Pics from Sunday in the Park with Ivo & Burl

I took no pics yesterday or today. I'm still sorting thru the pics from the weekend. There's a lot of good and a lot of fuzzy. Lots of cropping and red-eyes to take care of...

Burl is getting top teeth - but it seems like he's skipped a tooth on each side and moved on to a bigger more painful tooth. Burl nods thank you and yes - very cute and sweet. He loves the teletubbies. He is really starting to communicate what he wants, without allowing himself to be distracted or sidetracked.

Ivo is potty trained. I will now only mention it if there is a colorful anecdote or when nighttime diapers disappear. He is definitely in the middle of a growth spurt - developmental, that is. He simultaneously refuses everything I say and demands to bao-bao. Lots of self-assertion; if it's not Ivo's idea, it's a very very hard sell. We find, though, if we're patient and don't force it/him, he often will make the decision to do what we'd earlier hoped. I wish I weren't so tired because I'd love to write down some of Ivo's new phrases. He's absorbing and incorporating so much language lately - not just vocab but also turns of phrase. And recently he often tells us what something is in Chinese.

Pics from our walk to the science museum on Sunday. We all played kick-ball near the scaffolded botanical garden.