Don't compare me

Little Andrew has a cousin who is 2 months younger than him and my in-laws are always comparing them. For heaven sake why do they want to compare their milestone. They kept saying why my son can't walk or talk. I'm like HAARRRLOOO every child's development is different.

Why don't they ever say why can't little M wave goodbye? Why can't little M do "carry me" sign? Why can't little M poo in potty? They kept forgetting little Andrew can do a lot of stuff too that little M can't.

I hate it when they compare the 2 babies!!!!

Why oh why?

I think the drinking milk before sleep is now a habit. I thought that Andrew must be too full to drink milk to sleep because I cooked slightly bigger portion dinner. I was wrong!! he ended wanting milk before he sleeps. He was tugging my pillow - there's where he lay down for his milk. Baby, I wish you can talk and tell me!!! >.<

Then in the middle of the night, little Andrew woke up crying! And there is no way I could pacify him and sleep back. He sat up and cried pretty loud. So I gave in, I carried him to my bed and let him sleep with us. Immediately he slept and no crying at all! Hmmm... how am I suppose to get this sleep training on his crib worked out. I don't want to use the Cry It Out technique, it's kind of cruel and pains me.

I guess will just have to keep trying. I don't think he has any trouble sleeping in the crib since he has been falling asleep in there for 5 nights consecutively already. I just need to try harder and nightly until he can sleeps through the night in it.

Back to the crib

I can't even remember when was the last time little Andrew slept in his crib! Daddy took the plunge 4 nights ago to put him to sleep in there. Surprisingly he feel asleep in it and stayed in there till about 2am on the first night. Then 4am, then 6am before crawling out of it. Last night Little Andrew must have a nightmare because he was sobbing in his sleep. So by 3am, he was up and in our bed.

I am hoping for the night he would sleep through the night in his crib. At the same time, I kinda miss having him sleeping next to me. Thank goodness I still can do that during his afternoon nap! I always thought he can't sleep in the crib, seems I'm the one in denial and I'm the one having separate anxiety!

Milk before sleep

It seems to me that little Andrew wants milk again before his bedtime. He stopped drinking his night time milk for a while now, but these 2 days he will fuss until I gave him the bottle!

I wonder if he didn't have enough for dinner. Maybe it's time to increase his diner portion so he won't need his milk before bed. I thought he weaned himself off it, apparently not. If he does means he can stop wearing diapers at night!!! Dream on mummy! He's not even potty train in the day for wee wee! But for big business, it seems little Andrew gets it that he gotta poo in the potty! He can't do it on his back or when he is seated nowadays. I realised that because for few days in a row, he had urged during meal time when we were out and about. I tried putting him on the diaper change table to poo, but he just won't do it! I tried doing it in the car, again he won't do it!

I guess it's a good thing that he knows the use of potty. It just that I need to fix his timing and not every time when he is having his dinner half way!!

Molar!

After so long, the molars are finally out. Little Andrew has been cranky and sometimes woke up in the middle of the night crying. My guess was the molar has got to be coming and I hope it will be soon enough.

And today after his shower, I ran my fingers through his gum and found the top left molar is peeping out! And I opened his mouth bigger and show the white patch appearing on the top right molar too! So two molars are on the way. I have yet to check out the bottom ones but I ran though my finger can't feel a thing yet!

Stand by me...

Oh yes, little Andrew can stand for a few seconds only when he sort of forgets that he is standing. Sounds weird? He won't stand still when you want him to. So he surprises us here and there at the most unexpected moment. I'm still waiting for the walking on your own baby!!

More milestone

Little Andrew amazes me all the time when he reaches new milestone. Even if it is the smallest matter, I'm still very proud of him!

He is getting the hang of feeding himself with picking up the food I left on the tray attached to his high hair. So sometimes when we are out and about and when I feed him, he will want to pick it up from the spoon - not pick up the spoon just yet!

So today's dinner, I let him have some watermelon. At first I tried to put the pick into his hand, he refused to hold it and wanted me to feed him. But to my surprise after a few feed, he wanted to hold the pick. And the happiest moment came when he managed to put the pick into his mouth on his first attempt!!! AND the best of all, daddy was around to see it too!

I'm so glad that there are many times that daddy witnesses all these milestone together with me. I'm worried that he will miss out of all these because I'm at home 24hours with little Andrew! I'm glad he is around to see this today!

More self-feeding adventure to come! Yay!!!