July 17th

As she has mentioned for a couple of month - July 17th is finally here!

Since May, she has been asking "When is my birthday?" When is July 17th?" ... Now the day is finally here! Our little girl is turning four! Time flies by just like that!

Daddy took her to Rainforest Cafe in Katy Mill - that's her long time birthday wish! (where was mommy - she was working late that day:(Daddy was a single parent that night, haha...

Hello my dear friends - haven't seen you for a while:)

Do you notice that she wears her shoes left and right reversed? She does this a lot, still cannot tell the difference between left and right, sometimes. Well, don't laugh at me, aren't you the same as an adult sometimes? Haha...

Yeah!! My favorite place, I'm coming! Wow, what's that sound? Scary!! (It's thunder that comes on every 15-20 minutes. )

Elephant - one of my favorite animal! Chips - yummy! Thank god mommy is not here, I can eat whatever I want:) Volcano - taste good! Poor daddy, ordered pizza and ice-cream cake for me, but I only took bite, daddy had to eat most of it, haha...

Can you believe it - I finished the whole plate! (Just kidding:)

I wish everyday is birthday!!

When mommy got home, Keke passed out already! She wouldn't leave mall until stores started closing. Daddy said he was so tired walking with her the whole night!

Birthday party

To say it's her birthday party, it's rather reunion party of mommy and daddy and friends:)

Our good friends and couple of neighbours were here. I didn't think there were that many people, but when everyone was here, all I see are heads and legs:) We need a bigger house! ( Just kidding:)

Too busy chatting with friends, forgot to take much pictures for three birthday princess - Keke, Sophie and Estella.

Kevin (little boy from our neighbor) seems more interested in the cake than the girls - he never left cake since I brought it out. He is such a sweet boy!


You see here - seems like it's his big day! The three birthday girl standing by him wondering! It's so funny!
On this last picture, who was the guy with glasses on the very back of the crowd by the mirror?! None of us could recognize who was that? - Isn't this funny that someone sneaked in to eat? I only heard of this kind of story happen in China - when people invited hundreds of guests to wedding or funeral banquets at the same restaurant or hotel, guest went to wrong place to congratulate or condole!

Thanks, Aunt Lynn

Thanks for the birthday gift, Aunt Lynn.

Kaitlyn received her gift last weekend. It's funny she liked the foaming inside the package better than the DVD itself.

As she said, these are popcorns! Ummm, such like a good combination - popcorn and movies. I sure will enjoy my afternoon:)

Taking new responsibility

We delegated this duty to her - even she can't keep up with it, at least we'll try. Ha ha, aren't we lazy parents?

She asked for her own pet someday, this is what she needs to do now:)

Highlight of her life in the last two weeks

I didn't want to post this until Kaitlyn had her b-day party - to keep it secret from grandparents:) She had a great b-day party last weekend, and she actually shopped with me the weekend before that to buy all the decorations and party favors for her guests.

We made 16 bags together! Daddy laughed at us,thought we were crazy. I thought we were too, just a little bit (haha...) I liked the idea because there were lots of repetitive little things to do, she was able to work with me through the whole time! Ohh, what was the magic work she told me - teamwork! Don't know whether she picked it up from us or school. Sounds like a big work coming out of a 4year old:)

Can you see she wrote her name on all of the thank you cards - 16 of them! I'm so proud of her writing her name really well! It was a little special touch for saying thank you to everyone!

The day before the party, I was at work -tell me about that:( She helped daddy clean her game room. I was amazed - because grandma always helped her doing that, you would think the room is too big, she has no concept of organizing stuff. But apparently, she does! Daddy said she learns this from school, as everyone has to clearn up after playing games...

See the little touch she put there - leave the baby doll on sleeping bag with blanket, put buckets on the table covered...

She wants her b-day party be pony party - well, let me spoil her once letting have the party the way she wants it, with table cloth, cups, napkins, etc. Daddy was never in for doing the party, I was hesitated as well, but every time I see her so anxious waiting her b-day party (especially knew what's it like after went to several of her classmates', I hate to refuse her request:)

She had never had one, and it's once a year deal:) Plus we haven't seen some friends for a while, we were all busy, just talked over the phone. I want our kids to build the relationship and bonds with each other since young. Aren't these good enough excuse :)

I was thinking about taking her friends together to Ceremic by tess - that would be at least 200 bucks... even tough she would have made something special for memory, but well, she's too young for that. We'll pass it for now.

New friends

We take a walk after dinner recently, she made several new friends - two cats and one bird.

Two cats in my neighbor loves her, and amazing one of them listens to her command (whatever she meant to say, in Chinese sometimes:) I love this one, seems like they're trying to kiss each other!

There is also a bird hatching on the mulch of one neighbor's front yard under the tree. No pictures yet, because as we approach her, the bird was too anxious that we may take her eggs.

July 4th

Haven't post for two weeks, ya'll must wonder how is Kaitlyn is doing.

Here are couple of pictures from July 4th - always her standard smile:) I remember David (Chouer) doesn't know how to smile either at this age - just squeeze his facial muscle:)

I think this is on the way to buy firework. What can I say - I've been trying not to expose her to Barbie, princess stuff, but when she gets to this age, learn to exchange information from classmate, what can I say?

Also, as you note it, she now has two little lamb, a baby of the previous one. Since she likes her school now and are more involved with class activities, she doesn't have to bring her lambs to school anymore! What a relief:)

Haha - You can't catch me!

Do you want to see my school?

This is my new school, I enjoy it a lot. I love my teachers and have made friends already:)

See, we are all very attracted to Ms. Hushimi (I don't remember her name, just from what Ms. Kaitlyn told me):

This is my classroom - typical Montessori classroom layout:

First Trophy

Keke made a milestone on Thursday night - won her first trophy! When did I ever won any trophy?!

Fort Bend Country Library have a summer reading program - by reading 20books, you could win a trophy (of course, there are little incentives for every 5books to keep kids going). Yesterday, Keke finished her 20 books! Even though I'm the one read to her, I do note the difference - She starts recognize more words and can read words by phonics.

Do you see the hamburger Kaitlyn cooked for grandpa?

A joke

Yesterday daddy told me a joke about Kaitlyn at school.

I don't know what was the occasion, she told Miss. Annie in ENGLISH " I don't understand English, I only speak Chinese." That cracked her up... So am I when I heard it.