Ryan @ 26.5 months videos

Dylan @ 5.5 months videos...

Funny memories

Ryan seems to have interesting long term and short term memory.... it sure makes us laugh...

1. Memories of grandma -  when my mom was here, she would go to 3 crosses church every sunday. Ryan and Gordon would drop her off and pick her up. Now, whenever we pass by the church, Ryan says "po-po" (informing us that grandma goes there)

2. Memories of Uncle Henry - about two months ago, Gordon and Ryan sent Henry to the airport for  trip. Now,  when Ryan sees an airplane, he says "uncle henry on airplane".

3. Memories of President Obama - couple of months ago, Obama was on TV, so we pointed to him and told Ryan that was Obama. Last Sunday, we were at Super Franks and Ryan saw a darker skin man and said "Obama". (yes, we burst into laughter...)

4, Oh yes, he has short term memory too. When he goes to sleep, he usually holds something... a ball, a phone, a scissors.. just something to keep him happy. But, when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he remembers what he was holding and asks for it.... yah, sometimes he holds a phone in the car, and we leave the phone in the car and Ryan wakes up in the middle of the night and says "phone, phone" and poor Gordon has to look for the phone....

5. When we got to a toy store, Ryan will randomly pick out things to hold ( a backpack, a bowl, a ball), and ask he walks down the toy aisle, he would stop to play with other toys and put the toys he was holding on the floor... when he is done, he woud want to continue holding the earlier toys and would say "where's my bowl?", if I  already put the bowl back on the shelve.....

6. Ryan also has a great cheekiness in him. When we want to go out and we try to change him, we would say "change your clothes so we can go out" and if he doesn't want to change, he would say "Ryan no go out" and only when we start walking out, he would say "Ryan want to go out too"...... and yes, he does this  a lot, just to get us to respond...hehehehhe

Here's a video of Ryan playing with Gordon's cousin's kid, Sydney... She is 7 this year...:)

Ryan @ 26 months

I definitely need to blog about Ryan. These two months have just been amazing. His vocabulary has increased 100x and he can make sentences that amazes me..:)

We loved it that he can communicate. The best is that he can tell us when he is hungry and tells us when he is sleepy. So much less crying and whining..

Ryan can also so many words in cantonese (learned from his grand-parents). When I cannot understand something, he would say it in english and then in cantonese.

He also response to us in cantonese. When I say something in english, he would say the chinese word.

For example, I would say "mummy hungry" and he would say "mummy tu cher er" (that's in mandarin).

And instead of saying "Ryan sleepy", he would say "Ryan fan kou kou" (cantonese).

It's like he is showing off that he knows the words in cantonese as well as english....

He sure picks up the cantonese words quickly from the grandparents.

When prompted, he can count 1-10, his favourite being 5 and 10.... :)

He doesn't like tv/dvd. He would ask us to put it on, watch it for 1 minute and leave. He still enjoys books, play-doh and going out.

We started Ryan on basketball classes. Gordon takes him for these, so I don't know what they do. He has come back knowing how to run backwards. I took him swimming at Hayward Plunge once (public heated pool) and he loved it. He has been asking to go back...

Oh, the imitation has also started. He would say whatever we say. Like... he would go to the stairs and say "Gordon, bring milk for di-di". (and I did not even ask him to tell daddy to bring milk!). It was super funny..:) He also picked up "oh my gosh" from Gordon.

Potty training is going great. Ryan knows when he has his pull-ups on and pees in it if needed. If he doesn't have it, he would tell us that he needs to pee-pee or poo-poo. Diapers are still needs for sleeping.

And yes, the haircut is from Gordon.... looks like a bowl was put on his head and snip snip snip.

Ryan sleeps 9pm to 6.30am and naps from 1.30-3.30pm.

Ahh, life is definitely easier for us at this age. I love that he is super understanding about me spending time with Dylan and he loves his little brother...:)

Tonight, I was in bed with him and I got 15 kisses from him. tooo sweet (big smiles on my face..)

Dylan @ 5 months

Yes, Dylan is growing quickly.

He has started to turn left and right, and I almost forgot that babies start moving and grabbing stuff... I just remember the part where they sit still and don't move...hehhee..

Here are some of the play items he goes thru daily (sometimes he plays with the items twice a day...)

Exersaucer
Musical Mobile
Bumbo chair
Jumperoo and

High chair

When we don't want to carry him and he complains when lying on the bed, we cycle him through the play items above....

At 5 months, this kid just loves the TV. When we move him away from the TV, he would twist his head so he can see the tv.

We also send him to the babysitters house now. Seems that he loves it there cos there are so many kids running around and he sits on the rocker and watch them. She also says he cat eat 8oz in one meal; something he never does at home.

Dylan's schedule:
5am - milk (2-3 oz)
7am - awake
8.30am - back to sleep
9.30am - milk (6 oz)

10.30-12pm - sleep

1pm - milk (6 oz)

2-4pm - sleep

5.30pm - milk

6.30pm - bath

7.00pm - sleep

10.00pm - sleep drinking (6oz)

2.00am - wake up to let out gas, cry cry and lets out more gas

Yes, my kid has develop gas in his tummy recently and he is not happy. I always thought he woke up at night to eat, and finally realized that he wakes up at night cos he has to let out gas.

To help with this issue, we have him on the Dr Brown bottle, mix his milk gently (instead of shaking the bottle), rubbing Yu Jie oil on his tummy, changed formulas and extra burpings. As of today, these actions have not helped. We plan to try the gripe water tomorrow.

Sleeping is easy for Dylan. If he is full and has the pacifier in his mouth, he can fall alseep on his own. Otherwise, I pat him for about 3 minutes and he will be asleep.

He also has a hard time pooing and seems to only poo if i take off his diapers and hold his legs up (maybe he is potty trained early? ) heheheh.. or maybe he just needs help pooing...

Picture above, Dylan waiting at the stairs while we get ready to go out. Yes, when he starts moving, we cannot do that anymore....

Oh, he totally adores Ryan and will stop everything just to look at Ryan when Ryan is nearby. It is cute, as Ryan will come by and give him random kisses..:)

We started him on some solids, like rice cereal and sweet potatoes, but have also been holding off, since he has gas and is consipated.

Yes, my baby is growing too fast. He gives the prettiest smile and his skin is so fair (thus he has been called a girl twice now..)

Here is a pic of Dylan being carried (played) with Gordon's cousins...