After that day's slapping on the thigh for Dylan's 4 accidents in a row (which on hindsight, I thought I over-reacted), Dylan's had 3 straight accident-free days (even through nap times). Wow & Yeah!
2 days ago, he also did something that melted my heart! The 3 of us (me, Dylan & Dad) were returning home after quite a long evening walk to a neighbourhood exercise corner at T Blangah Rise, and I could see that Dylan was very tired, so in the lift, I squatted & offered to let Dylan sit on my thigh. He tilted my head and leaned over to sniff & kiss my neck with audible smacking sounds twice! Something I often do with him! I was so thrilled as he's not really kissed me before! Rather he'd just lean over with his cheek, waiting to be kissed or alternatively lean over & let his lips land on mine, despite my many attempts to teach him by showing.
Anyway, this kept me floating for a couple of days! Really wonderful!
Regarding toileting, his most reliable way to communicate his need to go is still to touch his crotch or bringing my hand between his legs! Not so desirable & I'm not sure if my comment that "I got it, you need to wee wee! Mommy will bring you." is helpful? Perhaps I should shorten to just say "Oh! Wee wee. Dylan needs to wee wee?" Even then, there are times say he's seated at dinner & he struggles to get off his seat (no particular gesture associated with wee wee) & I'll assume perhaps he needs to wee wee (rather than that he simply wants to mess around), then bring him to release. Often he does want to clear.
Anyway, yesterday we went to Keppel Club for a swim. As usual, upon seeing the pool, he already wanted to take off his shoes, but as the pool was closed for a swimming competition, we couldn't swim there. We're quite surprised and impressed that he didn't struggle but followed us to go over to the main lobby to take a cab out of the place. Well, good behaviour doesn't get unrewarded. We proceeded to Safra Club to swim instead & he really enjoyed himself, and he was generally ready to jump in the pool with me, while Dad films. At one point, we had to wait almost half a minute as Dad was fiddling with the camera, and although he was letting out some sounds of frustration, he stayed by my side, held on to my hands & jerked them to indicate "Come on! Don't take forever!" Then we jumped in together.
We also tried out sliding down together. This proved to be more difficult to coordinate. But out of the 2 times he slid down ahead, the second time when I stopped him & tried to bring him back up, I could see he used quite a bit of effort to bring himself back up to the top, before going down with me. Nice!
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