Yoshi is 3 years old

Yoshi has just turned 3 years old yesterday. I just can't believe 3 years have gone by so fast. Since Kiharu was born, Yoshi has almost grown up to be a big brother over night. He's really a great brother. People say "terrible two" was the toughest, but I think if u keep in mind that everything they did are out of curiousity, things will be much easier to accept and handle. 3 years old marks the beginning of a conversational relationship to us. He is able to combine his volcabularies into sentence, expressing himself, and we have a two way conversation finally...the fun has just began.

At 3 years old, Yoshi........
- is able to sing the whole birthday song...
- is able to recognize his friends and remembering their names...
- is in love with shinkansen trains (toys and videos), and remembering each models....
- is still enjoying music, singing and dancing...
- is a very caring brother to little sister Kiharu, he would ask me to hold her whenever she cries..
- likes given options to pick from (apples or banana; indoor or outdoor; truck or train toy)
- gets so excited when Nori is home or even a phone call, he would want to talk to him...
- favorite food-chicken, yogurt, gold fish crackers....

p.s- the other day, he was looking at the toys in a store. He kept pointing out a truck, and indicating he wanted that. He even said "好啦， 俾錢啦" (ok, let's pay...) (I was suprised). After seeing how much he wanted that truck, I got a bit persuaded, especially the next day was his birthday.

However, I was debating in the store if it's right to buy it for him. Not about the toy, but more of the thought process. I had noticed he's now into toys (who doesn't), sometimes little car for $1, why not. But as it happened more often, perhaps he thought it's ok on everything else. At the end, I told him, let's come back some other time with Nori, and show daddy the truck. I made sure he understood what I meant by having him repeated what I said.

At one point, he pretended rubbing his eyes hoping to gain some sympathy perhaps....I caught it right away, so I had to pull him aside and repeated what I said. When we walked out the door, I told him he's a good boy saying goodbye to the truck and not fuzz at all. He's actually very proud of himself too.... It's really interesting to see how he behaved and knowing what's in his mind. He's not a baby anymore, he sure understood what we want to teach him. I can't believe he's 3 already.....