The funny thing is that he's not really that loud during the day. He's super-loud at night. More specifically... he gets REALLY loud in the middle of the night!
When he wakes up from sleep at night to demand a feeding, he SHOUTS and YELLS. Not really what you could call crying, seriously. It's more of a YELLING fest. Hmff.
One of these days I should really have it recorded on camera. So that he'd know how loud he is when he's all grown up.
Adik, looking cool as cucumber with Mama's sunnies perched on his round face.
Abang on the other hand.. has me worried at the other end of the spectrum.
He lets people scold him (like his class teacher, or his cousins..).. he seldom fights back. Even when H scolds him, he'd just sit there with wide eyes and nods and looks scared while he takes the verbal abuse. Err hmm I'm going to get a lot of flack from H when he knows I call his lecturing 'abuse'. Okay the reality is, even when I nag (when I'm upset/angry), Gibran would sit there staring at me with wide eyes and a scared expression while he nods and simply... absorbs the endless nagging.
He worries me.
I'm worried because I want him to stand up to those who wrong him. Not to simply take any kind of crap from people, not to always be pushed around and bullied. At the same time, because he's so mischievous and always up to something ("projects" and misbehaving to the point of driving us up the wall..), I do want him to be able to accept some level of discipline in his life. Discipline from us (his parents and family)... but not taking crap from others!
It is so hard to find a balance :(
Abang, the fellow with a big, sensitive heart.
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