Dylan Oh Dylan...

Dylan's quick update

2012-02-09T12:49:00.002+08:00

We spoke to Mrs Lim this morning. She mentioned that he has changed his behaviour. He listens better and tends to 'sit longer in the class'. Less opportunity to go to her office for her to babysit. Even if he cries in class, she mentioned that the duration is much shorter. The last time when he threw tantrums and she has him in his office was also to let the teachers have time off from him, because it's just NOT him alone who does the drama thing.

Yesterday I saw double lid on his right eye. Finally his eyes look more symmetrical now. :P

Red eye

2012-01-06T23:21:00.000+08:00

We brought him to the dr a couple of days back. Willing went up the weighing scale and also took his height. Weight was 14.9kg and height oh well, think about 90cm (from gauge). So all's well. There's a little red tinge on his eye. So we came back with some eye drops. I did some sumo wrestling to pin him down and drop the eye drop onto him. Eyes SHUT really really tight and course Dylan screaming away. So I drop the a few drops hoping somehow they'll get into his eyes. When he reopens his eyes the drops just went upwards onto his eye lashes. Bleah.. just hope the drops did get in and that he'll recover from the redness soon!

First post of 2012

2012-01-04T14:34:00.000+08:00

Yesterday Dylan blurted 'never ever' on the 1st day of school in 2012. Not sure why he said that I was still groggy when I heard that.

As the boys were entering the gate, Dylan said, "I don't want office, I want breakfast". I think he had enough of me threatening him to send him to Mrs Lim office during the naughty times over the weekend. It was hillarious when I heard that. Perhaps it is his resolution for this year not to go to Mrs Lim office.

It was yesterday, for the 1st time, my kid had a lollipop in the house.

4words

2011-12-22T00:46:00.000+08:00

4 words sentence today - "I like this one" pointing at a bowl of soup
New word "Tawau tree" which is Christmas tree. Not too sure how he ended up with Tawau tree... :)
He loves to parrot after anyone these days. Love it when he says something wrong and with the sound effect of Ooo Ooo. :P

3word sentence

2011-12-13T21:28:00.001+08:00

Just a quick one, Dylan said, "I love soup" slurping down Ah Ma's lotus root soup during dinner yesterday. Nice!

Parents/Teachers conference

2011-12-02T14:14:00.002+08:00

PTC for Dylan was with the principal, Mrs Lim, Tr Florence and Chen laoshi. We sat there for almost an hour to speak about this kid. The teachers reassured us that he's getting better these days. They were saying that in comparison to other kids, Dylan takes a longer while to adapt to rules and regulations and he's just getting the message that there are rules to follow. Back in infant care, he is allowed to auto roam and do his own thing. In PG, he barely can sit down for 10seconds and always moving around disturbing others. He is also climbing onto the shelves, taking out toys and messing around. Only recently he has learnt through reward method that if he keeps the toys, he gets milk or food. So, I guess he's really just getting there... Apparently in school, when he pooped, he would declare to teacher that he had pooped, head over to his bag and grab the diapers. But at home, I would have to wrestle with him to get him changed! And in school, he would bring Chen laoshi's water bottle to her to drink during water time, and bring HER slippers to laoshi during outdoor activities! I almost fell off my chair when I heard this. It IS really UNREAL!

As of November...

2011-11-24T16:49:00.002+08:00

Words that is not to my liking - Recently Dylan objects by saying "Don't want".

Food that is not to his liking, tried and tested too many times - steamed egg and tofu

Loves everything that is labelled under bread, radish, fried eggs with onions, stems of green leafy vege, cucumber

Recently there has been some burning smell in the air (despite torrential rain these few days), not sure which part of S.E.Asean is burning. And Dylan is down with leaky nose, now coughing a little. Ugghhh...

Update!

2011-10-31T17:39:00.000+08:00

Dylan CAN speak mandarin. Other than saying 我要, he has some other vocab in tow... :)
Shawn said, "我要吃苹果"
Dylan replied, "我要 apple"
And he also said, "我要水"
Not bad huh?

He's been catching up on speech.
- Recognising some other color red & blue
- Understanding WAIT (though it's still a short wait, it's better than nothing)
- Stand outside the kitchen (for the sake of multivit)

Dylan has been the funny guy. We asked him what's his name and he'll keep replying "Lo(ve)lette" with that cheeky smile. He's got a friend called Lovelette, he probably thinks her name is easier to pronounced than Dylan. Anyway we have NEVER heard him say Dylan. As for other names, he calls out to Justin with the J sound. BUT when he called the teachers he does it as Ah Tin (Tr Christine), Ah Mark (Tr Marge), Ah Let (Tr Violet). Funny kid!

Here we go again...

2011-09-27T23:38:00.000+08:00

Few bad weeks ofcough, vomit, diarrhoea, nose leakage, 39.5Fever, now the infamous HFMD. My little bull now spots countless spots (previous encounter was 7spots) but tonight I saw way too many that I decided not to count. I can't stop cursing because it's frustrating as it's quarter end and everything is in limbo now.

Growing up with Shawn

2011-09-22T14:59:00.000+08:00

9/21 new word : Chrysalis
Caterpillar become pupa. Pupa also known as chrysalis. Pupa is like that (palms claps together). After that pupa become butterfly. Every morning, a very "caring" Shawn would ask Dylan, "Didi do you want ipad?" With or without answer, he would open the study room door and get the ipad. If Dylan whines for it, then he'll give it to him else it's his. I would ask did he take the iPad out from the room, his answer would typically be because didi wants to play ipad.

Shawn doesn't need ME to put him to bed anymore. Putting him to bed = lying next to him and hold his hands. It's been a couple of days when he declares (while brushing his teeh) that he wants to sleep ALL by himself, on his own. YT tried a couple of times and said something like, "Papa lie next to you ok and pat you?" He replied, "No cannot, you are not my mommie". Then YT said, "Then mommie come in can she pat you?" Answer was, "May be"

Shawn : Ho Sang's didi come already
Mommie : Oh, how did you know?
Shawn : Ho Sang told me. He said his eyes like his

Shawn was mumbling some parts of Nobody (nobody but you) in Korean. Simply don't understand why the both of them prefer the Korean version. Hahaa

Dylan and the phone

2011-08-29T13:49:00.000+08:00

Last night, Dylan almost dunked my phone into a glass of water. Luckily I was watching else my phone would have been drowned. Anyway, today I think my phone cranks up. It's acting weird and probably suffering from stroke or something. It was all right but just half an hour ago, I can't boot up, only to see an apple on the screen for past 15min and then it came back to life! Anyway, it's time to get a new phone!

This morning we woke up to a very excited Dylan, who managed to get hold of my phone, screaming "Ifon, ifon!" 5min later, he came to me and said, "No more! Chak chak, cher cher" and handed the phone back to me. My Dylan decoder said, "No more, charge charge, xie xie"

Things that I don't do with my phone and kid#2 did it for me
1. add almost all my contacts into favorite
2. set timer and alarm at the odd-est hour
3. personalise ringing tone to most contacts
4. make overseas calls and also to my insurance agent!

