Just realised my last blog was 2 weeks ago. Last weekend I agreed to replace a colleague who could not go to the company's 5km run/walk at W Coast Park & I planned to bring Dylan along to walk. But his temperature was quite high so I went alone since I've committed to it. Surprisingly despite my lack of practice & walking the 4th km, our team of 4 won 3rd place for HarbourFront with 117mins (the top team from the Refinery took only 82 mins!). Still it's an unexpected victory for us! But my legs (esp. left knee with old injury) ached for days.
Anyway, thankfully, Dylan though warm, was still active, but I decided to go easy on him. Of course no weekly swim too! By Sunday 23 Sep, he seemed well & I brought him to church, then to my mom's place via MRT- he was so active throughout the journey (tough as it was quite crowded), then on arrival was following his 8year old cousin's lead to climb repeatedly on a spring mattress which is leaning against the wall. Although he's mostly concentrating on just getting up /down /staying there, I noticed occasionally he would pause and look at his cousin.
At the playground, he also did not respond to his cousin's games which require him to freeze & play catch etc. But he was keen to follow his cousin to climb up the exercise bars etc. After lots of exertion, he finally slept while I pushed him around the small park. After he woke from his nap and it's dinnertime, unfortunately he saw mooncakes and ate very little rice but kept going for the sweet stuff. He also didn't initiate going to my Dad (which he usually does) when he came home.
Throughout last week, the teacher reported him to sit & attend well, and one day even self-fed a bowl of fried rice with spoon! I'm so pleased!
Friday evening there was lantern festival party at St Gerard's but he didn't want to finish climbing the flight of stairs (130+steps) that leads up to the school but cried wanting to be carried, but I didn't agree to do so or let Mel carry him. He cried for more than 30 mins, even after we arrived. Though he calmed down earlier & looked at the sparklers & swung his lantern, he only became a happy camper after we went to have some food & he went for the coloured snow-skinned mooncakes which he & other children made. Thankfully, he ate other food too. But as we took a ride home in someone's car & it was quite crammed, he fussed quite a bit & pushed his schoolmate's elder brother.
29 Sep Saturday School Outing to the Zoo
Dylan slept late (past midnight) & woke really early (5am) so he slept less than 5 hours in the night leading up to the zoo outing. We're not sure but believe he was too excited about it. By the time he ate breakfast & we were about to set off, he almost snoozed but was kept awake. At the zoo, it was clear he might not be able to walk all that distance, so after starting out, I decided to turn back to rent one of those 2 seater wagons. But before we got it, he tried to climb the railing overlooking the "crocodile river" where he was fascinated by the waterfall & lo & behold, he dropped his chewy tube. I was not expecting that it could be retrieved but reported it so as to avoid any issues for the croc. But surprisingly, the park rangers managed to use a net to fish it out before any crocodile choked on it.
Anyway, he was very happy to get to travel (in style) in the wagon, but he took out the bags I put in it as he wanted the wagon all by himself, so he could move from the forward-facing seat to the opposite side & he also moved the seat cover up & down to experiment. Interestingly, on the return journey, when a former classmate (who used to have OT with him) joined in, he had no issues with it & appeared very keen with the company of his little friend & kept looking at the kid. They were both tired but figured out someway to both place their feet across the other's side, without problems. I'm happy to see this.
But there were also things I wasn't so pleased with - while I have no issues with his enjoyment at the waterplay area, he again did his nudist stint again & removed his swimming costume various times. Later, I watched him much more closely & whenever I saw him trying to unzip, I called his name sternly, then I would see him zipping back up. But he still tries. Later, after he's changed & I brought him into the ballroom, he really enjoyed himself climbing on to the side, and jumping right in repeatedly. At one time, a woman leant over and was in his way & to my shock, he simply reached for the woman's hair & pulled her back to clear his path. The woman was furious & told him he's rude etc. but he was oblivious & merrily went on his jumping game. I had to apologise profusely. Really wonder when he'll have the awareness, even in times of great excitement, to be mindful of how others feel?
On Sunday, as Juergen has just moved office to the new campus in River Valley, after Dylan's nap, he brought us to the place to show us around. The place still had work in progress + boxes & doors/partitions all over so Dylan couldn't run on his own. While he tries to explore (eg. pulling me into a room or another), he was fine with my keeping him closely in tow, and cooperated on going to the toilet & even though he was interested to explore the long grass, he accepted the limits I imposed not to do so due to concerns for snakes etc. but kept to the concrete path. He also walked nicely with us to the Great World City for dinner.
At the Japanese restaurant however, as my food order for Dylan was missed and it took very long to arrive, Dylan was standing up on the bench looking over the next table, and he was really fast, got down from the bench, went over & grabbed some cold noodles right off a lady's plate. She was taken by surprise and let out "Ah!" and again I had to apologise profusely. I held his hand very angrily and told him "No! You cannot steal food & cannot eat stolen food! Mommy is angry with what you do!" Then aside, I removed the noodles from his fists & told him I have to punish him. Then I held out his hand & hit his palm twice, the first time he was still smiling, but later he looked more unsure. I kept a very stern face. He didn't try to eat the strands of noodles I placed in a plate on our table. Hope this has a positive impact on him.
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