臭美

臭美的英语怎么说？那么就再来中文的好了。

女生嘛，就是要臭美的（男生当然也臭美，懒之余，还要拿着，所以不显著）。连我酱紫衣着百年不变制的都臭美，懒这个特质打赢了而已。我以前只是不知道这个臭美是从什么时候开始的。从我们AMY的情况来看，是从15个半月开始嘀。
她一般是禁止我动她的，头、脸更甚。从四个月开始洗脸梳头就是大战役。最近这个情况发生了巨大的变化。脸，还是不许洗的，脏，不在乎。头发，却是一定要梳的了。
话说某个早晨，我们家新来的老保姆，我妈，陪她玩儿的专心的不得了，祖孙两个人叽叽咕咕。我，过时了的老妈子，连嘴都插不上，可是又贱招儿，回笼觉儿睡不着，百无聊赖起来，就趁敌不备，打了个漂亮的歼灭战，一举梳了8个小辫子。到了幼儿园，遭到所有的阿姨和不认识的小朋友妈妈的大力表扬。小人儿即使是在百忙的搬家具，偷听到人家说她，也会抿着嘴嘻嘻的笑，完全忘乎所以。从此，不梳辫子，不能出门。看到皮筋，就一个一个的往自己头上送。拉着妈妈的手啊啊啊叫个不停。静悄悄的坐在地上随便妈妈怎么摆弄都可以，摆弄完了，不等别人表扬呢，就要嘻嘻笑笑。15个半月就臭美至此，足见，臭美之心，人皆有之，小小人儿也不例外。

委屈的情绪

委屈的英语是什么泥？查了半天没有查到，就中文的好了。

AMY会委屈了。
首先，她会打人了。咬不过瘾，开始打了。上个星期四接她回来，阿姨说，人家小朋友就离她近了些，她就不爽，推，推不走，喊，喊无效，就打。SIGH，我仿佛已经看见，一个MINI我，骑在小朋友身上暴打。。。这个遗传真是要命，好的不传传坏的。以后有多少歉要替她道呢？
没办法，教育吧。一路上和她念叨，打人不好，我们不打人。进得门来，看见姥姥，啪就一巴掌打在姥姥脸上。气得我。。。赶紧板起脸来，“为什么打姥姥？妈妈不是说了，打人不对。。。”一句话还没有说完，小人儿就开始撇嘴，嘴角一下一下往下拽，拽了四五下，号啕大哭起来。信誓旦旦不惯着AMY的姥姥，一把抢过来，你干嘛说我们啊，我们和姥姥玩儿呢，上了幼儿园一天已经狠可怜了，你一进门就说人家。。。有人撑腰，还不哭个痛快？晾在一旁的我，晾凉了算。SIGH。。。有老人在，没法管孩子啊。

A conversation between amy and mom

Amy has always been refusing to call me mom or mama or anything. Ever since she talks, she'd only call her daddy. But last thursday when i picked her up from the day care, somehow alma persuaded her to call me mommy. To me, that sweet "mommy" the most wonderful sound i've ever heard. Of course i'd try to make her call me more often. Here is how it went:

Me: Call me mommy
Amy:...( shake her head)
Me: Call me mommy
Amy: BaBa
Me: Come on, i know you can, call me mommy
Amy: (in shouting) BAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAA
Me:Please please call me mommy
Amy: Stop it.
Me: !@#$%^&*()

Diarrhea

Today is amy's 3rd day of a bad diarrhea. I gave her some leftover tofu monday night. I guess i didn't microwave it long enough. I am such a bad mom. Leftover for amy's dinner... even bad leftover... sigh.
Yesterday we kept her home and only gave her BRAT. (my parents have some serious doubt on the use of banana to treat diarreha. but they are kind enough not to interfere.) It got a little better in the afternoon. Her bowel movement was not that watery. This morning amy insisted on going to day care herself. so we took her there. She was soooooo happy. But around noon when i called the day care, they told me she had another diarrhea.
Hope she'll get better.

First Accident

Amy had her first accident this Wednesday night.

It all started with her canine. Just like the ped predicted, she has a canine coming out, which makes her constantly fuzzy. She'd try to bite her little friends whoever's trying to hug her and stuff... Of course dinner time wouldn't be her favorite time. That night she's paticularly acting out, throwing food away and hitting on me. We got really mad at each other. I insisted she should finish her dinner, while she just wouldn't. My parents and her daddy finally talked me out of it. However, she's not that easy to cheer up. The minute i took her out of high chair, she started throwing an tantrum.
It all happened really fast, the first minute she's arching her back, the next she's trying to reach a bowl of hot soup on her tiptoe. Before any of us noticed, she poured a bowl of hot soup on her neck and chest.
I still don't want to think about what exactly happened and how i exactly felt. Any way we took her to the emergency room. Thank god it's not very serious. She had a little bit blister on her neck and that's about the worst part. After the doctor applied a special kind of cream on her, she stopped crying and started playing with us.
Yesterday we kept her home to keep an eye on her. She's not really happy about the decision, though. Since 8am she sitted in front of the door and waited for me to put on her shoes. When we changed her bandage at night, she cried a little bit. And her wound seems healed up.

I WOULD NEVER EVER LET HER CLOSE TO ANY HOT OBJECT EVER EVER EVER AGAIN!

15 Month Check up (12/09/2004)

Weight: 24lb 14.5oz 70%
Height: 32 1/4 inch 75%

She was pretty fuzzy during the whole visit, crying non-stop. The ped said she has a canine coming out, maybe that's the reason.

Ticklish

Amy's really ticklish, especially under her chin. The minute you put your finger there, she'd try to avoid this by tilting her head down a little and at the same time burst into a huge laugh, with her eyes squinted a little and her nose wrinkled. I just love that impression and keep playing this with her when i get a chance.
Yesterday she herself realized this is a fun game. That's when i was having dinner and put her in her high chair right next to me. She kept grabbing my hands. At first i didn't really know what she wanted. So i just passed her my spoon. She threw it away and pulled my hand really hard towards her chin. While she's doing that, she kept checking out my reaction and couldn't help laughing herself. She even said "stop it" at the same time. Yet she's pulling my hand towards her......It took me double the usual time to finish my dinner. But it sure worth it.

Biter girl

Alma told me amy almost bited other kids yesterday. She was really surprised by her aggressive behavior. According to amy's dad, it's in my gene :( . So he's not totally shocked. Well... I AM!

Normally when other kids take amy's toys, she'd just grab it back. She's the biggest one, size-wise, after all. But yesterday, she tried to bite the "offender", and screamed bloody murder for a long time. I used to think amy as a defensive kid, who can protect herself just fine. Now she's crossed line into an aggressive kid. SIGH... i totally blame it on my sister. It's her bad influnce. :P. My parents are coming next week. Can't imagine what kinda disaster that'll be...

First sentence

Elizabeth, STOP IT!
well... it's more like "lid, 'doby!". Last Friday, when liz tried to clean her nose, that's what amy said. i guess a push-over like me really can raise a high-maintenance girl.

Today, she even got jealous when i kissed Davin. When i dropped her off, she wouldn't give me a kiss, kept saying nono. While Davin walked directly towards me and asked for a kiss. So i kissed her. Amy started to whine immediately. She even got upset when Davin said byebye to me. I didn't even look at Davin. But still, amy took it as if Davin's closer to me. The sight of Polly, "breakfast teacher", finally cheered her up.

Back to normal

My sister left the day before yesterday. Amy tried to find her suitcase yesterday morning. Not really disappointed when she found everything's gone, though. I guess she knew her auntie's presence is just temporary all along. I really believe babies are smarter than we thought they are now.

She picked up a lot of new words when my sister was here, bread in chinese, hat in chinese, auntie in chinese etc. My sister also was patient enough to play "put on the lid" with her. If amy's not too anxious and i help hold the bottle, she now can put the lid on herself.

She sure understands us a whole lot better, too. The other day before we left the apartment, I tried to put a hat on her. She hates hat ever since she can move stuff by her teeny tiny hands. Every day putting on hat is a battle between us. Without too much expectation, i told her, it's really cold out, if you don't put on the hat, we don't leave the apartment. Surprisingly, she looked at me for a couple of seconds and then just gave up the fight. However, the minute we got into the car, she started to pull her hat really hard. I thought reasoning worked earlier, why not try again. So i said, it's still cold, amy, let's wait till the car warms up, ok? Again, surprisingly, she lowered her hands and started play with herself. Later on, when the car warmed up, she took her hat off when i told her so. It was like having a conversation/instructional talk with an adult. I guess we'll have to watch what we say in front of her now. :D

Can't kiss me without permission!

