Disneyland again?
Taisei seems to be a reasonable person, except when he gets frustrated. Two times this week, I was able to resolve a simple conflict like this:Two nights ago at bedtime, I was afraid to mess up our ritual of turning off the light and immediately putting him to bed.
Me: Taisei, we don't need to have all the lights in the room on to read a book. Can you turn the light back off?
Taisei: No.
Me: We don't want to waste electricity, ok?
Taisei: No.
Me: Yes!
Taisei: Noooooo!
Me: Yeeeeees!
Taisei: OK.
And he went and turned off the light. It was amusing. And it happened twice this week! The other time was something about his water bottle. Oh, that they could stay so innocent and so simple forever.
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Taisei is pretty spoiled. Thanks to the perfect circumstances, he's been to Disneyland 5 times this year. He was arguably too young the first time, but this time, he thoroughly enjoyed himself. He got to ride on a bunch more rides this time because he exceeded the 32" limit that he just barely missed back in the summer. 
In fact, he made the 35" limit for Disneyland's very first roller-coaster, the Matterhorn Bobsleds. I was too chicken to go on this ride for at least the first decade of my life. I figured we'd take him before he knew the difference. He loved it... except he found the abominable snowman inside the mountain scary - "Monster kowaii!" Besides the Matterhorn, he wanted to see Mickey Mouse, ride the Astro Orbitor and Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters (again), the carousel (over and over), the haunted mansion (which they totally re-vamped with a Nightmare-before-Christmas-theme, dumbo, Flik's Flyers, Heimlich's Chew Chew Train, Bumper Buggies, autopia, Tarzan's treehouse and many others. 
Taisei's favorite uncle Seth took him on the Pooh ride and the jungle cruise so mommy and daddy could go on the grown-up rides, like Indiana Jones and Splash Mountain. Thanks Seth! We had a great time. After we left, we told him that he got to go to the beach now! But he kept asking "Kowaii monster doko?" which translated means "Why aren't we going to Disneyland today? I want to ride the Matterhorn." Luckily, he hasn't thrown any tantrums yet, because this - if it were me anyway - might have been worthy of one.
Taisei scores only a little less than his mama :) posted by Jerin at
12:31 PM
3 comment(s):
that's so cool that you got to go back again! And that he wanted to hang with Seth. How cool is Seth. We can't wait to see Taisei. Yesterday Adele was pretending to talk on the phone. She said she was talking to Esther. Aaron asked her what Esther was doing. She replied, "Esther is changing Taisei."
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Aaron and Emily, at
11/25/2008 2:46 PM
Oh he's such a cute kid. I love how he does that with the "no, no, no, okay fine." It's always startling because it's too simple.
That's pretty cute that he was asking where the scary monster was just because he liked the ride. Wow, I want to go to Disneyland with him while he's little. That sounds so fun.
He-he, I like Am's story about Adele, Taisei, and me, too :)
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Esther, at
11/25/2008 11:49 PM
Oh yeah, I really learned especially lately that it won't get me anywhere if I just force Ailing to do something or stop doing something. Kids are much much smarter and more reasonable than I thought they would be!
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Amber(怡文), at
11/29/2008 7:33 PM
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