Elmo Visitation

Visiting Elmo

Easter Celebration 2009

Egg Hunt :

At Mommy and Me Class
Ethan didn't understand how to participate and collect the eggs. What he did was everytime he saw eggs, he kicked them (he thinks that those are balls).

At Diamond Bar Pantera Park
We were too late coming there but we did get a few eggs. Again, Ethan played with the eggs by kicking them. But this time, he accidently stepped on the eggs and cracked open the eggs. He discovered something inside the eggs (which is candy/chocolate). Then he began cracking the eggs by stepping on them. hahahahaha....

At IEC Sunday School
Each kid was supposedly limit their self to 7 eggs, but Ethan collected more than that. Mommy was happy UNTIL... he poured out the eggs that he had collected and emptied his bag.

Conclusion: Ethan does not understand about egg hunting on Easter celebration yet. But at least he had lots of fun, especially at Pantera Park.

Ethan at 22.5 months old

Papi's Birthday Pictures

We celebrated Papi's birthday at Tan Cang Restaurant on 04/01/09.

Creative teaching that didn't work

I've been teaching Ethan to do puzzles and he can do the animal shapes, object shapes & is still learning to do the alphabet puzzle. Since Ethan's a very active boy, it's rather hard for me to sit him still and finish his puzzle. When he can't put in the puzzle and became impatient with it, he would just walk away from it or start kicking the puzzles. Therefore, i used this teaching method: i put his best friend "Winnie the Pooh doll" next to him and tell him that Pooh will help Ethan doing his puzzle. Whenever he's having trouble doing the puzzle, i would have Pooh help him with the puzzle. Until last night, when we were doing puzzle, Ethan was only doing 1 piece of puzzle and he got up and said : pooh...pooh...pooh....he didn't want to finish the puzzle and asked pooh to finish the puzzle instead. oh myyyy....was it my creative teaching method that didn't work out or was it Ethan that's always full of ideas and tricks and somehow managed to be creative?

Early Reading

Last week, we discovered that Ethan started his early reading:

The Letter "O"
Nai-nai was giving Ethan a drink from a glass of water. She was bending down and suddenly Ethan said : "O" and pointed to the letter O that he saw on Nai-Nai t-shirt.

The Letter "M"
We were at LAX airport on 04/02/09, dropping off Papi for his business trip to Taiwan. After checking in & baggage screening, we went to the 2nd floor and walked around the food court. We bought Ethan a $.99 MacDonald ice cream. As he was running around in front of the MacDonald stand, he said "M" (he saw the MacDonald's logo and read it out loud).

April 1, 2009

Papi turned 29 years old today.

And here's Ethan & I's prayer for him on his birthday:

God continues to bless you, keeps you safe and guides you in His ways.
God gives you good health.
God gives you wisdom to be a good father for Ethan and a good husband for Angel (a.k.a Mommy)
God gives you wisdom to lead our family according to His will.
God gives you strength to be the head of our family.
God gives you strength to be the man of His words.

Amen.