Every morning when i take amy into the day care, one of the directors would ask for a kiss from her. Ninty-nine percent of the time amy would shake her head and say "no no". It's like a little routine laugh for both me and the director.
This morning the director decided to take some any way. So instead of asking amy, she sneaked up on her and kissed her on the face really hard. Amy suddenly burst into this huge cry, as if saying "you can't kiss me without asking!". Plus, i put this new jacket on her today, she looked like a teddy bear. A grumpy fuzzy crying teddy bear.Everyone passing the hallway had a really good laugh over this.

loves auntie

This week my sister's coming over for a visit. Before she came, i was really worried that amy's not gonna play with her, or, even worse, cried every time she sees her. Mommy, daddy and day care teachers are all the adults she knows, after all.
To my surprise, amy loves her very much. Quote my husband, "she can sense who's close relative." The minute she saw my sister, she gave her a gentle smile. They started play together like crazy only 5 minutes after my sister got in the house.
Yesterday, amy even started to get jealous when my sister played with davin in the day care. This morning, she got up before her auntie did. So she just squated down quietly in front of my sister's door, waiting for her to come out to play with her.
I am soooooooooo happy to see they love each other.
Now i am not as worried as before that amy won't play with my parents when they get here.

Word count

ah-oh
灯
POOH
奶
birdie
抱抱
干干
计算器
thank you
bye bye
ball
豆豆
臭臭
藕
面面
HIGH FIVE
come
shoe
toy

体力劳动者

我有把子力气。这可以追溯到很早。比如说换煤气罐。比如说大学里我打四壶八磅的水。上山下乡到了美国，登峰造极，甚至名扬我们小TOWN。话说有一回，帮我ROOMIE去买家具。共两女三男。DEFAULT认为干活的有一女三男。我和胖男一组，两瘦男一组。人家一开始蛮照顾我，说，哎，你们一组抬床垫，轻，我们一组抬写字台，你慢着点儿啊。殊不知抬完这一趟回来，瘦男甲就改了主意，斜次里奔我杀过来，哎我说，不行不行这样不行，还有一个QUEEN SIZE BOX，这个瘦男乙他不行啊，换咱俩一组去吧？我受了表扬，欢欣鼓舞，这半天儿好好儿的卖了卖块儿。
我们家AMY好的她不学，妈妈我冰雪聪明伶牙俐齿她一样儿也没有延承衣钵，到了体格儿健壮这儿，她倒是没拉下。刚刚会走路的时候，步履蹒跚，也要摸到壁橱那里，踮着脚尖够到最大包的DIAPER，帮当一声拨拉到地上，哼呦咳呦的拖到遥远的卧室去，备战备荒那么个意思。走好了更加不得了，到了商场都要帮人家重组货架。妈妈一眼没看住，就摸到最大桶的CONDITIONER，抱起来撒腿就跑。实在是太重了，跑两步蹲下歇一歇，为了防备妈妈来破坏，蹲着都死死的抱着大大一瓶。转眼的功夫就给人家把CONDITIONER拖到鸡汤区，要求这两个配对。上个星期妈妈去DAY CARE接她，在门外偷瞧。但见得这个好汉，袖子挽得老高，脑门儿冒着细汗，推着个塑料大房子就走，完全不顾大房子里面还站着无辜的SEAN。问阿姨，阿姨见怪不怪，说，oh... she's been at it for a couple of hours, rearranging furniture is her business。阿姨们又不知道我们家族的光荣历史，微笑祝贺说，嗯，将来啊，AMY是个DECORATOR。妈妈心里知道，DECORATE个头啊，她,MOVER嘀干活。我们母女两个，搬家公司，都不用再雇老墨了。

Very polite

Amy has been saying "thank you" to everyone for almost a month now. Not exactly "thank you". Dahdu is more like it. Like when she asks for milk, she'd say "dahdu" after we give the cup to her. Even when she's really hungry, she'd rush a "dahdu" before putting the straw in her mouth.

The day care teachers told me that she also kept saying it when they tried to teach sean to speak. They were like, "sean, say thank you". And amy'd say"dahdu" immediately, even when she's really busy with her "funiture re-arranging" business.

Her vocabulary has been growing quite rapidly recently. Bye, beans in chinese, potato in chinese, even stinky in chinese, are among the new additions... Yesterday when i picked her up, i almost knocked over another daddy by the swing door. After i said "sorry", she even managed to say a "sowee". Very polite indeed.

面面

我爸南方人，我妈北方人。生我和我姐的时候，他们两地分居。我妈一个人带大我们俩，在陕西的山沟沟里面。所以，一直到今天，为什么我姐只吃米不吃面这个课题还是没有得到解答。遗传的作用真的这么强大？我妈怀孕的时候吃遍了各式面汤，生出个娇气包儿我姐来，是面做的东西就不吃，甜食除外。

到我家AMY了，基因上面又是她爸比较强大。吃面条，她爸爱吃宽的或者粗的。本来我一直给AMY吃龙须面的，星期六我们俩剩了口粗面条，懒得给她做饭了(我接受批评，穿也不给家穿好，吃也只是剩的。。。)，捡了两根儿给她吃，扔给她的时候，说，吃面面吧。星期天早上，一睁眼睛，人家就高呼，面面！面面！扔了奶瓶，要攀高椅，从CEREAL BAR到WAFFLE到PAN CAKE。。。什么都不吃，就是要面面。时间紧迫，在她拍桌子示威的压力下，我匆忙的下了一把龙须面，图个熟的快。人家不要，胡噜胡噜都抹到头发上，好像假发一般。终於作了她想要的面面，欢呼3秒钟示意。

Shapes

Amy now knows different shapes.

My mom bought her this book when she was really little. It has a big picture of a type of shape on one page, and then a small picture of the same shape on the other page, hidden among other things. We used to "read" this book to her every day, told her "see? this is a square, this is a square, too".
Yesterday, i pointed at the big square, and then asked her to pick out the small square on the other page, she did it! she can also tell triangle, round and oval. But if it's too complicated, like a star, she can't. she'd point at some other small pictures which interest her, like a hipo. :)

小笨笨

AMY今天早上死命攥着一块大饼干进了DAY CARE 的门.从此就被SEAN盯上了.
她坐在墙边儿玩儿玩具,SEAN就不动声色的蹭过去,假装友好坐在旁边.
AMY一个不留神,SEAN就掰去了一大半,疯狂的塞到嘴里拼命咽下去.
AMY只是死命的攥着而已,对SEAN的举动没察觉,突然低头,咦?怎么好像少了一块.便举起来问我,啊啊啊啊啊啊?
我说,给SEAN吃一口嘛,没事的.SEAN听到了,得意得更狠了,又去抢AMY手里剩下的一小牙.
最后,AMY手里什么都没有了,还是不知道,死命的攥着小胖手指头.

Crazy busy recently

My parents are gonna come this coming december. so i am trying to get more work done. haven't got time to keep recording amy's growing up.

She didn't learn much recently, execpt now she can say NO NO while she's shaking her head. She does that all the time. When i dropped her off at the day care and asked for a bye-bye-kiss, she'd say nono. When i ask her to finish her dinner, she'd say nono. Or, when she's doing something she's not supposed to do, she'd say nono while she's doing that.

Her daddy said she can say cat in chinese, now... i didn't notice, though... Sigh... bad mommy ah.

Bossy Girl

I guess all girls are bossy. Amy is one of the proofs. She likes to make us do this and that . Like when she can't put the stackers back onto the pole, she'd demand us to do it for her. Or, when she wants some crackers, she won't quit till we give it to her. I didn't think all these as "bossy" until i saw her in day care. The other day when i picked her up from the day care, she was playing with Davin. And i saw her point at davin and say "Davin! Come! Come!" at the same time. That's when i realized she's one bossy little girl. Well, i was, too, when i was little. So i guess i've nothing to complain.

Play with Crayon

About 10 days ago, Liz told me they draw/paint in the day care. I was really surprised that they can play such complicated games at this age. So i bought some crayons home to play with amy. She just loves it! Of course she'd try to lick the crayon everytime i gave it to her. But once she started to draw her little lines, she just forgets all about the urge to taste. She can sit there filp the deck of paper i give her and draw or dot little things on it for 10-20 minutes without any complaints. Sometime if i praise her, she'd have this really proud and shy impression on her, which makes me just want to "bite" her little face...
I just love her day care. Sure, she got virus from time to time, and maybe they don't hold her as often as i would at home (she is just toooooo heavy. :p). But they teach her all these things that i couldn't think of. That little brain surprises me every day. And most of them are because of the day care.

