HELP ME PLEASE

Today at the garden...

Picture Time

Mommy:"Kari, go stand there and pose for the picture. One picture, is all!"
Kari, with a chicken nugget in one hand, goes to the designated area and strikes a pose. "Picture," she says. Resulting pic below.



She understood the concept of a "picture" very early on. Starting 8 months or so, she'll say picture every time she sees one. About a year and two months she starts to peek at the photos I take. If she's not happy with the photo, she'll go right back to the same spot and re-adjust her pose. The other day she saw a picture I took of Kayla, and thought it was cute. She wanted me to take the same pose for her. She made me laugh.

While getting some boxes ready for a friend, I tossed all their old clothes on the floor and slowly organized into the box. Kari must have thought I was very inefficient spending the whole morning doing so, she decided to help me. Very quickly she threw all the clothes into the box, and within a minute we were done!! Hahaha...skipping the folding of course. My cute little helper... I see light in the near future...

Sleeping beauty

WAITING

When is Daddy coming home?

Kari said today after A-ma got off the car, "Wahh...A-ma bu gian la...(grandma disappeared)" She also told me yesterday that Daddy went outside. When I arrive home, she'll announce excitedly, "mommy is home!"

She loves car rides because it can get her to places she wants to go, but she hates car rides because it always takes so long. Each time she announces, "da le! (we are here)". I correct, "ha mei dao! Not yet!" Nowadays if I announce "Dao Le!" She'll playfully counter, "Hai mei dao!"

The Punishment

Today Kari spilled milk all over the floor. I stooped down to her level, looked into her eyes, and said, "Don't do that again".

With a look of repentance, she held out her index finger and scolded herself.

"no...no...!" she told herself. Little Kari proceeded to hold out one hand to me, and said "DA-DA! (spank it)" I couldn't resist. **SLAP SLAP**

Then she held out her other hand and said, "Hai yo yi ji! (there's one more hand)"

Hey she offered... **SLAP SLAP**

Then she stuck one foot high up in front of my face, and said, "my foot too!"

Wow...she is following the teaching of Jesus Christ....when someone slaps you on one cheek, let him slap the other too! Well done Kari, at such young age of 18 month. You go girl!

Kari 19 months

She said before heading out with daddy, "ready to go", clearly.  Was not feeling too well yesterday and as I was taking my medicine, she ran over to look and said, "mommy eat medicine (mommy tse yao yao)" She can talk a lot in sentences now.  Her pronunciation is so clear that there's very few words she couldn't enunciate.  Quite feisty still I would say.  Tough and stubborn, and major separation anxiety. Regardless of all, such a fun baby to have.

Sleep Time-Synchro

It's kinda cool that Kari asked to go to sleep by herself today.  She said, "Sleep, Mommy, sleep."  She came to hold my hand.  We walked to the room together, quickly she fell asleep on her favorite bobby pillow.  She's growing up...

Baby Kari knew her alphabets and most numbers by 12-14 months.  Now she can recite the entire ABC song by herself, as well as the numbers in correct sequence both English and Chinese.  She can speak a lot of sentences.  Today she ran inside the house from the backyard, and yelled "Wu tze dao la".   I walked outside and saw that the tent had been blown upside down by the wind.  While I was lying next to her in the room this evening, I yelled for her dad for help to get some medicine.  I said, "Lo gon!"  She replied back, "Lo GON! ....LO GON Lie la!"  Her favorite thing to say when I change Kayla's Diaper is, "sister's diaper is so smelly!!"  She is also quite a rebel.  In the car on our drive, she often announces, "Dao le! (we are here)".  I would counter, "hai mei dao! NOT YET!"  She smiles slyly and pretends to be upset.  One day I tell her, "DAO LE! (we are here)".  She replied, "hai mei dao! (NOT YET)".  I love my little rebel.  Here's one of her favorite things: straws, spoons, toothbrushes.

Kayla's favorite fruit: "A-GA!" (means watermelon in Chinese for her)  She says it with such emphasis.  If I challenge her furthur with "see gua", she'll say "GA-GA!"  It's rather cute...   I ask them who should get the milk first, they always unanimously reply, "ghe ghe sian (older sister first)".  Lala knows quite a few alphabets as well.  Although she doesn't like to show it off, she surprises me often.  I appreciate her gentle presence and patience, for Kari is quite the opposite.   She compiled a bunch of stickers on the wall the other day, stepped back, and "Wowed" herself.  She was so proud of her little art work that she stood back and admired it for minutes.  "WOW....", she said again.

KK's favorite activity: parading around in the backyard.

A bad word

why is kari saying "wong ba dan"?  who taught her that?!  At six month she started saying "biach". Now an upgrade in Chinese.

Few minutes in the park

...before the ultimate breakdown.  Is it really so important for you to play in the park?  Do you not get out enough, little Kari?