The little loud one

2011-08-02T12:49:00.000+08:00

Last week, I taught Dylan word by word, to say I want more apple, he does it with his version of 'sign' language
I    use his fingers to pinch lightly on his eyes
want    slouch forward, arms together
more    signs more correctly while saying it
apple    arms high up in the arm
and after saying all this, he would end with "Yay" and claps his hands

I have heard "Get the ball", "Kick the ball", "Look at that", "What is this", "I want apple, I want milk"

He is now able to name these when we point to the pictures/items
FISH, BIRD, DOG, CAT, COW
CRANE, TRUCK, MOTORCYCLE (he calls bike), TRAIN, BOAT, SHIP
Sometimes he would grab my index finger to say out loud objects to him

When asked what does lion says, his answer is, "Um!" while Shawn would add on, "No, not um, it's ROARRRR"

He was looking at my handphone with pictures from weekend's lunch. He saw YT's birthday cake and said, "Papa... Papa... cake... cake... happy... yay!" It wasn't continous and smooth but I figured he was trying to string them together.

I just can't explain's Dylan love for
1. char siew pau     3 at one go? Not the giant pau but regular char siew pau
2. apple                 would keep 100+ pcs of blocks into the toy box for the sake of one apple
3. football              my kid was screaming goal and clapping at Best Denki watching M'sia vs Sin match, while the players were just passing the ball at the pitch

Dylan talks

2011-07-19T11:29:00.000+08:00

Yesterday just right after dinner Dylan declared "All done" hands down wham on the highchair table and was quickly trying to get out of the highchair.

He is loving soup these days too. He mumbled something like "I want soup".

He took a deep bite on Shawn's hand when the latter refused to hand him some Lego blocks. So Dylan took a bite on Shawn's right arm. In the evening the bite area was still red and felt puffy. Poor Shawn... I told Dylan's school teacher in the morning and I guess the news did go around and seems like most teachers now are keeping an eye on the little biter. He tried to nip my thigh last night and I managed to stop him before I became a victim!

In the morning when he wakes up he still chant "Ipad Ipad Ipad"... addict!

Finally COLOR!!! This morning he got hold of a blue car flashcard and said, "Blue". Yay!

Dylan point at the moon and said, "Ball ball". When the moon is blocked by some buildings as the car moved, he said, "Bye ball ball".

Okay!

2011-07-05T23:12:00.000+08:00

Blood test came out pretty normal! Yay! Not anemic though dr said he looks a little pale. Overall okay today except that some vomit spit after a spasm of cough just now. I'm struggling to feed him with goat's milk today. Sigh.. hopefully he'll be more receptive tomorrow.

As for Dylan...

2011-07-04T23:27:00.000+08:00

One of the crappy weekend and Monday. We started Dylan on antiB last Sunday night. Upon the 4th dose he had runs. So we had to stop. On Wednesday he didn't take any antiB. On Thrus I gave him only 1/4 of what was supposed to be for one day dose, and he continued to have runs. He was warm then then fever came back on Saturday night. Went sky high 39.6deg on Sunday morning.

We brought him to Dr Khor today. No choice but to jab since his body is rejecting antiB and continuing having fever and diarrhoea which would drains him. Poor kid cried the mall down when he had his nose cleaned by the expert and swabbed. Dr took his stool and nose muck for tests. During jab, he was protesting, shed some tears and then it was all right after we cheered and clapped when the jab was done. Brave boy! I think to him, nose swab was more tortorous than the jab. Anyway, after his nap, he was running temperature at high end of 38deg. I was out buying Karihome to sub his Gain IQ temporarily. When I got hom I gave him ibuprofen and panadol to bring that down. Ridiculously just now when I checked his temperature it was 35deg-ish. He is sweating buckets now.

I gave him Karihome goat milk just now. He took one sip and had that 'yucks' look on his face. He probably drank 100ml out of the 180ml that I made. Ouch to my pocket because Karihome is EXPENSIVE! Anyway, hope during the next feed he would drink and not kick a fuss! And I certainly hope that he won't wake up at 2.30am (which he did yesterday) and squat in the kitchen to drink water. Pls pls sleep through at least till 6!

Aiyo...

2011-06-29T00:38:00.000+08:00

Dylan drove us nuts over weekend and Monday. Hope he's recovering soon! Pls pls pls!

Singing Twinkle twinkle Little star - silly mommie version
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo
Aiyo Aiyo Aiyoyo

Dylan seems to be able to count 1 to 7, not spot on pronounciation but just mumble jumbo, when it comes to seven, he does it with eh-ven.. something like that. Other than that it's A B C

Today I was singing The wheel on the bus go .... Dylan answers with Beep Beep Beep through the phrases. When it comes to All day long, he sings something that sounded like all lay long

Ouch!

2011-06-22T13:29:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, Dylan fell down on a pile of toys and wailed his lungs out. He had a small (not deep) cut on his cheek. After wailing for less than 3min, it's back to business of messing around house. We are not sure what exactly happened because there was just Dylan and Shawn in the living room when this happened. Ah Ma was cutting apple in the kitchen while I was bathing. Anyway, this morning we only see a light cut on the cheeck.

Recently he must have learnt to keep toys in school. So, he could register that he should be keeping toys when we harp on him, well at least he does keep a few before walking off (thought there are many more left on the floor) :)

Last night as Dylan was tossing around his mattress, I took away his bolster, then he playfully said, "No, no, no". Then I piled 4 baby bolsters onto him and he chuckled and said, "No, no, no". Seems like he knows what 'no' means now.

When asked questions ending with ok, he always reply with OK. Usually he has a tendency to object when it comes to the real thing. Like e.g. I told him to change his diaper ending with ok, he replied ok. Then when I put him on the diaper mat, he'll squirm and scream! Guess ok doesn't quite mean anything as yet huh...

So the latest was...

2011-06-16T12:56:00.001+08:00

Last night Dylan tore a flap from one of the books, looked at me and exclaimed, "Aiyo!"

YT taught Dylan the WINDOWS logo on computer and the little one says "Dou dou". I wonder he knows what a real WINDOW is.

This morning Dylan woke up and rolled onto me, hugged my thigh like a bolster, slept on my tummy, snuggled onto my head. Not a word said... Then when Shawn woke up, they both sneaked out of the room, both didn't even say a word to me (pretending to be asleep). Then I heard music from iPad apps, for at least 10min, no argument outside at the living room. Peaceful...

No is the word

2011-05-27T23:26:00.000+08:00

Mommie : Dylan, time to say good night to Ah Ma
Dylan : NO! (and walked away)
Mommie : Dylan, say nite nite
Dylan : Nite nite (and continued playing)

In the dark,
Mommie : Dylan, pls close your eyes now
Dylan : Nononono...

The end of the week

2011-05-21T23:58:00.000+08:00

One whole week at home with Dylan is no joke. Luckily mum is in town. Either one of us HAS to be around with him ALL the time unless he's sleeping. I think the main discomfort is his gums as he's always digging into his mouth. His 3+4 little red blisters were long gone. And yes, I'm truly looking forward to going back to office, need some sanity restoration after staying home for a week with Dylan.

