Potty Training and more...

In the past week or two, we've seen the terrible 2s starting to come out of Matthew.  Fortunately, it's nothing too extreme - just a lot of whining and [fake] crying when he doesn't get something that he wants.  Hopefully it doesn't get to be anything more than that and the occasional testing of our limits.

Potty training started last week and was somewhat of a success!  Here's a picture of what day 1 of potty training looked like:

He's had some more accidents since then, but that's what you would expect since it's potty training.  We bought Matthew some underwear with various cartoon characters - Cars, Nemo, Wall-E, Incredibles - and we tell him not to get them wet.  Sometimes when we take him to the bathroom he'll look very serious and say "Nemo is all dry!" (in Cantonese).  When he pees in the toilet like he is suppose to, he looks up at me, puts a huge smile on his face, claps his hands and says "Ma (that is how he refers to himself) goo job!  SocMo!"  SocMo is what he says for Sonic and Mario.  Before we started potty training him, I would tell him that the only way he can play Sonic and Mario on the Wii is if he pees in the toilet.  So now everytime he pees in the toilet, he expects to be able to play Sonic and Mario on the Wii.

Matthew's also stringing words together (a mix of chinese and english) to make sentences now.  "Mama fahn gong wun cheen my daw-ba-wee" (mama's going to work to earn money to buy strawberries).  "Ma um jewce" (literally - matthew drink juice - but that's his way of asking us to get him some juice to drink).  He's also relating what he reads in books to things he sees around him.  He has book that talks about this truck named Jack and his various friends like dump truck Dan, cement mixer Melvin, etc.  When we were driving somewhere and he saw a cement truck, he excitedly started saying "melnon! melnon!" and kept pointing to the truck.  I haven't been able to capture him speaking a lot on camera because he always ends up running over to the camera and wanting to see what I'm trying to record, but I did manage to get him to count during breakfast.