Also, after about 1 week's patient observing, today amy tried to play with her stacker for the first time and she actually succeed in putting the rings back there!

nonononono

Yesterday i took amy to my office after day care. Normally she's really friendly, waving at everybody who's passing by. But not yesterday. Everytime i told her say hi to my collegues, she'd shake her head. It's like "i will say hi when i want to. i wont say it just cuz you ask me even if i want to myself." I really didn't know kids are gonna be like this so soon. I thought it's for teenagers.

Then during the night she woke up by this cough and refused to sleep. Everytime i told her "night night" she'd shake her head again and again, even if she's so sleepy that she can't open her eyes. We fought like this till 3 am this morning. Towards the end i got really mad at her and yelled a little. Of course i felt sorry and bad for that. But i just couldn't help. I comforted myself by saying that every parents do that once in a while. But still... especially this morning on our way to day care, amy yelled a little, too. I can't tell what she's saying but i know she learnt that from me. Sigh.

Strong personality

This morning when i dropped amy off at the day care, Alma and Nareen told me she has been a little bit 'out of control' recently. I actually have noticed that at home, too.

The key "symptom" is that she has to be the one who decides everything. Like when i give her a cup of water, she'd shake her head vigorously. And then no more than 5 seconds later, she'd ask for one. When i finally give it her on her demand, she'd have this impression, like "i say when!", on her. She does that to everything.
In addition to that, we can't push her into doing anything. The more we push, the more she fights. They have this music lesson every Thursday. Amy loves it a lot. She'd sit there very quietly and smile, or dance a little. But she'd never touch anything the teacher put there. They tried to make her play the drums or other instrument. Everytime it ended with her scream. Actually she started to do that even when she's really little, like 4 or 5 months. Everytime when i tried to hold her hand to touch something, she'd fight really hard.

I talked about it with Alma and Nareen for a while. And the conclusion we reached is that Amy's like her daddy, has a strong personality.
Not long ago i was afraid she might become a push-over like me. Now that i found out she has a strong personality, i am still worried!
sigh, I am such a typical mom!

Confused bi-lingual kid

Now amy knows 7 words, some english, some chinese (light in Chinese, ah-oh, pooh, birdie, calculator in chinese, milk in chinese, and cracker in chinese). I know she'd face the bi-lingual confusing situation sooner or later. But i didn't expect it would happen so soon. About 1-2 weeks ago, amy learnt how to say milk in Chinese when she's hungry. For some reason she likes to say it twice at the same time. I've got used to it pretty quick and thought it's really cute. What i didn't realize, though, is that if you repeat milk in Chinese twice, it sounds exactly the same as "night-night". The other day when i was chatting with Nareen, i told her amy can say this and that... Out of curiosity, she asked me how to say milk in Chinese. After i told her, she thought for a second, and said, "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so that's why she kept saying night night these days". All of them burst into this huge laugh. It turned out amy has been saying it in the day care for quite some time. And everytime she says it, they take it as "night-night", and thought she wanted to take a nap. So they put her into her crib instead. My poor amy, starving in her crib... :p.

To be frank, i am rather amused than worried. I guess i am really bad in term of protecting amy and stuff... I just have confidence in her. She'll figure it out sooner than later.

Go on her regular diet recently

Amy has this regular dieting period. She just decides she doesn't want to eat anything from time to time. One of the reasons i guess is that i am not that good a cook. Another thing is that she is picky, both on flavor and on texture. Babies are so sensitive to things that it amazes me. I'd make exactly the same thing for her. Even if i put in just a touch more salt, she'd refuse to eat it. She also is lazy and very reluctant to chew on things. If the texture is a tiny bit too hard, she'd spit it out.

After the cold, the diaper rash, now the picky diet. She is really driving me nuts from last weekend. Maybe today i'll take her to the playground to have some fun.

Lazy girl

Amy now has passed the phase during which she's really interested in walking. She's become this lazy girl. Everytime we went out, after we got to downstairs, she'd walk directly to her stroller and wait there. Even when we got to the trail outside our apartment complex, she refused to walk by herself, just sitting in her stroller very comfyly and contended. The only thing that can make her stand up is the ants. So i have to cheat her by yelling "ants" even there is not any to get out of the stroller. Fortunately when she gets out of stroller, she's easily distracted. So hoefully she won't feel betrayed.

A little cold again

Amy's waking up last week was actually for a reason. I falsely accused her of being bad.... Not a good mother. She got this cold and passed it to both me and my husband. It's really painful at the beginning of this cold. We appear to be ok. But actually our throat is killing us. So i guess amy suffered the same uncomfortableness last week. No wonder she kept waking up during the night.
Now her cold is getting better and she sleeps much better.

This morning she tried to say "Daven" and "Thank you". Of course not very clear. I guess only me and her daddy can understand her. Now she's at a stage that she likes to repeat everything we say. But she can only pronounce "b" and "d" well... so her vacabulary is quite limited.

After a weekend, this morning at day care she was extremely happy. Me, too. :p.

Sigh...

I guess amy just had too much fun at day care that she doesn't want to be left alone any more. Yesterday night around midnight she woke up for no reason at all, AGAIN! This time i learnt my lesson. I didn't cave and go to check her at all. It's just during the whole 1.5 hours that she's fuzzing around, i became really furious about her, about myself, about the situation... She did fall in sleep by herself eventually. But i found out she had bad diaper rash this morning. She had a bowel movement during that awake hour. Now i am really not sure if i will go in next time she does this. Sigh...

Alma said Amy's smart

But what i sensed is that she's the geek in the group... Here's the story. Alma taught all the babies some sign language, like thank you, i love you... which i don't even know. Yesterday she showed them "more". During lunch, amy kept doing that. The other girls are looking at her, like she's a weirdo or show-off or something. This totally reminds me of my primary school time. Some time i'd even make some mistakes intentionally in the exam, just to be more like others. I guess that's my problem.

I can use a straw cup now - 09/25/2004 

She did it again!!!!!!!!! But, NOT a bad girl.

Just when i thought i'd have a good night of sleep, Amy did it again! And this time it's not even my fault. This morning 4am, she woke up for no reason at all,kept whining and whining... The other day i swore i will never "interfere"with her sleeping pattern again, NEVER. So today i just lied there, hoping she'd fall into sleep by herself. But she just wouldn't stop. I gave up again mainly because she sometimes has her chubby legs stuck in those crib bars. I had to check. So there i was, 4:20am in the morning, tiptoed to her room, opened her door without a sound (i swear, no sound at all.) . What i found is that she was just sitting there, looking at the door, and of course she spotted me in no time... Long story short, we went over everything in the other night, AGAIN!

Later when i dropped her off at the day care, i couldn't help complaining about this to naureen. I said, amy was really bad this morning. Naureen corrected me immediately. She said, no baby is bad. Liz said the same thing before to me. I felt so sorry at that point of time. I really shouldn't say this in front of Amy. Right now she still doesn't really know. When i said the B-word, she's happily chewing on her animal cracker. But I am sure sooner than i know, she'd be really hurt by my unintentional words. I have to watch out for that more carefully. HAVE TO!

Loves shopping

Amy loves shopping. I guess girls are born this way. She especially like colorful display, like a santa clause, a painting, a bright-colored-bowl, or, even a salad tray with tomatoes and celery. For us, it's a pain, though. She keeps messing with all the merchandise that she can reach, dragging a huge bottle of conditioners across the aisle, banging a spoon on the floor, or licking some boxes. But since she enjoys it, i try to take her with me to do grocery shopping as much as i can, if time and my energy allows, that is.

Yesterday i took her to the sam's. She didn't give me too much trouble. Mostly because she's paying all her attention to this other family. It's an indian family with 2 girls around 8 or 9 and a smaller boy around 5 or 6. Amy keeps following them around whenever i took her out of the shopping cart. She'd wave at them and dance for them. The sisters liked her a lot. The little guy is another story, though. The mom noticed amy and "offered" to take her home. Amy didn't mind at all. She was happily holding one of the sisters' home, pretending i don't exist at all. The little guy suddenly screamed, "no!!!!!!!!!! our house can only hold us!!!!!!!" :)

Torture

Amy tortured us yesterday night. Maybe i shouldn't complain too much since she's such a good girl that this "torture" only happens once in a while. But still, i am like a walking zombie right now. So i need to complain! Plus, when Amy grows up, i will show this post to her when we have the "sex" talk so that she'll know the consequence is bad bad bad bad... :p

Around midnight, i went into her room to check if she's warm enough. I was really careful that i swear i didn't make any noise. But somehow she still sensed i was there and woke up. That's when she decided to play with me. At first i just fled the room and let her cry. But she wouldn't give up that easily and cried for like 40 minutes. I gave up, stepped in, hugged her, rocked her, put her back to the crib... I don't know at which point during this process, but suddenly she became wild awake, started to smile at me, poke me, and even laugh out loud. I tried everything, from pretending this is the 8pm and going through the bed-time-ritual to just giving up and playing with her... Nothing worked. She became more and more awake. But at the same time she was really sleepy, kept rubbing her eyes...In the end, around 3pm, i got really mad and just left her in the crib. She cried furiously for about 15 minutes and went to sleep. At that point, i was so tired i didn't even check if she's warm enough...

