Thursday, December 29, 2005

从善如流

乖不乖的,我们向善的心是有的。

最爱看的书,英雄人物嘟嘟熊,是个五讲四美小标兵。后面跟着一群后进同学,包括贪吃的包包鼠,小猪肥肥,淘气的小猴淘淘,邋遢的毛毛球,等等...每个人都很多缺点,嘟嘟熊帮助他们改进。

话说这天,小家伙嘟着胖脸,认真的玩儿玩具,妈妈看了,甚欢,过去掐一把胖脸,说,你看,你这么胖胖,你是不是小猪肥肥啊?
立刻不玩儿了,严肃的说,NO,I AM嘟嘟熊~
那妈妈是谁啊?妈妈是毛毛球~(不爱收拾房间就被酱紫扣了个帽子)
爸爸呢?爸爸是小猴淘淘~(hiahia,爸爸也有缺点,妈妈狠得意)

进步-第一个小内裤

一直是幼儿园阿姨在教我们去厕所。
上上个星期,阿姨告知,可以给我们脱尿布,穿小内裤了。
妈妈太懒了,就去买了PULL UP。阿姨说,直接穿布的吧。
一直到昨天,总算是穿上了布的小内裤。嗯。2005年12月28日,第一个小内裤。蓝色的,上面有很多汽车。(hiahia,实际上是boy的。妈妈拆了男女包装各一个,比较了半天,完全没区别,就买了蓝的)小家伙喜欢的不得了。到了幼儿园,脱了裤子给阿姨显摆来的。

I AM A BIG GIRL NOW~

不过妈妈还是狠困惑我们这个拉臭臭问题。昨天晚上,明明看见她已经拉开架势使劲了,赶紧抱到马桶上,立刻就挣扎着要下来,说不拉了。:(一直到今天早上,也没拉。
阿姨说,慢慢的就好了,我等着吧那就。

漫长滴圣诞

还是上班儿好。放假,我连日记都没时间记。

圣诞节,共计趴剃两个,
看把我妈给美的

逛商场一天半,

呵呵


去滑梯两次,

呵呵,阳光下的花朵儿

收礼物N个。

最喜欢函函哥哥阿黛姐姐送的BLUE MICKEY MOUSE
和新欢旧爱合影

妈妈给的火车和城堡也不错。
这两个是圣诞礼物


因为大量时间都有爸妈陪。小人儿变得赖,腻,娇,倔。

四天假期,两天拒绝睡午觉。
后一次,我猜是楼下维修吓到她了,就进去安抚。躺在床边儿上的地上,声色俱厉滴告诉她,你要是出一点声音,妈妈就不陪你了。然后我就自己睡自己的了。她也果然一声儿也不出。就在我马上就要睡着了的时候,觉得有什么东西落在头上。抬头一看。她静悄悄的,先把毯子扔出了CRIB,然后又把床单扔出了CRIB,接着是mickey mouse,彼时,正埋头悄无声息的抠fitted sheet呢。抬头一看我看她呢。鬼鬼祟祟用气声小心的说,mommy, i pooped~妈妈我实在是功力不够,笑出了声儿。

下午,去IKEA。这人家才开始犯困。共计在冰凉的水泥地上撒赖N次。一贯都持娇惯态度的爸爸都急了,放下狠话,说,不去MERRY GO AROUND了(半分钟之后,收回狠话)。

就乖了一次。妈妈带她去玩具店。看见一硕大无朋的救火车,小家伙做仰慕状,WOW~FIRE TRUCK~圣诞嘛,妈妈就大方的说,你要不要?想了想,狠体贴的回答,NO,IT'S TOO BIG.指着小了三号儿的火车说,I WANT THAT ONE。嗯。抠门儿人的孩子早节约啊。

Thursday, December 22, 2005

MOM

失落。今天,坏蛋开始叫我MOM了。
不再是娇滴滴的MOMMY了。
嗯。长大,真快。

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

相关后续报道

胆小鬼
两个星期了,我们一家子人走到哪里,都是听胆小鬼。坐在车里,坏蛋房间里,后来发展到洗澡时间在厕所里,都是它。赖妈来家里造访,停留不过半个小时,同情 的说,老听这个,难受不难受啊?难受啊当然。她爸爸说的好,其实我们已经并不sure boombox究竟是开着还是关着了,随时随地脑子里都有胆小鬼在回响。昨天夜里2点半,有人提出还要听,终于被我义正言辞的拒绝了。

捉迷藏
小人抱病在家。妈妈自然要设法娱乐她。提出,捉迷藏好不好?
好!
你要数数还是要藏?
我们little geek出身来着,自然喜欢数数。自己捂着眼睛就数将起来。
一边数,一边偷看,大脑袋跟着妈妈的身影转。
妈妈赶紧给她按倒在沙发上数,自己跑到沙发后面藏起来。
人家和LUCIA藏惯了,这么“难”的藏法不习惯,数完了,站起来,开阔地带没人啊,怎么办?站在原地,带着哭腔大叫起来,MOMMY!MOMMY! WHERE ARE YOU?妈妈没办法,只好探出个头来让她捉住。
换人。要说我们真是善良。才多大啊,懂得己所不欲,勿施于人的道理。妈妈刚数完,人家立刻从沙发后面跳出来,I AM HERE MOMMY!就怕妈妈找不着人着急。

merry-go-around
俩月了吧,爱上merry-go-around。每个星期天去。
基本上是,不去的时候,疯狂念叨,
i am little 坏蛋 cuz i am gonna go merry go around on sunday!
i dont like 瓜瓜 cuz i am gonna go merry go around on sunday!
i am full cuz i am gonna go merry go around on sunday!
i play with little people cuz i am gonna go merry go around on sunday!
...
依此类推。
真的要去了,从到mall之前的那个红绿灯开始,就语无伦次。
oh~merry go around!
that's merry go around!
horsies! blue horsies! sarah! blue sarah likes merry go around!
we left blue sarah's merry go around at home!
cuz i m gonna ride merry go around!
cuz...... it's monday!
cuz......it's sunday!
cuz......i'm gonna get token first!
到了地方,骑在马上了,就开始计划,
这次骑这匹,下次骑那匹,那边那匹,i am gonna ride it LATER!
骑完一次,就忘了计划了,下了马,一溜儿小跑儿,绕着merry go around转十圈儿,也不能决定究竟更钟爱哪一匹,格外苦恼。
最后,终于要走了,恋恋不舍的亲亲大马,还不忘体贴的问妈妈,is it fun mommy?did you have fun mommy?

今冬的第一场病

做人要低调。血的教训啊。
到处和人家吹牛,我们家胖子去年冬天一直在生病,今年这个免疫系统就锻炼好了。不病了。
结果,星期六就开始闹肚子。昨天一天,以为好了,临睡觉了,拉三次。

两岁,好像就有了很多羞耻感。
早上,拉的太多了,尿布没兜住,身上都是,赶紧抱到浴缸里去洗。因为是第一次,小人还挺顺从。
下午午觉起来,又得去洗。刚刚说到,洗洗,人家就大哭起来,说,不要不要。
抱到水龙头底下,脱了衣服,露出脏尿布来,哭得更惨了,勉强洗好了。过了很长时间,心情还是不好,居然自己嘀咕起来,I AM A DIRTY GIRL。需要安慰很长时间。

病了,不吃不喝。
妈妈到处问人家解决办法,学了两招来对付她。
第一招,好了一碗甜米粥,做漫不经心状,妈妈要吃好吃的了,不给你吃~
鱼儿上钩,I WANT SOME!凑过来,
左右端详,我提着一口气,再次漫不经心状,妈妈的,不给你!
人家端详了一阵,走了。。。:(
第二招儿,真的,特别好吃,要不妈妈给你尝一口,你不吃妈妈不逼你。
傻呼呼的看着我,不笑不说话。沟通障碍?好,英语说,just give it a try, if you don't like it, mommy won't push you, how about that?
渐渐滴,走远了~~~~~~~~~妈妈一滴大汗珠滑落,不死心的说,尝一口吧~
你人家不耐烦的回头,DON‘T PUSH ME, MOMMY!

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

做保姆

星期天,amy班上的lucia到家里来了。lucia姐姐sophia要去教堂表演唱歌,爸爸妈妈都去观摩,所以让lucia来和amy耍。

第一次做保姆,之前我还是很紧张了一下滴。不过,lucia这个孩子,好像天生就是保姆们滴福音,经过一上午,之后我大胆滴和LD反应,做保姆,不难嘛。

首先,你说人家家孩子怎么回事,怎么到了我们家,跟回了自己家似的?爸爸妈妈走啦?走就走吧,拉着我的手就领着我满屋子找玩具,COME ON, LET'S GO PLAY!整整一个上午,三个半小时,都没拿自己当外人,好像爸爸妈妈姐姐根本就都不存在似的。

然后,你说人家家孩子怎么回事,怎么给什么吃什么?她妈妈临走前,告诉我,她八点吃过早饭了,吃得很多。九点,AMY吃早饭,LUCIA又垂涎欲滴的样子,跟着伉吃伉吃吃了半个大BAGEL,咕咚咕咚喝了一瓶子奶,拍着圆肚皮,拉着AMY满屋子跑。

我们还一起骑马吃早饭

最后,俩孩子比一个孩子好带啊。人家一起,轮流骑马,用大人不懂的语言交谈,互相哄对方NIGHTY NIGHT,忙的不亦乐乎。保姆就跟旁边歇着就成了。

LUCIA哄我睡觉觉


这 一上午的HIGHLIGHT是,捉!迷!藏!这也是Lucia的主意。玩儿着玩儿着,突然说,LET'S HIDE AND SEEK! Amy求助滴看着我,啥意思啊这个是?妈妈惭愧中,这么流行的东西,偶们女儿居然不知道,失职失职。好在我们学东西快,一会儿就掌握了大概。
先AMY 数,LUCIA藏。但见这个大胖宝,满屋子乱转了一气,没找到隐蔽处,眼见着AMY又要数到五了,她干脆哪儿也不转哪儿也不找了,原地站住,屋子的正中 间,伸出胖手捂住眼睛,藏好了!AMY数完了,困惑的过去拉她,HI~LUCIA~ LUCIA惊讶状,啊~被你抓住了。
好。换人!LUCIA数数,AMY匆匆忙忙的去藏了。我们比LUCIA稍微强点儿,有限,不是当场就鸵鸟状。坑坑吃吃爬上爸爸妈妈床,使劲儿躺下,后脑勺 用力忘床上顶,屏气凝神,假装和床融~为一体。LUCIA数完,用力去捅AMY脚,俩人一起尖声大笑。LUCIA显然是比较景仰AMY这个藏法,很快也爬 到床上去藏。从此,捉迷藏变上下床。保姆在一边笑得抽筋。

我们捉迷藏
LUCIA大鸵鸟藏


11点半,爸爸妈妈来接LUCIA了,LUCIA抱着保姆的腿不肯走,用冰淇淋贿赂都不管用。保姆的虚荣心得到了大大滴满足。

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

anti-social

经过一次PARTY,我得出结论,AMY这个孩子,ANTI-SOCIAL。
进人家门的时候,已经晚上7点了,还非要带着墨镜装大牌。一屋子人围过来说HI,人家在左边站着,她就看右边,人家在右边站着,她就看左边,两边都有人,就搂着爸爸脖子无所适从放声大哭。妈妈只好编排她累了她饿了她可能要生病了各种言论来给她打掩护。
主人家二楼有BABYSITTER陪孩子玩儿。人家家孩子扔那儿就完了。她不介。不光得有人陪,这个人,还得在可以触摸的范围内。据说,后来,还拿弹球儿打BABYSITTER来着。
玩儿到后来,自己就往门口跑,要求回家。去跟人家说白白,再次上演大哭好戏。
酱紫的小朋友,不配PARTY,哼哼。

Sunday, December 11, 2005

胆小鬼爱上了胆小鬼

记得有一集(还是第一集?)小丸子里面开始第一句话就是,小丸子高高兴兴滴说,我们家很穷~不知道我们家小坏蛋长大了是不是也会这样高度评价我们家。例子 很多,最为有代表性的就是,什么年代了都,我们家人见人说HIPPIE的小虫子车,居然只有卡座,没有CD。这,就引出了胆小鬼爱上了胆小鬼的故事。
因 为只有卡座,所以每每买来坏蛋钟爱的CD,她爸爸就翻箱倒柜找出他当年不远万里背到美国来得托福磁带(旁白再次响起,小丸子说,我们家,破烂很多~), 然后用BOOMBOX把CD倒到磁带上面来,酱紫才可以坐在车里听。小朋友CD骗人钱,一般连一个小时都不到。某天在倒腾BARNEY的时候,她爸爸就拿 出一张梁咏琪的胆小鬼(至于她爸爸大男人为什么要听这个,我就不得而知了),来补够一盘磁带。
从 此,听BARNEY,听一听,就有大人歌曲出来。不过坏蛋一般是点歌的,听完BUS要听MONKEY CHASE THE WEASLE,听完MONKEY又要听MR。SUN SUN。所以她妈妈我BARNEY里面十几二十首歌,顺序倒背如流,倒带子,一把好手儿(分特,我真罗嗦)。

某天,坏蛋在愣神儿,忘了点歌儿这个茬,居然任由大人歌儿的前奏响起。叮叮咚咚的,跟BARNEY形成鲜明的对比。坏蛋居然从愣神中醒过来,大声宣布,I LIKE THIS, MOMMY!
前奏完了,她妈妈我这个10年前卡拉OK的毛病又冒出来,纵声高唱,你爱咖啡~低调的感觉~(咖啡为什么低调泥?思考中...)后座上有人厉声呵斥,NO 妈妈! NO 妈妈!
静静的听完一遍,AGAIN!
从这个某天起,到现在,大概一个星期了,一坐在CAR SEAT里面,也不找BARNEY了,也不要求自己BUCKLE UP来打仗了,静静的说,胆小鬼!AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN。

周末去开PARTY,回来已经很晚了,胆小鬼坐在后座,可怜兮兮的跟妈妈说,I AM VERY TIRED。要来墨镜戴上,点了胆小鬼,就昏睡过去。爸爸妈妈小声聊天之计,忘了AGAIN这个茬儿,人家挣扎着从梦里大哭着醒来,胆小鬼AGAIN!I LIKE 胆小鬼!

星期天,我们正在家里玩儿,小家伙扶着楼梯就自己下楼去了,赶紧追上去问,上哪儿去啊你这是要。I WANNA SIT IN CAR, I WANNA胆小鬼!乐盲之家长大的孩子就是酱紫的,以为这个世界上只有车里才可以听音乐。赶紧揪她回来,翻出老CD来,设成这一首胆小鬼OVER AND OVER AGAIN,娘儿俩这才能再安心玩儿起来。一遍要完了,唱到倒数第二句,小家伙就开始捅我,AGAIN MOMMY AGAIN MOMMY。告诉她,你等着,这个自己就可以AGAIN,不用倒带子的。人家就不玩儿了,静悄悄的盯着BOOMBOX,真的AGAIN了,才放了心,笑眯 眯的。

差点忘了说,小人抓着CD盒子,指着梁咏琪,赞赏的说,MOMMY PRETTY~妈妈得意之际,想起,她,曾经,指着芙蓉姐姐,也如是说来着,遂放弃得意。

Thursday, December 08, 2005

big people english

little person amy always likes to speak some big people english, like:

"the horsies sleep, SO, i will go merry go around on SUNDAY!"
"mommy, i want some 面面,CAN I?!"
"mommy, thank you. mommy, i love you. mommy, i AM SO PROUD OF YOU!"
this afternoon, after she woke up from her nap, she took her socks off, in the mean time, asking me, "mommy, WHY DON'T I take my socks off?"
after i told her she need to put them back on, she did it, and saying, " i BETTER put it on myself." at the same time.

Monday, December 05, 2005

要爸爸

一直以来,小家伙饿了困了要妈妈,玩儿起来要爸爸。
最近,有了新的动向。被妈妈欺负了,也要爸爸了。爸爸从来都不欺负她,所以不知道是不是反之同理。

某天晚上,爸爸去上课了,小东西不肯睡觉,被妈妈强行拎到浴盆里,坐在浴盆里面就嚎啕大哭起来,不许妈妈碰,凄凄惨惨的哽咽,爸爸爸爸~我要爸爸~我要爸爸~妈妈NO TOUCH~平时她爸爸求她给她洗澡她都不答应的。

昨天,吃饼干,撒一地饼干渣。妈妈就拿吸尘器出来,吸尘器刚一进屋,小家伙又没命的大哭起来。以前她爸爸吸地的时候她还跟在后面瞧呢,越活越抽抽儿。一边哭,一边又委屈起来,爸爸爸爸~我要爸爸~可怜的妈妈,半年也不吸一次地,就吸一次,就变成吸尘器一头儿的,成了敌人。

Sunday, December 04, 2005

big deal or not

yesterday amy fell down, in our garage. since it's concrete floor, it hurt a little bit...well... at least according to her, it hurt. i checked, her skin didn't even have a scratch or bruise. however, she herself insisted she's got a bubu.
until today, according to her, she's still got a bubu on her knee.
i was so tired of telling her it's ok, i eventually told her, look, everybody got bubu, yours is not even a bubu, so stop whinning, it's NOT A BIG DEAL!
she thought about it for a little bit, then fought back, very rationally,
BUT IT'S A LITTLE DEAL!

Friday, December 02, 2005

摔跤的故事

一本嘟嘟熊里面有个胖宝摔了一跤,身上都是泥
AMY最喜欢这页
每天晚上要她爸给她讲DIRTY STORY (@#$%^&*!!!)
她爸爸就说
从前啊,AMY摔了一跤~
她就说AGAIN!不许翻篇儿的那种的
她爸爸就说
从前啊,DEVIN摔了一跤
AGAIN!
从前啊,AVERY摔了一跤
AGAIN!
从前啊,SEAN摔了一跤~
一个晚上,全班小朋友都摔了一跤,才可以去刷牙

记性

昨天早上妈妈有事,爸爸管理宝,送宝去幼儿园。向妈妈汇报说,大哭了一场。因为进幼儿园门的时候,爸爸抢了她手里的糖豆儿。下午去接,看见爸爸第一句话就是质问,爸爸where is my candy?!

