Monday, July 17, 2006

dinner time; Snowpea

Jasper now uses the kids table for breakfast, morning tea and afternoon tea at home, no runaway. He purposely threw the empty cup to the floor after he finished his milk and said "I have dropped the cup", same happened to the mandarin peels that he removed from the fruit "I have dropped the peels". I still sit him high on the booster seat to eat at the adult table for LUNCH and DINNER. I slipped a snowpea in his lunch hoping maybe he will try eating it. He picked out that snowpea and said "bye bye Ho Lan Dow!" threw it to the floor. My memory doesn't seem to serve me correctly because I dont remember teaching him the word snowpea in cantonese ever. The only other time he heard the Cantonese words of snow pea was many months ago when we were at the supermarket and he cried so badly that I just picked a raw snowpea and told him "want snowpea?, look, chew on this", that was my desperate attempt to calm a crying teething baby at the supermarket. I put an empty Yakult bottle in his bath for him to play, he submerged the bottle in his bath water, bubbles came out, he poured the water out, "o chung yee yic yic dor!" - meaning i like yakult. It takes only 3 seconds for him to finish the bottle of Yakult! I dont buy him this often, only because he has finished his 2-week course of antibiotics that I think yakult may be useful for his guts. He is still not very good with the "L" sound sometimes. Eye contacts with people have not improved but he has definitely learnt to sit in a normal chair and wait. When I hold a wooden puzzle higher up, he will run to the chair sit down waiting for me to give him the puzzle. He knows and says the first name of everyone at the daycare, names of the the kids and both carers.

This guy sleeps a lot, i put him to sleep 8:30pm and he still hasn't woken up now and it is already 9:20am. His night sleep has been 12.5-13.5 hours and afternoon nap 2-3.5 hours. Two-third out of 24 hours is for pure sleep, one-third is for all other activities.