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I am thankful for...

I was giving the boys a bath last night and out of the blue..Dylan starts talking about death and how one of his friends at school does not have a mother because she died.  (I know can you believe the converstaion I'm having with my 4 years and 11 months old)

Dylan continued to say, "Mama, I'm very thankful for my mama and papa, Josh and Toby.  I'm thankful for my whole family."  I totally teared up.  I said, "I am thankful for our family too buddy."  and he gave me a big smile.  I will always remember that smile. 

Friday the 13th

I'm usually not supersticious nor a big believer in Friday the 13th.  But this year I'm a lil skeptical.  It was the usual Friday afternoon.  Tommy came home from work after picking up Dylan.  I hear the usual chit chat as they are entering the house.  Next thing I hear is "babe where are the bandaids, Dylan has a cut on his foot and it won't stop bleeding." I thought it was just a little cut but told him to clean the cut with hydrogen peroxide.  I decide to go check out his cut.  Boy was I wrong..he had sliced his big toe.  Big chunk of skin was hanging off and we have no idea how it happened.  I told Tommy he should take him to Urgent Care to make sure it's nothing too serious, so off they went.

Urgent Care doctor says he can stitch it but it's too invasive for a someone his age.  Best thing to do is let it heal on it's own.  We have to take Dylan back to Urgent Care on Sunday to see what the doctor says and see how its healing.  Poor guy.

But he seems to be in great spirit!

 

Toddler no more

Dylan is still a toddler but no longer sleeping in a toddler bed.  We finally got him a twin bed. He loves his new car sheets and I think he feels like a big boy now sleeping in a big boy bed.  He was excited about sleeping in his new bed.  I'm excited that I can actually lay in bed with him and read his bedtime stories before he goes to sleep. 

Halloween Parade

I took the day off from work to spend some time with Dylan at school.  He had his first Halloween school parade and I didn't want to miss it.

All the kids were so cute dressed up in their costumes.  Lots of pretty little princesses and enough super heros to save the day if something went wrong.  Dylan was super excited to see me, but really clingy.  He refused to go in group photo (thus minus him) but one of the teachers managed to get him in the group photo with all the super heros.   

This is one of my favorite shots...

Here are few more pix.

My Galaxy Hero

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!  Here are some more pix. 
 

D's famous quotes

Dylan just talks up a storm...I wonder who he gets it from.  I had to jot down some of the stuff he says so I can go back and scrapbook a page all about him the conversations he is having.

D:  "where are we going?"

me:  "we're going shopping at target"

D:  "what are you buying?" 

D:  "papa car fast, papa car race car."

D even tries to have conversations with our dog Toby...

I heard him saying

"wan wan (dog in japanese) wheres mama?"  I just could not stop laughing.

"mama where are you?"

His 3 most famous quotes

1. "I can't mama."  2. "Tai Tai help mama."  3.  "Tai Tai do it."

My favorite quote especially when he says it out of the blue "I love you mama"  melts my heart.

School Time

He's been home with me for about 6 weeks now and I have to admit it was an adjustment for the both of us at first, but now I'm enjoying my time with him.  But we decided he needs interaction with other children and I need my time at home to job hunt.   So on April 1 we enrolled him at Foothill Montessori.

Here he is ready to leave for 1st day of pre-school....he looks so happy.

 

Here he is with his lunch bag. 

 

Here is he playing with a puzzle.

 

So we thought he was going to be okay with us leaving.  He's been in daycare before but boy were we wrong.  I was heartbroken to hear him crying asking me not to leave.  They always say it's harder for the parents.  After a week of him at school we have no more crying at drop off if anything we have crying/whining when picking him up.  He doesn't want to go home.  He loves it there now!  As you can see in the picture I have to pack a lunch for him, which I'm not used to but the anal mom that I am I'm always thinking the night before what nutritious food I can make for him.  His teacher were impressed how well and how much he eats. His lunch bag would come back empty 95% of the time so I thought the teachers were throwing away the left overs but they said they send home what ever he doesn't finish (which means he must like what I'm packing him or he's trading lunches with the other kids...)

He's been in school for 2 weeks now.  He talks about his friend Joaquin and his teachers all the time.  I'm so glad he has adjusted well and he enjoys going to school.  Lets hope that lasts for another 16 years... 

Potty Time

I've been trying to potty train Dylan since he was about 20 months old.  He pooped in the toilet off and on for about 2 weeks and then stopped.  About 2 and half weeks ago, we were at the Hsu's and Dylan saw Jacob go potty on the toilet.  I try not to compare him with other kids (so hard not to) but the following day I asked Dylan if he wanted to go potty like Jacob.  He said yes! So I took him to the toilet and he went potty!  We were all so excited.  Dylan even said, "I went potty like Jacob".  For the next couple days I was asking him if he wanted to go potty like Jacob and that seemed to work to get him to the bathroom.   He was still not consistent and I couldn't quite get it down.  I talked to my friend Ellen and she told me she was taking her son every hour.  So I started doing that the 2nd week.  That has been a sucess.  He's had dry diapers most of the time except for nap times and in the mornings.  This past Saturday he had a dry diaper ALL day!  I was so proud of him.  I thought running errands with him would prevent the potty training, but he's been going potty in the public bathrooms too!  Couple days ago, he started to initiate it and tells us he has to go poop (even though it's pee, he calls it poop).  I even put him in big boy underwear but the pullups seem to be more successful.  Now the only thing is I can't seem to get him to poop in the toilet.  It's either been in his pull-up, big boy underwear or on the floor next to the toilet (yes that was lovely!).  He tells us he has to poop but by the time we go to the bathroom he has already done his business.  If anyone has any tips for me please share!

Here is a picture that Tommy wanted me to take of the lil guy in this particular outfit and of course the HAM that Dylan is didn't have any problems posing for the camera.  (I was trying to change him into his PJs and of course he was running away from me.  But the minute he saw the camera he stopped and posed..LOL..enjoy and hope you get a good laugh...plus this is the only pic I have of him in his pull-up!)  By the way I love baby legs!  Thanks jenni for introducing it to me.  =)

My LUCKY CHARM

Happy St. Patty's Day Everyone!!!!

GOT MILKed!

Kasumi had an conference out here in OC so we met up with her for dinner.  It was so nice catching up with her since it's been quite a few months since we have hung out.

The restaurant was on the way home for Tommy  he met us at there.   Most moms know how tough it is to eat a meal and have an adult conversation with a 2 year old sitting next to you.  So once the boys were done eating Tommy took Dylan home.

So about an hour later, Kasumi and I get home.  Our garage light went out so I asked Tommy to replace it.  Once Tommy went into the garage Dylan starts saying "vitamin mama".  He always reminds me about giving him his vitamins.  So I say "that's right, your vitamin."  I give him his usual 1tsp of liquid vitamin and 1 gummy vitamin.  He likes sucking on the gummy vitamins forever!

Tommy comes back from the garage.  He sits down with him on the couch.  He asks Dylan, "what are you eating?"  Dylan says, "vitamin".  Tommy then says, "I already gave you a vitamin."

So Tommy tells me that the minute they get home Dylan asked for his vitamins, so he gave it to him.  We were like great, he milked us, and he's only 2.  What are we in store for withthis lil guy...