Jump Start | 2006

There was a time I remember that Jakjak had been in hyper-mode. Not quite what I expected from a premature baby. He'd been eating a LOT! and I mean a lot. I don't know if I'm just not familiar with how babies eat, but from my point of view, a 30-minute eating interval is a lot of eating. We've bought a good deal of baby food for him those past few months, he's tasted every flavor imaginable and none of it has gone to waste. He's been eating (baby-sized of course) adobo, sinigang, menudo, mechado, fried chicken, french fries, spaghetti, pancit canton and every other food that we (Judy and I) eat. If he could grab his spoon properly, he'd probably had been sitting on a chair beside me at the dining table!

According to the book about babies that my wife, Judy, had been reading, Jakjak should be able to crawl, creep and begin to sit up at his corrected age of 6 months. At real time, he was already walking. Maybe because he gets frustrated at times when it takes too long for him to get to where he wants to be. Of course, he does his walking with the aid of a baby walker, but hey, even that's an improvement.

Actually, he had been frustrated for a long time about not being able to do much. He always turned over from his position in bed every chance he got. He always tried to roll away to get anywhere. He had his fair share of falling from the bed (the first time it happened was barely 3 months when we took him home from the hospital). In fact, we had almost given up trying to watch over him and just put bars in every nook and cranny of the house.