Daniel is so energetic nowadays!
Friday was a sunny day, the whole country seemed to bask in the sun. Daniel wanted to go out to play when he woke up. (We normally go to Jelly Bean on Friday morning) He started to pester me to go to playground 8am regardless i repeatedly telling him that it would be too early to go now, we meant to meet Justin and his mum at car park around 10am. But Daniel just kept whining. In the end I had to text Joanne that we'd go there early and meet them at playground. I took Daniel out 9am and arrived park 9.15. The park was very quiet apart from couple of dog walkers. Daniel paddled his tricycle along the path enthusiastically and kept telling me about the things he saw along the path 'Look... Mummy... Daffodils, daffodils, purple one...', He paddled, paddled with the push from me when it comes uphill. He paddled a long way to the playground and spent the whole morning going on slides again and again, digging sand in the sand pit... We fished playground 11.45am , Daniel and Justin paddled tricycle alongside each other back to the car park. we parted Joanne and Justin from there and I took Daniel to supermarket for a quick shopping. We backed home nearly 1.30am. Daniel had lots food at supermarket, so he skipped lunch and went out with Terry to local post office by feet. When Daniel back home, I tried to get him to nap, but he wasn't tired enough to sleep. he kept playing in the lounge. 3am he started to get a bit cranky, so I took him out for a little drive. Daniel was fast asleep once he was in the car, I drove to the Newmillerdam, which is a lake surrounded by woods and parked the car in their car park for an hour to wait Daniel wake up. While I was browsing Internet on my mobile phone Terry texted that he want to come to join us. Terry said because it was so nice and we could have a walk in the woods then have an early dinner at the nearby pub. Why not! We should make the most of the day! i said. When Terry arrived the car park in his car, Daniel already woke up with more than an hour nap, he was asking me to buy him an ice cream cone from the ice-cream van in the car park. Daniel then followed behind Terry and me along the path with the inspiration from the ice-cream. Terry held his ice-cream for him. he walked a bit, and ran to Terry to bite his ice cream. Daniel walked a long distance in this way. When his ice-cream finished. He decided to detour from the path to try tough Terrain in the woods, Daniel said 'I want to play hide-seek in the forest...' Daniel surprised me with all his physical impulse, because the terrain he chosen to climb up is actually quite steep and hard with lots of tree roots and fallen leaves, but he just decided to go independently and we had to follow him. We walked in the tough bit of the woods for another 20 minuets before we got back down to the flat path along the lake. It was a very physical day for Daniel !
After pub dinner when we got back to the car park, Terry asked Daniel 'Whose car do you want to go in? ' I said ' Don't need to ask, obviously he want to go with you!' It was true, Daniel answered without hesitation ' I want to go Daddy's car!' I drove back without Daniel and it felt like off-duty for a while and i could listen to my own CD in my car instead of Daniel's nursery rhythms. Terry said Daniel was singing at the back of his car all the way home and he slept really well that night!
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Daddy Phase
Apparently, Daniel has been going through Daddy Phase lately! Terry is Daniel's favorite parent now!
Daniel used to be so attached to me that once I leave room he would cry. But now he is so into his Daddy that he started to reject me. He has good bond with Terry, which is good, But to the extent of rejecting Mummy, is upsetting. Since he was weaned off Dummy, Daniel started want Terry to settle him to sleep instead of me, which is a task I've been doing since he was born. Two weeks ago was the worst when he started to say things like' Don't want mummy...don't want Mummy.. i want my daddy...', it was really upsetting for me , because I am the one carried him for 9 month; breastfed him for 9 months, spent last 2.5 yeas keep him fed, diapered, bathed and entertained; I'm the one looking after him the whole time, all of sudden, he seemed to forget about all these, what he wanted was just his daddy. He doesn't want me to read bed-time story for him since we backed from China, which was fine. But that day when he actually said he doesn't want me to cuddle him, I felt heartbreaking. I've cried to my Mum over the phone for an hour at midnight, and my Mum said I was silly and shouldn't take it personal.
My mum was right, I was silly, but my reaction was normal. The following day when i googled ' why toddler prefer daddy over mummy?' just in case I've done something wrong as I started to think' is this because I started to discipline Daniel?' I've found pages pages comments of Mummy saying exactly the same and had even worse situation. Also found the other way round- toddler attached to mummy too much, which upset Daddy. Most people say this just a phase, it comes and goes! Better count the blessing now when your toddler hanging on your other half's ankle and have the precious ME time. Obviously Terry enjoys his new-found (maybe not so new!) attention from Daniel and started to taking on a lot of toddler-caring stuff. For bed time routine We now have new routine. We started to jointly settle Daniel couple months ago but mainly Terry just read story.Now Terry started to co-sleeping with Daniel on alternated days. He actually settles Daniel quicker than I do now!
