A little conversation with pappy

Here is a little conversation between Shi-Shi and pappy yesterday.

S: Cookie Monster!
P: Wow! Where did you get this?
S: Mommy cut.

That doesn't really make sence to others, but Shi-Shi responsed in a right way.
Shi-Shi had a ready-to-eat waffle coming with a box with Cookie Monster's picture on, and since that was the last piece, so Mommy cutted off Cookie Monster's picture from the box and gave that to her.
Shi-Shi is now trying really hard to talk more and more and make longer sentences.

Helping mommy

Shi-Shi's been a remainder ever since she was one year-old. When Mommy and Shi-Shi go for shopping, Shi-Shi reminds Mommy something that Mommy forgets to put in a shopping cart. For example, she used to say " bread!" on a way back from her day-care center. She used to be a bread eater. Whenever she had a piece of bread in her hand, she was really quiet. And it used to be really busy in a morning because Mommy needed to leave house early. So Mommy just gave her a piece of bread while preparing something go with the bread. So Shi-Shi's family always had to have a lot of bread at home. She is not a big fan of bread any more, though... They went to Trader Joe's yesterday just to get a couple of water bottles, but Shi-Shi said " coffee!". Yes, actually Mommy needed to get a bag of coffee beans! These things happen often. Mommy doesn't like to go shooping with her so much, though, when Mommy is with Shi-Shi, Mommy doesn't forget something she should buy.

Key?!

Shi-Shi likes Curious George, and she has DVD, which has 6 episodes in. She asked Pappy to turn on the George DVD, and she said "KEY" when it was time to choose an episode to watch. The episode she wanted to watch was "night zoo", so Pappy was really confused and thought she mispronounced " key" instead of "zoo". However when she asked to turn on the DVD in the afternoon, Mommy noticed that Shi-Shi said "key" because keys were one of the main pionts of the story. The story is like this; George went to a zoo to watch a panda bear and was trapped in a zoo. He found keys, which he thought he could unlock a door and get himself out. Instead of openning a door to lead him out, he opened all the animals' cages, and all the animals were out in a same field. He noticed his mistake and figured out what to do, and that was all about the story. Mommy is not sure if she really follows the story or not, though, she remembers what is in a story at least!

Shi-Shi is Happy!

Shi-Shi has been developping her language skill so much more recently. She copies some of the words Mommy tell her often and makes another sentence with the words that she copies. For example, Mommy and Shi-Shi took a walk in this morning and grab a sandwich at a shop, and after they finished their lunch, Mommy started reading a book. Mommy said " Mommy is reading a book." and Shi-Shi said " Shi-Shi is reading a newspaper." She knows a word newspaper because she loves opening a newspaper stand on street and Mommy always tell her " no newspaper, please..." So eventually she learned the word Newspaper. Mommy's friend suggested Mommy oneday that she should note every word Shi-Shi said because it is a remarkable period in a kids' life to aquire a language.

So, since Shi-Shi talks a lot recently, she started to enjoy a conversation-like with Mommy and Pappy. And her favorite sentence is " Shi-Shi is happy!"

Shi-Shi goes to pre-school!

Shi-Shi now goes to pre-school with her friend Luna two mornings! She is really happy to go there with Luna, so mama thinks that the problem was the envieonment that there was no friend. Shi-Shi's mama applied to a pre-school summer session for Shi-Shi, and she supposed to go four mornings in July. Though, she was not ready to be away from mama and interact with other kids. So she only went to school for 1/3 of the summer session. But mama and the president of the school conserned about it, and as a compliment, Shi-Shi could take her friend to school even though Luna is not a student. Mama is also happy that things turns out very well, and thank Luna's mama's corporation!

Shi-Shi runs!!

Shi-Shi's family is a running family. Since Shi-Shi's parents had decided to attend an half marathon race, they'd started running almost every morning before papa went to work, and they still trains every once in a while even their marathon race was over. And Shi-Shi now became a running girl. One evening, papa and mama left for running, Shi-Shi said " Shi-Shi runs!", and she acctually ran for 500 m without stopping at her favourite newspaper holders. It was really impressive, though, papa and mama acctually liked her to get on a stroller because they wouldn't even run. It is interesting, though, Shi-Shi've started to walk more on her own since her parents's started work out. There is a saying in Japan that a child develops his value while watching his parents' behavior, close saying in English will be "like father, like son" "Know the breed, know the dog".