What has he done wrong today?

Teacher told my mum that Shawn hit another kid. Another occasion of the day, a child placed his finger onto Shawn's mouth and Shawn took a bite. I am not too sure what had happened and whether it's the same child who got hit and bitten. When the teacher saw him taking the bite, the teacher exclaimed, "Shawn!" and he did his stance and roared like a lion. The teacher asked, "Who's naughty?". Shawn replied "Teacher!"

Something must have triggered him to react that way. I hope my mum would dig up more details. When he got back, mum and I kept reminding him it's wrong to bite and hit people. I did asked him who did he beat/hit and bite, his reply was "Zhi Yang" whenever I asked. O well.... whoever it is, I hope Shawn doesn't repeat this anymore!!!

What does he say now?

1. What on earth has he learnt in school? This morning while my mum was dressing him up, he went, "Puah Chu Kang, don't pray pray!" wriggling his fingers, giggling away

2. When my mum brings out the small bowl of chili, he goes, "Papa eat chili, Ah Ma eat chili, spicy!"

3. "Go out, go out" - out of the study room, picking up his shoes getting ready to really go out

4. This morning's breakfast was oats with some bovril but he didn't seem to like it. So I asked, "Do you want cheerios?" and his answer was "Mommie get cheerios!"

5. Anything that comes out on the metal plate from the kitchen is often called crab. Be it steamed fish or prawns

6. Since he likes dinosaurs so much, YT bought a (serious/factual) dinosaur book for him. We taught him some factual stuff from the book, "Giant dinosaur eat plant, eat grass"; and there was "T-Rex eat meat"; "Bird dinosaurs fly, eat fish" (and corn, so he says). He loves browsing through this book and it seemed a must every day.

7. He requests to read "Lion King" storybook at times. Shawn says, "Baby lion cub, Simba". He sure do love whole lot of animals. His request for Madgascar2 is by these words, "Lion, lion, moon moon". Why moon, because it's a Dreamworks production.

8. I would draw a smiley sun, moon and star. He would say, "Happy sun, happy moon, happy star"

9. When asked if he is still hungry, he rubs his tummy and say, "Hungry" even though he is half way thru his meal

10. Lion King on youtube.com - Shawn says, "Watch Lion King", "Papa sit chair", "Shawn sit lap", "Lion cub coming"

Sweetie pie

Mum has been handling Shawn very well. And he has been pretty cooperative with her mending him. Meanwhile, Shawn has been quite sweet. When I asked him to sayang didi, he would come and stroke the tummy. When asked to kiss didi, he would come over and kiss didi. This morning I asked him to show didi where's the monkey (printed on the book), he brought the book over to my tummy and placed it on my tummy. Awwww isn't he sweet ? :P Not only him, Aiko has been more loving (except her barking at neighbours who walk past daily). She snuggles on my feet these days... unlike her usual bo-chap attitude...

Trial run day1

Last night we had a trial run for Shawn to sleep in the same room as my mother. For the 1st 1.5-2hrs he was playing around the room. By 9.30pm, he kind of gave up because he was tired and decided to lie down and sleep. He woke up at 4.45am and asked for milk. My mum ignored him and ask him to go back to sleep. He played for almost half an hour before going back to sleep. And he finally woke up at 7.40am. Mum also got him ready for school and sent him to school single handedly. Good job done!

Update

Shawn's got polka dotted from the Augmentin that he is taking, from head to toe. Poor kid, looking measely. Worse thing, it's itchy too! He was scratching all over. Overall he's much better and the cough has subsided, only occasional cough

Better week ahead!

Thankfully, Shawn is much much better these two days. Appetite is back and he is willing to self feed at least 1/2 a bowl on his own. Much to our relief. He's still eating porridge for his meals. Tomorrow he'll go back to school while I go back to office. I think I'm back to be under the weather... feel like I just caught a cold!

What Shawn has been saying and doing nowadays :
1. YT comes out of the bedroom, dressed up and combed his hair nicely during the weekend.
Shawn says : Papa, work, office!

2. When he wakes up from his nap and when I get YT to pick him up from the cot,
Shawn says : Bye bye fan, bye bye aircon, bye bye Ah Mi

3. One of the days when I was coughing my lungs out, while Shawn was already awake and playing in blocks in his cot, Shawn said "Ah Mi" and reached out for my hand and sayang me.

4. Last night, Shawn said, "See Di di, brother". He reached out both hands and touched my belly and sayang. He kept repeating it. Even today, he did that while he was watching Ice Age 3 (yes, again!)

5. This evening, it was getting dark. Shawn said, "No more dunder (thunder). Dark"

6. This morning, when he just woke up, Shawn said, "Piper (diaper), chou chou, change diaper." In actual fact his diaper was pretty dry. So I decided to undress him and bring him to the bathroom and I asked him to pee and he did!

