Growth & Appearance:
Your face still has the softness
of the baby/toddler years, but your height is the contrast to this. I got asked
yesterday, by a stranger, if I was doing home schooling, or the no schooling
approach. I replied that since school was still a few years away I had not
thought it through. She was shocked at the fact you were only three and a half,
as you were the same eight as her five year old son.
Yup, you are tall, but still
super lean.
Eating:
Like all kids, well I think
most kids, you go through fussy stages. But I have never been worried as I know
it will pass. What I find funny, is of late you like you drinks in shot
glasses. Yes, I know this is odd, but I used them once, as a bribe to get you
to eat your dinner and now it is your 'thing'. Three shot glasses of half juice/half
water, plus three shot glasses of ribena.
Talking:
Your speech and understanding.
Over the last few months the way you process information is showing such
maturing. I certainly makes life easy, for when we explain the reasoning behind
something, you grasp it and turn it around with a question for us.
Your counting, and days of
the week has also improved out of sight. You asked me this morning what day it
was and when I replied 'Thursday', you then said "home from work before my
nap". Yes gorgeous, today is my half day at work.
I would like to say your
Cantonese is/has improved, especially since your grandparents stayed here for
the month of May. However, you claimed " MaMa speak funny", and when
she called you by your Cantonese name you kept correcting her all telling her
your real name.
Sleeping:
After the month of May with
you being super sick and waking up several times a night, I am so very grateful
that you still like to have a day sleep, on average two hours, plus go to bed
really easily...most nights. The reverting back to waking is so draining, reminded
me of the first two or more years of your life. Fingers crossed, please please
go back to sleeping through the night.
(This is your 'zombie monster kiss face') Also the face I like to pull when you do not sleep through the night.
Development:
I wonder if your maturity has
to do with the role you have taken on with Chester ? Now that we have been looking after Chester during the day
when Tamika works. Being an uncle has made you behave so much older. You are Chester 's protector. you
are also a little stresser, like your Mummum, around Chester . He has to be buckled in the car seat
first, you then like to check his buckle. He has to be strapped in shopping trolleys,
at the slightest cry you are yelling out to me to take notice.
I think with Chester around it is teaching you to share
and be a little more patient. Which I think is a good thing. Plus, I know you
like having him here as you often question why he cannot stay here, Saying he
does not have to go home.
Favourites:
I think your favourites have
stayed steady for awhile now. You love going to the movies, you ask at least
once a week if we can go. You love the library. Going to the park. And Eeeworld
(Seaworld, we have six month passes).
But, you are just as happy at
home playing with your cars (you love making what you can traffic jams on the
window sills and say 'no green light'). You love helping me do anything, even
if it is making the bed, what ever I am doing you want to help. I am thinking I
am going to have to get you a sewing machine as you keep asking to use mine.
How I am thinking/Feeling:
With you being so sick the
past month, it makes me realise just how little you still are and how much of a
journey we still have together.
I often think about how funny
you are, the laugh out loud kind of funny. I wonder if you will stay this way
or change as you age. I also wonder about how gorgeously affectionate you are.
You are shy and stand offish
with most people, but the people you love. Wow! Do you love them. At night, if
I am not faced your way curled around you, of late I find you will curl around
me in our sleep becoming the 'big spoon'.
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