Pain tolerance – Quite low

February 9, 2010 · By ·

“Don’t touch me, it hurts.” Kyle whined when dh touched his leg while sitting next to him on the bed.

K got his first scrape on his shin when he fell this evening, while hitting some golf balls downstairs with his new golf clubs. He was all teary when he came back upstairs with the graze on his leg, fussed a lot when I tried to clean the wound and placed the plaster on it. 10 minutes later, he was back downstairs running, hitting and picking up golf balls.

The whining started again when he got home and had to take his bath. After changing a fresh plaster for his wound, he started walking around the house with a limp. I asked him why he could not walk properly and he told me, “I don’t want the bandage to come out.” For the rest of the evening, he whined for help to climbing and getting down from the bed and chairs.

I nudged dh and told him, “K is quite a wuss when he is in pain. His behaviour is really quite familiar, isn’t it?”

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No more milk bottles!

February 9, 2010 · By ·

The process of weaning K off the bottle has turned out better than I expected. I tried rubbing ginger on the milk bottles’ teats the first night, but he surprised me by finishing 2 bottles of milk, complete with the ginger taste on teats, and went contentedly back to sleep. The next night, I made him go cold turkey without his night feeds and did not bother to continue with ginger on the teats. He complained for the 1st two nights, but finally gave up the fight and went back to sleep.

He is now drinking about 240ml of milk three times a day directly from a cup, and only drinks about a third of the quantity of milk that he used to. However the heartening thing is that he is less fussy when it comes to his main meals. eat

I should have realised from the start and wean him off the milk bottle much earlier. At least it would have reduce many of the battles that we had during his meal times. When I serve him his favorites like fishball, noodles (ramen especially), Chawanmushi, Xiao Long Bao, Pasta or Pizza, and he will be a co-operative tot at meal times.

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Where we going today?

February 3, 2010 · By ·

K’s first question to me on some mornings will be, “Where we going today? We have been going out so often these couple of weeks that he is always looking forward to the day’s morning activities.

We met up with his favorite friend, Seth and his mom Lay Keng this morning, and the boys had lots of fun shopping for shoes. Who ever said that only women will get a little overboard when trying out new shoes!shoe2 shoe1

K has so much energy that it is getting a little challenging to get him to take his afternoon naps. Bringing him out in the mornings really helps to expend his excess energy and maintains my ‘me time’ in the afternoons. I also found that I should cut out sweets and chocolate in his diet (Dh take note; try not eat chocolate in front of K!), as he ends up bouncing off the walls and it gets extremely hard for him to fall asleep at night.

I am beginning to think twice about starting school next year, and have been contemplating to start K with school as early as after the Mar or June holidays. Although I get a little worried that I may end up the one who will be too bored in the mornings and resort to making crazy decisions like embarking on ‘Project No.2’…

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