成成的记忆力

喂鱼

成成和爸爸说起鱼，成成说“阿姨会喂鱼”。爸爸莫名其妙 “阿姨在哪里喂鱼？”

“在鱼缸里，在Monterey".

爸爸恍然大悟，Monterey 是三个月前去过，看到一个女潜水员潜水喂鱼表演。成成怎么还记得？

打针和棒棒糖

成成拿着一个婴儿监控器玩。婴儿监控器长得像一个大号的手机，上面有一个长长的天线。成成拿着天线在妈妈的身上直戳。“妈妈痛, 成成你在干什么？”

“打针”

“妈妈很痛”

“揉一揉" 成成伸出手，给妈妈揉揉

"打完针，阿姨给你一个棒棒糖“。成成如是说

天哪，成成上次打针已经是六个多月前的事了？！

天上飞的救火车

一日凌晨6点，成成忽然从睡梦中惊醒，大哭。我跑过去的时候，成成已经站在了床上。成成伸出手来说，妈妈抱抱。于是我就和成成隔着婴儿床的护栏抱着。成成贴在我的耳边，小声说： “成成一哭，救火车就来了”。 我侧耳一听，果然有救火车的鸣笛声，从在很远的地方的飘来。成成又说“救火车在天上飞，呜呜呜”。 一边说，一边用手作出飞的动作。我惊奇 “是吗？救火车在天上飞？” “是，有很多很多救火车，在天上飞，呜呜呜”。

嗯，小孩睡糊涂了。

成成闻一闻

我因怀孕要吃很多药，包括各种维生素，钙片等等。成成对我的琳琅满目的药瓶十分感兴趣。加之成成自己也要每天吃钙片和鱼油，都是甜甜的糖。在成成的心目中，药只怕是一种非常好吃的东西。

每次成成看见我的药，都要企图把瓶子打开。可是这些瓶子是小孩打不开的，于是急得直叫。在被告知多次“妈妈的药成成不能吃”之后，成成决定改变策略。

成成一旦看见我吃药，立刻跑过来，说“成成给妈妈喂药”。然后倒出一粒药来，喂到我嘴里。非常羡慕的说“成成给妈妈放到嘴里，妈妈吃到肚子里”。 他最大的乐趣就是把每一种药都给我喂一遍，很羡慕的看着我吃。

昨天晚上，成成拿着一大瓶钙片过来，说要给妈妈喂药。给我喂了一颗以后，很是不死心。钙片是一粒一粒彩色的糖丸。成成把钙片一片片掏出来，又放回去，玩了很久。又把许多钙片放在药瓶的盖子上，放到嘴边。我看见了急忙大叫，成成不能吃。 谁知成成非常镇定的回答了一句，妈妈立刻没话说了

“成成闻一闻”

成成捣乱

成成房间里有一个给妹妹准备的箱子，里面有各种毯子，奶瓶等杂物。成成把所有的东西一样一样翻出来，扔的满屋子都是。妈妈进来看见，惊呼“成成你在干什么？！”　成成说：“捣乱啊”。妈妈无语。成成又笑嘻嘻的说：“成成很 funny（好玩）”　妈妈大喊了几声 No 没有效果，就采取鸵鸟政策，转身出去了。　正所谓眼不见心不烦。

成成吃葡萄干，把一堆葡萄干摆出一个圆形，然后一个一个吃，吃一个，说

－－“成成吃一个＂

－－“成成把葡萄干放到嘴巴里，（指指嘴巴），吃到肚子里（指指肚子），

－－“妈妈吃一个”（给妈妈喂一个）

－－“妈妈把葡萄干放到嘴巴里，（指指妈妈嘴巴），吃到妈妈肚子里（指指妈妈肚子）”

又记，成成今天自己洗澡。自己给身上涂满了肥皂泡，很是得意。说“成成变成小雪人啦”。

成成语录

晚饭，妈妈做了成成最爱的拍黄瓜。成成一口接一口的吃。爸爸也吃了一口。 成成非常疑虑的说

---"爸爸吃了成成的黄瓜，怎么办呢？”

