Taisei Buffet

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Monkey Boy

This is what happens when Wami's trying to cook.


Monkey Boy from jerinyu on Vimeo.

Update:
Taisei's babbling like crazy now. The alarming thing is that he'll now spontaneously respond to questions: an English "no" for negative and the classic Japanese "unn" grunt with emphatic nodding for affirmative. Whenever he does it, we eye him carefully to see if he's truly answering us. In almost every case, it appears that he is.

  • Taisei, do you want broccoli? "nn" *nod**nod**nod*
  • Taisei, do you want to change clothes? "no, no, no!"


It's hard to ignore him when he wakes at night now because he nicely asks from his crib: "Mama? Mama?? Mama!? Mama!!" We still ignore him if possible, but it's just a lot harder.

Words he likes to say:

  • "apple" - self explanatory, but sometimes it means he wants juice.
  • "atta" - Japanese, hard to explain in English. I admit that Taisei's Japanese abilities have already surpassed mine.
  • "ko-ko" - Japanese, for airplane. Technically, it's "hikouki"
  • "ji-ji" - Chinese for airplane. Technically, it's "fei-ji"
  • "ai-ai" - Japanese slang for monkey. But really, it means "Mom, sing my favorite song!"
  • "elmo" - Taisei for "Nemo." It also means Elmo, as in Sesame Street. But really, it means "I want to watch Nemo!"

New tricks:

  • Tackling Hiro. Now that Taisei's older, Hiro seems to enjoy playing with him.
  • Open and closing doors, using the doorknob. He can't quite turn it yet, but he's pushing and pulling the door and definitely knows that he has to turn the knob.
  • He suddenly loves playgrounds. A LOT. He always didn't mind, but now when we walk Hiro, he has to go and play on the swings and slide. It seems like he'll ride the slide like a lab will chase a stick - all DAY.

posted by Jerin at 7:27 PM

8 comment(s):

Oh My- It's been a while since I have visited his site. Taisei is really into things and talking more. How cute!

La

By Blogger LaReen, at 10/04/2007 6:43 PM  

What a naughty boy climbing on the counters! Just kidding. We never experienced that because we only have heavy benches in the kitchen. Nothing for her to push around the kitchen. Just remember if Taisei starts calling out from his crib that he's hungry, it's just a ploy! Adele used to say "num num!" When she first started talking. That meant she was hungry. She QUICKLY discovered how gullible her parents were. After a week, we realized she wasn't hungry. She just knew it would get her out of the crib!

By Blogger Aaron and Emily, at 10/08/2007 2:05 PM  

Yes, we remember that story clearly. We've been careful to avoid letting him get ideas like that.

By Blogger Jerin, at 10/08/2007 2:37 PM  

Wow, it's incredible that kids learn to climb up stuff so soon after they get comfortable with walking. That was a fun video to watch.

By Blogger Esther, at 10/09/2007 10:25 AM  

Sounds like he and Caden are at the same stage! So fun! Chinglish for Caden and I guess Jaglish for Taisei.

By Blogger Nate and Mags, at 10/18/2007 7:37 PM  

Ailing is the same way now! Sometime I think it's really cute to see her dance on the dinning table. I think it's so hard to keep the balance between satisfying kids' desire to discover and explore and teaching them have good manner. Anyway, I'm looking forward to your new post!! Amber

By Blogger Amber(怡文), at 10/29/2007 9:56 PM  

I love these videos! Nicole directed me to them today, and I enjoyed them a lot. Go Taisei!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/01/2007 9:48 AM  

Hey nice messages!! Ryan and I thought they were so funny! By the way, how did u leave the messages without signing in (being a Xanga user)? A lot of my friends can't do that, so they usually leave me messages on my MSN. Hmmmm so tell me how u did it.....hehe..thx!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/02/2007 7:16 PM  

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