Last week my daughter turned 5 months old. This reminds me that time flies so fast that if I don’t capture them, the memories may be lost. So I want to recall at least the last one month. There are three things I want to remember.
First, she learned to flip. At the beginning of last month, we were worried as she was neither able to flip nor able to lying sideways. She liked her favorite style of facing up in sleeping. So my wife and my in-laws began to train her to lie sideways. Initially she kept going back to facing up. But at sometimes she began to be able to flip facing down. But she could not move the hand that was trapped between her body and the bed. Over time, she could manage to flip her own and getting used to take out her hand that was trapped. It was amazing to see her progress.
Second, I learned that things may change. Initially she is not that comfortable to be carried by me. But somehow in the past one week, she become more comfortable to be carried by me. At the same time, I became more confident to things such as changing her clothes in the morning.
Third, I learned a lot in terms of being humility and not jumping into conclusion. Recently it became more frequent of her rejection of drinking milk. We become worried. So my in-law tried different methods. One of them is to let my daughter to lie on her own on the bed while we kneel from the side of the bed to give the milk. Initially I think it was too much as she was willing to drink on the usual place. I felt too highly of myself and think that was not necessary. Only after a while, I can see by God’s grace that it does not matter who is right. It is having multiple ways to get the same objective of my baby to be well fed. Similarly, today I ate with three of my colleagues and said that warm water is necessary for formula. I was surprised as I thought we should use room temperature water. But after that, I swing to the other side thinking that we need to use warm water. So again it is either 1 or 0 mindset. After checking, apparently it does not matter. All these remind me to develop flexibility.
Recently I started to take more photos of my daughter. I guess it is now the time to learn to be thankful of God’s grace, acknowledging that things may be tough, but we can rejoice in Him and enjoy the journey in the gift of life that He has given us.
First, she learned to flip. At the beginning of last month, we were worried as she was neither able to flip nor able to lying sideways. She liked her favorite style of facing up in sleeping. So my wife and my in-laws began to train her to lie sideways. Initially she kept going back to facing up. But at sometimes she began to be able to flip facing down. But she could not move the hand that was trapped between her body and the bed. Over time, she could manage to flip her own and getting used to take out her hand that was trapped. It was amazing to see her progress.
Second, I learned that things may change. Initially she is not that comfortable to be carried by me. But somehow in the past one week, she become more comfortable to be carried by me. At the same time, I became more confident to things such as changing her clothes in the morning.
Third, I learned a lot in terms of being humility and not jumping into conclusion. Recently it became more frequent of her rejection of drinking milk. We become worried. So my in-law tried different methods. One of them is to let my daughter to lie on her own on the bed while we kneel from the side of the bed to give the milk. Initially I think it was too much as she was willing to drink on the usual place. I felt too highly of myself and think that was not necessary. Only after a while, I can see by God’s grace that it does not matter who is right. It is having multiple ways to get the same objective of my baby to be well fed. Similarly, today I ate with three of my colleagues and said that warm water is necessary for formula. I was surprised as I thought we should use room temperature water. But after that, I swing to the other side thinking that we need to use warm water. So again it is either 1 or 0 mindset. After checking, apparently it does not matter. All these remind me to develop flexibility.
Recently I started to take more photos of my daughter. I guess it is now the time to learn to be thankful of God’s grace, acknowledging that things may be tough, but we can rejoice in Him and enjoy the journey in the gift of life that He has given us.
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