Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Potty Training

It's hard to go from posting about party to potty training, but you can't miss this one.

S and I thought our life has either hit a new high or a new low after dancing and clapping around the toilet celebrating Di-Di's first "number 2" in his big boy potty!! LOL.... We have been avoiding the potty training chore for months, but decided to give it a try after finding this great program. You might want to check it out if you are not against early potty training (before 2). It came with a "Potty Train" DVD, a whistle, stickers and a book. So far, Di-Di loves the DVD and watches it once every morning and evening. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, because we found out that recently (before we decided to potty train) Di-di has been holding his bowl. It has created a vicious cycle that lead to constipation, hurt and then worse constipation. Being in the terrible twos stage adds another layer of "power struggle" problem if we try to push too hard. We wished that we had found this program 6 months earlier. We would be in better shape today.
This is actually the second time that Di-di goes through potty training. Imagine my surprise when I first saw what was taking place in the pictures below. Di-di was only three months old and would "go" on my aunt's commend. I almost fell off the floor!! My aunt is old school in the child rearing department which includes very very very early potty training. (I have no recollection of this, but she said way back then we all started potting training at one month old and were definitely potty trained by 6 months old..... Taiwanese didn't use disposable diapers back then in the countryside. In addition, supposedly adults were too busy to change and wash clothes diapers so many times a day, so we, the babies/toddlers, would usually crawl and run around with our split pants and it was easy to clean the tile floor or the dirt if accidents occurred. Oooop.. sorry, erase that picture in your mind. Like I said, I have NO recollection of such event in my early life. :)

Even though my aunt had trained Di-di, it became too hard to keep up the potty thing when my aunt left us, specially after Di-di started going to day care. Hope with the help of this program we can pick up where my aunt has left us and keep it up this time.

(Warning- don't look at the pictures below if kid's poop grosses you out.:)

Di-di was first potty trained at three months old.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Party!!

We went to celebrate G's 4 year old B-Day party. His mommy and daddy certainly know how to throw a great party! Di-di loved the food, the toys, but was not as sure about the water slide! :)

We are to lucky to have so many great family and friends who don't mind inviting us over for their parties, even though I never have any party in my house! I am way too lazy when it comes to planning a party, but Di-di never misses any party fun with such great aunties and uncles!

(Beautiful K)

(B-Day boy)



(Di-di spent most of the time watching the other kids)

(The only time Di-di went on the slide)

(He found a safe corner..:)

(Cake!!)

(T-ball is definitely Di-di's sport.:)

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Certificate of Citizenship

We picked up Di-di's COC on 7-11 Friday without any problem!! It wasn't like the big oath taking ceremonies that S and I attended for our COCs. We walked into a USCIS waiting room, handed the notice and Di-Di's green card to the office clerk and then waited our turn to be called to get his COC and a mini American flag. The notice said to expect 2 hours, but it took less than 20 minutes. We decided to have a little celebration breakfast at Cafe Bernardo...Yummy.
We had a relaxing weekend.
(Di-di loved waving his American flag)


(Di-di didn't want daddy to go back to work at all. He was having so much fun with daddy.)
(Di-di was so good to daddy. He didn't complain when daddy used his back as a pillow..:)

Saturday, July 5, 2008

July 4th Weekend

(K has changed so much since last year!)

We had a great July 4th weekend with the whole Lim Clan! Uncle D, Auntie L and Cousin K drove 800+miles round trip to Sac from LA. Grandpa and Grandma drove from Napa. With the HIGH gas prices, we can't be more appreciative of you driving so far away!! We are very happy to see everyone before our big move to London!

Our family and Uncle K's friends had a traditional July 4th BBQ party. The weather was so cool this year that the kids didn't get to swim in the pool. However, the cool weather was perfect for our BBQ. We almost died from the heat last July 4th when we did a BBQ.

We had 4 kids in the house and (I think) they had a blast playing with each other! Di-di hasn't had a play date since early 2007, so I am counting this one as a play date. :) We also hung out by the river on Saturday morning. Grandapa, Grandma and Uncle K all taught Di-di some of their best golf moves.
A Chinese family get-together isn't complete without some good food:
Friday dinner, we had Italian cuisine at Bucca di Beppo.
Saturday lunch, we tried Vietnamese cuisine Lemon Grass Noodle Bar (The cheaper version of Lemon Grass Restaurant).
Saturday Dinner, we had Japanese at our favorite Japanese restaurant Taro's.

Uncle K, Auntie L and Cousin K are serious foodies, so we hope they enjoyed the food in Sac!


(K is an all-American girl!)

(Grandpa is our Iron Chef. Di-di to Auntie M: please don't stop me from touching the grill! :)


(I really wanted to keep Baby B, but his mommy and daddy were probably watching me like hawks!LOL)



(Grandpa does need to work harder to impress K, but he got her to smile for this picture!!:)

(Grandma showing Di-di how to play golf)
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