Now that i told the whole story, somehow i felt i was the bad one. I was the one who woke her up, the one who cursed that i'd sell her on ebay, and the one who didn't care if she's warm enough... Sigh, how did it turn out this way? Maybe i won't show this post to Amy after all...

Sweetheart

Yesterday Naureen, one of the teachers at the day care, told me Avory is gonna go to the young toddler room pretty soon. She said then i won't meet my favorite baby for a while. I told her i have a second-favorite, Daven. Turned out Daven is Naureen's favorite. Then Naureen told me Amy's her sweetheart, too. I know she probably just said that cuz i am there. But still, that makes me happy. Mommies are pretty vein, i'd say... But i wouldn't mind being vein...

Then in the afternoon when i picked Amy up, there's this little tiny baby taking his bottle. I stepped over and played with his chubby feet for a while. Amy didn't mind at all. I was a little surprised. The other day i was trying to hold her and Avory at the same time. Amy got really mad. She was pushing Avory away pretty hard all the time. I thought she'd get jealous when i showed affection to that little baby. But she didn't. Alma told me she's really sweet with all the tiny ones. She'd go over, petting them very gently (thank God not like she pets the bugs...), and smiling. I'd say she's a sweetheart, too!

Very easy to be satisfied

Everyday when i pick Amy up from day care, she's very hungry. So i always give her some snack on the way back. She's quite a messy eater. So there's crumb everywhere in the car, especially on her car seat.
This morning on our way to the day care, she managed to pick up some crumbs and stuffed them all in her mouth. After swallowed those days-old crumbs down, she made this yummy noise and laughed out loud. I couldn't help laugh with her. She's so easy to be satisfied. Life is so much better when you are little.

Birdie! 

A little geek

Believe or not, Amy's 5th word (except daddy and mommy) is calculator in Chinese. I was always hoping she'd grow up like a princess, into art and beautiful stuff.... Now i see the chance of that is getting slimmer and slimmer.
My mom bought her this book. It's like a deck of flash cards with pictures in it, all kinds of pictures, veggies, fruits, animals, flowers, kitchen appliance, office supply etc. Her favorite page is a calculator. Even when she won't take her food, as soon as i show her that page, she'd be happy to take whatever i give her. Calculator in Chinese has three characters, it's kind of hard to pronounciate. But she manage to say that. Of course i don't think anyone else can tell what she's saying. It's clear enough to me, though. Yesterday after she pointed at the page and said it herself. I gave her a real calculator. And she said it, too.
Books, keyboards, pens, now calculators...... Poor amy is gonna grow up like me, a geek. >_<

Playground is tooooooooooooooo far away.

Bugs

Amy loves bugs, especially ants. Everytime we went out, she'd spend some time watching ants. If we are lucky,there are a lot of them, she'd scream her joy. She always trys to use her finger to follow the ant. As a result, she had accidentally killed a dozen of them. Now she became much more violant. Yesterday she used my keys to bang on the bugs. The "crime scene" is so bloody i have to take her away. :p. I did tell her that we should love living creatures by patting them. Didn't know if she heard me, though.

Chasing around

Yesterday after dinner i took amy to the trail outside our apartment complex. We watched some ants and bugs for a while, pointed at birdies, said hi to all the doggies...... We also played chasing around.
Everytime i chased her, she'd try run away, even after she fell down, she'd get up herself and run. We both laughed silly for a long time. Later on i got tired. So i just sat there and said "mommy's gonna get you~", she still laughed silly and run around all by herself. That was some QUALITY TIME together. :D

Frustration

Amy has reached the age that her emotional development exceeds her language development a great deal. She started having problem expressing her feelings, especially frustraion, more and more often. The babies at day care also "taught" her some tricks. For example, when she wants something and we can't figure out what it is, or we don't want to give it to her, she'd start scream, or, throw stuff, or, in the most extreme situation, pull her hair really hard. I believe the pulling hair part is either from Avory or Daven. :p. We did try to distract her everytime she did that. But she is quite a stubborn girl. This morning i even gave her a remote control when she wouldn't eat her breakfast. Still it didn't work. Eventually i caved. I know i shouldn't. But most of the time i just want to move on... Again, parenting is so hard!

"Play" mommy

Amy started to "play" mommy over the weekend. I was trying to clean her nose with some Q-tip the other day. She got hold of one and tried to lick it. So i was like, "nooooooooooo, you are soooooo gross". She was apparently quite amused, pretending to lick it and watching for my response. Everytime i say "no!", she'd laugh out loud. And then she'd pretend to lick it again. I know i shouldn't play with her with respect to RULES. But still, i couldn't help entertaining her by pretending it's a big deal. Laughing together with her is so much fun!

Birdie and Pooh

Amy knows how to say "birdie"! This morning when i took her out for her walk, there were a lot of birds flying around. She kept pointing at them. So i told her, Birdie~ (Normally i'd speak chinese. But bird in chinese is really hard to prononciate). She hesitated for a couple of seconds, then said, "deeber". I couldn't help laughing out loud. She was forgiving enough to laugh with me. After a couple of times, she started to point at the birds and say "birdie" herself. Later on we even show off this to her daddy. :)

She also knows how to say "pooh" now. Before she'd only whisper "pooh" when we say it to her. Now she can pick up the toy pooh and say it herself. The only problem is that she thinks all fluffy animals are "pooh", even some animal she never seen before at the leasing office' play room. Today i tried to correct her by telling her the one she picked up is piglet rather than pooh. She got really mad and throw the piglet away. Now that i think about it, i think i shouldn't have ruined her fun. Pooh for every animal is good enough for her and for me, any way.

Actually today i read from the internet that some baby can read more than 100 chinese character when she's the same age as Amy. I am NOT jealous at all. And this is not one of those "sour grape syndrom". Honestly, i don't want Amy to be extra smart or something like that. I even think too smart is a bad thing for kids. All i want from Amy is that she is happy, healthy and decent.

Love the lunch from day-care

Yesterday the teachers tried the food from the cafeteria, she loved it! So apparently it's just my cooking. I should really work on it. I still don't know how to prepare a lot of things amy loves, like lasagnea (heck, i don't even know how to spell it!) , for example. Macroni and cheese's another her favorite. I just hope i can find the time to practice this.

Another problem now with amy is that she refuses to take milk from her cup. We tried sippie cup and straw cup. She can take water from those just fine. But not milk. Even when she's really sleepy and hungry and want her milk before bed time, if she sees a cup, she'd protest with arching her back, shaking her head and screaming bloody murder. I sincerely hope this is just a phase.

This past one year has taught me how to tell myself, this shall pass, too! So now let me say it one more time, this, shall pass, too!

Playing with Avory

Avory is one of my favorite babies at Amy's day care. Daven is sweet, too. But for Avory, it's love at the first sight. :p. This morning when i dropped amy off, Avory was trying really hard to pull her shoe and sock off. When she finally did it, she handed her sock to Amy. Amy walked away with it in her hand, really contended. : ) I am so happy to see she playing with other babies.

She doesn't eat really well, though. She practically ate nothing during her lunch in the past couple of days. So today i asked the teachers to try the food from the cafeteria. Hopefully she'll like the change.

Forward-facing car seat

Last weekend my husband changed amy's car seat from rear-facing to forward-facing. It apparently is a huge and great change for her. The minute i put her in that position, she started babbling excitedly. Normally she'd take a nap on her way back from day care. Yesterday she was so busy "investigating" stuff around her that even when we reached our apartment, she's still super happy and alert.
Now that she can see us driving, she figured out "how to drive" herself. Yesterday we took her to Kroger. They have this kinda shopping cart for kids that looks like a racing car. Before, when we put her in there, she didn't pay attention to the wheel at all. Yesterday she grabbed onto the wheel and started to steer it away with this proud expression on her face. Who wouldn't feel proud for her?

Crowd Pleaser

I myself is a notorious pushover. I got this from my mother. She always put others' happiness the highest priority. I teased her about this "worrying for the whole wild world" all the time. However, ever since i could remember, i like to please others, too. Even though some of my friends comfort me by telling me this makes me a super-sweet person, i still really hate myself for this. So when amy walks on the thin fine line between sweetness and crowd pleasing, it really bothers me, a lot.

