Journey with You

Time really goes faster than blinking once you have a child. Amazing.

Some reflections on how I’ve been doing for the past 24 months. There is a lot of try-and-error and they are all worth being written down. Here are a list of things that I would do again when we have another child and things that I am hoping to do differently.
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Just a few days before Cyrus’ two year birthday, DH and I decided to throw a little party for him. It’s a good excuse to see friends too. With only two days notice, we had a pretty good turn out at the party. Not too many people but everybody had a great time! A few of our friends have children too so not only grownups had a great time, so did kids.

Though all children at the party were much older than Cyrus, he was happy just running after them and shouted and screamed. The party went on until midnight and he stayed up with everyone else. He started getting cranky as soon as the party was over. Looks like he is a party animal and likes crowds!

Love wrestling with other children, big or small.

Unlike last year, I ordered a cake from the store this time. I had them put in fresh fruit fillings and it turned our really good.

Make a wish, Cyrus!
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Cyrus used to only say “all done” when he doesn’t want something and would point at things that he wanted and said “this”.

For the past few weeks, he’s started to give out more specific demands/orders:

Mama jog. Mama nap. This. That.

One day he was grabbing my hand and said “Poo. Poo.” I thought he meant he was about to poo. But he kept pulling me to another room and it turned out he pooed on the floor. We were pretty impressed that he insisted that we COMPLETELY understand what he was saying and didn’t give in. We started some small steps for toilet training. He is willing to sit on the little potty but isn’t ready to sit on it without the diaper.

I taught him to say “dark outside”. Last night we were in the bedroom and he saw the dark living room, he said “dark outside” and looked a little bit scared. I said “are you afraid?” He said “dark outside, afraid”. Hmm….I hope he won’t be afraid of the dark cause we usually turn all the lights out when we go to bed.

We had lobsters for dinner last night. I showed him the lobster and he called it “shrimp”. He loves shrimp so I offered him the lobster but he didn’t want it. I think he might be a little freaked out by it. I hope not.

First time to CN Tower. It’s quite windy and cold up there but we had a great time.

First time to the Niagara Falls. There were tons of people there and the bridge traffic was terrible. We only stayed for two hours but still paid for the whole day parking: $20. What a rip off. Cyrus wasn’t happy that he could only get to “see” the river and the falls but not being able to “touch” it.

He finally was happier when we let him down at the parking lot. He was playing with branches and got on a tree for the first time with the help from grandfather.

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Cyrus has a couple bad habits: picky at food and throwing food. We’ve been troubled by these two habits for a long time.

When my parents were visiting a couple weeks ago, they tried to correct his throwing food habit by spanking him. My observation was that he didn’t get rid of the bad habit but learned one more bad behavior: hitting people.

I wasn’t completely against spanking but DH was. He thinks “time out” is a better option. After my parents left, no one spanked him and he stopped hitting people. We’re still trying to “educate” him not to throw food but at least he is not hitting people.

His being picky at the dinner table is another really troublesome issue. Our strategy now is to go with the flow the keep introducing different variety of foods but I really run out of ideas sometimes.