A random tuesday

Today, there was no school, after spending some time in the library we brought back some books and DVDs. After a long nap, we all went to the mall to get brandan a hair cut and they could burn off some energy at the mall playground.  Brandan sat real good during the haircut. Poor thing was trying to watch TV, but the cut off hair was getting onto his face and bugging him around the eye area. Not sure what to do, he kept his eyes half open. That didn't stop the hair from getting into his eyes, he just started to cry...the stylist didn't even pay attention to what he was doing. I had to stop her and try to clean up his face before she continued to cut it.  After the hair cut, i told him that he looked handsome. But he said he wasn't handsome, he was "fresh".  And he made me say after him. ''You are fresh!"

After playing in the mall playground we started to head home. I guess seeing some kids were playing there by themselves, he started to appreciate the companionship of his sister. In the car he told me that he has a mei mei, and he would be sad if he didn't have her.  Then he said, there are some boys have no sisters and some sisters have no brothers.  That was just a total moment of "AWWW!"

Lexi has so much fun when Brandan stays home, the ran around the house doing silly stuff all day and only had 2 little fights. Lexi loves to dance, so when Brandan is idol, she makes up songs to sing and dance around the house.  When she finishes, she claps and asks us to clap with her too. 

Mr Bunky Head

So Brandan is Mr Bunky head, him and Kyle or maybe other friends at school came up with that and they all call each other bunky head. Like "hi mommy bunky head". Not sure what's so fun about it, but they have been saying that for weeks and still not over it yet. Even Lexi picked up and says "bye mr bunky head" to people. Head, Eyeball are two catch phrases i hear about 200 times a day. "Mommy eyeball, can i have an apple", "eyeball plant, grow up now"...

Brandan is a truly loving boy, he loves nature.  He told me many times that we live on a green planet. We planted some flowers in the yard, including grapes, tomatoes and squash. He checks on them daily and help with watering. He was looking at the tomato plant the other day and i saw him drooling over it. But the funny thing is that he doesn't even like to eat tomatoes.  

He is doing really good at gymnastics too, not too accurate with the moves, but he listens really well and tries hard.  He is still too young to really do the forms.  He loves to just staying idol in class and watch me watching him over the glasses, and he will move onto his course until until i tell him or the coach tells him. I need to start him with Teakawdo soon, i think he will do great in that too. He has gotten taller lately, still stayed the same weight at 36 pounds.

I am so greatful that both kids are good eaters, especially fruits and veggies. Brandan loves salad with or without dressing. Lexi loves the dressing more than the salad, but she loves cucumber and brocolli like Brandan does.  Fruits are their must haves everyday, grapes, peaches, pears, strawberries...they love it all. Soybeans, baby carrots, cucumber sticks are their lunch favs.

He is becoming a little thinker too, in the stage of "why, why, why". He sure keeps me talking all day with him. But he asks good questions, like why are homeless indeed homeless and where are their parents. Reading little redding hood causes him to ask 20, 30 questions such as "what is the wolf hungry for", "why does he want to eat people", "why can the hunter hear Redding hood asking for help", "why does the wolf eat the old grandma" and "why is all grandma old".

He can recite some Chinese poems now.  鵝鵝鵝 and 春曉. He can tell my mom stories in Chinese too, he tried to explain StarWar to my mom, but he gets stuck with translating Jaba the Hutt type of names.  With his birthday coming, his obsession with star wars is not getting any cooler. He wants to have a party at home so he can play starwar game with his friends. And he wanted everyone to have a light saber so they can "pretent" fight.

another month had past

It's been such a busy month. Can't believe i haven't left anything on the blog for so long. Umm...where should i pick up.

Lexi, she is becoming a big girl, she is talking a lot in long sentences. She mimics me and my mom a lot. My mom's shoulder hurts sometimes and she swings it to loosen up the muscle tissue. Lexi copies her doing that but she does it in a dancing fashion which is very cute.  She loves to dance. Anytime the music comes on, she is moving. She has rythm but no move. Watching her dancing reminds me of Irene on Sienfield. She is very good at doing gymnastics, everyone in her class is impressed with how much she can do. She can hold onto the single bar and lift her feet up to the bar at the same level and back flip with her hands still holding on and hand on her feet in a 360. Every time she sees a down slope matt, she bends her head down and do a forward roll.  So cute to see her kick her feet up and somersault over and a big smile on her face. At home, she climbs everything too. She is still in the high chair and seems like she is so used to it. She climbs in and climbs out of it all on her own. But she can only do it from the right hand side. She moves her left foot out and land it on the middle support bar first then move her right foot down to the lower bar. And once landed, she then let go of her hands one at a time until she lands perfectly on the floor. Same thing climbing on. She doesn't even want us to help her anymore on it. She gets upset if anyone tries to pick her up and put her in the chair. 

She still loves babies. She's got so many baby dolls. But the one from Marsha remains to be her favorite. She carries her to a lot of places and always trying to take her to potty and give her binky. She is really impatient, i was trying to teach her about colors and shapes, once she learned the first 2, she starts to messing around the rest of the time by calling them the wrong thing on purpose and laughing at it. She would even say "I am funny!" Her Chinese is getting very good too. She knows a lot more words now, but still can't beat Brandan's Chinese.  She sometimes mix Chinese words into English and vice versa.  She even say a few words in Kunminese although she doesn't know what they really mean. She loves the new words she learned lately "樹葉“ was her new love. She collects them and show me each one of them and say daddy leaf to the big ones, mommy leaf to the medium ones and she comes up with Brandan leaf, mei-mei leaf and puo-puo leaf too. 

She does a lot of good doodling, clear lines across the paper or circles that are pretty round and even in size. She is throwing a lot less fit since she stayed home with us. She grabs every chance she gets to go out with me, even just to the post office. But I think she grew up a lot and learned a lot by staying home.  She participates in the play group when we get chances to go and play along side with the girls sometimes.  But not really playing together yet.  

She is becoming so much like a little woman, moody at times, but very girly.