Here's our daily routine (for daddy's leisure reading):
1) DD wakes mommy up at 6:00AM for his bottle, then falls back to sleep while listening to the "The Ugly Duckling" (醜小鴨) story on Chinese CD. It's so cute to hear him "reciting" the story with his broken Chinese through the baby monitor. I think he already knows more Chinese than I give him credit for! :) He wakes up again at 7:30 and we get ready to go to his daycare.
2) DD goes to day care from 8:00AM to 6:00PM. He is now very aware of what is going on at the daycare and would try to "tell" me what he learned during the day with his broken English.:) I am just so excited that he is learning and talking more that I am not too concerned about hearing perfect Chinese or English pronunciations right now~
3) After we get home, DD would happily eat the dinner that mommy prepares for him. DD can tell mommy's cooking is not as good as A-ma's with this confused look, but he eats it anyway (never been a picky eater.)
4) After dinner, we play together. Recently, DD started getting into puzzles... Not the difficult/tiny puzzles that mommy can't do at all. One of his Christmas gift from uncle D was a 24-piece "Dora the Explorer" puzzles (super easy for mommy:). DD was hooked, so mommy bought some more of the 12-piece wooden ones through Amazon. Now he loves them all!
5) After DD eats his fruits at 7:10PM mommy gives him a bath. DD loves playing his trains and cars in the bath for a good 20 minutes.
6) After his bath and all ready for bed, DD likes to snuggle with mommy for 5 minutes while drinking his bottle of milk, then Mommy will put him into his crib with his Elmo. Usually he asks for the Ugly Duckling" CD, but mommy prefers to playing the mono-tone Buddhist chanting for him. The boring chanting puts him to sleep in 5 minutes, so he is usually asleep by 8:00PM.
7) Sometimes DD wakes up for another bottle at 1:00Am, and mommy happily obliges, because he is growing and needs all the nutrient that he can get! :)
8) On the weekends, we do more activities such as attending the Kinder music classes, watching an hour of Elmo or Thomas, and going to the park. I am trying to start taking DD to some play dates, but weekends are usually not good play-dates time for other family. We will work on that.
The old me would have thought this routine life is so boring, but now I really enjoy watching my baby grow and be here for him when he needs me the most. I have heard that nowadays boys stops hanging out with their mommy as young as age 5!
Here are videos of DD putting together his puzzles. He looks like a serious old man when he does his puzzles, but he is so cute!!
(Dora the Explorer puzzles)
(On-the-Go wooden puzzle)
2 comments:
"I have heard that nowadays boys stops hanging out with their mommy as young as age 5!" That's my Nathan... He just turned 5 a month ago. He now loves to hang out with daddy (and my sister's hubby when we were in Taipei) much more. He wanted to sit right next to daddy on the plane, too. My baby is really growing up. I have to admit that it's me who has hard time to face the realities... Enjoy your quality time with DD.
BTW, Nathan has been into puzzles also. He and I enjoy working on those 100 pieces together. Daddy just does not have the patients at all. Good for mommy!!
Take care!!
Tung from Seoul (yes, we are back...)
Wow he does so well putting those puzzles together! Can he teach Kobi about concentration? LOL! Your schedule is amazing. If you need a break come on over to MD and we'll watch baby Shaun so you can rest:)
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