Is Paper Nutritious?

Paper, paper, paper, paper, you like to look for paper. It could come from books, magazines, newspapers, and mail. Lina<3, you tear the papers apart, and enjoys it very much. From one sheet of paper, you tear off one piece, from that one piece of paper, you make smaller pieces. Once you get the smallest pieces, you hand over the small pieces to Mommy because Mommy does not want you to eat paper at all. It is so cute, it is like that you know that you are not suppose to be ripping the paper, so when you get to the smaller pieces of paper, you hand it over right away to Mommy (sometimes). You are also very sneaky when it comes to eating paper. When you think that Mommy is not looking at what you are doing, or Mommy does not know that you have a small piece of paper in your hand, you put it in your mouth to eat it, and leave my sight right away.  Sometimes, you put the paper in your mouth, and bite it off the paper right away. Mommy sees you eating paper, I put my finger in your mouth right away, and fish out the paper. The good thing about you eating paper is that you are not swallowing the paper (I think) and sometimes spit it out after chewing on it for a while. Mommy tells you not you to eat the paper every time, and continue to be consistent about not eating paper at all. Mommy also showed that paper is not yummy, and that paper is meant to be held in your hands to read or look at all, and not for eating.

I am not too worry about you eating paper, it would not kill you, right? Right! Mommy tries to hide paper from you, but you see everything and knows how to reach for things.

Please comment if there are any tips regarding eating paper, how to stop it, how to make paper fun for a one year old.

Your Favorite Couch

Lina<3, your favorite couch is in the living room. Every evening after dinner, and before getting your last bottle of milk for the day, you played on the couch with Daddy (sometimes, Mommy joins when there are no dishes to wash). When Mommy is not joining you on the couch with Daddy, I always hear a lot of laughter, growls (as you do like to growl), talking (which is babbles), and screaming. You love to toss from one side of the couch to the other while Daddy keep a close eye on you, so you do not fall off. Sometimes you like attempt doing a head stand, which looks like you doing a downward dog (a yoga term) and your buttocks in up in the air. Daddy loves to play with you on that couch, and tries to bite you, hug you, toss you around, tickle your belly, and make your laugh. Sometimes, the couch means story time with your board books, such as  “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?”. Other times, you play with your toys. It is so cute when you play with your toys on the couch because you like to hide them between the cracks of the couch, or behind Daddy, or me. You even hide the toys underneath your legs when you seem to run of places to hide your toys.

A Rough Wednesday Morning

My little Lina<3, you went for blood work on Wednesday. You were so anxious as you did not know what the nurses were doing to you. While sitting on Mommy’s lap, I talked to you, and told what was going on. The nurses had a very hard time trying to find your veins in your arms by patting your arms a lot (lightly, of course). I thought you were too young for them to extract blood from your arm but the nurses reassured me that you were not and they had done it before with other babies. After using a warm compress, they finally found one tiny vein in your right arm, Mommy was instructed to hold you tight against my body and let you move as little as possible, as one of the nurses stick a needle in you (Daddy hates needles and turn away right away). Yes, it was a tiny vein, blood came pouring out, and before you knew it, three tubes of blood were filled. As soon as the needle was injected, you cried out so loudly with big tears coming down your fat cheeks, and began to get squirmy but Mommy held you tight and did not let you move much. After it was done, Daddy picked you up right away, you started to cry less.  Daddy and I kissed your boo boo. Outside in the waiting area, as Mommy put your coat on, you had already stopped crying and looking around the area.

The results came in yesterday with a phone call from your doctor. From the blood work, you have some food allergies: allergic to egg whites, cow’s milk, and peanuts. That is good news, Daddy and I were concerned that you were not getting enough vitamins, and we glad that you were not anemic or have low blood cells.

The Day...

Lina<3, you had a good day today. Your scheduled included, breakfast, playtime at home, went to playground, snack time, playtime, lunch, nap time, snack time, playtime, dinner, playtime, and bedtime.

You slept in late, as you were up very early in the morning. It was nice outside with a lot of sunshine, and less wind. Therefore, it was a good to to go the playgrounds and play. You love being outside, but at the playground, it was not so much fun. First of all, there was no other children at the playgrounds for you to watch. Second, the swing was not fun after a while. Third, you cried a lot after being placed down on the ground for you to encourage you to walk around. I tried chasing you around but you did not want to move at all from where you were standing, and just wanted to cry until you were picked. Fourthly, tried sliding down the slide, but that's did not stop your fussiness. Before going home, you had some snacks, and you were less fussy.