昨天晚上妈妈无聊,翻出去年小姨给买的鸭鸭裙给她套上,不曾想,去年还在膝盖下面的裙子,现在已经到了大腿根,去年给买的长筒袜,拉拉拽拽半天裆也停在膝盖那里。遗憾的向臭美小人报告,不行啊,太小了。小人很不高兴,反应说,鸭鸭裙PRETTY,I WANT 鸭鸭裙!于是穿超超短裙穿到进澡盆,才算勉强脱了下来。今天早上,看见妈妈第一句话,mommy i want 鸭鸭裙!

上个周末去宜家,看上了个破存钱罐儿,蓝色小猪,抱了一路一直抱到吃饭处。MACRONI AND CHEESE端上来才算是撒了手。妈妈赶紧偷偷给放回去。今天早上,看见妈妈第二句话,mommy i want blue piggy...想了想,补充道,we'll buy blue piggy later cuz the store is closed.

Monday, November 28, 2005

爸爸带宝

爸爸晚上上课,所以和小人儿玩儿的时间不多。放假,爷儿俩都挺珍惜。

爸爸手上有块老茧,小人儿想起来就捧过爸爸的手,狠狠的亲亲,爱怜的念,爸爸got a bubu,poor 爸爸。

爸爸给little people打针,给little people叠罗汉,小人儿都学。爸爸黔驴之计,坐在沙发上念起佛来,阿迷佗佛阿迷佗佛,边念边偷瞧。小人儿在一边儿坐着,双手也赶紧合十,静静的听了听,学样念起来,妈咪托佛妈咪托佛。
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爸爸晚上临睡觉前感慨,爸爸还是没有妈妈厉害,有什么事情还是要妈妈拜托佛祖才可以。


小人儿自己改编了barney的歌曲,大声高唱,SAILING SAILING马达嘎达爸~一唱唱N遍。爸爸听了,很羡慕其人才华,便也学唱,SAILING SAILING马达嘎达爸~小人儿盯着爸爸困惑的问,爸爸,WHAT IS THAT NOISE?!

FIRST REAL THANKSGIVING

amy已经错过了两个感恩节。这次,总算是“正经”过了过。

先是之前一个星期幼儿园里聚了餐,大家念了PRIMROSE "PRAYER",THANK了天上地下一个溜够。正经吃的时候,一口也没吃。亏大发了。:(

真的感恩节还和函函哥哥一家又聚了餐。正经吃的时候,大概吃了一口。
共计和函函哥哥打架无数次。打到最后,函函哥哥不得不凶狠的说,不想再和AMY玩儿了。:(

晚上我们去找函函哥哥一家

黑色星期五,和爸爸妈妈逛商场逛了一整天,中午午睡时间都激动的没睡着。
下午七点,爸爸妈妈呆滞的盯着前方,往家挪去的时候,还兴奋的说,I DON'T WANNA GO TO BIG HOUSE, I WANNA GO TO ANOTHER STORE...

之后两天,在家修整。
of course,还去坐merry go around来着。
妈妈首先没有想到的是,商场延长了营业时间,居然七点才关门。
六点钟,坐了五次了都,还没有停的样子,妈妈狠苦恼当时。
不过,妈妈更没有想到的是,小朋友,真的是很傻嘀。跟她说,最后一次了啊。
她自己就说,HORSIE'S TIRED。下了马就跑了,居然没有回头看,大马还在转着。:p

Monday, November 21, 2005

NEGOTIATION

最近对付坏蛋的办法是数数。函函哥哥来PLAYDATE,两个人为任何一个玩具都要大打出手。胖子个子大,函函哥哥打不过,告状。妈妈只好去调解。调解,其实就是数数。
“咱们数数好不好?数到十,就换AMY玩儿~,好么?”
两个人都用力点头。然后,玩儿的那个人也不玩儿了,霸着玩具静静的期待可怕的一刻的来临。等的人也不急,大声中英文的混杂数数,数到十,交换,再数到十,再换,屡试不爽。结果就是,一个PLAYDATE,好像没人玩儿。拿起一个玩具就数数,数了一下午。

转过天来,今天晚上,在浴缸里面泡爽了,坏蛋不出来。妈妈只好再搬出法宝,数!数!
“咱们数数好不好?数到十,就出来,好么?”
坏蛋便开始数,ONE!TWO!THREE!FOUR!FIVE! NOW IT’S DONE!
轮到妈妈不忍心了,我们不能骗傻孩子,是吧?
“咱们不是说好了数到十么?没有数到啊,接着数,数好了咱们再出来,好不好?”
“OK!ONE!..."
妈妈无语,她是真傻还是装傻阿?不是从六开始数啊?又数一遍啊?张口结舌被她气得。
结果人家那边,“ONE!TWO!THREE!FOUR!FIVE!NOW IT’S TIME!”
赤条条的从水里站起来。
这下子妈妈知道了,人家不是真傻,人家是装得,你看,二五一十的道理都懂。聪明。

THREE

带坏蛋去商场。
一个导购看见,夸我们可爱,问,how old are you?
坏蛋心情好,费劲举起胖手,比出三的样子,得意的说,THREE!
导购答,WOW! YOU ARE BIG FOR YOUR AGE.

Friday, November 18, 2005

喝可乐的下场

昨天幼儿园感恩节大聚餐。有的小朋友什么都不吃,就是要喝爸爸杯子里面的可乐。
喝了小半杯,半夜一点突然开始兴奋,点名批评DEVIN, AVORY, SEAN,等人各N次,要求妈妈唱生日歌给阿姨听N次,闹了三个小时才无奈的睡去,妈妈早上六点钟还爬起来去机场送人,痛哭。
妈妈立下誓言,谁再给她喝可乐,谁就是小狗子。

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

还是怕

万圣节过去了,商场里面的妖精怪物都回家了,爸爸妈妈总算是可以带着小坏蛋一起逛商场了。不料,圣诞节又快来了。商场里面出现了且歌且舞的圣诞老人。一家人再次仓惶逃走。

不去商场,去PLAYGROUND吧,大概二里地以外有个推土机在工作,嘀嘀怪叫,于是滑梯都不滑了,要求回家。什么叫做叶公好龙?推土机难道没有轱辘么?不动的时候你不是很喜欢乜?

转过天,不去PLAYGROUND了,去喂鸭子,被一只鸭子吓得,疯狂号哭。
妈妈我很害怕

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Director's office

When i was little, i was quite a frequent visitor to director's office. Being a model student, i was often called upon to go to the office to get awards, to represent other fellow students to a meeting, or to hand in some projects. Hence, one can imagine my shock when amy was called to the director's office twice in a roll last week, for very NAUGHTY reasons. Who said like mother, like daughter? She's simply the exact opposite of model citizen mommy.

The first time, the reason is just pure naughty. They were in the playground. Amy's buddy Devin said she wanted to go potty. Then of course Amy decided she wanted to go, too. Since the teacher was busy taking devin to potty, Amy chose to do so all by herself, IN THE PLAYGROUND. When the teacher found her, she already pushed her pants all to her feet. The teacher told Amy if she doesn't pull her pants up, she'd be in timeout. But a strong mind is not easily intimidated. Amy's like, whatever, and sat in timeout with her pants on her feet. After a while, she got bored. But instead of pulling her pants up and apologizing for her behavior, she took one step further across the line. She TOOK HER DIAPER OFF, IN PUBLIC! So there she is, in the playground, completely naked, and proundly chuckling. Even though i was shocked by the fact that she was taken to the director's office, i was not unfamiliar with her proud look when the authorities got defeated. I can totally imagine her expression when she got into the director's office. It's NOT pretty.

The second time, in just one day, amy has worked herself up from simply being naughty to being disrespective to teacher. Long story short, something happened, amy's in her timeout. She pulled her pants off AGAIN, the teacher "threatened" her again. Instead of pulling her diaper off this time, she STUCK her TONGUE to the teacher and made a face. Talk about NOT pretty. :(

Monday, November 14, 2005

DON'T BITE IT, MOMMY!

去sam's club,她爸饿了,说要买吃的,就很一视同仁的问她,你要吃什么?
小家伙抬头看着大大的招牌,想了半天,果断的说,ICECREAM!
杯装的卖完了,老妈子也不敢抗旨不尊,买了个ICECREAM BAR回来给她。
老大一个BAR,她狐疑的看着,轻轻舔了一下,确定还是ICECREAM,才欢天喜地的接了。
不许妈妈碰。两个小手拼命攥着下面的棍棍,很重,攥的小指甲都发白了。
小心翼翼的舔着吃,伸着肥厚的舌头,得意的说,EMMMMM YUMMY IT'S GOOD!
眼见着老大一个BAR就要化掉了,抠门妈妈不舍得就这么浪费了,试探着问,妈妈能咬一口么?
很孝顺的摇摇晃晃递过来给妈妈。
妈妈是什么风格的人啊,上来就伉吃一口,咬掉四分之一。
小人儿立刻悲愤的号啕大哭起来,DON'T BITE IT MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DON'T BITE IT MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
一直到妈妈慢慢和她解释,你看,咬一口以后,成了狗狗的形状了,好不好?这才不哭了。

what happened to my belly

周日,5次merry go around以后,晕头转向的老两口儿实在没劲儿回家做饭了,带着嘴里不停念叨merry go around的小家伙去饭馆儿。
问她,你要吃什么?
答,MACRONI AND CHEESE!还不忘捎带着说一句,MERRY GO AROUND IS FUN!
中国餐馆儿啊,谁卖macroni and cheese?
胡乱的点了一碗面,一个菜,跟她说,没有macroni and cheese,你爱吃不吃。
人家命令道:饭饭!
吃了大半碗白饭以后,妈妈的瞎担心毛病又上来了,挨盘儿问,吃不吃这个?吃不吃那个?这个好吃死了,你不吃妈妈和爸爸都吃了啊!...人家无动于衷。妈妈不用爸爸提醒,已经认识到自己烦人了,就开始琢磨旁门左道。牛腩面的汤狠好喝,偷偷拌了饭喂她。
小家伙试图吐出来,一转念,又咽下去了,问,what happened to 饭饭?
妈妈只好坦白,这个是汤汤饭饭,好吃么?得到首肯,拌了汤的饭又喂了大半碗。
既然汤汤饭饭都吃了,那汤汤你喝么?喝!
一大碗汤都喝下去以后,小人儿突然撩起毛衣和衬衣,看着圆鼓鼓的肚子问我,
MOMMY!WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BELLY?
我和她爸乐不可支,你吃多了吧?
认真的答,YEAH!

Friday, November 11, 2005

though, too, and either

i always thought adverbs are one of the hardest things in english. can never use the right ones in the right places. to amy though, it's so much easier.

one morning her daddy and i took turn to have breakfast with her. i couldn't finish my muffin, so left it to her daddy. as soon as her daddy sat down, she made a very long speech:
"mommy done with the muffin. bubby's eating the muffin. it's mommy's muffin THOUGH!"

the drive from daycare to our home is quite short, 3 minutes top. she always wants to stay in the car longer. one day i was in a hurry, so i told her, 妈妈走了啊. she immediately jumped down from her car seat and shouted, I WANT TO 走了TOO!

well, one might say, moms always exaggerate kids' achievement, what's the big deal with "though"and "too"? ok, i'll give you that. but how about "either"?
this morning i asked amy if she wanted a ponytail. she looked at me for a while and then said, "no, mommy do not have a ponytail EITHER!"
how can she know where to use TOO and where to use EITHER at age 2? as a typical mom, i'll just tell myself, i am raising a genius. :)

Monday, November 07, 2005

周末

从两级台阶上摔下来次,痛哭五分钟,转过天早上起来仍然以bumped head为由骗玩儿ICEPACK两次,妈妈遂放心,没有摔傻。

和函函哥哥阿黛姐姐play date次。第一次不放人家走,痛哭五分钟,爸爸妈妈只好饭后又领着去耍。date期间,因为N个玩具打架N*M次。函函哥哥逮着谁跟谁告状N*M次。某小朋友天生刘胡兰,咬紧牙关不告状,硬抢N*M次,身大力不亏,倒是也没落在下风。

只鸭子玩儿的甚欢。一只鸭子情绪上来了,扑棱翅膀两次,某人吓得撒腿就跑,跑出十米开外,才敢回头。

最后,坐MERRY GO AROUND, 次!

妈妈让我笑一个

坏蛋

me:amy坏蛋!
amy:mommy坏蛋!
me:mommy才不是坏蛋呢,amy是坏蛋!
amy:(想了很长时间。。。大概是觉得,啊,你会说这么长的句子啊,我不会啊,怎么办?)amy no 坏蛋!!
me:amy就是坏蛋,大坏蛋!
amy:(又想了很长时间)amy大坏no蛋!
me:那好吧,amy不是大坏蛋,是小坏蛋,好么?
amy:OK!
me:amy是大坏蛋还是小坏蛋啊?
amy:PROUDLY,amy小坏蛋!
此时爸爸经过,
amy:爸爸BIG坏蛋!

Friday, November 04, 2005

SHARE

幼儿园里,血雨腥风,小朋友们,学回家的,不外乎,MINE! NO! NO TOUCH! THAT IS NOT NICE!等等,防卫词汇。
不过偶尔滴,也会冒出一些礼节性或者秩序性的言论,吓妈妈一跳。
昨天晚上,正在沐浴,进行到小朋友最痛恨的洗脸一步,开始反抗,左手抢,抢不到,扔了右手的玩具,右手抢,还是抢不到,两个手抢,终于愤怒了,呵斥妈妈,
THAT IS NOT NICE MOMMY!
妈妈一笑置之。小朋友就开始开动脑筋了,来硬的不行阿,那和妈妈讲道理好了,
YOU HAVE TO SHARE MOMMY! IT‘S AMY’S TURN NOW MOMMY!
妈妈听了,甚欢。至少,小朋友知道,这个SHARE,最大,比NICE不NICE都重要,留到最后来压人。嗯。幼儿园交的钱,值了。
跟爸爸谈论自己的心得,爸爸7道,SHARE还不灵的话,她就该咬人了,你说,钱交的,值么?

WHAT'S SO FUNNY?

某日,我不慎放了一个屁,被小人听到。
遂纵声长笑,半分钟有余。
笑罢,命令道,MOMMY, AGAIN!

Communication problem

Sometime i do wish amy speak better (of course, other time, i'd wish she couldn't speak at all, like when she yell I DON'T WANNA to me).

yesterday, after she got home from day care, she insisted on exposing her bottom, no pants, no diaper. And everytime she tried to sit down, she'd get up and make a semi-cry (it's semi, cuz i can't tell if it's real cry or it's just whine), PP HURTS! i told her i need to check her bottom. she'd lie down and then get up immediately. i tried to put some diaper cream on her, she wouldn't let me. i tried to persuade her to sit in warm water, of course she wouldn't agree. finally, i gave her an icepack and that made her settle down a little bit. but she still wouldn't let me ice it for her even though she herself didn't know where to ice it...

up until she thought of baby einstein, she's constantly cranky, whining from time to time... and then, baby einstein magically healed her PP.

then it's this morning, the first thing she asked for is that icepack. but with a sneaky smile this time. as if she's saying, i cheated you into letting me play that icepack yesterday~ i am almost convinced now that yesterday she's pretending. but without communicating clearly, how the hell would i know?!

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

胆小鬼的万圣节-怕与糖的斗争

一言以蔽之,怕是怕了个半死,糖,还是要去要的。

戴家的小区,出了名的能折腾,据说圣诞节前后会有人驱车百里去他们的小区看灯。按照这个据说来推理,万圣节也不会差。于是,早早和戴商量好了,到时候,我们去他们家,一起去要糖。

六点钟,AMY爸爸要去学校上课(DORK就是酱紫的,过不过节,学习是正经),开车送我们去戴家,刚拐进小区,就看见路边人流涌动,跟北京的人潮没法 比,在地广人稀的德克萨斯,倒确实是很罕见的了,偶尔一个扮成鬼的孩子匆匆跑过,脖子上荧光绿的项链烁烁发光,鬼气真的是森然啊。

到了戴家,阿黛姐姐来开门,一把糖洒在了AMY的南瓜里,算是今晚的第一笔收获,AMY从此爱上了阿黛姐姐,黑灯瞎火要糖的旅途中,走走就找找,ADELLA~ADELLA~WHERE ARE YOU?

函函哥哥已经吃上了自家的糖,兴奋得难以名状。一块硬邦邦的水果糖嚼得嘎吱吱响,有的跟屁虫立刻也流下了羡慕的口水,强烈要求妈妈也给一块糖,立场坚定的 妈妈展望未来,这一晚上关于糖的战斗还有很多,不能输在头一仗上,义正词严嘀加以拒绝。其人倒还识相,大概是估计到晚上依靠妈妈的地方还很多,勉强收回了 请求。

主客坐下来吃饭,门铃响个不断,阿黛姐姐根本就没吃一口完整的饭,干脆抱着饭碗站在门口去发糖,从一开始的来一个发一把发展到后来的一人只发一块糖,还不 算完,恨不得严查身份证,防止个别不自觉的要二回。这样热闹了一场,大人孩子没人能安心吃饭,匆匆扒了两口,领着娃就出了门。

刚才是开车,没看真切,这一次出了门,从视觉上的鬼影飘忽,到听觉上的鬼哭狼嚎,再加上我手里那只小手吓得死命的攥着,这个鬼节,才算是撤撤底底,真真怯怯的过了一回。

戴家的隔壁,据说有四个青春期前后的儿子,家门口的草地已经变成了坟墓,幽灵,骷髅,怪物,骨头,蜘蛛网.....但凡你能想到的,那里都有摆,大门半开 半掩,有雾气若有若无的飘出,音乐时断时续。函函哥哥酱紫爱糖如命的宝,都拉着姐姐逃命,更不用说我们这个胆小鬼了,蹲下来问她,你怕不怕?表情僵硬的回 答,怕怕。那你要不要去要糖?刘胡兰一样坚决的说,要!