换尿布，成成说

---“成成拉了粑粑，尿布很沉，很臭，我们把它扔掉”

又是吃饭，妈妈吃了一口成成的吃的，成成大怒，说

---"不要妈妈吃，不要妈妈吃”

---“可是妈妈已经吃掉了,在妈妈肚子里了”

成成继续大哭，过了一会儿，非常委屈的说

---“妈妈把成成的吃了，成成哭了”

成成吃完饭，爸爸从冰箱里拿了一个李子给他。成成咬了一口，笑容满面

---“又冰又冰，又甜又甜”

妈妈 ---“叠词新用法”

成成： “妈妈抱”

妈妈： “妈妈肚子里有小妹妹，不能抱”

成成： “妈妈肚子里没有小妹妹，爸爸肚子里有小妹妹。妈妈肚子里有小成成，可以抱成成”

成成理发记

从出生直到上个星期六，妈妈一直是成成同学的御用理发师。成成的发型虽说是妈妈持刀操作，可是总有许多谏官上书发表各家言论。 有持短发理论者，谓之以短发精神。 有持长发理论者，谓之以帅气。 可谓是百家争鸣， 非常热闹。 每次剪发之后，又有诸位评论家前后左右评头论足一番，此处过长，彼处嫌短。 妈妈颇有挂官悬印之意。

成成婴儿时理发最易。 趁其会周公之际，嚓嚓几剪刀下去，以头发不盖住眼睛为准。久而久之，形成了成成的成名头型：足球明星之长发飘逸型。出门遇到老中，常听到的话是 “是男孩女孩？男孩？诶呀，真秀气”。 妈妈认为是表扬的话。 老美的娃娃们一岁之前很少有头发。 所以经常是倒吸一口冷气： "Gosh, look at all that hair!" 而且成成看上去圆头圆脑，特别可爱。

后来买了幼儿理发器，开始后面推，前面剪。 有上那么几个月的理发蜜月期，成成很配合，妈妈很满意。 虽说刚开始用理发器时，新工具吗，总要磨合磨合。成成的头发吗，也就有那么几次比较怪异。 可是挡不住成成遗传了妈妈的超级无敌快速生长的头发基因啊。怪异着怪异着就又好看了。

再后来，成成对理发从无知而消极接受，到躲藏，到忍无可忍的激烈反抗。。。

再后来。。。只能用一句话来形容

额的神呀！

。。。

期间各种心酸的血泪史这里就不一一详述了。 只说成成怎么彻底熄灭了妈妈继续做御用理发师的豪情壮志吧。

7月份时妈妈给成成理发。 那时还不知道彼次将是妈妈理发史上的最后一笔，否则一定要留影记录。 常话短说，成成反抗之激烈，让妈妈无法下刀。成成一面钻在爸爸怀里，另一面用手牢牢捂住，整整哭叫了一个半小时。 隔壁邻居最后发言 "what's wrong with the baby?" 妈妈觉得是真尴尬。

8月份，妈妈的肚子是越来越大，站着就腰疼。 出门人人都问“是不是要生啦？” 一想起要追着成成剪头发，妈妈就觉得头疼。

最后的最后，妈妈决定卸任，大笔一挥，“出去剪”。 妈妈在网上找了一家口碑好的幼儿理发店，上个星期六（09/03/2011）去第一次出门理发。

平常成成很怕陌生人， 更不用提有个陌生人把他动来动去了。 爸爸妈妈都做好了充分心里准备，等着成成大哭一场。 爸爸时刻准备着把成成按住。

奇怪的是，成成一点也没哭。 他坐在一个小车里，一边看Elmo 电视。 虽说不是特别的高兴，可是也没有反抗。

剪完头发，成成又在Thomas Train的小车上坐了会，很快就兴高采烈了。

之后妈妈给成成买了成成最爱的smoothies 和冻酸奶。 成成坐在椅子上，一边吃，一边不停的说话，高兴的飘到天上去了。

至此，妈妈的理发生涯告一段落。 心里是又高兴又失落。 不过，失落很快就过去了。妈妈很快又有两个双胞胎女儿可以来打扮了。 我要给女儿梳小辨！

The pros and cons of Time-Out

For a week or more, Sethan had been extremely difficult to handle. Bath time had been a nightmare. Changing his clothes for bath or in the morning for school was nearly impossible. It involved hour-long battles (no exaggeration), lots of screaming, kicking, tears, and fuming mad parents.