For example, she knows we like to see her "dance", or make the kissing noise. Everytime we tease her by holding a ball high, or refusing to read the book to her, she'd dance a little, or make the kissing noise, in hoping we'd give her whatever she wants.
Also, she learnt "ah-oh" from other babies in her day care. So she thinks this is a "universal" language among kids. The other day, when i took her to the play ground, she saw a couple of bigger kids playing ball together. She really wanted to join them. So she yelled "ah-oh" repeatedly at them. They didn't notice, or, they didn't understand what she's doing. She's really dissappointed. She even danced a little for them, too.

I know this is natural for a baby her age. But still, i want her to be independent, to have her own mind, to hold her own ground, not to worry about what others think, or, at least, not to worry too much...... Maybe i want too much. Maybe i should set an example for her. Or, maybe, i should just let her be. :p

Another low-grade temperature

This morning Amy woke up around 5:30 and kept whining. I stepped in to check on her and felt that she's really warm. Turned out she got a temperature around 99.5. Damn! When can this bad cold end?! Please Please, let amy get back to her healthy self!!!!!!!!

What makes it even worse is that i got this cold from her. Now i am feeling weary.

Amy likes teachers more than mommy

This morning when we got into the infant room, she opened her arms to one of the teachers, Alma, and wanted to get away from me. I told her, kiss mommy. She wouldn't even listen to me. After Alma took her over, she's so contend as if i was some stranger...
Well, i shouldn't complain about it since this is what i always wanted. And actually i am happy that she likes the day care so much. Her daddy and i don't have that much friends here. I was always afraid she'd be a loner.
Actually... on the second thought, i am having much more complicated feeling than just "happy" towards this whole day care situation... For example, they have this new baby in the room, melissa. She was crying so hard yesterday it almost broke my heart. Amy was like that a month ago. Moments like this reminds me of her first couple of days, which makes me feel really guilty. But i am also very proud of amy that she's doing so well. In the mean time there's also the feeling of "let go". Now she's only 1 year old, and sometime she is not very "attached" to me any more... Like i told one of my friends the other day, damn, parenting is hard!

Any way, amy's getting better and better from her cold. Got a bad diaper rash though.
Hope she won't get sick again in the near future...

Back to day care

Yesterday we switched from formula to whole milk. That's when amy started to take her bottle. She also ate much better yesterday. I took her out for a walk in the afternoon. She was so happy even the cough didn't botter her any more.

So i decided to send amy to day care today. She was so bored at home sometime she just sat there. I was afraid after so many days at home she'd forget all about the place. But she didn't . The minute we walked into the door, she lighted up. She waved at all the teachers as if she was some prime minister coming to another country. When i gave her to one of the teachers, she didn't cry at all. She was so busy looking at things she even didn't have time to wave bye bye to me.
Today's their music lesson day, too. Hope she'll enjoy it.

The 4th day

Yesterday i took her to the ped. Just like what i thought, it's a virus at her throat, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Poor Amy, she became so uncomfortable that she wouldn't even take milk now. It's really hard to keep her hydrated.

Yesterday her daddy taught her how to say "muaaaaaaaaaa", the kissing noise. Everytime we kiss her, we make that noise. Now she can repeat after us. She also tried to say "car" in Chinese. Sometime when we say some big word, she'd look at our mouth really hard, trying to figure out how to say those.

Amy's got a bad cough

Amy didn't really get better today. This afternoon the cough made her so uncomfortable that she had to sleep on my tummy. She hasn't done this since 3 months old. She actually was still very good. At the very beginning, when i put her down for her afternoon nap, she went into sleep pretty fast. But she kept being woke up by the coughs. Eventually she gave up, sitting there crying with her eys closed. When i laid her on my tummy and patted her, she slept so well it reminded me of her newborn time. That kind of closeness is gone forever with the weaning. So i have to guiltily say i did enjoy that 1 hour and half of amy's sick time.

She also didn't eat well. I guess her throat was making her uncomfortable.

Tomorrow i will take her to the ped's office. We were hoping that we could save the trip since amy really hates to go to the doctors. But i can't watch her coughing like this any more. Even though i know the ped probably will just tell us to keep her hydrated blah blah blah... still, some words/reassurance from the professional will make us feel better.

Please, whoever is listening up there, let amy be better tomorrow.

Ah-oh

Amy knows how to say "ah-oh" now. Day care really boosts her vocabulary fast! Last Friday when i picked her up, she kept saying "ah-oh" in the car. I thought she just liked the sound of it and had no idea what that meant. But when we got home, i found out she actually knows when to use it. Whenever she or me or her daddy dropped something on the floor, she'd say "ah-oh". She says it when she falls down, too. She even practiced it in her dream.

Last night her temperature peaked to 102 degree. Praying for her to get better soon.

Amy's sick today

This is the 3rd time since she started day care. She got a temperature on the 7th day after she started. I took her to the ped. It's just a virus on her throat. Then the following week she got runny nose. It went on and off for about 10 days. We were just happy that she finally was ok, now this.

And this time is the worst. She was still pretty active for the last two times, eating ok and also keep playing. Not this time. This morning she got a fever about 100 degree. Even after i gave her tylenol, the temperature was still around 99. She didn't eat much lunch and threw up most of it.In the afternoon for about 2 hours she didn't do anything but lying on my stomach and whining... Poor thing.

I know she's supposed to catch virus from day care and this even is good for her in some sense. But it's still really hard for us.

Hope she'll be better soon. I will take a day off tomorrow.

Amy keeps wanting to go out now

Normally i'd take amy out for a walk after her dinner. The day before yesterday, i was a bit hungry after feeding her. So i went into the kitchen to find something to eat. She didn't follow me right away. When i went to look for her, I found she was sitting in front of the door, waiting for me. : ) . So i told her, give mommy a minute to finish this biscuit. That's when she got really impatient. She decided to push me. With a pair of her own shoes in her hands, she tried to pull me to the door. I eventually gave up and take her out with a couple of biscuit in my pocket. : ).

Then yesterday morning after her bottle, she started to wave byebye to her daddy furiously, as if she can't wait to go to the day care. And when we arrived there, she was so eager to go play she didn't even wave to me. Bad girl. :p

I am glad it only took her 3 weeks to like day care. I guess she is a friendly girl by nature.

Today after i dropped her off, i peeked a little bit. Spence, a 6 month guy, kept following her around. When she finally sat down to play with some toys, Spence even tried to climb onto her. She didn't push him away. Maybe some day she'll be a good big sister. :D

One year check-up

Yesterday I took amy to her one year check-up. Her height is 31'', 97%; weight is 23lb1oz,75% with a big head, 183/4'', also 97%. According to the ped, her developement is between 14 months and 16 months. Good girl.
I took her to the office two weeks ago because she has a mild temperature. Back then the ped sort of poked into her throat, which made her extremely uncomfortable. Apparently she remembered it all. Yesterday she even wouldn't let me lay her on the examination bed. She cried even more furiously when the ped tried to look into her ears. Actually even at home, she won't let me touch any part of her face... werid little girl.
But any way, she's fine. She even didn't have a temperature after the shots. When she was 6 months, her temperature reached 103 degree during the night.

I have to go get some CD. Joyce told me she listened to Itsy Bitsy Spider a lot at day care. I even didn't know what that is. :( I guess that's the problem of having a baby in another country. We'll have to "grow" up together with her. Well, maybe it's more of a blessing than problem.

Amy started to play with other babies~

Yesterday Joyce told me Amy started to play with other babies. I saw her and Avory pointing at each other, too. I am so glad she finally start to socialize with others. I think she enjoys day care now.

Yesterday I took Amy to my office. She even met the Dean. She was in a very good mood, waving and smiling at everybody. Also an indicator that she has adjusted to life there.

Amy can say lamp in chinese

Recently amy has developed this habbit of pointing at things, any thing, dogs, people, cars, trees... especially shiny stuff.
She likes the lights inside our car a lot. Everytime we stop the car, the light will go on automatically. So now whenever we enter or stop the car, she'd look at the light and wait for it to light up. Then she'd point at it and smile.
This morning i was feeding her on the balcony. She likes it there so that she can see cars coming and going. She pointed at the lamps on the balcony. So i said, "deng", that's lamp in Chinese. She said it back. We kept doing it for a couple of times. She enjoyed it very much.
Soon she will be a little chatter box, i believe. I am just wondering if it's a Chinese chatter box or an English one...

Amy didn't cry at all today!

She even waved goodbye to me. Such a good girl~

This morning her daddy found out that she knew how to dance. Whenever we sing "twinkle twinkle little star", she'd swing a little and also bounce up and down.

She learns things pretty fast. Yesterday she even took her formula from her straw cup.

