安琪, 安杰 與安廷的成長日記

姐姐去上課，安杰成了小跟班。兩個小時的時間不知道是趁機和爸爸培養感情亦或是被狠削一頓，完全不得而知。這個星期好像還不錯，至少爸爸假裝送給安杰足夠的氣球帶他飛上天！瞧他得意的笑臉，好像真的握住了這麼一大堆的氣球哩！

 
爸爸幫安杰照了不少照片。我很喜歡他身後的模型。這些用罐頭堆出來的 Flounder and Sebastian 和 Hello Kitty 一個個都栩栩如生。當然這個超大包包也不賴。

Growing Pains 是個新鮮的名詞，是個我付了保險co-pay 學到的新鮮事
前天晚上我很晚才睡。才睡下不久安杰就哭了。以為他做惡夢哄一哄就沒事了。可惜完全不是這麼一回事。
他翻來滾去，不停地喊疼，在半睡眠狀態下的我和疼到不能睡覺的他完全不能溝通。鬧了半天才搞清楚他的膝蓋疼。眯著眼我左看右看也沒看出什麼不對。小膝蓋沒有受傷也沒有紅腫。心想不會小小年紀就搞痛風吧！難道這兩天起風毛病犯了？只好幫他揉一揉讓他好睡一點。
就這樣哭一哭，睡一睡，一晚上也打發了。
早上起床之後問安杰是不是前一天撞到腿才會痛。小人說沒有。可惜我不是太相信他，決定帶他去看醫生。
到了urgent care，掛了號就有點後悔，小病人爬上爬下繞著我跑沒有一丁點不舒服的樣子。醫生不知道會不會以為是我這個做媽的不想上班故意找耤口蹺班。
看了醫生，問了症狀，也叫安杰走了台步順便跳幾個jumping jack，醫生顯然有了結論。
醫生詭異地笑了笑先告訴我沒事，別緊張。安杰的膝蓋疼他覺得有三個可能：
1-小朋友調皮撞到引起疼痛。但是沒有紅腫，早上起來也不疼了：排除可能性
2-安杰上星期生病毒素還沒有完全排出引起膝蓋疼痛：有可能，但是疼痛不應該這麼快就消失，所以可能性不大
3-也就是說，安杰的問題是他在發育。哈？？我的臉上大概一瞬間出現了無數個問號，醫生馬上告訴我這種疼痛可能是因為小朋友大量運用腿部的肌肉而在晚上睡覺時感到肌肉疼痛。因為都發生在發育期所以又叫growing pains. 還有一種說法是小朋友的腿骨長的時候會以某種程度的力道擠壓關結導致疼痛。但是不管是什麼原因，如果再發生只要輕輕按摩既可~~
Case solved....
走出問診室我仍半信半疑。安杰偏個頭問我：＂妳確定我不需要打針嗎？＂。。。唉，三條線！
在我四下訊問的結果，白人同事和老師一聽到growing pains馬上點頭如搗蒜。紛紛告訴我growing pains 真的很疼，並且心有餘悸地告訴我當年一痛起來還得靠止痛藥救命。好玩的是今天遇到的東方人似乎都不知道growing pains 是什麼東東。
姑且當他是growing pains吧。只是這小子這兩天長得兇。昨天晚上又疼了大半夜。害我大年初一就帶個熊貓眼來上班。其實昨晚一邊幫他按摩有想過不知道是不是愈疼就長得愈高。如果是真的話，那兒子你就忍著點吧！

Below is the article I found on the Internet.  I cannot find the original post but there are many websites/blog referring this article.  I guess it's alright with the author for me to post it here......
I totally related to the last paragraph about "亞斯柏格症兒童的情感相當豐沛......"  Andrew has always been very sensitive with almost anything.... Although he doesn't show all the symptoms listed in the article, but with his social skills, I cannot stop thinking about maybe he is a 亞斯柏格症兒童?!
 

Playing with water = Getting strawberry ready for us to eat?  That's not what I think, but Andrew.  He begged me to let him washing strawberries we just bought this afternoon.  While it's something I see it as a chore, he seems to enjoy it so much.  So, I took some pictures to remind him later in the years when he rejects to do household chores that he ONCE enjoyed it a lot.  Hopefully.... he will continue his passion on doing chores......

 
 

Andrew's preschool had a Thanksgiving luncheon to celebrate Thanksgiving.  It's a simple lunch but fun way to see Andrew and having lunch with him.  Kids were having turkey sandwich and even parents got something to eat this time.  I was starving last time when they had their "tea party" in October.  Their main decoration for Thanksgiving is the hand prints (as little turkeys) from each class hanging from the celing.  I was able to find Andrew's little hand print.  His little hand doesn't seems to be too little compared to other kids.  After reading the words, I couldn't help laughing.  This is what he said.... "I am thankful for balloons.....".  Really? I wonder what is so special about balloons??  HAHA!! 
 

 

On our way back home, I noticed that Andrew was staring at the sun for a while.  I wasn’t sure what he is looking.  He looked very curious seems like he is try to find something in the sun.  In my mind, I was wondering if I should stop him because I would think the bright sunshine was probably hurting his eyes.  With the thought in my mind, I wasn’t even paying attention when he was talking to me until he raised his voice.  I asked him to repeat and this is what he said:  “Mom, it’s MONEY!”  After a second, I realized that he was referring to the sun.  Aha!! He was staring at the sun to find out what is really behind the shinny lights.  Didn’t everybody including me had told him that the sun is round?  We drew the sun in a circle all the time, right?  ….  I guess he just has to find that out himself.  He finally stopped looking straight into the sun and murmured:  “It’s a quarter…..”

Cousin Rose came to visit and kids were so delighted to see her.  Andrew first was hestitated to talk to her, but then he was totally opened up to chat. 
 
 

The official definition for a bagel is a firm doughnut-shaped roll traditionally made by boiling and then baking.  According to Andrew, a bagel is.......
BAGEL = BABY LEGO?

這是一個三十年的老把戲了。等等:這兩個完全沒有意義甚至聽來令人失笑的音,還滿受我們青睞。三十年前,我們三姐妹被老媽唬得團團轉。三十年後的今天,我的寶貝同樣也被我弄得昏頭轉向的。看來"代溝"'在這麼大的小孩中間並沒有太嚴重嘛!
PS: Just want to note that while we were recording, Austin was stealing the food for our god fish and ran away....... hahahaha

 We finally registered Andrew to the Tiny Tot program in Diamond Bar.  He has been envy Angie for her been able to go to school.  The idea of "going to school" seems equal to "having special privilege" to him.  He wants to prove to everyone he knows that he is a big boy by being able to go to school like his older sister. 
Therefore, when our dear babysitter agreed to pick up Andrew from the Diamond Bar City preschool after his class ends, I signed him up immediately.  The class for 3-year old is only Tuesday and Thursday from 9am to 11:30am.  With this class, Andrew can have the taste of what school is like without losing the comfort in the home based daycare my sitter provides.  The most important is that he still can enjoy both lunch and dinner at the sitter's place.  HaHa, such a relief for me when picking him up after work.  If he stays with sitter, I know for sure he had his dinner when I have him.  I think it's a wonderful plan for now. I took this picture when we were on our way to school.  It's in a park close to our sitter's place.  I dropped of Austin first and took Andrew to school.  He was all happy, but stop smiling when I took this picture... not very cooperative.