Aug : Something about Ai -ai

The past week, we have been living with P'can, P'pong colleague, he come here to help out the "MASSIVE" program at Luma. He has been experience our baby "Ai-ai", happy and moody all week long. And he wrote an email to tell his girlfriend about our Ai-ai, which I love to past along to our family and love one.

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I have been living with my colleague and his family, his name is
Thana, a Thai guy. I have introduced Thana to work with my company a
long while ago, he is still here, in the US, working away.

Thana married to a nice lovely Thai lady name A. A moved here, to LA,
about 4 years ago to be with her husband. Their recent addition to the
family is a baby boy named Ai. Ai-Ai (as his mother lovingly called
him) is an 8 months old whining and screaming box. He makes noise,
that's his occupation, which he seems to enjoy tremendously. He makes
noise when he's hungry. He makes noise when Thana and A don't feed him
fast enough. He makes noise to sing himself to sleep. He makes noise
when he's hot. He makes noise when he poops and pees. He also makes
noise for no reason (that we can discern of) some times. I'm sure he
is a reasonable guy and he probably makes noise for some reason but
since he cannot tell us what it is, it's hard to tell.

Fortunately for Ai, he has a very cool redeeming quality which totally
offset his whining and screaming and then some. He has this awesome
smile which melts every heart of every soul who is lucky enough to see
it. It is the kind of smile that comes right out from his heart, not
the pretentious smile we encountered day in day out from the adults.
It is the smile that simply lights up the world and once you have seen
it, there is nothing you can do but smile back and forget all of your
trouble. It also reminds you that there are things of good and pure
remained in this world, things that are worth fighting and preserving
this world and what remained of its resource and environment for. It
is a smile from a person who cannot talk, cannot walk, cannot even
help himself to the restroom, but he has brought such a great joy to
his parents and all the people around him. He also provides hours and
hours of entertainment, even laughing along with people who are
laughing at him.

Yes, I am in no position to resist his charm and I am totally falling
for his smile. I'm done for. To top off the deal, I don't even have to
take care of him, he has his parents to do that. So I simply,
thoroughly and whole-heartedly enjoy his company. His screaming and
whining are the song to my ears. His beautiful complexion and weird,
ill-proportioned soft body are the feast to my eyes. I do stupid
sounds and make stupid faces just to see him smile and laugh. I love Ai.

Aug : Ai Sit himself UP

Last night we took Ai to dine out with P'pong friend's friends. But the party got late and passed Ai nap time. He was super cranky. I have to leave in the middle of the party take Ai home. It already ruined his sleep schedule, he slept for 1.30 hr. then wake up playing the sitting up game until 3 am.
He did sit up by himself couple times a week ago, but I didn't encourage him to practice it.
Now he keep practicing it; lie down on his back-roll over on his tummy-lift his tummy up by pushing with 2 hand and his knee-bend his leg to V shape-then he now sit up straight and give me a grin. Ai keep doing this over and over, PP said he practice it, so he remember how to do it. I think from now, he do it like a pro.

Aug : Month of amazed!

Tonight, while I play tickling with Ai ai on bed, He curled himself to the side and push himself to sit up. Har.r..r.... I'm speechless! How fast!

Aug : The Rabbit teeth

Last night, Ai ai was so cranky. He keep waking up after 10 minutes sleep, or after I leave the bed.
He curled himself up an rub his face, pull his ears all night long. Finally, I have to hug him to sleep.
In the morning, I saws his upper central incisor start to erupt. I come to the light about what happen last night. we just saw the white bud on his upper gum the past week, soon Ai will have 4 teeth :) The development at this state is so fast..I am amazed!

Aug : Ai at Seven

Ai ai at 7 months, he can pull himself to stand up and can stand while holding onto something-he even dance with only one hand hold bed rail. He drags object toward himself, pass it to another hand and bangs objects together. He can indicate wants with gestures and jabbers. He now combines syllables and says it continuously as a long sentence.

Aug : Stand up Please!

this afternoon Ai play by himself in his crib. When he saw me walk toward the door, he suddenly cry for pick up - like he know I'm gonna leave him. I decide to just stand beside his crib and look at him quietly. He reach out the upper rail of the crib with 2 hand and then try to pull himself up...I was amazed! and reach him to support his underarm, then he pull him up. Now he stand with 2 hand hold the rail, look back at me and give me A GRIN :)
I sit him back, then he reach the rail and pull himself up again. The second time he can pull himself up for a while but his feet were closed together make him lose balance. After he discover the fun of standing, he keep practicing it. I'm happy for his progress and also tell myself to keep my eyes closed to him more.