Dylan has become IPad addict. When he sees the IPad, he would chant for it and squirm and cry if he's not given. It comes handy especially when we want to have dinner in peace. Having the Ipad would mean less sticky Dylan at dining time and less walking over to beg for food at our dinner. During his meal time he would asks for my phone. It seems I have to hide it before putting him onto the high chair for meal. He could quietly sit through his meal if the IPhone is there, then it's a breeze for mum or I to feed him. His favorite apps is educational Ocean Animals (I think he likes fish a lot!) and Fruit Ninja (where he goes berserk 'slashing' my phone) Else it's war at mealtime.

This morning I showed him a flashcard of a bowl of rice, and he said, "Mum mum". Oh boy.. what a word. When it comes to fish and apple, he got the words right, thought not pronounced perfectly.

Every morning he would try his luck by pressing the power on button on the TV, quickly climbs on the couch and wait for the TV to come on. If it's a non-cartoon channel, he would go back to the TV and turn it off and turn on again. (Typically at night my mum would watch the Mandarin news.) He thinks that by pressing the power on button would change the channel to Playhouse Disney or Cartoon Network. Fortunately it doesn't. 1-2 days later he figured he does need the controller to do the job. Since the power on button on the TV doesn't change the channel, he would grab the controller and press. Well, Dylan Ooi thinks any controller would do the job, so we had put the Starhub controller far far away from his reach.

Yesterday I had to work a little from home, though I'm on leave. Dylan was bored so he came in the study and put his hand on my arm and said, "Mommie, mimi".... awwwww for the 1st time I have become Mommie. During nap time yesterday too he pat on my arm to see if I was asleep yet, he too called out Mommie. Finally mimi has become Mommie. :D

Here we go again!

2011-05-17T00:01:00.000+08:00

Dylan being bugged by one bacterial/virus after another. Nevertheless he is still active as usual. On Saturday I spotted few red dots on his feet/lower leg. There is one spot on the sole, I knew it's not going to be good. . There was one HFMD case on 10May. So I brought him to the doctor to confirm and it is. Bleah! Actually I had applied for leave on Monday, now needed to extend over the week to stay home with kid. Luckily mum is in town at least, sanity check on the weekdays! Coupled with terrible gums on Saturday and part of Sunday, he was as sticky as a leech and superglue in one. He wasn't easily pleased over the weekend. Anyway, that was over. Today his backside is plagued by the diarrhoea due to HFMD. Yellowish watery poo for the whole day. When asked to change diaper, he could casually say, 'Nooooo' and run away. Poor kid. Hope it's gone for good by tomorrow.

Latest update:

- When I say Yes, he replied No and the 2word conversation goes on and on.

- When he sees the ipad, he would chant, 'Ipad, Ipad'

- According to my mum, one incident he hurt his sole and he said, 'Pain pain'

- He sings Twinkle twinkle little star with his own words and melody - totally UnTwinkle twinkle little star, from the 1st line Star onwards

- Just today, I notice he can spend about 15min with Lego. To me it's an achievement. Since nothing else other than Ipad can keep him seated for SOOO long! After he manages to put 2 blocks together he would make some funny noise with his tongue in and out of his mouth (sounds like waddle)

- Guess his favorite body part now is his nose. sometimes he would suddenly just pinch his nose, tilt his head a little and look at you and says, "Noooosseee"

- Dylan prefers to 'read' when he's supposed to nap/sleep in the kids' room. Either that he would plonk the book onto my face/head to make sure I turn around and read to him. He would grab our fingers and point to the object that interests him in the book and we would read it to him. Unless of course in the night, he doesn't do that.

- Recently he picked up another book that would keep him interested for 5min (Lift-the-Flap: Things That Go) This would could barely keep Shawn occupied for 5min but could keep Dylan seated. Dylan seems to like the hot air balloon a lot in this book

Update

2011-05-03T23:29:00.000+08:00

Dylan has been BM free during the long weekend and latch on free too! Hurray! He does try his luck during bedtime asking for milk. But he took rejection with stride.. while at least for the past 3days. He still wakes up usually at about 3-4am but I'd lie next to him to get him to go back to sleep. Then the next waking is at about 6-7am. When he's hungry at about 6-7am, he would sound really desperate. If he doesn't get back to sleep after his milk feed, then I'll just let him do whatever he wants while I continue to sleep (that if he allows me to!) or he would disturb me to keep me awake. Back in school today, he's on one feed of EBM and one feed on FM. Fortunately back at home he didn't pose any problem during milk feed tonight.

Tonight Dylan made a choice. 3 little monkeys song or ABC. He said, "Ae Bih.... pihhhh" - that would mean A-B, please

2011-04-29T00:03:00.000+08:00

27/4 1.45am 1st waking, he woke up and walked into our room quietly and put his head on my arm while standing at the side of the bed. Then I picked him up and went back to the room. I told him repeatedly we are going back to bed in korkor's room. I placed him onto his mattress and lie next to him. He tossed for awhile and went back to Lalaland. At 5am he woke up and walked into our room again. Then chanted for milk. I brought him back to the room and told him it's still too early, then I lie down. He didn't lie down for long, sat up and chanted for milk again. When I ignored him pretending to be sleeping, he would lie down for a while and toss and then decided to sit up again and ask for milk. I don't think he slept, but I knew I slept. Bleah... he shook me and tried to wake me up, probably at about 6am. So I decided ok, I would try my luck and voiced out to him, "Ok mommie bring you to the kitchen then we get milk". It sounded alien to him, he didn't nod his head. So, to simplify things, "Do you want milk?" He nodded. I took his hand and walked him to the kitchen. No fuss no complain, no rolling and screaming, he followed. Then brought Foogo out of the kitchen and told him he has to sit on the highchair and he didn't struggle. He drank probably 100ml or so and started to fool around. Had to coax him a bit and the probably did another 50ml. And he let out a loud burp. I think my 1.5yr old stomach is not as big as much and can't match some infants would can apparently gulp down 250ml of FM which baffles me. Doesn't matter, it's just me because I don't believe in overfeeding. The burp does indicate to me that's as much as he can drink at 6am in the morning (since the last feed before 9pm). I am very thankful and glad that he didn't reject FM in the morning on an empty stomach. Well done Dylan for skipping night feed for the 1st time from ~9pm to 6am, and a happy me getting some longer quality sleep wahahhaaa!

I hope to see some consistency while putting him to bed, i.e no patting or holding hands or hugging required and stick to this routine. But I noticed for the past few nights while putting him to bed at 8-9ish, whenever I stood up from the mattress, he would stand up and follow me around in the room ALTHOUGH I was just sitting on the bed, watching out. Duh... So I suppose Dylan's criteria was for me to sit at the corner of the mattress and watch him toss and turn. Tonight I sneaked out of the room while he was just about to doze off. Actually I couldn't quite tell whether if he did snooze off already so I decided to tiptoe out of the room.

