Potty

Dada, why are you taking a picture of me on the potty?

It's been over a month since we have had to change a poopy diaper!

Center for Infant Studies

We got a letter about Stanford's Center for Infant Studies, so we signed Penny up as a participant for their research about early language development. The first part of our participation involves a questionnaire called the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory, which catalogues words and gestures that Penny understands and/or says and gestures she uses. This was interesting for me to do. It made me realize that the words she knows have a lot to do with the books we read. It also reminded me not to use too many substitute baby words like "wee-wee" for stroller (because we couldn't count that as a word she says). They are also studying children who are learning two languages. It is unfortunate that we aren't teaching her Japanese or Vietnamese, but in our situation it would be too forced. She has learned a few words in Spanish at daycare (agua, leche, and besitos).

Get together

Our friends from Canada were in town, so we had a reunion at our house. The difference from last time we saw each other? The kids!!

P.S. We didn't remember to take this until the end of the night, so a few friends are not shown...

Testing the limits

In the past couple of weeks, Penny has made us think about discipline strategies. She is clearly testing the limits. Sometimes we play "nigh-nigh" on our bed, which is a game of pretending to sleep, cuddling, and tickling. One thing she has been doing is standing up on our bed when we have told her that she can't. She stands, we tell her to sit, and then she avoids eye contact and blinks a couple of times while still standing. This usually ends with taking her off of the bed and crying. She has a particular look when she knows that she is doing something bad. We've seen the look in other situations and we will surely be seeing more of it for years to come...

Crissy Field

Labor Day in SF

This is a pic from when we stopped by Crissy Field on the way to Sol Food, a Puerto Rican restaurant in San Rafael. We stayed in town this holiday weekend and enjoyed the extra family time.
she reminds me of grandma Huong in this pic

Good morning