Journey with You

Cyrus is 16 months now and he’s been at the day care for 3 months. Time seems to go so fast especially when I am so busy at work. I definitely don’t spend as much time being with Cyrus as the time I was a stay home mom.

I love my job and I love being a professional and making money. I love being able to spend some money on myself and don’t need to feel guilty. But I do realize everything comes with a price. I also realize that no job is harder than being a stay home mom: no pay and 24/7. I truly admire people like Alice who is willing to give up everything for her children. Their children are really lucky!

The price we pay for me to go to work is less sleep for Cyrus, less time with mom and dad, and more sickness. For the past three months, Cyrus has been mildly sick, such as a running nose, for about 2/3 of the time. It’s getting really maddening. He’s had ear infection twice. The first time it went away pretty quickly but the second time wasn’t as easy. He was so tired and cranky at the day care that Sharon needed to call us. DH took him to the doctor and stayed at home with him for two days. It didn’t get worse so we didn’t give him any medication but staying at home and being with his dad seemed to help A LOT.

That’s it. Children get sick more easily not just because of the germs they are exposed to but also because they don’t get as much care and attention from their parents. Children need to be loved and be around their parents. Realizing this I am so glad I decided to stay home with him for the first year!
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I’m so behind again. I don’t want this place to be updated only once a month.

Cyrus is doing great. He’s been learning to say words very aggressively lately. Here is a little list of words he says or repeats after us:

1. lights in Mandarin
2. poo
3. toe
4. car
5. banana
6. dog

It’s really cool to see him learning to speak. Can’t wait when he can made a sentence.

Other than that, not much new actually. The winter has officially arrived and we haven’t gone out much. We did manage to get a new flat screen HDTV. It’s so nice to be able to see programs clearly. We also got a new Christmas tree. Unfortunately it only comes with clear lights.

Cyrus accidentally bit his tongue at the day care a week ago. It looked kind of bad in the beginning but it healed pretty quickly. Whew!

He’s eating much better now. I’ve made some pork patties with puree cauliflower and he ate it. He also feeds himself puree carrots. Not too crazy about puree zucchini. I may need to cook them into the next batch of patties I’m going to make. He also eats fish sticks and chicken nuggets. I hope it will only get better and better.

We had a couple inches of snow over the weekend. DH took him out while he shoveled the snow. He loved playing with snow. The next door neighbor’s children made a snowman and I got to take a picture of Cyrus standing next the snowman.