the first thing he did when he arrived at the hospital to visit me was to go to the nursery with his daddy, where he helped to wheel the baby into the room. told him that the baby’s out of mummy’s stomach, and officially introduced them. then we presented him with the gift “from the baby”, which he’d been anticipating for some time (he knew it was a “robot”).

but little did he know how absolutely THRILLED he’d be when he actually received it – he was practically beaming from ear to ear!

in return, the baby got a germ-full of kiss from her brother. :p

the family dropped by…

the kecoh aunties dropped by…

and all the while, she was oblivious to the attention…

before we knew it, it was time to go home!

i chose not to stay an extra day at the hospital this time round, since it was the weekend and i didn’t want to mess up the toddler’s schedule too much. he’d stayed at his oma’s house the first night, along with his cousin adam for company.

the second evening he came by, i was already missing him, and felt a little sad as he left with his daddy. he’d helped to wheel the baby back to the nursery, waved at me from afar with his usual high-spirited “bye mimmy!!”, then as an afterthought, ran back to give me a big kiss again before running back to his daddy. like he knew i’d be alone for the night and wanted to reassure me it’d be ok.

that, i think, is one of the most memorable mommy-moment for me to date. :)

he hasn’t shown signs of jealousy thus far, as you would have predicted from a firstborn. we sort of guessed that he’d be ok with the new addition to the family and the changes that was to take place in the household. perhaps it’s simply his personality. and perhaps he’d picked up the ‘normalcy’ of having a baby from watching adam, who coos and sings to his baby brother. aniq even cooed at his sister – “aidinnn!” – which is the name of adam’s brother, hehe. but don’t worry, we’re working on ‘re-programming’ him. :p

he shows concern when the baby cries, tells me she wants “tetek”, pats and kisses her… and here, he asks her to “please don’t cry baby, pleeeease?” :D

he pretty much doesn’t mind her around, really. maybe because all she does right now is sleep, cry and drink, so we can still give him almost the same amount of attention, especially since he IS something of a joker who entertains us with his antics and myriad of expressions he picked up from who-knows-where (his new thing right now is exclaiming “oh my gawd!”).

of course his mischievous-monkey behaviour still stands, but all that needs is a ROARING-LIONESS to keep him in check, hehe.

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