weekend recap

Kaitlyn had so much fun last weekend. I didn't want to go to that party, because the place is kind of far, and swimming under the sun, no way, that's not me, way too hot! But Kaitlyn insisted on going to see her friends. I'm glad we went, she did meet her friends who stayed home for the summer (isn't that nice!)

I circled about 20mins to find the place. The invitation says Westpark, but it's actually part of a church facility, and the entrance is way down another street!

Here is one picture of Kaitlyn and Elena taking turns climbing the frog. Elena is such a sweet girl, every time we met her, she always ran to Kaitlyn hugging her tightly, and hold Kaitlyn's hand. She is actually almost a year younger than Kaitlyn, but she is one head taller, and 2-3 sizes bigger. It's so funny to see them hugging, because Kaitlyn would look so tiny, like Elena is hugging a cute baby :-)

When we got into the party room, Kaitlyn saw Cason. They sticked together like good buddies haven't seen each other for a while. I didn't know they play together at school, she doesn't mentioned him much.

No wonder daddy always told me, when he drops her at school in the morning, there are always some boys or girls come up say hi to Kaitlyn or try to hold her hands, but she keeps on walking, joins the group she wants or stays by herself. Where is this attitude problem coming from? Guess at this age, she always knows whom she wants to hang out with. Her afternoon teacher said Kaitlyn is quite at work time, but she acts silly and funny at playtime, boys likes to play with her a lot. Um, does this mean she is a little tomboy sometimes, or she feels the opposite attractions, LOL

Here comes they shared one chair togetherThat innocent looksand had fun playing balloon in the hat

carseat to booster

Kaitlyn has been complaining about her car seat for some time. I kept forgetting check the safety requirements because I know she is very under weight.

I finally checked today, it says 5years and 36inches. So technically, she graduated from the car seat stage already. Does this means no more toddler but a kid girl from now on?! Alright, we'll get her a booster seat.

I saw DPS still recommends car seat for up to approx. 40lbs, and she is about 34lbs (~15%tile at her age). For her record, her weight is about 15%, her height is about 50%, and BMI is about 8%. So you know how skinny she is. I gave up tracking her %tile a long time ago, because her weight has been under 25% since about one year old, even though she was a big baby at birth, 8lbs 11oz. We tried so many ways enticing her appetite, she just doesn't gain much. Fruits and pasta(with very light sauce) are her favorites. Well, as long as she is healthy, no big problem and sickness, thank goodness, I'm happy where she is!

Chung was joking about how could she gain any weight, she never walks! Yeah, I'm serious, ever since she learned walking, she barely walks, she always RUNS! It's not like she is in a hurry, she just likes runing and jumping all the time. Because of this, she fells down quite often, and I always try to hold her hand when we go out.

It's interesting this girl likes running around, but the same time, she could sit down for hour doing things she enjoys, such as drawing, reading, playing with her dolls.

Thank you, Ms. Anny!

I'm getting nervous when looking at these pics! She looks so growing up, not my baby anymore :-)

After she finishes this summer session, she will be going to elementary school kindergarten. Before Ms. Anny went on vacation a few weeks ago, she planted sunflowers with kids in her class together. When Kaitlyn brought home the flower pot, it's so small, tiny to barely fit my palm.

She helped daddy move it to a bigger pot, now it's blossom, so sweet! Kaitlyn said she'll take picture and make a thank you card to Ms. Anny, Ms. Paula and Ms. Keisha, letting them know the flower is taller than her now! Such a sweet thing!

Next Rachel Ray

She wants to help me cook dinner. Sure, why not? You're five year old now!

How is the taste? Do I look professional?
Singing while cooking - new style of cooking

And dancing

Birthday presents

I picked up figures made from Kaitlyn's birthday party. Everyone is a little Van Gogh!
I wanted her do a special plate with her hand print and drawings, but she picked a dolphin (on the left). It turned out cute. I would not buy this figure from the store for $12, but this artwork by my five year girl is priceless :-)Kaitlyn also decorated this poster with me and brought it to school on her birthday to share with her class.

Amazing changes of my little girl!

drama team candidate

Recently, this girl likes putting posts in front of camera. Here are some:

Post One: Do I look like the statue of liberty?

Post #2: Statue of liberty came alive!Post #3: Oops, I forgot about the torch - Cheers to Beijing Olympics!Post 4: Well, sandwich sounds better, yummy!

Post #5: Where is your eletrical guitar, rock star?

OMG, it can't get any better than this!

I was taking shower the other day, this is what I found when I get out. And she asked me "Am I pretty?" What can say? Mommy is so proud of your art piece, great job!? OMG, mommy is not very good at make-up, but I don't feel I'm doing such a horrible job either. Where did she pick up these fashion tips from?! OMG...
See, this is some pics I took this summer of what she wears to school. Daddy gives her absolute freedom to choose what she likes to wear to school, and I believe she has been making good choices. The rest of her choices, I have to say, that's because of generation gap of what's considered pretty or fashion, haha :-)

sweet girl melt my heart!

