Credit

Yesterday given due credit to the daddy and it shall be the little guy's turn now.

He is such a sweetie to the daddy as on more than one occasion, he's observed to fetch daddy's boxer shorts from the walk-in wardrobe for him to change into soon after Zethan stepped into the house. should daddy be elsewhere in the house be it kitchen or living room, he will dutifully fetch it to him, awww so sweet (psst ~ but never to the mummy, **fumes**)

since close to a week ago, he started holding his milk bottle FINALLY. while the peers excel in this aspect as early as 6 months, this smartie boy decide to do it only now just when I have given up hope and thought that he is not going to feed himself for good. At a random try which I asked him to hold the bottle himself, he did and finished the whole bottle of milk.

His speech development improved tremendously lately too. When he is in a good mood, you can catch him saying daddy, bye see ya, NO etc. He too attempt to his very best words that are taught randomly which are more like the objects we see day to day e.g. fish (he say ish), duck (he say luck). so they say children learn best via repetition, to repeat over and over again till they registered it, pretty true in fact.

Zethan should be going through another phase of growth spurt for the past 1 week. He takes 3 bottles of 240ml formula milk daily with 2 meals of porridge (2 full bowls of pigeon orange bathtub) and in between demand for table food and snacks. This is really a never before thingy and naturally I am a little skeptical on this demand feeding lest he get indigestion or over fed. Demanding for snacks are like less than an hour post meals excluding the table food feeding even though it is not alot.

Wasn't this post supposed to be praising the little man but somehow incline slowly towards developmental updates, not that my memory can substained for a month so rather do it progressively!

Daddy II

Okay, I though it's high time I gave back the credit due to the daddy. You might not have remember the ranting post months back, refresh your memory ~ http://oursweetiepiyobaby.blogspot.com/2010/03/daddy.html

I was complaining big time on how little help the daddy rope in on care giving of the little guy. Proud to say, 6 months down the road now, he's improving leaps and bounds **pat pat on the daddy's back**. Gosh, I am speaking as though he is my boy too!

seriously speaking, the daddy contributed alot these days. well it might not be willingly on his end since Zethan insisted on the daddy helping him with almost every single thing. Yes your eyes are not playing a trick on you. I am not sure to rejoice or be upset over the whole situation.

Now the daddy helped to bath the little man, wash him after poo and put him to bed, nap or night. Zethan kind of insisted that the daddy does all these mentioned for him and will protest if I am the one doing it and daddy is out of sight. I can enjoyed the occasional luxury of spending some mummies~time~alone gathering with the babes without worries weighing on my mind on how they are faring back at home. Now we are playing reverse roles since majority of the kiddos prefer mummy to do these chores over the daddy thus explaining my dilemma. But heck care, can't bothered, status quo as of now.

In the morning when he woke up, usually it is the daddy he will disturb by kicking, rolling over and the stunts goes on endlessly. this is definitely good for me especially over the weekend. As daddy need to work on saturday so daddy will prepare and feed him milk while I am allowed to sleep in a little longer unless he leaves the house before Zethan is up then that is a seperate story.

So I have to enjoy life as long as Zethan allow, who knows if he decide otherwise or maybe it will be for a long long while, of course the latter is ideally prefered!

Vroom

Zethan watched the F1 Grand Prix on TV earlier in the night and was totally engrossed with he loud rev of the engine.

he started to sign car with both hands turing his 'steering wheel' and said bu bu~~~

Then he saw the Audi R8 advertisement and repeat the same thing again!

Aspiring driver he is.

Words

Zethan is getting a tad more vocal lately. Sharing some new words heard, here goes: -

Bye T = Bye MRT
Bye C = Bye See ya
Dope = Drop
Bo = Boat
No more (his favourite, post meal, cartoon ended etc)
Bng = Open (he pronounced as Open w/o O)
Go (learnt from a taiwanese entertainment show where they always shout "lucky ball, go!")

That is about all I can recall as of now.

Oh, just a short note, Zethan appear to be going through a growth spurt these few days. After his usual meals, he will ask for snacks including signing Eat when he see someone eating and ask for food.

Lantern

Lanterns, mooncakes and baby shower in one weekend!

sat was our 7th ROM anniversary but have decide against any celebration, save it for wedding anniversary instead.

we were invited by Aunty Ophe for an evening of lanterns and mooncakes, not to forget a whole load of food. Had a great evening and oh mine, Zethan had a wild time running up and down the slope and at the playground.

Sunday is Ophe and Chace's baby shower, an all mummies only affair thanks daddy, caring for Zethan a home!). My very 1st baby shower as this is pretty much an amg moh thingy. It was so fun eating, drinking (bubbly juice, we were kind to ophe, not drinking in front of her!), gaming, taking photos. All of us are even dressed in blue to fit the theme!

