CAGK (The Chinese Association of Greater Kalamazoo) is celebrating Chinese New Year with a music and dance event this evening. We are doubtful that Elle will sit through the 2 hours show. Instead, I brought Elle to watch their rehearsal in the morning. It's pretty amazing to see such a huge Chinese community gathered at the auditorium.
It's amazing how fast a baby can pick up a trick. While we were changing her diaper this evening, her dada stared at her and waged his tongue making "la-la-la-la" sounds, trying to distract her from twisting her body and rolling over. Since then, she starts wagging her tongue and "la-la-la-la" herself. So darn cute!
Elle would like to spread the joys of Chinese New Year to y'all and wish y'all have a wonderful year ahead! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
A 9-months-old is all ready for the chinese goodies I baked up frenzily yesterday. Her dada just couldn't resist giving her a few bites of each. First, siew pao, then peanut cookie, followed by almond sugi cookie. Elle took all in her mouth, savouring them like the best treats ever.
To carry on some of the tradtions of Chinese New Year, we brought Elle out shopping for some new clothes. We picked out a dress for her to wear tonight since we were joining Jessie and her family for lunar dinner. Jessie's two kids were so thrilled to see the baby. Elle sat in her booster seat during the dinner. At first, she was eating the whole-grained bread. After a few minutes, she started screaming for some real food, yeap, the food we were eating. She kept opening her mouth, patting our arms, wanting more of those delicious glutinous rice. Guess what, even bro Tutu got to feed her. How sweet of a boy doing that!
Elle was super hyper throughout the night. We knew she was already overtired as she was only taking an hour of nap during the day. But with all the excitements of new place, people and noises, she just couldn't stop playing. When she began acting cranky and fussy, we knew we got to leave the party. Less than a minute after putting her into the carseat, she conked out. How predictable!
It was a fun night. Great food and great companies.
Dear Elle,
Month 9 and still no sign of tiny white pearl, my toothless bub. You curiosity towards our teeth has been escalating. You get all excited watching mama and dada brushing teeth. You love flipping our lips and poking your finger into our mouth touching each tooth you find.
You're everywhere now, happily cruising around and exploring the whole new world out there. When we leave the room, you're no longer sitting there and scream your heart out. Instead, you'll follow wherever we go, crawling beneath our shadows, picking up bread crumbs behind us.
Happy 9th months old, my toothless bud.
Love,
Mama
That's how her dada loves to call her, sounds like Gollum's talking in the movie Lord of the Ring.
We'll never know, until the arrival of our baby Elle, that we are so into every major festivals that we hum and sing the festival songs for almost the whole month the festival falls on. It's the bliss, little bubbles of joy, to have the little one to celebrate with. We jingle bell-ed during the month of December. As the Chinese New Year is getting closer, the song "Gong Xi Gong Xi" just slips through our lips every day and night. This morning, during the 6 a.m. morning feed, I overheard her dada singing "Gong Xi Gong Xi" to Elle while I was laying half-sleep half-awake on the bed. Isn't it sound a little bit crazy, or, obsessed? The most fun part is Elle will clasp her hands together and shake in all directions when she hears us singing "Gong Xi Gong Xi". This act is totally money. If we were back for cny, she'd get a fat wallet of ang bao. *wink*
Elle, very much like a raccoon thief, repeats the stealing game almost everyday. She just loves stretching her arms between the slats and sweeping everything on the dresser next to her crib. It's really fun to peek through the door and observe her quitely to see what she is up to when she is playing inside her crib before falling asleep. Her steel determination to reach things on the dresser simply makes us chuckle and shake our heads. Even the baby monitor on top of the dresser can't escape from her little naughty hands. Everytime we hear the "beep, beep, beep" sounds followed by the "flat-line" beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, we know the baby monitor is, again, dying in her hands that we have to come in rescue of the baby monitor.
Peek-a-boo game gets the most unbelievable belly laughs out of her. She gets so pumped up, giggles heartily and bounces up and down at every single peek-a-boo act. She turns mama and dada into an addict to peek-a-boo game as well.
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