Best gift ever!

You know what's coming up? Father's Day!

Daycare had asked me last week if I can bring in a blank t-shirt for them to make t-shirt art for the dads as Father's Day gifts. I thought it was such a cute idea. I bought a 3-pack of plain, white t's and planned on giving one to daycare and the rest to daddy. Then I thought I should give daycare one more shirt for them to design for your Vancouver grandpa. Since they live so far away from us we can never celebrate Father's Day together. I thought what better idea to send him something meaningful instead of just a card and money. Now I wish I did one for your Toronto grandpa, but we are planning to take him out anyways for Father's Day.

Daddy will be getting his shirt next Friday. I kind of told daddy about it already even when daycare told me to keep it a secret. I had to since we had to mail it out today.

Anyways, besides that it was a tough day for you. You are having a difficult time sleeping lately. You wake up constantly and today you woke up super early- around 5:30am. I was really frustrated because I was so tired. I was hoping you would go back to sleep, but you didn't. Luckily mommy worked from home today, but I was not happy with you. When I dropped you off at daycare around 8:30am you were pretty tired already. Daycare told me that you were very cranky today and just not in a good mood. I wonder why! I was able to access the daycare video access at home so I checked how you were doing in the afternoon.

It's black & white because the lights were turned off. I guess the cameras don't pick up colour if it's too dark inside... You are the 3rd kid from the top on the right. That's your big, black head there. Aigoo aigoo...

Around 2:40pm the kids started waking up one by one.

Now everyone's awake... er... except you!

One of the teacher's eventually woke you up, but you were still so tired that you just lay on the mat. Poor baby!

A day in the life

My what a day you had. We first started out going to church in the morning. We decided to visit Auntie Jess afterwards since our church is not so far from her house. She hadn't seen you in a while. Then we headed back home for a bit and then we visited your Toronto grandparents while daddy played soccer nearby. Here's just a quick snapshot of what happened today. I'm trying out a new iPhone app called Instagram where it allows you to put cool filters on iPhone photos that I take. So far I'm loving it!

We decided to pick up lunch for Auntie Jess on the way to her house so we stopped by Apache Burger. She said it has really good hamburgers. We ate there before we got her food because we didn't want to bring add more garbage to her house.

Auntie Jess was sweet enough to read to you while you were there. Here she is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, a classic!

Look how engaged you are. Your hair looks so black here... Usually it's a dark brown.

On the way home from Auntie Jess' you passed out in the car. You had a very long day...

You had a BLAST at your Toronto grandparents' house. We played in the backyard, we went to the park and all in all it was a great afternoon. Daddy just put you to bed and you slept quite well... So long to a great weekend.

Asher & Aidan

My friend YJ called me up this afternoon to see if we wanted to do a play date with her son Asher. I happily accepted. I knew that you playing with another boy your age would be good for you and would make you tired just before your bedtime. Plus, I hadn't been to their house in ages.

It was a great afternoon because you guys played so well together. There was one point where you both were on top of the slide (YJ has A LOT of toys) and you both were jumping up and down in happiness. That made me so happy. When it came time to leave you guys hi-five'd each other and said "bye-bye". It was the cutest thing. You are now sleeping like a little baby.

Battle scars

I got a call from daycare while going into work today. Diane, your daycare teacher, said that you got bitten under your eye by another toddler. Apparently you wanted these flash cards that another toddler was holding and when you grabbed it from them they got angry and bit you. I was so shocked and worried when Diane told me that. I know these things happen and kids will be kids, but I'm still very upset. I was even more upset when I came home and saw your face. You looked like you got beaten up pretty badly!

I wanted to get mad at the daycare, but I know that it isn't totally the other kid's fault. I've seen you try to grab things from other kids at church. I'm not saying what you are doing is totally wrong and bad, but I can see why the daycare kid got mad. Ugh.

The boy who loved to read...

There's one thing you love and that's reading books. Actually you don't know how to read yet so I guess it would be for me to read you books. Auntie Sara and Uncle Dan just came back from their England vacation yesterday and they brought you back Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit book. I had the chance to read it to you today and you really enjoyed it. I was so afraid that you would rip out the pop ups (because you had already done that to your other books) and I didn't want you ruining such a beautiful book. Luckily you didn't :-)

One thing I'm noticing is how much you are changing. You try to copy everything we are saying now. This morning when daddy brought you to our bed after you had woken up you started pointing to the picture frames above our bed and started pointing and saying 'daddy, umma, Aidan!' Well, you don't say 'Aidan' quite perfectly. You say 'Ah-Den'. You then sat on mommy's stomach and started pointing to all my parts starting with my eyes. It was very cute.

Then at church you grabbed the wooden puzzle toys- the ones where you match the cut-out shapes to the puzzle back. You were fitting all the shapes into their proper place like a pro. And when I ask you what you want you nod your head as if you understand everything I am saying now. For example, if I say, "Aidan, do you want cheese?" You then nod your head. And then I ask you, "Say please." Then you say "peace" (as in please). After I give you the cheese I ask you to say thank you. Then you say, "Tank you". After you eat the cheese I ask you to throw it in the garbage and you run to the garbage can and throw it out. It's quite amazing. How did something that was nothing become this amazing little creature???

Time Out!

Lately we, meaning daddy and I, have been implementing the Time Out method of disciplining you. Basically we move you from the situation where you are throwing a tantrum or if you have done something bad and we put you against a corner of a wall. I'm not sure if you are getting it though. Most of the time you are mocking us when we put you there. Almost like you think we are joking. Then you start getting a little antsy and start slowly moving away. When we put you back in the corner that's when you get really upset. You start crying and throwing a hissy fit on the ground. Nonetheless we aren't going to stop trying this method. Unless you want the spanking method... Muhahaha!

The video below of you is when I put you in the Time Out corner. Don't I sound scary in the video? You don't want to mess with mommy...

Family day- Kim style!

Both mommy and daddy had a day off from work today. Daddy kept insisting that today was family day and I guess in a way it was. Too bad the weather was crummy :-S

The day started off with us dropping by your Toronto grandparent's café in the morning. We were able to get free food and they, meaning your grandparents, were able to spend time with you. The photos above were of you and your grandpa today. He was delivering a catering order and he took you along with him in his little cart. It was so cute! I think you were scared to fall off so you sat very still the whole way there.

Afterwards mommy had to stop by the dentist and then we headed over to Pacific Mall to grab some lunch and to browse around. You kept insisting that I hold you the whole time we were there so we couldn't stay for too long. You are getting so heavy now- I think you are about 25lbs so it's really hard for both mommy and daddy to hold you for a long time.

We headed back home to rest and take a nap, but you know how you are with sleeping- you hate it! I tried for an hour to put you down for a nap, but you weren't having any of it. Eventually I gave up in frustration. I thought that family day was over, but apparently not! Daddy wanted to go to another mall nearby to buy a visor for his hockey helmet and also soccer shoes so we headed out again. This time around you were so cranky and tired so it wasn't a pleasant trip. The trick is to take you in the morning or right after a nap because that's when you are happiest.