Thanksgiving 2012

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Grace's house. Paul and I made two pumpkin pies out of fresh sugar pumpkins and sugar cookies that looked like Turkeys. Poor Kyran has been sick on and off for a while, and had a slight fever that afternoon. He spiked up at Grace's house to around 103 which is when we took him back home. Poor baby. For the time that we were there, it was fun hanging out, saying what we are thankful for (I said I am thankful for all of our health and our time together), as some of the members of our family are tragically not with us, that these are precious times and we must cherish them. Syona looked really cute this night, as well as my lil kyrnie. I am so thankful for my family.

Kyran and Syona Learning

Kyran has had good awareness of his surrounding for several month. You know this when we ask sYona to go get her shoes, and he shows up with her slippers. However, he has taken a bit more time in  stringing together words to describe his surrounding. Outside of bao-bao, muma, dada, he now can  readily say things like car (which he likes a lot), up/down, ba, ba-nana, nainai, dadu. Today, I did notice that he pointed out moon and star on a book that he has not read, which pleasantly surprised me. He has grown in other ways- instead of being his usual easy going nature, he now has much more of a temper when he doesn't get his way, sometimes throwing food, and certainly crying out loud when he doesn't get his way. That said, when he is in good mood, and just wants to communicate a NO, he has the neatest little shake head shake to say what he doesn't want.

Syona on the other hand is learning leaps and bound. She can basically count to the biggest number she knows, one hundred- in english. In spanish, chinese, gujrathi, she definitely has it up to 20. She is quite adept at knowing when she does something wrong (and also when you don't follow your own rules) and at relating things she learned from a book to what she is going on in her own life.