A Little Exprorer

The Shi-Shi's family visited Sausalito on Saturday. It was a nice weather in Palo Alto, though, it started raining a little as we aproached SanFrancisco. And when we arrived at Sausalito, it was raining so hard. We decided to go to a restaurant and wait until the weather got any better. The restaurant was called the Spinnaker, which featured a panoramic view of the San Francisco bay and skyline. Papa ordered crab cakes, mama ordered avocado and turkey sandwich, and Shi-Shi shared with papa and mama, as usual. We enjoyed the nice meal while viewing the nice scenery. As we stayed at the restaurant, the weather got better, and it turned out the nice weather to talk around the town.

As usual, Shi-Shi was interested in any little things, such as fallen leaves, seeds, manholes, etc... and couldn't walk straight. Papa and mama decided to stopped by at a children's clothes shop in order to find a safe place for her to walk around. ( There were a lot of tourlists and busy trafic.) Shi-Shi found a nice traveling bag at the store, papa bought it for her. She carried the bag all the way, and passersby said " Oh, cute!!"  

Get on a Swing Bucket back to back

It was playdate today, and Shi-Shi and mama went to Barron Park. Shi-Shi got on a swing bucket with Jasper back to back! The swing bucket might be too small for two of them:( Mama took several pictures, though, they didn't turn out very good. She'd been inside for a week because of sick and the bad weather, so she was so much excited in the playground! She nomally goes down a slide a couple times and swiches to another a play structure, though, she sticked with a big slide all the time in this morning. After a while, Shi-Shi and Jasper went to see donkeys, though, they were out to somewhere:( Maybe it was such a nice weather, so they took a walk and got some sunshine.

Do I look COOL?

Ring around the rosey

Shi-Shi loves "Ring around the rosey" so much. She heard this song at her art class in the last fall. Mama hadn't known the lyrics, and we couldn't sing and play at home. But mama'd found the lyric in Mother Goose, and now we can sing and play all the time! The interesting thing is that lyric is a little different in each country. This is what we sing in our art class.

Ring around the rosey
A pocketful of posies
Ashes, Ashes,
We all fall down

The cow a in a meadow
Eating buttercups
Yummy Yummy

There's a thunder, there's a lightning
We all stand up!

LUNA

Shi-Shi and mama has been stucked in our apartment for more than a week becuase of the bad weather and because Shi-Shi has been coughing and sneezing. While then, Shi-Shi has practiced pronouncing her friend's name "LUNA", and she did it!! We met Luna in this afternoon, and Shi-Shi called her name!!! It is HUGE step for her. It was the FIRST time for her calling somebody's name except papa and mama. Now, she keeps calling "Luna" "Luna" all the time. When I asked her if she wanted to see Luna in this afternoon right after she got up from her nap, she said "Luna!".

Construction workforce

This is a helmet that her teachers at a daycare center made for a kids and parents event. The helmet was made out of a bowl of an instant noodle. (There is a stroy behind that teachers at the daycare center had to eat an instant noodle just for making helmets for kids.) At the event, Shi-Shi and mama attended one of races that Shi-Shi put the helmet and acted like a construction workforce, such as digging a hole ( putting balls to a sled), piling up blocks. Shi-Shi was nervous because there were a lot of families watched the race, though, she was good at piling up blocks. Shi-Shi was not really interested in putting the helmet at that time, she still likes it a lot, and she puts it when play with other toys for some reasons. She may be thinking of the fun time at the event and daycare center.

Do I look Crazy?

She-Shi is picky about what she wears thesedays. When mama opens Shi-Shi's drawer to get clothes for her, she comes to mama and trys to pick something else. Mama always sneaks Shi-Shi's clothes and put them on, though, sometimes she hates to put something that are not her choice. This is what happens when she choses her clothes... She wears a hot pant and leg warmers on top of her red trousers, and put a apron on her T-shirt... also she has a scarf on her neck ( this is mama because she is drooling because of stucked noses...)

Does Shi-Shi understand what Mama says?

She-Shi seems to understand what mama says thesedays. This morning, mama was looking for the Mother Goose CD, wandering around the livingroom and asked Shi-Shi where it was. Then she brought the CD and gave it to mama!! The CD was in a trank of her little car. (she put the CD into the trank earlier, and mama wouldn't know that.) Shi-Shi is now 22-month-old, though, she is not ready to talk yet.  (she speak her own language that nobody would understand.)  It would be fussy by the time she speaks ...well in a good way...

What Fun it is to sing songs....Recent favorite activity

One of the most favorite activities for Shi-Shi is singing songs (maybe listening to songs...). That book is her favorite music book. She always brings it to mama or papa to let her or him to sing. Shi-Shi sits on mama or papa's rap and flips pages. The interesteing thing is that she doesn't listen to a whole song and flips a page in a second. Mama and Papa sings just a line or two and swich to another song. Also, she is picky about where to sit to sing songs; sometimes at a corner of a living room and sometimes on a bad. It is realy a fun activity for both of us!

Rain Rain Go Away...

It's been rained for almost a whole week! We are already spoiled by the CALIFORNIAN weather; dry and warm. When it rains, SHI-SHI has nowhere to run around. It is ok only for a day or two, though, Mom cannot think of any more activities that SHI-SHI would enjoy at home other than singing songs, dancing together, and playing with kitchen staff. Mom hopes No More Rain tomorrow!