mother's day 2013 at MDA

So the kids performance was like 90 seconds long at their school this year and unfortunately i was 2 mins late coming from work so I literally missed it :( Not my proudest mom moment! But of course they are happy I am there and have little handmade gifts for me and cute little party in both classrooms. It's funny how since they are both their, and the parties are happening at the same time, I have to literally jump from one class to another to make both parties. Syona did an encore performance of her song for me which was sweet, and she likes the limelight anyways so it worked out.

i see you!

i have the best babies in the whole world (what i often tell them)

summer fun days at disney

I can't count how many times we will have gone to disney in 2013- year of the annual passes, but this place literally NEVER gets old for these little guys. Summer is fun because its HOT, we do the icecream during the parade or, Syona's favorite, during the fireworks. Always a change of princess clothes on hand, from Tangled, to tinkerbell, to sleeping beauty to belle, it's quite an adventure. I like to pack their clothes coordinating so they both wear their Jake & the Neverland Pirate shirts together, or syona wears tangled with her tangled dolls and Kyran wears his cars shirt and pullover top. The kids love swimming in the pool at 2pm and always seem to fall asleep on the way back to the hotel rooms. The best is happy hour on the way to Disney, which paul and I have mastered in our hotel rooms, keeping the party alive at California Adventure as well. Something to do for everyone!

syona on the carousel wearing tinkerbell

kyran running around before the parade

Syona and Muma Roadtrip to Disney

I wanted to do it! I thought it would be super fun for Syona and I to drive to LA together and have the boys meet us in anaheim! Just so happened I had a photo shoot on the day that we were planning to drive down, so I literally drove to Berkeley early in the AM, left the shoot late afternoon, picked up syona by 5:30 and literally did 3 Syona initiated pit-stops before even getting to highway 5. I was ecstatic that we made it to LA in one piece and had SO much fun on our Wonder Woman (we were the shirts all day) road trip and princess day together at disney!

syona as we embark. she put a random pink bow in her hair.

we made it! girls rule!

me and S at disney together in line to meet the princesses

Chatter bugs in the back seat

For a couple of months now, Kyran has really ramped up his capability in expressing himself with words, to mini sentences- he's at the point where you do a double take sometimes with what he just said (dada you eat it; Yona sticker please; no, i want it -usually his toothbrush- he always liked eating the kiddie toothpaste; muma sit down [and watch show with me] )



So today in the car ride home, sYona explicitly said she didn't want music or radio on. She just wanted to talk to kYran in the car. After eating their veggies fries, she started being sillY with kYran. At one point she started switching up the alphabet so that she say: Apple Bah Bah, Baby Aah Aah, Cookie Zz Zz... Basically teaching kYranYee the wrong thing. At first I was telling sYona, please teach your brother the right thing, but then they were having such a hoot. Finally I realize that I think even kYran knew that A was for Apple- not B...
I guess they both have a pretty good sense of humor....AND independence
After we got home, they kept playing on their own - in the pantry and getting at things that they should be asking dad about before eating (Valentines heart). After I said ask me first (and gave them each some candy for asking), I went back to cooking when they both went to hide out in the pantry - usually means they doing something slightly naughty. She then wanted to lock me out and bang me on the head for which I wasn't very happy about. We had a chat after that. Anyways, the point is that this is really a time of ups / down, laughter / cries, learning / testing, exploring / being safe ~

showing Ba what I learned

Ba went to get some fruits for the kids and family. She was playing with the kids till bath time. This was when kYran had a chance to show her that he can go big boy potting on the elmo toilet Bhabhi got Syona (and him before he was born). Since then we clearly lost the white addition part in the front - momentarily asking what is that for- which becomes obvious after you find out your second kid is a boy. Any case, this is valid because in today's story- mind you as much as the myDream teachers are impressed that he points his own gun down - accident still happen. He was about to show that he can control the timing of his pee pee to ba. He needed to work a bit on his aim though. High Fives were handed out all around prior to Syona claiming that she needed her book to be read while she was taking a bath. :)
It was a fun night

Kyran and myDream

What's neat is that we are not the only ones teaching him. Around January (after putting him into myDreamAcademy), I was teaching Kyran Do Re Mi's on my car ride home. He started repeating everything we tell him when we transitioned him to My Dream Academy. Since then, we could say one thing and he would parrot back the same words. He actually was pretty good with Do Re Mi's and getting the right pitch of the tone along with the word. So I did that a couple of times in the car. After that Syona would pick up next time in the car and start with "Kyran say this: Do", "Do", "Ray" "Re", "Me" "Mi" "Far" Fa" etc etc... After getting tired of this- she would improvise to "Kyran say "A" "a", "B" "b", "C" "c", "D" "d", "E" "e", "F" "phf", "G" "du"
Any case you can see how he is learning every day at incredible speed when he follows everything his "Yona" tells him.
Of course, MyDreamAcademy teachers are doing an awesome job. He likes his circle time and has really picked up all his colors (he likes saying Orange) , knows his shapes pretty good now (Ciarcal, Quare, Recangal, TriAgle), and of course his transportation type (heCopter, Bus, Choo Choo, car- blue CAR)
For a few weeks now he has been tinkling in the toilet starting in the afternoon and almost throughout the day now.  Still have to do the wiping for the big ones though. Awesome that he's picking this up- maybe we'll be out of diapers by this year (X X - fingers on both hands crossed).
Kyran likes his class so much that most of the time when i pick up, it takes me 5 minutes to coerce him to leave Ms Jennifer's class. Syona and Kyran still do the wonderful hug when they find each other in his class. They generally go on doing either art work, playing with dolls, and just plain hanging out around that time.

Kyran's first day MDA

WOOHOO! Both kids in one school. Kyran had his first day of MDA after the holiday season. I brought both babies to school and dropped Kyran off for his first day as big boy. It was nice dropping him off with some of the teachers that Syona had. His new teachers at MDA are Miss Elena, Miss Sintia, Miss Jennifer and Miss Amy. All such good teachers! We tried to get Kyran to adapt to the school but sitting in the class with him the last few Wednesdays I had off. Of course the little bugger cried when I left :(. But the teachers said he did amazing even for his first day. And his first week too. Obviously his time and growing at Action Day Care paid off!