She's still a little bit clingy, though. She'd walk towards me, sit down and then lie on my legs for a couple of minutes before she can go play by herself again.

皮皮一岁了

BIG GIRL了。23磅1盎司。一脸横肉，狰狞笑容像爸爸。个子也不矮。DAY CARE 一个INFANT ROOM里，就属她傻大个子。今天送她去，跟阿姨说我们今生日。一个老阿姨略显糊涂，说，啊，那她两岁了？

走得不错了，偶尔开始小跑。尤其是逃跑的时候。多数时候以摔倒失败告终。下次看到爸爸妈妈来抓还是要撒腿就跑。

会说爸爸DADA很长时间了，只有要吃要睡的时候才会赖唧唧的说妈妈。爸爸说POOH，她就轻轻的吹气说噗～。妈妈说DONE，她就骄傲的大叫DAAAA～。

会的本事不多。拍手招手摇头。偶尔爸爸唱歌的时候会鼓掌。看见活动的物体就招手。摇头只能摇最多两下，好像头太大了摇不动。每时每刻都在乱指，看到什么都指着说啊啊啊啊啊啊,抢东西狠在行，奇形怪状一个相机抓在手里准确无误的捅镜头。大大的一包DIAPER拖着走。

破坏狠积极。抓起门口的鞋子到处扔，插线板的开关有灯捅一下，橱柜里面的东西太多拖出来，垃圾桶有盖子一样打的开，抽屉会夹到手可是如果小心的话里面还是很有意思。截至发稿时止共计毁坏遥控器一个，撕破书N本。

开始耍小聪明，每次妈妈要HAVE SERIOUS TALK WITH HER，就瞄准一个目标乱指，妄图转移妈妈的注意力。不喜欢妈妈碰可是想要妈妈手里面的梳子就绕到妈妈旁边去够梳子以为妈妈抓不到她。妈妈送去幼儿园还是要哭给妈妈看，妈妈一出门口就算了，好汉不能够乱吃眼前亏。拣起什么破烂儿背过身去吃，酱紫妈妈看不见。

今天妈妈会给买个蛋糕，皮皮不爱吃，妈妈吃。

一年的时光一年的牵挂，皮皮嘻嘻一笑，全部都有了回报。

Happy Birthday, Amy!

Happy Birthday, my dear Amy,

You are 1 year old today.

In the past 1 year, you grew up a loooooooot and also learnt a looooooooooooot. roll over... sit up...crawl...walk... You are a big girl now.

Also in the past 1 year, you made us so happy and proud that sometime i can't believe i can have this much emotions.

I love you very much.

I can see myself in her

I still have some vivid memory about my childhood, most of them somewhat embarrasing. One thing i remember is that i always try to "play" my parents but never succeed. Like if they were talking with me about something serious which i don't want to listen, i'd try distract them by saying, "look! mommy! i found something!". Of course, that's when i was really small. After i started school, i figured this never worked. And then i'd just quit listening.

Amy started doing this last weekend. Less than 1 year old! I do hope she won't stop listening to me later on.

It's saturday and after 1 week at day care, she's really clingy. I was cooking and feeling tired. She still wanted me to hold her. So i calmly told her, mommy's busy, go play with yourself. Of course she wouldn't listen and started to scream/semi-cry. After 10 minutes or so, i got really mad at her and just ignored her. Then she burst into her real cry. That's when i tried to have a "serious" talk with her. I was trying to reason with her while holding her in my arms. She just wouldn't listen and kept pointing at one of the pictures we put up on the wall.

I really can see a little me doing exactly the same thing like she. I can't say i am happy about her defying me. But strangely, it did amused me a little bit.

Amy didn't cry too much today

When i dropped her off at the day care, she just made an attempt to cry. And before she started, i was out of the door. So she didn't really make it to a loud cry. yah~

But she still doesn't like to socialize with other babies. She kept to herself most of the time. I guess she'll start to play with others eventually.

Yesterday i took her to my office after the day care. She liked the vending machine on our floor. She'd point at it and say "ah ah ah ah". So i tried to lead her to touch it. But she didn't want to. It's exactly like the time we took her to the playground. There were a bunch of kids who's making a lot of noises. She'd squat down and observe them for a long time. But never tried to get close to them... So i can imagine her "loner" behavior in the day care. Hopefully this is just a phase.

Amy is almost 1 year old

Today i started this blog. Trying to keep track of her growth.

Amy's a big girl now. 23lb 1oz. 7 teeth, the 8th is on the way. There's also a molar coming out, according to the ped.

Started walking around her 11months. Already has the intention of escaping from mommy and daddy.

Know how to say "baba" and "dadda" for quite a while. Only say "mama" when she wants something. When i say "pooh" to her, she'd whisper "pooh". If i say "done", she'd yell "da"!

The 3rd week at day care

Dropped amy off at day care this morning.
After 3 days at home, she thought we'd stopped the day care thing. So the minute we stepped into the infant room, she started to cry furiously.
Last week when i dropped her off, she'd cry only a little bit. Today she cried for half a minute.

She still has a little bit runny nose. Don't know if it'll get worse.

Praying.

皮皮上学第三天

昨天下午爸爸妈妈有事，放了学带皮皮去了办公室。皮皮本来已经一肚子委屈，还被整个楼道展览来展览去，心情狠不好。看到人都不挥手了，人家有靠近的意思就防守性的大哭 。妈妈的键盘啦电话啦还是狠感兴趣，可是必须要抱着才勉强摸一摸。二十三四磅的一团胖肉，妈妈从六点一直抱到八点，半身不遂的意思都有了。

早上起来妈妈就狠担心，怕她还记得昨天的伤心往事，不过小朋友好就好在没记性上面，一大早又在屋子里面唱起了自己的小曲儿，只有妈妈去抱的时候才委屈的哼哼了两下。妈妈还是不狠放心，带她去散步的路上试验以前所有能把她逗笑了的小把戏，看看皮皮是不是还是那个快乐的孩子，基本上微笑是有的，不知道是不是没睡够的缘故，大笑还是不赏给妈妈。就这样凑合吧，妈妈安慰自己，想当年妈妈刚上幼儿园头两天也是心事重重，那还是已经五岁半了呢。

一番玩耍之后就又上了路，皮皮还和头两天一样，自娱自乐，停车等红灯的时候就扭头找妈妈。进大门还好，和JEANIE阿姨招了招手。进了二门儿就完蛋了，今天小朋友们没有在戏耍，都在各忙各的工作，换尿布啦吃早饭啦，几个阿姨过来过去，皮皮一下子就慌了神，吭吭叽叽指着门口示意妈妈要出去。妈妈坐下给她穿裤子，她就一只胳膊死命抱着妈妈，高难度的姿势穿，坚持不松手。妈妈忍着心里难受，亲亲胖脸就出门偷看。殊不知这个家伙完全是在给妈妈演戏。妈妈出门前还要张嘴大哭，门还没关上呢就改吭哧了，吭哧不到半分钟就在阿姨怀里安静下来。阿姨把她放在玩具堆里，就自己静悄悄的东摸西摸着忙活。

妈妈在门口站了十分钟，皮皮一直都狠繁忙，偶尔东张西望，笑是没笑，不过哭也没有。 昨天阿姨说皮皮还是狠喜欢一个人，自己走柳儿，或者坐在自己的小床里面玩儿小毯毯， 人家和她有了距离，她才和人家招手，人家要是过去想哄她，她反而大哭。妈妈听着就觉得她可怜，站在门口希望她去招惹别的小胖胖。她终于还是没有去。一个光头小胖胖今天穿了新裙子，跑到皮皮旁边的镜子那里去臭美，她也只是静静的看。

妈妈跟自己说，总是在好起来的，以后就和小胖胖们玩儿了。。。悻悻离去。一路上忘了开收音机，都是在想着皮皮的社交问题。

皮皮上学第二天

昨天去接皮皮，正在玩耍，看到妈妈，委屈劲儿上来，抽抽噎噎，看的妈妈很是心酸。回家妈妈就好好犒劳皮皮，大大的一碗鸡汤面条，全都乖乖吃进去，上炕前又来6OZ奶，彻底吃到晕倒状态。 最后哇的一大口都给吐在地毯上面。：（。

所以这一夜妈妈都没睡踏实。皮皮倒还好。就是午夜梦回想起白天受的委屈，吭吭吃吃哭了几嗓子。早上起来又一切如常，四仰八叉的在小床里面哼小曲。妈妈来抱，一咕噜爬起来，没有被严重伤害了的痕迹。

散步吃饭喝奶上路，妈妈表面上进行着每天都有的事情，暗地里仍然策划着带皮去幼儿园。皮皮倒是没有觉察。一路上翻着书咿咿呀呀给自己讲故事。车停了的瞬间，皮皮好像突然意识到大难临头，脸上出现惶恐困惑的神色。妈妈几番逗弄才勉强笑给妈妈看。

