Lunz at 4 years and 8 months

My baby is certainly growing fast! One good thing about having children is you are able to watch them grow. Watch them as they show you all sorts of silly stuffs that could make you laugh everytime you talked about it or remember it. Kids....they are really really innocent. And they are really really cute as well. If you ever asked me what is the only thing on earth that I never regret about, I would tell you that I never regret having him in my life.

Well, here are some quick updates on my Sebastian at almost 5 years old:

Bedtime
He sleeps by his own now for almost half a year. Of course, I have to be there by his side, just to accompany him to sleep. When he has fallen to sleep, I will move back to my own room. We keep both doors of the rooms open at night. Without fail, he will wake me up every night by calling me at the door. Without fail, I always grab my bolster, pillow and blanket to his room and sleep next to him. It's more like a habit now although daddy has said countless of times that I should train him to go back to sleep by himself. It's so difficult for me to stay awake in the middle of the night just to train him. I did rather sleep together with him. Hahaha...and that's why it's a habit now.

Toilet time
He poo in the toilet bowl now without any support or help...erm....except when he is done with his business. I still need to wash his buttocks and wipe him clean. But anyway it's more convenient than the potty. At least I don't have to flush his shit from the potty which is really gross sometimes. He likes to read when he poo. So, he will tell me to fetch his books for him. Any book to his liking at that moment. It's like ordering your meal in a restaurant. Mummy, take "Minnie's Rainbow" for me or take "Are We There Yet?" for me. He knows the title of his books. We encourage him to read a book during business time earlier for training purpose. To take his mind of the new toilet bowl instead of the potty but it has became much of a habit also now. He also likes to squeeze the toothpaste on to his toothbrush (just for the sake of playing with it) but I am the one who is still brushing his teeth for him.

When he needs to pee at night, he will wake up on his own. Unless he is very very tired, then he will accidentally wet his pants but will still wake up after that because he felt uncomfortable sleeping in a wet pants. He will go to the toilet by his own, switch on the lights, pee and switch off the lights and finally tumble back to his own room to resume his sleep. Of course, he always forgets to flush.

Food
He likes all sorts of junk food like cookies, ice-creams, chocolates and cakes. He still prefers noodle than rice. He is quite picky at his food sometimes. When he saw some vegetables in his noodle, he will tell me he don't want it but occasionally I will force him to swallow it. He takes vegetable sometimes and depending on what type of vegetable. As for fruits, he is still alright with the variety of fruits available but I think he likes those that can go with salt like guava and pineapple for example. He still loves milk a lot and I don't think I will be able to throw away his bottle. Not for the time being. He drinks MILO now as well. Milk intake is still as usual, 3 times a day.

School
He is coping with his school work very well. I can't be any more proud of him. The obvious differences that I saw between last year and this year are his writing and coloring skills. He can write inside the blue line in his exercise books. I mean he doesn't know how to write in the blue line previously and we still have to hold his hand to write last year. Now, all I need to do is just to tell him that he hasn't finish his home work and he will take his home work out from his school bag and his pencil case and started to write immediately. He does every writing on his own now. I don't have to guide and monitor him or even hold his hands.

Even for coloring, he can color inside the picture now. He used to scribble colors on the pictures. I would called it scribble more to color but now he is doing everything properly. For numbers, all he need to do is one look at the picture, he will know how many there are without actually counting one by one. For example, a picture of 8 apples. One look he will know that there are 8 apples without counting the apples from 1 to 8. He even know to draw shapes especially octagon. He is able to draw an octagon with 8 sides. Silly me of course octagon has 8 sides! But he knows an octagon has 8 sides and he is able to draw one. I felt a sense of accomplishment in him. As for daddy, no regret huh for forking out RM300++ per month in average for his school fees.

Others
1. Has his own opinions most of the time. Like the opposition team.
2. Likes to play computer games. Expert in YouTube.
3. Getting cuter because during bath time today, he pinch his own fatty tummy and asked his popo, "What happened?" His popo told him, fei chai lar!
4. Like to bite his nails and peel off the skins around his fingernails.
5. Says uh-oh ki tai yo! when something unexpected happens. Like normally you will say uh-oh, but he add in ki tai yo. Where on earth he learn that from?
6. Take bolsters and beat his daddy at bedtime.
7. Very good at pretending like he accidentally bump his arm, he will say ouch ouch! where in fact it's not painful at all.
8. Like violin a lot. Daddy considers enrolling him in violin classes later because I just found out that 5 year old is too young to learn violin.
9. Did not eat the lunchbox that I packed for him to school everyday. He east the food that the school provide and will only eat from the lunchbox when he reach his popo house everyday. I have stopped giving the lunchbox to him when I found out. He doesn't have to eat from the lunchbox when he's home because he will have proper lunch. Have to monitor his weight remember?
10. Knows more Chinese words than me. *Sigh* How embarrassing!
11. More and more responsive with all sorts of cute and funny actions each day!

His handwriting. Letters written in between the blue lines. That's consider a big improvement to me as I don't need to hold his hands to write anymore and he can write in the lines.
Good job boy!