MaDaddaMommaDadda

Jac has taken to mashing Momma and Dadda up into one big word! Very cute! It becomes MaDaddaMommaDaMaDa!

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving! We celebrated at my parents' house with my in-laws, my Aunt Jennifer and some other friends and family! It was very nice! We had a nice meal - feeding the boys in their seats at the kitchen counter - while everyone else ate at the dining room table and outside! Amazing! It was 82 degrees today! For a little while the boys played outside with their water table! Couldn't have done that in Boulder! We do miss our Boulder family though - a lot!

My Mom's friend's Dad (got that ;) celebrated Thanksgiving with us. He brought his great big lens attached to a very nice Canon Digital SLR (Joseph and I were both green with envy) and he took some great pictures of the boys!

Num Num Num

Nic has taken to saying "Num Num Num" whenever he is going to get some food!

I wish I could get videos of all of these things - it is so hard though! As soon as Nic sees a camera he takes it - and then throws it - sometimes at me! This morning I gave him the camera to play with and he threw it hit me in the ankle!

Round and Round

We sing "Wheels on the Bus" all of the time. Jac likes to do the hand motions for some of the verses - particularly for the wheels on the bus go round and round. Nic now understands round and round and does the hand motions the same way Jac does!

Pee Pee in the Potty (the younger one!)

This morning Jac was talking about using the potty and getting on and off so we put Nicie on the potty - and lo and behold - pee pee in the potty! Go Nicie! Trying to be like your older brother!

28 months old

Our little Jacie is 28 months old! Only two months from being two and a half! I can hardly believe it!

Jac is talking up a storm! He is now consistently using two words together and sometimes three word concepts! I am continually amazed at what he understands and says! Sometimes I can hardly contain my amazement and I am constantly saying to Daddy, "Did you hear what Jac just said!"

He has been going through a little clingie period the last few days. It seems like he got a bit intimidated while we were playing at Amy's Playground and at the park by our house. When other kids were playing where he was playing he wanted my help to try to move them or just came back to me and sat with me. This is really different than two weeks ago! I am just being supportive and going with him when he wants me to and not making a deal of it. I hope that he will become his independent self again soon! It is so much more fun for him!

I am starting to think about preschool for him. Which I can also hardly understand! My little boy going to school - without me! OMG! Well - I better get used to it!

I am currently looking at Kids Klub in Pasadena, Pacific Oaks in Pasadena, and the Child Educational Center in La Canada. One of our friends has recommended all of these places. We shall see! They all have waiting lists I am sure! I should have started this when Jac was born probably! I am looking for part-time a couple of days a week to begin with.

I am wondering how splitting the boys up is going to be. Jac, along with being more clingy to me he is more clingy to Nic and more concerned than ever about him. Perhaps because Nic is walking now and even more independent! He tells me "doing" when he is worried that I need to pay attention to what Nic is doing - like walking too far away! When he wakes up if Nic is not right there he finds him immediately and he keeps an eye on him when we are out. Such a good big brother! I wonder how he is going to feel about going to school without him! Are we really ready for this? Both of us! I have a feeling that Nic would revel in one-on-one attention from Mommy which he has only ever had in a very limited amounts.

On his way to 2.5!

Walking is so much fun!

Nic has been walking for less than three weeks and he is already walking down ramps! Man! He loves to walk - everywhere! We took the train tonight and he insisted upon walking most of the way there and got really mad when I picked him up! So much fun!

Poo poo in the potty!

Another banner day in the Chiu household! We had a poo poo in the potty by our oldest! It has been about two and a half weeks since Jac first went pee pee in the potty. Since then he has peed in the potty once! We ask him if he wants to use it and sometimes he asks (usually when he is trying every delay tactic he can think of to avoid going to sleep!) but he doesn't actually do anything when he is on there and most of the time when we ask if he wants to use the potty he says, "NO!"

So tonight, while we were all trying to go to sleep, he asked to use the potty. I had previously told him that it was too late to use the potty, but Daddy decided to let him do it. Well, that was good! He did a poop and a pee in the potty! We praised him to high heaven and he got to flush it down the toilet!

Let's see where this goes now! Maybe two more weeks! I kid because really I am in no hurry to get him to use the potty - he will get there when he is good and ready, like everything else!

"Hand"

Jac likes us to hold his hands when he does certain things and he decided the other night that he should hold brothers' hand with interesting results!

Happy 13 month Birthday Mr. Nicie

DSC_8996, originally uploaded by Taj and Joseph Chiu.

Oh man! Time flies when your kids are growing up!

Nic is now 13 months old! Hard to believe! I don't have babies any more! He is turning into a real little boy! Tons of babbling! and hitting!

Man does he love to hit! He whacks me in the face all the time. He hits brother and Daddy. Perhaps he is just frustrated by being the only one that can't use words to communicate what he wants!

He loves to nurse - at night. He doesn't nurse during the day all that much anymore. He loves to walk! All around! It is amazing how fast it seems normal to see him walking rather than crawling! He still crawls when it makes sense but that doesn't happy very often!

He is really starting to babble - all kids of different sounds! I remember when Jac started babbling - and I love it! He is starting to get his tongue hitting his teeth when he makes sounds and you get this lisp like sound which I just love!

He has to be walked to sleep a lot of nights. He doesn't cry as much in the car now. A lot of times he falls asleep and he can even be awake now and happily "talk!" I love it when he and Jac are both talking away - Jac with actual words and Nicie babbling! It puts a smile in my heart!

He wants everything that Jac has. If Jac is playing with something Nic comes over and takes it. A lot of the time Jac will just play with something different but sometimes it turns into a real wrestling match until Nic takes it and whacks Jac in the face with it. Jac does not generally stricke back, although sometimes I think Nic would learn not to hit a little more quickly if Jac did whack him back more often! Ooops - probably not something I should mention ;) That could get even uglier!

He is quite adventurous! He goes down slides all by himself. He walks up steps he can find a handle for. He touches his head to you when he is being sweet.

He doesn't like bread, usually he will spit it out. He has started to insist upon feeding himself. If you give him a fork with food speared on it he can get it into his mouth.

He grabs everything he can reach, especially off of my desk.

He likes to walk in the hallway, and he almost thinks he can run!

He is turning into a little boy rather than a baby! So fast!