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Olive will be three months old on Tuesday. She’s the best baby ever! She’s sleeping better, chatting, smiling and she can entertain herself for half an hour or more watching Kari’s mobile or playing in her house. The biggest change to our routine has been Olive’s improved sleeping habits. After three months of waking every couple of hours, night and day, she’s suddenly started sleeping eight hours at night with a couple of naps in the day. Sandy is understandably relieved -- she can almost get a regular night’s sleep now. We’re not in the clear yet though, Olive still needs breastfeeding or rocking to sleep but we’ll get there eventually. For now we’re just happy she can sleep through the night. God, there were times when we thought we’d never get here! Well done Sandy.

Olive is also a real chatterbox. Her vocabulary doesn’t include many consonants, it mostly just OOHs and AAHs, but we do get the occasional AAH GOO. Both Sandy and I speak English to Olive and we’re concerned that we should be talking to her in Mandarin as well. She needs to hear the different sounds and speech patterns as early as possible. Not to worry, she’ll be up in KL next week to visit her grandparents so she’ll only hear Chinese spoken there.