Random Cute Pictures

Di-di is such a good boy. He went through his terrible-two stage so fast that I sometimes don't quite remember the mega tantrums.:) Now, I can actually hold "conversations" and reason with him. He is still potty challenged, but we will work on that slowly.

P.S. Kitchen is not completely done yet, but we are getting closer.

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.

Almost Two Years Old~~ :(

Di-di will be two years old on May 6! Oh..my... look at how much he has changed in two years!!
He is now a pro at using mommy's cell phone...and loves talking to himself on the phone. :)

(May 26, 2006 when my family picked him up from the hospital)

(June 1, 2006 with his first girlfriend)

(June 28, 2006 with his girlfriend after their hair was shaved)

(April 2008)

(April, 2008)

(Busy talking on the phone)

Trip to Taiwan

(S. with a-gong and cousin)



(S with his auntie and new cousin)

After hesitating to take off from work, I decided to take the 6 week paid LOA to spend more time with Shaun in March and April. Other than attending business school, I haven't taken off from work for such a long time. Shaun and I traveled back to Taiwan for 4 weeks. It was not easy traveling with an 11-month old by myself, but we made it there and back! Love Eva Air! :) Highilights of our trip: 1. Lots of great Taiwanese food (Daddy would disagree..:) 2. Five-day trip to Korea with Auntie, uncle, cousin and S. 3. More Taiwanese food.. 4. Totally forgot how to wash my own hair, since I go to the hair salon every other day..lol... 5. Foot massage once a week.. (does life get better than that!) 6. S. got plenty of adult attention! 7. S. learned how to walk while we were in Taiwan.

Shaun taking off his own pants