more rodeo pictures

There picture were gone in prior post. You can find all pictures in her album link to the right.

Interesting conversion

I heard a short conversion between Keke and her dad when I was cooking last night. I don't know how this conversion started...

Keke: When did your grandma died?
Dad: a long time ago, 15years ago...
Keke: When did your mom died?
Dad: She is still alive, she is your grandma.
Keke: when will your mom die?
Dad: I can't answer you, only God knows.
Keke: what about you?
Dad: I don't know. Everyone will die someday.

Silent for a second, she came over telling me "everyone will die someday", just like telling me she learned a new word - serious and proud of herself she learned some new.

Did she learn the definition of "death" from movies she watched, or does this really mean anything to her? I don't remember the first time I had conversion about death... probably not at three and half.

rodeo pictures

sleep problem

It's pajama story time again. We went to Chick-fil-A tonight. She ate almost the whole grilled chicken sandwich, plus fruit and some lettuce (I was surprise she liked lettuce). She always has better appetite eating out.

She felt asleep on our way home from the library (even though it was only 5mins drive). But she woke up when I put her on bed. I planned to stay with her until she fells asleep, hope that won't be long. But man, that's was a bad decision - she asked for water, asked to read story, asked to turn on/off lights, asked for hug and kiss, all kinds of requests, just so not to sleep. I really ran out of patience. So I told her I don't want to see her out of her room, but I need go bathroom and went downstairs myself. Of course, after few mins, she is standing in front of my closet (where I was trying to hide) smiling at me - so proud of herself finding me! I was mad (felt funny the same time).

Without saying any words, I took her upstairs and put her in bed. I thought she'll be crying hysterically for a while. But surprisingly, after wining less than a minute, she tuckered herself in and felt asleep. What a great relieve! I believe from learning to fall asleep naptime at school, she should be able to do it. It's a good sign, and I should try to train her now.

Parents' conference

Going to a parent conference as a parent sounds like something far away from my life - Wasn't long ago I was there as the student not the parent?!

It was Keke's first parents conference meeting at school, but they didn't give us notice earlier enough (the notice was given when we pick them up). Only three parents showed up at 7pm - pretty sad. If not because of daddy will be home late that night and I can't leave Kaitlyn home alone, I don't know if I'll be there either. What a great experience for Kaitlyn - attended her first ever parents conference meeting with parent together!

School director went over the new course curriculum briefly, and we were suppose to do a project like kids normally do, I guess to let parents know more about their lives and be more proactively involved. But we had to cut the meeting short, because one parent suggested she's getting hungry, and would like to go home cook for her kids. I thought it's probably my fault - because I was afraid the meeting would be too long, I brought a sandwich for Kaitlyn while we're having meeting in the same room. That roast beef sandwich smell bothers everyone else's stomach...

Hopefully, we'll have a family night later, as teachers said, to let parents know each other better.

One thing really funny, her teacher, Ms. Jackie, mentioned in their art craft session, she'll try to mix up the kids, so no good friends can sit together - not too much chit-chatting while working on their projects. She was giving an example putting one talkative next to Kaitlyn, who is very quiet and serious about her work. Then the other teacher, Ms. Alice, laughed, and joked, that would only work for now, maybe not for long - when Kaitlyn knows more English, she sure can TALK... I laughed so much. Because I know that's probably true. She is a different person at home, talks a lot, and talks like an adult, plays tricks to you when you don't pay attention.

I’m sure as she's making more friends at school, she'll be more open up. We'll see...

This week

We went to Rodeo over the weekend, had so much fun. But haven't had a chance to take pictures out of camera. We didn't leave until 5pm and she didn't take any nap, but still so excited and don't want to leave. She's a big girl now:) Of course before she got into the car, she already fell asleep on my shoulder.
Before I put any rodeo pictures, here are couple more pictures taken from Rice U, so to enjoy for now.

Pajama story time

Thursday night's pajama story time in the library is her highlight of the week. She has always been waiting for this event. See the first picture where her teacher wore her bathrobe reading story, while our little princess is ready in front media showing her best post:)
Beside listening stories, she is really more interested in crafts at the end of the story time. See the next two pictures of her working hard on her art, and showing off her work. This week's theme is "fairytale - once upon a time..."

I notice she starts the transition from Dora/Diego to princess now (I mean English movies). For Chinese movies, 西遊記 and 一休 are her favorites now. She can watch DVD again and again and read cartoon books herself many times. Looking forward the weekend is coming.

Girls night out

Last night was girls night out!Daddy had meeting and won't be home for dinner. So we decided to go out eat and have some fun.

As soon as I picked her up from her classroom, she said she is sooo hungry. When asked what she wants, she requested burger, pasta, baked potatoes and milk. From her tone, sounds like she knows exactly what she want, and she truly loves american food better:)

Of course, we went to one of her favorite restaurant - Chilli's ( only because they have crayons and paper games, sometimes boardbooks, while waiting for food). It's so funny, we I took orders, she was listening to me, make sure I ordered what she want - "kids meal grilled chicken sandwich with corn cobbler" and "milk". Before waiter left, she covered my mouse, said "listen to me, mommy, this is what I want, no more changes!" Frankly, that piece of grilled chicken doesn't taste good to me at all - slightly burned and dry like a piece of paper. But she sure enjoyed it and finished all (except she did let me take a bite, that's how I know it didn't taste good).

After dinner, we went to Target, tried out some new clothes. I'm sure I knew nothing compared to her at age 3! She picked out a pink ballet dress and start trying on herself, and said she'll learn dancing so she can wear this. And she picked out clothes that're matching colors (she picks out her own matching outfit every morning, believe it or not).

This girl is very interesting - she seems to know what she wants and likes, very determingly. But she is not object to others suggestions (if you talk nicely to her). Totally not like a three year old thinking...

I wish I have camera with me last night, there'll be lots of interesting pictures. I'll start doing this.

Blog kick off

Finally, I've moved from stone-age chicken scratch journal to modern e-blog stage...

Even though I've been writing stuff on paper, but there have always been times I wanted to record something but don't have the journal with me. Plus, in this way, I can share our pictures with family and friends on the other side of the world.

I think this is a wonderful idea for a lazy mommy keep in touch with everyone and have fun...

Let me try to post the most recent pictures from last weekend. Yeah, I did it!