Sunday, March 6, 2011

A good day

Ryan surprised us by sleeping from 4 pm yesterday till 8 am this morning. That's 16 hours! Richard said that he probably grew an extra cm or so!

As many of you know, Ryan is a nightbird and he refuses to sleep until past midnight, sometimes close to 2 am. However, for the past few days, Ryan has been sleeping extremely early - he's out before 8 pm! His nanny says that he hasn't been taking any naps during the day. I don't know whether the lack of naps causes the early nights or vice versa. I do know that I'm not keen on him sleeping at 8 pm! I'm not able to play with him or talk with him.

Today was a better day in terms of sleep time. Ryan woke at 8 am, took a nap from about 12.30 till 2 pm and went down for the night at about 11.15 pm. We managed to make full use of the time that he was awake, and it was a good day.

As usual, Sunday began with swimming. We were very early today (for a change), and Ryan was in a good mood, having slept so well. He was active and chatty in the pool.

Ryan had a bit of a setback with the jumps off the side of the pool today. As I mentioned, last week we started putting some distance in between the parent and the child so that, once the child jumps in, the child has to swim to the parent. Today, the boy standing next to Ryan at poolside was a little scared so he sat down at the side of the pool and got his mom to come up close before he sort of slowly slipped into the pool feet first. Ryan watched him carefully and decided to do the same! He sat down and slipped into the water feet first!

Coach tried to correct this by getting the children to dive through hoops - arms and head first. Unfortunately, that boy was still scared so again, he sat down poolside, got his mom to come up close and then he slowly climbed through the hoops, feet first, into the pool. Ryan's turn was just after his and Ryan had been watching him very closely. Ryan followed his every step - climbing through and slipping into the pool feet first. Sigh. We're going to have to see how we can get Ryan to revert back to his arms and head first position.

Richard accompanied Ryan for Shichida class today and Ryan did well on his linking memory which surprised me a little because I had less time to practise with him this week (because he was sleeping so early!).

In the evening, we walked over to Telok Kurau Park for some exercise.




Practising his numbers while playing hopscotch!


When we got home, we took the chance to do some messy painting before taking a nice long bath. Went out for dinner at Parkway Parade before coming home to watch football on TV.

That was it. Relaxed but fruitful, with lots of family time. It was a good day.

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