Parrot

Shi-Shi has been just like a parrot thesedays. Whenever she learns a new word, she keeps saying the ward over again and again. The resent word is "Water". A hotel that Shi-Shi's family stayed in Las Vegas has water fountains and wall with water falling. Whenever they passed those things, Shi-Shi sayed "water!". And she found out that that water and a bottle of water were the same, just different whether drinkable or not. This mornig, she came to the kitchen and asked mama " water" while trying to open the refrigerator door.

Open!

Shi-Shi likes "open" things out. Sometimes she opens too much and breaks things down, and if there is something that she cannot open, she brings the thing to mama and says "OPEN!". The way she say "open" is really cute.

Wild Animals in Grand Canyon

Shi-Shi's family visited Grand Canyon last weekend, and saw wild animals (a dear and a lion) on a way to Mather point to see sunrise. It is first time to see them (they've been to zoos a couple times, though, they've never seen wild animals outside cages.). They'd just passed those animals, and tryed not to scare them. An instraction said that people shouldn't walk off the pass which was already prepared by the park, otherwise animals get scared and may attack people. Shi-Shi's family took a path to Mather point, so that was ok, though, mama wonders if there is anybody who get attacked by wild animals in the past. It is really scarey to think about becuase animals are really big and don't look alike stuffed animals.

Shi-Shi's family took a morning tour to look around Grand Canyon. It took them the nice view spots around the park. Cliffs are so high, and mama is a little scared of heights, mama didn't want Shi-Shi get closer to cliffs, and walk around alone. But Shi-Shi is scarelss!! She tryed to walk around alone, though, she eventually calmed down and played under a tree. (thanks goodness!!)

Eating habit

Shi-Shi's eating habit is not stable. Sometimes she eats a lot, just as much as adults do, but sometimes she eats only bites, just as little as a little mouse. Mama has no idea about what makes her eating habit stable. Her daily schedule is alway the same, going to a music class or an art class in the morning, taking a nap for two hours, going to a park later afternoon, and having a dinner at around 7:00pm. It happens to small children, and shouldn't be worried, though, when she doesn't eat much, she leaves a table so fast and comes to papa or mama to play and papa and mama can't relax while having dinner:(

TOTORO

Shi-Shi listens to songs from Neighborhood of TOTORO in a car all the time. When the songs come close to the end, she gets cranky, then mama has to set the CD back to the same songs again and again. Mama can now sing the songs perfectly...

Elmo

Shi-Shi likes Elmo from Sesami Street. She never watched Elmo on TV or DVD before, though, her toilet sheet is Elmo, so she knows the charactor. For some reason she's been calling Elmo all the time, and mama found Sesami Street's DVD at Safeway, mama bought the DVD and watched it after dinner. Shi-Shi, papa and mama sat and started watching it, though, Elmo was not coming up yet. They waited to see Elmo for an half hour, though, still he hasn't come up, and Shi-Shi got cranky:( The DVD that mama bought is titled " follow that bird", and a story is about Big Bird, so because of that Elmo is not in the DVD?! Mama wonders is he going to come later this story? Mama will find out other DVD with Elmo next time!!

Two Words!

Shi-Shi started to speak two words! She used to say only one word, though, now she says " mama cooking" or " papa cleaning". It is not her repeating after somebody, but she say when she sees mama or papa in a kitchen. Also she says more words than before, apple, airplain, raisen, fork, and more! She doesn't say whole a lot, though, she does understand what somebody says. When mama talked to her " there is a piece of cake in a refregulater", she went to a kitchen and waited in front of a refregulater!!

Afraid of Chickens?

Shi-Shi went to Hidden Villa for hiking. The park has chichens, sheeps, cows, pigs, many farm animals. Shi-Shi had been a zoo couple times when she was much younger, and she often sees bogs around town, though, she was really scared of firm animals. There was a place chickens were off a cage, and they were around us. Mama wanted Shi-Shi to walk with them and pet them, though, she was really afraid of walking alone. But when we left the place, she said "bye bye chicken!" in mama's arm.