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再隔壁这家,也好不到哪里去,是为了节电还是过节不得而知,灯光幽幽的,正在犹豫要不要过去,一群孩子叫嚣着跑过来,有骷髅有妖怪,个别小朋友不仅蒙了 面,腰里还缠着音响,咿咿呜呜的叫个不停,胆小鬼同学手上的力道立刻又加了不少,轻轻的跟我说,怕!怕!好在那家大概来要糖的太多,主人干脆坐在门口,非 常恰到好处的赞扬了胆小鬼的costume,胖脸,小家伙立刻受了鼓励,小小声的说,trick or treat,换来糖两块。

从此,斗志昂扬,看到扮成幽灵的大人,幽灵牵着的和马一样高的狗狗,带着面具发糖的叔叔,等等,都一本正经的说,怕怕。但是每次提到要回家,都大声拒绝,NO!NO!NO!NO!

如此trick or treat了大半个小时,换来糖几十块,一行人等受不了冷风阵阵,回家转。戴的老公在家发糖,早早就发光了,再发家里能找到的QUARTER,也发光了, 只好关了门廊的灯,还是不断有人来骚扰,被吵得谁来按门铃都不开。害我们站在门廊三分钟,才偷偷探头过来开了门。

进门以后,可不可以吃糖,可以吃几块糖,哪几块糖,两家都分别打了N仗,函函哥哥的糖甚至都被以“巫婆收走了”的名义没收充了公,才兴高采烈的过完了这个万圣节,是AMY的,也是妈妈的第一个万圣节,结论有二:
一,怕与糖,轻重缓急,两岁,就完全可以分清楚了
二,要糖真的很艰苦啊,五六级的大风,不合身的COSTUME,吓人的一切,敲一次门只能要来一到两块糖,最后还很有可能被没收。小朋友们,还是要和自己的爸妈搞好关系,骗糖吃,是正经。

Monday, October 31, 2005

merry go around - continued

转过天来,星期日。
上午,带着amy去共事好友,戴,家里玩儿,小东西和小哥哥函函大姐姐阿黛玩儿的很尽兴,临走说服了半天才肯回家睡觉,函函哥哥也险些大哭起来。

本来就是把夏时制改回去的一天,时间上面很混乱,到家已经是旧时间的1点半左右了,以为她玩儿累了会倒头就睡,没想到反而精神起来,在crib里面唱歌、 念诗、哼唧、大哭,反复了很多次。她爸爸听见她还在嘀咕merry go around的事情,心软了,命我去查附近可有。等我查回来,爸爸已经进到床旁边去哄上了。我也是倒霉催的,居然自告奋勇要求进去陪睡。失心疯嘛完全就 是。

进去以后,先是利诱,告诉她,我们一会儿要去merry go around,所以现在要养精蓄锐。失败!敌帮当一下在crib里坐起来,要求现在就去。
我只好改威胁,告诉她,要是不睡,就不去了。再次失败,敌一听见merry go around和NO这个词连用,就疯狂号哭起来。
我只好愤愤然撤出与敌抗争的第一线。敌兀自抽抽噎噎吭叽半天,总算是在新时间的2点左右睡了。

醒来,第一句话自然是,merry go around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
英明伟大的爸爸提出我们要先去买东西,小家伙看出来没什么回旋的余地,就勉强答应了。大概一直到5点,我们才到了坐merry go around的地方。从此,这个家伙,骑到马上,就没有下来过。整整ride了五次!一直到关门。她爸爸小声说,下次,咱么要再晚一些来。:D

merry go around的灯也熄了,音乐也停了,老爷爷也开始打扫卫生了,旁边还有一个小胖胖不放心,坐在地上,不走,指着大马跟妈妈说,HORSIE MOMMY~SILVER HORSIE~
妈妈只好跟她说,走吧,咱们回家啦。你看,灯都灭了,黑了,因为HORSIES要睡觉觉了~来,咱们来跟HORSIE说,BYE BYE~ NITE NITE~
没想到,小胖胖还是不走,还是坐在地上,思考问题。
思考了一会儿,大声指责HORSIE:"NONONO! THAT IS NOT NICE HORSIE! IT'S NITE NITE TIME!!!!!!!!NO STANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO LIE DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

zoo--merry go around

距离第一次去动物园半年多以后,星期六那天中午,我们终于又下了很大的决心打算再带着胆小鬼去一次。毕竟已经看了不少BABY EINSTEIN,人家跟屏幕里面的袋鼠河马海豚什么的都很友好的样子,应该不会像第一次那样落荒而逃。
未曾想到,这个家伙大概是在屋子里面偷听我们的商量,无端的兴奋起来,12点给放倒的,假装POOP外加真的POOP,反复折腾N次,快两点了,才勉强睡 着。3点钟还在睡,正在她爸爸打了退堂鼓准备放弃之时,她好像又感受到了什么响动,扑棱一下从床里坐起来,大声的命令,ZOO!ZOO!我偷偷的嘀咕,现 在你很了不起的样子,到时候屁滚尿流还不是要爸妈来救,哼哼。

到了动物园,已经四点了,我们就在爸爸的带领下直奔小火车而去。路上,看到一只硕大无朋的猴子,脸居然是红色的,招胆小鬼过来测试一下,认真的观察了十秒 钟,果断的说,怕怕!看来,隔着电视屏幕,还是会安全不少的。也进一步证明了爸爸决断的英明,小火车嘛,高高在上的,不比电视吧,也比在平地上好了不少。 如此这般,小火车开了半个小时左右,动物啥的零星看见了个把,后半程,小坏蛋致力于把我赶到地上去坐,自己好独霸椅子这个事业,火车到站了,都浑然不觉。

5

出了车站,大喇叭里也响起了哄大家出园的通知。本来想赶着去看看小人儿钟爱的flamingo,左催右催,人家就是看上了一块大秃石头,爬上~爬下~,耽误了不少时间,只好又看了看红脸猴子,又得出“怕怕!”的结论,走到了门口。

贪心的爸爸妈妈想,开过来这么长时间,耗油不少,买了门票,也是银两,就酱紫回去了,不爽啊。于是盯上了门口的merry go around,玩儿什么不是玩儿,看看胆小鬼玩儿不玩儿这个?后来的事情证明,这,是,非常!非常!非常!浪费美刀的一个举措,后悔中,暂且不表。
蹲下来跟她提议,你看,这个merry go around,还不错吧?人家试探着往前迈了迈腿,仔细的研究了半分钟,勉强同意,OK!
妈妈于是得令去买币。骑上一个高头大马,胆小鬼左右观察了一下,还算安全,浑身绷紧的神经开始放松。等到真的开始GO AROUND了,小家伙居然高兴得扬声大笑起来,眼前花红柳绿一片,还要找爸爸招手。为娘得我头晕眼花,人家兴高采烈。好不容易停下来,赶紧隔着栏杆把小 人发给爸爸,我自己去找出口,晕头转向得走出来,只看见爸爸,人呢?她爸爸无奈得指向栏杆,那里有个小笨蛋要把自己得大头塞到栏杆里面去,小声委屈的嘀 咕,MERRY GO AROUND! MERRY GO AROUND!那意思,你等等我啊等等我。

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妈妈顿时心软,换币机已经坏掉,拿着两块五得小火车票又去跟人家换了两块钱MERRY GO AROUND票,以便赶上这最后一个RIDE。SIGH。这种赔本的生意,要不是为了她,爸妈是要心疼得掉肉的啊。要不说,being a parents changed everything呢。
酱紫又RIDE了一次,一直看到,MERRY GO AROUND真的停了,人真的散了,小人才心不甘情不愿的和我们回了家。
总结下来,这一下午,到动物园,正经看到的动物,真的,只有那个红脸猴子,一个。

Friday, October 28, 2005

会点菜的天才

网上看来的:
http://www.parentmap.com/may_05/0505_5.htm


Parents must advocate for a gifted child

Getting School Ready
By Linda Morgan

We've all met a few of them: The 3-year-old who orders off the menu. The 4-year-old who can name all the states and their capitols. The 2-year-old who can add and subtract, and the kindergartener whose vocabulary is so advanced you'd like to elect him senator.
...

讲天才的。很长。
我实际上就看了这一段儿。
不由得惊呼,咦?我家也有天才啊.点菜么不就是,我们这个也会.
早上起来,扔给她一碗cereal,一碗fish cracker,我坐下打盹儿.
人家就开始点了:"i want some 面面!"
我眼睛都不睁,回她,"妈妈没有面面"
天才不满意,"i want some 面面!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"妈妈不是说了么,妈妈没有面面,吃包包行不行?"
天才想了想,推推我,大声命令,"then 妈妈 COOK SOME 面面!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

little one's sensitivity to emotion

i am constantly wondering what's going on in amy's little big head. cuz she always amazes me by picking up something extra fast, especially if that thing is emotionally related.

like about one month ago, she asked me to color with her. most of the time "we" coloring means i draw little smily faces and then name them amy, mommy, daddy, devin, and randi etc. that day i thought i'd try something new. so i drew a sad face and told her this is sad mommy. ever since then she's been obssessing with it. whenever we draw stuff, she'd alwasy ask for sad mommy,sad daddy, and sad amy. she'd aske me, why is mommy sad? even if i tell her that's just a fake mommy, mommy is happy,mommy likes to draw happy mommy... she's still not satisfied, keep asking for it and pointing at the sad faces, or fake crying herself. since she understands perfectly well what is real and what is fake,i really don't get why she behaves like this.

another thing would be the "amy in mommy's belly" pictures. one day amy dug out some old pictures of us. in some of them i was pregnant. so i told her, see? mommy had a big belly, amy's in mommy's belly. since then, everytime amy goes into that room, she'd try find those pix and repetitively saying, amy in mommy's belly! amy in mommy's belly! yesterday, she even tried to get into my belly by sneaking into my sweater. it WAS super sweet.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

胆小鬼的pre-halloween

嗯,估计以后还可以写胆小鬼的halloween和胆小鬼的post-halloween.

amy这个胆小,是愈演愈烈。一管儿脸油儿,自己在那儿玩儿,不慎挤出来了一些,蜿蜒嘀趴在瓶口,吓得吧唧把瓶子扔走,从此不能再看这管脸油儿,更甭说抹了。

对于酱紫的小朋友,HALLOWEEN实在不是个愉快的节日。

偏赶上有些疯狂的商家,不能意识到这一点,早在八月底九月初就开始打HALLOWEEN牌。怪物啊骷髅啊满商店的放,吸引了一拨儿病人,自然就排斥了另一拨儿。我们家,所有的购物活动,都必须在某人去了幼儿园以后才可以匆匆忙忙的进行,已经两个月了。

这不算完,随着日子的临近,目前HALLOWEEN已经进一步嘀影响了我们家的日常作息以及行动路线。

事情是酱紫的。星期六,经过认真的评估和反复的考量,小人自己提议提着南瓜筐出去散步。为娘的尾随,心中暗喜,不错啊,作为对正日子的演习,我们好好儿遛一遛。

出得门来,斜对面的邻居家门口,放着一个充气的HULK。我远远的跟着,等着她往反方向走。没想到她甚是镇定,站在那儿认真的观察了一下,居然奔HULK方向蹭过去,一边走一边问,妈妈,WHAT'S HE DOING?
我大喜过望,正要回答之际,一阵小风嗖~~~~~~嘀吹过,充气的HULK左右晃了晃,绿手做的格外逼真,上下舞动,好像马上就要出拳。我还没反应过来,一个矮矮的小胖影子唰~~~~~的一下子从我眼前跑了过去。但见我们家这个小人,屁滚尿流的逃命之际,还没舍得扔了南瓜筐,负重跑,还倍儿快,丁零当啷的往家的方向闪去。

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小羊识途的穿过一个HOUSE,准确的跑到家门口,扶着门框背对着HULK的方向,痛痛快快的大~哭起来。
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1这一切发生得实在太快,我没认识到问题得严重性,哈哈大笑起来。跟她说,来,回过头来让妈妈看看。也不知道她是识破了我得诡计还是觉得我笑话了她,她受到了羞辱,更加惨烈得大哭,以头炝门框,不活了的样子。我这边儿只好收了笑容抱起来抚慰一下。

现在,我们家前门是不能走了,HOUSE里面也被分割了区域,靠近后门的地方,勉强算是安全,AMY可以自己待着。但凡一运动到前门的地方,人家就扔掉手里的一切活计,不顾一切的跑回安全地带,念念有词,I 怕怕大巨人!

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等真的HALLOWEEN来了,对于AMY,那将是个怎样的恶梦啊。。。

Monday, October 24, 2005

one semi-successfull showoff

This past saturday, when i took amy to her little gym, at circle time, every parent needed to introduce him/herself and the toddler. When it's my turn, i asked amy what her name is, she refused to say it and made a funny face. While when i asked amy what my name is, she proundly announced, GLORIA LIU!

Friday, October 21, 2005

陪你睡觉觉

一段时间以来,几点睡觉以及如何睡觉,都成为了我们家的重要课题。
由于某人还没有时间观念,只是绝对性的瞎耗,所以只要在准备洗澡这个问题上面一点一点往前蹭,耗,还是绝对的耗,睡觉,却是相对的早了,所以这个课题她不灵。
她好像自己也意识到了,于是在如何睡觉这个问题上大下功夫。每天晚上,讨价还价很长时间。

最开始的时候,她比较笨笨,只是商量性的说,“妈妈陪你睡觉觉?”妈妈果断的回答,不行,teddy bear陪你睡觉觉。她便很爽快的答应,OK!这期间,新的TEDDYBEAR换了旧的,后来又被SNOOPY取代......不过花钱总是可以摆平的。--那是多么美好的时光啊,妈妈悠悠嘀想。

慢慢嘀,经过幼儿园的血与火的考验,人家开始认识到一句话说十遍就成为了真理这件事情。你简单的回答她不行,她不买帐。她反复的,变换发音方式,变换表情,变换姿势的哀求,妈妈陪你睡觉觉~妈妈陪你睡觉觉!!!!!!!!几番交火下来,一半以上的时间,妈妈ENDUP躺在她CRIB边儿上的地上,三陪。
妈妈也不是吃素的啊,便出了新招,一看快要上炕了,拿起TEDDY BEAR,做可怜状,AMY你看,TEDDY BEAR已经很累很累了,可是他很害怕,不敢一个人睡,你陪他好不好?
爱心泛滥的小人儿便欢天喜地的上床。

如此大概一个星期,昨天晚上,还是这一套,讨价还价半天,小人被骗。妈妈看电视。

看了十分钟,突然听见小人不唱歌了,认真的说,
MOMMY~MOMMY~
MOMMY~ I POOPED~
I POOPED IN MICKEY MOUSE DIAPER~
YEAH I POOPED~
OH YEAH~
妈妈想,这得是真的了吧,说的有模有样的,推门进去,
人家热情洋溢的欢迎:“HI~MOMMY~COME IN MOMMY~"
妈妈问,“DID YOU POOP?"
人家爽快的回,:“NO I DIDNT!”

骗人她都会了。。。今天晚上的战斗,险恶啊。

Thursday, October 20, 2005

吃苹果的故事

昨天晚上,LD坐我旁边吃苹果。
每隔15秒就问一次,你吃不吃,特好吃,你吃一口吧,YUMMY YUMMY,好吃的不得了。。。如此反复了20多次,我实在受不了了,
你有完没完啊!!!!!????????
LD冷笑着说,你也知道烦人啦?那你老这么纠缠我女儿干嘛?

灯灯SHOES

amy会说的第一个字,是灯。当然了,只有我听得懂,发成“嘀”的音。
一年多过去了,对这个中文的“灯”字仍然情有独衷,经常造出类似“I turn on灯”的句子。
所以很自然的,我给她买的一踩就发光的鞋子,被她命名为“灯灯SHOES”。
但是其人嘴笨,说出来是DEN DEN SHOES。
昨天,我去接她,她的好朋友,波兰小朋友,Devin,远远的跑过来,
匆匆忙忙的给我一个拥抱,大声骄傲的宣布,AMY HAS DEN DEN SHOES!
Amy就在旁边拼命跺脚,鞋子一闪一闪,两个小人哈哈大笑。
谁说我们不说中文来着?!我们都把中文推广到全世界了。嗯,虽然发音方面还差些。

Friday, October 14, 2005

kevin

kevin is a heater.
just from this sentence, one can easily tell the lenghth we are willing to go down the ridicule road for amy.

last year, being both cheap and energy-conservertive people, ok, mostly being cheap people, we bought a small heater just for amy's room. back then, she's still innocent and fearless, poking around absolutely EVERYTHING. so that purchase actually lightened up her mood for quite some days. she'd point at the heater and keep mumbling, smiling, like the heater is an interesting and nice company.

now as the time passes by, some girlish stuff got unleashed from inside of her, she became this semi-annoying delicate lady. instead of exploring, she's scared of absolutely EVERYTHING. the heater, of course, freaked the crap out of her. every time when i plug it, it'll give a very faint beep. that's when amy would run like a ghost is chasing her. it's not a very big room, but everytime she'd manage to find the farthest corner, checking out the heater with an on-the-verge-of-cry look. if at this time i press the oscillating button, which starts the heater's movement, she'd definitely burst into a huge cry. such a drama shows in her room every night last week when there's a cold front in our area. i had to make up different stories to comfort her. boy let me tell you this, it AINT EASY!

just when i reached the edge of my sanity, here come the rescuer, DADDY.

last saturday i went to a faculty party. before i left, i explained the situation with heater to him in such a detail that he literally said SHUT UP to me. when i came back, of course the first thing i asked him is how he's doing with the heater, expecting he starts the complaining process. however, being a person very thrift with his words, he simply told me, i named the heater KEVIN. i was like, !#$%^&*()(*&^%$#), speechless.

the following morning, instead of yelling MOMMY~MOMMY ~, expecting someone rescue her from the crib, and of course, the heater, amy's cheerfully talking to the heater, HI~ KEVIN~ HOW ARE YOU KEVIN~

sigh, who said mommy works wonder? in our family,definitely it's the daddy who can do that.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

连环计

某小朋友可能是自己偷读兵书了,一大早上,就一计不成又生一计的害我。

5点50,哀嚎,MOMMY~~~~~~~~MOMMY~~~~~~~~MOMMY~~~~~~~~~~

计一:假装生病
咳咳咳咳一阵疯咳,那当妈的总得去看看吧?
刚走到门口,就听见里面热情洋溢的声音,MOMMY~COME IN~
生龙活虎,精神矍铄。

计二:假装饿了
进去以后,我挨着她躺下,眼睛都睁不开的跟她讲道理:
你看,天还黑着呢,MOMMY IS TIRED,咱们再睡会儿?
人家不买帐,静悄悄的装睡一会儿,大声说,
I DIDN'T TIRED, I WANT MILK!!!!!!!!!!
我想,饿了,总不能睡吧,下楼取奶上来。其人浅尝即止,I DONE WITH MILK。

计三:假装更饿
又静悄悄装睡一会儿,大声说,
I WANT CEREAL!!!!!!!!!
不能老让你耍吧,这次,不给不给就不给。哼哼。我躺在地上装死。

计四:假装有爱心
三度静悄悄装睡一会儿,大声宣布:
I WANT TEDDY BEAR!!!!!!!!!TEDDY BEAR 陪你睡觉觉。
你有妈妈和SNOOPY陪,还不够啊,你要怎么样啊?二度装死中。

计五:杀手锏:真的有险情
这次连装睡都没有了,直接委屈的嘀咕:湿了湿了
我一摸,可不是,睡衣湿了
这一招狠啊同志们,湿了要是睡,就会着凉,要是不睡,就得起来换,起来换,
还如何会让你再按倒啊?

