Our Sweetie Piyobabies: 17 months

today or rather yesterday marked Zethan turning 17 months. It's seiously scary on how everything whizzed past and always feel that time is never enough for all. The intent to bring Zethan out for a walk in Botanic Gardens was dashed thanks to the rain in the late noon. So the whole family relac at home partially due to the need for recovery post Julia Gabriels June Holiday Program for the whole week. Hectic and exhausting for mummy, shall blog seperately.

Zethan has been rather moody and emotional these days, cranky, whiney, sticky to the daddy. It has become an impossible task to decipher his cries / whines and pacifying him is an tall order. everybody envy mummy for the fact that Zethan stick to the daddy but seriously it can be a torture especially when the daddy can't pacify him and mummy need to intervene, bearing in mind that he can turn very hysterical at this point. His false cries can get really deafening which get on mummy's nerve big time. Imagine a screaming toddler right next to your ear.

He is fully switch to the improved formulation of Gain IQ but weird enough, with the same consumption, he tend to burp and puke abit post feeds. As the only 'new food' introduced is the new formula, mummy highly suspect it is the culprit, to monitor. basically he is on 2 solid meals, 3 milk feeds daily with some snacks of yoghurt / fruits in between feeds. mummy recently attended the Amazing toddlers parenting congress and reaslied that Zethan is having far too much solids from the guidelines. For toddlers of their age, require only about 1/2 bowl of carbo per meal but Zethan is taking close to more than 1 rice bowl or porridge each meal excluding the meat / fish / vegetables. He is still not very receptive of textured food thus his staple food remain as porridge.

no sign of self feeding as he is fussy about getting his fingers wet / dirty. at times he can self feed with fork but could not poke the food himself. He can understand now after being told repeatedly that he should removed his shoes after entering the house although reminder is necessary at times. He will squat down and try to remove his shoe but of course it's just the action. He say night night to daddy by waving and saying Bye automatically when bedtime approach then hold mummy's hand to the bedroom and his little bed. It has pretty much become a routine for him.

He has progress to sleeping in his own little bed although most of the early morning, he will creep over to the masterbed which mummy let him unless it's like midnight then the transfer will be done. One concern which kind of weigh on mummy is that he sleep lesser and later. Bedtime delayed to 10pm on most days and he wakes at about 7.30am religiously daily which translate to just 9-10 hrs of sleep. Nap 2-3 times accumulatively is about 2-3 hrs.

Zethan is pretty slow in the department of speech. It has been observed that he can apprehend what was told to him but the refusal to speak is present. The few words he babble remain as Bye, Bus, Bird, Ball, Bubble. mum mum (eat), na (take). No news of mummy and daddy. He does not respond accordingly when asked for yes or no, randomly correspond shaking of head to 'No'. When he is whining for something and the wrong stuff is brought for him, he will push them away.