Maybe it will be funny one day...

Today Guinness literally ripped the door off of one of our cupboards.

We have a (custom order) buffet thing that we keep the water cooler, microwave, and coffee machine on, Inside it is storage space we desperately need because our kitchen is so tiny. We have to keep the handles tied shut so he doesn't go in and muck everything up, and today he pulled so hard at the rope that he ripped the hinge right out of the wood.

Chris was so mad. I am pretty mad, too because it was nice furniture that we spent lots of money on AND we need it. Thats why we spent money on it. Oh, Guinness.

AHH!

ONly 18 months old, but have the terrible twos begun?

If he doesn't get his way he yells and cries. Refuses to sit in his high chair. Fussy and whiny. Trying my patience!!!

No, I will not let you throw the iPod on the floor. No, I will not let you run with a chopstick in your mouth. No, you can't play with scissors. No. No. No. No.

I don't think our house is that dangerous, I think he has a knack for finding danger. And really, it is an apartment. There are only so many places to keep things that are more than 4 feet off the ground. And he can open doors now...

Did I mention that he escaped from childcare in Taichung? They have babysitting at our professional learning meetings there so the spouses can participate in some activities, and when I went to get Guinness for lunch the lady said, 'Well he was here a minute ago but when we opened the door to let someone in he must have run out because he isn't here now.' Ummm, great. So typical.

(I wasn't really worried because I knew a lot of people we knew were milling about and that he was probably out playing. Also, it was an enclosed campus area, not like he escaped into a mall or a road. Just a bunch of teachers having lunch. I felt bad because I knew the worker searching for him probably felt terrible!)

Redeeming moments: How he says, 'Bye Steve!' to Blues CLues, and asks for 'George?' (as in Curious). He sits and reads books to himself, and loves pirates. (Arrrr!) He slept with his two big plastic dinosaurs the night before last. (ta de kong long). And he started saying 'bonk' when he bumps something, or 'broken' when, well, when something is broken.

We need to get pictures done soon.

Boys...

So Gemma and I were making the ponies hair beautiful by adding clips and things, and Guinness came by to check it out. I suggested putting a clip on him, grabbed a little rooster tail in the front and gave him a unicorn horn. What does Guinness do? Feel his head to find the clip, pull it out, put it in his mouth and run away, squealing in delight. What a stinker.

He is running a lot lately, which is so scary because he gets going so fast a major wipeout is inevitable. He ran down the hallway on Friday and turned the corner to Gemma's room so hard he missed the opening and ran full on into the frame. Ouch!

All done!

So Guinness was eating his McVittie's digestive crackers in his high chair when he heard the theme to Blue's Clues. "Done!" he says. And I say, "No buddy, you still have some cookie in your hand. See?" So he looks at the cookie that he is clenching, throws it on the ground, and says, "done!!"

Thanks, man. :) What a kid.

Guinness' Ear

So Thursday night he woke up at 11pm. Crying. Not just whimpering, unsettled, but 'WAH, I"m really upset, take care of me now pleassse" crying. No cuddles, song, book, TV show could console him. He cried until 1:30, slept till 3:00, was up till 4:30, slept till 6. I pushed him in the stroller in the yard for a bit till he fell asleep during the 3am stint, but anyway, yah. Bad night! (I am proud to say I didn't lose my temper or yell at Chris for something completely ridiculous or anything, as I am sometimes prone to do when I am way over tired.) So I took the morning off work (Chris had his own dr. thing), and took him in. Left ear; good. Right ear; not good. Very inflamed, acute middle ear infection the doctor said. "This is why he is so dis-comfortable" the doctor said :)
So we left with: amoxicillan for the ear, 3 more things to take care of the lingering cold symptoms from last week, and 2 things for the fever, including a very special up the b*tt fever pill they like to prescribe for high fevers because it brings them down more quickly. Oh, Taiwan. But thankfully the lines were all short, I got all of this for a mere 100NT (3$) and an hour after taking all this wonderful medicine he was feeling and acting WAY better. Pheww!

So thankful we live in the modern age, with medicine for my babies when they are sick!

Guinness' words part II

chicken
down
door
all done
uck! (as in yuck!)
Auntie

Guinness' words

mine
no
yah
wow!
nana (banana)
hot
tang tang (hot)
down
apple
cracker
cookie
go go (dog)
puppy
mao (cat)
book
more
ball