Juan Or the 'B' for.....BOOKWORM!

Remember how Juan Or encompasses the 7Bs - 'B' for baby, boy, buffalo (for his big size), bite (he's a good biter!), bising (for being noisy when fretful), busybody (likes to turn his head to see what others are doing when Mommy is breastfeeding him), and bulldog (for pulling his mouth downwards from end to end to make the bulldog face).

Yesterday, Juan Or earned another 'B' title - 'B' for BOOKWORM!

("I love books.....")

("......for a reason!")

No, no, he's not the bookworm that you think! Of course, looks can be deceiving with him holding the book. Instead, you know, it's that silvery-looking worm that feeds on books? Yes, that's right, Juan Or is feeding on books too! Juan Or bites books, just like how bookworms bite books!

This was what happened: It was 6.30 am when Juan Or woke up from sleep. So Mommy had to get up from sleep too to breastfeed him. And Mommy was still feeling very sleepy as a result of interupted sleep throughout the night because of Juan Or's constant waking up. Mommy offered him the breast, but Juan Or turned his head away (Juan Or seems to be auto-weaning himself from breastfeeding for the past few days). So Mommy decided to read a book with him instead. It was a board book with a monkey squeezy toy attached to it. After reading, Mommy left Juan Or to play with the book (he loves flipping and turning the pages more than reading the book!) while Mommy quickly catched some light sleep. Of course, from time to time, Mommy secretly opened the eyes just to make sure Juan Or did not put the book to his mouth, to which he didn't. After the light sleep of about 20 minutes, Mommy got up to take the book from Juan Or for keeping. Lo and behold, the book cover's corner was biten off!

(The bottom corner was biten off!)

(When the book is opened, part of the word 'give' is missing!)

Immediately, Mommy, with the voice raised a little, asked Juan Or,"Who bite this book? Why did you bite this book?" Juan Or merely stared at the book. Mommy looked around for scraps of the biten off portion and it was nowhere to be seen. "You swallowed it! Open your mouth! SEE!" And Juan Or obediently opened his mouth, much to Mommy's surprise because Juan Or will shut his mouth tightly whenever Mommy wants to clean his mouth. Mommy couldn't see any trace of book material in his mouth. Then Juan Or looked back at Mommy as if to say,"Where got!?"

("Where got, Mama!?")

Sometimes, Mommy doesn't know whether to laugh or to be angry.....

Searching for Mickey Mouse

On a late night of last week's Saturday, everyone else in the family was already asleep upstairs, except for Juan Or and Mommy. Mommy had to be up to entertain Juan Or who was in the mood for playing. Mommy put Juan Or in the baby walker and then handed him a Mickey Mouse figurine (which came from the stacking cups toy Mommy bought from Litt Tak Warehouse Sale recently) to play with.

As usual, Juan Or would bite Mickey Mouse.

Then, Juan Or would twist and turn Mickey Mouse round his little fingers and finally threw Mickey Mouse onto the floor (and expected Mommy to pick it up for him!).

However, Mommy could not see the Mickey Mouse anywhere on the floor - at least not at where Mommy was squating. So Mommy asked Juan Or,"Juan Or, where is the Mickey Mouse? Where did you throw the Mickey Mouse?" Juan Or looked at Mommy and suddenly, at the time when Mommy least expected, Juan Or moved backwards with the baby walker and with his forefinger held in a pointing position, quickly pointed at the Mickey Mouse on the floor, and then stomped his legs with delight! Oh, Mommy was surprised and impressed! Mommy actually didn't expect Juan Or to understand and respond to what Mommy was asking him, but he did! And never before had Mommy ever seen Juan Or point his forefinger at something, but he was doing it just now! So Mommy patted his head and showered him with kisses on the cheek. Mommy's Juan Or is a big boy already!

Then in another occasion (which happened tonight), Juan Or was on the floor playing with his basket of toys. Juan Or's typical habit is to take out each toy, one by one, from the basket by throwing. Finally, the basket was emptied and all the toys were scattered on the floor. So Mommy asked Juan Or,"Juan Or, where's the Mickey Mouse? Mama wants to have the Mickey Mouse. Give Mama the Mickey Mouse."Juan Or responded by crawling forward a little and putting his arm out to sweep at the clutter of toys and then picked out the Mickey Mouse figurine. Wow, Mommy's Juan Or is a big boy already and is already able to understand some spoken language!

Juan Or's First Mail

Last week Friday was the day Juan Or received his first mail. The mail is the MPH Kidz Club newsletter sent by MPH Bookstores. Since Mommy is constantly buying books for Juan Or from MPH, Mommy might as well enrol Juan Or in MPH Kidz Club to enjoy 10% discount on children book purchases. The annual fee is RM12.

So what does Juan Or do with his mail? Does Juan Or read his mail? Of course not! Instead, Juan Or BITES his mail! Chew! Chew! Chomph! Chomph! Mmmmmm.....delicious mail (meal)!

(Juan Or BITES his mail!)

(What, Mommy? Watching what I was doing just now?)

The 'B' (Part 2)

Remember the post on "The 'B'" (http://juanorandmommy.blogspot.com/2008/11/b.html)? In the previous part, Juan Or encompasses the 3Bs: 'B' for baby, 'B' for boy and 'B' for buffalo. Now, Mommy declares that Juan Or encompasses the 5Bs.





The first 3 Bs remain.





The 4th 'B' for bite because Juan Or bites Mommy's nipple when breastfeeding!

(Sorry, no photo, censored item! ;-)

And the 5th 'B' for bising because Juan Or makes noise when Mommy's attention goes away from him, even if it is just for a short while!

(See the picture but imagine the sound!)