We haven’t had a birthday recently, but Mckayla loves singing “Happy Birthday”. She takes the party favor cup cake with candle from Peyton’s birthday and sings to herself all the time and pretends to blow out the candle too. She announces that it’s KK’s birthday and KK sings happy birthday. Today, while we were driving [...]
Archive for February, 2010
28 Feb
Hide and Seek
Mckayla loves playing hide and seek now. She’ll cover her eyes, tells one of us to go hide, then count from one to ten. She gets hysterical when she finds us hiding behind the couch, behind the door, in the hallway, and in a dark room. But when it’s her turn to hide, she’s not [...]
27 Feb
Full Sentences
Mckayla has been speaking in full sentences for a while now in Chinese. She’s also been building her English vocabulary at an incredible rate. Last few days, she’s been speaking in full sentences in English. She was picking out her socks when we were heading out, she grabbed one and said, “I like this one”. [...]
24 Feb
Tech Savvy
My Mom got a new iPhone. Last night, I was trying to show her how to use the e-mail and also the pictures/videos on the phone. While I was doing that Mckayla came over and peeked over my shoulder. She looked at the phone and said A-Ma (Grandma) and MaMa has the same phone. Then, [...]
20 Feb
Grandma’s Here!
Yesterday afternoon, on our way back home, I told Mckayla that we’ll go to the airport to pick up Grandma after she wakes up from her nap. She asked me, “How about Grandpa?”. I told her, it’s only Grandma this time. On our way to the airport in the evening, she was very excited. She [...]
19 Feb
Biltong
Ted came home yesterday with Biltong that Aubrey had made. He was very excited and already ate his share for the day at work. This morning, Ted offered Mckayla a tiny piece of Biltong to try and she loved it. She kept asking for more and didn’t want to share her pieces with me. She’s [...]
19 Feb
Out of Fuel
I took Mckayla to Bouncy Land earlier today to burn off some excess energy. She was creating too much noise and distracting Ted (who was working from home) too much. During the drive there, she was very excited. She yelled “tunnel” (in both Chinese and English) every time we pass through an overpass on the [...]
16 Feb
Mckayla’s New Love
Mckayla has added Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to her list of favorite TV shows. She still requests Dora, Kailan, Chow Hoo (Chinese), and Taiwan Dora (in Chinese), but her current favorite is Mickey Mouse. And at night, Ted even uses the Mickey Mouse and Pluto stuffed animals as incentive to get her to stay in bed. [...]
15 Feb
Progress
In preparation for the baby’s arrival, we’ve been practicing with Mckayla about sharing and taking turns. She has been pretty good and even did really well at the Children’s Discovery Museum. We went to visit Jocelyn and Owen’s new baby Kermit yesterday after lunch. On our way there, we kept telling Mckayla about being gentle [...]
