joy of motherhood >> 1st quarter year 2
Written by beeber on August 3, 2007 – 5:52 pm -15 months. I can’t say that I have grown as much as anZel. Well, I have grown in ways I prefer not to. I will expand on that later.
Although anZel has improved a great deal in his food consumption, he still operates on minimum food in take each day. Comparing to children his age, he eats like a bird and therefore weights like one. I believe he has finally broken the 20lb mark. Friends ask if anZel has a favorite food. Really, this child doesn’t like to eat. He eats his regular steel cut oatmeal w/fruit or yogurt, rice with veggies and chicken, milk and string cheese. These are his daily staple. While these are relatively healthy food and choices, variety isn’t in the book for us at the moment.
I have never imagined how much joy it is to see the world from my child’s eyes. Yesterday, as I strapped him into his car seat, he pointed at the door light on the roof of the car and said “light”. anZel is no Thomas Edison. Nonetheless, I can’t help but amaze at how much he understands and sees the world all around him. He pointed at an elderly man walking on the side walk and said “grandpa” this morning. You mean he can think on his own? Sometimes I have to pinch myself and ask if this is really the blob that refused to understand that we were not poisoning him with milk or food.
There are times I wish I could document every minute of his life so far. He seems to surprise all of us on a daily basis. I love to see him slowly back into the stair and sit down. Sometimes he misses and sits on the floor with a thump. He also likes to brushes his teeth with us in the morning. He asks for his toothbrush, walks to our platform bed, and slowly backs to the edge of the bed to sit while brushing. Lately, he has grown tired of what he sees at 30” level. He would ask to be held whatever possible to see what’s going on at 5’2” level. If I am lucky, he would hug me and pat me on my back after I lift him up.
anZel’s favorite thing to do lately has been opening and closing lids…equal opportunities for pots and bottles or anything with lids. If he accidentally picks up the lid with his right hand, he would put everything down on the floor neatly and pick up the lid with his left hand. I guess we have a lefty here.
One thing I am embarrassed to admit is that anZel is probably the cleanest person of the three of us. He takes after Grandma Helen. He picks up his toys before his bath (almost) every night. He has free range of the cabinets in the kitchen except the ones under the sink. Whenever he does an excavation, he puts all the content back.
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August 4th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Kyle’s eating habit is exactly the same as anzel or worse. We could never bribe him with food. he just has no interest of it. at one point, we had to feed his bottle after he fell asleep, because that was the only time he would take the bottle and finish it.
Luckily with Isaac we have much better luck, he is the opposite of kyle….
A lot of people said if you have a hard time with your first child, then your second one will be much easier and now I totally believe it! and we are not as worried about Kyle’s “feather weight” anymore as long as he is healthy and he always has tons of energy (where do they get the energy from is still a mystery….)
I’m sure your second one will be a much better eater! How are you feeling? do you have good appetite now?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
So wonderful of you to grace our site while you are recovering! We hope this one will be as well-behaved as Issac.
Sending you all warm wishes…