@ 26 months 2 weeks 2 days

The title says it all……….

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After we got home Ryan was still very excited so we stripped the lil fella and continued a few more shots before calling it a day… Heehee…

  
*he sure has a pair of cunning eyes*

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~~I so luv this shot~~

* My boy is sure no camera shy. He was pretty cooperative throughout the one hour session. After every few shots, he would go to Uncle Benjamin (the photographer) request to see his own pictures on the camera. Then he would say “nice“. *thick face*

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**Update 3 Jul 08.

We have some of the previous studio shoot pictures hanging on the wall. This morning, Ryan said this to me:

Ryan: Mommy, I want (to) go there
Mommy: Where do you want to go?
Ryan: There, there (pointing at the pictures). I wan (to) go take pictures!

Hahahaha… he sure had fun yesterday.

@ 26 months 1 week 1 day

The V-Smile educational video console also comes with a mic. Occasionally Ryan would request us to play his fav song (when you’re happy and you know it) and he will naturally grab the mic and start singing his song.

Yesterday was like any other day, he grabbed the mic and sang………..

*totally focussed*

*beaming with smile*

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*Adoi~~~without a doubt, totally into it*

@ 26 months

Ryan was extremely difficult to handle during the first few weeks of last month. He was unreasonable, cranky, throwing tantrums like every other minute. Tucking him in bed had been a struggle every time without fail. Every night I had to drag him into the room. Poor baby, for the first two weeks he never fell asleep without tears in his eyes. Nap time was no better. Thank goodness that did not last long. 2 weeks ago, his temperament took a change for the better. He has been so angelic and goofy now that he’s constantly putting a smile on everyone’s face with the things he does and says. He is such a happy kid now.

Ryan showed us his best behaviour lately. No more crying during bed time now.  No more fussing about going out of the room despite being not sleepy. He understand when it’s dark outside, he needs to sleep. Occassionally when he wakes up for his night feed (around 5am lately) he doesn’t fuss to go out of the room anymore because he knows when it’s still dark it literally means oi-oi time. If he’s still awake after his milk, he knows how to sleep on his own. Once in a while he will call on mommy or daddy and wanted us to talk to him but we just have to ignore him and slowly he’ll doze off to sleep by himself. When Ryan wakes up in the morning, first thing he will do is to look out the window and scream “Mommy got sun, wake up. Can play!” He is sure happy to see the sun. 

When we pass by the guard house, Ryan will salute to the guards without fail. He will ask mommy to wind down the window so he could do his salutation. Once he’s done, he will say “Good Job” to himself.

Ryan’s fingers training are getting better. He’s able to hold a pencil the right way (left handed), able to draw circles and follow dotted lines to draw alphabets and numbers without assistance. Although sometimes the drawings are still not perfect, ie not a perfect round, neither perfect squares and the lines he drew were out of dots especially the difficult alphabets but he’s showing remarkable improvement comparing to last month when his patience was at bottom low.

He’s able to tell our mood by looking at our facial expressions. When I show him an angry look. He will say ‘Mommy, angry face’ while pointing to my face. When I pretend cry, he will show a panicked face, come forward to stroke my hair (he will say ’sayang mommy’), kiss my cheek/forehead and give me a big hug and say ’sorry mommy’. (Hehee.. how to be angry). 

I like to hear this…  “Ryan, you sayang mommy or sayang daddy”. His default answer is “Mommy!”. Then I’ll ask again. “Ryan, you sayang daddy or kakak”. His reply “Mommy!”. Ngek ngek ngek.. I am sure a happy mommy. He sure knows how to bodek (malay: please) his mommy.

When we ask Ryan a question that requires him to make a decision, his answer will surely starts with the words ‘how about…..’. Eg. ‘Ryan, which one do you want?’, his answer would be “How about this one?” or “Ryan, do you want to draw?”, he will reply “How about play games”

In terms of speech development. Ryan still speaks in baby soft but squeaky tone. His stuttering has descreased dramatically. I am so relieved. We are now able to hold a decent conversation with him and he is able to reply sensibly using his own digestion and understanding of the question we ask him.

