Aloysius is 4 months plus already!

Hello blogger...

Aloysius is now 4 months plus already. He loves to stand and jump now, and dislike sitting nor lying down. Sometimes, I will put him on his tummy to look at his pooh bears and his favourite hippo... He can giggle when I tickle him. Tickling him is for his gnostic stimulation :). Sometimes, during feeding, I will give him a "cranial massage"... I dunno really know how, but what I do is, "sayang" him...

So far, we have bought some new toys for Aloysius :) When we went to Melaka, we bought him two sets of motor driven sets of gears. I assembled them and played with them first :P. It's not suitable for him now, cos there are small parts. It's pretty fun assembling them and see the small gears driving the big gears and the merry-go-round. hahaha... a mommy trained in engineering who loves hands-on... :p

We also bought a wooden percussion instrument... tick tock tick tock... :) I dunno what it's called though... We are looking for a small, real xylophone for Aloysius :) Ideally, a real and tuned xylophone, cos I want him to learn the "actual" note. If any of you knows where to get a small, real xylophone, do let me know ok? Thanks in advance... hmm.. this reminds me when am I going to arrange for the moving of my piano..

Last Friday, we brought Aloysius for his 2nd 5-in-1 jab. Before that, we went out, and I have forgotten to feed him Indinine. And we rushed out, so I had forgotten to put the Indinine in the bag :( I fed him Indinine when we reached home at night. He started to have a fever that nite. I used a cloth to put over his head and let him sleep on my chest for that night :( His fever came on and off on Saturday, especially when not in air-con room. Despite his on and off fever, he was still a very active and happy boy when we met his ye-ye and nai-nai, shu-shu and shen-shen, for dinner... Aloysius still spread his happiness and joy to everyone :).


GD Program:

We brought Aloysius for an assessment by Lawrence. We were showed how to help him to crawl in a cross pattern :). We have consciously started this cross pattern "training". Aloysius can see the smallest flashcards in the set already. We were told that when Aloysius start to crawl, his vision will be improved by a quantum leap :). hmm... I am looking for more flashcards for him now. Perhaps, I will buy blankcards and a thick marker to write the words. After I have finished the smallest cards in the GD set, I will start to DIY with smaller cards and words... I hope I have the time... :)

Prehensile grasp:
Aloysius can grasp my thumb for 10 seconds in the air already :) So far, this is the longest he can hang in the air... We are looking for a piece of wooden "bar" for him to hang in the air :). It gotta be smooth and not too big, cos he has small hands...

Flashcards:
I have started the encyclopedic flashcards with Aloysius. He's only interested in looking at a set once. If I repeat the set in a day, he will look away. hmm... And I gotta change a new set daily to keep him interested in looking at the cards.
Nowadays, it's getting a bit tricky to get him to be interested in flashcards. He does not like to sit down. He wants to stand more than sitting down. He will wiggle and wiggle when I put him in his "usual" flashcards position. hmm... how??
I have been doing multiplication with him for almost two weeks. He's not as interested as before. I guess he must have been bored. hmm.. gotta make some changes... So I just started division today and he looked at all the cards attentively... hmm... maybe two weeks of addition, two weeks of subtraction and now one week plus of multiplication has bored him... Towards the end of subtraction, he was also not as interested... I had a Shichida 65 days dots program. hmm... in the program, addition was 10 days, subtraction 5 days, multiplication 10 days and division 5 days... I have seen successful cases based on Shichida program. I think I will have to be faster in changing the program with Aloysius than the recommended program from Lawrence. I will go into multiple steps equations already... I gotta find time to read the book on "How to teach your baby math" again... So many things to read...


Ok... That's all for now... I am feeling very guilty on my thesis writing again... haiz... hope this type of feeling will go away asap...