Last night I sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star again, Dylan's answer to each end of the phrase was star. Tonight there were difference. I took a video of him completing each phrase.

Today's update

2011-04-28T00:31:00.000+08:00

Same thing last night, he would up twice about 3 and then 5am. But I latched him when he woke up the 2nd time. Then slept till about 7am.

As YT and I were having dinner, Dylan brought a book of vehicles to us. YT read and came to a page of dump trucks. Dylan said dump truck then suddenly went off. He picked up the fire truck and said, "Truck". Then came back to us. YT pointed at the dump truck on the book and Dylan said, "Truck". I think he was trying to connect .. either that he was confused the definition of truck. Hahahaaa

Tonight, again, I made Dylan 3 scoops of Gain IQ and I think he probably finished 3/4 of it. So I'll just stick to 2 scoops of it for night feed. Fed on high chair, no fuss during milk time tonight, but still require a little coaxing and chit chat over that 5-10min.

27/4 sleep log : Tonight was peaceful. Before that in the dark, I sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, he completed each phrase with Star, grinning ear to ear in the dark when he does the Star. Just like Shawn back then when he started completing each phrase in a song. Managed to get him to sleep in 15min. Yay yay!

Amused

2011-04-26T23:46:00.000+08:00

Taken last evening... entertained by Foogo

As of today...

2011-04-26T23:44:00.001+08:00

To continue 25Apr episode : Dylan did whimper at about midnight, but didn't walk out or cry. Then woke up at 3ish to cry. I carried him back to the room and tried to pacify him. He screamed but not the typical murdering scream. It was managable within 15min. Much to my content. Then at 4ish and he asked for milk. I thought well should be about time. Latched him on and put him back to bed and we all slept till 7plus.

26Apr Kids had dinner at about 7.30pm and Dylan had his milk at about 8.15pm. Needed a little coaxing to finish up. After awhile, I whisked him off from the hall to the room while Shawn was just starting to munch his pear. Dylan saw and was not too happy about it. I quickly closed the door, changed his diaper and Pjs and lights off. 8.35pm was in time, 8.50pm was out time. I sat at the corner of the mattress while he lie down tossing around. No noise, peaceful and calm, until he went to lalaland while hugging 3 soft baby bolsters in his arms, with one supporting his backside. I am thankful today I didn't need to collect glue from his nose. Hope tonight would be good for real!

Yesterday his mood was pretty foul in school. When being reprimanded for being naughty, he would just cry and throw tantrum. Monday blues.. Apparently today he is much better. Tr Justina was telling me this PM when I picked Dylan up and he is always chanting "mum mum" for more food. Seeing other babies drinking milk or eating solids/snacks, he is always there eye-hawking on other's.

Recently he asked to 'help' mommie during dinner time. I always ask if Dylan wants to help mommie i.e. to say to self feed. His answer is usually, "Pheeee" (please). I would guide his hand since he isn't controlling very well yet. If I were to start off feeding him, it doesn't get past 10 spoonful of food. So, I guess he prefers to be 'responsible' of his own doing and eat it up. It's not a bad thing eh? Speaking of self feeding, he is not into bite and break the food off while chewing the smaller piece in the mouth. Shawn would give Dylan a piece of fruit under my instructions. Dylan would sit down on his red stool next to Shawn to eat. Just that I need to be there as Dylan in his usual fashion would shove everything into his mouth. So extra care is required when Dylan gets a piece of fruit

Twist and Shout!

2011-04-25T23:03:00.000+08:00

To continue on 24Apr episode : Dylan woke up at 4.15am asking for milk. I thought well poor thing, he must have wasted so much energy 5hours ago, so I latched him on and went back to sleep until 7am and latched again. The end

25Apr : Kids had dinner at 7. Dylan had his milk at 8pm. It seems he recognised Shawn's Shinkansen cup and was running away from me and whined and cried when I tried to get him onto the seat. So I took his Foogo cup and poured the cup of milk into it and he willingly sat on the high chair and drank. Putting him bed was not peaceful tonight. There was a twist and shout session from 8.27pm to 8.45pm. I guess it was shorter tonight but episode kicked off earlier. It was a sudden switch off session when he decided to just close his eyes, tumbled down and looked for a nice spot to snooze. Hope he won't switch on the 11.50pm button to twist and shout again. Keep my fingers and toes crossed

Log of weaning Dylan off

2011-04-25T01:18:00.002+08:00

Continued from 22Apr : Dylan woke up at 2am, walked to our room. I held his fingers and wanted to walk him back to kids' room. He sat on the floor and threw tantrum. So I carried him to the room. It took him 1/2hr to calm down and went back to sleep. He woke up at 6plus and well, I latched him on for feed.

23Apr : For the 1st time I gave him FM for his afternoon feed. Teik sat down with him for his night feed. Was peaceful until bedtime. Dylan cried his way to Lalaland, though he had enough milk prior to bedtime. Guess he needed the kick before sleep. Woke up just before midnight and screamed again. He ended up tired and went back to sleep and woke up at 5am, latched on.

24Apr : Latched him before Pm nap. Tonight it took him about 1/2hr, while Shawn was tossing around on the bed, he tossed on the mattress on the floor. Woke up just before midnight and screamed for milk again. He ended up crying, beating me up and tossing and kicking me. Abusive! But I think my neighbours would be thinking I am abusing him from the way he screamed and cried. After all the muck and tears for 45min he gave him and lied next to me and drifted off to Lalaland. I hope it'll last him till 6 or 7am before waking up!

I'm just hoping to kill many birds with one stone i.e.
- boot him out of the room (think this is accomplished)
- wean him off breast milk (think this is in progress, well at least he doesn't push when Gain IQ is served, touchwood!)
- wean him off the bottle (the school got to do this, because I never gave bottle at home. Just cup & straw)
- wean him off comfort suckle at night
- wean him off night feed

How mean eh!

Operation D-boot

2011-04-22T23:44:00.001+08:00

Basically play by ear... Unplanned, impromptu with mommie's see how-lah attitude
19Apr Tues : Downgraded Dylan to mattress in Shawn's room. He didn't reject by banging the door to get out of the room. I latched him to Lalaland. He woke up at about 1am and 5am. He walked over to our room, sobbing a little and shook me hard to make sure I couldn't go back to sleep. Obviously I latched him back to Lalaland during the wakings.

20Apr Wed : Tried fresh milk but he smirked, sipped a little, walked away, came back and drank a little more, smirked. Never quite finished it. Bleah.. forget it. I latched him on to make him drift to Lalaland.

21Apr Thru : 150ml of Gain IQ served at 9.30pm served with straw in Shawn's cup. He probably had drink this before in school but via milk bottle. He finished it. But putting him to bed, he asked for more milk. I latched him on again. He woke up at ~ 1am and then ~7am. I had longer sleeping hours last night.. woohooo

22Apr Fri i.e. today : 200ml of Gain Iq served at 8pm, again served with straw in Shawn's cup on high chair. Needed a little of coaxing but he finished it. Tried to get him to bed, he played in the dark all over and got scolded obviously. Well, he did get the intonation of me screaming at him as bad bad naughty boy. He cried and threw a little tantrum. Took about 1/2hr of on and off crying and screaming. I lie on his mattress and he was climbing all over, put his head on my tummy, lie on top of me, trying to find the best position to sleep. Cried a little and decided to toss back onto his mattress to try to sleep. Took another 1/2hr or so for this cycle to complete and finally he knocked out at 9.30pm.

