I better pick this blogging thin up again if i want to remember what's been happening to me and my family.
It's just very sad to me that my grandpa is still in the coma, and doesn't seem like he will be out it at all. Right now, he is just on life support and even the doctors can't tell how many more days he has left. If he passes, I'd want to go back but not sure how is it going to work out with the kids and Tony's traveling. I watched the movie yesterday, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I started it without knowing what the movie really is about. But turned out to be a great movie, but it deeply reminded me of my grandpa's condition, could he have he locked-in syndrome or if his brain had been damaged badly to minimize his suffering?!
Tony has been traveling alot lately, mostly to SF and other places when duty calls. I am back to my normal 24/7 mommy job. No one is helping now. Good thing is that my mom will go apply for her visa when we can get some time to put the paper work together, i can't wait to have her here again. Let me not to think about it too much, don't want to jinx her visa process.
The economy is scaring me now. So far, there has been 3 foreclosed homes on the same block as us. Mall has lots of sales, but don't see OC moms with bunch of bags that even the strollers can't carry anymore. Lots of stores, franchise chains or small businesses are closing their doors. How low can we go? Good thing i had always believed in savings, so I hope we are going to be fine through this tough time. Just pray that Tony's job continues to be stable.
Lexi is staring school tomorrow at the same montessori as Brandan, i couldn't wait for her to do that, but i also just want to keep her home with me sometimes. She grew up so fast, too fast, feels like i didn't really get to enjoy that much of her babyhood. I hope she will be ok at school, since she has been there a million times to drop B off with me. I wonder if she would cry as hard as Brandan started before. Her terrible twos are not as terrible as B's, but she is a hitter, she likes to hit people, either for playing or to fight for toys. Maybe the school will help me correct that about her. She is such a little drama queen, every little thing can tick her off, or if even just a slightest lint on her shirt, would make her want to change clothes. She loves pjs and it's always a struggle to get her into day clothes. She says a lot of things now even long sentences like "mommy, Brandan don't want it, he go time out" or "Daddy where are you, daddy at work, daddy sleepy" and then she imitate his snores, or use the sign language to express how HARD daddy works. Her Chinese is improving a lot too. But not as much as when she was in China. I guess I will just have to take her back for her to learn like Brandan did.
Brandan still talks about China, he asks for Puo puo all the time. He keeps telling that "婆婆明天就來了，她來我帶她去legoland". He also loves to tell stories, i can tell his imagination is wild. He will play with his action figures and make up a whole action movie type of story and tell him someone fell off the horse and needed to get a gun to protect the good people. He is now completely good with basic colors and daily English. He is learning letters and numbers everyday. He can count to 24 the max. But sometimes he gets the quantity confused with the actual number. He can recognize B for brandan, L for lexi, M for mommy, but D is still in process. He really remembers T and O, he said T looks like daddy's razor, and he uses it to "shave" his face in the bath sometimes. He knows O because it stands for Ocean (which is a book about all the animals that live in the Ocean). Playdough is his favorite, but i can't let him play too much of that at home, because Lexi puts it right into her mouth. He is still hooked on Altraman, but spidie is get back onto the top of his list slowly. He loves toys, and he now associate toys and buying. When he sees a toy on TV, he always says he wants that. But when i ask him if he has money, he used to tell me that he will work and he will get money. But now he just tell me that Santa will bring him toys, and he will go work later when he is big like mommy.
Sometimes i ask Brandan if he wants me to go to work. The response is always a quick no. I guess it would be too hard that he doesn't get to see Tony that much, and if he doesn't get to see me most of the day, he will probably be devastated. The 3 day school day schedule will work out, I found the local library offers reading sessions and craft shops for kids on Monday and Tuesdays, i can always do that with them and go out to play on Fridays.
I so need to lose 5 pounds, the 10 pounds i gained in China still got some leftover on me. But it has been so hot lately to go exercise outside. Everyday gets up to 95 ish and the sun is just stinging hot, even the kids don't want to play outside. They both tell me "too hot outside".
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