Feet

She requested taking pictures of her feet during bath time.

Drawing

Soak up the sun

This weekend was ridiculously warm at this time of year. We hung out at the park, on the beach enjoying the outdoor while we could.

30 months old

Dear Elle,

The highlight of the past month was your outrageous talk-backs. When you call for mama, if dada answers to you instead, you'd bark at dada saying "NOT YOU!". One day mama kept nagging at your ears about a thing has broken, you turned your head towards mama barking "OKAY! OKAY! STOP TALKING! I'M FIXING IT!". Oh, the other night while you were begging mama for more orange juice, dada chanted "NO" at the side to mess with you and guess what, you were agitated and barked at dada saying, "YOU NOT SPEAK FOR ME! I TALK TO MAMA!". Gosh! We're so shocked. A little spankings may do some good to teach you about RESPECT.
Now you're obsessed with Mickey, Goofy, princess and Tinkerbell, not so much of Barney anymore. Almost every night at bedtime, you want to talk about the animals in your "Bungle Jungle". Well, we have no idea what's the "bungle" means, but it rhymes perfectly with the jungle. You'd tell us what animals you have in your "Bungle Jungle", make the animals' noises, and even want us to make a song out of it. Talking about singing, you'd sing about everything, picking a random word and you could sing the whole jingle bells with that one word. You even make up a song out of nowhere: "Jingle bell, jingle bell, baby naughty girl..".
It's really fun to peek at you "reading" during the potty time. You put the book on your legs, pointing finger at the words, seriously "reading" out loud line by line as if you really can read. Whenever you find us peeking and smiling at stuff you do, you'd immediately cover up your face and bury into your chest shyly. What a precious thing you're.

Mama always read out loud your daily activity sheet about how you're doing in daycare during the car ride home. You must have memorized everything mama said since all of a sudden you blurt out "Busy, happy, talkative and excellent" all day long. You'd even point at the characters on a book telling mama which one is busy, happy, talkative and excellent. Whenever mama tells you I'm afraid of something, you'd assure mama saying "Don't worry. It's not scary." Mama asked do you afraid of scary, you replied proudly, "No! I love scary.".
It's hard for you to take "NO" for an answer. When you offer thing to us, you'd ask nicely "You want it?". After a few rejections, you'd change into a forceful tone saying, "You WANT it? YOU WANT IT!!!!!".

When you got a boo boo, a candy seems to be the best remedy. You look so silly saying "I feel all better now." with tears still hanging on the cheeks while chewing the candy. Your obsession with bandage really gets on my nerve now. Any tiny bites, cuts or nothing requires a bandage fix. Otherwise, you'd cry till the whole world collapses.
You call the BIG calculator your "computer" and get hours of fun pressing the buttons on the calculator until it shows an "E" and a "M" letters on the screen. You call the coffee stir stick "ROW BOAT" and you love rowing with it in the tub as you're singing along the song "Row Row Row your boat". After you brush you teeth, you'd let out a breath telling us "I 香香". You'd love to share your food with mama by saying "你一口我一口". You call the photo prints "flash card" and we'd go over the "flash card" together to jog your memories of our family back home.
love,
mama

Grocery day

Coloring

Today's daylight saving time. We turned the clock back an hour. An extra hour was precious.

Happy Halloween

This year Elle was supposed to dress up as a little red devil. When I got the costume in the mail, it turned out poorly made with cheap materials and ended up returning to the shop. While pondering what she's going to be this year, I found the dress given by her great-aunt. She was screaming "Princess" at the dress, giggling and twirling in her princess dress like the happiest princess in the world. So, a princess she is this year.

The celebration kicked off a day before Halloween with a Halloween party at her daycare, hopping from one classroom to another trick-or-treating. Elle must be really proud of me that she'd walk up to her teachers one by one and then pointed at me telling them "This's my mama.". One time she grabbed my cellphone and showed it to her teacher saying: "This's my mama's phone.". Gosh, she really cracked us up.

This year Halloween fell on saturday so we had an early trick-or-treat starting around noon inside the shopping mall. It's fun to see so many kids dressed up trick-or-treating in the mall. Oh, the grapes costume. Yes, GRAPES! It's so creative and cute! Elle was giggling so hard pointing at it saying "Grapes! See, grapes!" in disbelief. The little girl wore a purple winter jacket with purple balloons pinned on the jacket and on top of her jacket hood. Imagine those crazy men dressed up like fruits in the fruit of the loom's commercial, except she looked super adorable.
Later on, we went to the Kalamazoo Valley museum making a few craft projects. We made a magic mirror covered with spiders and webs, a bracelet and a crown. Elle was having a blast.
This's her loot.
We had a surprisingly pleasant warm day a couple weeks ago. I took her out to the park taking pictures of her in her princess dress. This year the bribe was her tricycle. This's how I bought more time: "One more picture and I'll get you the tricycle, pleeesseeee. Pinky promise."