Freedom

It's been 4 months since I've done my last posting. I hope that with my new job I can have a little more time to update the blog on my little darling. He's grown so much and changed so much since the last blog.

Now he's 11kg @80cm. He's grown so much that he's no longer a baby but to me, he's always my baby. ZQ never fail to amuse me and he really bring joy into my life. I really thank God for babies.

His recent changes, he learnt to wink wink, everybody around are happy cos he wink wink to them ...he also can wave bye bye, hi5. Recently I taught him to spit out water after I brush his teeth. Though it's an edible toothpaste, it's quite fun that he learnt quickly how to spit out the water. Of course, sometimes he still drinks the water from the cup, hence I used boiled cool water for that purpose.

In recent days, he also started to walk backwards. Haha, he is quite steady walking since 1 year old and now he is vv good at the playground. Climbing up and sliding down. In fact, at 11th month, my maid let him do it and I was rather apprehensive abt it until one day, I brough him down and he really slide down himself. Quite cool for a baby barely 1 year old .. hhee.

Today, we did another milestone. I decided to let him go diaperless at home. I read from the forum that some mommies tried and ask the toddler to inform them if they wan to go poo poo or wee wee. We told ZQ that if he wants to wee wee, he got to tell us and of course at 30mins to 1 hour interval, we bring him to wee wee. He understood and he actually went to find my maid when he wanted to wee wee. At night, when we brough him downstairs to the playground, he wet his underwear. But well, for a first timer, he is quite good oredi ;) I am looking forward to the diaperless days ahead .... can save more $$, hee.

Dunno since when, he had taken a liking to bread and he really love it. Now he knows where the bread is, he will walk to the dining table and then pull me /maid to the table and point to the bread and say bread .. bread ...

He is now like a sponge, learing vv fast. He now knows how to call papa, mama, yeye, nai nai, ball, clock .... and he can repeat after us sometimes. So I decided that it's time that I have to put in effort to teach him more.

Well, that's the joy of motherhood. Enjoying the time spent with the kid and seeing how he's learning. It's really a wonderful experience.
At this age, he is exploring alot of new things and shows a lot of pattern as well. It's not easy to teach him to understand what he cannot do and not good for him but we have to really be imaginative and think out of the box .... can be quite challenging sometimes. Sometimes methods don't work but we cannot just stop there but gotta find new ways and means to find a way that works for the kid. Discovering what makes them tick.

To teach them lovingly yet not in undiscipline manner.