David's Log

Everyone is telling me how darling David is. Whenever we walk on the road, he catches everyone's attention first and I am just standing there watching how he captures people's hearts. :-) At the end of day, no matter how late I get home, my mom won't let me go unless I hear her telling me what cute thing David has done during the day.

It is probably too early to write David's anecdota because he is only 2. But I just cannot let my memory fails me and drop these pearls forever. So I am going to start recording David's growth before it is too late. :-)

'gree'

It was a little while before the dinner time. David started to show a little fuzziness. He climbed on the bed and looked at me and said "gree". I looked at him, not knowing what he meant. "You mean green?" He nodded. I point a green pen, "green"? Maybe he wanted to draw. He shook his head. I pointed at the bed sheet, "green"? Maybe he was telling me the color is gree. He shook his head and said "gree". I looked around, what else is green? I took out the picture book, pointing to a green car, "green"? "NO!" He said and started to be upset. I was confused and started to scratch my head. He saw that I could not understand him and he buried his head under the blanket giving up. I went to ask my mom if she knows what he meant. No, she didn't either.

After a while, my mom brought out the dinner. David jumped out of the bed with a big big smile. Then he washed his hand and started eating. "Oh, David, did you mean HUNGRY?" He gave me a big big nod.

'baby shee'

My mom always washes David's clothes right away because they are small and mostly need to be changed often. This afternoon, David believed that he had seen enough of us doing it and it was time for himself to try it. So he stopped us and told us "baby shee" (in Chinese it meant "Baby wash"). He put his own T-Shirt in the basin and turned on the water. He swirled the shirt in the water and put the soap on the shirt. Then he grabbed the shirt with both hands and started to rub it between his fists. If you don't care whether he was washing the dirty part of the shirt and whether there was a lot of water on the floor, I would say he actually did a pretty good job.

'baba?'

My mom took out 3 peaches and put them on the table. "David, would you please give everyone a peach?" In Chinese, my mom spoke to David. He picked one up and gave it to my mom. Then he picked up another one up and gave it to my dad who was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper. After that he picked up the last one and was about to bite it. Then he looked puzzled. He asked my mom, "baba?" Robert was lying down inside, probably not feeling well. My mom laughed. And then my dad handed out his peach to David and told him, "Give this to daddy." David took the peach, give my dad a deep look and went inside the room to give it to Daddy. For sure he won't forget you if you are his friend. :-)

'Shui Yao bu Yao?'

David's bathing is another game. He took an empty shampoo bottle, asked me, "shui yao bu yao" (want water or not?). I said, "Yao" (yes, I want some water). He smiled. Then he pressed down the bottle into the water to see the bubbles coming out. He lifted up the bottle and started to pour out the water inside on himself. He was laughing all the way when the water was running down his body. Then he would looked at me with a question mark in his eyes, "shui yao bu yao?" And I would say "Yao" again and again...

'baby de'

David tends to forget to eat his food. He would jump around and pick up a car or something and roam from here to there while he was still chewing on something. This is not a good habit. I am trying to get him to sit down and eat. However, we left the high chair in the states and we dare not to make him cry at dinner time -- my mom would start a war on us if we do. As I remember my grandma has said that some habbit will fade away when a child grows up and I haven't seen any grownup having trouble eat sitting down, I have to choose a different battle and let this go. So to remind him that he should take the next bite, my parents have to use a competitive methods. "Lao Ye De", my dad will say. And that meant "this is Grandpa's". And David will look at him challenging, "Baby de" which means "this is Baby's". And he will take a big bite to show that it really is his and look at my dad victoriously. And my dad laughes in his belly.



Work is fun. But playing with David is sure more fun. David brings laughs to all of us because he is just a God made pure kid. :-)