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Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Tip 43: Babies are lovers of animals

From 3 months onwards, the babies' eyes and ears are ever so sensitive to noise and moving objects. And as their curious eyes get satisfied with moving objects that respond to their smiles and touch of their hands, it drives them to be more and more curious. It goes to a point where even bugs that flies or small tiny moving objects catch their attention. Its therefore good to let babies be exposed to tame animals even from afar. They need not be living with these animals, but frequent access to seeing them would get the babies excited and make their day. They may even be anticipating with excitement in their sweet dreams at night.

We do not have any pets in our small home in Tokyo. However, we live in a nice neighbourhood with lots of cute dogs. Every weekend, when both Tomomi and me go for our weekly lunch dates, we would be able to spot many nice cudly dogs walk by us with their owners. As Haruka is cute, the owners would feel it a priviledge to have Haruka stop by them and see their dogs. If they are in a hurry, it would just be an opportunity to wave goodbye to the dogs with me moving Haruka's hands to wave goodbye and making my signature dog bark to remind Haruka that its a dog that has passed by. But most of the time, these owners have allocated time for their leisurely walk so Haruka would get to watch them for long and if she is in the mood, she would stretch out her hand to touch the dogs. The same goes for the cats in my neighbourhood, though usually they are shy creatures but still Haruka gets to differentiate between a cat and a dog. Its so exciting for her to be more and more attentive to moving objects especially those that would wag their tails and give Haruka a cheerful smile if not a bark of excitement. This opens a new chapter of life to Haruka as she notices that not only daddy and mummy is full of fun. Each day is full of fun to wake up to with many friends to greet her including her toys. Oh yes, sometimes her toys would move too ... since daddy brings them to live.

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