Bottoms up!

Elle simply has to bottom up, no matter it's soup, noodle, or fruit inside the bowl. Macaroni is officially named as "Halo" in her dictionary. She says she wants Halo. Crack me up. When she's eating by herself in the booster chair, she still wants to boss mama around, pointing at the chairs in the dining room, yelling "SIT SIT" to ask mama to sit at the ones she's pointing at.

Elle has been discovering the magic word "Please" and using it actively in the conversation. That day, I asked her if she wanted milk milk; to my surprise, she responded please. She always say please right after her requests, like up please, sit please, "bao bao" (carry) please, "mea mea" (horsey back ride) please. At times we do not go her way, she'd chant please, please, please like a pitiful little puppy, trying to melt our hearts and make us give in.

We taught her the word "thank you" a while back ago. It's funny that she says thank you even when she's giving out stuff. "Sorry" is the 3rd magic word she's working on now. However, the "sorry" comes out from her mouth hardly sounds like sorry at all. Nonetheless, it sounds cute, yet funny.

She surprised us with a few new words she picks up recently: jacket, toy, stand, teeth, and back. She always responses "Ready" when I ask her "Are you ready?". Now she even communicates her fear by telling us "怕 怕 怕 怕". She'd scream out "Ouch!" like a drama queen even though it only hurts a teeny bit.

She loves bath time so much that we have a hard time to get her out of the tub. The routine becomes we pretend saying goodbye to her and leaving the bathroom, and she screaming "Up Up!" to beg us getting out of it. Then, the fun of applying lotions all over begins. She always asks for "More More", wanting us to give her more lotion on her hands. She'd apply the lotion to the name of the body part we say, not only to hers but ours too. Last but not least, the battle of putting on shirt begins. She'd lie down and pretend sleeping whenever we attempt to put the shirt on her. There's no way to make her get up until we pretend saying goodbye and leaving the room. Only then she'd immediately pop her head up and get up wondering where we go. At the moment we turn around going back to her, she'd quickly duck her head and lie down, get back to the sleeping position and refuse to put on the shirt. Oh, what a mischievious baby she is!