Journey with You

We took Cyrus to his 15 months checkup on Wednesday. We both left work early on that day and got to the doctor’s office on time but they still let us waited for about half an hour.

Here are Cyrus’ new stats: 22lbs and 9 oz; 31 1/8 inches tall; head measured 48cm. His weight is still around 25th percentile but his height is about average now. His head is at 75th percentile, the same as last time. I was expecting him to weigh heavier since he’s been eating a lot. Despite his finicky eating habit, he is always eating or snacking. Thus I was surprised that he is still below average. I guess he is very active and burning a lot of calories! :b Even though he is physically smaller, Sharon said he is a “roughy-toughy”. He is probably one of the youngest one at the day care but he likes to play with older children and is not afraid to fight with them for a toy. He actually was put at the “time-out” because of this. I am glad Sharon told us about this and she is educating Cyrus to share.

He had his another shot of vaccine and a flu shot. We need to take him back for another booster flu shot and he will be good until next winter. In terms of regular vaccines, he’s all up to date and won’t need another one until age 4. Whew! That is a relief to me.

We talked about his language skills. Though he hasn’t said many words, Dr. Schenk said he wasn’t worried. He though Cyrus is quite aware and social and he will eventually catch up. He gave us a suggestion of asking him to say what the thing is called before we let him have/touch the object. I am pretty casual about this but DH was a little bit concerned about his language development so he started doing what he was told, which is fine with me.
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It’s been a LONG time since I last updated here. Life has been quite crazy since I started working. I barely have time to do anything for myself. That’s just how it is for a working mom, I guess.

I feel I’ve been missing out on lots of Cyrus’ developments. Unlike before, I don’t get to spend much time with him now. He is at day care most of the day and DH picks him up late afternoon. He takes a nap in the evening and I’ll feed him dinner when he wakes up. I only get to spend the few hours in the evening with him. I love being able to make money but I also miss being with my son. I wish I could know what he does all day at day care.

He’s been responding to some of our simple commands. He will run toward me as soon as I say “Let mommy nurse you.” One night he was playing with his toy piano and I said “Let’s go to bed. It’s bed time.” He stopped and came to have me brought him to his bedroom. He also listens to command such as “Can you pick that up and give it to me?” He is definitely much better in terms of not throwing food on the floor. If he doesn’t want to eat something, he usually leaves it on the tray or hands it over to us.

I am actually pretty impressed with how much he understands even though he can’t really respond in words. Other than “lights” in Mandarin, he’s been trying to imitate what we are teaching him, such as door, light, poo, car. Most of time it’s still hard to understand his pronunciation but I am not too concerned. I am sure he will get there.
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