Kaitlyn 2 year 1 Month

Another month has passed. I am late in writing this update as I am rather exhausted due to a roller coaster of a week. A few major things happened in our family in the last month...

Anyways, onto Kaitlyn:

Now that Max's feeding problem has been corrected, I get to spend more time with Kaitlyn. Also, some unpleasant happenings in the household lead to my mother not talking to us for a couple of weeks, and I really enjoyed those couple of weeks as I took full time care of both kids and I now feel a lot more confident about my abilities as a mother. It works wonders when you are not constantly being criticised and second guessed.

I am amazed how much Kaitlyn has grown and how well she speaks and expresses herself.

I took her out and played with bubbles a couple of weeks ago, and she had so much fun just watching the bubbles fly around and chasing them. To her, it was pure wonder. She kept asking for more bubbles. :)

We go to the playground almost every morning, when Max goes down for his first nap. It's a pleasant short walk for both of us. She is a pro now on all the equipment in that playground. She is usually such a cautious little girl, but when she is there, she has absolutely no fear. She climbs on everything, goes up and down the slide in all sort of ways, asks me to push her really high on the swings. It is nice to get out of the house each day, we both get some exercise and tiring her out means she would eat better and nap a bit better.

I finally stopped her from grazing all day. She now has 3 proper meals and 2 snacks in between, plus a bottle of milk before bed. It is much better now that she is no longer constantly snacking on junk, such bad habits. She feeds herself most meals too and will sit on her chair until she finishes her meal. She even started gaining a little bit of weight!

Of course the most major thing is that she started childcare! She had 2 half days last week and did 2 full days this week. She will be going 2 full days each week from now on. She is adjusting pretty well. Each day, she cries a little when I said bye bye but generally stops quick enough. She has a bit of a fit at nap time, so we gave her a pillow to take with her, and the teachers said that she stopped crying when she got the pillow. Although she cried again when they took it away after nap time. The rest of the time, she is very quiet and well behaved. She is still not talking yet at Childcare. That will probably take a few weeks. She is eating though, which is great. She is already getting a bit of a tan LOL

She is still wonderful with Max. Although she is a bit bossy. LOL She is constantly telling Max off for sucking his fists. She helps me to take care of Max. She comes to get me if I didn't hear Max cry. Even when she is napping, she would call out, brother is crying, brother don't cry. It is so cute...

The last week she has been obsessed with counting. She is constantly counting 1 to 10 in English and Mandarin. She sometimes forgets the number 6 in English...

I finally caught her singing ABC on a video! I shall upload that one of these days. I also finished sorting the photos that are on our computer. Now just have to do the thousands that are on my parents computer... LOL The curse of digital cameras.