Tuesday, June 30, 2009
After 2 weeks of swimming
Ethan can swim by himself on his life vest jacket now. He kicks his feet and moves his hands. He can even swim round and round in a circle. He also understands if the pool water gets into his mouth accidentaly, he needs to spit out. Swimming with Ethan is so much fun now and mommy / papi can also swim as well. The weather is getting hotter nowadays so we'll be out in the pool everyday. Yipeee....!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Learning to swim
We have been swimming almost everyday for the last 2 weeks. Ethan takes his nap time, wakes up and eats lunch and then comes swim time. Usually nai-nai would let him play in the backyard and wet his feet by the poolside while waiting for mommy to come home from work. I usually get home around 4:10pm. Then it's swimming time with Ethan. We usually swim in the jacuzzi since the water in the big pool is still quite cold. Ethan never wants to swim with his ducky floater. We gave up trying to get him to use the floater. Then last sunday, we bought him the life vest jacket.
On the first day swimming with a life vest jacket, Ethan refused to wear it, but we managed to put the jacket on him with a bit of struggle. On the first day with the life vest jacket, i basically held him all the time and sometimes I waited in the middle of the jacuzzi with hands reaching out to him and he jumped to grab my hands.
Second day, Ethan asked Nai-Nai to put on the life vest jacket. Yeahhh...he knows swimming is fun with the vest. Again still in the jacuzzi, Ethan started to follow mommy from behind if mommy slided accross the jacuzzi back and forth. I told him to kick his feets and move his hands and he did so. I saw his improvement from day 1.
Third day, as the wheater was quite hot, we swam in the big pool. Ethan has improved so much and began to swim without mommy holding his hands. But of course, i still need to watch him very carefuly, he sometimes flipped to the side and over and drank the pool water accidently.
We hope the wheather will warm up and we can swim in the big pool. I wish potty train would be this easy but unfortunately not. Mommy needs to be patient with Ethan when it comes to potty train.
On the first day swimming with a life vest jacket, Ethan refused to wear it, but we managed to put the jacket on him with a bit of struggle. On the first day with the life vest jacket, i basically held him all the time and sometimes I waited in the middle of the jacuzzi with hands reaching out to him and he jumped to grab my hands.
Second day, Ethan asked Nai-Nai to put on the life vest jacket. Yeahhh...he knows swimming is fun with the vest. Again still in the jacuzzi, Ethan started to follow mommy from behind if mommy slided accross the jacuzzi back and forth. I told him to kick his feets and move his hands and he did so. I saw his improvement from day 1.
Third day, as the wheater was quite hot, we swam in the big pool. Ethan has improved so much and began to swim without mommy holding his hands. But of course, i still need to watch him very carefuly, he sometimes flipped to the side and over and drank the pool water accidently.
We hope the wheather will warm up and we can swim in the big pool. I wish potty train would be this easy but unfortunately not. Mommy needs to be patient with Ethan when it comes to potty train.
Disney California Adventure
Date: May 13, 2009
We've been telling Ethan that we'd visit Disneyland again and see Mickey and friends. He got excited, he then told us what he saw the last time we went there.
Ethan said: mickey...minnie...pluto....desy....goofy...bye-bye....(he remembered the parade that we saw and us waving goodbye to those characters as the parade ended the last time we visited Disneyland).
This time, we visited the Disney California Adventure.
The theme park is not as big as Disneyland, in fact it's much smaller. We were having a difficult time at first getting Ethan to entar live perfomance shows. He got scared, i don't know why, he just didn't like seeing live on stage shows. He cried and asked us to get out when we wanted him to see Playhouse Disney show. Thank God he enjoyed "Aladin". That show was a 1 hour show and it was beautiful. I recommend to see Aladin show when you visit Disney California Adventure. I think this was the highlight of our trip.
For sure, we'd come back again to Disneyland, i'm not sure about going back to CA Adventure though.
We've been telling Ethan that we'd visit Disneyland again and see Mickey and friends. He got excited, he then told us what he saw the last time we went there.