We'll see how it goes tonight. Hopefully he got the message no more latch on to Lalaland.. wishing, hoping and praying!

Update as of today

2011-04-14T22:14:00.000+08:00

Some improvement this week. He was willing to sit on the carseat from home to school in the mornings though he was already whining and struggling wanting to get off the seat at the 2nd traffic light that we hit. Well, better than nothing. I just had to say something like, "Ok, mommie give you the bag, or the water bottle" to park his backside on the seat. He is more than interested to hold Shawn's water bottle and pretend to be sipping the straw even though it's empty (which means he's 'drinking' air)

When asked to smile, he tilts his head and says "Mile". Anyway here's a serious picture of Dylan watching tv.

Appetite is back, eating what's cooked in the "Grossly-Yours-Kitchen". I am not proud but I'm glad my boys are eating my all in one pot food. Hahaaa! And recently he is munching his food. I gave him half a mini button mushroom and I see his mouth moving. I supposed he did munch. And all that minced pork no longer get spitted out. Thankfully.. and hope that it stays that way!

Update

2011-04-08T22:15:00.000+08:00

Everyday of this week when I drop Dylan off at school, he screamed and cried like there is no tomorrow. I suppose now are talking about separation anxiety. Yes, finally he is behaving that way! I heard from teachers that when he starts to see kids going home at 6plus he starts to drama as well. Cried and rolled on the floor. At home he does the snatch-the-toy stunt every other minute when he NEEDS to get it from Shawn. When he isn't happy, just plummet on the floor, and cry and scream. Think we had seen that enough. Terrible 2 has indeed started! Tada!

He's been talking more, most of it which I couldn't quite understand. Baby blabber. The phrase which I catch is usually, "Let go (let's go)". He has shown interest in vehicles, particularly bulldozer and diggers that sort. Typical BOY thing.

During the Brisbane trip, Dylan had the HATE-MOST-FOOD syndrome. Junk is acceptable, such as chips and less nutritional food like bread and cakes are most welcomed (not all the time though). And also, HATE-THE-CARSEAT syndrome. No way we can belt him upwhile he's awake. He would scream on top his lungs. Gosh.... The only chance is to drug him with milk until he knocks out (on long journey this helps alot!) and then transfer him onto the seat. We have the problem now back in Sg as he doesn't want to be on the carseat anymore. Now he sits on my lap when we are travelling on the road, while goody Shawn sits on his booster throne. Sigh... I wonder when can we get this over and done with?!

Dylan laughing out

2011-03-22T00:51:00.000+08:00

First footage of him laughing - At first I didn't turn on the lights, so you can hardly see that happy face

New words

2011-03-16T23:29:00.000+08:00

Ih-kit = Biscuit
Pau = Bread, bun or Pau
Ahhhh-pen = Open
He never fails to use this word when he's in the playyard, holding on to the playyard gate and scream Ahhh-pen to get us to open the gate for him to get out

Verbal/non verbal update

2011-03-13T00:30:00.000+08:00

His favorite song now is 3Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. He loves the version on my phone from one of the apps that I downloaded. He likes the "tsk tsk" sound during the short melodyless part "the doctor said..." and he goes nodding and tsk tsk tak tak as well

3 (2, 1)little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
So Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Tak tak - close the cover of the water bottle
Diaper - piper
*yes* silent is denoted by vigorous nods

Pointing at a goose, he says Duck. Pointing at a horse or a dog, he says Dog... I'll wait and see what's next

INNOCENT!

2011-03-06T00:06:00.002+08:00

Morning shot at breakfast.. He's innocent as it looks!

3/3 Zombified

2011-03-03T23:32:00.000+08:00

Dylan's crib party started from 0117 to 0238 yesterday. He sure did drive me up the walls at the wrong time of the day. I don't remember what time or how he lie down on our bed and slept. I got up at about 0545 and wanted to shift him to the playpen. Next thing I knew was Shawn was awake at 6plus and there goes my sleep time. I went to work feeling like a zombie...

Almost one year ago, Dylan looked like that (6kg+) and today he looks like this (12kg+)...

2011-03-02T01:17:00.002+08:00

Left : Taken on 24Feb10

Right : Taken on 28Feb11

Left : Taken on 4Mar10

Right : Taken 27Feb11

Left : Taken on 5Mar10

Right : Taken 1Mar11

Dylan's happy March

2011-03-01T23:40:00.003+08:00

Can't hardly take a frozen snapshot of his HAPPY faces.. he's constantly moving

Dylan - external aftermath

Dylan - Internal warzone

Finally some light of Dylan trying to self feed.. yay!

2011-02-28T23:46:00.000+08:00

Taken on 28/Feb

28/2 Rolly polly on the bed

2011-02-28T22:43:00.001+08:00

The Os

2011-02-28T17:37:00.003+08:00

1yr 3.5months old Dylan weighs 12.1kg and 80.5cm
Before I forget, some interesting vocal that Dylan makes :
Point and O Dare = Over there ?
O pian = Aeroplane ?

Cow Mmmmmm

2011-02-25T13:19:00.002+08:00

This morning Ah Ma was teaching Dylan how to Moooo like a cow, what he did was to Mmmmmm... Nice!

Milk matters

2011-02-24T00:13:00.004+08:00

One of the teachers was asking me if I would like to supplement one of the milk feeds with FM. Well I have just met my target recently on 11Feb11. PERSONAL target of 15months matters to me, BIG BIG DEAL! And then.. my supply goes downhill. From the ability to at least meet 2bottles feed, per day, I was reduced to 1/2 or 3/4 amount that I used to pump. Just past 2 days my supply just went downhill that I had to ask the teachers to use one of the frozen bottles. The best part I'm not sure since when this bottle had been stored in school. Hehehee

So, let's do some maths here.15months in short (1yr 3months 3days) - I had milked, cowed and whatever you call that to feed Dylan the golden liquid. Now it's not gold anymore, off white. And proudly say without a drip on formula milk to date. We had tried fresh milk with cereal but not a milk feed replacement. And that's probably 2-3months ago. He still depends on me when he wakes up at night (mainly for comfort but still drain me dry in minutes). So what's next?

Can't quite think now... would pen my thoughts another time... Need to meet the zzz monster before Dylan wakes up!

He said...

2011-02-24T00:09:00.002+08:00

22/2 PM
Dylan saw round street lamps, pointed at them and said, "Ball"
He went Ooooo! non-stop seeing a green digger righ in front of the school

23/2 AM
Saw a few birds on the rooftop, pointed and said "Bird"

23/2 PM
Communicated very well with Ah Ma when it comes to food
Communicated very well with Mommie when it comes to milk (in the dark!)