Shopping Cart!

Papa nad mama bought a toy shopping cart for Shi-Shi's christmas present, though, she received so many presents from everywhere, so papa and mama decided to give this present later, but didn't know when... So finally, they decided to give it on her birthday! She really loved the shopping cart!! She put her frog friend, called gacco on its child sheet and put books and clothes on a basket, and she pushed the cart around a house. When mama told her it was time to take a bath, Shi-Shi took the shopping cart to a bathroom.

2nd Birthday!!

Shi-Shi turned TWO on March 11th. She celebrated her birthday with her favorite friend Luna. Shi-Shi might not really understand what day was, though, she'd seemed to be really excited past few days. Mama baked a cheese cake for her and lit a candle.  She will have another birthday party at a park in a couple weeks!

Pasta neckless!

Shi-Shi goes to an art class once a week, and she adores the class so much. There are 6 tables, and an art projects materials are prepared on an each table. Kids move a table to a table and create art projects. Shi-Shi never finish one project, and she moves a table as she feels. She likes playing with playdough so much, and she stays at a playdough table for about half hour, which is half of a class hour. Today, she tried to make a neckless with short pastas. She tried to put a string though a shot pasta, though, she was not patient enough, and tried to swich to another table. Though, mama stopped her and let her try a little more. This time, mama holded a string, and Shi-Shi put a past through the string, and she did!!

Jamping on a bed

Shi-Shi had been excited for something for a whole day today. She was jumping on a bed in the morning before the music class and in the evening after bath. She was jumping around while singing some songs from Music Together.

How do I look?

Shi-Shi normally doesn't like to tie her hair, so her hair is always flapping like wings. Sometimes mama ties her hair with her favorite hair band, and she likes it for a while, though, in a few hours she takes the hair band off. Oneday, mama ties her hair and told her " look at yourself, you are really cute with hair tied.", then she looked at a mirror so curiously asking herself " how do I look?" In a few hours she took off hair bands, and she became as usual...

Future Figure Skater

All of Shi-Shi's family enjoyed figure skating in Vancouver Olympic game. While watching figure skating, Shi-Shi raised her leg with hand holding a table and pretended skating on ice with hands on her back. Mama tried to record Shi-Shi, though, a camera got her attention and she stopped acting like a figure skater.

Girls' Day

Girls day is celebrated on March 3rd in Japan, and girls and their families display their doll collections. One legend says that if girls display their dolls longer after March 3rd, they will marry later in life. Shi-Shi's grandma displays dolls every year and put them back to a box right after the date, so Shi-Shi's mama married at around the right age.

Shi-Shi's dolls were in Japan and were not displayed in this year, though, we still celebrated the day to  pray for Shi-Shi's health and her girl friends' health. Mama cooked Anpanman face Sushi, and Shi-Shi liked it so much.

Ice Cream!

Ice Cream is one of Shi-Shi's favorite. Mama asked what Shi-Shi wanted for her snack, and she said " ice cream!". Ice cream is a good motivation to make her do something not interested in. At dinner last night, she was not eating, so mama told her that if she finish all the food on her plate, she would have ice cream. Then she started eating so fast! Ice cream amazed papa and mama with what it could do to Shi-Shi. Now ice cream is a good friend of mama and papa.

No No No!

Shi-Shi is turning Two-year-old in a week, and she is already " a terrific Two". Now her favorite word is "NO!". Mama wonders how other mothers deal with their kids saying "NO!". Mama thought back and noticed that she'd kept saying Shi-Shi that " you shouldn't do this and that" all the time, so now it is Sh-Shi's turn to say " No! I don't want this and that!". It seems like fair... Ok, mama is going to try not to say "No" to Shi-Shi from now on... That will be a new campaign.