Alex woke up this morning at about 6:30AM. Lazy dad slept for another half-hour or so while Alex and Mommy hung out downstairs.

Alex decided that Nicky’s activity mat might need a little expert adjustment, so he got right on that.

Once everyone was up and about, we met up with Alex’s friend Bennett from day care for breakfast. Bennett was kind enough to bring his folks. Jared, Yingbin and Kyla also attended. We were considering bringing Nicky, but he was sleepy, so he elected to cool it at home.

After we finished breakfast, Alex and Bennett decided they wanted to see some airplanes at Montgomery Field.

With all that action, a power nap was needed. After a little midday rest, we headed up to Grandma and Grandpa’s Compound for some fun haircuts.

Nicky was more awake in the afternoon, so he came along. He got to spend some time with Grandpa.

“What do you mean, Nicky doesn’t have enough hair to get a haircut yet?”

Meanwhile, Alex did a great job on his haircut this time around. He’s becoming a real multitasker. Here he is eating Grandpa’s chicken, hanging out with Grandma, and getting his hair cut all at the same time.

“I don’t even want to think about how you’re going to caption this picture.”

Meanwhile, the rest of us talked about boring adult stuff and put Nicky back to sleep again.

天天受疫苗的影响食欲还是　不让以前，但较第一天还是好了很多.礼拜六早上，天天醒的早，把哥哥吵醒了，易峰也不睡了，我就带他去看鸭鸭。

There are still big bumps on both Nicky’s legs after the immunization shot. His appetite is still low, which impacts his sleeping schedule. He cried and woke up his brother at 6:45AM. Then our nanny took Nicky out for a walk. Alex couldn’t go back to sleep so Mommy decided to take Alex to see Ya Ya (duckies in Chinese).

Alex was very excited to hear Mommy’s plan. Before I dressed up he had already put his hat on, sat in the stroller, and said “I am ready!”

我还没准备好，小家伙就已经把帽子带到自己的头上准备出发了，还一个劲儿地说“我已经好了”，我说你等妈妈几分钟，他还非常有耐心，自己在墙上开起了小火车。

“Mommy, you are not ready yet?”

He was very patient driving Percy on the wall when waiting for Mommy.

We forgot to take food to feed Ya Ya. Many Ya Ya chased us on the shore. Alex tried to let them know how much he loves them. Apparently Ya Ya are not used to it yet. 我们忘了带食物去喂鸭子，有些时候我们带着食物去喂那些鸭子，他们好像不怎么知趣，今天可能是一大清早的缘故，每个鸭子都饿饿地向我们游来，还有很多跑到岸边上来的，哪是乞食的样子，绝对是强食。易峰看到这么多鸭子围着他转很高兴，他想走得近些，再近些，让鸭鸭们知道他有多爱他们，那些鸭子可不习惯了。。。

Alex likes rocks, which reminds me of my own childhood. I liked to play sticks and pork bones on the ground with other kids. One of my mom’s friends is a doctor. She always reported it to my mom if she saw me playing with my hands on the ground. Fortunately, my parents never scolded me for that. I helped Alex collect some big rocks and taught him to hit some targets with the rocks. Although we got our hands dirty, it was really fun.

He was studying flowers.

Then we went to the library and read two car books. When Daddy called, it was 10:15AM already. Both Alex and I couldn’t believe we stayed outside so long.

Time to go home to eat lunch!

First, here comes Nicky’s measurement.

Weight 体重: 16lbs 11.2oz, 50%
Height 身高: 25.75 inches, 50%
head 头围: 17 inches, 75%

整体来说，天天是个健康的宝贝，就是左眼的泪腺还是有点堵，得继续按摩，右眼已经基本好了。天天挨了三针疫苗，大哭，因为天天很少哭，所以他哭起来就觉得真是天大的事情发生了，而且不像很多小孩，哭就闭着眼睛号啕大哭，天天是先眼泪汪汪地看着你，非常委屈的，咧咧嘴，先抽泣着，然后小雨转大雨再转暴风雨，嘴里还可怜地叫着妈妈， 妈妈， 妈妈，那真是教你觉得让这么好的一个孩子哭，简直就是犯罪。打完疫苗之后有些小孩是有食欲下降，呕吐，浑身不舒服的问题，希望天天明天吃的好睡得香。

Second, Nicky is healthy except the blocked tear duct. Need to continue massaging his eye corner.

