Misha: 35 months plus

Looking back at the last post for Misha....Six months have past! *gulp*

I am not even going to attempt doing monthly post on all that! Who am I kidding by?! By the time I get up to speed she would be in kindergarten. So this post is gonna be a catch-up session for the past half year.

I read thru my last post and realise she has really moved on from a baby to a full blown toddler!

Schedule:
6.45am: Wake her up and send Meera to school (used to give her milk in the car but she takes ages to finish with a straw cup so most times she only gets it once we come home)
7.40 am: Milk (3.5 oz). Then we go up to change and she gets to watch I pad or TV while i get some stuff done
8.30 am: Breakfast (sometimes it's closer to 9am)
Tuesday and Friday we go to playgroup after that. Other days I try to do some tot school stuff with her. Not very consistent  though
12.00pm: Lunch (she eats on her own and sometimes can take an hour to finish!)
1.30 pm: Milk 3.5 oz. then a bit of TV
2pm: Nap. Usually asleep by 2.30pm (she will sleep until I wake her to go fetch Meera)
6pm: Dinner (she is starting to eat more of the same dinner as us. Occasionally I make her a separate dinner if she cant have what we're eating)
7.30pm: Daddy gives her a bathe. Then comes downstairs for milk (3.5 oz), a bit of TV
8pm: Daddy puts her to bed. Usually asleep by 8:30pm

Potty Training
She still wears a diaper to sleep. Most times she poops in the toilet but sometimes, especially if we are out the whole day, she might poop in her diaper after we put her to bed. Notice she doesn't like to poop outside. Our last holiday to Malacca she only pooped once in the hotel toilet during our 2 nights there. The minute we got home she almost immediately went to toilet!

Eating
For the past 2 months Misha will usually have the same dinner as us. I still make her a separate lunch or sometimes leftovers from the previous nights dinner.She eats really slowly if she feeds herself...an take up to an hour! Yet she will just sit there and plod on...never asking to get down. Right now her weight is

Sleeping
She is still sleeping in the toddler bed. I stopped putting the couch next to her bed since January and she was fine with it. Recently though, she fell off the bed during nap time. I heard her cry out and when I looked at the video cam she was on the floor. She seemed a bit dazed but after a few minutes she climbed back up and continued to sleeping. When I woke her up that day I tried to ask her about it but she didn't seem to remember falling off the bed.

Teeth Brushing
Just started letting her use the kids toothpaste (before this it was the baby one which is supposedly safe to swallow). She loves to brush her teeth especially now that she can use 'jie jie's' toothpaste. And she also gets to gargle with a cup so it's all very new and exciting for her! LOL

Squint
We had another appointment with the orthoptist in February and there was no improvement in the squint. She suggested doing some eye exercises as well as continuing with the patching and to follow up with her in six months time. She also said that if it didn't get better, Misha might have to start wearing glasses! Our next appointment is in August and sadly I don't think her eyes have improved at all.




Swimming

In May we went to Chery's house for a play date. She has a shallow pool in her house so I brought along Misha's arm floaties. Surprisingly she went in by herself and had a really good time splashing and kicking about. Nothing like our past experiences in Malacca. After that I took her to the clubhouse pool a couple of times and she had just as much fun. I guess her fear of water is finally over.

In July we went to Melacca again and this time she really enjoyed the hotel pool. She was fine going down the slides and even sat with Meera and Daddy under the water bucket!