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.

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.

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.

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？

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。

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， 换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 POOP？LET 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

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。

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。

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

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.

你

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~".

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。

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.

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. :(

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。

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.

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.

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.

小姨

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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. :(

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。

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。

都

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。

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。

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!"

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。

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。

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。

amy says

"amy is so funny".

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

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.

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.

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。

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. :(

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.:)

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，HOT！HOT！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.

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

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。

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.

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？！

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...

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。

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.

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~

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!

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。

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.

"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。

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。

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！

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!

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.

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

3 cars and 1 airplane 

安全第一

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。

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.

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~

Amy's first picture: Bike 

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.

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MOMMY！MOMMY！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嘛, 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。

跟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。

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？

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.

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.

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. :(

赖

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。

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~~~~~~

Anticipation

On our way to day care, there is a new bank branch opening at one of the street corner. They put a lot of ballon around that corner to attract attentions. Amy noticed that the first day they were placed, even before me noticed the construction is done. She pointed at the ballons and yelled "ball! ball! ball!". For the past couple of days, she'd do that everytime we passed the corner. However, the wind has been pretty strong recently. Some of the ballons flew away, the other lost all the air. Today there's nothing left. Even before we get to that corner, out of habit and anticipation, amy yelled excitedly, ball! ball! ball! Then she looked out, nothing there. That's when she turned to me, all confused, saying, ah-oh! ah-oh! I guess changes, even teeny tiny ones, irrelevant ones, are confusing to them.

fast learner

最近发现amy每天都在偷偷摸摸的学很多东西，我怀疑她是有小本本藏着，记了笔记的。

1. 某日我和老公闲聊，说，我妈如何如何，第一个如何还没说出来，小人儿就在旁边接下茬：袜袜！袜袜！（袜袜＝姥姥）至今我也不知道她怎么FIGURE OUT的人际关系。

2.春暖花开时节，母女二人驾车出行。我间或的指一下，AMY，看，花～第二天，AMY便自己指一棵梨树，花～，然后推广到看树就指，花～花～花～花～我赶紧纠正，不对，白的粉的是花，绿的是树。第三天，一路上，看AMY伸着小黑手，花！白白～树！白白～树！白白～忙了一阵，突然，BALL!白白～我一看，可不，谁家门口飘着气球两个。

3.幼儿园新来小朋友两个，noah和spence，轮流大哭每天。amy以前是深情的叫小朋友的名字然后微笑。前天放学路上，挨个念叨，avory,呵呵，lucia,呵呵，davin，呵呵，然后突然语气一变，带着哭腔大叫，noah~55555, spence~5555555。

4.某日睡前准备沐浴后要更的衣，在amy壁橱里找许久也找不到bodysuit，我就和自己嘀咕，说，哦，在洗衣间吧，脚下正在东摸西摸的小人儿听罢拔腿就跑，跑到洗衣间门口，指着门大叫：门！门！门！我自己都是第一次管那个房间叫洗衣间。可以算小人儿和我心意相通？

5.小人书架上画书一百本，其中混杂lucky杂志一本，目前是她favorite。翻开书页，找到亚裔或者墨裔美女就深情呼唤，姨～姨～。杂志封面美女的照片在目录那页也会出现，每看到目录，她就指着那个微缩了的照片认为是书中书，说，书～BOOK~担心妈妈不懂中文，英文也要说出来。

6.姥姥姥爷回国了，仍然想念。每次回家，一下高速公路，觉得快到家了，立刻叫，袜袜～爷爷～等红灯时，旁边一辆车，车里挂着一串骰子，姥爷从LAS VEGAS带回来常和AMY玩儿的，便指着说，爷爷～我便常常带她打电话给北京，渐渐的，已经接受了姥姥姥爷住在电话里的事实。某日我去接她，自己坐在小椅子上，静悄悄的举着一个玩具电话，在说，袜袜～爷爷～北京～家家～要是她姥姥看到，要哭鼻子了估计。

Sleep problems

Starting this winter, amy's been giving me a huge headache during her sleep time. Now every time i put her to bed, i'd be in this terrified stage, worrying what will happen during the night... It all started when she got sick. Every time she caught something, it'll start by her waking up nad refusing to go back to sleep around midnight. That's why i am so mortified each time she woke up. My instinct would tell me she's sick again. Unfortunately my instinct hasn't failed me so far. :(

