Popped by the Mok's place to celebrate Joe's birthday. Been a really long time since we saw Jo Claire, so it was great that the two kiddos got to play together for a while. Discovered that though they haven't met recently, she's very familiar with Asher cos she hears about him almost everyday. Her grandma reads to her a storybook which has a picture showing a set of parents, two sets of grandparents, and two children - one male one female. So her grandma would say that the little girl is Jo Claire, and for lack of another boy, that Asher is the little boy :) So she was more than familiar with his name, and just needed to match the face to it. By the end of the night, ask her who Asher was and she could point him out :)
Was super happy that Asher ate well there too! He's been going through a phase where he doesn't want to eat much of anything. All the food he normally likes to eat he'll shun. The only things he eats kind-of regularly are fruit and some veg (carrots esp). Even then, it's not a given that he will eat the fruit/veg offered to him. He's been losing weight, and has lost his little paunch. And it can be very frustrating and worrying for me.
But by some miracle, Asher asked to eat 2 bananas, and happily gobbled down some briyani ("colourful rice") and white rice, and slurped up some of the soup that Jo Claire was also drinking, which was a power-packed bowl of veg, dried scallops, soy beans, and ikan bilis. What a vast improvement from the day before where he only had 2 biscuits for breakfast, about 1 tablespoon of bee hoon for lunch, and a handful (his hand, not mine) of blueberries which garnished his Grandpa's birthday cake. He had also refused to drink his pre-bedtime cup of milk. Oh, the joy of seeing him eat!
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