于是乎,早上6点10分,我们两个人开始了一天嘀学习生活。

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

devin

Devin is this sweet girl who's 1 month younger than amy. The first time we visited amy's daycare,it's her smile and avery's silly rolling-around make me decide that that day care is the one. it's gotta be a good daycare for babies to be that happy and relaxed.
now more than 1 year later, avery is still my favorite one in their room for her chubby cheeks. and some how devin has become amy's favorite person in the whole wild world. every morning if i say, you wanna go play with devin? amy'd run to the door and try to stuff her feet into her shoes. every weekend, she'd try ask me, where is devin. i even have to use devin as an example to win our everyday bargin about if i can sleep with her...the downside of her first ever friendship is, the whole week last week, when devin's family's having a vacation, amy didn't want to go to day care any more. :(.
on monday, i casually mentioned to amy, devin's on vacation, she will be back next week. only to find out that tuesday morning, the first thing she said to me is, "DEVIN WILL BE BACK, I BIG HOUSE". i was shocked that she actually can remember this. after that, every morning i had to use the BIG GIRL card to convince amy that she's a big girl, she HAS TO go to school, like mommy... luckily she'd be reluctantly agreeing to that. but according to the teacher, it wasn't that easy through out the day. she'd be really fuzzy, whinny, and lost, keep mumbling to herself, devin will be back, mommy mommy mommy~

thank goodness today devin's back at school (i'll have to syncronize with devin's mommy next time about vacation, and i am not kidding). this morning when we dropped amy off, devin's already there and was playing a shape sorter by herself. amy was so happy to see devin that she just circled around devin and yelled, HI DEVIN HI DEVIN~ however, devin's too busy to notice that. she was fighting with sean cuz sean tried to help her with a triangle. she's like, NOOOOOOO! LEAVE ME ALONE! i was getting a little bit sad for her lack-of-enthusiasm to see amy. i always pictured it as a mutual girl-friends kinda thing. good thing is amy didn't seem to mind at all. just when i tried to persuade myself to let it go and leave them alone, amy picked up a square and put it into the shape sorter for devin. i almost freaked out. i was afraid that devin would push amy away and hurt amy's feeling. surprisingly, devin gave amy a huge smile and said THANK YOU AMY~ then they two started playing together.

Monday, October 10, 2005

新宠

自从小姨给AMY买了TEDDY BEAR以后,就是"TEDDY BEAR陪你睡觉觉"了。换了新的TEDDY BEAR,就是"NEW TEDDY BEAR陪你睡觉觉"。这个周末,又看上了一个SNOOPY,买回来,变成"DOGGY陪你睡觉觉".每天睡觉前都嘱咐妈妈,mommy! teddy bear sleeping with you!

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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

经过近两年的斗争,AMY这个家伙悟出了革命的真谛,那就是,跟!你!耗!还不是愣头青上来就跟你耗,是每天耗你多一点那种耗,完全让你不能察觉。
在过去的几个月,我总觉得有点子什么不对劲。这个不对劲到今天,才算是彻底的看得见,摸的着了。那就是,放倒她,从她房间里出来,我一看表,NND,都八点半了。
曾几何时,她是7点半或者7点40 就睡了的,居然让她东耗耗西耗耗,耗到今天,多耗出一个钟头儿来。你说说这个孩子,得有多狡猾

这头一耗,是吃完饭换着花样的耗你。出去坐坐摇椅,回来看看书,摸摸车,弄弄笔,花样翻新的命令:PLAY THIS ONE MOMMY!单说看书吧。人家就看完一本拽一本看完一本拽一本,匆匆忙忙的满屋子找书,这么好学的孩子,为娘的你能不让她耗?
耗半天,总算是用BLUE TUB这个诱饵,把她给骗上了楼。坐进去,人家又开始跟你二耗。BLUE BUBBLE MOMMY!嘟着大胖脸一通儿猛吹。才两岁啊同学们,可以一口气吹出十来个泡泡,为娘的一感动,这二一耗就又成功了。
三 耗,耗在擦干上了。这里的招式,属于死猪不怕开水烫的耗法。生跟你耗,也不假装好学,也不假装可爱,人家就是赖。我趴着,我就不动,你怎么着儿吧。有本 事你就酱紫给我把DIAPER穿上。没本事,你就得上窜下跳逗我开心,活该!经过一些时日的斗争,我也算是被她逼上了绝路,反穿DIAPER一把好手。估 计敌人明天在这里会有新的对策。
最漫长的一耗随之而来。睡前读书。这个时间段从定义上就很有潜力可挖。读书啊,你还能剥夺了我读书的权力?还得喝 奶不是?不给我喝饱了我让你夜里不得安 宁。比比看吧,谁狠?我慢慢的喝我特别慢慢的喝我超级慢慢的喝,我一个分子一个分子的喝。书的数量多的话,咱们一本一本的看,你甭想一口气翻两页,我都明 白着呢。你把书藏起来了,减少书的数量?那咱们一本书看它一百遍,我反正不烦。除此以外,假装欣赏窗帘,努力垫脚开灯,跟TEDDY BEAR虚情假意一番,如此这般,招数推陈出新,你完全应接不暇。
之后呢,穿衣耗,刷牙耗,黑了灯念儿歌还是耗,嘻嘻哈哈,动手动脚,撒泼打滚,哀哭求饶,软的硬的苦的甜的,多角度多层次分剧种分剧目,牛了大掰了。
最后的最后,也就是现在,一切都耗完了,绝望的上炕15分钟以后,某人还在死撑,个人演唱会热播中~~~~~~
为娘的我,苦笑。

最近一个礼拜以来

爱上了little fox。大概其中indians这个最中她的意,所以她一说,就是,MOMMY! INDIANS! I上楼INDIANS!看得时候摇头晃脑的,很满意。

某天爸爸在看电影,小人洗过澡,全裸着,就爬到爸爸旁边坐下了,认认真真的跟着看。妈妈只好攻击敌人的弱点了,AMY,爸爸看得这个很可怕,你还要看么?吓得她,连滚带爬的就跑了。隔天起床,还谨慎的坐在床里不肯下来,试探性的问,bubby's watching scary stuff...

和devin成了好朋友。每天都要念叨人家很多次。反复强调,devin lives in BLUE big house。跟devin他妈讨论了一阵子,不得要领,不知道这个结论是哪里来的。

跟我去target的时候,自己看上了一个新的teddy bear。又有些对不住老的teddy bear。就每次自己拿起new teddy bear的时候,翻出旧的来,塞在我手里,命令我,mommy! play with teddy bear。

Friday, September 30, 2005

唱歌

amy爱唱歌。可是你们听过的也知道,破译很难。
所以几乎每天早上送她去幼儿园,我都要骚扰老师,请求帮助破译。

破译一:呜啊呜啊斯皮爱弱
连唱带比划,仨阿姨一起分析,才分析出来:
wu-ah wu-ah, shoot the arrow wu-ah wu-ah shoot the arrow

破译二:很长的一段乱七八糟,我只能听出help me help me
这次连第四个老师都出洞了,翻译成:
In a cabin in the woods
Little man by the window stood
Saw a rabbit hopping by
Knocking at his door [Alternate: Frightened as can be]
"Help me, help me, help", he said
Or the hunter will shoot me dead
Little rabbit come inside
Safely you'll abide
但是时值今日,我还是只能听懂help me help me.

Monday, September 26, 2005

上个星期,某天,AMY突然嘀咕,seany WARDS!我就问她,那avery呢?avery什么啊?她想了想,说,avery SUEDER!如此这般,大概有五六个小朋友的姓,她全都知道。devin cybulski难了些,大概花了一天的时间,她也记住了。 有些小朋友的姓,妈妈不知道,无法教她,她自己就都给人家冠以WARDS一姓,不知道sean的爸妈乐意不。

1.都zhang

好了,小朋友们都知道了,那你呢? amy 什么?人家骄傲的说,AMY ZHANG!
妈妈狡猾的问,那teddy bear呢?TEDDY BEAR ZHANG!
然后,不等妈妈问,匆匆忙忙的说,
MOMMY ZHANG!
BUBBY ZHANG!
小姨ZHANG!
都ZHANG!

2.devin cybulski!!!!!!

带她去参加gabriela的bday party。看见devin,两个人都甚欢。热情的叫对方的名字,达半分钟之久。然后,便各自撒欢儿。某个滑梯和合AMY的意,自己上上下下一番,忽然仗义起来,想叫朋友一起分享,就满屋子大叫,DEVIN!!!!!!DEVIN!!!!!!!!!!!DEVIN COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!人家DEVIN也很忙,收拾东西什么的,就不理她。叫了一气,AMY急了,更大声,严厉的说,
DEVIN CYBULSKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME HERE.


3.park
头天,妈妈跟AMY讨论,SPENCE什么啊?AMY想半天,不得要领,先是spence SPENCER,然后又是spence WARDS,然后自己也不怎么满意的摇头。这个问题就搁置了。
之后,全家去逛商场。司机爸爸和保姆妈妈商量,走哪条路啊?PARKER还是PARKS?妈妈说,PARKER,爸爸说,PARKS......争执不下之计,某人若有所思的大叫,
SPENCER PARKS!
妈妈去找阿姨核对,还真的就是这么一个姓。

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

daycare language

The other day i was tickling amy while she's playing her cars. It was fun for her for a little bit. She'd smile at me with her tiny nose all wrinkled. I just love that.But after a while, she got tired of it, told me to stop. I didn't. I just wanted to see what's gonna happen next. (i know, i know, i am one evil parent). I thought she'd be mad or something. Surprisingly, she wasn't. She simply kept playing her cars, and very quietly and seriously told me, THAT IS NOT NICE, MOMMY!

yesterday, her daddy sneezed. at that point of time, amy was reading a book. she immediately said, BLESS YOU, BUBBY.

after came back from the doctor's office, i tried to feed amy two different kinds of medicine. for the first one, i promised her blue lollipop beforehand, so it went pretty smoothly. after about an hour, it's time for the second one. i thought a little bit, but couldn't find what to offer. so i told myself, what the heck, i am the mother, she should listen to me! then i fetched her and gave her the medicine. Surprisingly, she was quite cooperative. And afterwards, she licked her lips, and said, MMMMM YUMMY YUMMY IT'S GOOD!

every night after bath, i'd give amy some splash time. we'd just sit there and play water. the otherday she asked for my hand. after i gave one hand to her, she tried to put some water in it and rub it with a towel really hard. in the meantime, she kept mumbling to herself, OH MAN!

好像可以讲通一些道理

早上去上学,AMY冲到“AMY MINE BEETLE”门口,要求,“AMY DRIVE”。坐在驾驶员的位置上面,四处乱捅。(N次了,都开起来才发现空调开关被关掉,高光灯被打开等等,今天早上,她居然按着了蹦灯儿,乐不可支)。妈妈我着急上班啊,就催她,
我:AMY咱们走吧
A: NO! AMY DRIVE!
我:那你开车,你看看车动了么?
A:上下左右仔细看...NO...
我: 那妈妈开车好不好?
A:AMY SITS,手忙脚乱的往后座爬去...

前天带她去看病,跟她讲道理,居然也讲通了。

之前,她过生日那天,要带她去体检,一时偷懒,便跟她说,带她去看金鱼。嗯。不算完全滴欺骗,大夫那儿确实有老大一个鱼缸。
之后她就警惕起来,连第二天说带她去植物园喂鱼,她都敏锐滴反击,NO DOCTOR!
所以,这次二番要去看病,我很是头皮发麻了一阵子。
话说接了她,便开始心理攻势,妈妈带你去看医生好不好?医生叔叔很NICE的。
Amy立刻识破了我的诡计,严肃的提议,MOMMY PROMISED, NO DOCTOR!
彼时她正好一阵疯狂的咳嗽,我赶紧趁热打铁,咳嗽是不是很难受?
AMY无奈的答,YEAH...
DOCTOR看你一下,一点也不疼,然后就可以不咳嗽了,好不好?
完全出乎我意料之外的,AMY居然答道,YEAH。
我准备了很久的持久战就这样结束了,后来在医生那里,她还manage to say hello and bye to the doctor.

Monday, September 19, 2005

越来越乱了

最近特爱说,
I 上楼 LOOK FOR 爸爸。

今天,amy第二次升班了,去了early preschool stage 1。
这个班和以前的班经常一起活动的,而且她也很神往这个班,所以transition is very smooth.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

improvement

starting this past weekend, amy began to use "I" pretty well.
I NEED TO BE CAREFUL
I WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
are two sentences she keeps saying.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

TIME OUT

在我们家,TIMEOUT是纯吓唬人用的。小小的一个人儿,你就给她扔到什么角落去,不许说话不许动,怪可怜的。
我姐在的时候,便经常笑话我这只纸老虎,威胁性的说,有本事你真TIMEOUT啊,7~说我惯孩子,你就好很多么?

泥人儿还有个土性儿不是?被嘲讽久了,我这儿就有点子蠢蠢欲动起来。凭什么阿,你两岁,你就占了主动了,装可怜我就怕了你么?哼哼。

今天,机会来了。

接了小东西回家,匆匆忙忙的给她做好了饭,然后再做我们俩的,正不亦乐乎呢,大小姐挑拣起来,NO这个ONE!拿起我辛苦做的菜就给扔在了地上。好吧,那咱们过过招儿吧。
先从唐门绝技开始,你怎么扔吃得这是不对的是浪费的就算不是吃得你扔了也得捡起来爸爸妈妈擦地板多不容易阿你捡吧PLEASE你快捡起来捡起来妈妈再给你别的好吃的......车轱辘套话乱转了半天,人家以不变应万变,NO NO NO NO NO!
那好吧,你逼我是吧,你捡不捡?看着妈妈,你捡不捡?不捡咱们就TIME OUT了阿。真的不捡?真的TIME OUT了阿,妈妈数三下。一!二!妈妈马上就要数三了阿,你现在捡还来得及,捡不捡?你看爸爸也等你捡呢,好......人家那边嘻皮笑脸,我这儿银牙咬 碎,三!TIMEOUT!

拎起她我就找地儿扔。扔别的房间不放心,扔远了不忍心,就手儿我就给她放壁炉边儿上了,TIMEOUT了阿。人家还跟英雄似的,AMY TIMEOUT!
等了大概十秒,她爸就开始给我使眼色,用嘴型偷偷的问,要多久阿?我一看,小东西跟墙角坐着,嘟着胖脸,两个黑手交握在腿上,低着头,还真是认罪的样子,忍不住就要笑。压压笑劲儿过去问她,你错了没?捡不捡?
没想到刘胡兰同学恶狠狠得答道,NO!NO!NO!
不是我不想原谅她阿,她逼我上梁山的。比谁狠是吧?那接着TIMEOUT。
结果呢,我们两个都狠,就爸爸不狠,过去巧言令色,许了些个好处,人家勉强的捡了菜,重新回了桌儿。

这事儿,居然,还不算完。
我以为她就是刘胡兰转世,她牛掰呢。暗地里佩服了一气,开始继续喂饭。
喂了两口,她猛一动,碰到我勺子,勺子里的菜吧唧又掉地上了。
我们俩还没来得及说什么呢,小家伙儿突然脸色就变了,一副英勇就义的样子,大义凛然的跟我说,AMY TIMEOUT!就要往椅子下面爬。
我实在是没忍住感动阿,多好的孩子多自觉阿,你说我好端端的TIMEOUT人家做甚呢。赶紧就拉住了亲一口,AMY你真乖乖,这次你不是故意的,不用TIMEOUT。
话音刚落,人家瘪瘪嘴,哇的一下嚎啕大哭起来。怎么哄也哄不住。一副你们虐待了我你们欺负了我我这么好的孩子你们还挑眼的样子。

SIGH。还是敌狠。如此的攻心战术,我,怎么能赢呢?

Monday, September 12, 2005

周末二三事

和AMY去滑梯,我在下面等着。
其人从滑梯上WEEEEEEE!的下来以后,递给我一个不知道从哪儿捡的QUARTER。
才两岁,就挣了五毛钱了,妈妈对这个孩子,有信心!

去参加MEGAN的BDAY PARTY,被TOYSRUS的长颈鹿JEFFERY吓得目光呆滞。
好在MEGAN也胆子小,JEFFERY垂头丧气得走了,要不然,估计开不完PARTY我们就得回家。

居然跟PARTY上面吃了两牙儿半PIZZA以及一块蛋糕,打破了以往只喝水不吃东西的记录,特此纪念。

PARTY上,让她跟MEGAN说生日快乐,不说。晚上回家,上炕不睡,唱HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEGAN长达半个小时之久。

带她去植物园,喂鱼的饼干她自己都给吃了。
回家的路上提议要求TEDDY BEAR开车,后来觉得不过瘾,要求自己开车,险些把安全带给拆了。

Friday, September 09, 2005

amy两岁了

一岁的时候,妈妈骄傲的说,BIG GIRL了。现在两岁了,小小的人儿开始有了伟大的心思,妈妈这边厢反倒没出息起来,今天送去幼儿园临走讨吻不得,哀怨的在想,我的宝,你,永远做我的LITTLE PRECIOUS,好不好?

