bean #2 and bean #1's reactions

at the v beginning
yup, the bean will no longer be just "the bean". she's bean #1 now, as #2 is in the oven.

when we broke the news to the bean, she was initially quite excited.

"can i talk to the baby?" she asked.

"of course. come over here to mummy's belly."

she leaned real close, stared at my bellybutton and asked seriously, "would you like a biscuit?"

i'll admit that her first words to the baby took hub-unit and i by surprise. but i suppose she was eating a biscuit herself and probably thought she was being nice and 'sharing' to the baby.

subconscious rivalry?
a week or so after the revelation, the bean began behaving really intolerably. severe tantrums became a near nightly/daily occurrence. and this lasted a month or more.

but i bought her a book, 'i am a big sister' and began reading this to her nightly. this seemed to have some effect, as she now says, "i am a big sister now! i love my baby."

and today she actually looked at a photo of a baby and remarked, "look! a chubby baby. it's lovely."

jan-feb : bean's imaginings & tall tales

her pink & yellow polka dotted dinosaur
whilst her yeye and nainai were visiting us, the bean regaled them with various stories, such as her going on holiday, airplane trips, on jungle safaris etc. one of those tales concerned a pet dinosaur, who kept getting lost.

to aid us in our search, she gave a description of it - "it's peeenk, with lellow spots. yes, it's got lellow polka-dots. and it has an orange-striped tail. it's lost! where is it? we have to look for it! it's in the forest! we have to follow that road into the forest!"

she actually talked non-stop in a 40 minute drive, all the time about embarking on this search for her missing dinosaur.

welcome to her world
one day she solemnly said to her grandparents, "welcome to leah world."

after her long spiel about looking for her ("friendly") dinosaur, she announced to us, "dinosaurs live in brazil. they live far far away. they live in dinosaur world."

then she clarified, "dinosaur world is in leah world. of course!"

hedgehogs infestation next door
while having breakfast one morning the bean suddenly sqawked excitedly, "look look look! it's a hedgehog! a hedgehog walking on the fence!"

her yeye was nonplussed till he looked at where she was pointing. just then, a couple more 'hedgehogs' appeared, which got her more excited.

he laughed when he realised what those 'hedgehogs' truly were. as our neighbour was having his house remodeled, there were builders walking along the fence and the tops of their spiky-haired heads were what were observed by the bean.