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!


And now, with me

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!