Di Di bumped his front tooth back in February. At that time, I took his dentist's advice to not have a surgery to extract the tooth right away. It looked so bad that I really did not believe the dentist when she told me that given time there is even a chance that the gum might push the tooth out a little bit. I was thinking.. "yea, right. no way Jose." You wouldn't have believed her either if you had seen this picture back in Feb.
However, it did happen. The gum DID push out the tooth, not just a little bit, but the whole tooth is almost back to where it was!! Although it is now crooked, I am still grateful to see his little tooth again! Kids just have this amazing self healing power.
It's an understatement to say that we had an extremely busy August. Not sure how we were going to survive August and September, but luckily we did!
Didi had lots of fun as usual, but also faced a huge challenge at school:
1. DiDi completed all of his swimming class for the year. He made such a huge improvement from being scared of swimming to couldn't get enough of it! Can't wait for him to take more classes next summer. 2. Didi finally got to visit Sacramento's Railroad Museum and he was in heaven. We had to drag him out of the museum! 3. We held a neighborhood baby shower for our new neighbor. DD had lots of fun with Baby S and he ate so much as usual! 4. He started new school. Probably due to the newness, he had a great first week in the intermediate class (age appropriate), but it took a drastic turn for the worst afterwards. He had never been scared of going to day care before, but he got more and more scared of going to his new pre-K. I thought he would get better, but he started regressing in his potty and was having four to five accidents a day. He screamed and cried on the way to school and I practically had to drag him out of his car seat most days (tough life!) 5. Didi went on his first house hunting trip with Mommy and Daddy. We scheduled the showings around his nap time, but it was still hard. We were all tired out from house hunting, so I decided to give daddy the executive decision so that hopefully Didi and I don't have to go the the Bay Area again until we move!:)~
Family updates: 1. S found a job in the Bay Area and started working down there in late August. This means I have resumed another period of single-working-mother life. However, this is not as bad, because S comes home on the weekends. Didi is not too happy, because he wants to spend every day with daddy! 2. We decided to move down to the Bay Area. With all the weekend activities, we still had to squeeze in time to de-clutter our house and do some MAJOR cleaning!!
"We all know that patience is a virtue; we also know that it's a virtue young children don't always have in large amounts. Or at all. Especially when there's candy involved. So when these kids are left alone in a room with a gigantic marshmallow and a promise that if they do not eat it, they can have another, what happens? Watch the video and see."
I am totally behind on keeping up the journal!! We have been so busy since August enjoying the August/September weather, trying to get our house ready, and shopping/bidding for a new home.
Definitely need to give more update later, but I want to post this video before I forget again!
I caught DD "reading" his new Thomas book when I was preparing his bottle. Ok, I admit that I am biased, but DD is simply too cute!!
After I started posting on this blog, I realized that it's not only a great place for us to share updates on Di-di, but it can also be a great online diary. I have added pictures and comments to what happened in 2006 when we embarked on our adoption journey.