Last week, she even had an episode of night terror. It was triggered by her biting. Amy's actually not very offensive, never started a fight. But if somebody tries to get her stuff, she's a fighter, a good one. Sean happens to be a guy who has a habbit to grab others' toy. So Amy has bited Sean at least twice. I guess the teachers gave her a hard time. I never gave amy time-out at home, i just can't. When teacher gave her time out, it struck her really hard. Last thursday night, the whole night, she kept talking in her dream, NO MINE! NO MINE! Even when i hold her, she couldn't calm down, and she even tried to walk away from me with her eyes closed. It totally broke my heart. I ended up sleeping with her that night.

Yesterday, similar thing happened. She didn't really have night terror. But she just couldn't go back to sleep. i was both worried and exhausted. So i hold her to sleep again...I know this is bad to her sleep-training... i just can't help. I wish this time she didn't catch some virus.... keep my fingers crossed.

18 month check up

After a couple of days staying at home, amy can't wait to go back to day care. But this morning i scheduled her 18 month check up at 9:30 am. So i told her that we'd go to check her weight first and then we'll go see avory. Somehow she only picked up the signal about "avory" and tuned out the first part. When we got into the clinic, she had this totally felling betrayed expression on her face. As she ran towards the door, she yelled, AVORY AVORY NO MINE NO MINE! All the nurses thought that's cute. Well... it's always cute when it happens to somebody else!

Weight: 25.3 lb
Height: 35 inch
Head: 19 1/4 inch.

2nd ear infection, NO MINE

Amy's ear infection came back. By far this is already the 3rd kind of antibiotics she's on. Hopefully it'll work this time. :( .

Everytime she gets sick, she figures out some new trick to drive us nuts. She knows we wouldn't really punish her during this kinda time. Kids are so smart! This time the new thing she picked up is 'NO MINE'. Whatever we say, she'd reply by a violently "NO MINE". She doesn't really know what it means. I guess some kids at day care yelled at her by that. She just found it really powerful. So now our daily conversation includes, "amy, you want some milk?" - NO MINE! "amy, you want to go out?" - NO MINE! Her father would tease her by saying, "amy, are you a good girl?" she'd reply by a proudly "NO MINE!". She even says it during her dream, too.

Use a spoon

Ever since amy's in the young toddler room, she's been practicing using spoons. Other kids' ability with this little objective totally intrigues her. At the very beginning, she just insisted on holding a spoon whenever i feed her. She didn't really use it to do anything other than banging it on the table. And then she moved on to poking stuff with the spoon. One day we were sharing yogurt, she found out after dipping the spoon into the cup,there'd be some yogurt on it. She's so excited about this observation that day i have to eat 2 cups of yogurt, all fed by amy. Of course both of us end up dressing most of the yogurt. But it's totally worth it. Recently she can use the spoon to pick up peas and then slowly, clumsly, and adorably put them into her wide opened mouth. It's really hard for her to coordinate the eyes, the mouth, and the hands. So half of the time long before she put the food in front of her mouth, she's already open her mouth really really wide. It's so cute to watch. Of course, she still can't use spoon to take soup. Yesterday, she attempted a couple of time, and the soup all ended up on her clothes.

Too nice

I don't know if there is such a thing as being too nice. Or, is there anything hidden behind being nice? i am thinking feeling insecure might be the real reason for a person to be nice.

I totally don't mind myself being push-over or crowd-pleaser, doing things that i don't want to do just to make others happy. But when it comes to Amy, i always want her to be a free-spirited person, do whatever she herself wants...... Well, most of the time things just don't turn out to be the way you want, do they?! It's just amazing how i can see myself in her, even though she's only 18 months.

Yesterday morning when i dropped amy off at the day care, Vicky was sitting on the floor, blowing bubbles. All the kids were jumping up and down, chasing those bubbles, despite the fact that vicky has told them over and over and over again to sit down. However, the minute vicky said, amy come and sit down, amy sat down quietly, just looking at others playing. If there are bubbles coming her way, she'd try to poke them, if not, she'd just sit there, watching others. After a while, Vicky asked amy to blow the bubble. Again, she did exactly as Vicky instructed the instant she heard her. After that, she returned to her spot, sat down again, quietly.