Daddy feels jealous at our mother-daughter relationship sometimes - because I seems to argue with Kaitlyn more often (mostly on small things), and she is little more afraid of me than him (especially when I start counting 1,2,3...), but we still bond closely like best friends, laugh hard, play crazy, and talks fast, that's mommy and daughter, hahaa...

Like yesterday, daddy and me ate lunch first while Kaitlyn finished up something, I saved a piece of chicken and pasta for her (as always:-). Daddy commented that mommies always think about their kids first and save the best for them. I smiled didn't say a word. Later, when we ate fruits together, daddy picked out a nice looking cherry for Kaitlyn, Kaitlyn said "for mommy!" and stuck it into my mouse. Daddy said "seems like you two had agreement to do this to each other!" We both laughed, yeah, of course, that's my sweet girl!

Daddy is her shelter when mommy doesn't let her do things her way. Daddy finds a comprised way and wipes out her tears. He knows that make me feel guilty as well - how could you be so cruel to a sweet little girl like her :-) When daddy gets mad, she finds her way out of it, she climbs onto him, rubs his face, picks his nose, tickles him, tucks into his arms, then all problems go away just like that. If he is really mad, she will find a place hide for a while then comes back playing the same tricks again, or will play victim like having stomache, haha...

One thing really strange though, it always takes longer when I take her to bed, and I fell asleep the same time or even faster, because by the time she sleeps, I'm too tired already. But she goes to sleep much easier (most of the time...) when it's daddy's turn. Maybe because of all the routines I did for her ahead of time, so feels longer, plus read books and talk...?? I remember I always had to negotiate with Kaitlyn on how many books or pages to read before turning off lights. I have no idea what daddy does? I remember before Kaitlyn turned four, for many times, I was getting pissed off about putting her to sleep, after rounds of tug-of-war of sleep-not sleep, and ended up asking help from daddy. Then few minutes later, daddy walked out her room like a winner, uhh...

Either way, I do enjoy that time with her, the best moment everyday to be so in touch with her. We both work, so we really only have a few hours to be around her each day. After several years, she will not want us in her room or in her bed at all, haha, time flies by fast!

Busy weekend

July 20, 2008


I don't know how Wendy has energy hit the road almost every weekend?:-) We were still recovering from b-day parties from last week. This weekend, we went to Austin on Friday for grandma's b-day and came back late Saturday night. Well, me and daddy did go shopping at Round Rock outlet mall for a couple of hours, that's a lot of walk, and hurt to my wallet:-)
On Sunday, we went to Miller Outdoor Theater watched "Disney when you wish" performance. That was a great show, we all love it! By the time we left, it was 11pm already, the girls were all tired, so am I.

When I was sitting in my office that Monday morning, I was tired... that's because I was carpooling, had to get up at 5:30am. This is not fun...

Happy Birthday!

Party was over more than a week ago, seems like we're still recovering from tiredness :-)

That weekend was busy - Kaitlyn had her birthday party at Ceramics By Tess on Saturday, we went to Avery's b-day party on Sunday. Kaitlyn felt bad we couldn't make it to Maria (her good friend at school) b-day party because that's on the same day as hers. Ohh, well, many daddies/mommies were busy 9month before this :-)

We had so much fun at the Ceramics place. I picked this place because none of her friends had a party at this place before, Kaitlyn likes painting (which I'm sure most kids do at this age), and by doing this, I was hoping she can make something memorable (which didn't turn out quite as I expected). But it's worth it and I'm glad other moms liked as well, getting their hands dirty :-)

The planning part wasn't bad, since I know she likes Pony and most girly pink stuff. I did shoppings by myself, which I believe when it comes b-day party for kids, most daddies feels being dragged into this, haha! My husband is a perfect example, not only he didn't volunteer for anything (which means he still corporate on whatever assignments I delegated to him :-), he showed up late for the party, even forgot to bring the cake! Ohh well, I have to say he took pics and sang happy birthday, good enough, haha...

Ohh, everything went so well, except little birthday girl threw a fist when eating the cake. After I cut the cake and was busy passing out pieces, we didn't realize we missed giving the birthday girl a fork. Kaitlyn burst out in tears and cried "mommy, why I don't have a fork! It's my birthday!" She was actually holding her temper pretty well, because at that point all other kids started eating already. Haha, I laughed, sorry you're so special today:-) This is your moment of performance at the party :o) I thought this is funny, because for every b-day party we recently went, the birthday girl/boy had special moment - Mandy refused to cut the cake because it's a princess castle; Avery fell asleep when everyone sang happy birthday song - poor girl, she was too tired; Christian felt sad because his party turned into a teenager party towards the end and he can not open his gifts...
I'll go pick up their artwork this weekend, can't wait to see...

Of course, the party wasn't over when we got home that day, several girls stopped by our house and continued as a tattoo party. I have no idea why they're all so crazy about putting colorful tattoos on themselves?

Happy birthday, my sweet girl!