would randomly break out into this song. You laughed a lot and practised your push ups every day. It was about two weeks into her stay that you started crawling. Your crawling was almost like riding on a scooter because your left leg just stayed limp while your right leg propelled you forward. You are now better at it and it's more or less even.

Incentivizing crawling practice with an Ipad 

You suddenly started to say "mumumum". They were just random mutterings and I'm pretty sure you have no idea what it means but I'd like to believe you were calling for me. Actually "bababa" was your first babble but I started saying "mamama" to you and from then on I never heard you say "bababa" again. I'm pretty sure dad is jealous but I told him to just keep saying "baba" to you if he wants you to say it!

During the last week of Rina's stay we went out way more. She's going to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a 9 month internship so chances are there won't be good Asian food. We went to dimsum with your buddy Hezzie, discovered Asian shaved ice and almost lost the car. We had bubble tea at Chatime and went to Suika for izakaya. For the last lunch we went to Anton's pasta bar and had ample leftovers for seconds and thirds as usual.

The tripe and tendon was surprisingly ok

The green tea and strawberry mochi ice cream was great at Suika

Hiking at Cleveland Dam

Rina is in Rotterdam now.

She wrote "OMG I miss him so much, brings tears to my eyes, I feel like I'm a grandmother whose only joy in life is her grandchildren".

It made me laugh so hard. We video chatted and her eyes were literally brimming with tears when she saw you.

Awww she really misses you.

Now that she's not sleeping in the same room as you though you have stopped wanting a feed around midnight. This technically means I could sleep like a normal person again since you are down from 7:30pm to 6:30am-ish. First time for a year and a half! However I've gotten so used to waiting for you to wake up around 12:30 I still can't sleep until then. I don't think sleeping will be ever the same again once you are a mom.