想身边永远有个大头蹭蹭,甜甜的声音你我都不分的在吵,妈咪陪你玩儿!想手里永远握着个软软的小手,赖赖的声音低低哀求,妈咪HELP!想眼前永远有个胖脸在皱,哭哭笑笑嗔嗔怒怒,想,你,永远是,我的。

这当然,只是,想想。

两岁是个了不起的年纪,可以脚下生风那样的奔跑,哪里危险哪里就有她。可以蹦得和天空一样高,虽然落下来着陆的是屁股。可以自己勉强提上裤子的前面,后面不提也罢,反正里面还有DIAPER。滑梯自己爬,妈妈NO TOUCH 秋千妈妈坐,宝宝来推推, DIAPER有什么难,TEDDY BEAR I NEED TO CHANGE YOU! 现在就要GO POTTY了么,那么妈咪DID YOU POOPLET ME SEE !唱什么歌吃什么饭玩儿什么游戏……一个小小的人儿顶着大大的头,做所有重要的决定,挺着胸脯自豪的大叫自己的名字,AMY ZHANG!仿佛专门在和妈妈说,我,不再是,你的。

长大,真的,就是这么容易。那么,你等等妈妈好不好?

妈妈也要像你一样,长大!

学说像EXCAVATOR一样长的单词,玩儿过了东西唱着CLEAN UP的歌谣一个两个都收好,进门先洗手,打过喷嚏以后记得说EXCUSE ME,常常给喜欢的人SMILE以及HUGS 还有 KISSES……

你看,妈妈听你的。

你,两岁了,不再是,我的。

那么,我亲爱的宝,你也听我一句好不好?

妈妈,

永远都是,

你的。

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMY.

btw,体检结果: 28LB 8OZ, 35 1/2 inch

Thursday, September 08, 2005

数数儿

6指儿
教amy数她有几个手指头,先做了一遍示范,问说,会了么?
答曰,YEAH!
遂慢慢自己数来,大拇指数完,数中指,食指就算了,中指完了,小指,无名指也略掉。
掉过头来接着乱指,
ONE~TWO~THREE~FOURFIVESIX!
那另一只手呢?
胡乱又戳了一气,仍然是,ONE~TWO~THREE~FOURFIVESIX!
好了,今天,我们,六指儿。

THREE
我们最近的favorite,是,three,
你问她,牛奶里要几个冰啊?THREE!
那儿有几个FLAGS啊?THREE! (碰巧蒙对过,赢得路人赞叹)
你有几个眼睛啊?THREE! -马王爷转世
HOW OLD ARE YOU? THREE! - 多considerate的宝,terrible 2我们不过了。

爱车一族

我年轻的时候,特羡慕开18-wheeler的。牛了大掰了。
常说,等大爷有了钱,买TMD一停车场的18 wheeler,见天儿我就上街去飙去。
没承想到,这个也可以遗传。什么东西,但凡一带轱辘了,我们家这个,就爱。

1
每天去接她,人家家女宝,都穿着小花儿裙子,抱个布娃娃,拿块毛巾,铺铺盖盖,打扮打扮,做个饭啊亲一个啊,不亦乐乎。
我们这个,一定跟哪个角落,大车中车小车一样一个儿,正变着法儿的折腾呢。或推或拉或抱或坐,浑身是土,一头大汗。偶尔还会和某男宝为BUS啊TRUCK啊大打出手。
某日我去接她,躲门口看,居然看到,她!在!玩儿!小~马~驹~
怀里抱着,嘻嘻笑笑,还左右比划。
目瞪口呆啊简直是。
愣了半晌,进去,方才看到,该马驹,没有蹄子,下面,四个轱辘的干活。

2
看过一个报道,说,男宝和女宝,各自喜欢什么,不是后天培养的,是先天决定的。
给女宝仨大卡车,女宝会小心翼翼的带到闺房,塞到床单底下,每个卡车都TUCK IN,NIGHTY NIGHT。
给男宝四个娃娃,男宝抄过来就给你点点戳戳,马上变兵刃大枪的干活。
我们家这个,许是半路上基因错了。
某日,小姨来,给她一teddy bear,爱不释手。(天地良心,她生下来,我就给她买过羊啊熊啊兔子啊若干,唯独小姨给的,才是好的)。
假装亲了两口以后,两手攥着teddy bear的胳膊, 趴在地上,撅着屁股,让teddy bear屁股着地,推着就跑了,还配音道:chu~chu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
眼见着teddy bear屁股就要着火,人家乐不可支。

3
学说话,"妈妈"都在继"爸爸"后废了大半年的功夫才学会,什么excavator啊crane啊一遍就会。经常说出来和妈妈比词汇量,妈妈完全比不过。不fair,就是这么不fair。
现在的睡前读物是姥姥从国内捎来的小孩识车,里面每一辆中英文名字人家都知道。念来念去索然无味,她爸爸开始给她说句子,比如说,the tractor is towing a trailer。
昨天,换妈妈给念,翻到这页,其人指着,笑嘻嘻的说,the trailor is towing a tractor。
发挥变换都会了,妈妈就贪心的说,那咱们说个简单的,说,i love you ,mommy~暗地期待着她说,mommy i love you,或者 you love i,反正这么几个字儿呗,您看着排列下。
结果人家认真的说,NO!!!!!! the tractor is towing a trailer.
孰近孰远,轻重缓急,一下子看出来了吧,妈妈啊,LOVE啊,都靠边儿站,车,才是正经事情。

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

敬业

8点钟上床,开唱,
曲目包括:ABC,OLD MACDONALD,MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, WHERE IS THUMBKIN,ITSY BITSY SPIDER,等等。
间或自己填词,自己给自己鼓掌,哀求妈妈来听(妈妈跟门外看电视呢)。
9点钟,嗓子都哑了,还坚持唱。
9点5分,听着是失声了,终于恋恋不舍的睡了。

Friday, September 02, 2005

yes

one whole year after amy learned how to say NO, she finally started to get a kick out of saying yes and nodding.
nowadays, if you ask her something, she'd seriuosly consider it for a little bit, and then carefully decide if she wants to agree or not.
once she decides she's for it, she'd slowly nod her huge head as if it's too heave for her to nod fast, and then say, YEAH.
since it's so cute, i threw out a lot of questions at her yesterday, like do you like albert, do you like mommy, stuff like that. after a while, she figured out i was just teasing her, so she stopped and went back to the old NO amy. :S

Monday, August 29, 2005

jack and jill

saturday we took amy to the local library. since she gets to mess with shelves of books and play with tons of puzzles there, she enjoys it a lot.
this time, as usual, she just paced up and down in front of the board book shelf, and picked out all the blue ones, pretending that she can read. i watched her as she flipped through all the blue books, proudly announcing, "THE END!", feeling so proud that i am raising such a little geek.
then she did the geek-est thing. she suddenly picked one book which is not blue, yes, NON-BLUE BOOK! and run towards me. she stuffed the book in my hands and demanded me to read it to her. in the whole process, she kept yelling stuff.since she always talks to herself, i didn't really pay attention to the words coming out of her mouth. just as i looked down to the book, i suddenly realized she was actually yelling JACK AND JILL! JACK AND JILL! which is exactly the title of the book. my goodness! my almost-2-year-old can read. :D
of course i know she might have just remembered the book from her day care. but i still wanted to test her out. so i let her pick another book and asked her what it is. this time she only told me, BLUE~ i guess i was just having too high expectation for this little dork.

大概从今年5/6月份开始,amy自己发明了一个游戏,叫"妈妈来抓你".
因为她一直都不喜欢换尿布,每换必逃.所以我经常威胁她,你再跑,妈妈来抓你了哦.
可是作妈的非常没有威信,恐吓听着都有游戏的意思,所以人家就嬉皮笑脸的重复,妈妈来抓你~
后来玩儿上了瘾头儿,一旦没意思了,就来拉我的手,怪腔怪调的说,"妈妈来抓你~".然后撒腿就跑,跑出三步远,停下,等着我去抓.

闲着没事儿的时候,我也跟她念叨念叨"你"和"我"的不同,不得要领.
讲两分钟,人家立刻表现出无聊得要晕倒的架势,拉着我的手晃,"妈妈来抓你~"

周末,我在厨房做饭,爸爸给她买了swing chair在安装,小人儿百无聊赖的捅了一会儿烤箱开关,就来拉我的手,"妈妈来抓你~".
我就跟她解释,说,妈妈cooking,你先自己玩儿,一会儿妈妈再陪你玩儿~
她立刻眼巴巴的看着,仍然不松手,嘀嘀咕咕的说,"妈妈陪你玩儿"
我只好再和她说一次,结果人家更可怜了,松开了手,垂头丧气的走开,还念叨,"amy陪你玩儿~".

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

excuse me

我们家宝,辉常有礼貌。

某天,小姨领着去洗手,途中经过坐在地上的爸爸,爸爸捣乱,拦着不让过,人家认真的说,excuse me, 爸爸。

又某天,妈妈说,咱们去穿衣服上学吧,其时正和爸爸看书,看妈妈不顺眼中,暴怒的说,NO!爸爸领着。爸爸说,爸爸领着,咱们走。人家临走不忘抱歉的说,excuse me, 妈妈。

Monday, August 22, 2005

quite a song-writer

recently, amy's song-writing includes:

mommy mommy jump up and down
babby babby jump up and down (bossy as usual)
knee knee knee knee jump up and down (would be tough to try)
toe toe toe toe jump up and down (more reasonable i'd say)
tummy tummy jump up and down (mission impossible)


where is babby?where is babby?
i don't know i don't know (very country-music-y)
is he in tina is he in tina (very contemperary, catchy. aka, i have no idea what she's talking about)
i don't know i don't know

where is amy where is amy
i don't know i don't know (song-writer/philosopher)

多大开始记事儿

我不信胎教,以前.
人家跟我说,给amy听听莫扎特.(人家=我妈.)
我的青春叛逆期持续时间比较长,马上就要中年了,仍然不爱听别人的.让我听莫扎特是吧?就不,我找gun and roses听听.哼哼.不爱听我也要听,要的就是这么个别扭劲儿. (ok, now i can't criticize amy's rebellion any more. there's always a downside to everything, even blog. damn it!)
现在我不得不非常勉强的承认,人家可能说的有理,我可能是耽误撩amy.

事情是酱紫的.amy很小很小很小的时候,不肯好好儿睡觉.她爸爸就给她唱歌.
我们是根儿红苗儿正的革命军人家庭,她爸爸自然要唱唱"月~亮~在白~莲花般滴云朵里穿~行~"这样的革命歌曲.
后来呢,在amy很小很小的时候,我们(她爸)就把她不好好儿睡觉这个问题给镇压了.
于是,文盲之家,连革命歌曲就都不唱了.

酱紫停了大概将近一年多,最近,她爸爸某日劳动之余,心情好了,就月~~~~~亮~~~~~~起来.
结果,唱了大概三五次,我们就发现,amy,她,连"小姨"都说不利落的,居然会唱这个歌儿.
很长的句子,她每个字都唱出来,不用人提醒.

于是我反省了一下,什么你大爷啊,TMD啊,我说的频率可比她爸爸唱这个歌的频率高多了.我们家孩子这个中文啊...堪忧啊堪忧.

pooping related

WARNING: THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE KIDS RIGHT NOW ARE LIKELY TO FIND THE COTENT SLIGHTLY GROSS.

it's not my fault to write something like this. actually, i've been delaying this topic way too long. amy's almost 2 now. during the one year of this blog's existence, i didn't even once explicitly make pooping the major topic. to those who do have kids, this almost seems like a child-neglect case.
well, i am avoiding this topic mostly because my reluctance to potty train amy. my excuse is that she is not ready yet. the real reasons however, are, 1) we just got new carpet; 2) my mom's been onto this for about 2 years. right, ever since amy's born, she thought we should potty train her. and i am purposely not training amy to get onto my mom's nerve. boy, am i evil.

ok, now, seriously, amy's not ready. for the past 6 months, i've been teaching her to tell me if she pooped. she obeyed for about 2 weeks, then found it more interesting to answer NO! whenever i ask her if she's pooped. so the only way i can make her more comfortable is to check her diaper every now and then. and of course the fastest way is to pull the waistband of her pants and look down. i know i know, it's gross. but the other day i actually saw 3 parents do exactly the same thing at amy's gym. what a relief!

finally i am getting to the point. being a parents does make one cruely wordiness. :p

yesterday morning amy suddenly remembered she had a teddy bear. this is almost a miracle for a truck girl like amy. other than the time her auntie kathy's here, she never asked for her bear. but any way, she asked for it, so i went and fetched it for her. the minute she got the teddy bear, she turned it over and looked at its bottom, then very seriously asked, DID YOU POOP? TEDDY BEAR? before i could laugh out loud, she then answered, very troubled, OH! NO!I NEED TO CHANGE YOU. i gave her a wipe and a diaper, she then spent the next 30 minutes or so to clean up teddy bear and change it.

well, the fun did not just stop there. later on, i was lying on my tummy on the carpet while amy's running around with her car. suddenly she threw away her car, walked towards me, then pulled the waistband of my pants, looked down for a minute, and asked, DID YOU POOP? MOMMY? i shut her up before she could say OH NO I NEED TO CHANGE YOU.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

it's not just me

last time when i whined about amy's "terrible 2", people kept telling me that i was being too dramatic. now it's official, it's not just me. all of amy's caretakers consider her a uncontrollerable stubborn rebel. well, just like vicki said, she's not doing anything a normal 2 year old was not supposed to do. ok, someone please tell me what the heck that means, is it good? is it bad? i am all ears...

yesterday when i picked amy up, carla told me she has been acting out all day. she constantly tried to pull down her pants, spit up, throw things away. and whenever carla asked her to do something, she'd either say no or just pretend that she didn't hear her. carla even took her to the director, mrs. harriet to sort her out. and of course, unsuccessfully. this morning mrs harriet also talked with me about amy's behavior. she asked me to be very strict with her at home. :( i will certainly try.

to make it even worse, one of my friends at home told me this terrible 2 can last about ......
20 years. :(

Saturday, August 13, 2005

固执

amy其人很固执。
路上看见一大吊车,非要说,TRACTOR,我们是爱好真理滴家庭,自然要纠正,不是,是CRANE。人家不干,坚持说,TRACTOR!TRACTOR!TRACTOR!
当妈的权威不够,就去寻求领导的支持,爸爸你说是CRANE还是TRACTOR?
爸爸自然捧场的说,CRANE, CRANE。
这下子小人儿没话了,默默的想了一会儿,说,YELLOW CRANE TRACTOR, OK?

坚持自己的原则,还POLITICALLY CORRECT,有前途。

小羊识途

我家这只羊,嫌自己跑得慢能耐小,就喜欢看大型交通工具穿梭往返,所以搬家离幼儿园近了这个事实令其非常不满,至今仍然不承认BIG HOUSE就是家家,偶尔还会拉车库门要求回家。

羊的爸妈就是传说中的贱招儿,她要是要星星月亮妈妈就有改学天文物理的心思,要看车,又不是什么大不了的,自然千方百计的想满足,有钱的话大吊车推土机一 样儿我们家来仨,建筑工地就放后院儿俩。这不是没钱么,干脆,周末就拉出去遛遛,这,在油价日新月异的今天,也是完全有悖羊爸爸人生准则的。于是,上周 日,妈妈要出差,去机场,便成了小羊的重要娱乐项目。一路上指指点点,连跟妈妈说白白的瞬间都盯着BUS,心情愉快得一塌糊涂。

转过天来又是一个周末,羊她姨二番来访,她妈一训思,绑着小羊在后座去机场接人,既可以讨人家姨甥二人欢欣,又可以成功的使我们混迹CAR POOL,一石二鸟,还不多废油钱,如此这等的好事,怎么可以错过,于是从幼儿园抓出来就扔进了车里,往机场开去。

刚出门,往高速方向过去,途经小人儿GYM,人家在后面叶公好龙的喊,GYM GYM!真到了去GYM的时候就粘在妈妈身上了,这不是要去,人家倒认得路了,她妈妈只好装聋作哑。上了高速,马上要走上以前回家的老路了,人家又在后面 下命令,回家家!回家家!刚出门就要回家,你还 看不看大卡车了?别看年纪小,小同志倒是不傻,立刻收声看TRUCK。为娘的我在CAR POOL 里面开着,呼啸超过所有的龟行车们,心情自然也是愉快的一塌糊涂。机场机场你~真~好~~~~

毛主席是不是说过,你甭美,美得冒泡儿的时候前方就有沼泽地,或者类似的话?有道理。CAR POOL原来只有那么几迈啊,马上我也就开始了龟行。坏蛋也开始坑吃,偶像WIGGLES的歌曲每一首人家都指示,NO THIS 乐!换成BARNEY她干脆给我干嚎起来,NO~NO~回家家~回家家~我这儿心急如焚的OFFER饼干果汁苹果干儿书籍玩具积木块儿,告诉她看大吊车拖 拉机甚至臆想出来的猪马牛羊,全无效果,干脆扔手机给她。结果人家拿起来就像模像样的和她爸带着哭腔诉苦,HELLO!爸比!爸~~~~~~~比 ~~~~~司机我在前方听得一个头N个大~

毛主席的话反之也有理,即将崩溃之际,机场到了,大蓝牌子们纷纷出现。忽然一下子后座这只羊也消停下来。我偷偷一看,其人正在沉思,思想斗争良久眼含热泪勉勉强强的嘀咕,白白妈妈白白妈妈妈妈WORKING~

大大地分特,才去过一次,她,如何知道,我们是又去机场了呢?

接到人回了家和她爸爸分享着这感人的一幕,她爸爸一滴眼泪也没有,冷静滴说,她傻阿,她以为她送你去了机场自己走回家么?他是忘了,人家AMY自己是认为AMY开车的。

Friday, August 05, 2005

terrible 2 初露端倪

早上起床穿衣服打三架:
要求穿blue diaper (little swimmer),喉儿老贵的,为娘的不许
要求穿blue shirt,买了三件库存,pick my battle,这个就准了吧
要求光pp出门,断乎不许.

