Ivo also says

Ivo says towel for tissue, napkin, wipe and towel. He says; yay!, sit, walk, run, book, eat.

Also last night, Ivo saw people drumming on music videos on youtube. He said, "more drumming." So I searched white stripes - figuring their drumming is so upfront and easy to see. We found white stripes on the simpsons - heaven fr Ivo! Ivo can say; simpsons, homer and bart. He calls the other characters Chinese titles of address. Ivo loved it and kept asking for it, "more simpson drumming" "more bart drumming". The look of sheer thrill on his face... too much. When it was time to go to bed Ivo's refusal was based on "want drum." He's a good drummer - I'll try to get some video today. Meanwhile, here's the simpson's-white stripes...



Yesterday for the first time, he said "coming" and "come." For 2 weeks, he's been saying "Papa go?" "Cat go?" and when he can't find a toy etc, "____ go?" He holds his arms out with his palms turned up while asking. Now, he's added the "come" compliment. Yesterday we went on a walk and Ivo n I went into the science museum while Ryan walked down to the computer store to get speakers for the laptop. Ivo was worried and wanted to know, "Papa go?" I told him papa was coming back to see us but first we would go see the dinosaurs. He seemed ok with that. We left the super crowded new yr day museum an hour later and headed to K2 icecream (which was also crowded) Ivo was getting tired of sitting in his stroller in line, kept asking about Ryan. I told him Papa's coming. And then Ivo said "Papa...coming. Papa coming." Nodding his head the whole time. Very cute.

The ice cream line was long. K2 has a long counter with no instructions about how to cue -inviting a tangle. With the stroller, my belly and smiles, I'm usually able to assert my presence based purely on size. We were standing behind super rich gangstas who drove a black mercedes sports car - model I've never seen before. They were ordering 10 to go's. A woman stepped in front of me - because there was a chance she just needed to check out the flavors, I didn't say/do anything. But it soon became clear she meant to bypass the obvious line-up and order. It would have worked had the guy in front of me not had such an unusually large order - which I knew about and she didn't. So when the last of the gangsta ice cream was being bagged I said, "Sorry, I thought you just wanted to see the flavors. We are all in line. I am behind that guy." She paused a minute, giggled and then said sorry and went to the back of the line. At which point an older heavily made-up hair-dooed woman with a gucci bag and 2 kids jumped in front of me! I told her where the line was, "jr yang zi..." and she got outta my way. I don't think she went to the back of the line though - but that's not my problem/business. Everyone has to fend fr themselves, I'm afraid, when it comes to traffic and lines. Especially lines fr food!

I just can't believe the gall of people cutting in front of an 8 months preggo and her whining toddler! I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't the belly and the baby that allowed people to actually accept what I said instead of risking me saying it more loudly and drawing attention to them that made them move...