I hope it's just roseola

Poor baby had just recovered from fever and suddenly he has red spots all over him! It's definitely not HFMD because this is mostly on his face and torso, not the limbs. It's red/pinkish, flat and not raised, so it's not chicken pox. It's not patchy, just dots, so I guess it's not hives. He didn't eat anything new for dinner, so he can't be having an allergy reaction.

I can only hope that this is roseola. Read more here:http://www.babycenter.com/0_roseola_1616.bc

It all happened when his fever subsided, I can only guess the sore throat too, no itch, maybe mild or rather very soft stool. We discovered it at his night shower which is at about 9pm, then at 11pm I checked again. His face was really bad!! Then again at 2am, his face is much better. But overall, the body isn't so bad, mostly the face.

By the morning if it's still there, we are off to see the doctor again. Sigh... Gonna be a difficult for me to sleep. I know I will be checking on the baby :(

So far so good

Little Andrew hasn't woke up middle of the night bouncing, screaming or doing his stunts for a while now and I'm hoping it is here to stay!

He might have been waking up earlier for the day, say around 7-8ish. There are days I can put him back to sleep after a bottle and diaper change - these days are good days! there are days he will go back to sleep but after 2 hours - these days are ok days. And bad days are refusing to return to sleep.

No wonder all the craziness

Tonight I tried checking little Andrew's top row of teeth and finally saw the upper right molar cut through! Now I know what is it with all the crazy sleep schedule, wanting to bite something, easily cranky! And here I thought that these are all the start of terrible two!

So with this one out, we have one last tooth to go!!!!!! And all these craziness will be over! Come one last molar, BRING IT ON!!!

12 hours? Really?

On Sunday morning, little Andrew decided to wake up at 3am when I'm about to go to bed. Ya, I still got this bad habit of sleeping late once in a while and tonight is the night to sleep late AND little Andrew decided not to sleep through!!!!

He will usually go back to sleep after a while, normally. But unfortunately tonight is not the night. He decided not to go back to sleep at all until it's almost 8am! Gave him his breakfast bottle and he went back to sleep FINALLY. He then woke up at 11.30am and thankfully I caught some sleep too!

For the rest of the day, I decided to keep him awake. No matter how tired he got at 5am, he had to stay awake and hubs and I had a mission to keep the bay occupied! Which we did and he had his dinner, showered and had his milk all by 8.30pm. Lights out and the little piggy slept in less than 10 minutes! Good right?

And the best part is, he woke up 8.30am on Monday morning!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!

So now, do I want him to sleep in late and then keep him up for the rest of the day or should I go back to the old schedule? Still wondering which is better for the little one and for ME!!!

Sleeping better

Little Andrew slept later than usual last night because we were caught in a terrible traffic jam on our way back from dinner. He was already quite sleepy on the way and as soon as we got back, we showered and had his bottle then lights off. But it was already almost 11pm when he dozed off. I thought he might wake up the next day at 7am again!

Luckily for the rain maybe, he slept until 9am!!! Hooray!!! Surprisingly he was quite sleepy again after his morning milk. But I kept him awake until lunch. We had early lunch and little Andrew was too tired to finish his lunch already. So we napped at 12pm and up by 2pm. Great timing actually.

So by 8pm, he is already wearing off and after his shower and last bottle, he is already in half dreaming state. Took him about 10 minutes from lights off to zzzz.

Let's hope he keeps his sleep routine!

Sleep... again...

Little Andrew's sleeping pattern has been all over the place! He used to go to bed and wakes up quite on schedule but lately it's going crazy again!!!

There are nights, he would wake up at 3am and won't go back to sleep with or without milk. Sometimes giving him milk works. Otherwise he would be rolling, bouncing, making noises, shouting, disturbing daddy but mostly mummy coz daddy is dead asleep! And he could go on and on and on for 2 hours!

Then there were times he would wake up only at 7am! The difference is he sometimes will not go back to sleep even after 2 hours. In the end it's shower and breakfast downstairs. Then he will have some playtime and followed by lunch by noon. Sometimes he couldn't even make it to lunch and is already sleepy. And we will have trouble during lunch! He will eat little because of his sleepiness leading to crankiness! And then there are times he will
still chow down his lunch and proceed with his nap after that.

There were occasions when he woke up at 7am and return to sleep at about 8am and sleep till 11am! And then he will shower and have a heavy lunch! On these occasions, there will be no afternoon nap!!! Oh deary my! I would be super exhausted but he still has enough energy to last till the night!

So the sleep patterns really is crazy lately. I am not sure if I should blame it on teething. I thought I could feel hardening of the gum but I can't see for sure. So I'm not blaming it solely on teething If it is then he will probably have a full set of teeth before turning 2!!!! This is crazy. I'm hoping if we can get it over and done with, we can avoid the terrible 2 stage! Dream on!!

Learn and play

Haven't been updating for a while... Little Andrew is getting so big now! And he certainly has learn quite a few tricks! I tried to let him learn through play and not just for the sole purpose of play- play.

He can insert the beads into the chopstick with ease but still gotta learn the trick to keep all 4 inside :) I didn't show him so I shall let him learn and discover himself.

I use the same beads to do "match the same shape/colour" with little Andrew. He seems to know what I want him to do. He managed to pick the same shape and colour when I asked him to pick from the lots.

He knows his shapes puzzle all too well already so I'm keeping that aside and will rotate back to shapes on and off. He has a match the animal puzzle but he wasn't able to match that earlier on. Will try it again soon to see if he gets it already.

Lately, little Andrew is very interested with Lego! It took sometime for him to get the hang of it but he is now an expert already. Though he is still just "building", I hope one day when he talks he will tell me what is it that he is building.

And then the sorting cups!!!! He has been playing with it for a while already but he could only managed at most 4 out of 10. But one day after I return from work, he could do it all already. Daddy said he showed him how to do it in the afternoon and he got it already! I did it with him before but he didn't get it. It's like he suddenly grew up!!

Drawings! I bought him a set of triangular crayons and he is not very interested in drawing though. He will probably enjoy it later out of the blue again!