Two and a Half, almost
Updating the Taisei Buffet has been getting harder and harder. There would be so many items at the buffet table that no one would be able to try everything. There's no way to keep track of all the new things toddlers learn, say and do. But it has to be one of the most fun, and funniest, stages of kid development.So, just a few random thoughts here to give an idea of where he's at. Taisei seems to be a "helper." This is probably very common with the first kid, who doesn't have playmates at home. He just wants to do everything we do. Sometimes, it's very convenient. Yesterday night, after I finished dinner, he collected all the
plates, cups and utensils in one pile and brought it to mommy in the kitchen. In our house, the kitchen is at the other end of the house from where we eat, so it was a little scary, but he made it. At the same dinner yesterday, I noticed that he's gotten very good at using his training chopsticks. He LOVES tofu and uses his chopsticks to pick out all the tofu from his stir-fry and his miso soup. He also tries to help by wiping the floor, feeding Hiro, or putting on his own clothes.Wami and I noticed that when we hear him speaking to the other parent, there's always new things that we didn't realize he could say. The reason we don't realize them when he's talking to us is because he now speaks only one language to each of us. In other words, he speaks Japanese all the time to mommy and English all the time to pappa. Somewhere along the line, he abandoned the Chinese "ba-ba" for the Japanese "pa-pa."
Oh well. I lost that battle. :) I still think his Japanese is probably better than his English. When he talks to other kids outside of his Japanese playgroup, inevitably we here something to the effect of "What's Taisei saying?" Apparently, even with me, he'll mix in a lot of Japanese.One of the recent miracles is that he is finally ok with babysitting. He can take him to nursery, pre-school or the gym, and he's a little uneasy at first, but no tears! But that's only when mama drops him off. If I drop him off, then there are tears. What a weird phenomenon. Only mama is allowed to go do other stuff. If my papa's around, then I get all attention and definitely shouldn't need babysitters. That seems to be what he thinks.
By the way, last Sunday he drew his first happy face - an oblong circle with two eyes way at the bottom and a nose. He told me what he had drawn and then promptly scribbled it all out, or else I would taken a picture of it.
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