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周一去接小家伙时，老师说白天别的小朋友抱他，他开始有反应了。虽然还没有回抱过去，但是每次人家给他拥抱，他都会微笑。很享受的样子。

之后两天我和ZM都发现小东西再来要抱抱后会用手拍拍我们的后背。

今天早上去幼儿园，我们比往常早到。只有金发小女孩Ｌｅａｈ在。她是班上最喜欢拥抱别人的一个。看到Noah进来，她蹬蹬跑过来要抱Ｎｏａｈ。Ｎｏａｈ略微犹豫了一下，就走过去和Ｌｅａｈ抱在一起。我和老师在一边看得都“奥。。。”地叹息，好可爱。然后Ｎｏａｈ就把
Ｌｅａｈ推开，好像在说，好啦好啦可以啦。

今天下午去接他时，老师说以往小人都不喜欢和同学们打交道。很独立。今天先是拥抱
Ｌｅａｈ好几次，下午吃点心时居然主动用叉子叉了煮鸡蛋去喂他的好朋友Ｊｏｓｈｕａ。而其喂得很小心。

应该算小人社交生活第一步吧。

完整句子

原来"这个"是简称.
全文昨晚才揭晓.
Noah在看A Bug's Life . 说是看,​其实是看两眼, 转身趴地板上玩他的车队.听到什么有趣音乐响声再回来看两眼. 中间不知道看到什么情节,激动的大喊大叫. ZM好奇走过去看了一眼屏幕想看看是什么情节让小人如此激动. 小人居然回头跟他说 "I Like This." 主谓宾都齐全了!
我当时没听见, ZM大惊, 立刻跟我转述小家伙说了完整句子.我还不信. "你确定么?! 不会听错?" ZM很肯定.
今天早上, Noah下床在我的书架上找到一盒子旧的三寸硬盘.抱在怀里笑眯眯. ZM近来抱他去换尿布. 他晃晃手里的硬盘, 说" Like This." 这次我也听到了. 才信.
小人会说完整句子了.  神奇.


昨天还和ZM说, 小人的第一个字居然是这么抽象的This, 而不是猫啊,狗啊,香蕉什么这种具象的名词. 这第一个句子也很有趣. 至少是正面积极的表达. 而不是我不喜欢什么. 希望是他的性格乐观的小​前奏.

据说小孩子一旦开始讲话,就会突飞猛进的学新词. 似乎有这样的​袮端. 最近玩他三辆车的车队时,嘴里都是​念念有词的. 昨天玩得正欢我过去看,他两个小手各伸出一个手指,然后两个​小手并在一起,冲我做了个手势,说了几个字, 看我一脸困惑的样子，他就又重复了几遍，可是我无论如何没听懂他在说什么. 今天早上到了幼儿园,他看着老师给大家准备早饭,他又发了几个音,我还是没听懂.但是能听出来是新的音节,和like this没关系.

开了金口?

好像两三个多星期前, 小人喜欢拿到个什么新鲜东西就跑过来给我看,嘴里会说"​yi-shi" "yi-shi" (“亿是，亿是”）. 直到这个周末他发音稍微准了一点我们才恍然大悟,是"This" (英文:这个)!


今天早上到学校,陪他吃早饭的当口,老师说昨天他对着隔壁班一位叫"安娜"的老师说"嗯娜" 把在场的老师都​惊到了.


见了爸爸妈妈还是统一都叫"大大!大大!"


是不是就此开口说话了呢?

假期里外的小人

1.假期里

十一天的寒假结束了。除了中间两三天没车的日子困在家里，其他时候每天都带他出去玩。所以小人一直还算满意。加上圣诞前那个星期发现他耳朵又一次发炎，开始吃抗生素。圣诞假期开始时他几乎已经大好了。所以难得的过了一个健康的假期。

假期里最后一个周日出门去了金门公园的植物园却变成了一个噩梦。虽然一岁半还没到，小人好像提前进入了“恐怖的两岁”（"terrible 2"）。躺在地上大哭大闹。当然后来我们检讨一下可能是很多不利因素加到一起了，不过小人第一次如此过激的反应还是把我吓着了。

开始很欢乐的进了公园，但是小人最感兴趣的是树木花草边插着的名牌。非要一个一个拔出来带走。当然不许。他很不高兴。但是叫了几声也就罢了。然后带他去池塘边看鸭子，结果他一看到水非要走进去不可，当然也不许。小人立刻恼了，大哭大叫赖在地上不走了。被我硬抱起来丢到小推车上捆起来推走。扭股糖似的抗议要下来，大哭大叫。出了植物园直奔车库准备回家。路上觉得好像比较“安全”了把他从小车里放出来，结果又扑到路边别人停着的自行车上把车推倒了要上去。被爸爸捉走又一次大哭。等进了车库看到我们的车知道要走了，又不干了，再次大哭。不肯进后座自己的椅子。就放他在后备箱里站着，拿了香蕉饼干给他，狼吞虎咽。原来是饿的。吃了整个一只香蕉，喝了半瓶水，然后就有了笑容。兴高采烈了起来。