进得屋来。小朋友一干人等正在钻纸箱子玩乐。皮皮看的甚是眼馋，仍然钩住妈妈的脖子不放手。想想小孩子也真是可怜，以为拉住一点就是拉住所有，前路坎坷浑然不知，只有一切降临才能咬牙应付，唉。。。转念一想，焉知这又不是幸福呢？。。。正在遐想，阿姨过来问皮皮早饭，直起身来答话。皮皮丢了抓挠，大哭不已。阿姨使眼色要妈妈撤退。 妈妈终于不忍心，抱起来好好安慰。对话五分钟全都好好的，不哭不闹了，妈妈刚说，“ 妈妈要走了”，又开始疯狂大喊。钩紧妈妈的脖子不放手，阿姨抢过，妈妈亲亲胖脸，掰开胖手，毅然的开始徘徊在门外。

职业选手果然出手不凡，阿姨一转眼从什么地方变换出吹泡泡的家伙，皮皮顿时不哭了，
妈妈这才“放心”离开。

中午我去偷看来的，她正在小床里面，拒绝午睡，和对面的小朋友傻笑、招手、窜上跳下。狠高兴的样子。阿姨说，她一上午在屋子里面走柳儿，别的小朋友哭了，她就很有同情心的哭一哭。别的小朋友不哭，她也不哭。不敢进去，怕她看到我，又要闹，就走了。
下午又电话过去（烦人啊自己都觉得自己），阿姨说，皮皮鏖战到一点二十五，终于挺不住，睡了觉。起床吃了水果，,现在又在玩耍中。

看来不是狠轴。好汉不吃眼前亏，妈妈不在，就不闹了。

皮皮上学第一天

皮皮整整在家和爸爸妈妈耗了十一个半月，别说别人带了，连姥姥姥爷爷爷奶奶都没有见过。每次出门看到人就兴奋，看到小朋友更甚，不是追着人家屁股后面转，就是傻呵呵的给人家表演自己那点子本事（就是拍手而已）。爸爸妈妈看着心酸，就说，要不不等到九月了，这就送吧。

早上九点才送去。妈妈在家磨蹭，路上也故意开得慢慢的，可是终于还是到了。小朋友多多，玩具也新鲜，一进门皮皮就花了眼，跌跌撞撞四处乱摸，并不认生的样子。倒是旁的一个小胖子，叫AVORY的，扎到妈妈怀里就不出来，偶尔还起来亲一亲，皮皮也不吃醋介意，谁有好玩儿的就过去抢，身大力不亏。

到了睡第一个午觉的时间，皮皮还是不死心，东摸西碰，甚至去捅别的小胖子。生理上比较难受，就一边吭叽一边捣乱。妈妈横下一条心，跟阿姨说，上炕吧。阿姨就来给换尿布，一直表现好好的，阿姨一碰到，立刻开始撕心裂肺的号叫。妈妈已经拿起包包要撤退了，被她这一闹，心猿意马，鞋带被个小男胖子抓到都没有留意。实在下不了狠心，接过来抱了抱，说了好多好话，把她放到小床里面，“毅然”离去，在门口徘徊五分钟。。。

坐在办公室里面看新浪新闻，姚明赢了，不知道皮皮睡了没，李小鹏输了，皮皮哭累了就会睡的吧。。。耗到午饭时间，冲回幼儿园，想在门口偷看，还没有走近就听见皮皮在哭喊，哪里还有心思偷看，一步蹿进去，抢过来抱住。皮皮跟妈妈发了脾气，在怀里变本加厉的大哭，哄了好一会儿才哄住，问阿姨，觉也没睡，水果也不好好吃，越哄越哭，只有一个人在小床里面的时候才好些。妈妈在了，皮皮就又开始探索。并不在妈妈怀里偎着，还是AVORY蹭在怀里，皮皮只是自己在一边，偶尔看妈妈一眼就放了心。

阿姨要喂饭，皮皮看妈妈在，哭到呕吐也不要别人碰。妈妈喂完，自己抱着奶瓶玩儿，安静下来。妈妈二度“毅然”离去，在门口徘徊十分钟。。。

实在是坚持不住，冒着被老师笑话耽误人家工作的危险打了电话过去。道歉的话先说一堆。人家狠友好的说理解理解（学生问我问题我也说理解理解心中则暗骂笨死你算了，如此推理心里不是狠好受，也只能作罢），然后去宝宝屋给我打听。告诉我皮皮在我走后哼哼唧唧但是坚持睡了一觉。睡醒了还吃了APPLESAUCE和CEREAL，现在正在一个人玩耍中。放了一些心，可是想象学生问我考试难不难的时候我也是说不难不难的，又暗自神伤一阵。

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外面下雨，闷在家里一上午，小人儿突然自己往门口爬去，爬到门厅，规规矩矩的坐在那
里，眼巴巴的看着我。看我披头散发的没有更衣的意思，大声号哭起来。小傻子是正正经
经的成人了，要什么，不要什么，都是这样子的分明。

最喜欢出门。 荡秋千的时候格格乱笑，惊动行人。哪怕不去公园，坐在小车里面看风景
也面带微笑。每过一个行人就好像友善大使一样跟人家裂嘴。电梯里，或者等红灯的时候
，把旁边的人看得发毛，然后自己满意的叹一口气。
玩具不好玩。纸啊笔啊塑料袋啊电线啊才有意思。危险度与日俱增。小耗子一样在地上乱
蹿。摸到了什么挥舞一阵吃一阵就开始研究怎么能扯断，TOWEL纸报纸能扯断，第一好玩
，塑料袋可以出声音，第二好玩，电线还没有碰到妈妈就在旁边喊NO，第零好玩，别的东
西都靠边站，隔三分钟就要去摸一摸。

坐着站着都很好，睡觉就很没意思。甚至睡着了都要晃晃悠悠坐起来。
爸爸说什么都可笑，听到妈妈下班了会埋着头认真的爬过去迎接。
喜欢MACARONI AND CHEESE，胡萝卜和菠菜很恶心。
DIAPER好玩，换DIAPER就糟糕了，打着挺要坐起来，还会被野蛮按倒。
洗澡水拍打着很热闹，泼到外面一点伸手去抓可就抓不回来了。
安全第一，坐下躺倒都很可怕，要闭着眼睛慢慢来。
。。。

喜欢的还有：饼干渣、摄像机、标签、爸爸抱抱、吃瓶子、爬椅子、妈妈手里的一切。
不喜欢的包括：HIGH CHAIR、CAR SEAT、热、被救火队吵醒、天气不好、天气太好晒得慌
。

这基本上就是我们皮皮，八个月零十二天了。

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皮皮这两天累得够呛。探索者的工作不是闹着玩儿的，从客厅逛到厨房，一路上还要念念
有词，万一被什么绳子拌一下就忘了要去哪儿了，坐在那里吐着舌头思考，偶尔爸爸妈妈
还在旁边捣乱，不让动这个不让摸那个，等等等等，你想想，体力不支脑力不支都完全可
以理解。这，就是会爬了的下场。
皮皮其实从很早以前就有自己移动的方式，上半身着地，腿玩儿了命的蹬，胳膊好像不是
自己的似的费劲的拖着，从床这头儿蹭到那头儿花不了多长时间。不怎么体面吧，想要什
么总是能摸过来。慢慢的发现胳膊也有用了，就开始俯卧撑，一撑撑一天，四蹄儿着地，
前后逛悠。不理想的是这还不如从前，万一逛悠不好了来个狗啃泥，爸爸妈妈也不闻不问
，想动地方吧，胖胳膊一用力，反而往后退。如此困扰了大概一个来月，皮皮终於协调了
四蹄儿的运作，正式的开爬了，很有点子人样儿。
总算是可以去自己想去的地方，不用等人来抱了，皮皮心情奇好，醒着的时间都得用来忙
，唱着本周曲目，DADADADADADADA~ 走南闯北。最喜欢的地方是桌子底下，家里就这里没
人带着视察过了，必须要好好儿检查检查，所以被爸爸妈妈抓出来就要不屈不挠的再回去
，反正我比你们有时间~椅子底下其实也很不错，不过在那下面抬头会被碰到，不抬头又
查看不到什么，没劲。厨房里面呲啦呲啦很热闹，怎么回事？我去看一看~嘿咻嘿咻爬呀
爬，DADADADADADADA~ 咦？这个是什么？妈妈判卷子不认真，我来帮她改一改。。。啊呦
？这里还有手纸一卷，打开看看有多长。。。厨房，对了，厨房。。。
皮皮天生勤奋，睡觉的时间自然也不浪费。但凡醒一秒钟也要练习。睡一觉儿方位转换八
次，实在累得不行了才钻到毯子里面撅着屁屁勉强睡去，心有不甘。

