Life With Chan

I feel like the last few posts were about Esme so lets catch everyone up to speed on Chan.  He is the funniest little guy!  He has such a sense of humor already.  And he knows he's silly cause he always looks at you with a sly little face when he does something silly.  He continues to be incredibly thorough with his speech.  He copies/repeats what you say and then makes sentence twice as long.  It's amazing he just turned two.  He also continues with his sometimes monotone, sometimes southern accent, and sometimes deepened voice. The deepened voice is the funniest but it's like he's barely trying and he talks like that for hours.

He's sort of interested in the potty but nothing consistent yet.  We started a potty chart but he hasn't gotten very far.  Esme saw it and decided she wanted a potty chart too so we thought it would help entice him but no such luck.  Up until recently he's been horrible at teeth brushing and flossing but we may have recently turned the corner.  He used to scream and kick when he did it and he seemed to have stopped this past weekend.  Thank goodness cause that's always torture.  And in the past week he's been taking extra long naps, up to 4 1/2 hours, so maybe he's getting ready for a growth spurt.  He's also getting in his top left 2nd year molar so that could be doing it.

Nightime sleep has gotten way better too.  He consistently sleeps through the night with bedtime around 7:30pm and waking around 6:30am.   Esme and Chan are still sharing a room and they really like that.  We've asked if they want their own rooms but they always decline the opportunity. .

Chan has swim lessons with Nana and Aunty Peggy every Monday and seems to be making progress.  He has no problem going right under the water and holding his breath.  He actually comes up smiling and wants to dive in again from the edge of the pool.  It's actually hard to stop him which can be a little scary.  He's good at kicking and knows he needs to do that to get around and move.  Esme also has swim lessons with Aunty Peggy on Saturdays and she finally made the leap to comfortably swimming after we got back from the mainland.  Pretty soon the kids will be swimming together!

Chan also loves to sing, mostly children's songs.  He listens to all kinds of kids songs in our cars and sings along with most of the words.  He also likes to immitate all the animals in Old MacDonald which he thinks is so funny :)

The kids potty charts :)

We love our Chan Man!

Hanging out at Target on a Sunday with these two.