Children's interests do change often, don't they...

Just like all kids, especially first born children, Aidan has a whole toy box of toys. Actually, it's more than just one toy box as there's a box in each of the rooms for him. But he's been abandoning his toys lately and hasn't really dug in it to look for anything. His favorite toys change every so often. At one point, it was the very annoying caterpillar that my parents gave him, then it was the rocker guitar with loud music, then the Barney radio that he borrowed from day care and hasn't returned yet. All of his favorite toys have sounds and lights. Now these toys are untouched. When he opened his Thomas & Friends laptop birthday present, he couldn't take his hands off it. After a day, he forgot about it. Now that I think of it, the only toys that he's been consistently playing for the last few months was his Kidzoom digital camera and my laptop, although he has recently shown interests in his own laptop.

He used to watch The Wiggles concert every single day for a long time. We play their music in the car, watch their concert at home and Tivo'd their show. The Wiggles phase has gone. Then comes the phase of "Ni Hao Kai Lan". Oh my, every single day he wanted to watch Kai Lan, in the morning before daycare and in the evening after daycare. For some reason, he kept on wanting the same "Lu Lu day" episode for the longest time. That was so girly! I guess he liked it because of the bubbles at the end of the episode. He watched it so much that he memorizes everything they said. Of course, we have our fair share of Little Einstein and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. But recently, he hasn't asked to watch any TV (that's a good thing, right?). Maybe just a little Wiggles concert on the weekends.

One thing I am glad is his renewed interests of books. We used to read when he was younger. His favorite was "Goodnight Moon" (we read it so much that I had to buy a new book as the other one was all worn out). Then we read the monkeys jumping on the bed, and the big nursery rhymes book with Humpty Dumpty in the cover. Then he suddenly lost interests in all books. I tried and tried, as we all know we are supposed to read to our kids and hopefully they will read the whole Harry Potter collection by first grade (HA!). But no, he doesn't want anything to do with it. But then lately, he wants to read again. It's become our bedtime routine. We brush our teeth after dinner, change into his PJs and his nighttime diaper (I know, he's not potty-trained and that's a whole other subject), then he sits on my lap and we read 3 books before going to sleep. His favorite books have been "Monster Munchies", the Toddler Tales of Bartholomew the bear, and his Diego book. Sometimes we will read "Snow" as well but that book is a little longer and I usually suggest the other ones instead when it's close to 9 p.m. Let's hope this reading interest will continue. Maybe now that he's older, he actually understands what he's reading. Of course, he also memorizes those 3 books as well. I wish I have a great memory like that.

We're heading to his new preschool in a few hours for a trial/transition class. Before he starts school on Monday, I'd like to take him there for a visit and see how he likes it. I think it will go smoothly but you never know with kids. He has been clingy ever since Logan was born but maybe seeing other kids doing fun things will distract him enough to not want to stick to me.

p.s. Logan has been doing well. His appetite has slowly come back but I think he's still not eating enough. We have a neurologist appointment on Monday and I will see if he has gained enough weight then.