Lunch

Today lunch was good. Victoria sat down throughout the half hour lunch, fed herself and finished all her food. She enjoyed her lunch. She even took my last 3 spoonfuls and told me to add more pork and black fungus (mok yue) in it. Sometimes she treats our lunch time as a competition between who will finish first, and she's proud to proclaim herself as "Number One"!!

After finishing her lunch, she even took in her own plate without being told to. Then she took in Daddy's plate, and mine when both of us finished. Then she took the table cloth and started wiping the table clean, and the chairs, too. This, is of course her favourite "work" coz she sees Kakak do it and like to imitate.

The past few weeks Victoria have shown improvement during her meal times by sitting down and feeding herself. She just changed. I think she wants to be a "jie jie" and big girl now. We told her that all big girls go to big school, and must feed themselves, do things for themselves. That must have hit home. But it could be just her. Victoria is definitely one kind of a child, who has a very strong mind of her own. Those close to her can strongly attest to that!

Or, it could be her improved health from better gut absorption and healing from all the allergenic food she's been taking. She has been taking her probiotics for close to two months now, and I'm sure that helped too.

This is considered a big improvement compared to those "trying times" when I have to get her to sit down and not walk around, and chew her food, then swallow her food.

Hopefully this continues la.