Now that the baby is no longer a machine that just eats, sleeps and cries, all her siblings are busy trying to elicit a laugh from her.

The sound of a baby laughing is just so sweet. It can't help but make you smile too. Well, unless you are one hardened mom!

So far, everyone has been able to make her laugh except the adults! Lol! Shame on us, huh?

Babies find many things amusing. Just yesterday night, the 2.5yr old toddler made her laugh just by jumping up and down! And now the 5yr old is mking her cackle by thumping a squeaky toy on the floor.

These are sweet moments to savour as a mom - seeing the older siblings love the baby so. They even read to her and talk to her while playing card games! Talk about including her in everything they do!

But the one thing that freaks them out is when she regurgitates her milk!  Now that she prefers to be on her tummy, often in a "flying" pose, rather than lying on her back, she often spits up her milk after a while even after being burped.

We even have a code name for this regurgitation phenomenon - "breaack breaack". Calling regurgitation "breaack breaack" started when we had child #2 coz that's what  #1 would say when #2 spat up. You could even call it an onomatopoeia since that's the sound the baby makes as she spits up. Lol! And to make things funnier, #4 calls the baby, the "breaack breaack monster"!  

So that's the only time the older ones run a mile away from the baby. Well, except my #2 who has self-assigned herself as the "cleaner"! She'll make a good mother - totally unsqueamish about the whole thing.

As an aside, 4 out of 6 of our babies spat up a lot till they were 4 - 6months old! The amount was seemingly copious and the frequency so regular (even up to 2 hrs after their feed!) that dh & I often joked that we should have bought shares in Kleenex! Going out was a challenge - I would have to make sure that I bought along 5 - 6 packets of tissues and hand towels too. #3 & #6 spat up the least.

I keep telling new moms to Enjoy Their Babies because they really grow out of their baby-dom so fast!

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