That's when it hit me, all the things i see in Amy, the friendly smile, the Hi gesture, the hugs she gives out, and the kisses she blows... are all things she tries really hard to do, to please others. By nature, she's a rather shy and quiet kid. But she tries really hard to do what others tell her to do. She's either too nice and sweet or too insecure. I do want to believe it's the former.

As amy gets bigger and bigger, i question myself more and more often. Am i really prepared for this? Yes, i can feed her, change her and bath her, no problem. But when it comes to spiritual/personality/emotional needs and guidance, i really have no clue what to do.

I am trying to convice myself that parenting IS like this. Growing up together is a whole package, including feeling useless, helpless, and panicky.

Funny girl

Amy started to show her funny side recently, like walking funny with her body bended, or walking backwards into a wall and then say "ah-oh", or pretending she's kicking a ball while walking when there's no ball at all...Normally when i changed her into her sleepware, she'd know it's nap time and started to fuzz. Today when i did that, she started to pretend to cry, making funny noise, pretending she doesn't want to be changed and then gave me a sunny smile.

wish i had the camera with me! - affectionate moment

今天早上，众小朋友团团坐，分果果。
AMY同学色心萌动，无有原因的情况下假装淑女，做温柔状，软倒在SEAN的肩头。无奈何该女生身材魁梧，古铜肤色，娇柔滴没有，压死SEAN滴趋势大大。
SEAN个性敦厚，温良友善，所以咬牙硬扛，你来压（强暴？）我，我就是不倒。。。两个人僵持一阵，SEAN认输，低头（更像是抬头其实），赐AMY一吻于发间。

小女初次吊凯子，特此纪念。

Cheater~

The day before yesterday, amy had some reaction to the new antibiotics she's on, 3 diarrhea in a role. So the teacher had us pick her earlier and told us she had to stay home for more than 24 hours before she could go back again. We kept her home yesterday, which of course made my mom extremely happy and me extremely worried... I don't know why, i just can't trust my parents with amy. bad bad daughter i am!
Any way, i went back home to check on them around noon. My parents were busy cooking, so i had amy with me while i checked on my work online... Amy got really bored about the fact that i didn't really play with her like my parents did and wandered away. I was really happy that i can focus on my work until i heard her saying, mommy mommy! i turned around and found her lying on her pillow where we changed her regularly. She looked at me, pulling on her diaper and mumbling, poop poop... She started doing this a while ago... we were just too lazy to potty-train her yet. Any how, that's the signal she's pooped. So i threw away the key board and hurry to her to see if she had another diarrhea. Only i found out her diaper was totally dry! i looked up at her and she gave me this really proud and sneaky smile. Cheater! :D

Gross

小女从WEIRDO往SICKO的方向发展。吃香蕉吃饼干吃一口不咽，含着，最长的一次含了1个小时。又想说话，口水活着食物往出流，我说，YEWWWWWWWW,她就说，YEWWWW，更多的口水出来。
幼儿园阿姨善意的以为我们是病了，其实哪里有，昨天恨不得吃了半张大饼。肚子都要爆炸了，一点病的样子都没有。就是GROSS而已。可以起名叫GROSSY GROSSMAN。哼哼。

Multi-tasker

Yesterday when i was hurrying myself to get out of the apartment, amy was bugging me by handing me her finished bottle. So i impatiently told her, go give it to your daddy. After she happily run off to her daddy, i mummbled to myself, where the hell is my belt? 30 seconds later, i heard amy said thank you to her daddy and her daddy praised her for following mommy's instruction... but i still couldn't find my belt, i was like, damn it! then the little one just appeared out of no where, and proudly holding out her hand with her daddy's belt in it! I was so touched and so surprised and so proud of her at the same time~ It's just amazing how my little angel can turn a crazy morning into a sweetest memory.

