Aiden has been a superb big brother to Dilly. I couldn’t ask for a better angel. He’s laying the foundation of what a big brother should be like.
The other day, Aiden wanted to eat his favorite jello. I decided to grab my Flip Video (which is quite handy) to record him eat and watch him interact with Dilly Willy. I record random things at random times. I know. I know. It must be a mom thing to document their kids live. It just cracks me when I see him mingling with Dilly. How do you explain to a three year old that little Dilly is too little to understand certain things – you can, but they’re living in their own perfect world with no worries – so, I just let it be.
Here’s the video – It’s about 5 minutes long and Aiden speaks to Dilly (which he refers to as “em” for “younger sibling”) in Vietnamese. It’s really cute – what can I say …
So, Aiden is bilingual in Vietnamese and English. He speaks Vietnamese better than English, but he’s getting there. We’ve started teaching him English a few months ago since he’s starting his pre-K Montessori school in two weeks. I know he will grow accustomed to the English language, but I didn’t want him to walk into school feeling left out. He’s an introvert and to prep him for school, I knew this was the right thing to do for him. He’s really excited, too. I’ll write a blog post about how I prep him since he was in my tummy to now for school. Why is my little man growing up so fast!
As for Dilly, he’s about 90% potty trained at 21 months. We knew he was ready when he kept taking off his diaper and roaming the house commando. I really thought he liked being naked like the rest of us. Just kidding. Actually, we all walk around our house in our undies every day. Haha! Again, I’ll save a post about potty training our little man.
I love my boys and peanut. XOXO.
