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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Grandparents Ravets visit
Andy had a good week catching up with grandpa and grandma Ravets when they came to Seattle 4/9-4/15. They visited lots of fun and pretty places like the Skygit Tulip festival, Children's Museum, Aquarium.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
2.5 Year Observations
Language
- He strings lots of sentences together that sometimes surprises us of what he understands, things like it's raining hard, mom wearing light blue, abstract things like emotions.
- Andy speaks English primarily. When I ask him something in Chinese, he usually reply in English (unless it's something he only knows in Chinese). He understands the concept of 2 different languages, if I specifically ask him to reply in Chinese, he does it if he remembers the words. He has no trouble understanding Chinese, but has a hard time speaking it. I guess he thinks in his first language English.
Misc
- Andy has become very independent. His new favorite words is "Andy do it".
- His favorite food that he asks for the first thing every morning: bao zi and shao mai. And he know who makes them: "nai nai (grandma) makes bao zi, mama make shao mai".
- He is selective about what he wants, which outfit he wants to wear.
- You can't force him into doing anything now. You have to talk in a way that he agrees and says yes, and then he will do it (or stop doing it), otherwise it just ends up to be huge crying game drama (fortunately this only happens rarely).
- Toilet training: developed the ritual sitting of sitting on the toilet every evening and morning, but so far nothing comes out. Sometimes he says "that's too hard", but most the time he sings to the traditional Chinese tune of getting kids to pee.
Daycare
A few weeks ago, one of his favorite daycare teachers left the daycare, and a few days later while asking about his day, he popped out "Julie not there" out of blue. We all miss Julie. At daycare, Andy is famous for not saying a word (even though he talks no-stop at home). It's like he knows the teachers are trying to get him to talk so he purposely not doing so. One day a teacher told excitingly that he said two words: "no" and "snack". A couple of days later Julie informed us this: Andy only talked to Jordana (a girl in his class) and they were all giggly at nap time, and he said "I love you" today. When Julie asked if Andy said that, Andy just giggled. But that was weeks ago, the other night he said he talked to Maya (in his class).
Andy has been going to the daycare full time since February (his dad was watching him 3 days a week before), and he seemed to adjust much quicker than I expected. He still loves to go to his dad's home all the time (whenever asked what did you do today, the answer was always "see daddy"), but he is compliant with going to daycare every weekday morning. When asked about which day of the week it is, he usually says Saturday or Sunday :)
- He strings lots of sentences together that sometimes surprises us of what he understands, things like it's raining hard, mom wearing light blue, abstract things like emotions.
- Andy speaks English primarily. When I ask him something in Chinese, he usually reply in English (unless it's something he only knows in Chinese). He understands the concept of 2 different languages, if I specifically ask him to reply in Chinese, he does it if he remembers the words. He has no trouble understanding Chinese, but has a hard time speaking it. I guess he thinks in his first language English.
Misc
- Andy has become very independent. His new favorite words is "Andy do it".
- His favorite food that he asks for the first thing every morning: bao zi and shao mai. And he know who makes them: "nai nai (grandma) makes bao zi, mama make shao mai".
- He is selective about what he wants, which outfit he wants to wear.
- You can't force him into doing anything now. You have to talk in a way that he agrees and says yes, and then he will do it (or stop doing it), otherwise it just ends up to be huge crying game drama (fortunately this only happens rarely).
- Toilet training: developed the ritual sitting of sitting on the toilet every evening and morning, but so far nothing comes out. Sometimes he says "that's too hard", but most the time he sings to the traditional Chinese tune of getting kids to pee.
Daycare
A few weeks ago, one of his favorite daycare teachers left the daycare, and a few days later while asking about his day, he popped out "Julie not there" out of blue. We all miss Julie. At daycare, Andy is famous for not saying a word (even though he talks no-stop at home). It's like he knows the teachers are trying to get him to talk so he purposely not doing so. One day a teacher told excitingly that he said two words: "no" and "snack". A couple of days later Julie informed us this: Andy only talked to Jordana (a girl in his class) and they were all giggly at nap time, and he said "I love you" today. When Julie asked if Andy said that, Andy just giggled. But that was weeks ago, the other night he said he talked to Maya (in his class).
Andy has been going to the daycare full time since February (his dad was watching him 3 days a week before), and he seemed to adjust much quicker than I expected. He still loves to go to his dad's home all the time (whenever asked what did you do today, the answer was always "see daddy"), but he is compliant with going to daycare every weekday morning. When asked about which day of the week it is, he usually says Saturday or Sunday :)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Grandpa Su's March Visit
Andy had a good bonding time with Grandpa Su when he came to visit 3/10 - 3/22. A couple days after my dad left, Andy was reading an alphabet book and saw an orange for "O", and said "Yeye (grandpa) likes orange" since they had some orange sharing during the visit.
By the Kirkland Marina on Sunday morning
Blowing Candles for Grandpa
I gave both my dad and Andy a haircut the night before his leaving. Picture after the shower:
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We went to the zoo the first weekend when my dad was here. Andy really warmed up to him this weekend.
We went to the Pacific Science Center the next weekend. Andy loved the tropical butterfly garden as always, and sat through a 40min IMAX "Journey to Meca". It's also dad's birthday this weekend and we got together with Shelly and Rebecca's for dinner and did a birthday celebration there. Andy blew grandpa's candles for him so we re-lit.
By the Kirkland Marina on Sunday morning
Blowing Candles for GrandpaI gave both my dad and Andy a haircut the night before his leaving. Picture after the shower:
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Misc November and December Observations
Out of blue at dinner one night he picks up a pea with chopsticks, and then picks up more such that I had time to snap some shots for proof.
Andy loves to play hide and seek. When I pick him up from Joe, he would often hide under his little table and say "hiding". He dresses his pet giraffe "Baby" warmly. His favorite stuffed animals are giraffe Baby and dog Daddy that he asks for them every night.
He went to Amanda's piano recital and got to play on the full concert sized Steinway.
Andy continues to talk and repeat after people more everyday. Today (12/26) he's saying "Thank you" in Chinese in the right context. Before he would say please, thank you and welcome in Chinese all together from repeating me or skip right to "Bu2 Ke4 Qi" (welcome). Now I give him something and ask him what to say and he understands I was asking for "Xie xie" (thank you).
Photo Shoot
Andy had an expressive photo session this Saturday (12/19).
Click on the slide show below for the higher resolution picasa album for printing.
First Sleep Over Party
Tristan came over on Thursday night (12/3) as mom and dad were going to the Microsoft Christmas party. He was a bit home sick at first, getting tearing up every few minutes asking for mama. Andy became extra gentle trying to comfort him and wiping his tears. Tristan quickly warmed up and joined the cooking watching party and ate the stir fry heartly.
say cheers
They played the wooden puzzles and drew after dinner. It was interesting to observe kids having different ways of doing puzzles. Andy does one puzzle at a time while Tristan tries to fill all pieces of one shape first (i.e. works on multiple puzzles simultaneously). They also have different drawing styles. Andy likes to make outlines of molds (e.g. put his hand on the board and trace or ask me to trace) while Tristan likes to draw free styled.
Tristan usually goes to bed after 9 but he sure got on Andy's schedule tonight. The two read a bit and went down after 8 to everyone's surprise!
Tristan chose to sleep on the big bed (and Andy decided to join shortly after) so both slept side by side: "Never mind the crib mattress set up on the floor, we are babies no longer..."
Tristan had some good influence on Andy the next morning. Instead of calling for attention when he woke up, Andy saw Tristan and turned all cheerful.
It was a fun adventure for both kids and adults!
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