I have a new born niece now. When I carried my niece, Lucas is actually jealous or feeling insure. The first time, he pulled my hand and wanted me to carry him as well. When I said no, he frowned and wanted to cry. He looked so pitiful!
What amazes me is how or where did he know jealousy or feeling insure. How does he know that another baby is a threat to him but not another adult. Amazing how he can piece the puzzles together.
It is interesting to observe how babies learn to talk. We speak a few baby words to Lucas since he was born. 'Nien Nien' is milk, 'pom pom' is bath, 'oii oii' is sleep, 'gai gai' is going out. And till today, he never say any of the four baby word. He said 'milk' (quite good pronouncation) when he wants his milk, and point at the door and said 'door' (emphasize on the 'r') when he wants to go out. Last week, he surprised us with his own baby word. He said spoon as 'bing bing'. Now, when he wakes up, he will say 'bing bing' and he goes to sleep holding 'bing bing' in his hand.
Potty training has been unsuccessful again. He still refused to sit on it even for seconds. I even tried to fill the potty with water and let him play with it during his bath, and he still refused.
Lucas doesn't like his hair to be cut. We tried bringing him to three different hair salons and he wails everytime without fail. Two out of the three salons did not even bother charging us. We even tried cutting his hair on our own. No one said he is cute after our 'work' - you can guess how bad the outcome was.
Lucas has completed his three months classes at Gymboree. We started looking for another playgroup for him. I wasn't that pleased with Gymboree play gym classes. It is like an indoor playground. So, we found this music class at Kindermusik. Took up the trial class and was quite impressed with the class and his new friends. Now, we signed him up for 8 classes. It is a class where the teacher will tell stories and then uses different instrument to make different sounds. Each time the teacher plays an instrument, Lucas is in full attention. When it comes to story telling, he is exploring on his own. There are another 2 boys in the class, just like Lucas. I came to my conclusion that gender also plays a part in children behaviour. Boys have little patience in passive activities. They prefer activities with movement and sound. So, now Lucas has 2 new buddies and I don't feel too bad that I spoilt him. It is the boy thing!
New year, and hence a birth of a bad habit. we have a little screamer at home. Sometimes, we call him little terror, and sometimes Lucas, the destroyer. He has definitely grown to be smarter. He knows how to scream without a drop of tear. The saga is pretty routine everyday. When we put him to sleep, he screams the minute we walk out of the room. When he gets up, he screams again the minute he did not see us. He just dislike going to sleep. It is like he will missed all the action if he goes to sleep. It has been very exhausting for us. We tried all methods thinkable - explained to him, threaten him, ignored him and nothing works. Our neighbour downstairs made a comment that he might have psychology problem and asked us to find out the root cause!! Well, it is hard to explain to someone who had no kid. Raising a child is not a science.
My new year wish is to train him to go to bed on his own - go to sleep happily and wakes up happily.
He has also grown to understand a lot, from observation. He knows how to take a piece of cloth and wipes the floor, table and door. He wants to water the plants too. Understand quite a few things we said to him:
Lucas: (singing and jumping on our bed)
Me: Lucas, go to sleep now or I will put you on your bed.
Lucas: (quickly lay down and pretend to be sleeping. A few minutes later, singing and jumping on the bed again)
Lucas: (going to throw his bottle from his high chair)
Me: Lucas ! Don't throw.
Lucas: (Threw the bottle and then looked at me) 'No more'. (Gently slap his own hand. He knew I am going to ask him to slap himself)
Lucas: (being naughty)
Me: Lucas, Mommy is not carrying you. Go play with your toys.
Lucas: (walk around the apartment and said) Daddy, no more (and gesture with his hands.)
When friends and relatives asked when are we planning our second kid, our reply is always 'We are already exhausted with one. Don't know how we can handle two'.
