We have been telling him that he's no longer going to be the baby of the house, and getting him to feel baby's little kicks from my belly. I wonder how much of these he actually understands because sometimes he will give my belly a little lick, as if to acknowledge didi's presence. But sometimes he doesn't seem to understand that well...
like when he tried to check out the plastic bag of baby stuffs we bought over the weekend because it contained a (human) squeaky toy.
and when he saw the star socks that my sister bought for didi and immediately associated it like it was HIS NEW TOY! My sis was telling me all about it when the socks came through their mailers the week before and I witnessed the same reaction a week later at our own place! Here's Mur, doing the jumpidy-jump to reach the star socks amidst all the other little things that I was unpacking.
and when he snuggles like a baby whenever N carries him like that.
Awwwwww
and when he tried to stake claim on a little blue doggy soft toy key chain that we let my baby niece play with over the weekend. We don't have any human toy at home to entertain kiddos so we just made do with whatever toy-like items we have at our house to entertain the kids who come over - including a model of N's 1st car. So said soft toy was actually a display item on our TV console. Murphy tried to steal it from the TV console after my niece went home but was reprimanded. Being the good boy that he is, he didn't attempt to steal it while we were away. But then yesterday night, he brought me and N to the TV console separately and stared very hard at the key chain. So we did the parental discussion thingy and decided to give it to him and he was a happy wagerly dog thereafter and spent the next 15 minutes marking his new toy (read: biting and salivating ALL over it until it was wet when he decided to let us play fetch with him with it)
AND SO, we have done the most traditional thing any parents with a 2nd baby do - Buy a gift for the 1st kiddo when baby arrives! This squeaky hippo s gonna be Murphy's gift from baby when we get home from the hospital :) I am not sure if it will work though...but he is definitely showing an interest in the squeaks already! And another thing for sure - our baby is gonna just play with rattles because Murphy is staking claim on everything squeaky!!!
Oh! The hippo squeaky is really cool! The whole handheld portion squeaks when you press anywhere on it!
And if logistics allows, I think I might just get someone to bring him a used mitten for him to get used to didi's smell before their first meeting!! :D
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