I was talking with Daddy the other day and realizing that Senya will soon be 6 months, and Kai turning 3! This year seems to be going by especially quick. We are following the weekly 'play date, book store, playdate, web cam session, library' so rigorously that it's now becoming easy as breathing (though a little boring as well)
Kai:
You've been talking so much! And you've been doing really well with both Chinese and English. Currently you are into character play :) You'd hold up your black bear and say '这是熊爸爸', then hold up your little white bear and say '这是熊宝宝'. Bear Daddy would hug Bear Baby; you take them both to bed with you, and make sure that Bear Baby gets hugs and kisses before going night night.
You've been paying attention to Daddy going to work as well. Because Daddy and Matt always ride their bikes to work together, I think now you have the idea that people always went to work with someone else. So you'd take your little animal figures, hold one yourself and give me one, and say '我们去上班吧。亲一个吧。' Then we'd make them fly in mid-air to 'work'.
You've also been say things that melt our hearts. The other day Daddy had to leave to go to Scouts after dinner, and you told him 'Be careful Daddy, it's raining out there.' We didn't think that someone so little as you can link together 'bad weather' and 'caution'. That was so sweet.
You've also been doing better with your potty training... after I implemented the new method of spanking your bum if you have an accident... :) There was one day that I suspected you needed to pee, and kept asking you 'Do you need to go pee?' and you kept telling me no. After I asked you 4 or 5 times (in about an hour), you told me 'my pants are wet...' I called you over, and told you that because I've asked you many times and you didn't listen, you need to get your bum spanked (just one spank). I think your feelings got hurt because you've been really careful about going to the bathroom since then (though still got another one a few days later) Now whenever you need to go to the bathroom, you tell me '我的裤子没有湿！你不要打我的屁股！'... ...oh well, we'll fix that later :)
Senya:
You are cute. But you are not letting me sleep... You've been waking up twice a night for the past couple of weeks, and it's killing me! (oh there was one night a couple days ago that you slept for 8 hours straight, and that clogged my milk duct...) I've been seriously debating if I do have another baby, I'll just do formula to start with... (don't tell him/her that)
You still show no sign of wanting to roll over or crawl. But you've been getting quite good at bouncing yourself on the bouncer (bring both legs up and then drop them so you'd bounce really high). The bouncer is quickly falling apart under your weight though. I don't think Kai even learned how to bounce on it before he got too heavy :)
You are finally starting to like solids. I gave you apple sauce mixed with rice cereal on Sunday, and that was the first time you opened your mouth willingly and actually seemed like you really enjoyed it. I knew the key was sugar all along... You've had carrot for two days now, and though not as exciting as apple sauce, you seemed to be ok with it.
You still do your little toe fights... chew on your fingers three at a time... smile a lot... drool A LOT but still no teeth.
You love watching Kai as he plays around you, and offers your smile very generously (I don't think he notices most of the time though). If he's playing around you, you'd often get distracted even if you are eating, which is kind of annoying for me :)
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There has been an earthquake in Japan last week. And there was a nuclear reactor that was badly damaged by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. We are still anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, but so far situation seemed to be under control. I hope that the radiation will continue to stay under control so that we are not affected (I'm not too worried) :) so that's a little news update for ya!b
Love you both... and hopefully I'll remember to update more often!
