12.19.08
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
From the Chen household to our dear family and friends:
12.08.08
Santa talk
A few days earlier:
Maddy: How come Santa doesn’t come to visit us?
me: huh? [pretended I didn’t hear her.. think think think]
Maddy: How come Santa doesn’t come and visit us?
me: [oh, you might just as well know the facts] You know that Santa is not real. Just like all the prinesses and stuff. They’re all just dressed up. We shouldn’t be expecting gifts on Jesus’ Birthday anyway.
Yesterday:
Maddy: How does Santa know to skip our house?
me: what?
Maddy: How does Santa know that we don’t celebrate Xmas?
me: Of course we celebrate Xmas. We thank God for sending Jesus into the world. People give each other gifts to show that they care and think about one another. Just like you do extra chores to get money for your bumble bee class so the class can by a bee hive for a family who needs it.
Maddy: [sigh.. a little disappointed] ok.
One day… hopefully one day, you’ll realize and rejoice that the only gift you really need on Christmas is already given to you.
12.04.08
Project Celebration
Maddy’s kindergarten class put up a Project Celebration for the parents today because tomorrow is last day of this track session. They made slide shows about the field trip to a local farm and the apple tree observations (there is an apple tree on campus). It was totally high tech, with voices of each kids along with their pictures on the side when they told the stories. They took us around the classroom and hallway and showed us the projects/works done. During the break time, the parents were served apple pies and lemonade, both made by them during the center time yesterday and today. At the end, they also sang a few songs for us.
Here is some artworks/projects done by Maddy being displayed in class.
apple-tree-song
12.03.08
Potty Training second time around
Potty training second time around is not going as well as I imagined. Maddy at 2 year and 8 months old, finished her night time potty training. When Olivia came into the world 6 weeks early than expected, I only had to change one little person’s diapers.
Olivia Chen, she is something else. The child can do her #1 business in the toilet no problem. However, she would still pee in her pull-up “just because”, and she refuses and protests to go on the toilet for #2.
“I want, I want standing up” She screams when I catch her walking to the corner with ‘that face’. I finally broke down and bribed her with a piece of ‘vitamin candy’ last week. First she had a meltdown about not being able to get it right away, then she sat on the toilet for a long long time with no result. At the last minute she declared that she doesn’t want the candy any more.
me: “Livy, where are you supposed to pee pee and poo poo?”
Livy: “I pee pee and poo poo in the TOILET. I am a big girl” [she says it with such a confidence she can easily trick you of thinking that she actually does them”
This morning the child poo-ed in her pull up. After they came down for breakfast:
me: “Daddy said you poopoo-ed in pull up? Why?”
Livy: “Yea. I am a BABY!!”
And right before we head out for school-
Livy: “No strawberry candy?” (The Vitamin C ‘candy’ I use to bribe her)
The child wears me out.