臭美

臭美的英语怎么说？那么就再来中文的好了。

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

委屈的情绪

委屈的英语是什么泥？查了半天没有查到，就中文的好了。

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

A conversation between amy and mom

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

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

Diarrhea

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

First Accident

Amy had her first accident this Wednesday night.

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

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

15 Month Check up (12/09/2004)

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

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

Ticklish

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

Biter girl

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

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

First sentence

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

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

Back to normal

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

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

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

Can't kiss me without permission!

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

loves auntie

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

Word count

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

体力劳动者

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

Very polite

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

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

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

面面

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

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

Shapes

Amy now knows different shapes.

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

小笨笨

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

Crazy busy recently

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

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

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

Bossy Girl

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