Third, Nicky got three immunization shots and was very upset. After we got home, he refused to eat and had a very hard time to sleep. And for the first time since he was born, he cried for half hour long and I almost took him to ER. Guess how I finally calmed him down? Milk? Binkie? Rocking? No, No, No. The only thing can calm him down after painful shot is TV. As I said at my previous post, I don’t allow him to watch TV. But today is an exception.

Fourth, everybody we met at clinic fell in love with Nicky. Nicky behaved like a movie star smiling like sunshine to everybody. People keep sasking me:” Is he always happy like this?” That’s my Nicky.

Fifth, our pediatrician misses Alex. We spent at least half of visit time talking about Alex.

今天妈妈当保姆了，当然还要当厨师和保洁员，晚上还要起来，照顾天天，很累，但有我的小开心果笑不可支的给我打气，所有的疲惫都一扫而光了。

天天会在大人把的时候拉屎撒尿了，为了证明给DAVE看，我还拍了照片，我还在天天如厕之后拍照留念，你相信四个月的娃娃就能做我们家两岁的小伙子不会做的事吗？什么时候我们家易峰不用尿不湿了呀？

Our nanny took two days off. Today I stayed at home with Nicky. We had lots of fun and laugh. However, at night I felt pain all over my body — I’m getting old..

“Mommy, I just had a good nap.” 刚刚睡了个好觉。

“Mommy, I saw another baby?!” 发现“新”大陆。

When Nicky was in the bouncer, I jumped up and down, right and left around him. Nicky laughed hard looking at me. 看天天笑的，都不像他了。

上礼拜刚刚表扬了易峰，今天礼拜一一大早他又有点别别扭扭的，给他换了臭臭的尿不湿之后，他怎么都不让我给他穿新尿片，就得爸爸来换，一到饭桌上，我们讲什么他都说NO，我只好对自己说耐心再耐心一点。今天又看到有个妈妈讲，饭桌上尽量不要讲“你吃啊”“再吃一口”之类的话，尽量和小孩多愉快的聊天，培养饭桌积极的气氛，这虽然和我们老祖宗饭间不语背道而驰，但以后绝不劝吃，聊天多有意思呀，只是不知道到了小孩子划拉几个米粒到肚子里面去。

早上Dave送易峰去学校，然后告诉我易峰在学校里哭了，起因是易峰去拿一个玩具，那个玩具只好在另外一个小朋友的面前，那个小朋友就不让拿，Dave就让易峰不要拿，口气也不重，但易峰一咧嘴委屈地哭了起来。我听了之后一天心里都很惦念易峰，大人有些时候心气不顺，还看什么都不顺心呢，这一天易峰可怎么熬呀，所以我就计划今天早点去接他。

5点钟刚到易峰的学校门口，就听见小孩大哭的声音，我暗想，该不是我们家易峰吧，想着就不由得加快了脚步。进了门，两个班的小孩子们正在跟音乐跳舞，每人手里都拿着彩带，老师也在里面跳，一个男孩正在地上打滚哭闹，我一看，是易峰他们班的淘气大王 －－－我一直很担心易峰受他欺负，或跟他学很多坏毛病，这么点的小娃就要学会出污泥而不染，也够不容易的。眼睛转了一圈找到我们家易峰，他哪有时间哭呀，正跟那儿跳得欢呢，他看到我，高兴地跑过来，我一把把他抱起，重重地亲了一口。

要出门了，易峰的校长拿着一本书过了问我是不是家里有这本书，我看了看，说没有，校长就很激动地跟我说今天她给易峰班读书，一群小孩子中就易峰一个可以跟老师模仿读，而且读得字字句句都很好，我当时感觉只有两个字来形容，惊喜。

一天的担心却发现都是多余，我的宝贝已经初长成，易峰，妈妈今天因为你的快乐，很高兴。我一直不太在乎小孩子到底会数几个数，或会背什么唐诗，会，当然更好，不会，也无伤大雅。我希望易峰和天天要懂得独立，坚强，自信，博爱，这些性格的培养对我来说比什么都重要。

Today is Monday. I had been worried about Alex the whole day.

