Nice!

When we used to take Kai to the soft play area at the mall, we had to work really hard to keep him corralled in the play area, but it seems that he's finally figured out how to stay in the play area and he's also learned to make friends with the other kids.

Amusingly, Kai has also started to say, "nice!" when he's happy or pleased with something. He must have picked that one up from Nik.

Like father, like son

Nik added li hing powder to Kai's rice the other day.. Kai loved it!

I took the kids to Costco yesterday and Kai really enjoyed having Sora sitting next to him in the double-wide shopping cart.

Sora still wakes up a lot during the night, so we've been trying to do some night training. Since Sora still sleeps in our room, we end up moving out to the couch in the family room when she's crying. I'm not sure if we're making progress yet (two hours of crying and screaming the other night) and Nik and I are debating whether or not we should throw in the towel.

Kicked out of our own room

Why doesn't she sleep like this during the night?

We're also still working on making sure Sora spends adequate time on her tummy. Watching Nik play video games this morning seemed to keep Sora on her tummy for longer than usual. :P

This past weekend was a busy one for us as we saw a lot of friends and family. On Saturday, we went to Jen and Lezra's baby shower.

Spiderman/Marvel family plus Sailor Moon

We also celebrated my mom's birthday and although I'm not sure if Kai understands the concept of "birthday" yet, he certainly understands the concept of "birthday cake". He was fascinated as we put candles on my mom's cake and lit the candles. He even knows how to blow out the candles now (which made lighting the candles tricky).

Happy birthday, Po Po!

On Sunday Kai also played with Milo, Luca and Juliette while we hung out with their parents. Kai had so much fun in Juliette's sand box that we may need to make one of our own. :)

Kai loves his little sister and Sora is fascinated by her big brother. Kai still attempts to hold or hug Sora, although Sora gets a little freaked out when this happens.

Kai: "Hug baby?"

Sora isn't feeling the love

Kai requires supervision when holding Sora...

... otherwise, this happens.

Since Sora started solids, Kai also likes to try to feed her. While we love the fact that he wants to help his sister, we have to make sure he doesn't end up gagging her with a spoon. Also, since Sora has been teething, she now puts everything in her mouth and ever the bossy older brother, Kai likes to say, "no, baby eat!"

Kai gave Sora a strawberry to eat. She liked it!

We love watching our kids play. Kai is always finding fun and novel ways to play with things and it's so much fun to watch Kai and Sora play with each other.

Kai with "David Totoro" :)

Exersaucer fun!