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What I had in mind was to let Zylan communicate with other babies his age instead of facing adults who immitate silly expressions and baby talks to get his attention all day.
So we heard about this, but not sure what the classes are like.We finally made up our minds to just go for it! Sunday's session for Level 2 (6-10 months) was at 2.50pm.
But due to bad planning we had the maid over to clean the place at 12ish. Sadly only by 2.30pm I managed to get everyone out of the house and get going. And 5min later, Zylan fell asleep in the car. So I told Daddy not to rush as he was already sleeping, but someone ticked him off by tail-gating him so we ended up reaching Bangsar in less than 15min. Hai..
Spent a good 10min trying to look for a park while waiting for Zylan to wake up. We parked the car finally but he was still asleep. Poor baby was awoken by the busy traffic at the parking lot. So we hurriedly got him out of the car and headed to the place. Since we were late, we just thought of going to see what the classes were like.
Zylan didn't seem to have any interest as he was still rather sleepy. Poor thing :-( So we decided to come back the week after for a trial class. We thought maybe going for the earlier 11.15am session might help to avoid clashing with his nap time.
So the following Sat, as usual bad planning, we left the house late about 10.55am and again(!) Zylan fell asleep in the car. I had to wake up him when we arrived and he was not at all happy about it. Looks like he's got mummy's sleeping ethics.
When we got there, the class just started so we hurriedly joined in. Throughout the class, Zylan was being an observer. He wasn't all too keen on the activities and gave very limited response. All because he was tired and sleepy. There were 15babies altogether with their parents at the class and it was extremely crowded. Everytime there was a new activity, most parents will rush their baby up the front to be the first in line. Damn KS!! And before we even got a chance to get close to the setup to let Zylan have a try, the instructor was already packing up and moving on to the next activity. And there goes all the KS parents crowding the area of the new setup again!
That really did put me off and I was quite certain I wouldn't come back here again.
Once in awhile they will come up and start calling Zylan's name. By the end of it, we knew why. She just wanted us to sign up for the 1 yr package. Once the class was over, Zylan gave an extremely big *YAWN*. We told her we need to think about it especially when the timings are bad and classes are so crowded. She wasn't too pleased and started to lose interest in persuading us to sign up.
So overall, they won't get my recommendation for sure. Way too commercialized and I just can't stand the big time KS parents. Also there is no personal touch from instructor i.e. instructor doesn't spend one-on-one time with baby.
But it was surely an experience for me. Interesting enough, we also met some of the parents that went for the same pre-natal classes as us.
Anyhow, the hunt for playgroup continues...
Weekdays we don't get to spend much time with Zylan. By the time we pick him up, we have to rush home, have a quick dinner and then get him changed and put him to sleep. Once it gets dark, Zylan will start feeling sleepy and he will be very cranky in the car and it would be challenging to get him changed.
So weekends are the only time we get to play with him, if we have enough energy that is. Usually I try to nap whenever Zylan naps to recharge my batteries. But sometimes even before I fall asleep, he's already done with his nap. That's his Power Nap.
Now that Zylan is older, he begins to be more interested in things around him. Especially when we are back home before dark, he would stare at the playground in front of our house which is usually full of older children during the evenings. So it's really such a poor thing to keep him indoors all the time.
So Sat morning, Zylan woke us up early and it was a cloudy day. We decided we should bring him to the park.
When we arrived at the park, the sun was already coming out. Daddy equipped with his camera, pushing the stroller with Zylan in it.
There's my little darling, smiling for the camera even though he wasn't all too cheery the whole time.
Zylan looking curiously, waiting to go home.
Daddy trying hard to get a good shot of the fountain.
Zylan getting angry here, making a fuss now and then. So we decided we should go home and come back another day.
We were at the park again the following week, and Zylan made even more noise. Looking very sad here. Tired, maybe?
Daddy trying to cheer him up abit.
Finally managing a little smile.
After that, Daddy carried him while we were walking back towards the entrance and he was feeling abit more cheered up.
