Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Growing Pains (for me)

While getting the boys ready for bed one day...
Kwang pulled out a pajama shirt for Jude.
Jude made a remark in defiance, not wanting to put on his pajamas or go to bed.
Kwang: "Jude, what is that?"
Eli (watching all of this from his bed a few feet away): "Bad. Attitude."

I think it's safe to say it's time Jude got another haircut. This was what we woke up to the other morning:

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Our little Eli is now potty trained. I know most of his peers are already pros at this, but Eli's mom is not willing to walk around for weeks or months cleaning up accidents. I'm kind of lazy like that. I also don't like to force my kids just for the sake of saving money on diapers. But he finally showed signs of wanting to learn and, fortunately, it only took a weekend:

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I feel like I'm quickly losing my little toddler and I often treat and smother him like he's my baby, because I don't want him to grow up. The only TV show he requests is Little Einsteins. There was no Baby Einsteins phase, no Wiggles phase, no Dora or Diego phase.... Just straight to little Einsteins. That and the racing scenes in the movie Speedracer. Time and tide wait for no one. I get so sad thinking of the day Eli won't let me feast on his chubby little cheeks on a daily basis! 

4 comments:

littlemissbigbody said...

OH MY! Your kids are too funny. Oh MY my oh MY!

mimikim1115 said...

hahaha... eli's a stellar student in the art of potty training!  he has such a cute tooshie- he's going to appreciate the fact his mom put a picture of it on the world wide web, eh? 

janejchang23 said...

i would definitely feast on those cheeks daily! ;p

hsim said...

I think Eli's naturally gifted in rhythm as evidenced on his sick guitar skills!  Go ELI!!!