Early Halloween Party

Last Sunday Jesse and Akiva made their first 'Jack O'Lantern' . I was afraid Jesse would heart his self by curving. Instead he made a beautiful lantern.
This year Akiva wants to be an Ultaraman (off course). I used a hot glue gun to assemble his costume which was a big mistake. Hot glue was too hot to use on fabric, and I burned my finders. However I didn’t want to hand-sew. I did what I could do my best by the glue gun. Good thing is Akiva is still small and not critical about quality of costume. He was happy to put on anything unusual. On the other hand, Kenaz couldn’t understand our wired hype. He was scared and needed to be held.
After the party, Akiva and Kenaz saw some of big kids were already eating candies outside. They wanted to eat Pocky (chocolate covered biscuits). That made their night. Finally Kenaz wanted to walk by his self.

Kenaz finally said "Daddy"

Last night when we read an ABC book to Kenaz, he was able to say all the words (like apple, balloon, and cow). We were especially surprised when he said “L is for lion”.

Next day when I came back from work, our nanny was so excited to tell me, “Kenaz can say everything!!” He was able to say all body parts from head to toes, name of cars, lothes and a lot of every day materials in Chinese. Our nanny was so happy. She asked Kenaz a million times ‘how do you say auntie?”

That night he finally said “daddy”(3 weeks after Kenaz’s birthday).
He had a long period of time to be silent. Somehow he picked up baby sign language. When he needs to pee, he pats on his front. When he needs to poop, he pats on his back. When he wants me to sit next to him, he points on a chair. He used a lot of simple gestures to communicate with us (but he never did waving bye-bye and blowing kisses although we though him a lot).

When we asked him to speak, he was always shy to speak out.

His voice is still small like whispering. His tone is high like a small bird. It is so precious to hear him talking.