Update May & June 2011

It's been almost 2 months so, we thought it was time for an update.  LiLi has changed quite a bit.  She's talking a lot more now.  Still not on track for a 3 year old, but she's made a lot of progress.  She's putting a couple words together like 'Daddy work'.  Or 'GeGe ball'.  (GeGe is chinese for brother).  Also, our calm easy going little girl is starting to have tantrums when she doesn't get her way.  It's mostly when she can't watch another Dora movie.  She's still crying and whining.  Her cry isn't that quiet cry anymore it's a much louder, annoying cry.  She does settle down pretty quickly though if we just ignore it for a few minutes.  One time I walked to the kitchen and she was lying on the family room floor crying.  After I few minutes she quieted down.  I looked over and she was asleep on the floor.  I guess that's one way to get her to nap.

  We've still been keeping in contact with the families from KC that we went to China with.  In may LiLi went to one of their birthday parties at Monkey Bizness.  She loves climbing and sliding.  She did pretty well on the rock wall.  We also went to the Dragon Boat Festival on the Plaza and watched some of the girls dance and the boat races.  We may put her in a dance class in the fall.

  She loves to play outside (when she's not watching Dora).  She especially loves the water.  We have a little pool for her and a slip 'n slide, but she really loves going to the big pool and swimming.  She would probably stay in there all day if we let her.  She's pretty daring and will jump right off the side.
  She had her check up at the opthamologist yesterday.  The Dr. said her eyes have changed quite a bit.  Now, it seems like she's mostly using her left eye so, she wants to try to patch her right eye for a while so, hopefully her left eye will get stronger.  She's suppose to wear the patch 3-4 hours in the morning.  I put one on today and she kept taking it off finally after a couple hours, it didn't stick anymore so, I decided 2 hours for the first day was pretty good.  She didn't really whine or complain she just kept taking it off and giving it to me.  We'll try again tomorrow and hopefully keep it on for a little longer.

  The boys are still playing baseball.  It's been a really fun season.  The team is doing pretty well.  Jakob continues to be a great pitcher and a good batter.  Andrew is either hot or cold.  He can hit the ball way out to the field a few times and then strike out a few times.  Before one of the games, the coach said he would give any player $100 if they hit the ball to the fence.  To our surprise and delight, Andrew was the one who did it.  It was great.  After he hit it, he was one 2nd base, jumping up and down and waving his hands.  He's the only one that has done it.  LiLi has to endure a lot of baseball games, but she's pretty good.  A few times our neighbor Donya has come and played with her so I can watch the game a little better.

Kraig better watch out because she may take over his job as scorekeeper.

Andrew finally learned to ride a bike.  Yes, he is 9 years old.  Kraig and the boys have gone on a few bike rides and LiLi and I have gone on a couple.  We borrowed the bike trailer from our neighbor.  LiLi loved it.