Ok back to having vege

Day 2 of Ok-I-Will-Eat-My-Vege. Yaye! What more can I ask right? I am giving him mixture of vege and fruit juice but it's by no way replacing his vege intake And it shouldn't be. He should be eating his vege and not be a picky eater. I don't want little Andrew to grow up becoming a picky eater. I love food!!! So he can't be picky!

He is ok with feeding himself. In fact, I am willing to let him just feed himself whatever ways he wants. But the OCD daddy won't allow cause it's just too messy at times. But I'm totally into letting him do whatever he wants and show him the right way from time to time. We gotta make meal time fun time right? I don't want him to hate meal time!

No vege!

Don't know why or when, Little Andrew started to pinch out every single vege that he can see. He was all good when I did the feeding. But lately he started this terrible habit of not eating his vege when he feeds himself! How did it all happen!!!?!?!

I have been trying to be creative when it comes to feeding him vege. I tried to snug it under his rice, putting more vege in his meatball or nugget and now I started juicing with vege.

But these are all short term solutions. He got to start eating his vege again!!

Stacking cups

Stacking cups can keep the little one busy for a long time! Little Andrew started playing with them since he was 1.5 years old. In the beginning it didn't make sense to him and he was just literally playing the cups. It didn't take him too long to figure out how the stacking cups work.

Now that he is 2 years old, he is already the master of it! And fortunate for us, he still likes to play with it after 6 months.

I do think stacking cups is one of the good old fashion toys that will never grow old.

Wooden puzzles

On and off I let Little Andrew working on these wooden puzzles.

The one of the left comes in 5 sets. He is already quite an expert on the "shape" set and so now moving into the "animal" set. He couldn't get it done at all when we first started. so I let him work on the shape first. Now that he is bigger, I decided to give the animal ones a try. He wasn't sure on day 1 how to do it. but on day 2, he could so it by himself! Wonderful! I showed him that it's about matching the same animals and I hope he got what I said.

Then the one on the right, it has 5 cylinder shapes in a block. Each puzzle has different sizes and length. He could do 4 of them and there is this last one that is of same shape but different length. He can't seems to get the idea. He did got it right once the other day but I suspect that was by luck because after that he couldn't do it again. Will just gotta keep working on this one.

It's not easy trying to occupy the little one's time at home with all sorts of activities. He got so much energy! As much as I would love to keep him busy with activities and not just watching TV or YouTube, the temptations are ever presence at home. And people tend to give in to his request all the time!!!! I just gotta work harder in keeping him away from these temptations. Oh and the good thing is he knows that I will not give in to him easily so he won't ask me to switch it on!

Cuteness overload

Little Andrew woke up at 6am and gave mummy a pat then daddy a pat. Followed by grabbing mummy's hand, then pulled daddy's hand, and made us hold hands ^^

My baby is 2 already!

I didn't realise that I have not updated anything for more than a month now! The holiday and the the post-holiday kinda kept me busy for a while. And soon the festivities!

My baby is now 2 and it felt like only yesterday that he was still just a little baby! Little Andrew is getting more and more mischievous, more smarty pants, definitely stubborn!

He weighs 13kg and 93cm, all his teeth are out except one last top left molar is still growing (is now 75%).

Unfortunately, still not talking >.< Improvement though compare to just "mmmmm" all the time. He is talking more by making more sound- especially before sleeps and after waking up! I'm not sure if I should start getting worried about this!

Other than not talking, little Andrew seems to get the hang of self- feeding (though we stopped this while traveling) and obviously prefers the hands than the utensils. He can also hold his pen nicely with his right hand, though can't draw nuts! His fine motor skills are still developing, so during the day I will try to work with him by letting him learn and play.

Loves Lego, cars and of course the iPad >.< I don't like him to be addictive to the iPad but we starts it, it's not easy to take that away from him. and that causes him to be in distress and unhappy and cranky which I prefer not to so I gave in from time to time.

Eats well, drinks well but gotta work on the output. There was a time he used to do his business daily, then alternate days, and now on and off 3-4 days! He is already drinking lots of water, eating his greens and enjoying his juice, sigh, I hope this is just a phase and he will get back to daily business.

Little Andrew will always be my sunshine and everyday I am thankful having to see him grow.

Falling asleep

We have been co-sleeping for as long as I can remember. We tried putting him in the crib to train him to sleep on his own, but he kept waking up every hour and it's driving me nuts. So it was decided then he will "permanently" co-sleep with us.

He sleeps better, we sleep better, everyone wakes up happy!

As he grow bigger, it is getting tougher to "battle" him to sleep sometimes. I don't mind if afternoon he doesn't sleep but at night, I really wanted him to sleep by 9 but with the "battles" evey night, sometimes he ended up sleeping at 10pm! Not good!!

He also needs patting to fall asleep, a habit that I allowed it since young! But now I'm slowly "weaning" him off patting and letting him fall asleep by himself. So as a starter, when he is ready to sleep, I will pat him for a couple of minutes. Occasionally he will fall asleep within minutes of patting. Other times, he might need longer pat and I will pat until he is "drowsy" then I will stop to let him fall asleep on his own. And there are days that he just can't fall asleep on his own.

Well, at least he is progressing with falling asleep on his own!