Yoga Baby

Starting around 5th month, baby Valerie has a new pastime. Yoga! Hah! I read from website, around this time, babies start to discover the existence of the feets and hence like to touch them, hold them and yup... suck them!!

Despite all the alarming No-nos from daddy or grandpa or grandma, baby Valerie paid no attention and happily sucked her toes. She started with one toes and then two toes. As days went by, she progressed to putting more and more toes into her mouth. In the end, you could see the whole foot in!

Some days, she would be so greedy as to try to suck both feet at the same time. So left and then right and the left. Tried to put both in but mouth too small. Then gave up and just chose one foot.

Nanny called this her yoga time. After her milk feed, she would usually spend about 20 minutes just doing yoga and this freed my poor nanny for a while. For me I found it quite convenient too as whenever she's doing her yoga time, I knew I would have about 20 minutes to do whatever I need to do while she's busy at it.

One of the most embarassing moment was when Valerie decided to do yoga time in her stroller while at a shopping mall. One weekend while we were pushing her around at Sunway, she suddenly pulled both feet up and started sucking. As we were so used to it by now, we just let it be.

But not the passer-bys. Nearly everyone who walked passed her either look startled, let out a 'Urggh.. look at that baby' or.. 'Ewwwww'. After about the third stranger doing that, we stopped and took a few minutes trying to get Valerie to stop. We even put on her booties but she continued sucking her booties as well. After a few more glances from people around, Ivan had enough. He carried Valerie in his arms while I pushed the empty stroller around.

So much so for being the proud parents of a cute baby. We just couldn't accept criticism for the first time :P