当晚带他和朋友去城里高雅餐馆吃饭。饭馆在城里比较高尚的商业区，小人恰巧穿了一件爸爸朋友送的 Burberry外衣。一下车就被路人称赞，“Burberry baby jacket!" 到处都是识货的雅皮！小人刚喝了奶，不饿。饭间带他在街头遛弯。他居然跑到街头的报箱里拿了一份当地的小报，两只小手把报纸打开，像模像样一边走一边一页一页慢慢的翻报纸”看“。好玩死了。

最近小人对所有有文字的印刷品都很有兴趣。常常自己那本小人书安安静静的翻认认真真的”读“。假期最后一天我和米粥去看电影。羊外婆说小人自己拿了一本Costco的减价券，翻到电视那一页，然后走到电视机前，一边看着手里的减价券一边按按闭路电视控制系统的按钮。

笑死了。不知道他哪里学来的。。。

2. 假期后

第一天去​幼儿园,小人从​走进车库就开始兴高彩烈. 等到了幼儿园​其实很开心,​但是表面看上去还是很淡定. 我离开时还大哭了一嗓子. 晚上去接他时跟变了一个人似的. 咯咯咯咯的​笑,叽叽咕咕说了大半路的"话"​.后来睡着了.到家后特别特别的兴奋,而且不停嘴的说​他自己的语言.一直​闹到九点多都没有睡意. 不过洗完澡后还是有点累,但是很不甘心的想再玩一会. 我假装不理他,闹了一会,他也就罢了.自己躺下来睁着眼睛想心事...睡前这种安静状态也是以前没有过的.想了一会就睡着了. 米粥的话就是小心事能有多少阿,想一会就想完了呗.


从第二天开始去幼儿园,我们送他到教室离开时他就很镇定的不再哭了. 老师说他现在白天喜欢在院子里非常非常快的跑,摔了很多跤也在所不辞.


​另: 会自己啃玉米了. 不知道是不是在幼儿园学的.

金门桥下＊Fort Point

One cold November Sunday, we arrived at Noah's swim school earlier than normal. So we took a detour and walked around Port Point.  Noah was a little afraid of the narrow corridor and dark rooms of the Fort itself, and he didn't care much for the view either.

两个星期前的一个周日，小肥仔游泳课开始前我们有时间去游泳学校附近的金门桥下的旧日军营转了一圈。小肥仔对军营里黑洞洞的屋子和窄窄的走廊有点怕怕。面对无敌风景也兴趣却缺。

What really made his day was the little grassy slope in front of the public restrooms.  He struggled out of my arms, and started climbing up the slope. What he did next was hilarious and i managed to capture in this little video.

但是当他看到公共厕所前面的一块小草坡，却兴奋的不行。从我怀里挣扎着下来，蹭蹭蹭就爬到坡顶。他接下来的行为令我们捧腹。幸运的拍到这段滑稽录像。。。

Noah's Big Project

Today is the last day of 2011 at Noah's Day Care.

Noah's ear infection is under control after 3 days of anti-biotics.  The morning traffic was so light that we made it in under 35 minutes door to door. Noah spent most of the ride reading his favorite book and giggling when he noticed the new pair of socks he was wearing today. He seemed to love the black and white checker pattern on them.

During the day, Noah's classroom teacher published an end of the year blog post, which sported quite a few photos with Noah in it.  The one i love the most was one of him sleeping side by side with two of his classmates. We've always wondered how he napped in class. Seeing him sleeping in the picture is immensely satisfying, even though we see him sleeping at home all the time. But this is different. He was content, resting, with his peers, away from home.  He is having his own life, separate from us. this picture suddenly made that concept real.

The napping picture reminded Grandma Aiqi of a different incident, which she told me over the phone.  During the first couple of weeks when Noah just started going to Day Care. He was often too excited to nap during the middle of the day. Once ZM went back to check on him during supposed nap time.  All the kids were sleeping on their little cot. The floor was almost filled with little sleeping toddlers. All the kids but Noah! he, for some reason, had his shirt off, bare chested, lolling around while two teachers sat nearby and watching him, making sure he won't disturbe the sleeping bunch. When ZM told me of the scene, he added his own humorous interpretation, "Noah looked like a little gangster hit men, checking on the aftermath of a battle."  We all laughed. Imaging bare chested Noah as a little gangster hit man...

Today, when i went to pick him up in the afternoon, most of the kids were playing in the toddler yard.  A teacher was blowing bubbles, Noah was so focused on the bubbles, that it took him a good 2 minutes before he noticing me standing directly opposite him, in the middle of the yard.

The little tricycle.

One of his classroom teachers told me that Noah, as if trying to make the most of the last day of the term, undertook a big project. He "collected" all the wooden tricycles from the entire yard, piled them all up, made quite an impressive display. It took him quite a long time to accomplish that.  There are usually a dozen or so such tricycles in the yard, often with a kid pushing it, pulling it, turning it upside down, or even riding it. I could imagine the kind of "persuasion" Noah had to exercise in order to collect all of them to make his project happen.

I'm impressed.  How did he get the idea? and where did he get the patience to see it through. That's quite something for a 17 months old.