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.

Spi Cy

Shi-Shi picks up words while listennig to someone's talk quite often recently. Mama and papa were so surprised to hear that Shi-Shi said " Spi Cy" when we had yellow curry at dinner. Mama has no clue where and when Shi-Shi learned the word "spicy" because we don't usualy eat any spicy food except salsa and curry, and we don't eat those food often. It is also curious to know how kids leran how animals make sound. Shi-Shi knows how doggies make sound, and she says " wan wan" which means " bowwow" in English. But that's because mama talks her like that. But for other animals, she hasn't made sound yet, and mama dosen't know how bears, penguins, alligators make sound. ( they are all the stuffed animals Shi-Shi has.) Mama is interested in asking Shi-Shi how she creats animals sound in the near future.

Potty!

Shi-Shi sat on a potty and made chi-chi (pee-pee) into a potty for the first time! When she went to her friend's place and saw her friend sitting on a potty, Shi-Shi started taking off her trausers and diper and tried to sit on a potty behind her friend. Mama asked Shi-Shi to wait for her turn, and when it's time, she looked really happy sitting on a potty! Later on she sat on and got off over again and again, and finally she looked a little nervous. When mama checked her out, Shi-Shi'd made pee-pee!! It was not exactly into a potty. She wore a body suit type underwear, and back part of the underwear was in a potty. So pee was on her cloth, though, it was her first time to make pee not on a diper!! ( well, she has a lot of stories of making pee on floor or carpet, though, today's story is making pee on somewhere she is allowed.)
It is realy special day to mark on a calender!!

What is Your Name?

Shi-Shi listens to a CD in a car. She has a couple CDs, though, mama is lazy to change a CD. So Shi-Shi listens to the same songs all over again and again. Today on a way back to home from a playground, Shi-Shi was listenning to a song " what's your name?". The lyric is like this.

Hello! What's your name?
Hello! What's your name?
Oh, tell me what your name is
Me, Oh may!
Don't be shy!
Ba la ba di doo dah
Hello! What's your name?

When Shi-Shi listened to the line " what's your name?", she responded and said " Shi-Shi!". She just started calling her friends' names and her name recently, so mama thought Shi-Shi just said that, though, mama asked again " what's your name?" Shi-Shi responded " Shi-Shi". WOW!! She really said that!

Now I remember, Shi-Shi said "Hi" to an old man at the playground this morning when he said "Hi" to her. It was like she repeated just like a poll parrot.

Shi-Shi is now in one of the biggest transitions. She is learning a lot of words, and mama guesses that she understands most of what mama talks and others do thesedays. A baby grows up really fast!


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