This last week was a very busy and full week for all of us with our kids singing group performing in various events held in honor of 'Children's day'. We also helped out with the organizing of things in the "Children with Leukemia Association," the "Children's Hospital," the "INCA Institution," as well as in one of our friends shipping company, "Condesa".
The kids did so well in their presentation and participation in these events and as a reward the kids were invited to the cinema today through a friend of ours. They were so happy even though it meant the movie would be playing in Spanish. They understood most everything and being that it was an animated movie it was pretty easy to follow and understand.
I was happy to hear that Kenji could also go, YAY! A big deal to be sure of, seeing as it would be his first time at a cinema. At first he started acting a bit insecure, I suppose due to all that was going on around him and the amount of people surrounding him, and was a bit frightened about sitting on the seat because it kept on folding in half while he was sitting on it. Ha! He wasn't heavy enough to hold it down.
But once the movie started and he got his own cup of popcorn and juice he was fine. :) He was so flipped out and in awe at the huge screen and kept on saying, "WHOA, mama, WHOA"! while pointing to the animated animals jumping around. He was in high heaven!!! But sadly I forgot to bring the camera so I have no pics of Kenji at the cinema. :( (Actually I may be able to get one or two as the lady who invited us took a couple of pics of all of us with her camera, so if and when I get a hold of them I'll add them).
The movie started at 12:30 p.m. meaning that it was close to his usual nap time. I didn't know if he would go to sleep, with all the excitement of watching a movie at the cinema, but seeing as he's a child that likes his routine... heh... he only lasted about half the movie and then fell asleep. He didn't finish his snack, so I brought it home for him to enjoy during school time on the computer -something he thoroughly enjoys. Not sure if it's the actual school or just the fact that he's in front of a computer. :D
After the movie we provisioned lunch out and even some yogurt ice-cream as an extra treat for all the kids. All in all it was a fun outing for the kids and something special and new for Kenji. We thought that that was the end of our little way to celebrate 'Children's Day' for the kids, but much to our surprise when we got home a friend of ours had brought 2 liters of ice-cream and ice-cream cones for the kids.
After dinner we got together on the balcony for some inspiration/praise time for all that the Lord did for us and through us this last week. Following right after we all got to enjoy our chocolate and coconut ice-cream cones, which by the way each kid got to put together so that was an added treat in itself.
Eating ice-cream from a cone was another new experience for Kenji. He was a bit hesitant at first with the cold ice-cream touching his lips but after getting the hang of licking it he was happy and enjoyed it very much, of course! And I did get photos of this new experience. YAY! :)
The day in itself was a fun and happy one for Kenji and quite memorable,I think, so I didn't want to do a great big present giving thing. I opted instead to simply give him some new stuffies that a friend gave me for him a while ago as a little present. One of them, the penguin, has some headphones which act as speakers so he really liked the fact that he could snuggle up with it and have music playing for him as well. So cute!
Then after the kids were in bed it was my turn to be surprised. :) Mom, Jim, Maria, and Steve got me a cheesecake and beer. Of course these two don't go together so we opted to drink the beer then and have the cheesecake as part of b-fast. It was so sweet of them to do something for my birthday even though we had all had a very long day.I felt so loved at their thoughtfulness. (My mom and I took the 5 kids to the cinema, provisioned everything from the taxis to the meal and treat! TYJ! While Maria and Jim went to the 2 markets in one day. GBT!)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Big boy stuff ...
It's so exciting to watch Kenji growing out of "little boy" play things and instead be interested in "big boy" stuff. Well, I'll be honest and say that at first it wasn't, simply because it meant having to find new things to interest him and keep him active and entertained so that I could get something done.
But once I found some new things to catch his interest it was pure joy to see him so intent on figuring out something that he hadn't ever done before. For instance there's this puzzle he really likes, but it took many tries to get him to even look at it as it just didn't look like fun or mischievous "Kenji-type" of play. But now he loves it and does it all on his own!
He's also once again picked up a great interest in soccer. It had died down a bit about 3 months ago, but it's back now! Hooray! Only this time I've noticed he's more into smaller balls --smaller then a soccer ball. Maybe it's due to it being a little easier for him to maneuver with his feet, as opposed to a normal size soccer ball. (his soccer ball popped). :(
The first time that he picked up an interest in kicking a ball was at 7 months, (ball was his first word, mind you, at 6 months old) but started kicking a ball on his own at 9 months when he started to walk a bit. And then he got a soccer ball for his birthday and oh, boy, was he in high heaven with a soccer ball of his own! :)
Another thing that he is really into right now, I think more than balls or cars, are motorcycles. He loves them, loves them, loves them. Okay, I know we're not supposed to 'love' things, but you know what I mean, right? :D There's a guy who lives down the street, about 4 houses down, who has 2 motorcycles and Kenji without fail has to go take a look at them every single day. He never tires of seeing them!
It doesn't matter if he sees 3 of them drive by our house in the span of 5 minutes as soon as another one comes by he gets all excited and attempts to run after it and get it. He'll run after it for about 15 seconds and then realize it's futile to do so, as the motorcycle is long gone. But it's sooo cute to see him run after the motorcycle each time a new one drives by.
