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。

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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。