Friday, August 26, 2011

幼儿园见面会 (Meeting the Day Care Family)

昨天Noah幼儿园开家长会,会前留出两个小时时间开放教室,让小朋友们入园前见见老师同学家长们。

一进教室门,小家伙眼睛就亮了,到处都是好玩的东西,各种材料各种形状有闪亮的各种学校自制的“玩具”。但是他还是稍微腼腆了一下,回身在我身上粘了一下,才扭身下地,走了两步觉得还是不太好意思,又假惺惺跑回我身边靠了靠,便义无反顾的扑了出去。一个角落一个角落玩过去。那叫一个开心。

其实叫“玩具”不如叫“道具”更贴切。除了两面大鼓,一些手鼓和打击乐器是买的。其他通通都是废物回收手工做的。用的是日常物件很合了小家伙的心意,旧的光碟盒子啊,塑料包装合啊,硬纸板做的套在一起的圈圈啊。而且小家伙从来没见过,看着更新鲜。没几分钟在场的三个老师都注意到小家伙喜欢“装”东西,无论大小都要找个可以放的地方,或者是大圈套小圈,或者是一个角落搜罗来的“蛋”要放到另一个桌上的“罐子”里。总之小家伙以迅雷不急掩耳的速度把教室里的各种玩具布局都变了样子。

班上一共七个小朋友,六男一女。我们这次见了四个男孩子:
  • Arjun (阿祝),印度父母都是我们公司的工程师,和Noah同一天生日。还不会走,但是爬得飞快,扶着墙站起来比Noah还高,但是比较瘦。
  • Alec(阿莱克),以色列父母。父亲是个心理学博士生还没毕业。八月三日生日。走的很好了,会上楼梯,但是还不会下楼梯。唯一一个会说话的小孩,还会手语。当天见了面就学会了说Noah的名字,开始老是说“哇哇”,最后终于说对了“诺哇”。非常喜欢跟着Noah走来走去,Noah做什么他一定会跟过来凑热闹。
  • Sameer(撒米尔),印度父母。七月二十四号生日。眼睛大大的头发卷卷的,总是笑眯眯的,刚进门我们还以为是个女孩子。个子和Noah差不多。也会走了。但是非常非常安静。
  • Joshua (约书亚),韩国父母。十八个月大了,个头比Noah大,也很安静。
一直以为Noah是个很好对付的小孩。这次跟人家一比才发现Noah是最能折腾的一个。原来并不是所有的男孩子都像他这么一刻不停。后来大家一起去会议室开会。他是所有小孩里第一个开始不耐烦大闹着要出去的。后来阿祝和阿莱克也开始闹,但是人家的哭声远远比不上Noah那么震耳欲聋,所以破坏力没有他大。撒米尔和约书亚一直静悄悄的自己玩。一点没有无聊的感觉。

五个小孩里,Noah也是块头最大的。这下不用担心被别人欺负,倒是担心他会不会欺负别人。。。

全班七个孩子,六男一女。六个男孩子里有两个一周只来三天。三个老师轮流照顾整个班级,确保总有两个老师同时在场。开学分成三组。下周开始三个学生开学,两个星期后再来两个。第三拨十月初开学。Noah属于第三拨。



前后在幼儿园呆了不过两个半小时,累惨了。当晚睡的特别好。在自己的小床上一觉睡到天亮!也就是说等小家伙上了幼儿园我就不用半夜起来啦!

Friday, August 12, 2011

Swimming Class Progress Report

Noah started taking swimming class on July 5th at La Petite Baleen San Francisco.

The first two classes (weekly) didn't go so well. He cried almost the entire 30 minutes each time. Starting from the 3rd class, we switched him to a different time slot. Noah seemed to be more receptive of the new teacher. The crying diminished. Starting from 4th class, he still cries from time to time, but he was able to swim under water without much trouble.

This week, on his 6th lesson, he made a dramatic shift. No more crying. He thoroughly enjoyed the entire class and eagerly participated in every activity, and didn't want to leave the pool when the class ended!

Wow!

Sunday, July 24, 2011

霹雳舞*生日*海边*预防针

Noah最近喜欢跳舞,而且貌似在跳霹雳舞。我们猜是因为美国国庆那个礼拜羊外婆来给他放了小时候喜欢的爱跳舞的小企鹅pigloo的原因。


一岁生日给他买了蛋糕和气球,等他午睡起来给他一个惊喜。小家伙很给面子,欣喜若狂。尤其喜欢那个气球。

爸爸带他去海边玩沙。幸福的几乎晕过去。先是奋不顾身的追着海浪往海里跑,然后全神贯注玩沙其乐无穷。。。


游泳课上到第三堂,小家伙不怎么哭了而且还潜泳若干次。太佩服了。尤其事米粥和我都不会潜泳。。。小小家伙一岁就超过父母啦!

