Dancing around the Christmas Tree

Daycare Halloween Party

It is Alvin's first Halloween Party in the Daycare. Since every baby is supposed to dress up in costume, Mom had no choice but bought a Little Lion Cub costume for Alvin. It turns out that he looks too cute in that costume and many people in the evening Trick-or-Treating thought he is a "she". Oops.. next year we will buy a superman!

Halloween Costume - $9.97
Daycare Tuition - $355 per week
Alvin's Lion show in the daycare - priceless
for everything else, we use Daddy's paycheck

Do you know how hard it is for our 23 pounds Alvin to make peace with these two 30 pounds babies everyday? j/k. Alan and Jena are wonderful companions for Alvin.

Here is the Hershey Kisses.

Harvest time for Alvin...

Seneca Park

Not to disappoint our readers, we are finally posting some recent pictures from Seneca State Park visit. There is a "Tire Playground" there, soft and kid-friendly.

Alvin loves ducks. He doesn't want to leave them.

Fatherly Loves...

Our Pumpkin Pie

On a gorgeous autumn morning, Alvin teamed up with his buddy Ben and swept the pumpkin field at Bulter Orchard farm in Germantown. We taught Alvin the word Pumpkin and showed him a picture of pumpkin beforehand and he seemed to recognize it

Here is our Pumpkin Pie picking up pumpkins.

Alvin is trying to protect his pumpkins.

ZOOoooo

Before the parents go hibernated with the animals, we visited the National Zoo the weekend before. At Alvin's age, he can only see what he can see, like big animals or animals move very fast, or playful animals like Apes who played "peek-a-poo" in front of us!

We first stopped at the Panda House. Guess what? Panda Tian Tian hibernates even on a hot Fall day! It was only 10 o'clock in the morning!

Panda Mei Xiang is the active one.

I guess they are comparing the size of their eyes.

We were lucky to see an elephant talent show. They first say Hi to us. Then, they show their friendships by doing "hand-in-hand".

*** Family Update ***

The lazy mom got tired of taking care of Alvin days and nights so she trained the Dad to do all the works. Every night after dinner, Daddy will play with Alvin, and then give him a warm bath, dress him up, wash his face, put lotion on, brush his teeth, wipe his gums (watch out for the mad bites from self-defense), read storybooks, feed him bottle and put him to bed. What the mom is doing in the meantime? Lay in bed watching TV or read a book or do nothing, you know, all that good stuff. And, of course, now and then, she would ensure the Dad that (doing all the works) is the new trend for modern time Daddies.

Then, the lazy Dad got tired of not having his personal time in the evening so he trained Alvin to sleep earlier and sleep on his own. He would put Alvin to bed before 8:30pm, let the toy Giraffe to play a melody from MusicBox, and say "night night" to Alvin. The good boy Alvin will just play on his own to sleep, sometimes within 5 minutes and sometimes takes almost an hour but he just stays quietly and talks to the animal (or himself) and comforts himself by mouthing the corner of his favor blanket.

The "not that lazy" Alvin lately falls in love with reading storybooks. He spends at least 1 or 2 hours everyday browsing through all the books, pointing to each figure and asks for their names. Also, he loves looking at the US Wall Map and the World Wall Map in our house. Looks like he got that from his Daddy.

Inner Harbor

It is always nice to visit Inner Harbor but this time is especially nice! Mom's Auntie and Uncle are visiting the states from China and it is the first time Alvin in the harbor seeing the boats!

Do you notice Alvin is always looking away from the Camera?

Too much attractions in the harbor, or my boy doesn't like to be a camera star?

Without the hat, you can see what my Daddy has done to my hair on the last day of summer?!

*** Alvin's Update ***

It is not that much going on lately, except that Alvin has learned another language: Iranian! He understands "Clap Hands" in Iranian (da-shi-da-shi). Try him out next time!

Alvin can walk pretty well right now - without too much arm balance and with shoes on.

Daycare teacher told mom last Friday, "Alvin is weird. He never cries in the center, not even when he fell and got a bump on his forehead."

Firehouse

The Germantown Fire Department had its annual open house last Saturday. It is such wonderful event for kids. It features games, musics, foods, reptile petting zoo display, fire simulation, equipment display, and it is educational! Even Alvin enjoyed it !

Compare to my tricycle at home, this one has more bells and whistles.
Ride on the back of a Firetruck!

What's wrong with my parents? Even I know it is backward!

Woo...this giant thing matches my cloth colors. Must be a new toy mom bought for me.
Oh, no! It is flying away!!! (The helicopter takeoff swept up the dirts and grass and Mom was trying to protect Alvin. But he insisted to watch it off.)

They are eating my melon. Let me get in because I can crawl faster than they do.

Catch me if you can...