23 months 2 weeks

What’s Aiden so excited for?

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Duck feeding time!

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There are 2 big parks in Cerritos, but the super huge one doesn’t allow us to feed the ducks.

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We spent a good time at the park.

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It was after the rain so some parts were wet.

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Aiden was a little scared until Daddie picked him up.

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We’ve been here a few times but this is the first time he’s got to do so much exploring.

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Glad Aiden was in good hands, as I stayed AWAY!

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The only thing is their activity center is a bit old and broken down.

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I didn’t want Aiden to touch the wood as he’d probably end up with some nasty splinters.

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We basically stayed with this “flat” slide.

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He was very cautious going down at first.

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High enough to see lots of activities going on.

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With each time he went up the slide, he got braver and braver.

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And he was also very fixated on the empty juice container on the floor.

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Even when Daddie kicked it below the slide, he still continued to point to it.

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This weekend he learned “拳頭” (fist)

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He learned it so quickly, while we were driving.

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He also learned “大” by opening his arms wide open, like Mommie.

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Daddie was so busy with work that he didn’t get to see much of Aiden.

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He didn’t see him for almost 2 days.

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And when Daddie saw Aiden, he felt that Aiden grew up so much.

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He learned ak tau (forehead).

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I’ve tried to teach him this forever, but he had always confused it with “head”

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He is really good with applying things he learns.

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Like listening to Elmo’s song..

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If you’ve heard it before you know that Elmo shares his song with others

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His song becomes others songs.

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Without our help or urging he adapted it to “Aiden’s song”

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And he went up the stairs to go down the slide all on his own.

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He even told me to “go!”

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Yucky!

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He’s into building “train” lego these days.

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But in my head, it looks more like ships.

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His vocabulary has improved tremendously.

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But his temper has probably gotten worse too.

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He gets frustrated when we don’t understand.

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And he’ll throw things that he was working on to express his frustration.

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Here’s his train!

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But sometimes he likes to make a bunch of small trains.

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And he likes to pretend they will crash.

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This week he also refuse to ride in Mommie’s car a few times.

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Daddie’s car is just much more appealing.

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One time I was able to get him to go into my car by saying “Do you want to get up to the car seat on your own?”

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That made him feel like a big boy so he was willing to listen.

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The other time, I sat with him in Daddie’s car for a few minutes.

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Sometimes Aiden will ask to call his Grandmama.

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Other times he will want to facetime with Grandpa and Grandma.

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Sometimes he is willing to perform or answer.

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Other times he just completely ignores anything and everything we say.

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The last week or so I started to implement timeout again.

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Usually he listens by the time I count to ten…

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But there are times he just wants his way and refuses to listen.

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But the doctor did say keep feeding him reasons and explanations and he will get it.

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I think so too!

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He understands so much!

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When I tell him he upsets me, he will say 媽媽, 媽媽 愛你 until I am not mad anymore.

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And he will want hugs after that.

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Sometimes he won’t let Daddie help him, but he wants Mommie to.

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We’re trying to teach him to say 2 years old with the right number of fingers showing.

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The downside this week is it has been very cold.

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It’s our first time turning on the heat since moving here.

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This way Aiden didn’t have to put on too much clothes.

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He had a pretty high fever.

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His fever wouldn’t go down and so we gave him popsicle – that helped.

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He also barfed – and that scared him because he didn’t know what was happening.

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But good thing he was always up and moving – let him listen to some Aaron Kwok and dance!

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He went to the Doctor’s the next day – with clothes on Aiden was 25 pounds.

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Dr. Wong said that Aiden is such a good and smart boy.

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Aiden was also very happy to get his crocs in the mail – mix and match :X

 

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