Ryan is half toilet trained. He hasn’t had any poo poo accidents in the last 4 months. He is able to tell us when he needs bowel movement and able to hold it until he is fully seated on his booster seat on the adult WC. Will have to start his wee wee training soon.

Ryan is a picky eater. Still not eating table food. No preference with fruits. When he sees us eating chocolate, cookies, biscuits so forth, he’ll say we are eating ‘junk food’. 

The highlight of the month was definitely of what happened during the Father’s Day celebration. We were at a restaurant and I reminded Ryan to say ‘Happy Yeh Yeh Day’. He didn’t say the sentence I taught him, instead he said “YEHYEH, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!” . YehYeh was beaming throughout the dinner. So did we.

That’s all about Ryan @ 26 months

One of the rare occassions he used his right hand to draw

Many years back I accompanied my cousin to the medical centre for cardiac stress test.  She had been complaining of chest pain then and was worried sick about the possibility of a heart attack or cardiac arrest.  We were worried sick of her. During the visit, she was put on a series of test to assess her heart’s ability to withstand the various physical activities. Much to everyone’s relief, the results came out normal. But due to the family history of heart ailment, she’s required to go for checkup on an annual basis. I’m so glad things are all good for her.

@ 25 months 3 weeks 2 days

I couldn’t help but to notice that Ryan started stuttering his words since couple days back. It normally occurs with the first word of the sentence or when his speaks in long winded sentences.

Fortunately the occurences have been sporadic so far and usually only occurs when he was trying to convey too many things at too fast of a speed. Very kancheong boy (anxious)

Eg Ryan will attempt to say the full long setence at one go:

Ma, Ma, mommy open this.. baby want (to) see. Baby want (to) read this

“Dad, Dad, Daddy come.. come here. Baby want to play this, come play…”

“Mommy nice junk food.. Babe Baby want junk food, nice” - anything that is not proper meal is junk food to him. Hahaha..

… I know it’s not alarming (yet) and may not be as bad as I had feared but it does bother me. I admit I even considered the option of seeing a speech therapist but hubs brushes it off saying I was kiasu over concerned and that it could just be part of a growing phase.  So I searched the net where I found some assurances…

Apparently it is common for kids age between 2 - 5 years old to stutter certain words, syllabus or sentences and that it will eventually go away in days/months/ weeks. Err ya ka?? Anyways, I don’t remember reading any parent’s blog about their kids stuttering and I’m not sure either if  hubs / me stuttered when we were younger so I guess my concerns were not entirely baseless (right)? Mmm..

Anyway, accordingly to the articles we are discouraged to make a big deal out of it esp in front of the child so to not discourage them from learning to speak. Meaning we are not supposed to correct them. Oh dear.. okay, I try.

I remember when Ryan was 18 months old, I was worried about him not speaking much. Now at 25 months, I’m worrying about him speaking too much too fast until he stutters. Really not easy becoming a parent eh?

My two boys, enjoying a game here. Wishing everyone a Happy Dumpling Festival too.

@ 25 months 2 weeks 6 days

Ultraman PJs….

Ryan woke up one day refusing to get changed. He was in foul mood, which is by no surprise to me lately. Full of new antics everyday. Anyway, that particular day he insisted of wearing this Ultraman PJs (well, it’s not exactly an ultraman but it’s the closest resemblance I could think of) the whole day and nothing else. Not even his fav Thomas & Friends T shirt.

Due to his reluctance to take off his shirt, I was not able to shower him. As a result he wore his PJs way past the afternoon. Around 6pm, I purposely spill water on his pants. Knowing he’s quite a fussy kiddo, he would not be able to tolerate wearing a wet pants, he would definitely agree for clothes change. He did. Phew… 

The next day, I bought Ryan his first ultraman. A few weeks later, his collection swelled to these…

and he was evidently happy and excited. Since then, he was in total obsession with Ultraman. A big Ultraman aficionado now for sure! He no longer fussed about his PJs though, thank goodness. Daddy even bought a Ultraman DVD into the collection. Not exactly a good move due to the violent scenes but haih… he’s already 2 yo.. let him enjoy what boys should enjoy.