The canapes and sandwiches from Coffee bean are yummilicous especially smoked salmon and roasted beef. Chicken wings from Pelican were yums too. Oh I ordered this beautiful mini cupcakes from a friend with blue baby shower theme and specifically asked for 5 with CHACE spelt out! look uber lovely and taste great too especially cookies and cream, not too sweet.

20 mos

Zethan turn 20 months today. He weighs about 11.4kg and approximately 85cm.

Just going to do a quick update on his progress, not too lengthy, short and sweet.

He is picking up things at pretty amazing speed and does it out of the blue to surprise everyone. while some people frown at the idea of letting their children watch TV programs, it can be a life saver thingy for us. The power of advertisements or media as they called it. Just the other day while we are watching the 9pm drama series, Zethan over heard a boy in the show calling PAPA and he repeated after him for a few times happily. Of course the daddy is like over the moon when he heard it. There are a few other instances whereby Zethan pick up some words while watching advertisements (not that I can recall now, blame it on my pea sized memory). This goes to show that we have to be weary on our language in front of him and the TV programs he is being exposed to.

Language ~ I am in fact a little concerned over his speech as apparently he has very limited vocabulary till this moment. The same old Ball, Bus (Bart), Bubbles, Boat (Bo), MA MA (I am grinning from ear to ear), mum mum. A quick check with the PD who say that it is considered as normal for them to have single syllabus at this age. Elephants are "Hmm"

Food ~ He is slightly more adventurous with food but appear to fancy chinese food just like the daddy. He can take rice with chawanmushi or soup pretty well. Badly lacking fruits, gota turn to smoothie soon, hopefully he take it well.

Motor skills ~ need to work harder on his fine motor skills. Will be quite a while before he can self feed especially with a spoon although he still need some help with the fork. Large motor skill is pretty advanced which also means that he is very accident prone cos he love to run and not watch where he is heading!

Seperation anxiety ~ with the daddy and grandma, never with me. Not sure to rejoice or be upset about it. I do feel a tad rejected by Zethan as being a mummy, always been placed as the last choice by Zethan.

He is very sharp in his observation, identifying things and objects he acknowledge. He saw dogs on my pajamas and started signing dogs. He see Micky stuff and started pointing, saying "Ee". Often get mixed up with cats and dogs, anything with four legs and a tail are more often than not a dog.

okay, memory running low, shall update as and when I recall.

Long Weekend

As always, holidays or days away from work whisked by and is over in a flash. That is what it is for the last 3 days.

Friday is a public holiday; Hari Raya.

Half minded on where to go, 3 of us slept in till 9+ in the morning which is a rare treat since Zethan usually wakes around 7-ish or latest 8-ish. Half the morning gone, another half of the afternoon on household chores. What is even more a rare treat is Zethan napping for a good 3 hours which happen only once in a super blue moon these days. Anything more than 2 hours is a bonus.

While on the road, made a last minute decision to have Golden Mile claypot rice for dinner so made a call to pre-order. Zethan had his 1st claypot rice. I had a bowl of Ah Balling as dessert but find that the fillings is too sweet for my liking. Plan to Suntec City was changed to Clarke Quay instead since there is an on-going lantern festival fair and Taiwan food fair. This is also the 1st time we went CQ as a family of 3 but it is not a wise choice, the whole of CQ is very very packed thus left the place empty handed.

Saturday, daddy is working thus no chance for me to sleep in. Zethan spoilt the morning by fussing, refusing to drink his milk, having less than half in 30mins out of which I lost my limited patience. To worsen the situation, he turn over the laundry rack, more work for me. He must have been tired out by the meltdown read crying that he went for an early nap.

Suggesting to have an evening picnic, that's if the weather permits which looks great for the whole day. Made Zethan nap at about 4pm and I went online for our discussion on the logistics for the picnic! So in less than 30mins, we got ourselves food and the whats not for a picnic, all set to go.

Meeting point at Visitor centre and walked 5mins to the so called picnic ground. Set out the picnic mat and no mess mat, spread out the food and all start to dig in. Yummy Dominos pizza ~ Extravanganza, Meatzza, wings, garlic breadstic, Sakae Sushi ~ Potato salad, Tomago maki, some salmon platter with a bottle of cool nice white wine. After food is bubbles time for the kiddos which attract a lot of other children in the vicinity. A great picnic, great company, great chilling out!

Sun ~Try very hard to laze around in bed, managed to steal some time! Upon waking is busy like a bee, preparing porridge for Zethan, packing his stuff, getting him and myself ready. Left the house at 12pm reaching Mandarin Oriental at 12.30pm in time for a wedding luncheon.

