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
