Thursday home with Lexi

Lexi has becoming such a cute little girl! She is no longer a baby. She is a down right drama queen already, it's scary!  Yesterday, we were playing outside the backyard and she saw a piece of leave being hit repeatedly by the water, she thought that was just the funnies thing. She laughed, but not a out right laugh. She laughed with her shoulder shrugged and had covered her mouth with her both hands. She as laughing so hard, she was bending down front and backward, still has her hands on her mouth.  Gosh! It's funny to see her do something so mature looking!

She is talking a lot lately, mostly in English. Today, she closed the kitchen door and said to me "i closed the door" This is a very long sentence for a 18 month old.  She also says a lot of other things "baby", "yummie juice", "that's mine!", etc. Mostly learned from Brandan.

She really likes to spend time with me at home on Thursdays without Brandan, she is all over the place, touching Brandan's toys that she normally doesn't get to mess with, getting into the cabinet and climb to get cookies. Her facial expression is also very animated! She would stretch her face long and stare at something looking surprised, but immediately change to a grim and a smile.

Brandan is a big boy now, he no longer has the toddler look, the way he walks, talks and acts make him a grown boy!  He loves to wear his jeans and crocs and always walking around with a drink in hand. (don't know if that's a good thing, but at least i know what's in it for now) He still loves to eat, as always. But I think it's a good thing that he loves fruit, crunchy carrots more than candy bars and popsicles. He also loves to tell story, he will make up some story and tell me about it for a good 15 minutes. Today on the way to school, he just told me that a lizard was going some where, and then lighting came, and a dianosaur was stomping and the lizard was soooo scared and the tree was moving, and then the robot came and the lizard was tired and wanted to go to sleep...

I can't wait for him to be more articulate and able to really tell stories, that would be so fun, then i just need for him to tell stories in Chinese as good as he does in English!

He has turned to a caring brother from the old jealousy toddler who is obsessed with everything around him.  He still fights with Lexi, but there are plenty of times that he would tell me to put down lexi so she can walk on her own, because she is a big girl now.  He would also ask her if she wants to drink or eat something or wants her binky, then if Lexi nods, he would run for life to me and tell me what Lexi needs.  Lexi is lucky to have a brother who watch out for her now.  Brandan really enjoys to talk with Lexi, many times, he has asked me "can lexi talk?" At first i didn't know what to answer, but now i just tell Brandan to talk to Lexi. He will ask him how her day was at school, and if she needed more snacks or tell her she shouldn't be doing something...it's so cute.