Zethan is so shy throughout the whole dinner when so many of our friends wish to play with him but to no avail. Though he is playful yet still reserved with them thus end up being a koala bear. On a positive note, he is very well behaved today, napping for 30mins amid the banquet and upon waking, stayed in his stroller and enjoyed the yummy food which he ate quite a bit which is a surprise. Braised herbal duck, cod fish, fried mantou minus the chilli crab sauce.

We went up to the bridal suite and Zethan stayed glued to the TV watching Monsters vs Aliens, concentrating very seriously on the show which tickled everyone pink as they tried hard to distract him away from the show.

So that pretty sum it up for the long weekend and till the next PH which will be in Nov. Oh man, how am I going to survive a whole month in Oct with no breaks!

Fatigue

What better word to describe myself.

The fever saga went on for a record of 5 days.

2 midnight or rather early episode of spike at 39.9 degrees.

Zethan initially saw the thermometer and automatically said "Ti" (beep) till the end of sprinting off at the sight of it.

Physically and emotional absolutely drained which resulted in the body inability to even rest early at home (perhaps the phobia or being cautious and alert to detect the early morning spike stay).

Goodbye fever, welcome stuffy nose and cough.

Fever II

The fever looked bent to stay.

Today is considered the 3rd day of his fever.

In the early morning, medication, sponging and monitoring till 3am of which temperature fall back to normal ~ 37 degrees. Complacency on my end for not monitoring further till 7am in the morning, shoot up to high 38. Fed milk, sponge, paracetamol.

After bathing and teabreak of cereal, realised his temp rebound close to 39 again. Made up my mind to make a trip to PD which is 1/2 day today being a saturday. Zethan is super fussy and whiney at the PD's, sticky and even refused to have his temp and weight taken. Realised he missed his naptime so can't be bothered, wait inside the clinic which I am usually against the idea. He slept for a short 15mins or so before we are brought to the waiting room. As his temp is high, PD came in to ask about the onset of his fever and suggest suppository insertion (which is brufen to be exact but onset of action much quicker) lest fits might occur due to the high temp. Oh man, my heart shattered into pieces though was assured it's not painful, just discomfort. I had to make him down lots of water and sponge him while waiting.

PD examined his ears, lungs, throats and noted a slightly sore throat with diagnosis of viral infection. The yo yo-ing of fever is likely to continue anything between 2-4 days thus meanwhile to watch out for any unusual signs and symptoms (to see a doctor). Should fever refuse to subside on mon noon then back to see him again.

The whole afternoon, fever appear to subside despite him taking a 3hrs nap which is very rare. Temp went back to normal. However after dinner, check his temp for monitoring purposes only to realise that it shot up again. Gosh, it is very draining mentally for me in particular as I tend to get stressed up and tense when the temp increase.

Back to sponging, paracetamol again. By this time the suppository had lost its effect and oral dose was recommended to be administered if necessary. Then I suggested for daddy to bring him along to grab some fever patch in case of emergency in the middle of the night. Looks like a wise choice as he return perspiring and fever subside a tad.

Before he went to bed, sponge him extensively and while I am blogging this post now, the temp is in the region of 37.7 will decide if paracetamol is necessary at 12am.

Fever

Sudden onset of fever which started yesterday noon.

Mom called and said his temperature shoot up to 38.5. gave mom instruction to feed paracetemol first to observe. Mom said put on fever patch for him. An hour later, called back to realise that the fever kind of habour around 38 degrees.

So the fluctuation of temperature went on and still is at this moment as I blogged this post.

Feed brufen, temperature came down to like 37.8 but after taking a nap, went back to 38. Shortly after temperature went up to 38.8. Guess the weekend is burnt and will be more tiring than ever.

The most trying of all will be Zethan being manipulative, fussing big time when the daddy is around knowing jolly well that the daddy is not going to lecture him when he'misbehaves'.
Oh man, this is seriously driving me nuts. Knocking sense into both the big and small one is futile so forget it. Bite the bullet and pull through this trying period. meanwhile igorance is bliss.

Madness

Refusal-to-sleep-at-night-syndrome.

It's such a major pain in the neck.

Just refuse to sleep at night be it 9pm, 1-pm, 11pm or beyond.

Roam around the bedroom, open drawers, pull clothings out from drawers, touch fan, follow daddy into bathroom

Yell at him = cry

Ignore him = cry

cry too long = vomit + change + cleaning up

it will not be long before we are the suspects for child abuse judging at the way he cry (just when I am blogging this post, he is there CRYing again, this time because ignoring him)

argh! It has been like a week yet feel like eternity. when is it going to stop if it ever do in the 1st place.