Orange, Apple, Yuck!

Last week daycare has been teaching kids about fruits, veggetables and taste. This morning I was packing orange and apple into my lunch bag. Aiden wanted to touch them and I asked him to say the "orange" and "apple". He spoke both words pretty well especially apple. Then he saw a carrot in the fridge and wanted to eat it. His first bite was on the stem part and immediately he grinned his face and said "YUCK". He is definitely applying his knowledge learned from daycare to the real world life. :-)

Big kid slide

Aiden has been trying the big kid slide with us and he really enjoyed it. He also decided that it was time to get down the big kid slide all by himself.
1. Trying to figure out how to get down.

2. I am coming down.

3. Very cautious

4. Yay! I made it to the bottom!

Play in the park

We took Aiden to the park near our home three days in the row since the nice warm days are finally coming to the end. Aiden really loves this park. He does baby tractor slide, the bigger and longer pipe slides, bouncing horse and climbind up and down the big hills all by himself. We think he will be a really good hiker when he is older. While we were walking in the park today, there was a big dog ran towards Aiden. He was really calm about it. We got really scared since we thought the dog would knocked him down. The owner of the dog even asked us if we had a dog at home since he was surprised that Aiden wasn't scared of that big dog at all.

1. Sliding down the tractor slide


2. Happy bouncing


3. Wait up, Daddy


4. Hurry up, Mommy

Calling Daddy

This morning, I called Matt to check when he will be home from business trip. After I hung up, Aiden grabbed the phone and punched the number (keypad was locked) and then put on his ear saying "Hi Daddy". I guess he is really missing his dad even though he can't really say it.

Little feet in big slippers

Aiden tried to put his little feet in my shoes, but he couldn't really walk in them. Then he tried on grandpa's big slipper and really enjoyed walking around the house with them.

Little helper

Yesterday Aiden was the last one in his room to get picked up. There was a special note from his teacher in his cubbie. It says "Aiden has used one of his life skills very well today. He was very respectful to teacher and help teacher pick up the toys around the room. He used his listening ears and did the right thing!". Mommy and Daddy are very proud of Aiden!!

Another two-word phrase

We got Aiden two maters from garage sale this summer. One talks and goes forward, the other spins around. Aiden loves the one that spins around, but he doesn't really know how to be gentle with it. This morning, he threw it to the floor since the switch wasn't on. I took it away from him and of course he threw the tantrum at me and screamed "my car" clearly.

Gorgeous weather in November

The weather has been gorgeous and usually warm for this time of the year. The last couple of days, we had upper 60s and lower 70s as high. For the rest of the week, the high will be in the lower 70s. We wish we didn't have to work and get out with Aiden to have some outdoors fun!! Of course, the temperature will go down to the lower 50s on the weekend. YIKES!!! Good thing is that Aiden has spent a lot of time outdoors both at daycare and at home with Grandparents.

1. Clean up the backyard

2. Inspection

Family Reunion

My parents came to the States for another visit since October. Matt's family all came to Indianapolis on the weekend for family fun time. Cousins Grant and Audrey had so much fun playing on Aiden's playset in the backyard. Aiden also loved to chase them and climbed up and down the playset.

The whole Zeigler family

The Zeigler and Li Family

Two musketeers

Three musketeers

Goofy Audrey and Grant

Hair Cut

Saturday evening, Dad gave Aiden a haircut. The last haircut went quite well since we let him watch his favoriate cartoon "Cars" during the haircut. He sat still and didn't cry at all. This time, as soon as he saw Daddy take out the trimmer, he tried to run away from him and Cars cartoon didn't do the trick either. He cried and told Daddy "No, Daddy" which broke Daddy's heart. But in the end, he looked neater with short hair!

Freezing Rain

The temperature suddenly dropped since Thursday evening. This Friday noon, we got a little freezing rain. This is the first time Aiden has ever seen freezing rain. He was very curious about the stuff that dropped off the sky. He stood in the front yard and enjoyed watching the freezing rain come down. Of course, he was bundled up like Eskimo.

Happy eater

Since grandparents Li got here, Aiden has been eating a lot of chinese veggie noodles and rice. He can use both spoon and folk if he wants to, but most of time he thinks those silverwares are not as efficient as his hands.

1. Soooo delicious!

2. Don't miss any delicious noodles

3. Half way through my whole bowl of noodles

New words!

Over the weekend, Aiden has just learned a few new words: apple, cracker and help. He could pronounce apple and help fairly well. Cracker was a little difficult for him, he says it more like "kaker".

Trick or Treat at Daycare

There is a spooktacular party at Aiden's daycare today. This is Aiden's second Halloween. We decided to dress him like meerkat which turned out quite unique outfit and very cute. He still didn't quite get the idea about trick-or-treat. When we took him to other room in daycare, he only cared about the toys not candies. Anyways, it was fun!

1. Check out my cool tail!


2. Meerkat's concerntration


3. Check out my back!


4. Meerkat having sweet treat!


5. Thirsty meerkat drinking apple juice.


6. Look out


7. Trick-or-treat at daycare

Animal Sounds

At 19.5 months old, Aiden can do the following animal sounds. Cow (mooo), sheep (bah), horse (neigh), dog panting, duck (gaga), monkey (wowo), owl (owl), dinosaur (roar), lion (roar), fish, pig, bee and cat. He can do a few sign languages: please, ball, book, eat, yellow, outside, more. The words he has managed are: please, outside, ball, book, water (wawa), milk, more, dog, eyes, nose, daddy, mama, owl, car, bus, byebye, bird, NO (his favoriate one), duck. He started saying two words together such as byebye car, car book, mama car, my ball. Also he has mastered all his Melissa & Doug's puzzles including animals, transportation, shapes and cars. Go Aiden!

Time for Raking Leaves

As the late Fall is coming, most the tree leaves in the backyard has fallen. It is time to rake the leaves again. This year, we got a little helper - Aiden. He was very interested in holding the rake and tried a few times, but the rake was way too big for him. I think he enjoyed jumping inside the leaf piles more than working. :P

Look at my leaf piles



Working hard and resting in leaf piles



Daddy's tomato riped

Apple Picking

The weather has been great this October. Last year, we took Aiden to Anderson Orchard while he was about 7 months old. He wasn't sure what to do with the apples in the tree. But this year, he knew exactly what to do.

My big red apple face..

First trip to Children's museum

I am not really interested in Barbies, but these girls are sitting on motorcycles and cars.
My hands are small for big polar bear foot print.

Tonight after work, grandpa and grandma Li and Mom took Aiden to Indianapolis Children's museum. This was Aiden's first trip to children's museum. He loved the water play, train table and lawn mower. This would be a great place to spend family time together in the winter.

Aiden is moving up to old toddler room

Aiden has been spending one day per week in old toddler room to prepare for moving up. The teachers from both young todd and old todd room told me that he has been doing great and is much happier in the old todd room. Finally starting from today, he will be in old todd room full time and enjoy himself with his old friends who moved up a month earlier.

First Hayride

Grandpa and Grandma Zeigler came to Indy to visit this Sunday and we all went out for a Octoberfest in Zionsville. Aiden did his first hayride. Not sure he enjoyed it or not, he was very curious to look around during the ride. He liked rolling and kicking the pumpkins and did some art work there too.