Happy Halloween! ROAR!!!

For Kian's 2nd Halloween, he dressed up as a lion...perfect for our little leo. We're not sure how he felt about being in the costume, but he was able to keep it on for a few hours, as compared to last year, when he only tolerated his jack-o-lantern costume for a few minutes.





Grandpa Matt and Grandma Gei joined us on our walk along California Ave. for the West Seattle merchants' trick-or-treating. After stopping to fill up his basket at a dozen or so shops, Kian made the sign for "all done," which was well-timed because all of us were feeling pretty "done" with the crowds, too. So, we headed home to put him down for a nap. Later, the costume went right back on as we joined Kian's cousins and friends for a little pumpkin soup party.

There are so many pictures, stories, and updates from the past three months of our blog hiatus..... The big ones are that Kian can walk all over the place, and practically runs! He can say, "light" (ight), "that" (dat, as in "who's that?"), "truck" (kuck), "dada", and "mama". He can do the sign language for "milk", "all done", and "more" (which he uses not only for more of something he's eating, but also if he wants to keep watching a DVD, for you to keep singing, for the taiko drummers to play another song, for you to keep playing hide-and-seek/peek-a-boo, and more!). His current favorite song is "The Wheels on the Bus", and he'll move his head from side to side rhythmically to get you to start singing it! He loves spotting airplanes in the sky, calling out all the trucks on the road, seeing pictures of fire engines, putting plastic coins in the slot of a toy piggy bank, screwing caps and lids on bottles and containers, and he STILL loves basketballs.

Kian started a bilingual preschool this past week and is in the "waddler room" for ages 13 mo. - 24 mo. So far, he has only been there for 3 hours each day, but we will transition him to stay for lunch and nap this week. The separation is tough for both him and us, but each day gets better. We're happy to give him the opportunity to interact with other kids more, learn to share, learn to sit at a table to eat without being strapped to the chair, and play with a variety of toys. The infusion of Spanish in his everyday life is just icing on the cake.

Kian's Fall shoes...in Bronco colors, of course!