Ok to be fair, 2009 did not really start on a pitch perfect note either... "War on Gaza" (as reported by Al Jazeera news), Situation in Darfour is not cleared up, there is a (last I read) cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe, 2012 Olympics has (apparently) been under budgetted, and of course the global financial crisis is only starting to rear its ugly head.... erm... save the UA Airways flight which landed safely in the Hudson with all the passengers unharmed, there most certainly does not seem to be any good news on the air recently....
An in our household, Our Little One decides that 2009 is the year to start his first strike! Down with Formula Milk!.... Let me contextualize this by saying that as conscientious parents, we have started introducing Our Little One to Formula Milk since he was 6weeks old... and made sure that 1 out of 4-5 feeds daily for Our Little One is given in the form of progressive infant care nutrition par excellence, Formula Milk, hypoallergenic too! But it all started about 2 weeks ago when out of the blue, Our Little One decided to make his contempt for Formula Milk rather blatant (let me contextualize this again by saying that it was never easy getting Formula Milk into Our Little One but the end result is he always accepts it, albeit grudgingly and kicking up a little fuss, usually lasting about 5-10min).... And blatant (and loud) it was!.... he would actively swing his both hands at the bottle (and knock it out of his mouth), filled with the detested nutrition of choice, and spit out whatever he has put into his mouth... to ensure that the taste of Formula Milk does not linger, he actually slobbers profusely to expel any last remnants of the dreaded substance! and I thought babies were supposed to learn (in a few years time) to be scheming as they grow up to he children!
Tonight was probably the worst episode of protest we have had so far.... ok granted, we brought Our Little One out for an errand (the purchase of safety equipment to childproof the abode)... and hence Our Little One did not quite get as much shut eye as usual.... but I mean come on, he has been out before you know... we do have a social baby!... So of course when mealtime comes along, we expected the usual fuss about not wanting Formula Milk (already trained from the previous weeks increased intensity of protests)... but so wrong were we! Even Master Yoda could not have expected such Force existed in Our Little Jedi! Not only did he knock the bottle out as hard as his arms and hands could allow him, the yelling and screaming was of a totally different scale, and so too the stamina!..... He was so tired after the tirade (30min) against the Formula Milk, he was actually willing to drink Apple Juice (something he has rejected for the past 2 days)!
My my.. and we had so much faith in the advent and progress of infant nutrition... how could it fail in the case of Our Little One????!!!! And Our Little One loves rice cereal and probably anything you put onto a spoon for him... Do I now have to feed Formula Milk to Our Little One through a soup spoon???? Heck, now, I try to lull Our Little One to sleep and just before he totally zonks out, I sneak a bottle of Formula Milk into his mouth and cause its instinct, he startst sucking and cos he is too sleepy, he just downs the bottle... so in effect, he does not reject Formula Milk totally... but when can I stop being so sneaky especially when all I want to do is to make sure that Our Little One gets all the nutrition he needs? Oh and by the way, his other feeds are EBM (hospital talk for Expressed Breast Milk)...
After dealing with a cranky and loud baby for almost 5 hours.. he started fussing as soon as we stepped into the house... thats another thing.. Our Little One refuses to fuss outside of the main door... I mean... come on!!! at least reserve some energy for our LONG-a** flights home!!!! It is after all payback time for all those hours that we sat with a smile and a shrug when some other baby/babies fussed within earshot in Economy!!!! We are totally smashed... like TOTALLY!!!!
But you know with so much happening in the world right now... who are we to b**** about dealing with 1 cranky baby??? :P
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I know I shouldn't be laughing, but this post cracked me up so much! Loved the pictures of the screaming child...I have a couple of those myself - they still make me laugh.
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