Aiden Turns Big Three

Aiden turns big three today. He is very excited about his b-day now as he can get b-day cake and more importantly new TOYS. Aiden had some important achievement during his 3rd year.

1. Potty training: he is completely trained for poop a little after 2.5 years old. He tells us every time when he needs to poop. It does come with small rewards (a few M&M) afterwards. But he has come to a long way since the beginning of potty training. He was screaming and scared for poop in the potty at the beginning. For the pee part, he still wets his pants once a while if he is playing too hard and gets distracted. He doesn't tell us every time he needs to go pee as he does for poop. But as long as we take him every 1.5 to 2 hours, he stays dry throughout the day. At daycare, he does really well for potty. Teacher said he knows exactly what to do at potty time. He would pull down his pants and underwear, lift the lid, lean forward, pee,and flush the toilet, then pull up his pants and wash his hands all by himself.

2. Following instructions: we started soccer class on Saturday when he is 2 years and 3 months old. At the beginning, he didn't listen to the coach's instructions and was just doing his own little things. But now, he follows the instruction most of the time with some reminding from Dad. Starting this spring, he will be in the field on his own and we are curious to see how well he will do. The daycare teacher also sent a small note home saying he does well at music class now too as he enjoys singing songs (used to be shy to sing in the class), uses his listening ears to play the instrument to follow the music beat!

3. Color recognition: Aiden used to call every color either purple or blue for quite well. We were even concerned about color blindness. We talked to his pediatrician when we had Mia's one week check up at the end of November. He said if he is OK with identifying the colors by 3 years old. Then we started reading him colors, colors everywhere from Mickey mouse book collection. Guess what, now he can get quite a few colors right 3 months before his 3rd birthday including red, blue, green, yellow, white, black, purple, and orange. He still calls pink purple sometimes.

Happy Big 3rd Birthday - our big boy!