I can’t believe my babies are growing up. Many say it’s too fast, but I just can’t wait till Lia gets bigger! I can’t wait for the her to be about 2 and Matthew 5. As much as I don’t want him to go off to Kindergarten just yet, I want Lia to be bigger and less a baby. Toddler stage is my fave!
Matthew has become quite the chatterbox and social butterfly. He chats up anyone that’s willing to listen. He definitely has become much more confident in himself. Such a difference since last year and we just started noticing this difference in the last couple of months. He still doesn’t like to be social when told but if it’s on his own accord, he’ll chat you up like there’s no tomorrow. We know that of him so we won’t even bother prompting him of doing anything. Sometimes I like to shout it to the world that he can do something, but I bite my tongue and just let him run his own show. After all, he’s such a mini me! Another thing is, his love for roller coasters and slides. He used to not even go near them but now when he sees it, he wants to go again and again. Same as showers. He used to scream and whine when a drip of water from the shower hit his face, and now he’s showering it up like a big boy!
Lia has been such a great baby. I know, I know. I complained a lot, A LOT when she first was born. I definitely didn’t enjoy her baby stage as much as I enjoyed Matthew but then again, I didn’t enjoy that as much either. I guess I’m not a baby person, just madly in love with kiddies! Lia has been interacting a lot more. She understands when we are happy, mad, and sad. She cries when she hears Matthew crying (which isn’t often but does it enough that I know she understands), she does the same thing over and over again when she receives a positive reaction from us and when we say no or use a harsher tone, she pouts her lip and cries. It’s rather cute – so cute that sometimes I do it purposely just to watch her reaction! Her sleep has been much, much better after returning from our holidays. It’s been about two weeks since we’ve been back and she’s been sleeping through the night! Woohoo for mommy and daddy, and of course Lia! Since the two weeks, there has been maybe two times where she woke up before dawn and we just left her. She went back to bed within minutes. Before the trip and during, she would wake up 7am on the dot every morning. Since we came back, she’s been getting up at 6am instead! Ugh! But I guess the trade off is that she sleeps through the night. So she’s been doing 9 to 10 hours per night now and still gets about 3 hours of nap time during the day broken up into two naps – around 10am and then again at 3pm. Lia has also learned to finally crawl forward! She looks like a little worm! She gets into the traditional crawling position and then down to the army crawl while inching forward. Last month, she was crawling but only backwards so yay for her! She’s learning to sign too. Well, actually I’m doing hand over hand with her for “more”. It’s been two days so far. She’s also beginning to sit up on her own. She’s been able to lean to the side and then prop herself up on an angle but wouldn’t use her hand to push herself all the way up. Now she’s able to.
Our California trip was a huge success. Makes we want to go back again! We cruised with my parents and brother to San Fransisco. It was a four day repositioning cruise. James and I got a bit uneasy one of the days but it wasn’t really bad. We didn’t set up any of their beds as the cabin was a bit tight. So Lia bunked with me and Matthew bunked with daddy. All those nights on the boat, the kiddies slept super easy and well into the morning. I would have to wake them to start our day. I think it’s because the cabin was super dark.
Lia got to meet her great gong gong for the first time. Aunt Irise said she hasn’t seen him this happy for a long time while he was holding Lia. He kept saying how big and happy she was. I wish we could spend more time with him but it’s definitely a challenge while toting around the two kiddies and trying to coordinate their naps and his. But nonetheless I’m glad we made it there and hope to do it again. Again, this trip was worth every penny!
We then left my parents and brother to continue on to San Diego to meet up with the Wongs. Connor and Matthew played super well together. They barely bickered. It was a bit annoying for the adults at times when they were together as the volume control button was non existent until bed time! We lived right on the beach which will definitely be the way to do it each and every time. Super convenient and gorgeous too.
There was way too much to do in San Diego. We only had 6 days to do all that we planned and we still came back home with the zoo tickets we brought with us! Lego Land was a place that I’ve wanted to travel to for a long time before we had the kids. We visited there the second day we got there and it was waaaaayyyyy too hot for me to enjoy it. I’m glad that James convinced me to go back cause the second time was a lot more fun. We also visited a children’s museum, the Safari, a farmer’s market, and La Jolla.