Tok tok tok

2011-02-22T00:01:00.001+08:00

22/2 Morning
At the junction of Tampines towards Simei road, our little one already started to "tok tok tok" all the way to Melville Park apartments. Unfortunately we didn't see any dogs. But he also went Ooo along the way over cars, vans etc. Nice

22/2 Evening
Dylan excitedly said bye bye to the gal (backfacing) in the car in the next lane while we were waiting for traffic light to turn green and kept hitting the window demanding for a response... Then the car turned into a corner and then he pointed and screamed "Ba! Ba!" - there was a bus... Exceptionally noisy n exciting journey back home with Dylan around

2011-02-18T16:12:00.001+08:00

2/13 While stopping at a traffic light, Dylan pointed out to a lady walking a Jack Russell and said, "Tok Tok!" I take it as Dog dog... yay!
Decoding Dylan :
tor tor = kor kor,
tor tic = tortoise,
tok tok = dog
tak tak = duck...
mo mo = more more / no more (trial and error whatever he was saying)
daktak = dump truck
ta = car

2/14 I recently noticed that when something dropped, Dylan goes into a monotonous "Ooo ooo"
While bathing him, the water was a little warm. Dylan went "Ot" for a couple of times. Took me awhile to understand that as Hot! However he also say cold as Ot.

2/15 This morning we saw a man walking 2 goldies and 1 labrador at Melville Park. Dylan pointed and said, "Tok tok!". And he "tok" all the way from Melville Park to school.

11/11/2010 Dylan's 1st birthday

2010-11-11T23:42:00.003+08:00

A very quiet celebration at home...
Happy Birthday Dylan! Stay happy, healthy and cheeky! - Love from all in the family

Dylan @ Raffles City

2010-11-09T23:45:00.002+08:00

First time walking in a very small corner of the big ball

1/11 Dylan 1st Lunar birthday

2010-11-09T23:39:00.000+08:00

Some not so recent photos

2010-10-31T00:40:00.001+08:00

The passport photo attemptS!

2010-10-24T23:57:00.008+08:00

Geezzzzz what a failure on my part to get my son to sit down for 3seconds for a face shot!

Little Drummer Dylan

2010-10-22T18:26:00.002+08:00

Dylan's walking!

2010-10-05T23:31:00.004+08:00

Yes I managed to catch him on my HP today! 6days short of 11months old mark he could walk! But he still needed help to stand up but he's walking pretty firmly. I thought he was speeding through.. but could pause and stare at the tele for a few moments. These are captured within 30sec or so.
Video1 - 1st video of him walking towards to the window and pausing to watch Ze Frank on tele.

Video2 - He could manage a left turn, I thought it's pretty well done! :)

Video3 - The little tele baby walking towards the tele

Video4 - Still so glued to the TV.. OMG

Crib party

2010-09-14T13:03:00.000+08:00

Past few weeks, small one was having cold/cough. Took him about 2-3wks to recover... guess he is now ok, just me I probably caught it from him. He has been quite a handful, more playful than Shawn and more attention seeking obviously! Anyway last night he slept at 8pm and then came the exciting part... He was having crib party from 1-3am. I cannot recall how many times I picked him up, smacked him on the buttocks and tell him to sleep. He just refused. When I put him on the bed, he went to disturb YT, stood up at our headboard and just played around. Ugggh... drove me nuts. In the end I think Dylan gave up and finally slept at about 3am. Makes me a panda today! I did put teething gel on him. I suppose he is cutting 4 teeth at a time and that caused him pain. Poor thing yea... anyway, hope tonight he would be better and be good to us!

Dylan and his dinner finale

2010-09-14T12:32:00.001+08:00

Dylan's standing!

2010-07-13T00:03:00.001+08:00

Dylan's playtime

2010-07-13T00:02:00.000+08:00

Little "LOUD" Dylan

2010-07-08T23:49:00.002+08:00

Last week I brought this little guy to the dr for his 4th/6th month old jab & Rotavirus dose(while he's turning 8months in a few days time). This fellow screamed his head off and cried so loudly that I could not hear the nurse/doctor talking to me after the scream. Yes, there were 2 jabs, left and right thighs before the sweet Rotavirus medic was dripped down his throat. It was silence for awhile before he continued screaming again. I remembered it was almost 15min before he calmed down, sniffing away angrily at me! Poor kid.

Apart from the jab, he's doing well. The GP clinic didn't have the kiddo weighing machine so they used a digital weighing machine to measure the absolute weight from the delta of mine+his weight together. Well, the reading was close to a 10kg, just 0.1kg short of that. So he's 9.9kg (abt 97% percentile), 71cm in height (abt 90% percentile) and head measuring at 46cm (abt 90% percentile).

Recently he has started fruits and vege puree in school. At home, I'm stuck to cereals for dinner or fruits as they are most convenient. Today I tried avocado and it works wonder. He loved it and had half of it. I scraped off the fruit and fed directly to him. He's trying on his stubby little fingers on finger food i.e. stars. He is still trying very hard to stuff the little star into his mouth. When he gets impatient, he would grunt and let out a loud sigh and whine. I need to get him to practice more often on his fine motor skills.

Today, he has another surprise for us. I left him in the playpen while mum and I were getting dinner ready. The next moment I peeped into the room, he was standing up holding the edge of the playpen! He must have knelt on his knees (which I saw him doing that past few days), and managed to propped himself (probably by shaking) to hold on the edge of the playpen. His eyes barely reach the edge of the playpen. So well done to little Dylan! Hooray!

Dylan's report card

2010-06-29T00:34:00.002+08:00

I just got Dylan's 'report card' from the school. So this is what the teachers wrote :
1-3months
Dylan has good eye-hand coordination. He still follow teachers' movements and enjoy looking around his environment. He is also starting to become aware of his hands and the grasp reflex is slowly fading, as this manipulative skill is developing well.

4-7months
Dylan is doing well in his physical gross motor skill. His muscles have strengthened enough so that he can put a lot of his weight on his forearms. He sits with hands forward for support. He will reach for large objects with both hands and grasp and hold his milk bottle, though not for long. He will smile at familiar faces and show interest at people around him. He does not like to be left alone and want the company of others.

Teacher did check these boxesas his development of skills that are meant for 8-12monthies and dated them 15/June, as he does this very frequently daily:
- Gets to sitting potision without assistance (8-10months)
- Crawls forward on belly
- Assumes hand and knee position
- Creeps on hands and knees
- Gets to sitting to crawling or prone (lying on stomach) position (10-12months)
- Explores objects in many different ways (shaking, banging, throwing, dropping) (8-10months)

And just today, he did pull himself up to standing position twice.
I must say, he certainly strong thighs and legs! :)

Update on Dylan

2010-06-22T23:30:00.003+08:00

Yes, now he crawls. He would can now stand with assistance and he sits quite firmly....We got Dylan a playpen 2wks ago because he was being very violent in the cot. On fours he would shake back and forth to the extend of himself knocking his head on the railings! We figured even if we did put the bumper mat, he would still hurt himself when he's on fours. So YT bought the playpen for him. He loves it (at least till today).

