The Eberhard Family

* 15months + 3 weeks *

From Sat, 25th Oct, we decided to start putting her down a little later. Only bath her at 7 and have her down around 7:30pm instead.

Why?

Partly because she’s been taking longer and longer to fall asleep recently, she’d sit there, talk talk talk, make funny noises and sing to herself… smack daddy’s head for a bit (as he sits there and keeps her company), throwing stuff out of her cot, back to making all sorts of funny noises. So we thought, a slightly later bed time might help. We used to bath her between 6:15-6:30pm (depending on how interesting the news is on the night) and she used to be down by 6:45pm-7pm. But lately, it’s taking her till 7:20-30pm or sometimes later before she’s asleep.

Another reason is because, in another 2.5 weeks, we are heading off overseas for a holiday. Gold Coast and Brisbane first, then Taiwan. She was waking up around 6-6:15am and that’d be around 1am Taiwan time. So I don’t think that would be fun for anyone. So a later bed time might help her to get used to the time difference a little better.

So, the new, delayed bath time trial started. It went well I think, even though, she was sending lots of signals of… I am ready for bed! She started putting her toys to bed, she’d find a spot and curl up and say “night night” then pretend to sleep… or try to take us to the bathroom for bath. But seemed to hold on fine till 7 or just before 7 for her bath. Then definitely goes down a lot faster at that time!! And has been waking up after 7am instead, at least for the 2 nights we tried it so far.

Tonight, we thought we wanted to watch the Leaders debate on TV at 7, so we put her to bed earlier than that obviously, well we tried. It’s 8:10pm and she is still awake, talking to herself, wanting daddy to sit there with her… etc. So I guess that might have just concluded a later bed time works better for her now!

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週六開始, 我們把妹妹的睡覺時間往後延. 7點才去洗澡, 大概7點半睡.

原因是什麼呢?

一部分是因為妹妹最近越來越久才入睡, 自己在床上一直玩, 一直出怪聲音, 講話唱歌, 爸爸在旁邊陪他都不理他, 他也會過來打打爸爸的頭… 把東西從床上丟出來.. 等等.
我們之前都是看當天新聞看的怎樣…6.15到6.30左右帶他去洗澡,他大概6.45-7點左右睡覺. 不過最近啊, 到7.20-30才睡著, 有時候還更晚呢!!

另一個原因是因為, 再兩個半禮拜, 我們就要出國去玩囉, 先去黃金海岸, 布理斯班, 再回台灣. 妹妹最近都6點多就醒來了, 這可是台灣半夜一點多耶. 所以我們想說他晚一點點睡, 慢慢調時差也好.

所以我們就開始給他延到晚一點才睡. 結果到也不錯. 多出的時間, 他就自己一邊玩, 一邊一直想睡覺, 連布娃娃都拿來哄去睡… 不然就趴在那裡, “night night” 的說晚安, 然後自己開始裝睡… 不過也都撐過來啦. 至少這兩晚, 7點去洗澡, 真的不用多久就睡著了. 所以現在是7點半左右睡著的, 早上到7點以後才起來.

今天晚上想說要看7點的政治辯論, 就早一點給他洗澡睡覺, 結果呢…. 到了8點10分還在講話呢. 要爸爸陪在那裡坐著, 一直玩一直講話. 所以我想, 結論還是, 晚一點點去洗澡睡覺比較好吧!

* 15.5 months *

Sunday afternoon, mummy got out the almond flavoured tofu jelly to give to Emma. After 1 bite, we don’t want it anymore. Fine, mummy likes…so she will eat it herself.

After watching mummy eat for a while, she took the spoon away, then started to poke the jelly with it, had a few licks of the spoon, still decided we don’t like it. So we started feeding mummy the tofu jelly instead, with the spoon!! ^^;;;

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週日下午媽媽拿出新買的杏仁豆花要給妹妹吃吃看, 他吃了一口, 就不肯吃了. 不吃拉倒, 媽媽賺到自己吃!