生日过后(七月十三)去身体检查,身高和体重都在85%左右,头围达到了99%这样不可思议的境界!
那天打了一大批预防针:水痘(chickenpox),麻疹(measles),腮腺炎(mumps),风疹( rubella )。当时医生说可能会对预防针有反应:发烧,出疹子都属于正常。其实从他刚出生打预防针时就有这样的警告。我们也没有太在意。结果反应非常强烈。周三打的针,周四凌晨开始发烧100度左右。周四晚上甚至烧到101.4华氏(38.5C).周六到是大好了。然后开始出疹子。一直到今天还没有褪干净。不过既不疼也不痒。就是穿了游泳裤有点不好看而已。其他无碍。

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

First Swimming Lesson 第一堂游泳课

The teacher and I didn't do a good job easing him into the pool. on top of that he absolutely hated the buoy. But he adapted at the end(after i took out the buoy). and was actually enjoying the pool during the last 10 minutes. All photos courtesy of Yangmama.

Lessons learned summarized by Yangmama (who loves swimming with a passion and still swims 3 times a week at 24 hour fitness till this day!):
1) he breathed in water from his nose almost immediately when we got in the pool. he coughed but was more curious than upset
2) when the teacher tried to put the swim goggle on him, the elastic band  snapped and he cried for the first time, but stopped quickly.
3) After all that, mom surrendered him to a total stranger (the teacher)!!
4) worse still when the stranger returned him to mommy, they straddled him into this strange thing called buoy that separated him from mom!!!

By then he has had enough!

it is amazing he recovered from all that at the end of the class!
本来应该九个月开始带他游泳的。错过了我们社区夏天游泳课的注册机会。就拖下来。上周同事给我推荐一个专门给小孩子设置的游泳馆(la petite Baleen Swimming School),他知道在南湾有分馆。我一查,刚在旧金山开了一家。周末去注册了。今天开始第一堂课。一岁有点大,他知道害怕了。同班的只有两个五个月的小婴孩,已经上了一个月的课了。我们有点心急,小家伙刚下水就呛了一口水。有点怕怕。紧紧抱着妈妈不敢离开一会。接下来老师又给他套了个他非常不喜欢的救生圈。开始大哭大闹。救生圈摘了才好些。抱着他在游泳池里绕弯。他慢慢放松下来。最后几分钟已经开始喜欢了。噼里啪啦拍水玩。。。

酷爱游泳的羊外婆的总结:我们一下水就犯了四个错误 1)让他呛到水 2)老师试图给他带游泳眼镜时不小心勒疼了他 3)妈妈居然在这种情况下把他交给陌生人(老师)抱!4)救生圈把他和妈妈隔开了。所以犯了这四个错误之后他只有大哭大闹,谁也不相信了。

所有照片都来自羊外婆!感谢!

很神气的等着下水。。。Waiting to go in the pool...

怕怕怕怕 This is SCARY!

不要救生圈!Get me OUT of here!
嗯。。。好像还不错,可以拍水花。。。Hmmmm this is not so bad, i can splash!

好玩!Loving splashing...

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Noah and Cats

Noah loves playing with our cats. He was surprisingly gentle. His favorite "game" with the cats are 1)holding on a cat's tail and let the cat drag him forward 2)bury his head on the cat's soft furry belly and snuggle.


Sunday, June 12, 2011

Fighting flu and Doing Lots of Walking



Right when Noah turned 10 month in May, he got his first cold/fever. We found out about the fever 3am in the morning. The fever (101F) only lasted for a day, and he had to live with a running nose for a week. He was only fussy during the first day when the fever was present. He was back to his normal cheerful self afterwards.

3 weeks later he got sick again, this time, the fever was hovering around 100F for two days. and he got very badly stuffed nose. We used "Simply Saline for Baby" before and during his sleep, it helped alot. This second cold was a lot tougher than the first. He was up every hour during the first night. Both ZM and I were sleep walking the next day. Thankfully, he mostly recovered after a week.

Both times, he passed on his "bug" to me. And i got a lot sicker than he did. :(

Even with getting in and out of sickness, Noah was a very busy baby. He started walking independently right after he turned 10-month-old. Since then he has done lots of walking.

at home:


at Gui's:


on the sidewalk of SF:


Oh, he also has 6 teeth now. I don't even know when the last two came out. Just noticed one day they were there right next to his two upper teeth. So now he has 4 upper teeth and 2 bottom ones.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Standing Up, Hands Free

Over the weekend, Noah started to show signs that he was able to stand up without holding onto any support. Monday he was able to do that for a considerable amount of time. It didn't escape him, and boy, was he excited. Before bed time, he was practicing in our big bed. Stood up unassisted, waving both hands in the air as if he was dancing, giggling all the while; fell, then stood up again, and repeat over and over, like the audience in a sports arena doing the wave. He was babbling really loud too, as if announcing to the world, "look at me! hands free! free!"
ZM captured this photo this morning, while he has calmed down substantially from last night.

Anticipating him able to take his first independent step any day now...