When he woke up playing with his astronaut, he was happy. However, for no reasons, he refused to be changed and started whining. Dave had to take it over to put new diaper on him. When we moved downstairs, he didn’t want to eat anything. Finally I tricked him to eat half dumpling, half egg, and some yogurt, but he threw up almost everything after being choked by a big bite. Then he knocked the cereal bowl to the carpet, I scolded him and he cried very badly. When Daddy dropped him at school, he cried again when Daddy told him not to take a block from Colin.

My thoughts was gone with Alex whole day imaging Alex cried and whined at school. It must be a long day for Alex. So I decided to pick him up earlier today.

When I arrived at school, I heard somebody was crying very loudly. It maybe Alex. I said to myself and speed up to Alex’s classroom. When I walked in, most kids were dancing with the song Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes. I saw my baby! He didn’t cry at all. He was dancing with color paper strips in his hands. Very happy. He so focused on the dancing that he didn’t see me coming in until other kids came to say hi. Then he saw me and rush to me and gave me a big hug. “Alex, did you have a good day today?” “Yeah-” Alex likes to say Yeah with an exaggerated high pitch tone. What a big relief! I returned him a big hug and big kiss.

Before we left the school, the school’s director walked to me with a book and asked me if Alex has that book at home. I looked at it and said no. She told me today she read that book to Alex’s class, and Alex is the only kid who can read after her. The director is very impressed by Alex’s language development. I was thrilled.

Now my princes are all sleeping soundly at their own rooms. I miss them already and cannot wait to hold them again.

天天很喜欢看电视，不让他看，他就使出浑身解术，或伸出脖子，或斜着眼睛，真不知道一个四个月大娃为看个电视哪有那么多的点子，我们当然是把这种恶习扼杀在摇篮里，这次为了拍照就颇个例。易峰也很有大哥的风范，对天天爱护有加。

Nicky was posing for mommy to take a picture.

“Hi, DiDi, Smile. I love you!” Alex was being cheered up by his favorite video on TV. He couldn’t move his eyes away from of TV.

“天天，照个相笑一笑嘛。”

Alex was singing and signing with the DVD.

“TV? I WANT TO WATCH TV TOO!” You cannot imagine how much our little Nicky likes watching TV. He can turn his head up to 180 degrees to find TV at the risk of twisting his neck. But sorry Nicky, you are too young to watch TV.

“妈妈，哥哥在看电视呢，我也要看！”

易峰这礼拜进步非常大，几次想哭，想闹，都自己控制住了，这一点对于一个两岁的孩子来说，很不简单。主要的原因老妈我的功劳不可抹（真的不得不表扬一下自己，哈哈），姥姥姥爷大姨的意见也都起了很大作用，聆听小孩子的心声，理解他们的想法，尽量少提建议，不过我还是得好好学习如何教育好易峰和天天。有了宝宝之后，就总有一丝丝惶惶不安，唯恐自己做到不够好，读了一些书以为自己知道怎么做了，在实际中却发现自己一知半解的方法往往显得苍白无力，所以我觉得养孩子就得和孩子一起学习成长，实际上这样对自己也是一种提高。

This week Alex has been doing so well at home, grandma’s place, and school. He helped Grandma dig potatoes. He shared the toys with other kids at school. He has overcome his tantrums many times and been a very good listener. So today, he received a “Olympic” gold medal for being such a good boy from school.

