Preston has gotten extremely good at mimicking those around him. He sees sister#3 giving foot rubs all the time, so the other day his cousin had her feet up so he ran over to where the massage stuff is kept, grabbed some lotion, pretended to spread it on her feet, ran back to put the lotion away, ran back to his cousin, and began to rub her feet. He repeated this whole process at least five or six times. It was hilarious, and he's since done it with other people.
His vocabulary is increasing daily, some of his new words are juice (in english) fish (in chinese) and "one-two-one-two" (in chinese).
It's been raining a lot the last few days, and that causes the local school playground to flood, so Preston and I walked over there and he had an absolute blast playing in the 6 inches of water that covered the whole place. His dad of course got in big trouble with all the natives for allowing him to do this, but it was worth it (Taiwanese, for those of you who don't know, are terrified of rain, and avoid it if at all possible). Preston and his dad both quite enjoy the rain, except that it means no one will go outside with us.
On the much more boring parental front, poor Yaping may be getting sick, and the water here is tearing up her hands. Daddy got a nice used bike from sister#2, her family wasn't using it (it hadn't been ridden in a couple of years so it was all rusted and a nice old man/local bike guy spent 4 hours fixing it up and charged us 200NT [about $6] for his efforts). So I'm happy to have a decent bike, I plan on spending a lot of time on it (Friday, for example, I rode for ~2 hours getting to various appointments).
3 Comments:
I want a foot massage from Preston when you get home. I, too, love walking in the rain. I am glad you are having fun. Hopefully Ya-ping won't get really sick. No experiences like last time please, my heart couldn't take it.
Have you taught him to say, "I miss my grandma" yet?
He is at such a fun age, isn't he? I think it is great that you will play in the rain with him and let him experience things like that. I think moms have a harder time with that than dads.
Glad you got a bike. Boy, riding in the heat of Taiwan for two hours sounds like a way to lose weight. You should blog it on the fitness blog!
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