So the latest was...

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!