And just the other day during our daily late afternoon walk around the block there were 10 4 wheelers' half a block away from our house! Kenji was so happy, excited, and in awe to see these massive 'motorcycles' that I had to get a pic of him on one of them huge 4 wheelers.
A dude/owner of one of them agreed to let Kenji climb up and sit on it. So cool! Although Kenji was not so sure about these 10 plus dudes drinking beer and chillin' on the sidewalk, barefoot and covered in mud. He kept staring at them, bewildered and in awe I suppose. :D They all kept trying to talk to him in English, and kept saying "Ey, guerito, you like it"? "I drive you around a bit". Ha! Kenji of course didn't move a muscle and just kept right on staring at him. :)
Well, now that I've ranted off about Kenji and his latest interests in other news the Lord has been doing so many little miracles daily for us. We've had friends coming over just about every other night from 7-10 p.m. from parents to teens and singles in search of answers to their problems. And one of our new friends just donated a new stove! TYJ! The Offensive is here! And it's so exciting!
But once I found some new things to catch his interest it was pure joy to see him so intent on figuring out something that he hadn't ever done before. For instance there's this puzzle he really likes, but it took many tries to get him to even look at it as it just didn't look like fun or mischievous "Kenji-type" of play. But now he loves it and does it all on his own!
He's also once again picked up a great interest in soccer. It had died down a bit about 3 months ago, but it's back now! Hooray! Only this time I've noticed he's more into smaller balls --smaller then a soccer ball. Maybe it's due to it being a little easier for him to maneuver with his feet, as opposed to a normal size soccer ball. (his soccer ball popped). :(
The first time that he picked up an interest in kicking a ball was at 7 months, (ball was his first word, mind you, at 6 months old) but started kicking a ball on his own at 9 months when he started to walk a bit. And then he got a soccer ball for his birthday and oh, boy, was he in high heaven with a soccer ball of his own! :)
Another thing that he is really into right now, I think more than balls or cars, are motorcycles. He loves them, loves them, loves them. Okay, I know we're not supposed to 'love' things, but you know what I mean, right? :D There's a guy who lives down the street, about 4 houses down, who has 2 motorcycles and Kenji without fail has to go take a look at them every single day. He never tires of seeing them!
It doesn't matter if he sees 3 of them drive by our house in the span of 5 minutes as soon as another one comes by he gets all excited and attempts to run after it and get it. He'll run after it for about 15 seconds and then realize it's futile to do so, as the motorcycle is long gone. But it's sooo cute to see him run after the motorcycle each time a new one drives by.
And just the other day during our daily late afternoon walk around the block there were 10 4 wheelers' half a block away from our house! Kenji was so happy, excited, and in awe to see these massive 'motorcycles' that I had to get a pic of him on one of them huge 4 wheelers.
A dude/owner of one of them agreed to let Kenji climb up and sit on it. So cool! Although Kenji was not so sure about these 10 plus dudes drinking beer and chillin' on the sidewalk, barefoot and covered in mud. He kept staring at them, bewildered and in awe I suppose. :D They all kept trying to talk to him in English, and kept saying "Ey, guerito, you like it"? "I drive you around a bit". Ha! Kenji of course didn't move a muscle and just kept right on staring at him. :)
Well, now that I've ranted off about Kenji and his latest interests in other news the Lord has been doing so many little miracles daily for us. We've had friends coming over just about every other night from 7-10 p.m. from parents to teens and singles in search of answers to their problems. And one of our new friends just donated a new stove! TYJ! The Offensive is here! And it's so exciting!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Such cuteness!
I know that this may very well be an overused term mothers use, but it's so true! Kenji is filled with so much cuteness, and I'm not trying to brag about it, but I just thought everyone should know. :D Everyday he has some new cute thing up his sleeve, or rather forming in the back of his mischievous little mind!
Although he still isn't talking a whole lot :( he is very smart and understands everything both in Spanish and English. :) Because of this "lack of communication" via words he makes himself known through actions, kind of like charades. :D Quite frankly it's pretty cute!
It's quite entertaining and funny to have him give you a rundown of how/why he fell, or what exciting thing happened during an outing, or what Angel did to him to make him cry, what particular thing he wants to do for "school," etc. But I think due to the attention he's gotten by the kids from his hilarious rundowns he has started to overuse this and misuse it.
How so? Well for instance, one day Kenji found one of Angel's toys lying around. He picked it up and started to play with it and quite surprisingly it caught his interest for a good 20 minutes, that is until Angel spotted Kenji with "his" toy. (Both of them are still learning to share "their" toys, it's a working process :D)
Anyways, Angel when up to him and grabbed the toy from his hand to which Kenji replied with a yell as if he had gotten badly hurt (very naughty). So of course grandma and I go running towards Kenji thinking he got hurt, but no he's perfectly unharmed and rather just throwing a great big fit. (We didn't know this at first, as when we got to the "scene" Angel was long gone--he knew he had done something naughty. Such a rasacal!)