7. For the past few days, he has been a little helper. He takes the diaper change mat, places it on the bed. Takes the basket and murmur, "Heavy basket". Does an inventory check by naming, "Powder, cream, Banana paste, ment (ointment), and piper (diaper) - and he unloads the whole lot of diapers and exclaimes "Empty!" and puts back the basket back to the original place. Then he would wait for his diaper change. After that we would ask him to put everything else back into the basket and he would murmur, "Heavy basket" again.

8. In order to get him to allow me use the suction to suck out his muck from the nose, my mum encouraged him by clapping his hands each time use the suction on his nose. So, now I tell him, "Green puff to get the muck dragon from your nose". Sometimes he object but most of the time when his nose is stuffy, he would allow us to do so. He goes, "Muck, puff, dragon" and lets me suck it out and I would show him the muck from his nose, he claps his hand thereafter.

Update for today

We went to Dr Khor for review today. Her 1st question to me was, "Did he merlion last nite?" I was suprised and said, "Did you expect that to happen?". And she said yes and she had expected it to happen. After 3days of medication, he did a massive one last night. Anyway, what we were glad to hear was that there's no more wheezing on the left lung. There's still some residual phelgm on the right lung. That's where it all started. So anyway, after the 3days of Prednisolone, we'll just have to continue with Bambec, Augmentin antiB and the Ventolin puff. Bambec and Ventolin makes a child more active than usual, and that drives us nuts during the day time. His appetite today is much much better. Dr advised to go back to soft food. So it's porridge and mushy food. I did not give him Rhinathiol or the extra Bambec or Ventolin tonight. Hope he'll be ok without it and we could all sleep through the night.

Shawn does this, he moves his "move many many toys" (just the soft toys, pillow and bolsters) from one end of the cot to the other, talks to them, and moves them back to the end of the bed. Then he would say "fighting" wielding the wormie around as if it's a sword. Then he would be "dancing" around the cot. He does exactly what he says, dancing, fighting and move his many many toys. Today he watched Ice Age again. He requests for mammoth and dinosaurs almost the whole day. And new word learn today, "Awesome!". And another good thing to share... Shawn said, "Chou chou" when he did his poop while we were having dinner and he continuously reminding Ah Ma to change him. We had to distract him a bit to continue on with our dinner.

Mess... Mess...

3rd day into vomitting... Yesterday he did some puke of phelgm. He puked out phelgm during his morning nap and then did a major merlion tonight. He coughed badly when he just hit sack. I managed to get YT to come by to pick him up. Seconds later, he had the vomit all over him. Luckily Mum was around and helped to clean up the mess. I had to up the dose for Bambec as Dr Khor had instructed last night should he vomit again. Anyway, I put him back to bed again, he coughed a little just now. I really hope he'll sleep through tonight.

During the daytime he is happily running around and playing. We watched Ice Age3 today and he sat quietly throughout the whole show. Well, he has mammoth and the dinosaurs to entertain him. His appetite isn't fantastic, probably from the bloat of phlegm in his tummy. Really hope this ordeal would be over soon and that everything would be back to square1. We are all tired out... drained...

Long day...

Shawn's not well, under the weather... sigh.. last night was another coughing night both from Shawn and from me. The muck started coming out this morning. Today, we saw Dr Khor again and we are back to Prednisolone, Bambec and new antiB Augmentin, and continuation of Singulair, Ventolin and Clarityne. The 1st 2 (well, at least to me), are heavy duty medic but just for 3-7days. The rest are given once a day, except for Ventolin puff 3times a day. Apparently Singulair would actually work only after 2wks upon consumption. Anyway, hope the episode of medicine consumption would end soon :(

This afternoon when we got back from the clinic, Shawn was supposed to continue his nap (intermission while getting down from the cab) but he never did. I ended up napping while he's rolling and doing what-nots in the cot and when he coughed in spasm, I woke up. Then the weather took a turn. It started raining and we could hear thunder. Shawn said, "Big, big thunder", with some correction, it became "Big, loud thunder". Then he changed topic and said this, "Go outside, paopao, milk, milk, breakfast" - at 3pm. After milk, and much conversation with him, and much coaxing, he slept and so did I again. I woke up when he had his spasm of cough again.

Shawn wasn't cooperative this evening. He refused his dinner and ate very little on his own. My mum sneaked him food while he was drinking soup. Poor kid, he probably felt very bloated from the muck on his nose and the phlegm accumulation. Anyway, later tonight, he vomited phlegm and some dinner out. Hopefully he'll sleep through the nite and not ask for breakfast at 3am! Despite the uncooperative times that we had with him on and off, he is upbeat, and didn't lose a single decimal point of weight. Meanwhile we are worn off by him and the worrying episodes of cough. I'm thankful that mum is in town this time round else I really don't know how we would be able to cope without having her around to run around house with Shawn!

Update on Shawn

We brought Shawn to Dr Khor again yesterday. He has wheezing, apparently his old cold didn't quite go away the last time. Back to the old antiB and puff. He was coughing quite badly past 2nights. Didn't have proper sleep hearing him cough and I was coughing too. So, I needed to take some hours off to replenish my sleep during the day time. Shawn's is away from school these two days, hope he'll get better soon!

