6 months!

Our happy go lucky son has been more fussy of late. He's still a charmer with his toothless grins and moving hands/feet when he's excited or happy but there's been more tears and wakeful nights with him starting to roll and move while on his front. He hasn't quite figured out how to roll onto his back (I think he uses his lower body to thrust himself over). He has really strong leg and lower body muscles that allows him to stick his butt in the air but the head and arms aren't strong enough so he moves forward with his upper body being pushed forward (ouch!) It is much harder to work in solids for the second child. I haven't gotten into a schedule yet but hope to try different foods very soon. I can't survive having to feed both kids before I eat (I'm starving by then!) so Nolan gets fed once everyone else is done their meals.

Yummy carrots!

Enjoying the sights in San Francisco with baba

Talking and Singing

Sofia is 27 months (almost 28 since it took me ages to post this)! The past month have been about working on her vocabulary and mimicking what we say. I think many kids her age are already on full on sentences but she's getting there with 2-3 word sentences. She is much better at communicating to us, tantrums still exist but at least we can bargain/reason with her.

'mo mish' - For the longest time, we had no clue what this was and then realized she was saying, 'finished'
dizzy - she loves to twirl around until she falls and one day she said, "oh dizzy" (with a smile)
mui mui - she calls herself mui mui (our nickname for her) but I have been trying to introduce her real name which she can say, 'fia'
new words: ok, oopsy, bless you, kitty mel (hello kitty), trying to teach her to say, 'my turn pls' instead of crying when she wants something
blubee muffin/pancake - blueberry (sometimes sounds like boobie)

She is finally getting into the singing! She tries to follow with certain songs and can say most of the last words in each phrase and can sing most of the ABCs (today she stopped me from singing with her cuz she wanted to sing it herself!). She's pretty good with counting from 1-10 on her own and can say from 11-19 with us but still ways away from her recognizing any numbers or letters.

Fav songs that she can sing along:
-Barney: I love you, you love me theme song...yes Barney...=P
-ring around the rosie
-twinkle twinkle little star
-ABCs
-If you are happy and you know it
-1-2 buckle my shoe...

Motor skills:

jumping with both feet off the ground and better at going up and down stairs
putting on her pull-ups (doesn't quite get the diaper pass her bum but it's a start)
coloring with more purpose than just scribbling across the page

Tantrums are still a part of our lives especially when she is a mega crier when it comes to wanting something, not wanting to do something or being frustrated/upset. Sometimes when she is in midst of a TT (and crying), we ask her to go to her room and to let us know when she is done crying. It seems to work and other times, we just let the tantrum takes its course and she is usually ok once it's out of her system. And then there are times when she is around kids who are in her face or she is fighting over toys, then the mega crying never seems to stop. It's quite annoying so I need to find some tips on how to deal with this or perhaps she just has to learn crying gets nowhere and she's gotta stick up for herself.

I've realized that she's regressed a bit in potty training (refusing to go and pees in diaper most of the time) but think that maybe it is due to the low importance of that now since she is working on her verbal skills. At least she still does no. 2 in the potty so we're not too bad.

Enjoying a beautiful winter day by the new YVR Convention Centre

Posing during Chinese New Year