As I said to someone else recently -

[kyburg]

Busy is not enough word to describe this adaptation process.

Apologies for not being out here - you guys ROCK, BTW.

There are new updates at xanxanbell -

catsonmars came out for dinner last night - and we had the BEST Chinese food I never found in Taiwan. I remember sitting there making a pig of myself wondering what the hell was wrong that I could never find anything that just made me go WOW THIS IS GREAT while I was there.

Because dinner last night was just that good.

The kid gained half a pound between the endocrinologist visit on Tuesday and the pediatrician on Friday. I'm wondering if that's a true figure or not - but he's very much 2'6" tall and 25-26 lbs. Some of the 18 mos clothes fit - and some of the 24 mos are too big yet.

No snap crotches. All those clothes are being phased out as unsuitable. This kid is ready to rock!

I have a huge post to do on 'Here kid, have some privilege' - in the meantime, have this story on how someone has been teaching white people how to 'get it' - into her seventies.

Damn, I'd be pretty cranky about it too, if I were her.

Talk later!

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

I remember going to San Antonio for Worldcon years ago, and getting nothing but crapola in the Mexican food or even Tex-Mex direction. I've gotten to the point on Chinese after going to five-star Guangzhou restaurants that I will NOT go to crappy Chinese for any reason.

Clothes in America are set up for Europeans, not Southern Chinese, and it's just a matter for kids of finding out what fits.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If I'm to believe two scales in two different doctor's offices, the kid gained half a pound between Tuesday and Friday last week.

Outside of bananas and potatoes, though - not a whole lot of fruits and vegetables. Toddler. Not going to worry too much about it.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Toddlers eat what they eat when they eat it.

[dame-of-dames.livejournal.com]

Welcome back.

[cecerose.livejournal.com]

I've been AWOL -- but I see the kid is now with you! Pictures, please? and Mazel Tov!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Check the Facebook links - they're all public. And thanks -

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

He sounds like he's about the same size as Delia. She's around the same height, weight and clothing size. I'm finding the Gymboree is a little on the big size and The Children's Place is a little small.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

How old is she now? I've lost track -

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

She'll be 2 in June.

[sal_amanda]

I've seen some of the documentary about that woman's lesson and have done similar things with kids I've worked with at the Boys and Girls Club. It's really very interesting.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Taste is subjective. So is where you guys might have ended up going in Taiwan vs. here.

I admit to currently craving some authentic stuff... but I don't know where to go right now considering there are no good places around here, really.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Well, guess you'll have to come visit again soon, neh?

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

But what if the brown-eyed children have proven over the years that they really are superior to those with blue eyes?

You have no idea how much I loathe the whole "white privilege" thing. It's all crap, pure crap, of the purest and most fetid sort.

But hey, your life. I won't argue the point. It's not against the law to hate your own people and culture, the last time that I checked, so I won't quibble.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*smells bait*

Dude, it's not hate. It's going around with eyes wide open, and refusing to cave to that which is easy to say and ignore the rest.

You know what they call that, right?

Last time I checked, "lazy" was one of the nicer things.

I only wish it was crap. Dude, this is so not a good time to try to convince me that saying something enough times would make it true. That story was not provided to me by just reading the paper - it came across the Families with Children from China feed, and had been submitted by a Korean adoptee (those of us adopting internationally these days listen to Korean adoptees...they have a lot to say about their experiences, most of it helpful, some of it good, some of it just plain 'I didn't notice because I wasn't Korean as well.')

*chuckles* I'm the same age as her first group of students, ironically enough. I remember how my school dealt with the matter. We were white. We were safe, and let's not scare the kids by talking about it. Seriously.