Category: Babble

My Very Own Mary Poppins.

Mommy and Daddy hired a new nanny to take care of me after the first nanny they hired decided to skip ship and take another job as a massage therapist.  Daddy didn’t particularly like her anyway, so it’s not a big loss.  The new nanny (who did the confinement month cooking for Aunt Julie) was referred to Mommy from Aunt Julie.  It was hard to find me a nanny because the #1 requirement is that she loves children and the #2 requirement is that she must be fluent in Mandarin. 

The nanny started working on September 1st and while it’s a bit early to say whether or not this is going to be a long-term relationship, I must say, she talks a lot more than Mommy, Daddy, and PoPo COMBINED!  Mommy thinks it’s a good thing since I like it when people talk to me and hopefully it will help me develop my verbal skills sooner.  Up until now, YiMa was the only one who talked to me the most and now, I’d say she has some stiff competition.

I Know How to Fence!

Here’s a picture of me doing my fencing pose during my first month:

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It’s actually a normal finding in newborns.  According to Wikipeidia (and no, Mommy doesn’t go there for medical information routinely, but it’s good for layman’s definition):

The asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR) is a primitive reflex found in newborn humans, but normally vanishes by the child’s first birthday.  It is also known as the “fencing reflex” because of the characteristic position of the infant’s arms and head, which resembles that of a classically trained fencer. When the face is turned to one side, the arm and leg on the side to which the face is turned extend and the arm and leg on the opposite side bend.

There are plenty of other reflexes such as the sucking, Moro and Babinski which require video capture to better show the reflex, but I have exhibited them all!