All better now

Amy's all better and in day care today.
She has been longing for this day for a long time. During the weekend, everytime i took her out for a walk, she'd think we are going to daycare, then run to our car and call avory's name.
This morning the minute we walked in the day care, she saw polly and run off to her like she's her real mother. :p

Seems like roseola

today amy's dad noticed there are some rash on her tummy and legs. i am such an absent-minded mom! after talking with a couple of friends, i think it's roseola.will go to the clinic tomorrow, AGAIN.sigh... don't know when this is gonna end. amy's just catching one thing after another.

all these sickness has made amy extremely clingy, fuzzy, unreasonable, and totally spoiled! after my mom did the bed time routine for a couple of days, she even refused to sleep by herself! most of the time i don't know what to do with her. if i am too tough, i'd feel guilty cuz she might be experiencing some uncomfort... if i just let her control everything, i'd feel guilty, too. cuz that way she'd end up a self-centered kid!

like yesterday, my mom and i took her out for a short walk. she thew a tantrum for no reason at all (at least i didn't see any reason... but that might be it, it's my problem, i can't see... see? this is what's been going on in my mind all the time...i might as well just give up and go mad once and for all!). i dragged my mom away and left her lying in the middle of the jogging trail. after we made a slight turn and hid ourselves in some bushes, amy immediately jumpped up and tried to figure out where we are. it took her only a couple of second to see us. i thought she'd come and try catch up with us. but NO, she found a spot where she can see us and almost all the open area, and then sit back down again. my mom finally gave up and caved... if she didn't, i think i would, too, sooner or later...i just don't know how to fight this little fuzzyball any mroe.

PLUS influenza B

sigh... i HATE this winter, HATE it HATE it HATE it.
Amy has been having fever since last saturday. i thought it was just the ear infection... (again, stupid stupid stupid, take a mental note, CALL THE PED!!!! doesn't matter if we just get back from his office or not). Until today, she's still having fever, i finally called the ped and found out she's got influenza B now. :(

Learnt a lot

Crazy busy recently. So let me just make a list of what amy learnt:

1. A couple of weeks after her daddy bought her a "number sorter", amy now can put all 10 numbers into the correct spot. She even made up a little game by herself. She'd try put the numbers into the wrong spots, and yelling "no" at the same time. After a couple of rounds like this, she'd then put them into the correct place and applaud.

2. After she pooped, she'd bring her diaper rash cream and wipes to the regular changing spot and lie down. When she has a runny nose, she'd point at her nose and ask us to wipe it for her.

3. You just can't cheat her. Today i was hiding in my room reading papers. My parents tried to distract her clingyness by telling her that i went to school. She immediately looked at my coat, my keys, and my shoes then protested her grandparents' lie by screaming MOMMY! MOMMY! furiously.

4. She can tell the difference between my parents' glasses. They are actually quite similar. And she insisted them putting the glasses on whenever she sees them cuz her daddy wears glasses all the time.

5. With a little help, she can drink from an adult bottle by herself.

First Ear Infection

This winter seems endless and hopeless to me. Ever since amy moved to the young toddler room, she has been sick. Out of the 40 some days, there might be 4 or 5 days that she's healthy, other than that, it's either her nose is running or she's coughing all the time. Now, she finally got her first ear infection. I have been dreaded for this day to come. Well... fear just stops things, doesn't it?

It's her teacher who urges us to take amy to her ped. We were really reluctant to do so cuz A) amy hates the office, and B) every time the ped just sent us home with a prescription of "more fluid". Vicky insisted from day 1 that this time is different cuz the discharge from amy's nose is thick and greenish. But since amy didn't have a fever, i just refused to listen (sigh, stupid! stupid! stupid! take a mental note: WHATEVER VICKY SAYS, DO IT!). Up until last thursday, when vicky and the other teach, kristina, were both sick, I suddenly realized how serious the virus is this time around. So before i left for the new faculty consortium, i arranged my husband to take amy to the ped. Guess what, she got ear infection!

The fever didn't come until the day before yesterday. And it hasn't stopped yet. It come and goes. With very bad appetite, Amy is still energetic, though, running around and making messes every where. Yesterday she managed to pull out a pile of newspaper my dad hid under the coffee table and read every single page of it...So i am not that worried.

I just can't believe how stupid i was. And, please, please, let this pass, SOON!