Halloween outfit

It was difficult for Julie to figure out what to dress William up as for Halloween. After all this is his first Halloween. Finally, Julie decided to let William have multiple outfits. We know William won't remember.... But Julie will^_^



So Julie first had William try on the Chinese outfit he wore for his one month birthday... The shirt was a little tight and the pants ripped after William wiggled a few times (but the outfit did make it through the library and our apartment halloween party).



Then Julie dressed William up as Charlie Brown on Halloween. With the little amount of hair he's got, doesn't he look like Charlie Brown?


You would think that it would be easy to find a yellow shirt to put a brown strip on... It took Julie forever to shop for that shirt. She finally gave up and just bought a white polo shirt and some yellow cloth dye... Tada! Charlie Brown shirt!

William didn't get to have any candies this Halloween but Eric and Julie shared some of William's candies together.

We also celebrated Eric's 31st birthday by visiting the California Academy of Science.


William loved the aquarium!

Since we were close by the De Young Museum, we also tried to go and visit the Impressionest exhibit:

Julie had a little too much fun with the cutouts.




Here is more pictures from October:

What does this bottom do?

Our Curious George has found the flush on our toilet. He is heading into the bathroom to try out this new bottom every chance he gets! Luckily we pay a flat fee on our water bill...

Hello Adolf... wait... I mean Charlie Chaplin

Here is a picture of William's first taste of miso soup at a Japanese restaurant. Julie tried to feed him a piece of the seaweed and it landed on William's lips instead. We just couldn't pass up on this precious moment ^_^

And here is a video of William climbing up some stairs for the first time:

The strategy to combat "NO"

The terrible twos is what all new parents fear and the word "NO!" is what all new parents don't want coming out of their toddler's mouth.


Even though we are still far away from the terrible twos, we are already catching ourselves telling William no a lot (ex: don't pull out the electrical plug, don't lick mommy's shoes)

So the other morning, Eric said to Julie:
E: I know how to solve this problem!
J: how?
E: so for the really bad stuff we will say no but for the stuff that is not too bad we will just say "you shouldn't"
J: why don't we just do the Taiwanese way? Just call their name in a harsher tone. This way he won't associate the behavior with a specific word and he will learn his name too :)