Updates: Darrius @ 12 months

The past 2 weeks has been really chaotic and my time on the PC is so pte ltd and since I am back to my parents’s place in KL earlier this week, I have to use my dad’s virus infected PC that always auto restart…. very stressed and frustrated as everytime I wrote something the PC goes… poof! Wasted all my time typing so many lines… *sigh*

This is a very over due post which I should have posted many days back…

Our little Darrius finally celebrated his 1st birthday and it’s such a joyful time for our little family having come so far… Here are some updates on Darrius’s development:

Vital Stats

• Height: Didn’t manged to measure him but not much difference from the last time
• Weight:9.5kg (poor fellow diarrhea for 2 weeks so lost a lot of weight)

Teeth: 4 upper, 2 lower and 2 lower about to appear

Clothing size: Can still wear most of his old clothing but noticed some long pants are getting shorter

Diet: Still like to have his regular pumpkin, spinach, potato and scallops porridge but I have started to let him try a vast of other food such as cheese, yogurt, noodles, pasta, chicken meat, tofu and a bits and pieces of some unhealthy food here and there when we are eating out… He hated jars food!

Speech: Ok… not that I mind but he can call PiggyBeng “dadd” since 2 weeks back! Whenever he sees PiggyBeng’s photos he will call out “dadd” even though his daddy tried to tell him it’s ‘daddy’… well… better than donno rite? He can mumble “poh-poh” when my mom asked him to and “gong” when he sees my dad. He can also says “maah” referring to my MIL. Though he can say “maa-maa-maa-maah” but I can’t really tell if he calling me as he will only blurt out those when he’s angry or frustrated. When he sees us eating he will call out “mumm-mumm-mummmmm” extremely loud… “tham jiak-gui”… hehehe He will still make a lot of meaningless/gibberish babbles when he’s in the mood. Another thing is… he is a real screamer! His screams are really high pic… my ears will go deaf in no time ah!

Other Development

• Can crawl very fast and also can slide up and down from the bed using his butt down first
• Able to cruise when holding on to furnitures or wall
• Can stand up hands-free once in a while but need to coax him countless times
• Walk a few steps uncounciously
• Allowed me to clean his teeth during bathing time
• Clapping his hands when we said ‘pai-pai shou’
• Wave bye-bye
• Give a flying kiss (but will put his fingers in his mouth instead of pulling it away)
• Slap his laps when asked him to ‘pak-pak-pak’
• Put two of his index fingers together when asked him to ‘dim-chung-chung’
• Clapsed his hands together when told him to ‘kongsi-kongsi’

Bad Habits

• Throwing his toys out of the playpen
• Bite my nipples when I nursed him especially at night
• Stay on the breast for a long time and refused to let me pull away or else will scream his lungs out
• Chewing/biting on anything he gets his hands on
• Always pull his socks or shoes and will chew on them
• Shows his anger when I tell him ‘NO’ and will sort of like talking back
• Shows his jealousy… won’t allow me to carry other babies or kids and not wanting to share his toys with others

Intelligence

• Knows the car seat is ‘his’ seat so he will quickly want to get in there
• Know how to tease… if he’s sitting at the rear front seat with my mom and I am at the back seat, he will look over and tried teasing me… like ‘neh-neh-neh’ or peek-a-boo kinda thing or when I asked him to give his cookies to me and he will only let the cookies touch my palm and quickly retreat it into his mouth
• Knows a lot of things eg: his toys, things around the house and other stuff we taught him
• Only allowed those he recognised and ’smartly’ dressed to carry him and will scream whenever someone unfamiliar wanted to carry him

Related posts:

1. Should I wean Darrius?
2. Darrius @ his twins cousins’ Birthday party
3. Darrius’s 1st Birthday Party
4. Fast-Food??? Why must Q soooooooo long??
5. Darrius @ Air Itam Dam