Daniel has co-slept with Terry on alternated days for two weeks and now he started to feel insecure about me now, he started shouting 'i want mummy...' at night when he woke up... It is true, it's just a phase.
Daniel used to be so attached to me that once I leave room he would cry. But now he is so into his Daddy that he started to reject me. He has good bond with Terry, which is good, But to the extent of rejecting Mummy, is upsetting. Since he was weaned off Dummy, Daniel started want Terry to settle him to sleep instead of me, which is a task I've been doing since he was born. Two weeks ago was the worst when he started to say things like' Don't want mummy...don't want Mummy.. i want my daddy...', it was really upsetting for me , because I am the one carried him for 9 month; breastfed him for 9 months, spent last 2.5 yeas keep him fed, diapered, bathed and entertained; I'm the one looking after him the whole time, all of sudden, he seemed to forget about all these, what he wanted was just his daddy. He doesn't want me to read bed-time story for him since we backed from China, which was fine. But that day when he actually said he doesn't want me to cuddle him, I felt heartbreaking. I've cried to my Mum over the phone for an hour at midnight, and my Mum said I was silly and shouldn't take it personal.
My mum was right, I was silly, but my reaction was normal. The following day when i googled ' why toddler prefer daddy over mummy?' just in case I've done something wrong as I started to think' is this because I started to discipline Daniel?' I've found pages pages comments of Mummy saying exactly the same and had even worse situation. Also found the other way round- toddler attached to mummy too much, which upset Daddy. Most people say this just a phase, it comes and goes! Better count the blessing now when your toddler hanging on your other half's ankle and have the precious ME time. Obviously Terry enjoys his new-found (maybe not so new!) attention from Daniel and started to taking on a lot of toddler-caring stuff. For bed time routine We now have new routine. We started to jointly settle Daniel couple months ago but mainly Terry just read story.Now Terry started to co-sleeping with Daniel on alternated days. He actually settles Daniel quicker than I do now!
Daniel has co-slept with Terry on alternated days for two weeks and now he started to feel insecure about me now, he started shouting 'i want mummy...' at night when he woke up... It is true, it's just a phase.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
I'm the Musical Man
Daniel used to love bath, he started to dislike bath time since he turned 2. Each time he heard the word 'bath', he would scream. However since last week, i changed the wording for bath as ' shall we go play bubbles in the bathroom?' and this worked very well with Daniel because he likes to play bubbles in the bath. We are thinking to get him some rainbow bubbles (multi-colors bubbles), but Daniel just got into a a new routine in the bathroom. He sings and dances in the bath tub before he eventually sit down to have his bath. Normally Daniel would sing:
'I'm the musical man, I came from down your way... I play piano... Pia...pia..piano.... Pia...pia..piano', he would jump up and down when he sang' oba... oba..obaba... oba..oba..obaba...'
Tonight is Daniel's hair-washing day, which mean Terry will come up joining us to watch Daniel as a form of support for Daniel. Daniel has already sing a few songs when Terry came in the bathroom. I said to Daniel ' come on... sing to Daddy' Daniel put both his hands behind his back as if he was on the stage, he sang through all the songs I required him to sing, he sang Baba Black Sheep; 'baba black sheep, have you have any wool? yes!..yes!.. three bags full... one for the master... one for the dame... one for the little boy who lives down the lane...' He sang Row Row boat: 'Row.. row... row your boat gently down the stream... if you see the crocodile, don't forgot to scream... Ah! (very loud)...
He also sang 'the wheel on the bus', he even sang a Chinese nursery rhythm in Chinese and Terry had to ask what that song mean. He was just so lovely!
'I'm the musical man, I came from down your way... I play piano... Pia...pia..piano.... Pia...pia..piano', he would jump up and down when he sang' oba... oba..obaba... oba..oba..obaba...'
Tonight is Daniel's hair-washing day, which mean Terry will come up joining us to watch Daniel as a form of support for Daniel. Daniel has already sing a few songs when Terry came in the bathroom. I said to Daniel ' come on... sing to Daddy' Daniel put both his hands behind his back as if he was on the stage, he sang through all the songs I required him to sing, he sang Baba Black Sheep; 'baba black sheep, have you have any wool? yes!..yes!.. three bags full... one for the master... one for the dame... one for the little boy who lives down the lane...' He sang Row Row boat: 'Row.. row... row your boat gently down the stream... if you see the crocodile, don't forgot to scream... Ah! (very loud)...
He also sang 'the wheel on the bus', he even sang a Chinese nursery rhythm in Chinese and Terry had to ask what that song mean. He was just so lovely!
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