送去day care打两架:
坐在baba sit上面,玩儿收音机,方向盘,不肯去后座,拎起来扔过去,绑上,开始抽噎
看到大卡车,不抽了,两分钟,到达day care,又不肯下车了,因为没有看到bulldozer.告诉她,去找avery,好不?NOOOOO!那去找albert呢?勉强答应了,要求"拿着cracker",阿姨不许,又假哭三秒钟

晚上接回家打三架:
不好好吃饭,很长的一架打一个钟头儿
游泳要求单人下大池子,做自杀状,
打二十分钟回家洗澡,拒绝身体任何部位上面有任何泡泡,于是从开始洗号哭到洗完.

daycare要是开七天就好了~省了我白天和她打的N架.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

just being herself

the other day when i picked up amy from day care, avery walked up to her and held out her arms and said, give me a hug, amy!
amy furiously turned her head, and shouted, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!this is almost the 100th time i saw it happen, with different kids.sigh.
is being a "loner" in gene?i myself never feel comfortable holding hands with my girlfriends, even when i was little. even though i turn out to be an OK person, still wish she'd bemore open to others, given this IS us, not china :(

today i talked with vicki about this. vicki simply laughed and said, this is a good thing. it means she's AMY, she's herself, she's an individule, you know? she has her likes and dislikes. if she doesn't like to be touched, then other kids should learn to respect that...

even so, even so, i still wish she'd be more like jordan or lucia, who constantly drive other kids nuts by trying to hug them, or holding onto their hands.
probably this is one of the other typical mommy's no-use-worry thing.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

游泳

amy终于开始游泳了,在这个夏天就快结束了的时候.

当然了,妈妈没有这么魅力来感动她下水.以前一听说游泳就要倒地装死的.还是小姨能耐大,带着就去了.

先是勉强答应到小朋友的池子里面,僵硬的站在那里,小姨紧紧抱着,还是吓得发抖.

慢慢的放松了,可以自己走来~走去~,居然还别出心裁的"蹲蹲走",好像要去摸鱼.

第二次再去的时候,看见爸爸在大池子里面游,羡慕得口水都流出来了,扒着池子边儿说,amy in that one, amy in that one, AMY IN THAT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!妈妈只好抱着她过去,不干,手刨脚蹬得要求自己游,AMY PLAY HERSELF!!!!!!!!!胆子大得离了谱.

为娘得我只好在这个游泳季节即将结束得时候跑N家商场给她找游泳圈,还乐颠颠儿的,贱招儿啊,做父母的真是贱招儿.

Monday, August 01, 2005

小姨


amyrun
Originally uploaded by amyzmom.


周末小姨来了。小姨穿着五颜六色花枝招展的裙子,小姨有软软的可爱的teddy bear,小姨还随时随地都可以抱抱amy,amy要什么小姨立刻就给,连假哭都不用......

于是:

amy也同意穿上了轻飘飘的裙裙。
amy早上起来第一件事就是找teddy bear,找小姨。
到了星期一,amy连albert都不要找了,想留在家里和小姨玩儿。
some time i do think it is unfair for amy to grow up in a relative-less country. :(

Thursday, July 28, 2005

混乱的语言

中英文乱,“amy吃yellow这个”。“mommy吃water".
语法乱,“no衣服脱”。
发音乱,自己绕对自己,“雨伞,umbrella, ”突然想起叫gabrialla的小朋友,沉思片刻,充满疑惑的表情指着雨伞,中英文都拒绝再说。
对事物的认识也乱。指着suv说是car,我纠正她,纠正两次,急了,上火的跟我说,"green car, OK?!!!"

搬家了

早先她爸在刷墙的时候就带她去过,告诉她,那是big house。三两次的自己就认了路,还有一个弯儿没有拐的时候,自己就叫,big house!big house!走的时候还会亲切的和big house byebeye。

终于搬进来了,第一天,拉着车库的门,要走,说,my amy beetle!回家家回家家。反复劝说big house就是家家了,仍然将信将疑,自己嘀咕,big house,not家家。

第二天,送她去幼儿园,路途大规模缩短,从原来的20多分钟,到现在的3分钟,我连脸都不用洗,拎着她就出门。可是人家狠不高兴,该看见的建筑工地啊什么的都没看到。到了地点,拒绝下车,带着哭腔大叫,no~no bus, no bulldozer~

晚上回来倒是不要求走了,知道自己住blue room,狠得意。

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

chuchu

据她爸汇报,小人自己发明了chuchu airplane.今天早上上学的路上,还发明了chuchu truck.
基本上是,都~chuchu。

表扬了amy几次"都"用的好,她就上了瘾了。
amy buckle up, mommy buckle up, 爸爸buckle up,都~buckle up
amy silly, 爸爸silly,driver silly,都~silly
......
昨天去幼儿园接她,人家gavin胖胖要抱抱她,她不让,愤怒的说,no! go away!
我赶紧劝说,好朋友都hug的!
她就悻悻的追上胖胖去抱,然后不死心的每个胖胖都抱过,得意的跟他们宣布,都~hug.
其时我正和阿姨说话,没顾上表扬,人家就不乐意了,大哭状,都~hug都~hug!
小朋友们哪里听得懂啊,用看疯子的表情看着她,纷纷向墙角躲去。

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

mus

amy周末的时候说,爸爸,bus。然后看看我,觉得忘了点儿什么,赶紧补充,妈妈,mus。

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

rain

amy learnt the concept of "raining" from day care. before when it rained, she'd notice the floor's wet, and say, "yucky!".now everytime she sees water falling, or when she notices the floor's wet, she'd yell "it's raining" very excitingly. like when i wash her hair, she'd recite the rhyme i read her before, "it's raining, it's pouring, the old man's snoring...". the other day, when she was drinking her milk, some how she spilled a little, she first said, "raining raining!" then she looked at the milk, confusingly claimed, "white raining!"

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

穿衣服

每天早上穿衣服都是大战,人家的要求是,blue shirt, no 裤裤,no 裙裙,no dress。
blue shirt也不是随便就可以的,深蓝或者蓝白格子均不能接受,怯蓝是也。打的实在太累了,为娘的我妥协,去商场买了两件怯蓝的shirt换着穿,可惜了严言阿姨给买的那么多漂亮衣服。
至于下半身,我想妥协都没办法妥协,只穿diaper出门吗难道?其实只穿diaper她都不乐意,跟我严肃的要求,光着屁屁!

be careful

站在椅子上疯狂的拍爸爸的电脑。拍累了,要坐下,没留神,差点掉下来,赶紧提醒自己,amy, be careful~

洗澡的时候玩儿浴液瓶子,放回去,没放好,瓶子掉到浴缸里,bubble, be careful~

拿着十辆车一起玩儿,bus吧唧掉地上,赶紧冲下去捡起来,bus, be careful~

amy胖胖

问amy说,谁胖胖啊?
答曰,amy胖胖,妈妈胖胖,爸爸胖胖,都~~~~~~~~~~胖胖。

隔了半晌,再问,谁胖胖啊?
答曰,amy胖胖,amy坏蛋。

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

其他一些常说的话

amy, it's ok!
amy got it!
amy help!
how about doh? how about lie down? how about drum? how about chuchu train? etc.
babby sleeps,tubbie sleeps, amy sleeps.

假想敌

这个假想敌,是幼儿园的另一个胖,avery。

周末的时候,反复苦大仇深的向我反应,avery scratched amy! avery time-out!今天早上去问阿姨,阿姨说,avery确实抓人了,确实timeout了,可是受害者并不是我们家的胖,完全是某胖自己假想的。嗯。对待avery这么贼的胖,提高警惕,防患于未然,也是好的。

最近幼儿园新来的albert,也被我们给派了个假想敌。
为什么格外优待albert呢?可能因为都是中国宝宝。而且,他们睡觉的时候并排,amy还自动承担了管理新生的任务。大家都睡觉,就albert大叫,amy就会小小声的跟他说,albert!shhhhh!周末在家睡午觉,也会自己练习,偷偷说,albert!shhhhh!
albert的假想敌,是lucia。周末控告完avery伤人事件,就会捎带着说,lucia! timeout!问她,lucia干什么了?她就告诉你,lucia grabbed albert's car。
今天早上也去问过了,结果人家说,lucia上个星期五都没有去。sigh。albert虽然需要保护,也不用这个样子吧?

那么,别人都timeout了,amy勒?人家会狠惨痛的说,amy time out!那你干什么了被timeout呢?她不明不白的告诉你,amy!walk!显然,这中间需要个翻译。翻译阿姨说,是啊,她老四处乱跑,告诉她,要是再跑,不walk的话,就要timeout了哦~所以,就记下了。amy必须要walk。嗯。用阿姨的话说,she knows what she's talking about~至于别人知不知道,就不管了。

Monday, July 04, 2005

学舌

家里养了只胖鹦鹉,你说啥,她说啥。

走路赖赖要人抱,30来磅,抱起来差点儿忽悠着我的老腰。就念叨了一句,BOY YOU ARE HEAVY!立刻有回声,BOY!HEAVY!问她,谁HEAVY阿?立刻骄傲的答,AMY!HEAVY!
依此类推,人家会说 ,BOY!IT’S HOT!然后还紧着解释,IT’S HOT OUTSIDE!NO滑梯~

洗完澡给她擦干,泥鳅一样滑不溜手,一边要逃跑,一边踢人,嘴里还得意的声称,踢妈妈!踢妈妈!批评她,坏蛋才踢妈妈呢。人家马上毫无羞耻感的反省,AMY坏蛋。AMY坏蛋。

因为最近发现她会说爸爸开车,就常常逗她说。那天逗完了,又多逗一句,爸爸开车,那AMY呢?想都不用想,就自豪的说,AMY开车!那妈妈呢?妈妈开车!得,就一小破车,得仨人一块儿开。

比较恶劣的是,学会了说,牛掰!一口气说十次。还有,她爸!直到把她爸叫过来为止。

Thursday, June 30, 2005

amy says

"amy is so funny".

hehe. i bragged this to her teachers. and they told me, she IS funny! :D

Monday, June 27, 2005

went to the mall

we are such bad parents. we just realized we haven't bought amy any toys for about 6m now. shame on us. so this weekend we went and bought a drum,a train, and some play dough for amy. she had so much fun with them. after we move in our new house, i promise, we'll buy her more stuff.

in the afternoon, i took amy to the mall to buy some new shoes for her. i liked one of those Dora sneakers, but amy wouldn't let me buy them for her. she's convinced those are lucia's shoes and wouldn't let me try them on her. :D eventually we bought another pair of shoes that light up. she likes them so much this morning the first thing she asked after got up is to put on those shoes.

Friday, June 24, 2005

慢慢开始说话了

昨天接amy回家,我在后座和她玩儿,想起她最喜欢监督家人举动,没事儿就问,妈妈doing? 爸爸doing? (句子太长,what is 被她省略了)。就反问她,what is 爸爸 doing? 一般情况下她就跟我傻笑一下,结果她居然说,爸爸开车!吓我这一大跳。

到家了,她还有点咳嗽,自己咳嗽完了,无限怜悯自己的说,my goodness.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

FULL SENTENCES

amy昨天说了非常像模像样的英语:
babby is reading a book.
amy did it her......self.
两句都太长,中间要喘喘气。

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

strep

yesterday when i picked amy up from daycare,she had a 100 degree temperature, and kept coughing.
then at night, her temperature spiked to 102.
today i was very reluctant to go to the ped' s office.cuz i was convinced he'd tell me it's some virus and just wait it out.
luckily hubby persuaded me to take her to the ped.it turns out to be strep.now she's on anti-biotics.
i think there are at least 200 days out of a year amy's on anti-biotics. :(

Monday, June 20, 2005

自言自语

21个月有余了,amy的说话“天才”才开始爆发,经常自说自话。

拿起一本书来要求念,急性子,还没念完呢,自己就胡噜胡噜翻到最后一页,宣布,“me end" (the end说不好,成了me end).然后命令,“again!again!",你还没来得及反对呢,人家自己就回答,"好~!"或者,"ok!"。

早上起来醒了,我懒得理她,在赖床,人家就自己和自己玩儿。墙上的湿度计被她称作,clock!然后汇报上面的几个喜欢的数字,8~6~not 9! 6~ green 8~ red 2! not 5!red 2~如此这般,可以玩儿十分钟,然后想起我给她念的书,giraffe tired!amy tired! mommy tired! babby tired!

昨天和她爸爸念书,爸爸讲完一个惊险故事,人家感慨,my goodness! 然后拿起另外一本书,how about this? 爸爸笑她,how about it? 便回答,my goodness。

bday party 二三事

姐妹

amy的一个好朋友,叫lucia的,胖胖乎乎,结结实实,每次吃饭都吃个底儿掉,我很喜欢.party这天,姐姐sophia也来了,大她三岁,大眼睛忽闪忽闪,机灵可人儿.lucia就和我小时候缠着姐姐一样,被sophia领着过来过去.
那里有个超大的滑梯,充气的,连上去的楼梯也是充气的,有点陡,还滑,每次上去,我都得托着amy的屁股,别人家的小宝,则是被抱过去的.sophia可不管这些,拖着lucia连滚带爬的上去.lucia怎么也得有个33/34磅的样子,瘦瘦的姐姐最多比她多个十来磅,紧紧的攥着lucia的胖手,就这么一步一停的拖上去,lucia一步一滑,每摔一个大跟头,就小声说,sorry, sophy, sorry, sophy,然后爬起来再和姐姐走.爬到上面,sophia吃力的把大胖子lucia放在自己的小瘦腿上,轻轻的嘱咐,ready?GO!!!两个人一起滑下去.lucia摇摇晃晃的站起来,拉着姐姐,again!again!
我托着amy跟在后面,想起了自己跟屁姐姐的岁月,感触良多.


mean

这次认真的见识到,什么叫,七岁八岁狗也嫌.party里,1个月到10岁的孩子都有.小的都憨态可鞠,大的都谦恭有礼,就是有这么一批不大不小尴尴尬尬的,讨厌.爬滑梯的时候,不管前面的小宝能力有限,推推搡搡,甚至从lucia头上跨过去.在bounce house里面,大呼小叫,有一个甚至坐在了amy腿上,也不说sorry.开饭了,一个女生甚至说,it would be nice to have a cold beer! 六岁啊才.吃完了,还要大声感慨一下,i don't like the cake at all, it's yucky!转过脸来,才看到,这个女生的妈妈怀里,静悄悄的躺着一个小宝.我想,每个孩子,mean,都是有理由的吧.

shy or not

amy很少参见类似活动 (这其实是第一次.//blush),刚进门的时候有些局促.寿星jordan热情的招呼我们,AMY!AMY!小人儿还不好意思的躲在我腿后面.后来又一个宝,avory来了,更腼腆,扒着我不松手,不允许jordan给她盖stamp.avory的姥姥就说,she's a shy kid.等到开玩儿了,没有一个shy的.avory姥姥年事已高,上不去滑梯,旁的妈妈,谁抱都可以,没看见avory吭哧一声,下来了就拉着陌生人,说,again!again!lucia累了,去喝juice, sophia的母性光辉无处释放,就改拖amy到处跑,amy从来不让人碰的,跟着sophia到处玩儿,看都不看我一眼.所以说,没有shy kids吧我想.:)

Saturday, June 18, 2005

我也见过救火队了

我是个丢东西成性的人。孩子养这么大了,没丢过,曾经很得意来着。这自然是要有报应的。老天挑了一阵子,挑在了今天,LD生日,来报,以便加深印象,防止再犯。

要说老天还够意思,没让我真把孩子丢了,就是让我把她锁车里了,吓唬吓唬我。

话说今天下午,AMY幼儿园班上一个胖宝生日,选在一个叫PUMPITUP的地点来开PARTY。大型充气娱乐一屋子,主客尽兴,按下不表。出得门来,100多度高温,车里像蒸笼。把小人儿扔到后座,人家自己都直嘀咕,HOTHOT!为娘的自然不忍心,先打着了火儿,开开空调,再来BUCKLEUP,放音乐,找饼干,等等。忙完了,从副座儿爬出来,关上门,便傻了眼,不知何故所有的门都锁上了,书包啊手机啊都在里面。

旁边车一个妈妈好心肠,也冷静,说,我在这儿看着她,你进去找黄页本打电话。飞奔进得屋来,语无伦次了已经。前台帅哥拿出黄页本,说,你找LOCKSMITH电话,我来报警。我跟RESIDENTIAL LIST那部分没有头绪的乱翻了半天才发现找错了地方。帅哥也看出我不能思考了,TAKE A DEEP BREATH DEEP BREATH,提醒我半天,估计是怕我晕倒在现场。冷静下来,才想起来是周六,5点以后,哪里去找LOCKSMITH阿?再次深呼吸深呼吸。帅哥及时的提供好消息,救火队马上就到。这才放了一点心,再跑出门外。

看着AMY的妈妈说,她很开心阿。我趴窗户上一看,可不,车里空调小风吹着,偶像WIGGLES唱着,小人儿嚼着饼干,还频繁给窗外阿姨OFFER一两块。后来在等救火队过程中,N个妈妈过来安抚,人家都以皇族检阅的姿态挥手微笑致意。甚至表演假装不好意思,你好,再见等等技巧。结果,整个一个趴车场,只有我一个着急的,剩下的全都乐不可支。

英明神武的救火队大概3分钟后到(感觉上已经半个钟头儿了) ,三个好汉抄着电视上我们常看见的偷车工具就过来了,一个在副座那边偷车状,两个人在司机这边,拿充气的袋子把门垫高一条缝,伸一根铁丝进去或拉门栓或捅门锁,大概10分钟,门便开了。其间,小人也少不了跟人家打打招呼,OFFER一下饼干,等等。

此次惊险历程,到此结束。估计这一场惊吓下来,短期内孩子是丢不了了。

Jordan's birthday party

this is the first birthday party amy (and, i //blush) ever goes to. amy had a lot of fun. they hold the party at a place called "pumpitup". kids can play with all kinds of cool stuff that's inflated there. like a bouncing house, a huge slide and a basket ball court etc. amy played with lucia, avory, and sophia, lucia's sister, nonstop for about 75 minutes. i've never seen her this happy. i can even leave her to other people and she won't object. actually, sophia dragged her along all the time, she didn't even check if i was around.
for me, this is one exhausting afternoon, amy''s still too little to climb up that huge slide all by herself. i have to push or drag this 30lb meetball somehow. what made it worse is that everytime after we got down to the bottom of the slide, she'd yell, again! again! again! i think today i had more exercies than i did during the last year.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

与影子作战

AMY曾经狠爱她的影子,出门就要找找,天气不好看不到还要怅然一番.
不过大小姐这个脾气也是难说的,所以最近开始和影子作战起来,原因不明.

