Watch Me Grow, Ibu!

WATCH ALIFF GROW

Last Friday, Aliff has turned 3 months old. His colic nightmare is finally over, though he still has that teeny weeny gassy behaviour occassionally. He is back to his usual self - placid and contented, alhamdulillah. The good thing is he has started to sleep well at night. Thus, we decided to bring Ashraff to sleep in the same room again. Now, we are sleeping as a family again..alhamdulillah. I'm less lethargy now since I got a good rest at night. Memang syukur sangat-sangat since everything is settled down now.

Now, a check on his development track (source:babycenter):-

3-Month Old Development
Even though your baby has been able to recognize you since he was just a few days old, he may now be able to show it. About half of babies this age begin to exhibit an obvious recognition of their parents.
(It's pretty obvious that Aliff recognises familiar faces. He smiles and coos instantenously when he sees me or his Ayah, bibik, or Abg Ashraff (he simply idolise his brother). But when he sees strangers, he will start to look straight into their eyes, and if he does not prefer them, he'll start crying. Like he has started developing stranger anxiety, which is very unlikely in Ashraff. Ashraff is a social butterfly... )

At times, Aliff is trying hard to roll-over. He is not as persistent as his brother, but he shows good effort in doing so. I hope he'll be able to master the skill soon, probably with tangan tersepit in the beginning.

This is what I love about babies. They show significant development every month, in fact every week. It's so fun to watch them grow (of course it comes together with bags of worries and lack of sleep).

Weight-wise, Aliff has not increase much as compared to when he was 2-mo. This is resulted from a ight drop in the mid of last month where he weights only 6.1 kg. Then he picked up really fast after full recovery. Now he weights 6.8 kgs!

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WATCH ASHRAFF GROW

Ashraff nowadays is so into pen and paper. He likes to scribble down things on paper. So far, no damage is done on other places i.e. the wall, cabinets, floor etc. We've been training him to write and draw only on paper since the first time we saw him holding a pen. Alhamdulillah, he obeys to the rule, hopefully sampai bila-bila...

At times, he would insists us to draw Ultraman or Power Rangers so that boleh lawan dengan dragon, katanya... I'm not a good artists so if he asked me, I can't fulfill his desire..hubby too. But Tok Mak is his saviour...

Ashraff has been writing on rough paper using a pen all this while. So I thot of giving him proper materials for him to express his imagination. Thus, I bought these while book browsing at T1mes...

He was thrilled by the newly purchased arts materials. Of course, the penggeli Ashraff will look at his dirty hands everytime he draws something. But, I told him it's washable so he continues drawing...one after another...

Here are some of Ashraff's masterpieces for the time being...

I'm sure more will come after this. I was thinking of buying some arts and crafts books for kids so I could explore together with Ashraff during some of my limited free time. Something which I'm longing to do since Ashraff is merely a baby. Or perhaps the cheapskate me can just browse at the Net to get some free arts and crafts ideas...should I have extra time...

Next on my list is finger painting...We bought the necessary materials last weekend but we haven't try it as yet. I don't know whether my super-duper pembersih and penggeli Ashraff will like that idea...Belum cuba, belum tahu...

Oh yeah, did I tell you we have enrol Ashraff in a weekend programme for kids his age at L0rn@ Wh1st0n at Taman Tun last Sunday? We went for the trial and Ashraff seems to enjoy the class, so we sign-up for the programme. Will give it a go for one term and we will see how thereafter (see how means see Ashraff's acceptance, our budget and our willingness to travel from Ampang to Tmn Tun every Sunday!).