The Grabber

This morning on the MRT ride to office, joey was in a grabbing mood. Soooooooo embarrassing. sigh..

There is this man who is sitting next to us, and joey's hand kept going over to touch his shoulders! And the man got to turn over and politely smile at joey. (You know right? Even if they don't really like kids, they still do it because they feel it's politically correct to do so.) And I got to grab her hand back and look apologetically to the man. Within 3 secs, her hand will slowly drift to the man's shoulder again! And it happened over & over again!

And you know what's the most embarrassing part? Joey will occassionally put her fist into her mouth to suckle. When she gets sian of that action, she will reach out to touch that man's shoulder......... with a fist wet with saliva!!!! Oh my.. I am so sorry to that man. He probably got to live with saliva-smelling shoulders for the rest of his day.

But she so poor thing lah. Imagine that you are put into this carrier, strapped tightly on both sides and you are hanging in mid air infront of your mummy's body. And your head can't turn to face front. It's got to be left side or right side all the time. She must be so bored with it that she decided to entertain herself by grabbing something.

Well, at least she is getting a realisation that her hands are hers, finally! That is why she is starting to grab things with her own hands. At least that's a consolation? :)