Daily Activities

The past Saturday morning I had to attend to a work-related discussion & unfortunately Juergen was not feeling too well, hence Dylan did not have the physical activities that would exhaust him, so he napped late & couldn't wake in time for RDI. The session didn't go too well initially but thankfully the last segment, he got the hang of taking on his role to monitor us and putting coins into angpows. At the moment, if I slow down too much (eg. intentionally take longer to open the angpow), he may disconnect & zip off. Great activity to work on his objective & am sure he'll develop greater resilience soon. I noted Gen's advice for us to do more sender-receiver with Dylan so that we can gradually move away from having to rely on physical activities to regulate him.

In the evening, he took on his role well to take toy coins from me to keep. Nice!

Sunday we had our weekly swim & it rained after a short while of his getting in the pool, we had to wait it out. At an earlier point he had tried to run off & I brought him to sit with us for 2 minutes -I'm quite glad now he's able to sit out the time I impose. In fact, as we were then told the club rule doesn't allow us to be in the pool once the siren sounds, I'm glad he doesn't put up a fight but waited it out, wrapped in a huge towel. This is a far cry from the past when it would have been impossible to expect him to sit out for the rain to stop.

We were later able to get him to engage and take /pass a ball with Daddy, with scaffolding from me (hence not filmed). Other than the usual jumping in the pool together, I also upped the challenge & tried out walking with him to different parts of the pool prior to jumping in together & he willingly participated. It's really quite nice to see even as his feet were at the edge of the pool, that he would walk off with mommy, trusting that we will have fun together!

After the 2 1/2 hr long swimming outing (with relaxing time at the jaccuzi & sitting out the rain), he had a 3 hr nap & he woke really happy. That evening, after dinner, he took on his role to take pieces of his toy train set from Daddy to keep in the box before we went for our walk.

The last 2 nights we also had a good time - shooting some hoops at the basketball court. While initially he kept trying to run off to the playground, with some playful obstructions from me, he started to enjoy just hanging out at the court (often running around & enjoying the breeze) & even tried shooting at the hoop by placing the ball above his head (though it goes straight down), as well as passing the basketball to Daddy. He feels more comfortable to walk over & pass it into Dad's hands rather than throwing to him. And when I use a lighter ball to toss on the ground toward him, he actually managed to catch it successfully without help a couple of times. Cool!

He also enjoyed very much sitting on Dad's shoulders & tossing the ball towards the hoop, & also watching Dad/I toss.

Anyway, I'm really glad that Juergen joins us much more than before (even when he's quite tired) & I can really see Dylan enjoying his company.

On Monday, he managed without too much effort to walk from the MRT station to AAS (about 15 mins), even managing his trolley bag quite well but the return journey was more tricky as he got tired & I had to use his favourite olive cracker to lure him. Also, when we reached Tiong Bahru station & out of the gantry, he stopped mid-track (not unusual but I just wait a little ahead) and suddenly decided to abandon his bag & ran away from me. As it's rather crowded & he got out of my sight, I dashed in toward the station control from another gate, but I couldn't see him & as I dashed back out, I saw that he was running back towards where I was when he zipped off. Thank God! Also, to me, this is a good sign he realised Mommy's missing.

In school, Dylan still has wee accidents and I'm looking forward to his increased awareness & progressing in this area, which I'm confident will come.