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…seen here pretend playing with his fav ultraman (Ryan calls him the ‘blue ultraman’)

above all… how could his Ultraman collection be complete without a…

MONSTER right!!!???

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others…………

Yeh Yeh’s big helper (when we were in KL 2 weeks back)

Messy hair! Seen here enjoying Thomas game on his new toy (V-Smile educational video game - pressie from YehYeh and MaMa). A bit too early to expose him to video games right? Errr…..

I bought a dslr camera a couple months back. As much as I love the pictures that came out from it I still find it a tad bit bulky compare to my compact digital camera. So I told myself maybe I should get a handy compact camera for everyday use. I’ve been researching a fair bit and pretty much laid my eyes on the new Sony W300i. I went till the extent of playing around with it physically at a Sony shop and I must say the picture quality was pretty amazing. It’s really hard to control myself from not buying but I bite my lips and left the shop empty handed as  I knew I should hold on to research a bit more on the prices from online stores that usually offers much more attractive prices on electronic goods such as notebook and cameras. I’m hoping I could get a good deal from there and get my hands on the camera soon!

@ 25 months 6 days

He broke the record when he was down with illness on and off for 3 weeks straight and seeing 3 different doctors each time. Not exactly a record of glory any parent would want for their kid for sure! Started with throat infection, teething, then throat infection again to morazella (from his swap result, apparently some nasty flu bacteria) plus an ear infection. My heart was shattered. Luckily he’s now back to normal and he finally got his Hep A dose 2 jab on Tuesday.

Weight: 13kg
Height: 90cm

Generally Ryan is a goofy, happy go lucky boy with a smile on his face all most of the time. I remember those days when I was stilla FTWM, Ryan’s smile was what I was always looking forward to see every night after work. Though he wasn’t missing me that much then, but to see that big smile on his face was priceless.

He’s very vocal now.. speaking in full sentence most of the time with his trademark high pitched tone. It’s really funny. It gets even more hilarious especially when he sings. We usually go through the story telling, songs etc during bedtime. His favourite songs (London Bridge in Falling Down, Skidamarink, Row Row Row Your Boat and Thomas). Each time I tried hard not to laugh (don’t want to discourage him) but it’s so funny that usually we’ll both end up laughing each time he hits the note.  (Ryan, you may not be a musical prodigy but mommy still loves you to pieces. :D)

His cuiousity is what’s getting more and more intolerable these days. His fav sentence now is “I wanna see what’s ??? doing” (??? - can be anyone). If his wish is not fulfilled, there goes the thunder in the house / car. 

Incident: We were on the road from Singapore to KL last Saturday morning when for no prior indication he insisted he wants to hold mommy’s hand. I was driving so there was no way I could hold his hands. What pursued thereafter was totally unbearable. He screamed, wailed, wriggled,.. everything and kept saying “I wanna see what’s mommy doing”. After one hour, I just couldn’t bear it and had to pull over for a pit stop. I thought by allowing Ryan to be on the driver’s seat, play with the steering for awhile would pacify him. I was wrong. Totally wrong. He cont’ed his antics. Daddy was ultra angry by then and dragged the poor fella aside and started giving him lectures. I have not seen Daddy been so fierce on Ryan. It’s the first time Daddy lost his temper. He must be very disturbed by Ryan’s hour long wailing.

Ryan, on the other hand was still crying non stop. He appeared inconsolable and were ramblings words we couldn’t decipher. Poor baby.. he was crying too much for too long. I feel really sorry for Ryan. Broke my heart when Daddy punished him but we were simply at wits end not knowing what he wants. My senses got me finally. Just couldn’t bear the scoldings. Frankly what was on our mind? What makes us believe scolding a 2 yo in public would make the latter understand and stop crying? I grabbed Ryan from Daddy’s (so drama right) and tried sweet talking him instead. Ryan cont’ed his crying and wants to go back to his car seat. Bribed him with yogurt drinks before we decided to cont our journey. For the record.. he cont’ed to cry after his drinks. Give up. Terrible 2? Still recovering? I don’t know.

A little fake smile there when I shot this….