还在琢磨着这礼拜还没有更新，但好像没什么新照片给大家分享，今天在和天天玩的时候，他就突然给了我一个惊喜，一口气还翻了好几遍，自己也高兴地呀呀叫。点击这里（翻身）去看录像吧。你们听到天天在翻之前还做了个鼓励自己的口令了吗？好可爱呀。

另外一个有意思的是每次如果我给天天喂奶的时间不对，他就抬头看着我，很委屈地叫“妈－妈”。当然他还不会讲话，但每次此时此景，他听起来就好像是在叫妈妈。

I am still amazed even though I saw Alex did the same thing two years ago. After the first one, Nicky kept flipping himself over for 6 times. So easy… I recorded all of them. I like this video the most because the sound Nicky made before rolling sounds like he would do karate kick,”HayYa–!”

Tonight, after Daddy put Alex into bed, he said,”Oh, it is much easier than last night.” I know what he meant. Alex had a couple of meltdowns last weekend. It’s mainly because he was hungry, but didn’t want to eat the meal we prepared. Today after dinner, he ate a whole banana. You can tell immediately the difference after he has some food in tummy, much happier and willing to cooperative. The same thing happened this morning. At first, he didn’t want to eat anything on his plate. Later, he ate some cereal from my breakfast bowl, and ate some of my yogurt too. Very soon, he stopped being grumpy and was very happy to leave house to go to school.

Food is important. The problem is we haven’t found a method to make sure Alex eat well at each meal time. He consistently likes most of the fruits, but was very picky on meat and vegetable.

头天跟大姨讨论了一下大姨的牙齿治疗问题，顺便回报了近来易峰和天天的情况，第二天姥姥就不无担心在电话里忧虑易峰动辄大哭的情况。其实易峰的目前主要问题就是吃饭不好，每次一上饭桌就说吃完了，给这个不吃，给那个也不吃。肚里没食，当然没好气了。今天吃完晚饭后吃了根香蕉，非常明显地，易峰就高兴很多，也不是老虎屁股摸不得了，咯咯咯地笑着跟我们玩，早晨也是一样，好好吃饭了，就高高兴兴地上学去了，要是什么都不吃，那是真叫倔呀，叫干嘛不干嘛，肚子里的气不顺呗。我不赞同追着孩子的屁股后面喂饭，但目前也没有太好的招让我们家的大少爷吃饭，只好从食物下手，看来我们家的老老小小真要把我培养成一代大厨呀。

Yesterday we just started this year’s day light saving, today becomes really hot as if it is summer. Weeks ago, Alex and Daddy still used fire when it was pouring rain outside.

从昨天美国开始夏令时了，我很不喜欢，小孩子的作息时间搞得乱七八糟，今天一下子很热了，看一张两个礼拜前下大雨时dave 和易峰在壁炉前看书的照片吧，易峰穿的是姥姥姥爷在北京买的衣服，一看就直是从中国买的，在美国没见过这样的衣服，尽管很多从中国卖的衣服上的英文很多都写得驴唇不对马嘴，但我还是很喜欢易峰穿中国买的衣服。

Nicky had his first rice cereal last week, but is not a fan yet. However, he likes the bouncer.

天天干什么都笑眯眯的，谁看他都心情巨好。点击跳跳跳去看个录像。

Grandma’s cough gets worse this week. Alex and I talked about grandma yesterday at dinner table.

Mom:”Alex, Grandma is sick.”
Alex:”…”
Mom:” Do you want to call grandma?”
Alex:”Yeah.”
Mom:”What do you want to say to Grandma then?”
Alex:”……”
(thinking for 5 seconds)
Alex:”I love you, grandma!”

I am very proud of my son!

易峰的奶奶近来老是生病，这礼拜她的咳嗽又厉害了。我昨天吃饭的时候和易峰讲起了这事。

妈妈：“易峰，奶奶病了”
易峰：“。。。。。”
妈妈：”你想给奶奶打电话吗？“
易峰：”想“
妈妈：：“那你要讲些什么呀？”易峰现在可以独立给爸爸打电话了，但给奶奶打电话通常我们还得旁边教着，所以我真以为自己给易峰出了个难题。
（易峰想了５秒钟）
易峰：“我爱你！”

我重重地在易峰的脸色亲了一下，易峰，关心别人是不是自己也觉得很甜蜜？