All About Bryan and Dylan

So what happened in the last 1 week..

1. We took Dylan out for his first “official” outing. The visits to the PD don’t count la. This is the first one,..and it is for my dad’s birthday. We went out for a nice lunch at the restaurant with my parents, sis and bil.

How did it went? Errr…let’s say it is not something that I will want to do often. Why? Dylan do not want to sleep in the stroller. So 1/3 of the time, I was holding him in my arms. 1/3 in hubby’s arms. The remaining 1/3, breastfed in my arms. Yeah, this little buddy wants to be bf all the time.

And being a 2nd time bfg mom, I had “mastered” the arts of bfg in public. I had bf him countless times while waiting for his turn at the PD’s clinic. So I bf him at the table while continue to have my lunch. In the process, I also mastered the art of eating with my left hand, when I am bfg Dylan on my right. Dylan, don’t u think your mommy is cool?

2. We’ve survived 2 separate nights without my parents help. If you remember, my mom has been helping me to tuck Bryan to bed and accompany him during sleep. With them not around….both hubb and I had sleepless night.

Tucking Bryan to bed is not a problem. Once I made sure that Dylan is fully fed, I can tuck Bryan to bed. The problem is Bryan need someone to accompany him and he doesn’t want hubb. He want ME!

So poor mummy ended up have to scurry between 2 rooms. My 2 kids do not sleep in the same room as I do not want either of them to affect the other’s sleep. But when Dylan is older, I would prefer both of them to sleep together - brothers bonding mah…

Thus, when Bryan cries, i will quickly run over to his room - on the condition that Dylan is asleep or have been fed. If Dylan has been fed but still awake, I will leave it to hubb to lull him back to sleep - and this is not easy coz Dylan loves being bf to sleep.

First night, first few times was OK. Bryan and Dylan had different timing. But at 6am, just as i was feeding Dylan, Bryan woke up and asked for mommy. I can’t go over, so hubb went over. And Bryan does not want to go back to sleep. Hubb asked if he wants milk, and he said yes. So they went downstairs, and in the end, Bryan had his milk while watching children’s programs on Youtube! He was still watching Youtube when I went down at 8am. He only stopped watching Youtube around 11am-ish when i took him over to my fren/ neighbour’s house to play. Luckily my fren called me that morning and asked me if I had time to take Bryan over to play as her daughter wanted to play in the pool. I quickly say “Yes” as I have no idea how to drag him away from the laptop.

Second night - Dylan and Bryan’s timing are well synchronized. Both did not wake up at the same time, but mommy still need to scurry between 2 rooms. And I could not sleep in peace as I am in a half-asleep alert mode so that I can hear my other child crying for me. Luckily hubb helped with the nappy changing for Dylan. I just can’t wait for Bryan to be able to sleep and go to the toilet by himself and for Dylan to grow up so that he can start sharing Bryan’s room.

3. Hubb is getting pretty good at taking Bryan out by himself. This morning, he took Bryan out to the new housing project for a look-see, then for a haircut, lunch at McDonalds (Bryan will only agree to a haircut if he gets McD afterwards) and finally shopping at Tesco. All these activities wore him out and he fell asleep in the car on the way back.

Next week, I suggested hubb to take Bryan to the aquarium or to the airport to watch some planes take off and land…or maybe to the park for more running (need to tire out this active boy).