結果媽媽坐在那裡吃著吃著, 妹妹把湯匙搶走… 就開始挖起豆花來了… 自己舔舔湯匙還是決定不好吃, 就乾脆餵起媽媽來了!! 就真的這樣拿著湯匙挖豆花給媽媽吃… ^^;;;

* 15.5 months*

Last Friday we took Emma for her 15 months check with the Plunket nurse, followed by the visit to the GP for a check up and mainly for the injections!

Emma got to the plunket office and was quite happy to play with the slides in the waiting area… and got into the nurse’s office, she was helping herself out to the toys, sat herself down by the table and reading books, walking back and forth getting more toys. Pointing and calling out “Duck!”

The nurse runs through all the developments and then had a measure up for Emma, which took a little bit of help from daddy and some struggling from Emma!

Weight: 11.93kg
Height: 81cm

And… we did quite well with the injections, a few cries then quickly distracted by the sink and wanting to wash her hands instead. Then the nurse gave daddy some bubbles to play, so she was happily trying to catch the bubbles!!

Oh and while we were waiting in the waiting room before nurse checks her again after the injections for any reactions to the vaccination, we saw another little boy with monkeys on his shirt; Emma has a big monkey on her one! Well at least his dad and me found that amusing!

* 15 months *

Yesterday evening, Daddy was out for a talk by the Marathon runner, Dean Karnazes. (see his blog post on the talk). So mummy was bathing (well showering) Emma by herself.

Mummy was busy getting everything ready, while Emma was happily playing by herself next to the bath. We’ve recently learnt a new game: throwing all our bath toys into the bucket in the bath tub. If she missed the bucket, there would be a constant string of “Uh-Oh” until mummy picks up the toy to let her throw it again.

There’s some water in the bucket and her rubber duckies are floating on them. She tried to grab one by herself and she got it! So she was quite proud and happy, started smacking the water and trying to grab more! As she was doing it, she leans further and further into the bath tub. Mummy was just saying, you better be careful, you are going to fall off… and before I finished, she’s fallen into the bath tub. There wasn’t any serious danger, she wasn’t hurt either, it was more of the case of a big fright and we were crying hard! All wet and still wants cuddles! Meanwhile, mummy finds it all very funny, pity we didn’t have a video camera to film the whole thing! Having said that, if mummy was busy filming instead of trying to save her from falling, that might be a little mean as well.

And pity about the half bucket of water mummy had saved! (water saving tip: run the water from the hot tap into a bucket before showering, until the water is hot, then head into the shower. Save the water for laundry or watering the garden etc.)

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話說昨天傍晚爸爸去聽演講不在家, 所以媽媽自己幫妹妹洗澡.

媽媽一邊在浴室忙著準備, 妹妹一邊站在浴缸旁邊自己玩. 我們最近這1-2個禮拜學會了把玩具都丟到浴缸裡的水桶. 就這樣也可以玩的很開心. 沒有丟進去水桶的話, 就會一直在那裡 “喔 -喔” 的叫, 直到媽媽把玩具撿起來讓他再丟一次.

水桶裡面有水, 他的玩具鴨鴨在裡面浮著, 他就自己要去撿回來再丟一次. 給他抓到一隻小鴨鴨. 他就很高興的開始拍著水玩起來, 又想要去撿其他的玩具來玩. 就這樣越探越下去… 媽媽才說著, 你小心這樣玩會掉下去喔… 話都還沒說完, 啪的一聲, 妹妹就掉了進去. 倒是沒什麼摔到啦, 就是自己嚇到哭了, 還弄得全身都濕了… 還要人家抱抱. 媽媽… 在旁邊覺得很好笑… 只是可惜沒有給他錄下來. 不過媽媽要是在旁邊錄影, 沒去救他的話, 好像也有一點惡劣..

也可惜了媽媽收集的半桶水呢! (要節約用水啊, 所以洗澡之前先用水桶放水, 放到水熱了再進去洗澡, 這樣就可以省一點水. 那個可以拿來洗衣服, 澆花等等)