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皮皮开始有点子小脾气了。
她不喜欢洗脸，跟她妈小时候一样，脏乱差见长，离淑女俩字儿是越长越远。最开始给她洗脸她只能使劲儿的闭着眼睛皱着鼻子呲牙（床）咧嘴默默忍受，慢慢的学会了cause-effect了，就开始探索这么难受的根本，发现，原来，妈妈拿着一团白的东西凑上前来，就要大事不好。于是人还离她十来步呢，她就开始一整套面部表情，一副你看我多可怜饶了我吧拜托拜托的意思。如此几次发现妈妈根本不吃这一套，该干嘛还干嘛，皮皮就只能反抗了。伸出小胖手，摸索一阵子摸索到妈妈的手，抓住了使劲儿掰，一边掰，一边“啊～～～～～～～～～”的大叫，整个楼道响彻，再加上妈妈嘀咕“哼！看你还想怎么样!”。我们家整个儿一个渣滓洞的音响效果。
也不像小时候那么宜人了，开始挑。喜欢的人逗她，才笑呢。好比妈妈的同学可汗叔叔，每次看到，皮皮都笑得跟朵儿花儿似的。可汗叔叔得意的宣称自己和皮皮之间有chemistry。旁的人逗，皮皮气定神闲的冷眼观瞧，怎么也不能轻易的赏你个笑脸儿。要是你长得有点子意思，好比ARIES阿姨的BF，大头大头，那么我们还可以多看一阵子，要是你只是普通人一个，和我们皮皮没什么相象，即使你是美女天仙，我们也不买帐～长的太个别了可也不行。好比办公室的黑人阿姨吧，可喜欢我们了，小的时候抱过很多次的，最近皮皮看到就开始有一点点害怕了，但是后来在电梯里看到黑人小朋友，人家大叫BABY上来吧唧一个湿吻，皮皮也能勉强同意人家拉拉手，总结下来，让妈妈办公室一个女教授说着了，皮皮啊，她是喜欢男生～看看，有学问的人，就是不一样。

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皮皮渐渐进入不识好歹期。她也没什么别的本事，就是吃呗~就这一样儿，不识好歹。随

我。

不能吃的东西全都要吃。这包括一切。有个抓挠的，好比自己的袜子，妈妈的头发耳环鼻

子眼睛嘴，勺子铅笔香蕉皮，只要触手可及，马上拽过来要吃。家里拽得动的东西已经全

部荣幸的沐浴过她的口水。拽不动的，这主要指妈妈的器官，全都被她抠掐捏出了一些以

前没有的痕迹。那些没处儿下手的东西呢，皮皮就在力所能及的范围内凑过去舔。床地毯

窗户爸爸挡着她前进的腿，全部都味道好极了。其中，电脑键盘她情有独衷。皮皮经常偷

偷观察爸爸妈妈坐在一个庞然大物前面辟里啪啦十指飞舞，跃跃欲试已经很久了。所以当

妈妈抱着她想迅速一查EMAIL的时候她就瞅准了时机，快准稳的向DELETE键伸出了黑手。

妈妈一个没留神，“ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE？”的窗口就冒了出来，妈妈又

一个没留神，皮皮就果断的YES了。时至今日，数月以后，妈妈还在寻找那失却的文件。

皮皮的犯罪行动成功了以后，吃劲儿就又上来了，猫着腰张着嘴使劲拽着键盘往大概齐长

嘴的那个方向送。未果已经很多次了。及至妈妈带她去检查身体，人家大夫的键盘她都要

吃，吃不到口水兀自流了一身。大夫还赞扬我们养的好，看来是不怎么缺水上火。

能吃的东西皮皮就不怎么爱吃了。比如说胡萝卜泥。第一次给她吃，还以为是不能吃的东

西，张嘴来接，尝一口就做YEW~的表情，要吐。从此知道这个颜色的东西在勺子上面一定

不是什么好事情，坚决不合作。没办法，妈妈只好跟小丑一样上蹿下跳，唱歌做鬼脸，骗

她张得嘴来，就以迅雷不及掩耳的速度塞进去一勺。这样子只需半次皮皮就有了对策。任

你怎么逗，坚决坚决坚决坚决不张嘴，抿着嘴好像淑女，眼神却邪恶的厉害。万不得已喘

不上气了张嘴被强迫塞一勺也不要紧，大铲橇舌头啊一下子全都给你送出来。心情好了噗

一声全世界一片胡萝卜色的薄雾也是很好看嘀~她爸屡次责备她妈，说是遗传，妈妈只好

辩驳，说这是胡萝卜不好，自己长得不对我们胖子一族的路子。

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皮皮很顾家。照顾的顾。管理员那么个意思。家里有什么变化全都盯着，醒着的有限功夫
全都盘家里的那点子货了。挪个床她发现了没什么了不起的，台灯样子特别，也不算她本
事。厉害的是，才四个月的时候，爸爸把个破纸箱子从屋子这里搬到那里，皮皮瞪着大眼
睛和箱子咿咿呀呀说了两分钟话，一副“你为什么乱跑！”的神态。
最近几天妈妈喂皮皮的椅子旁边是洗衣筐。每顿吃完了皮皮利用打嗝儿喘气的间歇就要数
数衣服的多少。每天都往里面加，皮皮当然不反对，看两眼便放了心。问题出在了洗衣服
没有和皮皮请示上面。衣服洗掉了，筐自然就空了。皮皮火眼金睛的，一眼就看出了不妥
，“啊？”“哦~”“唉。。。”。哼哼唧唧长达五分钟之久，妈妈把她抱走，还恋恋不舍的继续拷
问筐筐，脖子都要扭断，一直到另一个房间才不得不放弃。
自己家的破烂儿，她把着也就罢了。可恨的是最近已经发展到了摸一下便是她的的地步。
楼下有个游戏室，大家捐了一屋子的玩具一起玩。从上个星期开始刚带她去，便把住了一
样儿。每次去都玩。昨天去了个小姐姐。皮皮本来是很喜欢谄媚小姐姐的，拉人家的手，
冲人家背影傻笑，不怎么有力吧，姿态在那里呢。小姐姐也是被她收买了，看她愣愣的在
那里不怎么会玩儿，便跌跌撞撞过去教她，含含糊糊的说，“界个。。。打见话。。。”
，手还没有摸到她的电话呢，皮皮突然爆发，“哼。哼。哼。哼。哇~~~~~~”。害妈妈回
家猛翻教育书籍，脑子里却也知道，首财奴天性，没得救了。

皮皮散记--6

皮皮是语言的巨人行动的矮子。跟她妈妈一样，话痨儿。可是人家小朋友都会翻身了，我
们还是大肉虫子在地上蹭来蹭去。
早上妈妈去锻炼，把她扔在爸爸旁边。她可好，一觉察到妈妈走了，就瞪着大眼睛开始央
求爸爸和她说话，小胖手摸索着爸爸的方向，说，“啊~啊呀~哎~HI~呦~”很长时间。妈
妈还没出门听到了回过头来查看她，她还以为有人要理她了，小胳膊胡乱的飞舞着，大眼
睛烁烁冒贼光。妈妈跟她说白白，她回敬妈妈“啊？呜~姆~”。看到妈妈去意已决就再次
反扑爸爸，“哦~哦~安~”。所以每次妈妈锻炼回来，都看到睡眼惺忪的爸爸抱着精神矍
铄的皮皮在家里转来转去，开展每天例行的小干部巡视工作。
这主要是因为说话省劲儿，大懒虫皮皮就乐意说。干别的，就两说了。比如说翻身这个重
要运动。人家小朋友有三个月就会翻的。我们都四个月了，每次把她扔到地上，她就装模
作样的扑腾两下子，翻不过去呢，就算了，吃手，和家具聊天儿，瞪着爸爸的背影谄媚的
傻乐。。。很多运动可以开展，我们想得开，何必非得翻呢？最近两天更加的要命了，翻
不过去，皮皮便发明了新的行动方式，蹭。蹭来~蹭去~，翻身这件事情完全不在议事日程
上面了。你要是把她放在地上的时候头朝北，过不了两分钟，就朝西了，最新记录是二十
分钟转了三百六十度。怎么蹭的啊？皮皮她把腿先举起来，然后和身子成直角向左侧落地
，然后再使劲儿的仰头，就九十度过去了。妈妈自己尝试了一下，比翻身不省多少力气，
所以在笨和懒这两者之间，我们还是倾向于笨多一些。