Almost 18 months!

Shosei falling asleep as he chews on his cracker

Hi, it's June already.  Didn't I just say it's May?  Time flies by so fast!  When Shosei's Mom is teaching English classes at home and preparing materials and making meals, shopping, and cleaning all in between classes, time sure does fly by!  Shosei will be 18 months on the 20th of June!  He is getting bigger and heavier!  He still likes to drink milk from his bottle.  Mom is trying to wean him off the bottle, but he just isn't satisfied with his meals if he can't get his mouth around that bottle! 

Last month for the English classes, we studied about transportation and sang Row row your boat for the baby classes.  Now he hums the beginning of tune on his own.  Aaah-mazing!  It's a wonder to see and hear what toddlers can do when they are still so tiny and vulnerable and when they have just started discovering things on their own.....

Today, we went to the hospital to get one of his vaccinations done.  He cried as soon as he saw the doctor with the stethescope around his neck.  He clamped his teeth down onto the tongue depressor and the doctor had a hard time peering down his throat.  He cried and whined and hollered all the way until the shot.  Fortunately, he always calms down only seconds after the crisis.  It's great that he doesn't keep on whining hours after the shot.

He had a nice hour and a half nap today and even let me have the time to take a cat nap and wash my hair afterward AND prepare his lunch. 

Shosei is generally shy around strangers still, but when he recognizes people, he smiles at them and loves to be given attention.  He likes milk, juice, baby crackers, bananas, noodles, rice, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, salmon, minced chicken/tofu hamburger, salted Korean seaweed, eggs, cheese, and just about any kinds of fruits.

Recently, he is sporting his newest attire: Thomas the tank engine, light blue shoes that his grandparents from Taiwan bought for him.