OCD to the Extreme

Here's Carter cleaning his bath toys...

Good manners start young...

This morning while we were getting ready, I was in the laundry room putting some things in the dryer, Jenny was dressing Katie in Katie's room, when I heard the toilet seat go "thunk". Surprised and curious (because I heard no one walk to the bathroom) I walked over and saw Carter taking himself pee-pee potty. After he was done, he puts the seat back down and runs off, giggling. I was like uh-oh, he probably made a big mess and as I peered into the bathroom I saw nothing...way to go son!

Weekend udpates

Here's the conversation that Carter and I had this morning before breakfast:

Carter:I want to eat over there(pointing to the living room)
Me:No, buddy, we should eat at the green table
Carter:My baby che-che over there. I want to eat over there(pointing again to the living room)
Me:No, buddy, we really should eat at the green table
Carter:OK. Just joking!

I think he's gonna turn out to be a wise guy...he just always says the funniest things, I wish I could write them all down. He's probably the most helpful 2 year old(ahem, excuse me, 2 and half) I've ever met. Every time I yawn, he asks "You tired dada?" or when I'm trying to fix something around the house I hear him come over and he always ask "My help dada fix it?". And when something doesn't work "Oh No. It no working!"

Then there is this thing about water, my goodness, he loves drinking water and at all weird hours of the day(I've heard it from him during the middle of the nap and also in the middle of the night). It haunts me : "I need waltar!"

He makes life exciting, that's for sure



Also Katie and I was able to enjoy some alone time together because Jenny had bought us tickets to the Cinderella ballet at the Progress Energy Center. We both enjoyed it and I have to give props to the pianist who provided all the music, by himself, the entire time. Simply amazing

Carter Has an Opinion

One of my favorite stages of our kids growing up is when they start to communicate verbally. It has been a long time since Katie said "tomoyo" for "tomorrow," or "you talk like a joke" for "you are funny." Carter's vocabulary has exploded recently, thanks to his friends at school. This is a recent conversation we had:


Me: Katie, do you want to go back to Taiwan this summer?

Katie: No, I want to go to Disney instead.

Carter: I want to go to Disney.

**Me thinking: WOW, Carter remembers our Disney trip from almost a year ago.**

Carter: I want to buy BIG che-che.
(che-che is car in Chinese, he likes to say the word "big" very dramatically)

OK, I get it...Carter thinks we are going to the Disney store in the mall.

A quick hello!

This might be a record time between posts. Sorry about that!

The kids are growing up so fast. Carter has been just spewing out words left and right, words I didn't even know that he knew! Its been making every day interesting and it lead to some testy moments with his Jie-Jie, which I know he absolutely adores. We've had fewer tantrums lately and I think that really coincides with his ability to communicate better(or maybe we are doing better at understanding what he's babbling about). He has been very busy at school learning how to do a lot of practical life works, like sewing and cleaning up. I've been trying to encourage him more to play some sports, I think he likes baseball because he gets to "hit" something and no one tells him "di-di, no hitting!"

Katie is continuing to mature as a young lady, although, according to the Montessori Theory, she is leaving the current plane of development, which is one of absorbing information and order and entering a new one where things are out of order and questioning of the information. In simple terms, she's getting just a tad bid wacky, and we're just rolling with the good times and the not so good times. At school she has really taken to reading and just the past few weeks she has been extremely precise at pronouncing new words instead of just sounding out the phonetics. Like her old man, she enjoys reading than math...that's my girl

Snowmen, finally

We finally had a good bout of snow which we could play in and I always wanted to build a snowman but we just haven't gotten enough snow around here lately until now:

OK, so we were missing some anatomical features, but, we made due and made "green" snowmen...

This is why we can't live without the iphone