Well, toddler A is completely potty trained, even nights. I'm so amazed. He is by far the easiest child to potty train. From start to complete, it took about a week, including night time. He somehow knows to hold until morning. He tells us whenever he needs to go and even in public, I don't even give him a diaper, just underwear. I do however, put a little potty in the car so if we drive somewhere for a long time, we can stop somewhere without needing to look for a bathroom.
The only little issue is he still wakes in the middle of the night, like 2-4am crying for mommy so usually daddy or I go sleep with him until he falls back asleep. Most of the time, he refuses to go potty and prefers to wake til morning.
A used to wake around 6-6:30am and then demands milk, then eat, basically ready to go downstairs to play. But we slowly transitioned him to no milk until 7am and he adjusted. The last couple days, he has been waking up later, more like 7-7:30 so not exactly sure why. Perhaps it is because when he wakes at night, he doesn't go back to sleep right away and will toss/turn for like 2 hours.
Other than, he has been doing well.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
A @ beginning of 21 months
Seems like it has been while that I updated... but here are some major highlights
A continues to be a good eater. Favorite breakfast right now- yogurt. He's been eating yogurt for breakfast 3 days in a row now.
His speech consists quite a few 2 words phrases- help me, what happend? bless you!, hao-chi (yummy in Chinese), etc. He likes to imitate different sounds and different gestures. His older brother is really good at making him copy. Those two have a good time together.
I started potty training him and so far so good. As long as I ask him to go potty, if he wants, he will go and if not he will tell me "no". Accidents only happen when I leave him with the older kids or I'm busy. Sometimes, he will say, "poop poop" but it will have already be a little late and he will have wet himself but then he will sit on potty and there will be more pee. He calls everything poop regardless. I got him underwear but is little thicker in the key area. He is def. aware, and when he goes, he will smile and say, "did it".
I was reading Montessori info and from that I got the idea to take his mattress out of his crib and lay it on the ground. So now he sleeps on the mattress in the room and when he wakes up, he just comes out to look for me. I was surprised there was hardly any resistance and most of the time he lies there and does not leave the mattress. A few times, he was not sleepy or he napped in the car, then he whines and rolls around and peeks at me. There is a recliner right next to his mattress.
He loves this play place (JJ) in the area that is really designed up 2 and up. So I have to follow him and prop him up in certain places. But mostly he does it by himself and can find ways to come down by himself. I was little surprised he is not afraid of the tunnel, twisted slides. There is also this huge slide and he has figured out to slide down on his stomach to slow it down. A also loves story time. He can sit and concentrates and follow what the teacher does, esp when it comes to movement. This last time, I was able to sit on a chair and just enjoy watching him.
A also loves any kind of "practical work". He takes off his coat, shoes off by himself. He helps brother with unloading of the dishes. His favorite is playing water in the sink, and washing the grapes. He even helped me cracked few eggs. And of course, he is really good at turning on my smart phone and go to camera to watch videos of himself. And he LOVES my ipad. He watches some Chinese cartoons off of youtube.
He is still very wary of strangers and we have not had too much success at dropping him of at church. So hopefully that will improve with time. Though at MOPS, he has stayed for 3X. This last time, he was actually playing with a volunteer and she seem to think he can count and asked me if I taught him to count at home so maybe.
Oh, almost forgot, A loves to kiss me now. :)) He'll hold my face and give me his sweet kisses. It really melts my heart. Sometimes, a little too much. But hey, I will take it.
The other thing is A still wakes up quite frequently around 2 or 3 in the morning. Usually he falls back to sleep pretty quickly but it will be better if he will just fall back to sleep by himself instead of coming to look for me. But overall, A is doing great and making progress.
A continues to be a good eater. Favorite breakfast right now- yogurt. He's been eating yogurt for breakfast 3 days in a row now.
His speech consists quite a few 2 words phrases- help me, what happend? bless you!, hao-chi (yummy in Chinese), etc. He likes to imitate different sounds and different gestures. His older brother is really good at making him copy. Those two have a good time together.
I started potty training him and so far so good. As long as I ask him to go potty, if he wants, he will go and if not he will tell me "no". Accidents only happen when I leave him with the older kids or I'm busy. Sometimes, he will say, "poop poop" but it will have already be a little late and he will have wet himself but then he will sit on potty and there will be more pee. He calls everything poop regardless. I got him underwear but is little thicker in the key area. He is def. aware, and when he goes, he will smile and say, "did it".
I was reading Montessori info and from that I got the idea to take his mattress out of his crib and lay it on the ground. So now he sleeps on the mattress in the room and when he wakes up, he just comes out to look for me. I was surprised there was hardly any resistance and most of the time he lies there and does not leave the mattress. A few times, he was not sleepy or he napped in the car, then he whines and rolls around and peeks at me. There is a recliner right next to his mattress.
He loves this play place (JJ) in the area that is really designed up 2 and up. So I have to follow him and prop him up in certain places. But mostly he does it by himself and can find ways to come down by himself. I was little surprised he is not afraid of the tunnel, twisted slides. There is also this huge slide and he has figured out to slide down on his stomach to slow it down. A also loves story time. He can sit and concentrates and follow what the teacher does, esp when it comes to movement. This last time, I was able to sit on a chair and just enjoy watching him.
A also loves any kind of "practical work". He takes off his coat, shoes off by himself. He helps brother with unloading of the dishes. His favorite is playing water in the sink, and washing the grapes. He even helped me cracked few eggs. And of course, he is really good at turning on my smart phone and go to camera to watch videos of himself. And he LOVES my ipad. He watches some Chinese cartoons off of youtube.
He is still very wary of strangers and we have not had too much success at dropping him of at church. So hopefully that will improve with time. Though at MOPS, he has stayed for 3X. This last time, he was actually playing with a volunteer and she seem to think he can count and asked me if I taught him to count at home so maybe.
Oh, almost forgot, A loves to kiss me now. :)) He'll hold my face and give me his sweet kisses. It really melts my heart. Sometimes, a little too much. But hey, I will take it.
The other thing is A still wakes up quite frequently around 2 or 3 in the morning. Usually he falls back to sleep pretty quickly but it will be better if he will just fall back to sleep by himself instead of coming to look for me. But overall, A is doing great and making progress.
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