And he SCREAMS when he is not satisfied with dinner. Just today he had cereal. He screamed for more food while I went into the kitchen to rinse the dirty hanky. SCREAMED with TEARS! It wasn't crying, pure screaming! So he had 2tbspoon of cereal with 180ml of milk for dinner. He held his own bottle while I dug into my dinner. Well done Dylan!

For the past 2wks, I run the same routine for Dylan, hoping that he would get the hook of it and of course this would make my life much easier. Typically on a weekday, when we reach home, I would put him in the playpen and quickly get Shawn's dinner done up. That would be at least 10-15min solo in the playpen. Then he would join us at the dinner table. He would have puree or cereal for dinner. After our dinner typically at 8plus, I would wipe him down and he stays in the playpen for another 10-15min while I get my bath (usually with him screaming in the playpen if YT doesn't take him out). Last feed is at about 9ish. After the latch on I would place him in the cot and let him go to lala-land on his own. Most of the time he needs the pacifier. He stirs a little at night, so I would creep out of the bed and stuff the pacifier into his mouth. When he gets up it's about 6-7am. I don't bother much until he starts to whine or cry. Then I would drag myself up to latch him on.

Dylan's learning how to crawl

2010-05-13T12:32:00.003+08:00

Dylan has just turned 6months 2days ago. I was just commenting that he wasn't crawling forward as yet. But this morning, he was inching forward. Managed to capture it on my iphone.

Dylan's busy spraying saliva - yucks!

2010-03-25T13:05:00.001+08:00

Struggling through tummy time - a long time back

2010-03-25T12:56:00.000+08:00

Sleeping Dylan

2010-03-25T12:53:00.003+08:00

See how the little one slept... this was taken a long while ago...

Big and Small at 113days old

2010-03-10T13:45:00.000+08:00

Are you convinced? So who is who?

Sleeping time...

2010-03-10T13:12:00.003+08:00

The only time I can capture Dylan on cam without him fidgeting around

Miss me?

2010-03-10T12:58:00.002+08:00

To those who miss Dylan...

Flipped!

2010-03-07T01:01:00.003+08:00

Dylan struggled to flip to the side 90deg on his own on 4/3. He did it well and obviously was happy suckling his thumb at the perfect position. On 5/3 morning he woke up and was able to flip from his back onto his tummy. It wasn't perfect. After a few times teaching how to shift his arms away so that they balance him well, he learnt it quickly and now, it's smooth for him to just turn around. However, the only problem is when he is tired and unable to hold his head high and whambam onto his nose, face down, he gets upset and start screaming and crying. We have to watch him very closely. Can't take anymore chances leaving him alone for a longer period now.

Dylan weighs 7.3kg last Saturday when we brought him to see Dr Khor. It was for his nose, because he was snorting away for quite awhile. Basically it's due to Ooi family nose. Can't cure, just got to live with it. Thanks to the haze and the bad weather, even the change of temperature from cold to hot would trigger the snort. Dr Khor said, just treat it as if he's snoring, no harm. Leave the cute little baby alone. He had a jab that day and didn't winch a single inch as his backside flesh was enough to buffer the pain from the syringe.

Dylan Dylan Dylan

2010-02-19T13:32:00.002+08:00

Last night as I was organizing my milk stash, I found a cracked milk glass bottle. Obviously, to my horror it's a 300ml cracked bottle. Even though my supply is good at this moment, throwing away 300ml just breaks my heart! I figured I must have been too greedy maximising the "storage space" in the bottle that I didn't leave enough room for the liquid to expand when put to freeze. So dumb! Anyway, now I make Shawn drink the EBM to help clear some space in the freezer. YT can't take the fishy smell from the thawed milk, so I would have to be the one to sit down with Shawn to make him drink it. Shawn never complains about the EBM. He typically drink about 200-250ml till he burps big time (I think it's overfeeding especially it's only 1-1.5hr after dinner)

Since CNY, Dylan sleeps from 9/10-ish to 4.30am (odd hours, which means I was getting about 4-5hrs of sleep a day). Last night, I woke him up and fed him at midnight until he passed out and this morning he woke up at 6.30am. I kind of dragged the time from 6am and stuffed in the pacifier till 6.30am as I was not willing to creep out of bed and sit up to feed him. It's good enough. Hope we would be able to stretch the time longer like before!

Caregivers in school always tell me he's a very chatty boy. And yes, he loves to "talk" and coo along when we talk to him. Now he's sucking his fingers (esp his thumb!) more often too. When I take a sniff of his hands - gross!

4Feb10

2010-02-05T15:48:00.013+08:00

Dylan started infant care on 1Feb10. He seemed ok so far. This is taken on day4 after I brought him back from infant care. Tired little one...

And my milk stash as of yesterday (one of the bags is not milk though). Pretty filled up, so now I need to get Shawn to drink his fill more often

28Jan10 Nice?

2010-02-05T15:47:00.002+08:00

Do you think this look fits for CEO photoshoot?

26Jan10 On a serious note...

2010-02-05T15:43:00.003+08:00

Seriously squating and seriously lying down

26Jan10 Tummy time

2010-02-05T15:40:00.002+08:00

25Jan10 Feast on Fist!

2010-02-05T15:35:00.005+08:00

22Jan10 The many faces

2010-01-24T00:13:00.010+08:00

The above are the many faces of Dylan... :)

The photo which I took with Dylan was taken in the nursery room

21Jan10 Tummy time

2010-01-24T00:11:00.002+08:00

20Jan10 Back at home

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Happy back at home

20Jan10 1st day in Ergo

2010-01-23T23:57:00.006+08:00

This was the 1st day I used Ergo while transporting him to Vivocity. We met up with Joanne for lunch and did some shopping. He slept quite a bit in the stroller

19Jan10 Superhero in the making

2010-01-23T23:49:00.005+08:00

This is a gift from Gavin and Karen. It's very cute on him but Dylan can no longer wear this. As you can see, he is already bursting out of the costume

Shots from 18Jan10

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Feasting on fist - caught on camera 16Jan10

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Footie theme on 14Jan10

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Outing 13Jan10

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Crispy white on the day Mommie went to gorge herself with salmon sashimi and lots of other food at Hashinbo with Ah Ma, Auntie Joanne and baby Jayden

Shots from 12Jan10

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Photo from 11Jan10

2010-01-18T23:50:00.003+08:00

So is this a push up?!

2010-01-18T23:43:00.002+08:00

I reckon not... just lifting his head up :)

Head lift up

2010-01-18T23:33:00.003+08:00

Dylan lifted his head again and stayed afloat holding his head up high for a couple of seconds before he slumped down. That was left to right, then he did it again while turning his head from right to left, while on tummy. After that he decided to just lap his tongue on my bedsheet. His neck seems to be pretty firm now, I can't wait to use my Ergo! Nevertheless, well done Dylan!

