Leaves

October 12, 2015

Randall enjoys being at the playground a lot more now. He can climb up and go down the slide all on his own and often gets very excited and does it over and over again. Mum suggested going to Central Park on Sunday and was hoping that the trees there had taken on autumn colors, but unfortunately it was still too warm. Well, the fallen leaves were not bad and Randall looked absolutely gorgeous with his Columbia hat. Randall fell in love with this bottle. We haven’t seen him have so much water in a day since the end of Summer.

Randall also got a lot more verbal this week but was still speaking his alien language. He picked up a new body language though. When being offered things he doesn’t want, he has stopped pushing them away angrily. He would just shake his head, and occasionally with an unclear word of “no”. It was hilarious that after a 4-year-old girl talked with mum for a couple of minutes Randall burst into a long “sentence” as he was facing another kid.

We went to the Children’s Museum again this weekend, but Randall didn’t seem to enjoy it for long. We couldn’t figure out why but we did figure that when he looks for doors or exits or elevators it means he would like to leave.

Museum Day

October 4, 2015

We went to Children’s Museum of Manhattan for the first time this afternoon. Randall had great fun with the cave and a whole lot of other things.

Turtles

School Picnic

September 26, 2015

Veronica, one of the teachers, told us that Randall was all about girls at the classroom. “If it’s Alex, he would be like ‘hi’ and then go away. Once he got to sleep next to Lenaig. And when he woke up, he was trying to lean over and kiss her.” she said, while taking out her phone and showing us the pictures, “You see, I got proof! You got caught, Randall.”

And not sure if it was his seeing Lenaig (the girl he had tried to kiss) get onto everything at the picnic that had aroused his climbing enthusiasm, he began conquering more challenging furniture at home the next morning. First was the TV stand, and next the coffee table.

Rolling

September 24, 2015

The Big Swing

September 24, 2015

Congrats, little man! You’ve made a big progress within just a week! Read more…

Cautious Man

September 19, 2015

We have long known that Randall is a slow-to-warm kid. Last weekend we started to take him to playground again, after realizing that he might be ready for some other activities aside from the swing. It turned out that he still enjoyed the swing but didn’t like the sand pit. He liked the water jets as well, and was obsessed with the stairs. Yesterday after figuring out how to climb up and back down by himself he did the up and down for dozens of times and refused to go back home. BUT, no matter how hard I tried, he wouldn’t go down from the slide. He just very very scared 😦

Ride

September 15, 2015

Little People

September 14, 2015

Ran Ran has recently regained interest in this toy, which he first started to play with at 13 months. He can now reach the top and place the car right there. This afternoon he picked up the car at first, then suddenly turned around and ran off to the living room. Just as I was wondering what had occurred to him, he turned on the air conditioning and came back with a satisfactory smile. Then he only played for a minute before going back to the living room again. And this time, it was for the camera. He asked me to take the camera from the desk and shoot videos.