Some photos taken these few days....
Pole hugger in the skytrain















Watching the uncle fix the heater yesterday

This is it... the end of our weekend

Darn... Shawn's coughing again. I'm think he probably caught it from me. I was having this stratchy throat on Thrus and almost lost my voice on Friday. Cough came in on Friday and so did Shawn's. Uggghhh!!! He was just off medication on last Sunday and there you go again! @#^&*

We stayed home during the day time and went to T3 to run around before dinner time by the toddler wasn't too keen on running. He probably had a long day and only a short nap around noon time. He saw the giant robotic fan at the departure hall. As he walked past it, he went, "Bye bye fan!". Brought him to take a ride on the sky train to T2 and we taught him to hold on to the pole with both hands while YT was on standby at the back to hold on to him in case he topples when it braked. Then we had cheesecake at Starbucks before heading home with some McDonalds for supper. On the way back, Shawn lied down on YT's lap but stayed awake. He said, "Dark, dark". We told him to stay awake so that when we get home he can shower, have his milk and then sleep. As we were reaching home, Shawn said, "Bye dark dark!". Shawn came home and knocked out within 20minutes his dose of milk. This morning, after getting out of bed, I closed the windows and let the curtains down, Shawn said, "Bye dark dark!" as he headed out of the room.

Today we had a trial run leaving mum and Shawn at home for a couple of hours. After lunch, YT and I sneaked out while mum bathed Shawn and dressed him up (for the 1st time). I had a haircut while YT had time off running around the stores checking out his gadgets. Apparently he was a good boy throughout. This certainly made my mum's life so much easier... She had spent time reading to him, playing ball with him and having afternoon tea together (his version was milk and bread). He did ask for us at the beginning and my mum told him that Papa and Mommie went downstairs for awhile. And he never asked for us anymore. Towards the end of the afternoon, he requested to watch Madagascar2. My mum didn't know how to operate the dvd player and switching it from the TV. She told him, "Ah Ma doesn't know how to operate". Shawn's answer to her was, "Try!".

Updates

Some of the commonly phrases used by Shawn :
1. Hot hot, ouch, cool down, cut cut cut, eat
2. Mommie read rabbit (asking me to read Guess How much I love You)
3. Mommie get build block (asking me to get him the Lego blocks to build)

Some new words that he caught up with :
Flower, Leaf
A-phant - it's Elephant, well, we graduated from only "phant" to A-phant! :)
Seagull - any white bird is seagull
Pal-ture - Vulture
Fire, Climb, Powder, Cream
Ants - any moving small bug on the ground are ants
Morange - Orange for REAL orange, the color and Elmo's nose
Mane - and it's lion's mane...
Tunnel - As we go into CTE, or under the flyover (so.. how do i correct that?)
Akay - Alakay/Alex the lion from Madagascar2
Lizard - pointing at the clear clean walls along the corridor
TV, CD

Our routine on weekdays, we would remind Shawn that he's going to school. But if he wants to catch the dump truck (yea, THAT dump truck + rubbish), he better not delay as the truck would just leave. So he would obey accordingly. We would take the lift and remind him that dump truck is somewhere downstairs and let's hope we'll catch a glimpse of it. As we reached ground floor, we would ask where is the dump truck and he would go ooo ooo. Of course we would hurry him to the main road to avoid the stench from the dump truck! :)

When Shawn leaves school, he now says "Bye bye crane"after waving bye bye at friends and teachers; cranes at the building site across the road.

As of yesterday...

Yesterday, one of Shawn's friend from PG was picked up by his father and went home on the stroller. He waved and said, "Bye Zhi Yang, Bye Ah Yang" to his friend yesterday. Then he said "Ah Yang stroller". Oooo yay! He said a new word!

During dinner, Shawn asked for black beans and I replied, "Today Ah Ma didn't cook black bean soup, only Chinese mustard vege soup. Tomorrow Ah Ma would cook radish soup"....ooo all his love for beans! Anyway, I gave him less portion of rice yesterday because I was thinking of giving him an avocado after his dinner. So as we were having our dinner, our dear Shawn cried out for corn, as if it's a MUST HAVE!. So I gave him a few baby corn and as I expected, he requested for Kurk (carrot). So I gave him about 1inch of carrot from the soup. Last but not least, as I had mentioned to him earlier he has an avocado waiting, he asked for the avocado and he finished the whole avocado. Then he handed me his bowl happily and asked it to be wash.

Failed miserably...

Nope, it didn't work tonight. Failed miserably. Reason being we went out of routine perhaps.. After bath, it's build block time in the cot. It's too early to put him to bed 7.45pm while we hadn't had dinner. So, took him out and he requested to sit on his highchair to play blocks while we eat dinner. After that he whined for me to pat him. YT put him into the cot and the wailing started. So I ended being called in to power him off.. Took me one hour plus to get him to sleep... duh...