Merry Christmas, Little Boy.

In your own words,

"Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho!"

The King of ANY Domain

We were at Cindy's bank, maybe over a week ago, and boy, did you make yourself at home. :)

We love us some Tropical Fruits

You tried some Starfruit and Pineapples yesterday.

And you loved them!




"More, Mummy, More" type of lovin' :)

Toddler Fears

For a few months now, when it is time to go to bed, you would say, "Mummy, I'm scared". When I ask you what you are afraid of, you would say, "I'm scared of Alligator", which is strange because I try never to put anything in a spooky light, not even during Halloween or anything like that. And when I ask you where the alligator is, you would point to the floor.

We've tried several ways to allay your fears. The bedside lamp is left on dim, there's a nightlight that projects the moon and stars on the ceiling, and you are surrounded with your toys.. "All of them". :)

And, of course, lots and lots of hugs and snuggles :)

Hamming it up

At Walmart





At Sam's



( No, we did NOT get the gorilla )


At Grandad's House

Yes, we all knew it would happen sooner or later

I managed to clean the window and table off with some alcohol, but I wasn't gonna attempt that on the wall. AND it wasn't your fault. I was careless the one time, and left a marker out. *sigh*.

Oh well.

Technology

We have agreed that although technology is fine and dandy and help us out a whole bunch, when little boys have free reign of their parents' smart phones and tablets, things can get a little out of hand. Especially when little boys refuse to let go of the phones and tablets without a whole lot of hue and cry.

We still let you have some time with some apps ( all carefully toddlerized with Zoodles ), like when we are over at Grandad's in the mornings.

ANYWAY, I let you use it for a few minutes the other day when I finally gave you a haircut. :) You were so engrossed you hardly made a peep, when all other times you would have just moved and wiggled and totally made it as difficult as you could.

Yeah, check out Mama's mad haircutting skillz. :)

Taking after Daddy

People around us always comment on how tall you are, and we're always saying, "Well, his daddy IS 6'2"...." ( And Mama, at 5' 6" is not a short little Asian woman either.. )

Anyhow, I measured you on the "Growing Tree" growth chart, and you were 39 inches this morning.... so I entered your readings into the online growth chart thingy...

Also, you are adding so many more words to your spoken vocabulary at such a rapid pace that I am constantly astounded by all the new words that you start to use, on a daily basis. You have understood most of what we say for some time now, but saying them words took a little bit more practice. :)

Learning

On Sundays at church, during the sermon, there is TLC ( Training and Learning for Children ) for children between 2 - 4. You have been going there for a while now, and look forward to it.

At home, we do our crafts and coloring and all like that, but nothing formal. One project we DO have, however ( even though you have known all your uppercase and lowercase letters for a while now and are now interested in learning them in sign language! ) , is our Alphabet Wall. :)

At print time, we are up to Rr, and I really SHOULD spend the next half an hour or so to figure out Ss for tomorrow/. We have been lagging in work on the Alphabet Wall, in a big part because of our changed schedule of going to Grandad's twice a day. No worries. I'll get working on it.

It tastes better this way

Jaxon and his Technicolor Doo

We were at Elizabeth's 11th birthday party last week, where you had just loads of fun....

and a serving of birthday cake with blue icing

Needless to say, the next morning you had some pretty brightly colored diapers. :P

Happy Halloween Pt II

After I did that post, I thought I should make a collage of the 3 pictures side by side.. so here it is!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween through the (3) years

2009 ( age 7 months )






2010 ( age 1 yr 7 mos )






2011 ( age 2 yrs 7 mos )

What have you been up to?

All KINDS of things :)

We went to the Playground several times..




We played with Play Doh a whole bunch...




We practised them little finger and hand muscles....




We helped clean the house.. or at least attempt to...




We dreamed big....




And ate a lot of yummy snacks!

Guess Who

learned how to blow their nose this week ????

Hurray!

Look Mama, I made a "T"!




Look Mama, I made a "U"!




Look Mama, now it's a "C"!




Look Mama, Binoculars!

You Did It !!!!!

Okay, so we have been trying to introduce the potty and encourage you to "go" in the potty.

Anyhow, we believe in not pressurizing you when it comes to this, AND the potty HAS been sitting in our play/study room for quite a few months now, just to get you acquainted with it.

You have always "agreed" to sit on the potty for a little bit, but when you need to go, you will always say, "change diaper" and then go in the diaper.

However, tonight, before your bath, ( this, with me having the background knowledge that there was a high possibility of you peeing RIGHT AFTER you got into the tub, lol ) I asked if you would go in the potty, and you DID!

We got all excited about it, and you were more than happy to comply after your bath, and again before we got ready to go to bed!

Hurray!

We still have a bunch of work ahead of us, but boy, what a big step THIS is. :)

Partially-eaten-apple Snob

I need to get this down before I forget.

YOU, my son, are a partially-eaten-apple snob.

Meaning, if an apple is partially eaten, even if it has just had several bites taken out of it ( read: BY YOU ), and left on the table for a little while ( as you go off in search of fresh adventures ), when you are ready for more apple, you will turn your nose up at the aforementioned apple, and go in search of a new one in the apple bowl.

T'is the season for..

stuffy and runny noses.

Oh boy, here we go again. Bleh.

The KaraSumo Kid

or is it SumoTe?

First we give our best war yell




And then we do our morning calisthenics!



Well, actually it was really mommy messing with you, with some animal themed crepe paper.

Our Little Prince

Okay, so your crown is a simple paper plate craft, but that didn't stop it from being totally magical :)

Our Growing Toddler

So, we finally pinned up The Growing Tree the other day.

And you, my boy, are 38" tall at 2 1/2 years old :)

Lions and Tigers and .. er, Birds, oh my!

Your little craft folder is filling up fast, little boy :)

But it does look like you appear to enjoy doing these different crafts, no matter how simple.
Maybe it's because you get to smear glue all over the plate, and tear up pieces of paper, AND get to play with Googly Eyes and bits of ?chenile pipe cleaners.

Afterwards, I let you "practise" using the scissors for a few minutes..

Paints were made to be freeeeeeeeee

Okay, so at first we started "safely" with the "paint in the ziploc" painting angle...

But then you weren't really very into "safe" painting and so I thought, "oh, well" and broke out the paints and the ( LOL ) apron.


You experimented with different ways of holding a paint brush..There was a lot of pointillism going on..

You experimented with painting on your hands,

and with your hands,

and your fingers...

and eventually, using your own face as a canvas. That's some thinking outside the box, now :)

And of course, you HAD to threaten to taste the paint, otherwise, this painting session would have been, as we say in Malay, "tak sah" aka "invalid"

It was hilarious too, that when you decided you were done with painting, you fell onto the floor, and started laughing loudly on your back, just like what they do on Peppa Pig!

Literally ROFL :)