Ethan said: mickey...minnie...pluto....desy....goofy...bye-bye....(he remembered the parade that we saw and us waving goodbye to those characters as the parade ended the last time we visited Disneyland).
This time, we visited the Disney California Adventure.
The theme park is not as big as Disneyland, in fact it's much smaller. We were having a difficult time at first getting Ethan to entar live perfomance shows. He got scared, i don't know why, he just didn't like seeing live on stage shows. He cried and asked us to get out when we wanted him to see Playhouse Disney show. Thank God he enjoyed "Aladin". That show was a 1 hour show and it was beautiful. I recommend to see Aladin show when you visit Disney California Adventure. I think this was the highlight of our trip.
For sure, we'd come back again to Disneyland, i'm not sure about going back to CA Adventure though.
Friday, June 12, 2009
When Ethan is 2 years old and 2 weeks
Spelling
Ethan can spell more letters now. Last night, as we finished eating dinner at a pho restaurant, we took a walk down the restaurant complex. I tested him to spell the letters from the display words from the stores’ windows. He managed to spell a few of them correctly. Ex: A, B, C, D, E, F, M, H, O,...
Wait and stand in Line
Ethan understands when mommy told him to wait. He’s learning to stand in line now.
Saying 2 words
The most often phrase would be: mommy come, papi come, nai-nai come!
Understand us better
Ethan can understand pretty much what we say to him. Ex: Ethan, ride on your stroller when we arrive at the market, okay. And he replied: No, walk! He can now hold onto our hands when we walk in public places. He was not able to do this before,
Good appetite
Ethan looks chubbier nowadays. We just love to “cubit-cubit paha” Ethan. He also enjoys when we “cubit-cubit paha”-nya.
Make own story
Ethan would speak in his language and end the sentence in an understand word: Ex: “(gibberish talking)….No”. “(gibberish talking)….Okay”. “(gibberish talking)….tung-tung (hurt)”.
Imitate everything
I mean everything.. yeahhh….! He’s learning by watching us.
Remember directions
He knows which way to go to Ernie’s house (he’s our neighbor son). He knows which way to turn when mommy drives Nai-Nai to adult school (he sees the school on his left side and point it to that direction).
Learn to bath by himself
He can wet himself from hair to toe by using “gayung”.
Begin to understand there’s hot and cold
Before Ethan says “dingin” (meaning cold) to any temperature. Now he can say hot and cold.
Help Mommy and Nai-Nai buy grocery
Ethan can get the milk, bread and prepackaged chicken and put them into the trolley.
Ethan can spell more letters now. Last night, as we finished eating dinner at a pho restaurant, we took a walk down the restaurant complex. I tested him to spell the letters from the display words from the stores’ windows. He managed to spell a few of them correctly. Ex: A, B, C, D, E, F, M, H, O,...
Wait and stand in Line
Ethan understands when mommy told him to wait. He’s learning to stand in line now.
Saying 2 words
The most often phrase would be: mommy come, papi come, nai-nai come!
Understand us better
Ethan can understand pretty much what we say to him. Ex: Ethan, ride on your stroller when we arrive at the market, okay. And he replied: No, walk! He can now hold onto our hands when we walk in public places. He was not able to do this before,
Good appetite
Ethan looks chubbier nowadays. We just love to “cubit-cubit paha” Ethan. He also enjoys when we “cubit-cubit paha”-nya.
Make own story
Ethan would speak in his language and end the sentence in an understand word: Ex: “(gibberish talking)….No”. “(gibberish talking)….Okay”. “(gibberish talking)….tung-tung (hurt)”.
Imitate everything
I mean everything.. yeahhh….! He’s learning by watching us.
Remember directions
He knows which way to go to Ernie’s house (he’s our neighbor son). He knows which way to turn when mommy drives Nai-Nai to adult school (he sees the school on his left side and point it to that direction).
Learn to bath by himself
He can wet himself from hair to toe by using “gayung”.
Begin to understand there’s hot and cold
Before Ethan says “dingin” (meaning cold) to any temperature. Now he can say hot and cold.
Help Mommy and Nai-Nai buy grocery
Ethan can get the milk, bread and prepackaged chicken and put them into the trolley.
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