Random Thoughts

Brandan is a good boy! I took him to the mall to buy gifts for his friends' birthday party. He really wanted to have new toys, but I told him that he has lots of toys at home already and can't have another one for a while. He was upset, he was a little down, but I can tell his mind is working.  After a few minutes, he asked me if he could just have a little toy, not a big one. And he kept on saying "I don't want nothing"! at first, i thought he didn't want anything, but after a little while, I realized, he meant he wanted something. Not getting a toy is "nothing" and he doesn't want to Not Getting a Toy!  I couldn't resist and bought him a little power ranger sound switch!  

He starts to act like Tony a lot lately, can't have others tell him what to do, or what's wrong, had to go figure it out himself the hard way! Tony always shakes his head and sigh when Brandan starst to really act like him. But I can see he has a sense of pride in that as well! Man and their ego! Probably started in the belly!

Lexi is the fearless one out of the 2 for sure! We went to the lake for the hot Sunday afternoon per Brandan's request. "I want to go play water at the big park!" He calls it!  After we got there, only took Lexi a couple minutes to not be shy anymore with the water! She was in the water with her arm floaties and the foam noodles just playing, swimming and kicking the water like the bigger kids. She wasn't afraid that she couldn't feel the bottom of the lake, unlike Brandan.  But Brandan got better now too! He kicks the water and tries to swim a lot more than before! It's good that he is more "risk-adverse" better than being reckless.

We are finally starting to get ready for the trip to China, I start to tell him what we are going to do. How we are going to fly to Beijing and Grandma is coming to pick us up and then take him to KM to see animals, go fishing!  Not sure if he gets it, but he tells me about it too! He would say "Grandma on the airplane already? Where is Beijing? We go now? We go later? After I take a nap?"

I think it would be a great experience for him and he remembers so much of what my mom told him about China, it's amazing!  People always say kids don't remember anything until they are 7, 8 years old, but Brandan remembers a lot. He might forget later, but he can have a conversation with me about his babyhood. He would say "last time when i was a baby, a bug bit me"  "Before, Baby Brandan was in mommy's belly and made mommy ouchy" "Remember? When Grandma was here, she said she takes me to see animals!"