Dec 2007

Helping out in the kitchen


Cookie cutting
Daddy wanted to make cookies for friends and families this year and asked April for some help...


X'mas show
What a disaster! According to Ms. Kim's instruction, parents should dress their kids in red and/or green. There is no red dress, only a purple one, but Mommy found a sweater with red on it. She's not happy about it, talking about fashion rebellion at this age, she wanted to wear the blue dress, Mommy said NO, she accepted it before going to school. Right before the show, the school is packed with parents and relatives. We finally found her in the next room, getting ready to perform. At the same moment, Jennifer's Mom came with a red dress and April broke into such a cry asking for her red dress. She cried through the performance, since it only last for couple minutes. Both Mommy and Daddy were very disappointed at her. Not every girl in the class had a red dress, why is it okay for others but not her? >-(

Later she sang it to both Mommy and Daddy at home as a makeup.


SF day trip
A relaxing day... we checked out the skating ring by Embarcadero Center while drinking hot chocolate. April really wanted to try, yet neither Mommy nor Daddy knows how. So we just act as audience. We also walked around the Ferry building, a nice market place by the shore. Later the evening, we walked around Union Street to see some local lighting.

Visiting Grandma Grandpa in MN
Mommy stayed home while Daddy brought April over to the snowy MN. April also got overly excited the day before, kept asking when can she board her flight. Not until mid-night, my young lady! The stay was a blast for April. She got so many X'mas gifts from friends and families, enjoyed running around a 4000 sq. ft. house everyday, cycling her new bike from Grandma in the basement hardwood floor, making snow man right outside the window, swimming in the indoor kiddie poor in YMCA and meeting a twin kids, helping the sister fight with the brother.

Not sure if Mommy missed any juicy part, that will need to be filled by Daddy ;P

Quotes of the month
One Sunday morning, Mommy left for swimming, Daddy woke up April and dressed her. Well, Daddy wasn't fully awake or didn't have his glasses on or what, he started pulling out clothes from the drawer...

April had the top on, so just needed to find a pants, Daddy pulled out 1st piece
April: 这不是裤子。
Daddy pulled out 2nd piece
April: 这也不是裤子， 你怎么那么笨！
Daddy yelled: Mami, April 欺负我
April: hmm...爸爸好可怜。

One afternoon, Daddy and Mommy were snacking in the car while waiting for April to finish her nap. Once she woke up, we offered her the bag of leftover. April was very polite and asked both of us to take some, saying sharing is caring. But we both said, no thank you(well, we already had enough...evil)
April:我自己吃很孤单的呀！

Bad habit
Biting her nails...why always learn bad things from classmates and not good ones? >-(