Dinosaurs

Aiden got some dinosaurs from Uncle Jason and Aunt Kim for his b-day. He also got a big dino book from them for his past b-day. That night when he got dinosaurs, he brought them to his bed for story time and tried to find the matches on his dino book.

Fun Time on Driveway

We have a pretty long sloped driveway. Mia and Aiden have been having a lot of fun "racing" down to the end of driveway. Aiden of course goes down with his big wheel that he got for his b-day. Mia goes down in a car-shaped wagon. The little girl LOVES speed. When she goes down fast, she wiggles her body and BIG smile on her face.

Fun Time in Crib

One weekend afternoon, Mia woke up from her nap and Aiden climbed into her crib after playing in the mud. They were quite happy and cute together in the crib.

Aiden is 4 !!

We are still having hard time to believe Aiden is turning 4 tomorrow. He is going to have a b-day party at school on Monday - the actual b-day. They will make cupcakes and have him and all other kids in his room decorate the cupcake on their own. He is going to have blast. Today we celebrate his fourth b-day at home with Mommy's friend Tiffany and her 2.5 year old son Bradley. It was quite busy morning as we lost an hour due to daytime saving. But we managed to get every ready for the noon party. We picked up the construction cake that we ordered on Tuesday and Aiden has been asking us every day when the cake will be ready. But guess what he didn't even eat any of his cake yet as he was more interested in his gifts. He also picked up a hot wheel balloon, of course!! He got a radio flyer big wheel and Lincoln log from Mommy and Daddy, got two books (dinotrux and there is nothing to do on Mars) from his little sister Mia. He got a handy Manny set from Tiffany. And he is going to get more gift from Grandpa and Grandma Zeigler when they return from Florida in a few weeks and Uncle Jason and Aunt Kim are coming down in the next couple of weeks for gifts too. So Aiden will be quite excited to see more b-day gifts! We also met with Leo (Aiden's school friend) after his party to play at monkey Joe - Aiden's favorite bouncy place to play!

Watching Mommy lit the candle

Say cheese

Three of us

Four of us

Mia is happy too!

Big Girl's Breakfast Time

Mia brought Daddy an empty bowl and asked for breakfast while Daddy and Aiden were eating their cheerios for breakfast. So Daddy put her on the chair without a booster seat and she sat so well and was able to reach inside the bowel to get cheerios even though she still needs more practice on using spoon.

 

Happy Graham Note

Aiden got another happy Graham Note (a note from teacher to parents to appraise good behavior, learning progress etc). The note said Aiden not only recognize all his letter but also knows the sound of all letters. He is also learning how to write the letters too and so far can write about half of the letters. Arts, books reading and computer are his favoriate activities at school. He also has huge improvement on his soccer on the weekend. He follows instruction so much better and he can even goal once or twice per session even though sometimes it is the wrong goal, but hey, we think it is good enough for a 4 year old. He does get a little upset if he doesn't get enough ball time.

Mia's 15 Month Stats

Mia just had her 15 month check up this Thursday. The little girl finally slims down some. :P Her height is 32 inches (90%) and weighs 23lbs 1oz (74%). She got two shots which made her really mad and screamed on top of her lung. she is still sleeping and eating well. She is now trying to use spoon to feed herself but usually ends up picking up the food by fingers. She still eats everything we give her, but she starts showing preference over the food. She always takes the first bite but if she doesn't like it, she usually wouldn't take another bite.

She waves bye now and says "bye" as well. She can say thank you in English, younger sister (meimei) in Chinese, older brother (gege) in Chinese. She says "gaga" during bath when playing with rubber duckies. She recognizes her nose and belly. She likes rough housing with Aiden but usually ends up with crying. As she gets older, she starts showing sign of jealousy over Aiden. She wants Daddy to hold her if Daddy is holding Aiden. She used to sit well in the cart while shopping, now she wants to get down to explore.

Overall, she is a happy and easy little girl!

Happy Birthday Mommy

Mommy's b-day this year falls on the same day with Chinese new year eve. Daddy took Aiden to the store to pick up a cake and a card for Mommy. Aiden made choices on both items. The card was very cute. We went out to Chinese restaurant for a good meal too!!

Can't keep Aiden's eyes off the cake

Birthday Party Time

Aiden got invited to his daycare friend Ishaan's 4th birthday party with superhero theme. Most of the kids in his daycare room were there and at first he was a little shy probably because he was a little shock to see all the kids outside the daycare. Then once they started some activities he liked such as picking up different color balls, face/hand painting, treasure hunting and of course pizza and cake time, he did fairly well.

I just painted a mask

taking superhero picture

I am a happy superhero

Getting hand painted

I got a star on my hand

waiting for pizza and cake



still patiently waiting

Mia is waiting for Aiden during treasure hunt

 

Help with House Chore

Aiden likes to help out with some cooking and cleaning activities around the house. On the weekend, sometimes he helps me mop the kitchen and foyer floor. He does decent job for his age. :)

 

Crazy Morning Hair

Mia always has a lot of hair since the day she was born. In the morning, her hair on the back of the head always tangle together. One morning, she woke up with really crazy-looking hair and Mommy just had to snap some pictures before cleaning up.

 

Lego Car

Aiden likes to build things with his lego, especially cars. He made a gigantic car with 3 sets of wheels today without any help. He was quite proud of it. But it didn't take long for Mia to completely destroy it.

Fun Time in Children Museum

Mia woke up with slight fever but she seemed to feel a lot better than yesterday morning as she was playful today. She took some motrin and we decided to take the kiddos to children museum for some fun time as they have been stuck inside the house due to the sickness, cold and snowy weather. Mia had a lot of fun wandering around, checking out the dinosaur tunnel and bear playhouse. As always, Aiden's favorite is still hot wheels and trains. We also did Jolly day slide and Mia really liked it as she giggled while sliding down.

playing with blown glass

What is inside the tunnel?

Where is my dinosaur?

Find one and Yummy!!!

Trying to dig out blown glass

Tractor ride

I know exactly where to put my hand

More Snow

After blizzard, we got more snow about 4-5 inches last night. Daddy and Aiden bundled up and went outside to play with snow and Aiden rode on the sled. Poor little Mia woke up very cranky and it turned out she got a fever of 101.5. We felt lucky that she didn't get sick from Aiden's sickness, but unfortunately she didn't escape from it. So she had to stay inside with Mommy. We got some snow pictures but couldn't really get any picture of Aiden playing in the snow as Daddy got handful. But it was quite funny to see him play in the deep snow, fall down and get covered with snow. He even tried to shovel the snow.

Front yard

Backyard

Getting ready for outside (being silly with Mia's panda hat)

Aiden said "I am a panda"

Blizzard on the Day after Christmas

We woke up with a lot of snow outside. The visibility was so low as the snow was still blowing when Aiden woke up so he said it was foggy outside and then realized it was heavy snow. He wanted to go outside to play with snow. But it was so windy and cold outside and he still had fever. But he finally felt much better today despite the fever.  His spirit was definitely up. Mia had rough night because she got pretty stuffy nose too. Since we were stuck inside and we decided to play with all the Christmas presents. Mommy and Aiden played the real life angry bird and Mia found it was very intriguing to knock down the bricks and pigs by her hands rather than with the birds. We also did quite a bit angry bird coloring and Aiden really enjoyed it.

See my coloring work

Birds and pigs color are right too

Neighborhood in heavy snow (about 8-10 inches)