早上出去,看到影子,坑坑吃吃厌恶的叫,"AMY! AMY!" (你又来了?讨厌?!)
迅速的转身,嗖~的一声,再转回来.(咦?怎么还在?),改叫别的,"MOMMY!MOMMY!"(赶它走啦!)
妈咪在旁边看得乐不可支,哪里会理她.只好自己再想办法.
猛的蹲下,用手使劲推它,"MINE!MINE!"(我的地盘,你不要占!咦?好像推不动哦...)
回头求助的看妈妈一眼,妈妈假装没看到,"BIRDIE~amy你要不要看birdie?"
只好猛的又站起来,高抬脚,轻落步.(我腿抬得高高的,你就跟不上了.55555555怎么还在啊)
(那我只好用喊的了啊!) "AMY NO! AMY NO!"(说了你不要跟着我的嘛!)
MOMMY~~~~~~~~55555555555555555555
眼泪都下来了.这一仗,AMY输. :D

Sunday, June 12, 2005

联想

早起去散步,小人儿解说各种颜色,BLUE CAR,RED豆豆(谁扔的糖豆儿),YELLOW 滑梯,BROWN YUCKY(DOGGIE CRAP),ORANGE !@#$%^&...
这最后一个无论如何我也翻译不出来,就问她,什么是ORANGE的啊?
人家变换乱七八糟的语气助词排列顺序来给我讲解,ORANGE&*^%$@!
仍然不得要领,再问。反复几次,彼此都很疲劳。

小人儿毕竟年轻,力气还大着呢,没完没了的嘀咕,ORANGE!ORANGE!ORANGE!
(就ORANGE了,你怎么着吧?!)
念了一阵,开始走音,ORANGE, ORANGE,ALBERT!(话外音:联想开始)
ALBERT是新来的小朋友,每天在幼儿园8小时,用去大概7个半小时哭喊妈妈。
小人儿自然要评价一下,ALBERT!呜呜呜呜呜......
AMY! 哈哈哈......(但是AMY很开心)
MOMMY!哈哈哈......(MOMMY也跟着一起幸灾乐祸)
爸比!SLEEP!(要是醒着的话爸爸也会邪恶的笑)
TUBBY TUBBY!SLEEP!(出门前缠着要看TELETUBBIE,我跟她说,在睡觉,这会儿全想起来了)
TUBBY TUBBY!
家家!(我要回家找TUBBY TUBBY!)
画画!(但是妈妈一定不会给我看,所以就画一个吧)
此时,一只狗狗路过,联想结束。

Friday, June 10, 2005

非常好胡弄

爱上teletubbies有日子了.最近她爸给她借了baby mozart,我们俩文盲觉得这个应该更educational吧,就剥夺了她再看creepy sun得权利.
结果人家只是偶尔想起来,会深情的呼唤:tubby tubby~
我就给她画几个,一样可以满意得玩儿半天.:D

分清楚bus和truck

原来狠容易啊.
爸爸给画了几张画,立刻就分清楚了.白废我那么多口舌.-_-
现在坐在车上,就忙着找bus和truck了.有时候truck上面有广告,就要格外的忙一些,truck~ white truck~ cracker~中间掺杂很多乱七八糟的语气助词.我跟她爸爸汇报说我们快说句子已经很长时间了,还是在说自己国语言.

Sunday, June 05, 2005

More and again

once upon a time, amy couldn't tell the difference between "more" and "again". Even when she wanted me to tickle her, she'd say or/and demonstrate by her sigh language, "more". i used to tease her by saying, what do you want more? and then she'dtry to answer me, got distracted and forget what she wanted originally.
today, she finally figured out when to say "again". it's such a nightmare! i couldn't even distract her any more! somehow the book "moster inc" was especially fun to her today. she literally asked me to read it to her 20 times! at first, the "again" request was so cute cuz it's her first "again". towards the end, i had to ask her for her milk cuz i was so thirsty from reading it.

Took amy to the little gym yesterday

she didn't want to leave. cried at the inside door, lying on the floor (first
time ever for her to do this in public). then cried at the outside door. then
refused to go on the car, run back towards the door.
they definitely should put her on their commercial.

报告爸爸

AMY老流鼻涕,带她去看。大夫给清理EAR WAX,疯狂大哭了一气。
为了安抚她受伤滴心灵,我就把手机给她玩儿。
结果,就出现酱紫一个场面:
AMY大摇大摆的从诊所出来,一边匆匆而行,一边老练的举手机在耳朵边,说,
爸爸~爸爸~面面!
医生问她,你给你爸汇报什么好消息呐?AMY居然白人家一眼,那意思,你捣什么乱?!

Friday, June 03, 2005

bus, or not bus

为人父母,需要些个急智,白痴型儿的,经常捉襟见肘,比如说我。

家里这个小人儿,话不多,问题不少。词汇不够,全靠语气表情找补。
小时候好胡弄,应对起来不需要什么智商,会跑的一概是CAR,小人儿满足得嘻嘻笑笑,蛮好。幼儿园阿姨多事儿,非得多教很多东西,什么BIKE啊,TRAIN啊,交通工具一个儿一个儿的给我们介绍,给我填堵。到了BUS这里,问题来了。

回家路上,小人儿在后座雀跃:BUS~BUS~WHITE BUS~我一看,什么啊,eighteen wheeler啊。就解释,这个太大了,BUS是比较大,可是没有这么大啊,要一般大的那种。
说时迟那时快,一辆UHUAL嗖的过去,BUS~BUS~WHITE BUS~ 这个。。。这个。。。妈妈没解释清楚,黄色的才是BUS,YELLOW的。◎#¥%……※×小人儿脸上出现完全不能理解的表情。我自己也冷汗直流......这个好像说不过去哈?
现世报马上就到,居然TMD开过一个PENSKE卡车聚集地。小人儿眼多尖啊,不能便宜了妈妈,得意的大叫,BUS~BUS~YELLOW BUS~ -_-!!!!
解释不清楚我们就来强的吧,灌输,我们全面灌输可以吧?AMY你听妈妈说哦,那个不是BUS,那个叫TRUCK,BUS有各种颜色的,TRUCK也是,可以是YELLOW的也可以不是。从后视镜偷看小人儿,自己在嘀咕,NOT BUS, NOT YELLOW...
上了高速,终于,FINALLY,一辆REAL BUS在前方,AMY你看~BUS~人家认真的看了看说,BUS...not BUS... yellow... not yellow...

Thursday, June 02, 2005

小爸爸小妈妈

和AMY一起看照片,看到我姐,小人犹豫了一下,说,MOMMY~
非常FLATTERED的我谦虚的问她,妈妈有这么好看吗?
人家清脆的回,NO~ -_- 不用这样爽快吧?
无奈何,只好告诉她真相,这个,是,小姨。
(嗯。我姐为什么是小姨啊?long story, don't ask)
AMY狠困惑的说,NOT阿姨,NOT阿姨。中间掺杂我完全不懂的语气助词一百来个。
努力的想告诉我,这个,不是那天来看我的阿姨啊~
和她解释半天,小姨,小姨,这个是小姨,和一般的阿姨不一样的,是亲人。
看表情好像还是似懂非懂。
过了一会儿,爸爸妈妈的照片出来,AMY非常有见地的说,小姨,小爸爸~小妈妈~
嗯。亲人非亲人的概念看来还是掌握了滴。

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

b-word

yesterday, when i was playing on the internet, amy's daddy yelled at me, "amy just said b-word tome!"i didn't believe him, so asked amy, "what did you just say to daddy?!"amy proudly announced, "bu**sh*t! bu**sh*t!" and kept pointing at her daddy.
it took me about half a minute to figure out she was actually commenting onher daddy's new t-shirt,

BLUE SHIRT.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

melted my heart

the day before yesterday, we took amy to our community pool. apparently she's scared of water. the only thing she'd do is to wet her feet, not even her knees. so basically the swimmer diapers are some very bad investment for us.
good thing is she still had a lot of fun at the pool. so much fun that she didn't sleep very well that day. she kept waking up and whining. i guess in her nightmare, there's a huge huge swimming pool that is chasing her or something like that. :D so i decided to comfort her by sleeping together. exhausting night, by the way. she kept changing her position. at one point she even climbed down the bed and slept on the floor. :p
any way, what melted my heart happened the following morning. after amy woke up, she first sat up with a confusing expression, like, where am i? then she suddenly saw me. she scooted towards me, laid her head on my tummy, gave me a huge hug, smiled, and whispered to me, HI~MOMMY~

Monday, May 23, 2005

最近

Amy会说s了,以前说三都是单,周末突然开始猛吹气,说三~SUN!从一点儿风都不透变成一点儿风都不挡。

不光会说没有,还会说,还有。给她一瓶奶,拿起来就猛晃悠,比较满,听不见声音,就抱怨,没有!MORE!然后不等我理她呢,自己就嘀咕,还有,还有,咕嘟咕嘟喝一气。

爱上了TELETUBBIES。明明狠creepy的baby 太阳,她看到尖声大笑。一点都不可怕的吸尘器,看到了就要疯狂号哭。跟她说看到了就捂上眼睛就不怕了,不行,捂上了还要从手指缝里偷瞧,一边瞧一边哭。
每个teletubbies都有名字,不叫,叫颜色,要求四个tubbies同时在场。红的在跳舞就找绿的,绿的在唱歌就找黄的,如此反复,五十分钟的节目,一直在找人。

放她自己的录像给她看,爸爸客串两分钟,退场,扒着屏幕边儿找爸爸,想把框子扒掉了叫爸爸出来。

自己要求搭配服装。严言阿姨给买的很好看的蓝裙子,非要配上怯粉的袜子一双。

主意变得比什么都快。问她,吃cracker吗?NO~吃包包吗?NO~吃鸡蛋吗?NO~NO~沉思片刻,改了态度,鸡蛋鸡蛋鸡蛋!妈妈赶紧给煮,煮好了给大小姐奉上,一甩脸子,NO!NO!NO!

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

挣钱

周日去植物园。在food court排队买吃的。等我买回来,AMY爸得意的说,咱们AMY会挣钱了。然后就拿出一个QUARTER给我,说AMY游手好闲的逛了一阵子,就拿了个QUARTER回来塞到他手里。真是孝顺啊。

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Colors

Amy now knows a few colors. Blue for sure. She can spot anything blue. She can also get red right most of the time. Yellow, sometime. Purple less often. For color that she's not sure of, she'd say it's yellow or purple. :D i guess she thinks these two are confusing, so just randomly assign them.

She has a set of spoons, blue, red and purple. The blue one is hers, nobody can touch it. And for some reason the red one is mommy's. Her daddy asked her to assign the purple one to him, she refused. :p.

Now i believe likes and dislikes can be inherited, too. I like blue. I never forced this idea onto Amy, though. I always dress her in pink, red, orange etc. But she just insists she likes blue. It's just so amazing.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

"Chick fight"

This morning when i dropped amy off, Vicki was blowing up some really fun beach balls and floats for the kids. They are having a beach theme this week. Every kids get really excited over playing all the stuff. And of course excitement would lead to troubles. When Davin picked up some really fancy blue ball, Avory got upset cuz she wanted the same one (of course!). Davin wouldn't let go. That's when Avory decided she'd teach Davin a lesson. So she bited Davin on the head. Vicki saw it and timed out Avory. It was really fun for me (blush) to watch all these kids play and fight. I think it's cute. It's even cuter when Davin came up to me and asked for a hug. She tried really hard to explain what happened to me, putting all the things that she could say in one sentence, really fast, "AVORY! ...MY HEAD! ...NO!... BAD!..." It was sooooo cute that i couldn't help kissing her.
Apparantly Avory is a repetitive offender. She's so used to time-out she didn't even cry, just sitting there. Lucia must have thought Avory is pretty lonely. So she scouted towards Avory and even let her touch her floats. The two were jiggling and poking each other. I just can't imagine how Vicki can scold these cutie pies with a straight face.

Big helper


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amy爱扔垃圾。每次出门都要提醒我,垃圾!垃圾!即使没有垃圾,也要绕路过垃圾堆,否则,就蹲在路边不走,等垃圾掉下来砸她的大脑袋。
某天早上,我们匆匆忙忙准备出门,他爸爸找不到带饭的塑料袋,就拿垃圾袋装了饭盒扔在门口。AMY过来视察,指着包包们说,包包!AMY!包包!MOMMY!包包!爸爸!咦?垃圾!天地良心,我做的饭质量可疑,可是完全没有到垃圾的地步。

Friday, May 06, 2005

胆子

客观的说,我称不上胆色过人。但凡电视电影里面要有人缺胳膊短腿了,我就捂着眼睛问LD,怎么样了怎么样了。LD被骚扰得非常苦恼,从此过滤我可以观赏的节目,曾经一度电视新闻也被他列作我不能看的,因为有一连体婴手术的消息隔三岔五的被翻出来。That being said,我自己乐观估计着在女生中排胆识我还是可以排个top quartile的。虫子啦老鼠啦杀几个没有问题,大学宿舍里面大家看到蟑螂都是要尖叫灰灰~~~~~~的,以至于他们讲故事,把小强替换成灰灰,NND。传说级别的就是中学的时候做实验了,我们那组兔子没有被敲死呢就被解了刨,我属于那个叫嚣着,“没事没事,它死了,切吧切吧”的。

这么一来,有了孩子,作为一个典型的first time mom,自然就要预测一下她的胆识,她爸爸的童年翻出来,不错不错,还有率领小朋友集体逃幼儿园去看大吊车的英雄事迹,我保守的说,这个丫头,排在50%这个percentile这个可能性应该不低。

Amy曾经是很给我争气的,天不怕地不怕,虫子蚂蚁看到都要折磨一下,高头大狗也会被她吓跑,虽然一直很怕家里一个会唱歌的大青蛙吧,但是综合表现还是略胜妈妈我一筹的,为娘的自然甚欢。

欢不出几个月呢,不知道从哪一天起,这个小妮子开始给我走girly路线,动不动的就拿出一副林黛玉的死相,有的没有的先坑坑吃吃起来,每每见了,我内心深处就有一个小人儿窜出来,暴跳如雷,想质问她这个大胖脸,怕什么啊怕。

就说出一趟门吧,从出门怕到进门。

先是狗,很小很小的那种狗,跟耗子似的,离着大概还有20米她就开始紧张,试探性的嘀咕一下,汪汪!汪汪!那意思,我认得你我认得你,不用再介绍了,白白了您呐好不好?然后就躲在我身子后面看,眼见着人家没有要走的意思,反而越来越近,就开始哼哼唧唧,mommy mommy汪汪汪5555555…..不等我有反应立刻攥着我的手指头要拉着一起逃命的干活。

这个可以谅解,挺大一个动物,怕就怕吧。活的怕,可以。假的,画的,虚幻的,也怕,隔壁搬家uhaul上一个大大的犀牛画吓得她几天不敢去playground,现在uhaul没有了,人家假想出一个来,指着uhaul曾经停过的车位,哽咽着,rhi~~~no~~~~

好不容易抱着她到了playground了,我以为可以出一口气,自己坐在边儿上看她玩儿,突然就有人尖叫起来,出了血案的那种,吓得我,飞到滑梯上,一看,胖手正指着一只蚂蚁大声号哭。什么汗什么啊这是。一只蚂蚁啊小姐。您屠杀过无数呢。好言相劝,怕怕啊?那咱们不玩儿这个滑梯,玩儿那个好不好?NONONONONONONO,那个滑梯有个拼图我怕怕,吭吭吭吭人家就又要开哭,回家吧那回家。

走 到半路,小人指着一朵花,委委屈屈的开始抽抽哒哒,花~~~花花草草都可以哭一顿,妈妈眼前飞过三个娇娇弱弱的繁体字,林~妹~妹~,吓得不轻,不行不行 这样怎么可以,50%percentile我们奋斗不上,赖好也要混个4th quartile吧?按按怒火,开始唐门法则,怕怕啊?怕怕不要紧,谁都怕怕,妈妈也怕怕,爸爸也怕怕,AVORY也怕怕,DAVIN也怕怕,(此处省掉 5分钟的字)...怕怕是正常的,不怕怕才是不正常的。问题是,我们要怎么对待这个怕怕,我们要战略上藐视,战术上重视,敌进我退,敌疲我打,这个精神你 领会了吧?来,比如说,花花,花花不可怕,花花是pretty的,花花秋天还会结果果,yummy yummy......LD在旁边插嘴,你这是什么汗什么?!不管不管,来,你看,你摸摸花花它不咬人,你来摸摸就不怕怕了 ~NONONONONONONO...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!我们唐门的,不怕,唐完了这段儿唐下段儿,今天唐过了唐明天~

故事发展到今天,两个月以后,狗狗还是怕的,假想敌还是在的,蚂蚁还是不可以碰的,花花也还是不能摸的,唯一的进展就是,小人不再哭,不再吭哧,不再逃跑撩,盯住了敌人,一直嘀咕,摸摸,摸摸,摸摸~我说死你算完!胆子没有学到,唐门好像是入门了。

交通警

每天去幼儿园,最后一个左转路口小,没灯。要死等。
最近一到这个路口停下,amy就在后面指着迎面呼啸而来的车,怒吼,NO!NO!NO!
估计要是我们开个敞棚的,她就可以指点交通了。

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

造句

洗澡前一起念书,念到“走跑跳滑”,小人指着图片说,“READY?GOOOOOOO!”汉译英都出来了。。。我连忙鼓励下,“对,GO GO GO”。小人咽下一口奶,慌张的补充道,GO,LET GO!

Friday, April 29, 2005

tough little girl

The other day i took amy to playground. On the slide, we met this weird little boy. He hugged me for no reason at all, with this creepy smile...i am a person who loves almost any kids. But this one just freaks me out... After i unclawed his hands from my leg, he went to amy and tried to hug her too. Before i tried to stop him, Amy literally screaaaaaaaaamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOO! STOP IT!". i was so proud of her. Later on when amy sit on top of the slide, the little boy tried to push her again, Amy even tried to scratch his hand time, and yelled in the meantime, 'NO! LET GO!". THAT'S MY GIRL!