I go up to Kenji and ask him "Honey, what's wrong, what happened, did you get hurt, where?" He stood up, tear-less face mind you, and acted out what happened and I realized that the reason for his yelling was due to Angel grabbing the toy he was playing with and not because he had gotten hurt, TTL!
So then I had to explain to him that while it was wrong of Angel to grab his toy it was also wrong of him to have yelled the way he did because of it. If something goes wrong at any given time, for whatever reason, he needs to call me or grandma and we will help him, but never, ever, yell unless he's gotten badly hurt. I then had to go ahead and correct him for yelling unnecessarily to get a point across.
TTL, he got that particular point/lesson down but now another problem came up, SR. Yep, believe it or not this little Virgos' SR side has begun to show. :D It's adorable yet naught at the same time. And something I foresee myself having to keep a very close eye on. :)
Anyways, so the other day pretty much the same thing happened (Angel taking Kenji's toy away, yet this time I saw the incident) but there was no bloody murder type of scream following Angel's actions. Hmm, I wonder why? Well Kenji didn't know that I was looking at them and much to my surprise he went up to Angel and waved his little index finger at him, burrowed his eyebrows, and slapped his hand! It was more like a tap, but his intention was to slap him.
So naughty, and SR!!! He has grabbed toys away from Angel and the other kids plenty of times before and when I explain to him that I'm going to have to slap his hand for doing so, he waves his little index finger at me while hiding his other hand behind his back and trying to run away, while of course putting on his best smile! Oh, Lord, what to do with this little tyke of mine! He's too intelligent and mischievous!
In spite of all that, he's a sweetheart and likes to help others quite a bit and I'm so thankful that he is hitting a stage where he alone seeks out Word time. At least twice a day he will actually bring me his Toddler Bible in pictures or his Word books and ask me to read him some stories. Although I'm wondering now, if maybe all this Word is just "adding" to his SR? LOL
Okay, well I'll leave you all with some pictures, enjoy! :)
Although he still isn't talking a whole lot :( he is very smart and understands everything both in Spanish and English. :) Because of this "lack of communication" via words he makes himself known through actions, kind of like charades. :D Quite frankly it's pretty cute!
It's quite entertaining and funny to have him give you a rundown of how/why he fell, or what exciting thing happened during an outing, or what Angel did to him to make him cry, what particular thing he wants to do for "school," etc. But I think due to the attention he's gotten by the kids from his hilarious rundowns he has started to overuse this and misuse it.
How so? Well for instance, one day Kenji found one of Angel's toys lying around. He picked it up and started to play with it and quite surprisingly it caught his interest for a good 20 minutes, that is until Angel spotted Kenji with "his" toy. (Both of them are still learning to share "their" toys, it's a working process :D)
Anyways, Angel when up to him and grabbed the toy from his hand to which Kenji replied with a yell as if he had gotten badly hurt (very naughty). So of course grandma and I go running towards Kenji thinking he got hurt, but no he's perfectly unharmed and rather just throwing a great big fit. (We didn't know this at first, as when we got to the "scene" Angel was long gone--he knew he had done something naughty. Such a rasacal!)
I go up to Kenji and ask him "Honey, what's wrong, what happened, did you get hurt, where?" He stood up, tear-less face mind you, and acted out what happened and I realized that the reason for his yelling was due to Angel grabbing the toy he was playing with and not because he had gotten hurt, TTL!
So then I had to explain to him that while it was wrong of Angel to grab his toy it was also wrong of him to have yelled the way he did because of it. If something goes wrong at any given time, for whatever reason, he needs to call me or grandma and we will help him, but never, ever, yell unless he's gotten badly hurt. I then had to go ahead and correct him for yelling unnecessarily to get a point across.
TTL, he got that particular point/lesson down but now another problem came up, SR. Yep, believe it or not this little Virgos' SR side has begun to show. :D It's adorable yet naught at the same time. And something I foresee myself having to keep a very close eye on. :)
Anyways, so the other day pretty much the same thing happened (Angel taking Kenji's toy away, yet this time I saw the incident) but there was no bloody murder type of scream following Angel's actions. Hmm, I wonder why? Well Kenji didn't know that I was looking at them and much to my surprise he went up to Angel and waved his little index finger at him, burrowed his eyebrows, and slapped his hand! It was more like a tap, but his intention was to slap him.
So naughty, and SR!!! He has grabbed toys away from Angel and the other kids plenty of times before and when I explain to him that I'm going to have to slap his hand for doing so, he waves his little index finger at me while hiding his other hand behind his back and trying to run away, while of course putting on his best smile! Oh, Lord, what to do with this little tyke of mine! He's too intelligent and mischievous!
In spite of all that, he's a sweetheart and likes to help others quite a bit and I'm so thankful that he is hitting a stage where he alone seeks out Word time. At least twice a day he will actually bring me his Toddler Bible in pictures or his Word books and ask me to read him some stories. Although I'm wondering now, if maybe all this Word is just "adding" to his SR? LOL
Okay, well I'll leave you all with some pictures, enjoy! :)
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