Dylan’s 13 month update

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So busy lately that I haven’t had time to blog on my kiddo’s accomplishments.

Vocabulary

• “ FEESH” (FISH)
• “KAAT” (cat) or sometimes he’ll say “MEOW” when he sees a one
• “WO WO” or “DOG”when he sees the dog photo or when he spots a real dog.
• “BIRD”
• 2 weekends ago, I took him to my fren’s house and when he saw her opening the kitchen cabinet, he said, “WAAH” and then wanted to dig through her cabinet. Yeah, his fav past time is digging through mine.
• “BAHBE” (bubbles)…yup just like his brother, he loves bubbles.
• “MEI YOU” when something finishes, whether a song, a TV program or his food.
• “MAH MI” (mummy)
• “PA PA”
• “GONG GONG”
• “AUNTIE”
• “CHIEH CHIEH” – looks over our wall to our neighbor’s yard and calls for Chieh Chieh to come out & play with him
• Sings “RO, RO, RO” when he hears the Row, Row , Row Your Boat song

I just bought 2 children song’s CD – Mandarin & English and I can hear him “singing” from his car seat each time I play the CD.

He imitates what we say all the time, so I am sure that this list will get longer very soon.

Food
Abt 2 months ago, I was pretty worried cause he was eating very little, and does not attempt to self feed.
I am glad to say that my fears are cleared now. He is eating much better. Still not much of a milk drinker but prefers solid.

• He can eat a couple pcs of biscuits by himself each time. I have been procrastinating abt making my own batch of cookies for him. Sorry dear, mummy won’t be baking anymore cakes this weekend…cookies for you ok.
• Loves spicy food. We have fed him curry, chili sauce and currypuff….He loves them. He’s definitely my boy! But we dare not give him too much, scared that it might give him a tummy ache.
• He prefers crunchy stuff or food that he can chew rather than soft mushy food.
• Loves steam corn. Usually I will steam the corn on cob, then peel kernel off one by one to feed him, making sure that he gets only the soft part of the kernel.
• Eats small pcs of fruits, (apples, grapes, mangos) etc pretty well.
• Likes corn flakes, honey stars even more coz it is sweet. I don’t intentionally give it to him, but he wants some when he saw Bryan eating them.
• Actually now, he wants to eat whatever we eats. Somehow things from our plate taste better from his.
• With this boy, I am much more relaxed. Usually he gets to eat whatever Bryan eats – Goreng Pisang, pretzels, cookies, noodles, macaroni, cheese, vitagen (sips from the straw), ..

For now i am still avoiding shellfish & prawns for him…but i think he is ok with prawns. I had fed him pumpkin that has been stir fried with dried prawns. And no allergic reactions. Give it a couple more months, and I think i am ready to intro a little bit of prawns to him and see how. I think this boy has got a tougher immune system when it comes to food allergy compared to Bryan. So far *touch wood* he has never had any food allergy.  I was very careful with introducing food to Bryan, but even that he had a few episodes of mild food allergy.

When Dylan has had enuff of the food, and there’s more, he’ll feed them to me. Ya ya..feed all the leftovers to mummy….

Motor skills

• He is walking very steadily. Last weekend, for the first time, we let him walked freely in the shopping mall at Borders & Toys R Us. Either hub and I just have to tail behind him to make sure that he doesn’t get into any trouble. He loves exploring the places…touching this and that. So we can only “release” him at “child-friendly” stores.

I think my slings can now be retired… He will either sit in the stroller or we will let him walk.

• Started to learn how to run now that he has better control of his leg muscle.
• Takes his toys in and out from the basket/ container
• Able to insert a straw back into its hole (Vitagen bottle + straw)
• Dances to music

Others

• Able to drink from a straw. In fact loves to drink water from Bryan’s drinking bottle.
• Likes books because his ge-ge likes books too. Usually when I ask Bryan to bring me some books from his book shelf, he will bring at least 2 books….one for him and one for Dylan.
• Favourite toy – my kitchen cabinet. There’s one cabinet where we kept all the spare bottles of vitamins, instant noodles, etc…light stuff. So I let him play at that cabinet. Then one day when my husb wanted to get a new bottle of vitamins, he can’t find it. Found it later at the living room…thanks to Dylan la. Now husb told me to get a lock for that cabinet.

Nvm dear,..mummy will allocate a new cabinet for you to play with.

• Still loves to suck his 2 middle fingers when he is tired and sleepy…but not anymore when he is alert.