Ryan Update

At a pediatrician visit on Feb. 15th (19 1/2 months old), Ryan's stats were:
Height: 35.5 inches (97%)
Weight: 27 lb. 1.8 oz (50%)
Head: 49 cm (76%)

He's wearing size 7.5 shoes.

New words:
yellow, button, bum (as in butt), snow,
star, orange, bunny, bottle


The weather has been cold but sunny so we spent some time at the Greenlake playground and then walked the 3 mile loop....






We were testing the Nikon D90's video recording and captured Ryan talking in the car....

Talking Ryan

Ryan has advanced beyond calling everything "baba", but many of his words are still only understandable by those of us who speak "Ryan". He understands about 200 words and can speak the following words:

Words he spoke in October....
Dad = "dada"
Mom = "mama"
Grandpa = "bapa"
Grandma = "nanna"
Grandpa = "ah-ya" (Cantonese)
Telephone = "yaya"
Baby = "baby"

Words he learned since October....
Banana, Apple, Pear, Onion,
Eye, Eyebrow, Ear, Knee,
Bear, Elmo, Ball, Oval, Up, More ("ma")

Misc. Events

My cousin Emily turned 6 yrs old. I was too busy eating to take photos, so all I got were a few shots of the cake cutting....





Chinese New Years is always uneventful. The only thing that's different from any other family gathering is the lucky money and a gambling game called "fish-shrimp-crab". The stakes are low, but it's still exciting. Even Brooke likes it and she doesn't like to gamble.
(In case you're wondering, Ryan has his shirt off because he's running nonstop and my grandparents always keep the house at 78 - 80 degrees.)



Hanging out at Gymboree....

Family Olympics

Back in Oct 16th 2010, I came up with the idea to hold a Family Olympics to help motivate me to workout. It turns out that not even the fear of a humiliating defeat was enough motivation. I managed to workout only once (Oct 18th) in the 3-month period that I had to train.

The events and rules were simple...

• Events: Pull Ups, Sit Ups (1 minute), Push Ups, 1-mile Run
• Scoring per event: 5 points for 1st Place, then 3 points, 2 points, 1 point
• The person with most total points wins!

Here are some photos from competition day....