Thanksgiving

Last Tuesday, Albert and Jonathan were in a car accident. His old Camry slipped and he lost control. The car swerved into the coming traffic. The car was hit twice at the front passenger side and the right rear. It just missed the back row passenger door where Jonathan was sitting. Both came through unharmed but the car was totaled and Albert is quite shaken by the event. This was his first car accident. The event keeps going through his mind. He is afraid to drive now.

We are thankful to God that He has preserved both of their lives. So many times, most of the time, we take things for granted. We do not appreciate the saving grace of God when disasters or accidents like this strike. Then we come before God for a few days. When things get back to normal, we forget about Him again. I have had multiple accidents in the past. The first two, both cars were totaled. Another near miss was slipping off the road into a shallow ditch in a snow storm. Fortunately I was able to drive it out.

Woe is me if I am to forget God's preserving hand holding unto us. For each day I have life, I will remember that this life is from God and all I have are given by God, husband, child, car, health, abilities... Now to live life to the fullest in Christ.

大头大头

尊尊喜欢这首外婆教的童谣：“大头大头，下雨不愁，别人有伞，我有大头。” 我边念词，他双手抱着头，左右摇动。念完以后，他还会拍拍手。有时后要给他连续念几遍。今天在一个中国小姐姐面前表演了几遍，小姐姐也学会了。 另一个他喜欢的童谣是：“两只老虎，两只老虎，跑的快，跑的快， 一个没有耳朵，一个没有尾巴，真奇怪，真奇怪。” 念到 “一个没有耳朵” 的时候，有时他会摸摸耳朵。 （Jonathan loves this Chinese nursery rhymes my mom taught him: "Big head big head, don't worry about raining. others have umbrella, I have big head." When I read the nursery rhyme, he will hold his head with both hands, swaying left and right. At the end he will clap his hands. Sometimes he will do this a few times continuously. Today he performed in front of a Chinese girl several times. By the end the girl knows how to do this as well. Another one is: "Two tigers, running fast. One has no ear, one has no tail. How strange, how strange." When I say, "one has no ear", sometimes he will touch his ear.) He is now really interested in books. He will bring his books one by one and let me read to him. He now can wait until I finish reading the content of the page before turning it. Of course the lines for each page are not that long. Sometimes he wants me to read the book over and over. Other times one book after another. He won't go to bed if we don't read at least one book.

More to remember

I'm beginning to forget Jonathan's milestones. Can't remember when he got the top 4 teeth. For sure he had the bottom 2 at 1 year, but when did they come out? 7 or 8 months? I just looked up older posts. I did make a mention of this, 9 month. He is walking real well now. By 14 months he can walk without assistance but still needed to hold his hand up high. At the Thanksgiving dinner, he walked and walked and was quite the talk of the night among families with small children. He is just about to run. New words from two days ago: Ge ge (brother), nai nai (milk). His vocabulary at 14 1/2 months: Mama, dada, baba, deng deng (1- light), deng deng (4- chair), dan dan (egg), ball, bao (means book), ba ba (bath bath), ya ya (duck), da da (3, means tiao tiao, sticks snacks), ma ma (2, men, door). He can sing "Da tou da tou" song with actions, then clap his hand. He really likes music. He shakes and sways with the music and can clap to the beat sometimes.