The face seconds before he freaked out and wants to THROW my camera away

When he’s not in a foul mood…..

@ 24 months 3 weeks 5 days

Thanks for all the well wishes. Ryan’s much better today, no fever, no flu, all looks good. Nonetheless, we spotted loose tools twice today but paed pre empted it’s pretty normal with Augmentin which he will complete the course in another 5 days. I hope and pray he’ll fully recover and be given a clean bill of health when we visit the paed this coming Friday to make sure his ear infection is totally healed.

It’s a boring Mother’s Day. No card, no pressie, no dinner, no mood, nothing. I began to feel my butt is permanently glued to the sofa / bed. Hehe.. okay, a bit of exxageration there but it has been days since Ryan is grounded at home for the sake of his full recovery and I’m feeling extremely helpless.

When chewlee’s bro dropped by earlier to pick up chewlee’s stuff, I jokingly teased Ryan that korkor’s here to catch mommy. Gosh.. that resulted in endless stickiness and crankiness thereafter. I cannot even have my dinner without the little fella demanding comfort from me. I’m not complaining. Matter of fact I missed his affections. *blushed*

During bedtime, as usual he started his drama all over again. Insisted he wants to go out and play. I switched off the lights anyway and predictably he started wailing. I passed him his milk and pretended to cry myself. Then I asked him…

Mommy: *sobbing* You don’t sayang mommy anymore? You don’t want to stay here with mommy? *cont sobbing*
Ryan: Mommy… (Turn to me and gave me a big hug… then a big muaks. Ouch… feel so in love).
Mommy: (Wanted more) *sobbing* Mommy go out now, okay?
Ryan: No! No! No! (shaking big No No with his index finger and cuddled next to me)
Mommy: (Beaming silently in dark. Hehehe….)

…… a moment of silent was what it takes for him to doze off to Zzzz-land. Poor baby, must have been really tired. I switched on the side lamp, looking at the little face of my son, ouchhh… I feel soooo utterly sweeeeeeeeet.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone. It’s not a bad celebration for me afterall… hope you gals had fun yourself. *smile*

24 months 3 weeks 2 days

Ryan was down with a fever again yesterday afternoon. Though mild (37.7C), that was sufficient enough for me to raise the alarm bell. I mean, how could he be sick again? On and off fever for the last 13 days is not normal. Last night I barely sleep so to monitor his temperature. Just before he slept I administered suppository to break his fever (38.4C) and also in hope for him to have a good night sleep. Luckily it worked. He was tossing about but temp remained under control (< 38C).  Not surprisingly I barely sleep considering I’m always a Mat Worried. I was so determined I must must must bring him go see a paed the first thing in the morning.

This morning Ryan woke up with no fever but I insisted to bring him to the paed at Paragon Medical, highly recommended by my cuz. To my much relief, after a thorough check he confirmed Ryan is down with a middle ear infection. Well, not that it is any good news but at least it’s nothing too serious. No wonder I’ve seen him scratching his ears quite a number of times. Poor baby. So many infections in the last 2 weeks, throat, flu, cough, teething, throat again then now ear infection. Sigh. Poor Ryan had been through so much in the last 2 weeks. He has never been sick for such a long period of time before. His appetite is average but milk intake is normal (phew) and of course still active as ever.

I wanted to find out more on multi vits, immune booster supplements for Ryan but looks like this doc strongly discourages young toddlers being dependant on it. We had a long chat as he was trying to find out more of our family medical background for better diagnosis. He suspect Ryan may have gotten Daddy’s bad genes (tonsilitis, near ashmatic history). He explained kids with underlined sensitive nose tends to get sick easier esp. throat infection/ear infection. Pitiful. 

Ryan’s on another course of Augmentin antibiotics. This time for 7 days. Paed consultation is very expensive in Singapore. We paid SGD$200 for this visit. I hope it’s well worth and Ryan will get better SOON. Have to go get another pack of Vitagen now. I wanna cry.

  
Pics taken after paed’s visit. Poor boy. Already so skinny, now skinnier. To cheer up the lil fella, he received a surprise gift from this korkor.
Thank you so much. The gift sure brought a little smile back on his face.