One of the good practices that Little Dynamo got from school is praying. And so… since he started going to school, we have our bedtime prayer.
Now, aside from our bedtime prayer, he prays whenever he wants to… in the bath tub… in the car… in the church…
Wonder what he prays for?
“Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus… please do not let my mommy get angry at me.”
Little Dynamo: Mommy, I want chocolate candies.
Me: Nope, we don’t have chocolate candies.
Little Dynamo: Mommy, give me money so I can buy chocolate candies.
Me: Nope, we have a lot of food here.
Lola: It’s ok, let him have chocolate. You don’t let him eat chocolate in Seoul.
Little Dynamo: (whining)
Me: Nope. No crying.
Lola: Come, apo. Ask Lola for money.
The summer heat is here.
So, off we went to the nearest clubhouse in the city.
Little Dynamo and cousin had so much fun. He showed his swimming skill (he doesn’t know how to swim *wink*) to Lola and confidently believed that he was teaching his lola and cousin to swim.
I believe in instilling inner confidence. This will bring them a long, long way and allow them to see the world as their playground… they go about conquering one feat after another - stress-free.
Morning.
Little Dynamo and I were cuddling and I told him, “Promise me you will be my baby forever“. “Promise“.
Afternoon.
Little Dynamo made poopoo in his brief while playing. Note: he had been completely toilet-trained at 28 months. While cleaning him up,
Me: Why did you make poopoo in your brief? Are you still a baby?
Little Dynamo: But mommy, I will be your baby forever.
Toink!
I love reading. I love browsing the net.
Ever since I got pregnant with Little Dynamo, I had been scouring the internet with pregnancy articles, parenting and baby things. The information is just so vast I could hardly read, much more absorb, all of them. I chose a number of sites where I feel I could get the most valuable information from. Now that I have Baby Dynamo with me, I would be needing more help. I am so grateful I checked this Baby and Child website. They would definitely provide huge help. The articles posted are worth the read. Sometimes, I feel like I am pushing myself too much to be a good mom. Here’s a good way to be a better mom.
I am happy to see articles relating to siblings and having a new baby in the family while making the older one feel secure. Maintaining the confidence of the older child while making him love the younger one is definitely a great challenge for moms. There are articles in the website addressed just for Moms. The site is good and I am bookmarking it for my personal reference.
I am a mother.
And I love every minute of it.
I can only get tired but I am never bored. The faces of my handsome princes energize me.
Baby Dynamo is 1 month and 16 days old today… How he has grown from a mere 2.8kg newborn babe.
His hand in mine. It feels good. It feels perfect. And scary…
I am responsible for this little one… He grows bigger each day from my milk… He is protected by my arms and hands… He listens to my voice,, and soon, he will look into my face.
Motherhood. My vocation.
I am an advocate of breastfeeding.
I breastfed Little Dynamo for eighteen months. I would have wanted it to be for a full two year period but he painlessly, and without effort, totally weaned out three days before he turned eighteen months old.
I am on a breastfeeding frenzy again with Baby Dynamo. I hope to do this with him for two years. But as with Little Dynamo, I will take the cue from him when it comes to weaning.
Breastfeeding doesn’t stop me from going around, thanks to my pre-sterilized disposable liners which I use for storing breastmilk. I started going to the gym two days ago. I started being on the go (attending Little Dynamo’s school activities and parties, going to the mall as far as Clark) since Baby Dynamo was just two days old. I happily go out sans feeling of guilt as I have ample breastmilk supply especially stored for Baby Dynamo. I just have to bear the “full” and “heavy” feeling when I am out too long. Several times, I go home with my milk overflowing. I would just pray hard that I would not have mastitis.
I rarely use my breastpump but I get to store a lot of breastmilk. How is this done? Whenever I feed, my other breast overflows with milk too. I used to stop the flow by pressing hard a cloth over my other breast. But then I got to think, why not store them?
While my Baby Dynamo feeds on my other breast, my other hand is holding a feeding bottle with a pre-sterilized disposable liner inside ready to catch milk going out of my other breast. Funny! That’s why I always feed in the privacy of my room. Hardly a picture of poised feeding. LOL.
Breastmilk can be stored (frozen) for two weeks. Keep the stored milk frozen until the baby is ready to use it. Just dip the frozen milk in warm water until milk is thawed and warm enough for baby’s consumption. Never freeze the used milk again. That is why it is safe to store up to 3 ounces of milk per liner or just enough for your baby’s consumption.
I will be off to another Christmas party after writing this. Of course, I will be thawing some of my frozen milk for Baby Dynamo’s consumption while I am gone:-).
Bedtime reading… Little Dynamo chose MY book instead of his own book. He insisted that I read out loud… he heard the word “married”…
Little Dynamo: Just like you and Daddy got married?
Me: Yes, that’s right.
Little Dynamo: Just like Teacher Cecille? (his teacher is getting married this Sunday)
Me: Yes.
Little Dynamo: And when I grow big, I will get married too.
Me: Yes.
Little Dynamo: Yehey! I am excited!
Me: (Duh!)
Little Dynamo: To who?
Me: To somebody you love and loves you so much.
Little Dynamo: To you?
Me: (grins!)
He will still be my baby for a long, long, long time…
In my son’s understanding, I was to be blamed for this:
Little Dynamo: (coughing while we were cuddling on the bed, sleeping time)
Me: You’re coughing because of those chocolates you ate. That was a lot of chocolate.
LD: Because I ate a lot of chocolates? Because you gave me a lot of chocolates?
Me: (quiet - he was actually sneaking on the M&Ms his lola gave him as a present despite my protests)
LD: Mommy, say sorry to me.
Me: What? Why?
LD: Say sorry to me because you gave me a lot of chocolates. Now I am coughing.
Another anecdote to tell his Dad.
For the past days, my Little Dynamo would wake up to:
Little Dynamo: Is it daytime now?
Me: Yes.
Little Dynamo: Why is it daytime now?
Me: Look out the window. The sun is shining now.
Little Dynamo: The sun is here now? Why?
and the whys go on and on… Sometimes, he would ask:
Little Dynamo: Where is my Daddy Love?
Me: He is Seoul (or India, or China or Italy, or US…).
Little Dynamo: Why?
To make sense of this day and night mystery and to make countries less abstract, I brought home a surprise:
Two nights ago, he went to his Lolo’s (grandfather) room, carrying his inflatable globe:
Little Dynamo: Lolo, lolo, I’ll show you where my Daddy is now.
Lolo: Where?
Little Dynamo: New York (exactly pointing to New York, he knows the US map is in yellow).
Lolo: (could only pat his grandson’s head).
So, why is there night and day? Putting his globe on the table and with flashlight in hand, my Little Dynamo tried to absorb the globe as earth and the flashlight as sun. Moving the globe slowly while steadying the flashlight, he had his first concept of night time and day time.
Was he able to absorb it? LOL. After a few minutes, he ran out of the room and played.
I told my husband over MSN, “I have learned a long time ago never to underestimate your child’s mind:-)”.
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