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Nathan Update: I guess it wasn’t a stomach bug, but something else. He got over it in a day. We allowed him to stay home from school, though, just to be sure. He missed his play date with his BFF, Austin, but enjoyed his time with Mommy, for sure! He never gets sick of me…except when he doesn’t like me.

Justin had therapy, today..

Loi made us yummy Eggs Benedict. So fattening, but so delicioso!

Justin met with his infant stimulation teacher. He’s learning to match colors, shapes, and things. Doesn’t quite get it, yet because he’s too busy playing with the car that teacher brought along. He also learned body parts, although he knows some of it in Vietnamese, but not English (head, feet, hands). He’s learning animal sounds. His favorite are “mmmm” (cow), “baaa” (sheep), and kissing noises (fish).

Justin’s teacher noted how “generous” Justin is because he’s always sharing his toys. This is true. He likes to share with another person whatever he has in his hand. If there are multiple people, he makes sure that each person gets something. Whenever Justin’s teacher gives him two toys, he makes sure to give one to me and one to her. That leaves him with none! So cute.

Nathan likes to join in the fun, too. While the teacher was explaining the idea of stacking and why kids do it, she mentioned Legos and blocks. Nathan went to fetch his cart of blocks, and pulled it over to her for Justin. So cute! (BTW: kids like to stack things, and put things away as a way to put order to their environment. This usually follows their messy play stage, where things are taken out and are everywhere!)

I made a sweet gingery tofu. And, another concoction that involved tomato paste, mushrooms, onions, celery, ground turkey meat, heavy whipping cream, and herbs. There is no name for it, but it is yummy with rice.

The highlight of the day was taking Nathan to the library to get his first library card. It was 7pm by the time we finished dinner, but it didn’t matter. Nathan was so excited as he talked about it all day. I had made plans for this to be our adventure of the day.

We walked in, headed straight for the desk. I filled out some forms, my info was entered into the computer, and voila! Nathan was given his first library card. While I was printing his name on the back of the card, Nathan pulled out his Lightening McQueen wallet so that he could put the card in when I was done. His chin reached exactly on top of the counter. He was like a little man.

Once we were done, we headed upstairs to the Children’s section where he proceeded to find the cars-related book he had checked out the last time we were there. I couldn’t remember the title. In the process of looking, he found 3 other books that we ended up checking out. All had pictures of cars on their covers.

We read through 2 of the 3 books while Justin made ga ga eyes at another girl teen across the table from us. I followed his gaze to find that she was smiling and waving back. Such a flirt! I said it was time to leave when Justin got fidgety (after all, it was his bed time, and I was taking them out! Bad Mama! Oh, well. It’s all about the experience. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.).

Nathan couldn’t wait to show his Papa his new books and card. He even had a plan on how he would present all his new findings to his Papa.

“First, I’m going to take one book, put it behind my back, then I will say, ‘Surprise,’ and show Papa. Then, I’m going to go back to the car, get the other book, and put it behind my back, and surprise Papa….”

He’s very methodical.

Anyway, love my time with my boys as always.

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