Bedtime... Naptime...

Earlier in the month, I taught Alicia all about tucking her soft toys to bed and so it started off with her tucking in her toys (especially big snowbear). Starting on the 8th Jan, she'd place the snowbear's head on the pillow, then put the blanket over it then pat the bear thrice and say 'pat pat pat'. Soon, she decided that she wanted to tuck herself into bed and so she would lie down next to big snowbear and try to throw the blanket over herself and the snowbear - and I'd do the patting: both her and snowbear. She'd be very amused and she'd try to do it over and over again.

Unfortunately by the time I realised that I haven't gotten a video of this adorable phase, she was almost stopping to do these cute actions so the videos I captured didn't manage to capture 'the moment'. So upsetting... anyway, this is as best as I could manage:

Alicia eating noodles!

I gave Alicia some noodles today and here she is, trying to self-feed. But due to the fact that these noodles were very slippery, she had problems trying to pick the strands up with the fork. Hence, whenever she got impatient (which was quite often), she would use her hand to pick up the strands of noodles instead. :D I love the cute look when she's sucking in the noodles!

Here's the successful attempt at self-feeding:

Isn't she just adorable??? :)

Alicia's new bag!

I've always promised Alicia that if ever I see a cute Elmo bag, I'd buy it for her. Finally I came across one yesterday when I went to the pasar malam while waiting for the pork ribs I ordered to be chopped. Although the bag's too big for her, I still bought it for her.

On the way home from the market, I took out the bag for her and she immediately brought the elmo up and kissed it on its nose though it was still wrapped in a plastic bag and she clutched the bag in her hands all the way home. :) She's just so in love with elmo... and of course, she's already learnt to call elmo by his name... :D

Ooh... it's sooo bright!

Alicia used to hate wearing accessories but ever since wearing my niece's sunglasses at the Christmas eve party, she has been more receptive to items to adorn herself. My mother-in-law bought this pair of sunglasses for her some time back but she's only begun to really like it recently. Here's my little one, enjoying the world through the pink shades:

Alicia and the mask

I was down with throat infection and slight cough earlier and so I wore a mask whenever I nursed Alicia. She always thinks that I'm trying to initiate a game with her and will try to play with me and grab the mask. The other day, she asked me to put on the mask for her. Since it was a brand new mask, and obviously I wouldn't allow her to play with a mask that I've worn, I let her play with it. She was so conscious of the mask and whenever it dropped a little, she would push it up... :D



Anyway, I caught this on the videocam on another separate occasion:

Alicia's worst fall ever... and the power of breast milk (and latching)!

Late last night, just before Alicia went to bed, she fell down as she was playing near our bed. She was smiling cheekily at me before I turned away and the next thing I knew, she fell. Hubby witnessed the fall and told me that she had slipped and hit her face against the edge of the bedframe. Thinking that it was no big deal as falls are not out of the ordinary, we just did a routine check to find out if she was really hurt.

This time round, she was really hurt.

There was a deep cut in her mouth and the cut spanned all the way to the exterior of the top of the right lip. Poor gal. She was bleeding and this is the first time she's bled so much from a fall. Her cheek and the area around the lip became very swollen. Hubby kept asking me how to stop the bleeding and if there was anything we could apply to help the blood stop gushing out. Well, the only thing I could think of was to latch her on and she was looking for me to latch on to too so that's what we did.

Miraculously, she stopped crying, the bleeding stopped and the swelling went down by a lot and she was smiling and laughing when she unlatched herself. :) I know that breast milk has healing properties but we're constantly being astounded by the power of breast milk and the comfort latching can offer to our little one. Breast milk seems to be some antidote for Alicia's falls. :D

Though people may criticise the use of the breast as a source of comfort, I believe that it is perfectly fine to do so for now since she's still so young. Of course, it has to stop one day and she has to learn other ways to calm herself down and soothe her pain but for now, let's not expect too much of a young toddler who's still got so much else to learn. And meanwhile, I believe Alicia and I both enjoy that bond between us. :)