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vroom vroom…

kyden — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:59:11 +0000

i got wheels! i mean, i know i’ve been cruising in my cozy coupe for over a year, but now i have a real live motorized vehicle. and it’s not just any ol’ car — it’s lightning mcqueen! i finally took him out for a spin today.

i had never actually driven a car by myself, but like most things in my life, mommy took a sink-or-swim approach to teaching me how to drive. or in this case, it was more like drive-or-crash. i only crashed one time! don’t worry, i didn’t hit a tree or anything — i just hit mommy. and the car is just fine. whew.

mommy thinks that i am a bad driver, but i meant to go off-roading. so what if lightning mcqueen is a race car? staying on the road is boring. i feel bad about all the plants and grass that i damaged, but i hope that the fact that i am driving an electric-powered vehicle makes up for it in the karmic balance of the environment.

check out my video. and yeah yeah, i know that it looks like i’m driving a stick shift, but gimme a break. it was my first time. see you on the road! vroom vroom…

i am a fast poke

kyden — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:59:11 +0000

i didn’t have anything on my social calendar this morning (i know, i couldn’t believe it either), so we went for a walk to the creek by our house. all of us went — mommy, dada, baby, koda, and me. dada kept wanting to turn around because he said that i would be too tired to make it back, but i think that he was the one that was getting tired.

walking 1.5 miles and running around at the playground we stopped at just wasn’t enough exercise for me. i pushed and pulled baby’s stroller, i galloped and bear crawled down the street, i stopped to do froggy jumps and spins, and i still wanted to sprint all the way home. i am a fast poke. but i had to keep stopping to wait for the rest of the family. they are a bunch of slow pokes.

x-factor auditions

kyden — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:41:38 +0000

i was planning to try out for american idol, but i found out that the minimum age requirement is 15. i’m only 2. lucky for me, x-factor came along! that show has a category for boys under 30, right? i’m a boy. i’m under 30. hollywood, here i come!

check out my audition video. baby sister said that she’ll vote for me. will you?

pump it up fun

kyden — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:59:28 +0000

since mommy and dada took vacation from work last week, we have spent the past 10 days together doing fun stuff. today was our last day of vacation, so we made the most of it by going to pump it up jr. with matthew and his family. matthew had a groupon for that place. how cool! i wish i had one, too.

it was matthew’s first time there. and like my first time, he wasn’t so sure about the jumpy houses. but he eventually warmed up and we had a blast chasing each other through the maze and going down the slide. i was having so much fun that i didn’t bother waiting for mommy or dada — i went on the slides by myself — even the really big super slide! they couldn’t believe that i could climb up there by myself. it’s really steep, and you slide down really fast. each time i climbed up, i wouldn’t slide down until both mommy and dada were watching. mommy said that i didn’t meet the minimum height requirement posted on the slide, but how was i supposed to know? i can’t read yet.

thanks for the day out at pump it up junior, matthew. it was so much fun! tomorrow, back to the grind…

bilingual

kyden — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:41:10 +0000

grownups are always asking me if i know how to speak chinese or japanese. ummm… no. i am still working on english. i am fluent in kyden-language, though. i guess that makes me bilingual. most people don’t understand kyden, but baby sister does. you can hear/watch me read “goodnight moon” to her in this video.

dueling pianos

kyden — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:25:39 +0000

i’ve always liked playing the piano. i have a little baby piano. i have a bigger piano in my activity table. and i have a giant (grand) piano that i keep at grandma and grandpa’s house. i forgot all about my little baby piano, but mama recently brought it out for baby sister to play.

baby sister likes to play classical music. you’ll have to listen carefully because she doesn’t play very loudly. and she only plays left-handed. do you think she’ll be left-handed like i am?

i play more current songs. in this video (recorded a few weeks ago), i’m playing “itsy bitsy spider”. you can tell from my finger motions even if you don’t recognize the tune.

so, who do you think is the better pianist?

hopscotch

kyden — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:34:46 +0000

miss denise brought over some sidewalk chalk last week. so now, we practice drawing shapes and letters in the driveway, and she even helped me make a hopscotch course in front of our house. when i play hopscotch, mama says that i look like woody (from the “toy story” movies) with my shoulders shrugging and my arms flopping wildly. i dunno what she’s talking about — i’m a great hopscotcher. see for yourself!

you can’t trick a tricker

kyden — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:59:13 +0000

i’ve known my colors for awhile now, but nobody ever believed me. mama and dada thought that i have just been guessing all this time. but i think i finally convinced them that i actually know my colors. mama even tried to trick me by asking me to show her a red key. but there aren’t any red keys. so instead, i pointed to the red patch on the trampoline that i was laying on. ha! you can’t trick me!

man of the house

kyden — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:48:06 +0000

when i woke up from my nap yesterday, mama came to get me out of my bed. she was all dressed up and ready to go out. dada, too. then, a few seconds after i came downstairs, miss denise arrived. i cried and screamed and clung onto mama. mama thought i was just tired. miss denise thought i just didn’t want mama to leave. i guess it was a little of both. mama told me that she and dada were going out with their friends and that i was going to be the man of the house while they were gone. she said that i had to stay home to take care of miss denise and baby sister.

so off they went. first, mama and dada went to dinner with kai’s mommy and daddy (auntie victoria and uncle ming). they went to a turkish restaurant. i never heard of a turkish restaurant, but i guess turkish people hafta eat something. everyone liked the food, and they loved the drinks. mama was so happy to enjoy a glass of wine, and she was super excited that she got carded. i dunno what that waiter was thinking ‘cuz mama looks old. he must have been trying to earn a bigger tip.

after dinner, dada and uncle ming ordered turkish coffee. check out how it was served! those little cups look like they’re from a miniature tea set.

after the mini coffees, they all met up with maddie and malia’s parents (auntie alisa and uncle steve) to go to a kapalana concert. i know, you probably never heard of kalapana. mama says they’re the earth wind & fire of hawaii. to me, they just look like a bunch of old grandpas.

mama texted us a few times during the night to see how everyone was doing. i was doing a good job taking care of everyone. mama ordered a pizza for me, and i shared it with miss denise. baby sister wasn’t very hungry. i think she’s getting her teeth, though, so i gave her a teething ring. she kept wearing it like a bracelet, so i held it in front of her mouth so she could chew on it. tough job, i know. but these are the things that you do when you’re the man of the house.

skating: it’s not just for daytime anymore (is it?)

kyden — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:19:12 +0000

i hear that normal kids my age nap after lunch at around 1:00 or 1:30pm. well, i eat lunch around 1:00, and i don’t nap until after 3:00pm. lately, it’s been closer to 4:30 when i fall asleep. i guess i am not normal. but that’s okay. at least, it used to be.

after i woke up from my nap, there used to be plenty of sunlight so that i could take koda out, or play baseball (tee ball) in the backyard, or do something fun outdoors. lately, i have been skating a lot. i love skating. check out my video (below) and/or watch the outtakes on youtube.

but all that changed last weekend. now, when i wake up from my nap, it’s pitch dark outside. i guess the sun is getting old and going to sleep earlier these days. that’s what happened to mama and dada. they used to stay up until really late, but now they go to bed between 12-1am. they are getting old. just like the sun.

i hope that mama will still take me out on my skates during the day, in between her meetings. but i’ll probably have to do most of my rollerblading on the weekends. unless… do you think mama and dada will let me go skating at night? that sounds fun! anyone want to join me?