The day he started to talk a lot and smiled a lot 7Jan10

2010-01-16T23:01:00.004+08:00

ONE push up today

2010-01-15T11:41:00.000+08:00

Dylan managed to do ONE push up today. I put him on tummy and he slumped and lie on the bed. After awhile, he pushed himself up and cooed a bit. Then he slumped down and started to whine... hehehee

More old photos - 6Jan09

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More old photos - 5Jan09

2010-01-14T12:56:00.004+08:00

Some old photos 4Jan09

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Jab Jab

2010-01-11T22:42:00.003+08:00

I woke up this morning and decided to bring Dylan to Dr Khor to check on his nose. Past few days he was spitting up milk (partly my fault) even after a big burp and he was snorting quite a bit. My mum and I went together. Before Dr Khor started her serious checks, she went looking at his eyes and said, "Hey, he has browner eyes than Shawn and big eyes too". After that she checked his nose, hear his breathing and said he's fine, just a little stuffy up there in the nose. It would probably take 6months before it all goes off. So I asked if he could take the jab today. She said well, yes he is fit enough but having him to take 2 jabs at one go could leave him traumatised. So she said she would decide once she jab him the 1st vaccination. Firstly he had a suppository up his butt for prevention of fever. Then he had the Rotavirus oral vaccination. Then he had the 1st jab on the right buttock. He squealed a little and then came the 2nd jab on his left buttock which left him screaming away. It wasn't the pandemonium scream but I got the pacifier ready and stuffed in and he was quiet after a few seconds. What a relief! Dr Khor and I went like, "Ok, very good boy. That's all for today"

After a quick lunch at ToriQ while Dylan knocked out after the jabs, we went shopping from Paragon to OG. Mom got her CNY clothes and shoes, while I just walked around and realised I haven't been to that area of Orchard road for a long long time. I didn't buy anything except a bottle of water from Guardian and cans of milk powder for Shawn to be delivered one of these days. Dylan had his feed at Paragon and OG, and he was a good kid while we are walking around and he was just lying in the stroller, getting his nap.

He is 6.33kg in weight and 59cm tall. Dr Khor still calls him Ah Pui...

Good company, good short lunch

2010-01-07T15:13:00.003+08:00

I brought Dylan back to my office today, as I needed to submit my claims and also pass the cards to my colleagues. I left home at about 11am while he was going to doze off. When I arrived, he was already sleeping. He slept past my conversation with my colleagues, me walking around getting my documents zapped and me walking to Expo for lunch. I had lunch with my colleagues at Subway (while he was still sleeping), yummy! Then I headed straight home. Dylan finally woke up after 2hrs of nap in the sarong from 11am to 1pm. When I got home, he began to whine and cry, so it's milk time. After milk, we had a little conversation and not that he understood what I was saying, neither do I understood what he was cooing. I put him into the cot for cot mobile time. Then he called out "Ei!" as usual... and so I popped in the pacifier. For a couple of times, the pacifier dropped and he grumbled and called out "Ei!". Then he went to lala-land after awhile. Yay!

Weather is nice today, hopefully he'll doze off for another hour or two :)

Day out

2009-12-29T23:08:00.003+08:00

I brought Dylan out to Orchard yesterday to meet up with Nov09 moms, met them for the 1st time. It was a good lunch and got to know more friends and indeed, it was my 1st time nursing in the public! Managed to conceal using the MIM sling. One con was that Dylan got really hot and bothered after awhile due to the fabric and he didn't want to nurse anymore and decided to sleep instead. After lunch at TCC at Isetan, I walked to ION. Unfortunately the music in MOST of the stores was very very loud and Dylan didn't like it at all and in turned he became pretty cranky. I ended up empty handed and decided to just head home since I was quite tired even though it's just 4hrs out of home. So I headed home. Yt picked Shawn up from school last night and I managed Shawn from dinner then on. Timing was quite right, I had dinner one-on-one with Shawn while Dylan was still taking his evening nap. By bedtime, it was pretty well adjusted and managed to tuck both to bed by 10pm. Did some laundry and logged on.

Next week another moms' lunch is planned at Hashinbo. I am considering to go, if weather is good, since I am using sling and managing the stroller at the same time.

1st trip to wet market

2009-12-22T23:34:00.003+08:00

After I had breakfast and after bathing Dylan, I brought him downstairs to the market. He drew a lot of attention from the aunties. He was busy looking around, I think he was mesmerised with the lights. Towards the end, he started to whimper and cry. Luckily I was about to finish my marketing and I quickly wheel him back home. He had milk and had his morning nap. It wasn't for long but in between I managed to get the groceries cleared from the kitchen counter, plus having some time to boil the pork stock for my lunch/dinner. I managed to cook beehoon soup with kailan, tofu, pork and fish ball. A little bland but I am not bothered to add more soy sauce.

We both had a long afternoon nap of about 2hours. While he was napping, I quickly cook up dinner. Cooked pork stew, and blanched some kailan and heated up the soup. Anyway, YT said dinner was good and Shawn didn't complain until towards the end of his dinner, as usual he wanted to fool around.

Photos from today

2009-12-21T23:37:00.002+08:00

Little Dylan as of today... side view, a nice face profile and an exploding diaper ...

Venturing futher

2009-12-17T23:33:00.000+08:00

Since last night we had a late night, Shawn woke up at 7.30am. YT got him ready and got him the milk, they were off to school. Obviously Shawn was a happy little chap since he get to spend his morning short hour with his papa. I didn't get a good sleep coz from 4-6am, Dylan was snorting away and kept me awake by asking for feed

While I was at home, little Dylan was cooperative in the morning. He had a long nap in the morning, I was able to get a lot of housework done, cleaning the floor, the laundry, boiled soup for dinner, cooked Shawn's grains and chucked into the Tiger jar. Pretty good start for the day. By 12plus Dylan woke up and had his feed before I headed to Bugis to join YT and G for lunch. Dylan was dozing in the sarong all the way to Bugis till towards the end of my lunch. Then went to nurse him while the big boys went to SL SQ. Then I headed to Raffles City with the kid in the sarong, napping. At one point, I felt like my legs were going to break and so were my shoulders. So I decided to take a break for a cuppa and cheesecake at TCC. Couldn't walk any further. By then it's already 5pm, after nursing him awhile YT and I headed home to pick Shawn up.

Tonight I poached cod fish with brocolli for Shawn's dinner while Shawn and YT went downstairs to buy OUR dinner home. Shawn ate 90% on his own tonight and of course, I was very very happy. Finally, it's getting somewhere! Meanwhile, Dylan turned cranky and kept asking for milk. He couldn't lie in his cot for more than 15min, at least he was waking up every other 15min!!! He was drank, slept a bit, pooed and screamed.. it went on and on until 10.30pm. Finally I get to sit down for longer than 30min at one go. Going to catch some sleep before he wakes up again

15Dec09 Shots with the brown "boxing" mittens

2009-12-17T00:45:00.001+08:00

I bought these but didn't get to use them, until yesterday. I decided not to cut his nails as he was sleeping, so I put on the mittens.

Dylan is 1mth old!

2009-12-12T22:36:00.001+08:00

Dyland has turned one month old yesterday!