We were really puzzled about what was going on. Why would he struggle so much about something as trivial as taking off his shirt. It only takes one second for Pete's sake. Each crying episode often ended with daddy holding him tight and mommy took his shirt off by force. It was not easy. Sethan would hold on to his shirt, or his shirt sleeves very hard and cried like we were imposing immense pain on him. Each time we would praise him by pouring all kinds of compliments we could think of after the shirt had been taken off. It was no use. Later we started threatening him "if you don't let mommy/daddy take your shirt off, mommy is going to use force"...It was no use. A few times, he wouldn't let go of his shirt even after the shirt had been take off. We had to have him take the shirt with him into the tub.

After a week, his daddy was totally exhausted and started telling him that he would get time out if he didn't cooperate. And so the time-out sessions started. It lasted about 3-4 days. We put him in the crib and walked away. We told him that once he would take his shirt off, time-out would end. The first few times was very hard. Sethan not only cried, he tried to climb out of the crib. Thank goodness he couldn't. After one or two times, he quickly started creating diversions. He would say things like "read me this xyz book and then I will take my shirt off", "mommy hold me for one min and I will take my shirt off", "I want to give my sisters a kiss and I will take my shirt off". We didn't give in.

It was very difficult because he would cry for 20-30 minutes sometimes. Our neighbor could have thought there was some kind of child abuse going on.

One day at bath time, Sethan was again refusing to take his shirt off. I said to him, "Sethan, do you know what you will get if you don't take your shirt off? " He looked at me, paused hard for a few seconds, and murmured "time out".

-"do you want time out"

-"no"

- "do you want to take your shirt off"

- "no"

- "then daddy is going to take you to get time out"

- "no"

- "do you want to take your shirt off then"

- "no"

....

the conversation went back and forth a few times. I tried to remain calm and made my voice none threatening. Instead, I tried to speak like I was stating a simple fact. Sethan was getting increasingly paranoid about the prospect of time-out, as his daddy took his hand and started walking him to his room.

Suddenly Sethan raised both of his arms high in the air and said "take my shirt off". And we did! We were head-over-toe excited. Of course, we again poured all kinds of praise words over him. He seemed happy too.

After that day, Sethan's problems seem to have gone away, if not completely, but almost. Other tantrums episodes are less too. When he's misbehaving, we'd ask him THE questin: what would you get if you don't behave? He would say "time-out" and he would amazingly start behaving.

Now I almost feel sympathetic toward him because he would correct himself so fast when we ask him the question.

The pros of time-out: We got what we wanted: a better behaving child

The cons: my poor little Sethan. He's not even two years old and has to live a life in which threats and consequences loom at large.

成成造句

09/04/2011

 成成早上去Rancho San Antonio park玩。中午回家特别兴奋。 不停的说话。说“没有猪打架，有小猪，有小大公鸡，喔喔喔，有小牛，有小羊……”太兴奋的结果就是午饭之后开始发飙。 不肯睡午觉。 又哭又闹，在爸爸怀里直不停的蹦。 各种无理要求一个接一个。 妈妈又不能抱他，只能在旁边看着，真抓狂。

 爸爸只好把成成放在地上。 成成还又哭又蹬腿。 这时奶奶拿了一面镜子来。成成开始造句了 “成成躺在地上，奶奶拿镜子来给成成玩，爸爸说no, 不要。”

 唉，看在他这么会说话的份上，爸爸妈妈就原谅他吧。