At home, you had your lunch but did not eat much of it. Mommy had made you chopped up beans with taco seasoning in it with brown rice. It had been three days of eating the beans and rice, and still, you do not eat much of it. You do not take more than a few bites. So Mommy gave your sweet potato, pumpkin, apples, and blueberries pouch instead from Ella's Kitchen (organic food) and you ate it all, as well as sucked the pouch dry. Of course, with your meals, there is milk. After burping, it was time to sleep.

The before and after nap routine is always the same wipe down, moisturize, diaper changed (if need to), and cleaned, brush hair and teeth (if need to); and sit on the potty chair for you to urinate. You slept for two hours.

When you woke up, you had some snacks, water and then it was dinnertime after some playtime. You had curry chicken with white rice for dinner and you loved it. The entire meal was gone, and that has not happen in a while. There was little to no fussing when it come eating tonight but there was a lot of mess. You like to eat rice on your own and feed yourself.

Playtime involved you playing with everything else but your toys.  There's the magazines, the newspapers, the kitchen utensils, pots and pans, and the computer. When Daddy or I try to take any of those things listed away from you, you get very frustrated and upset, and there's a lot of crying (tears streaming down your cheeks).

Bedtime was a little harder. The routine is the same as for nap time. You did not fall asleep easily, there was a lot of crying, and fussiness. After letting you cry it out for a while, Mommy checked on you, played with you, rocked you, and nursed you. Then you finally fell asleep.

There was some scratching through the day but that appears to be normal and it does not seem like you were itchy. Besides some occasional crying and fussiness, it was an overall good day.

Teething and Up for Hours

Lina<3, you have eight teeth in your mouth so far. Last night was terrible for you, you were up from 1am to 4am. It was very hard for you to go back to sleep, as Mommy had tried everything, from nursing, diaper changed, moisturizing, drinks of water, picking you up, rocking you, playing with you, bring you to my bed to play, bring you back you to your crib to play and let you cry it out. It was a cycle that was repeated at least four times during the three hours you were up. You cried, and cried, played a little and scratched a lot (good thing that you had the ScratchMeNot mittens on). The only things that was comforting to you was a pick up, and constant nursing (but that does not seem satisfying either, due to the fact that Mommy's milk supply appeared to be low). You also liked it when Mommy rubbed your gums, as it kept you from fussing. By the fourth time of nursing, moisturizing, drinking water, rocking you, playing with you in my bed and in your crib; you were ready to sleep. You were nursed for the fourth time in three hours, went back to your crib, and you slept with your bear bear (that's what Mommy calls your teddy bear) in your arms. Off to sleep you went for five hours (slept til 10am).

"Owning the House"

Lina<3, you are walking so well. You walk everywhere, and Mommy means everywhere! While downstairs you are in the kitchen, the dining room, and your play area in the living room. When you are upstairs, you are all over the hallway, and the bedrooms. Back and forth into those rooms, as if you own the house. It so adorable.  It is definitely exploration time.

It started with walking around your play area in the living room. When there was nothing else in the living room to explore, you went to the dining room, where the computer, and dining room table are. When you got tired of watching Mommy go into the kitchen by myself, so you followed Mommy into the kitchen. Now you go into the kitchen by yourself even when Mommy is not in there because there are so many new things to explore there (Mommy is always not far behind).

Recently, your favorite room of the house is the kitchen (maybe it is because Mommy is in the kitchen a lot, between your meals, my meals, doing the dishes, and snack time). You love to walk underneath kitchen table (which Mommy needs to keep a closer eye on you, as your head is touching the kitchen table already), and search for the old newspaper hanging out on one of the unused chairs. Sometimes, you would stay underneath the kitchen table, and sit on the leg of the table, and just play with the newspapers, or just sit there and relax. You especially love to be underneath the kitchen table when Daddy or I are using it. Reaching for newspapers, and your sippy cup on top of the kitchen table is also what you like to do and you can even put your sippy cup back up on the table when you are done with it. 

It is so cute watching you walk all over the place, you look like such a big girl. My baby is growing up too fast. You walked so fast at times, Daddy and I are always afraid that you are going to fall. You hardly fall down when you are walking, but do stumble at times and you always catches yourself before falling. As Daddy would say "you walk like you are drunk, lol".

Happy New Year!!