New Year, New Improvements

It's the Ox year and so far, so good. There were so much happening and I just have not time or too tired to blog. Let's start with the New Year. I was looking forward to some 'free time' by planning to spend 2 days in my parent's house on first and second day. Unfortunately, I was downed with a very bad food poisoning on the first day. I barely have any energy to walk or do anything. Dominic was busy minding Lucas so that I can get some rest. There were quite a number of children in my parent's place but Lucas refused to play with them. He just stick to us like a koala bear. There goes my wishful thinking of some 'free time'. Dominic even commented to Lucas, 'Why are you so anti-social?'. I am beginning to wonder how can I make him more sociable. What have I not done enough? I have a one year old niece who called out for Lucas each time she sees him passes by. But this boy just refused to acknowledge or even bother look at his cousin.

However, this Chinese New Year he has learned to appreciate firecrackers i.e. the 'pop-pop' and the smaller rocket. He enjoys eating cookies especially the cookies with crushed peanuts. Despite all the new findings, he still doesn't know the concept of 'angpow' though. Maybe next year...

His potty training has improved as well. He still sleeps with his diaper but he is quite alright during his waking hours. Oh..once we were doing grocery shopping in Tesco and he needed to go to the toilet. I took him to the toilet but he refused to sit on the toilet. He said 'dirty', (Malaysia is not exactly known for clean toilet anyhow). We had to rush home to prevent any accident from happening.

Diaper free....partially

We have finally made some progress in potty training Lucas. He is now able to pee on the potty during daytime. So, when he is at home and not sleeping, he is daiperless. Yes...we are getting somewhere finally.

Toilet Trained

I have given up hope trying to get Lucas to be potty trained. So, I 'graduated' to toilet training. I let him sit on his seat before his bath. He still refused to 'perform'. The minute I take him off the seat, he will 'perform' in his bath tub. I am beginning to think I should just let him take his own time. He understands that I wanted him to pee when he is on his seat but just choose not to do so. Last Sunday, while I was away indulging myself in a mall, Dominic was trying to teach Lucas to pee. Dominic puts Lucas on his seat and this was what happened:

Dominic: Lucas, this is your birdie (point at his body part) and you pee with your birdie.
Lucas: (looked down and saw his balls as well. Looked up at Dominic and said) Egg!

That was hilarious.

Baby Words

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.