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

最近爱玩儿的

翻箱倒柜破坏捣乱,看书画画,怪样子走路,是例行的,略去不说。

1.赛跑。站在窗台那里,举起两个胖手,等着我们也举手发令。发令完了,就跑,跑到屋子那头,桌子那里MARK!一声就往回跑。中间常被DISTRACT,摸摸这本书啊,吃吃那个饼干啊,要求开冰箱门啊,缠着要STICKER啊,不过最后还是会去MARK的,比较ANNOYING的是要求爸爸或者妈妈陪跑。

2.STICKERS。揭下来到处贴。某天我去讲课,下课才发现,袖子上两个大贴纸。NND!最近她爸培养她都贴到窗户上面去。眼见着就要没有日光透进来了被贴的,乐此不疲,平均每天消耗5毛钱的sticker。

3. NIGHTY NIGHT。晴天白日的,把为娘的我拉到她房间里,隔着crib栏杆把自己的粉毯毯捞出来,然后命令我,NIGHTY NIGHT!我就得躺下,平趴或者平躺,侧卧滴不行,然后她认真的把毯子捋好,坚持捋成自己攥着长边,如果一不留神是短边而且还总也改不成长边,就要NONONONO的批评毯子了,接下来费劲的盖在我的肚皮上,摆弄平整,拍拍,哦哦MOMMY NIGHTY NIGHT。如此反复,N次不止。第N+1次,自己提醒自己,AMY,AMY nighty night.自己把毯子先铺平,然后躺在上面,然后反手拍自己的屁屁,NIGHTY NIGHT。

上个月的时候还玩儿这个来得:
AMY 去 玩 儿 , 捡 了 个 高 尔 夫 球 回 来 , 他 爸 就 拿 甙 面 杖 假 装 球 棍 , 打 着 玩 儿 , 站 在 屋 子 紧 这 头 儿 , 帮 的 一 下 打 出 去 , 说 AMY, 去 给 爸 爸 捡 回 来 ! 小 人 儿 就 跑 出 去 了 , 一 边 儿 跑 一 边 儿 振 振 有 词 , 快 跑 快 跑 快 跑 快 跑 , 捡 回 来 放 好 。 昨 天 父 女 俩 玩 儿 了 将 近 40分 钟 。 缺 点 是 , 玩 儿 到 最 后 , 责 任 心 比 较 强 的 小 人 儿 已 经 累 了 , 但 是 还 在 咬 牙 坚 持 , 两 眼 无 神 缓 慢 的 走 来 ~走 去 ~, 晚 上 累 得 做 恶 梦 。 : (

LET GO

After "NO!MINE!", "LET GO!" is something new amy picked up recently. Whenever i try to get into her business or make her do things, she'd yell "LET GO!" to me. Sometime she even mumbles "let go" repetitively to herself, like it's a good song. And just like "NO! MINE!", she doesn't understand this term completely. It's just something powerful that she can throw you in your face. This morning, she wanted to play with my purse, which is too high for her to reach. So she yelled "let go" many times to her daddy. And last night, she even yelled "let go" in her dream.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Clean up! clean up!

We have this Barney tape we always play on our way to and back from day care. It has a song in it goes "clean up clean up everybody everywhere! clean up clean up everybody do your share!" Amy always sings along with it by yelling, "MINA! MINA!". So i assumed that she doesn't really understand what this song is about.

Now i am doubting my assumption. Yesterday i took amy to the ped cuz she's been having greenish runny noses for a while. It turned out she's only having a cold. She's already 29 LB by the way... Any how, when we got to the day care, it's already pretty late. It seemed like they have finished playing with all the toy animals and were cleaning up. Amy immediately joined them with the kinda enthusiasm i've never seen before. Recently she acctually was pretty clingy and wouldn't let go of me. One day she even faked a cry and Vicky simply said, "oh my goodness, that is sooo fake!", which successfully stopped her. But this time, she even didn't have the time to kiss me good bye. She picked up all the toys one by one and handed them to the teachers, with a proud smile on her face. I'd say she understand "clean up clean up everybody do your share!" more than enough. :D

Monday, April 25, 2005


3 cars and 1 airplane Posted by Hello

安全第一 Posted by Hello

beetle

Yesterday we took amy to a local lake. She was pretty excited to see the "big" lake, keep yelling water! water! water! all the way. We also found a group of ants, which she enjoyed watching a lot.

After we parked our car, amy's daddy told her, say bye to our beetle. This is the first time either of us referred to our car as beetle to amy. We hung out at the lake for about an hour, then we walked back towards our car. Amy pointed at the car and said, BEETLE! i was so shocked at her fast learning ability.

爸比

amy跟幼儿园小朋友学来的,一直叫我mommy,我们倒是说不太惯,所以自己说,常是妈妈妈妈,她心里就有了数,这两个是一样的。
周末的时候,出去玩儿,AMY习惯性的坐在后座点名,AMY,MOMMY,爸爸。说完了不甚满意,修改道:AMY MOMMY, 爸比。

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Shadow

Amy noticed shadow about 4 or 5 months ago. One night she tried to high-five with her little shadow. So that night i put my hands together and made a birdie-shaped-shadow. While i was flapping my hands, she kept yelling, birdie! birdie! It didn't even look like a birdie that much. I was amazed how kid's imagination works. It was super fun at the first. Not that fun after about 10 or 15 minutes. I couldn't even feel my arms. So i just quit doing it. Amy thought the birdie has landed or dropped dead. So she looked for the birdie on our carpet for quite some time. :D I had a good laugh at it.

Now that the weather is nice, i take her out for a walk every morning at the weekends. She'd point at her little shadow and proudly announce, AMY! Then point at my shadow and say, MOMMY! And just like we can't interfere with her business, my shadow CANNOT interfere with her shadow, either. If i stand in some position that my shadow overlapps with hers, she'd squat down and try to push my shadow away, furiously. :p Of course I intentionally did this a couple of times just to have some fun myself.

Sometime in the morning, when i drive her to the daycare, her little shadow will land on the front passenger seat. Then she'd try to dance with that little shadow together. If the weather is bad, she'd point at the front seat and mumble, amy amy amy disspointedly. I guess kids feel lonely, too, sometime, especially when there are only big people around.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

最后一个字

amy一岁左右的时候,最爱看一本识字口诀,四字的,男女老幼,你我他她,叔姨夜奶,孩子爸妈...念的遍数之多我已经烂熟于胸了,张嘴就来,就差倒着背了。我一直相信她是能听懂的,就是说不出来而已。没有想到的是,她其实也会背~虽然只是每句的最后一个字。
因为她又有了新宠,嘟嘟熊啊儿歌快乐园啊什么的,已经很久不念这本了,周末不知怎么又背她翻出来,吵吵着要读给她。我说,男女老,她就接茬儿说,幼!我说你我,她就赶紧说,他她!非常着急迫切。明显是想说,嘴倒不过来的架势。
ABC歌也是一样的,每句里她挑拣几个自己会说的跟着唱,嘴型都拿好了等在那儿,比如说now i know my ABC,她会说NO MINE!所以认为 know my就是NO MINE!这么暴力的词汇可以合法化的唱出来,多么的美好!于是每次都静悄悄的等着这句,等到我唱NOW了,她就匆匆忙忙的唱NO MINE! A!B!C!然后说YEAH~

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Monday, April 11, 2005

Bilingual counting

amy can count using both english and chinese. i just found it out yesterday.

we were drawing together. she claimed she was drawing a bike. all i saw were just madly arranged lines though. i was drawing her apple, car, pants... all the easy stuff. but i ran out of idea pretty fast. i even drew her an amy, a mommy, and a daddy! that's when i started to write down numbers. also because earlier that day amy was pointing at an infinity FX35 and proudly say, 3! 5! i wanted to see what else she recognized. it turned out she knows most of the 10 numbers. ocassionally she'd mixed up 2 and 5, 6 and 9. but most of the time she can recognize all of them, even when i show them to her out of the order. i still don't know why she can't tell 2 and 5, or 6 and 9 apart though. she can play the number sorter perfectly well.
well... that took about 10 minutes. i ran out of the idea AGAIN! i am such a talentless mom! without the day care, i bet she'd still be illiterate by now. :p. anyway, that's when i started to write down the numbers and speak english. after i said, one, she immediately said, two! i haven't even started to write 2. then she finished counting up to ten all by herself! i really want to hug the day care teachers at that point of time.

by the way she also knows where her cheek, chin, forehead, elbow, shoulder, back,knees... are... and for most of these things i even haven't taught her chinese yet. //blush.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

有意义的半天------ ZOO游记

大概一个月以前,AMY的幼儿园老师惊闻我们还没有带某个同学去过动物园,摇头叹息,仿佛确认了我是后娘一般的痛心疾首,我这边厢自然也振动不轻,回家向领导汇报工作,领导答曰,已阅。之后的几个星期,天气不好,领导要考试,有人生病,每个周五我都豪情壮志的打开DALLAS ZOO的网页一通研究,每个周一又都灰溜溜的去了幼儿园,还是没有机会能够骄傲的说出,我们去过动物园了!作贼心虚的怎么样都觉得阿姨就要向有关部门反应了。

于是就到了今天,春光明媚在我们这里已经是过去时了,夏日炎炎差不多。春悃夏自然就要乏,吃过了午饭,我和领导在炕上倒气,倒来倒去,双双晕倒,直到某只小鸟叫喳喳MOMMYMOMMY!我捅醒了领导,走~动物园去~领导搬出二十多个不去的理由,被我一掌击中穴道,不得不口吐鲜血挣扎着起来,娶错僚人娶错了人。

其时已经两点有五,我们给小人更衣抹油,把奶瓶饼干香蕉苹果DIAPERWIPE相机钱包等一应物品都塞到垃圾袋中,跨出门去,两点二十。可以进个什么记录了我骄傲的认为。

动物园阿动物园我总算是来了,由于研究网页已经有些年头儿,到了目的地,感觉非常亲切,好像回了家一般,拉着领导推着小人就先看LEMUR。领导是好学之人,年纪一把了仍然是属十万个为什么的,自然要问,什么是LEMUR?我是朽木一段,参考文献递到眼前也懒得挪动眼珠,当然会回,YOU ASK ME ME ASK WHO啊。 领导故作有学问状的研究栏杆上的附图说明,很有想象力的说,小熊猫,国内的那个小熊猫嘛。我被领导的,自然谦恭的附和,大熊猫我们乡下不趁,估计是要弄个 小的对付我们的。小人儿一路上被我哄着戴上墨镜,刚刚反抗打掉,正在调整焦距,调好了,果断的叫,猴猴!猴猴!回家后领导第一件事查字典,字典有云,lemur[动物] 狐猴。别看年纪小,还是美国人的英语好些,不服不行。

跟猴猴亲切白白后,看到红鸟一片。我的文化就是酱紫了,会飞不会飞,长翅膀的一概是鸟。领导自然高我一筹,认真的检索数据库,断言,以前去SEA WORLD见过的嘛,FANDANGO!我在忙着毁小人不倦,那个是BIRDIE,这个是鸭鸭。领导说啥我都热情的点头。看到牌子才笑出来,哈哈,FLAMINGO, 人家不管卖电影票的。领导无语,立下誓言,下次一定要带文曲星。我忍了半天才没说出来,带文曲星你查FANDANGO也查不清楚阿。

BIRDIE白白了两次才算白白僚,我们来到岔路口。看老虎还是去CHILDREN’S ZOO?我们家这个小人,叶公好龙的典型,在我们住的院子里,听见狗叫都要上窜下跳,汪汪汪汪叫个不停,好像是小动物爱好者似的,实际上,只要看见狗奔她的大概方向过来,就吓得花容失色屁滚尿流。所以我就向领导汇报,这个人胆子小,嗷嗷咱们一会儿WARM UP了再去,先去小朋友区吧。还没有进去,某人本质就暴露僚。门口大小袋鼠雕塑两只,食草动物,还是假的,小人儿便觉得自己的生命收到了威胁,疯狂号哭,你说至于的嘛

坑坑吃吃进得门来,我不得不承认人家美国人就是敢干,明明一农场嘛,猪两头羊三只兔兔若干马厩一间,就大大方方的叫ZOO。小人被假袋鼠吓出了感情,连看到猪都是抽抽噎噎的嘀咕“PIGGY” “PIGGY” ,凡事只可远观,让她去摸兔兔便再次大哭,吓醒了旁边熟睡TINY宝一个,HUGE荷兰猪两筐。旁边院内还有人工小溪,大人孩子趟水忙。我们这个鞋还没有扒下来就哭得大家聚众围观了,我们一家三口仓惶逃窜。

之后远 远的看过了长颈鹿和大象,小人开始造反,用我们去看鸟和爬行动物的所有时间来自己推车,横冲直撞,看见了什么没看见什么不清楚,地上发现几片破叶子倒是玩 儿上十分钟,大老远的来动物园,你说我们为什么许的?后来领导抱了她一路,看了很多种猴猴,很多种羚羊或者牛或者别的什么,反正四条腿的,还有一只老虎, 一只豹子,小人兴趣不大,指着天上的乌鸦激动的叫BIRDIE BIRDIE,还对地上的蚂蚁热情的说BUGS。只好又重新去看领导的FANDANGO,算是结束。

带了八盎司奶以为足够,结果人家体力劳动了这么许久,咕咚咕咚三两下喝完,MORE MORE叫个不停,此时已经要关门,当妈的我去FOOD COURT,冰箱里捞出一瓶奶就给她喝上了,然后才去付钱,孰知所有的CASHIER都回家了,我想做黑社会这么久了,到今天总算是抢了一次劫。

Friday, April 08, 2005

不着四六儿

我们会数数儿了。WELL...会一部分。
上楼下楼的时候数,一~二~三~~~~~五~四不知道被她丢到哪儿去了,怎么教都不能加进去,每天都一二三五,然后接着六又不见了,着急忙慌的七~八~九。
晚上洗完澡,赖在水里不肯出来,也要用数数儿来骗,说,数十下咱们就出来哦~她就自己开始一二三五,狠得意。完全不以丢掉了四和六为耻辱。
我喜忧参半啊。不是有个说法叫不着四六儿嘛,小小年纪就已经知道撩这个俗语,不容易啊不容易,可是现在就开始不着四六儿撩,将来泥?

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Testing limits

Kristina yesterday told me it seems like amy has entered her "terrible 2" stage early. She started to push her limits (Thank god she doesn't appear so at home.... knock on wood really hard! i guess she picked it up from some other kids). Normally she's a really sweet and obedient kid. Whatever the teachers tell her to do, she'd do it without any struggle. Even the teachers in early preschool room know amy as the sweetest one. But yesterday when she's touching the paint that she's not supposed to, she refused to follow any order. They kept telling her, "no, amy, don't do that!". She'd stop for a little while and then poke at the paint again. She even tried to touch the paint and look at the teacher in the same time to see what her reaction is. Since it's not a very serious situation, they didn't punish her. Plus, Kristina told me she thinks it's really funny to see a sweetie do something out of ordinary. I am hoping she will keep this thought with her for a while. I really don't want them to be too tough on my little angel. I know, i will spoil her rotten.

Monday, April 04, 2005

tongsilitis (03/29) + more and more fuzzy

Last tuesday (03/29) amy threw up twice in the morning. It turned out to be tongsilitis. I think she's already caught ALL the virus there is in the whole wide world during the past three months. I am so used to it that i didn't even worry too much. :(

This past week she has been very fuzzy and easily frustrated. For example, if she can't put the number sorter together correctly, she'd scream, hit her self, or pull her hair. I thought it was tongsilitis-related. But her daddy insists that she was just too spoiled. I have to agree with him when this behavior didn't go away yesterday. There is no way that i can act tough on her when i suspect she's uncomfortable physically. And i am constantly suspecting that. Hopefully things will get better in the summer. I know, this, SHALL PASS, TOO!

On top of all these, she has formed a habit of getting up at 5:30am.

Friday, March 25, 2005

Ditto

Starting last week, before my husband went to school, or before i took Amy into her room for her sleep, he would say "i love you" to Amy. Since "love you, too" is too hard for Amy, i told her to say "ditto".
Today, before her daddy left, he said, "i love you". i was feeding amy at the moment.So I didn't really pay attention to that. Out of nowhere, Amy suddenly yelled, "Ditto~". It melt my heart at that very moment. I almost cried. :pMy husband said more than three times "I love you", amy all responded correctly, and with the sweetest smile.
Later i tried. It appears that it only works for her daddy. :(

Thursday, March 24, 2005

很多中文词汇我都对应不上英文啊。。。比如说赖,委屈。。。

自从amy有过night terror以后,我开始重新考虑对她的教育问题。女孩子敏感,虽然她还小,也懂不少了,阿姨一句话,就震动得她的小心灵颤好几天。挺乖一孩子,我为什么还要对她凶?从此,叛变严母的队伍,走向温和一派。

她是何等样的敏锐啊。妈妈策略有变,自然对策就要变。最近几天,一天赖似一天。
某天早上,她自己坐在小椅子里喝奶,安详宁静,略带洋洋得意,一张胖脸嘟着,两只黑手捧着杯子,认真得不得了。遥想当年她缩在我怀里咕嘟咕嘟吃奶,吃完了累喉喉儿的喘气,感触良多啊,就跟她说,要不要坐到妈妈怀里来喝奶?小人儿本来高高兴兴,听了此话,一下子瘪起嘴来,委委屈屈的假哭,嚎叫“怀~~里~~”,“怀~~里~~”,好像我刚才是怎么虐待她了一样。

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Slide

Amy finally figured out how to play the slide all by herself. We started to take her to play almost 1 year ago. Either her daddy or me would let her sit in our lap and then slide down. She absolutely loves it. As she get bigger, she got more intrested in the stairs. She'd hold our hands and clime up the stairs then follow the stairs back down. Every time i took her to the slide side, she'd shake her head or say no. Some time she'd let me hold her hand and then drag her down the slide slowly. She is really concerned about safety! Definitely got that from her daddy. Not me.

And the last sunday she suddenly figured out the whole process. She'd climb up the stairs by herself, refusing me touch her anywhere. And then she'd sit down far far far far away from the slide, slowly scouting to the slide. Of course she'd hesitate a little bit. She has a safety-geek daddy after all. Eventually she'd slowly slide down, with a proud smile on her face. The cutest part is that after she got down to the floor, she'd run back to the stair, in the mean time yelling, hurry! hurry! hurry!

I taped her playing slide and then played it on the computer. Amy got even more exciting when she watched it. She'd wait till the amy in the screen slide down and then yell, yay~~~~~~