I guess he is just feeling a little lonely in the stroller and maybe he's not liking the view from sitting position in the stroller.
The boys having a heart-to-heart talk on the bed :-p
The very rare moments of conversation with Zylan. Catch his little tummy here, looks like he's quite bloated.
Tonight has finally brought me the rewards from many months (8months, 2weeks and 5days to be exact) of my effort in taking care of Zylan. He has finally responded by showing that he is attached to me. It is an EXtremely rewarding feeling knowing that he needs me to comfort him :-D
When we dropped him off at my in-laws' the following morning, he cried in refusal the first time I passed him over to my MIL.
Although surprised and touched by his actions, I quickly gave him a kiss and left hurriedly with a heavy heart. Coincidentally a couple days back, I just read that you should never prolong the good byes if your child has separation anxiety (not that I think Zylan has), but this is also to avoid confusing him further.
We arrived early at my in-laws' one day to pick him up and I didn't go up to carry him. He glared at me the whole time with an angry face until I went up to carry him, only then he gave me a smile.
He would look for me especially when it's bedtime and wants me to feed him and put him to sleep. Can't confirm exactly if that's the reason why many times when Daddy tries to put him to bed, he would end up not sleeping. Even after over an hour, when I go up to check on them, I would find him eyes all red, extremely tired and still roaming around the bed, having exhausted my resource (i.e. Daddy). It's as tho he is waiting for me to come upstairs to put him to bed :-p
But at the same time, it has also sparked worry in me that he will not be able to sleep if someone else put him to bed let alone sleep on his own. So since then I have been slowly encouraging Daddy to take part in his bedtime routine which sometimes comes in the form of me nagging at Daddy for not helping me out. Daddy would pick putting Zylan to bed over washing and sterilizing the bottles :-p Fair enough.
By doing so, it also brought on a lot of mixed feelings in me. On one hand I want to let him get used to Daddy putting him to sleep and at the same time I want to continue to comfort him like I used to. And when he cries looking for me, it's a nasty feeling not attending to him and leaving him to try and accept comfort of someone else.
But as I try to constantly remind myself, this is for the best for all of us, I should try to let things go and just relax! Hopefully in time to come I will be able to graciously accept the fact when Zylan no longer rely solely on me to comfort him.
Even way before Zylan starting teething, he was already putting everything he could get his hands on, right into his mouth. Usually his fingers, not sure if it's easy access.
Sometimes you catch him with almost his whole fist inside the mouth.
When Zylan finally managed to reach his feet there was more exploration for him.
When he learned how to stand up, he started biting at the cot bars. Happily chewing away here.
Move aside banana...
He rather have a go at the container cover than to eat the banana I cut up for him.
When he was actually teething, he started to drool more and he starts grabbing things from you to put into his mouth. He would grab our hands and bite our fingers when we play with him, he would bite your arms when you are lying next to him, he chunks at your shoulders when you carry him. And when he chews at his toys for some time, he gets frustrated and starts to fuss, jabber and later screams! Sometimes it's quite funny really.
The not so funny bit is that I realised that he had actually grated the paint off the cot. And there are tiny patches of paintless spots on the cot bars :-( Hopefully he didn't swallow too much of it.
Here he is biting at the trumpet toy. This is a funny toy, cos it actually speaks spanish as well.
Anyways, story is one day while cleaning his toy, I noticed that he actually scraped the orange paint off :-O So I have to keep close watch whenever he is playing with it.
Then the few days when he was teething, he felt rather warm, he didn't have much appetite, he poo poo-ed more often than usual and he couldn't sleep well. Poor thing. I hope it won't happen everytime a new tooth comes, cause that's what happened for the first two.
I tried taking a picture of the tiny pearly whites but it's really hard to get him to open his mouth and show them. He would have his tongue out waiting to lick or bite at something, or he would be laughing so hard that I can't get a good picture.
That's the best Mummy got so far. Will try again when more pearly whites appear.
