Tyler turned 18 mths

My baby turned 18 months (1 & half yrs) 4 days ago. I can't imagine how time flies. He's gonna grow older the sooner than I can imagine... Soon he'll be off to school, then uni, then get married and have children.

I'd say he has good memory of directions, for instance, he hates Kuching Specialist Hospital (that's where his paediatrician is) so if we were to use that road to go to Supermarket or to the eating place, he gets uneasy, and most of the time, he'd cry.

Then if we were to use the road from Foochow Road to our home and cutting through Tabuan Jaya, straight away he recognizes his grandparents home. IF we do not pop by (normally we don't as the traffic is very heavy from 5pm to 7pm) he'd cry so bad.

Even visiting my parents home once a week, he can recognize the road already. I'm not sure which landmark he uses to mark the directions, but I'm very intrigue with his sense of direction at such a young age. He can even remember where I usually buy his bananas (Everise-BDC) and he'd shout out NaNa and pointing to the supermarket.

Tyler is now learning to speak, but he'll just call out word by word. He can call everyone except ME =( He knows who mummy is, as when hubby asked where mummy is, he'll start looking for me. He can call "daddy", "mah mah", "kong kong", "chek chek" and "cho cho" so perfectly, but he just refuses to call me, but he'll kiss me most of the time la =)

His love for ELMO is still so deep that every morning, as soon as he wakes up, he has to watch ELMO on dvds, he no longer wanna watch Playhouse Disney on Astro. He insisted on wearing my Elmo T-shirt as showed in the picture above. Sometimes, I'd wear this Elmo t shirt to make his behave, normally he's quite naughty and sometimes he'd purposely go against my will. However, if I wear this Elmo T-shirt, he'd be more affectionate, hugging and kissing me, actually hugging and kissing the Elmo I'm wearing. Well, what can I say, I'm hunger for his affectionate :P

That's my baby... I pray and hope that he'll grow up to be a wonderful person =)

Tyler's First play date

Tyler had his very first play date yesterday with Emma. Well, Emma is my ex-Uni lecturer's daughter. We kept in touch from time to time so now we both have kids around the same age, thus we arranged a play date for them. Tyler doesn't have any friends around his age, lucky to have met Emma, so Tyler's circle of social network wouldn't only be grown ups :)

I guess Tyler really enjoy having friends around his age, he's more settled down and playing toys together with Emma, but occasionally he would grab toys from Emma's. However, if he's around adults, he'd seek for attention and ask anyone to bring him around.

I would hope to have more play dates in future to shape Tyler to be more confident in meeting people next time.

One Sleepless Night

We had a memorable "Sleepless Night" last Monday... it all began when Tyler cried non-stop when he woke up at exactly 12.44am (my digital clock showed 0:44) So usually when he cries at night, I will transfer him from his crib to my big bed and we'll both sleep in till the next morning. However, this time, his cry was different from his normal "switching bed" cry. He cried so loud that no matter what I do, he won't stop crying till I stepped out from my bedroom. Then he'll stop for a while, as soon as I bring him back to our room, he started screamming, and this time, he won't stop at all. I knew something was wrong... He kept screamming without tearing, since he couldnt stop crying, he kept pointing to the main door and said, "there, there, there" meanning he wants to go out. So we had no choice but to bring him for a car ride. As soon as we stepped out of the house, he stopped crying. We drove along the neighbourhood, and went back once he was more relaxed. When we reached home, he started to get sressful, but we calmed him down with ELMO on the tv and hubby and I slept in the living room with ELMO on, because he refused to sleep in the bedroom. Tyler soon doze off at 2.30am, so we all slept in the living room, just like camping. Then he started to cry again at 3.45am... still the same cry, like he was scared of something, I didn't feel anything at all, but seeing him cry like that made me scared instead. So we brought him out for car ride again. This time we drove all the way to the city, bought Mac D breakfast at 4.30am then went home, this time he was sleeping while I was carrying him in the car, when we reached home, I put him to sleep in our room, which he managed to sleep till 6.30am, while hubby and I had our first early breakfast and we both didn't sleep afterthat. We just watched Desparate Housewives on DVD's. Btw, we've been watching Desparate Housewives from season 1 through season 7 in one month! Anyway, Tyler seemed better in the morning, so hubby brought him to the temple in Batu Lintang and prayed for him. Appearantly, they said there were some "supernatural" stuff that were bothering him. hiakss... but that very night, he slept all through the night.