Pillow Phobia

We found out yesterday that Kaitlyn has pillow phobia!

She's trying to pop 2 to 4 molars (I can feel quite a number of them right under the gums), so she's been a cranky, clingy little girl for more than a week. She cries herself to sleep and everytime she wakes from a sleep cycle, she cries. So I haven't slept a full night for more than a week either.

Anyways, my father, once again, in his infinite wisdom decided, oh, let's introduce a pillow and a quilt for her, because she NEEDS them. Apparently he thinks it stunts her growth without a pillow and a quilt. It's the "unwrapping" saga all over again... (for those who doesn't know, check this blog out). After a week of him nagging non-stop, I gave her a pillow. Lo-and-behold... One night after sleeping with a pillow, Kaitlyn refuses to even go into her cot. Everytime I put her in her cot, she screams bloody murder, with real big drops of tears and everything. So we took out the pillow, and she's fine again. She definitely didn't like her pillow.

Moral of the story? I wish my parents will just butt out on how to raise MY daughter. They had their chance with their daughter, i.e. me. They may not like the way their daughter had turned out, but it's no reason to try to force their ways on how I should raise MY daughter. /shrug.

I need to get my Master Degree done, and pop the second baby out as soon as possible, so we could get out of their house...

Kaitlyn's Vocabulary and Other development, at almost 14 months

Kaitlyn says the following words and knows the meaning (pointing to the right person/thing)

	English	Mandarin	Cantonese
Mum	√	√	√
Dad	√	√	√
Grandma	√	√	√
Grandpa	√
Cat	√	√	√
Dog	√
This		√
That		√
Full		√
Flower	√	√
Melon		√	√
Car		√
Hat		√
Horse		√	√
Here		√
There		√
Milk		√	√
Food			√
Bath Time	√
Bed	√
Book	√
Picture	√
Rabbit	√
Button	√
Tummy		√
Ball	√
Doll		√
Sock	√	√
Duck	√
Bear	√
Pat	√
Light		√	√
Bear	√
Quack	√
Woof	√
Meow	√

Here are the extra words she understands and responds correctly consistently in English:

In, Out, Up, Down, Open, Close, Sit, Come, block, Give, hug, kiss, Bye bye, Hi, Where is…, Are you…? Do you want or ?

She can correctly point out:

Nose, Mouth, Eyes, Ears, Hair, Foot, Hands, Fingers, Tummy, tongue, mouse, block

She also:

Blows kisses, does the “metal Horn”, points at objects that we ask her about, opens and closes her hands when I sing “twinkle twinkle little star”, dances, climbs on everything. At meal time, she drops what she’s doing and comes to the high chair, and climbs on it. At bed time or bath time, she drops whatever she’s doing and comes to the person taking her to bath/bed, and waves good bye to everyone in the room.

She just started to actually using the remote controls. She turns on the cd player, and can fast forward songs that she doesn’t like. She also turns on the dvd player and opens the dvd tray. She turned on the computer today too. My kid is a geek…

I know I probably think of some other things soon as I finish this blog. Ah well, will update next month if I miss anything. Oh, her current weight is 8.6kg (not much improvement still) and she is cutting a molar VERY slowly.

Stay at Home Mummy for a week

So I've been home for 4 days straight now and I feel like I could get used to this whole "Stay at home mum" routine. It is however, still more exhausting, being home taking care of Kaitlyn than being at work. Kaitlyn has pretty predictable schedules which is a good thing. The whole changing from Day Light Saving messed her schedule up a little. She gets so cranky and tired an hour before she should go nap or bed. I feel so mean keep her up but I am not used to having her going to sleep by 7pm and fully up by 7am either... so hopefully she will adjust in a few days.

I haven't had a chance to do the 13 months update. Kaitlyn hasn't put on any weight, again. As the doc didn't seem worried, I am going to TRY to not be too worried either. I did get a specialist referral for her eyes as I still think they are crossed at times. She's gotten taller, but it's been impossible to get her to lie or stand still to take measurements. Her pants are all looking shorter on her. She's walking on her own a lot more now and today she even walked on her own with socks on!! This is the first time she didn't try to pull the socks off. She still only has 5 teeth although she's been chewing and biting things a lot. She's saying more words and expresses herself quite well. We pretty much know what she wants most of the time.

We took some photos... but as usual, they are not sorted. :( I have hundreds to sort... but I just never seem to have time for some strange reason...