Junior recently became a big brother. We were surprised how well he's adjusted to this huge change. He is definitely more clingy to Mommy now, but he doesn't seem to get jealous of his little brother. In fact, he is always excited to see his bro (code name "Double Trouble") awake. Whenever Junior can get the chance, he'll give his brother a kiss. When DT cries Junior tries to give him one of his toys or his blanket. He's always saying to us in Chinese "Little brother is sleeping. Be quiet."
Grandma K was staying with us for about a month after DT's birth. She and Junior were roommates the whole time. Junior loved having Grandma around to play with, and he was sad to see her go back east.
We really have to watch what we say in front of Junior now. He remembers everything you say and will repeat it at an opportune time. We fished out some old wooden blocks of various shapes the other day. There were 2 pieces that looked amusingly similar to breasts, so Mommy mentioned to Daddy in front of Junior "Hey these kinda look like boobies." From then on Junior started calling them "boobies" whenever he played with them. It took about a week of Daddy trying to correct Junior into calling them "tops" before Junior stopped calling them "boobies". He is now also saying "Oh man!" whenever DT wakes up crying from a nap, because he heard Mommy saying that first.
We've enrolled Junior in a Gymboree class recently. We felt that he was not getting enough exposure to other kids his age, and he was becoming increasingly shy and afraid of new things. He seems to enjoy going, but he's not interested in participating in the group singing and activities. We'll see if he starts to open up to those things as time goes on.
