Jasmine - Naming Colors (video)

Jasmine is learning things every day, so much that I can't keep up with everything. And she seems to prefer to speak English more and more which is worrisome (I really want to keep the Chinese language in her).

This is a video of Jasmine naming different colors in Chinese and English. Trying to train her to speak only Chinese at home, but it seems to be a losing battle.

Jasmine - Number Song (video)

This is a video of Jasmine counting in Chinese and English to 30, and then she sang the 1-2-3 song. It's kinda boring. So if you want to listen to the counting song, skip the beginning and go to 1:20 of the video. Thanks for watching.

Bloody Face - Julia

Unfortunately this morning, Julia woke up screaming her head off. I was already up and getting ready for work then so I rushed into her room. What I saw was terrible. Julia's face was all red, dried blood on her face and chin, as well as blood all over her sleepsack. Yuck.

Poor girl. Julia's face was probably itchy all night from eating something at dinner the night before and she rubbed the sleepsack on her face. You know that feeling when you have a mosquito bite? You know you shouldn't scratch it but aaaahhhhh, it feels so good when you scratch it. Like that. Gotta track down what she is allergic to.

I love Broccoli

Lately, we've been encountering a bad face rash on Julia. Doesn't matter how much cream or hydrocorizone we are using, her face is continuously bad. Maybe her milk powder or a veggie, or banana, or cheerios or soy sauce? Sigh. Have to figure this one out slowly. This is going to be a headache I think.

In the meantime, Julia seems to really like eating broccoli (Jasmine loves broccoli too). I guess I won't complain about that one.

Go for a Walk?

Julia did something really interesting the other day. Yesterday while Jasmine was eating dinner, I took Julia out for a quick walk. Julia already finished her dinner. So I dressed her in her light jacket and then told her we are going to "hui gai gai" to go outside. And then I put on her socks and shoes. We went outside for 20 minutes and I walked her around while holding onto my hand (she still can't walk yet).

Afterwards, we went back home and I took off her clothes and shoes. We were inside for about 15 minutes, when suddenly, Julia crawled over to the side of the room, grabbed her inside-shoes, then crawled to me, pulled on my legs and started waving the shoes in front of my face. She mumbled "hui gai gai"! Julia wanted me to take her out for a walk again! So cute!

Julia - in Big Bath Tub (video)

Julia has finally graduated to taking a bath in the "real" bathtub. Well, she is still in the little tub, but placed inside the big tub.

We've taken the easy route all last year, by bathing her standing up in the sink. Julia has gotten too big for that now and she kicks and jabs her little foot all over the place. When she doesn't want to go into the sink, she pushes her foot on the side of the tub so we can't get her in. That little bugger.

It seems she enjoys her nightly bath much more now. Sometimes when she is fussy and screaming, I take the white bath tub from the storage area and walk into the hallway with it. Julia turns around to watch me and automatically calms down. She even follows me into the bathroom and tries to take her clothes off. Boy, does she like splashing.

Milk - It Does a Body Good

Our beloved Jasmine, loves her daily dose of milk... She gets one cup of plain homo milk in the morning and another cup of half chocolate/half homo milk in the afternoon with a cookie. (and at night before bed, we give her half cup of prune juice, to keep her regular).

Preschool Pic

I had no idea but Jasmine's preschool had a picture day this week. She suddenly came home with some pictures. I don't think we'd usually buy pictures but as it turns out, this picture is one of the best ones she's ever taken! Don't mind the color of it because we had to scan it in (no digital file). She was looking straight into the camera, with a slight smile. (she NEVER does that when we want to take a picture...) Now I wished I hadn't put a tatoo on her arm the night before!

Below is Jasmine's class photo. Do you spot anything odd about it?



(she's the only one sitting down)