Ivo Dash Meets Burl

This morning Ivo, Ryan and I went to the hospital for an appt with Dr. Fu. Have I mentioned that Fu means "lucky"?

We don't know why Ivo hates the doctor so much. We don't know why he's so scared. Sure he's been vaccinated - but the last shot was 6 months ago. He was last at the doctor in early October and, yes, he had his nose suctioned out... but could he really remember that? I guess so.

He's able to be calm when we tell him, "mama see doctor." However he wasn't able to handle watching me get weighed or having my blood pressure checked. Later, after a couple 10 kuai rides, he and Ryan sat in during the ultrasound. We told Ivo that the sensor was a camera and it took pictures of the baby in mum's belly and the pictures went onto the computer. He seemed to accept that. When we left, he kept pointing at the computer screen, saying "baby, baby" - like we left the baby in the computer... So he's already protective of his didi - Oh yea, he was calling the baby, "didi" which means little brother.

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When we got home, Karin and Shadow were walking by and we walked with them to the science museum park. After an hour, they left and Ivo and I went into the museum. Today he was much much more interested in animals, especially the turtles ("Where turtle go? Eggs?" - which he remembered!!!!), rather than the dinosaurs. We ran into Kevin and Kathryn - who were having a daddy/daughter day out to celebrate her 6th bday. We hung with them for an hour and visited the baby-gestation exhibit and the mini-zoo together.

Ivo's verbal ability is growing by leaps and bounds everyday. But sometimes I wonder if it's only me who understands him! Like he might be really impossible to understand yet I hear his words clear as a bell and report stuff like, he can say "excavator" and "elephant." I admit that his rendition of those words takes some interpretation but...I'm not sure about other stuff.

He says: hot wheels, truck, woo-woo car (for police and all emergency vehicles that go "woo-woo"), want see____, want go____, want eat, I hungry, me, milk, turtle, cheese, guitar, dance/ing, sing/ing, want book, read book, giraffe, hippo, rhino, elbow, truck, computer, astronaut/moon-man, picture, papa-de picture, no hit____, diaper, bagel, chocolate, out/in, up/down, on...

He understands "pick up/put away toys." He often participates and almost as often initiates clean-up.