Grandma is here,and...

Grandma (my mom) came to visit us for three weeks. She got here on the 21st. You would think I would have more free time, and would load blog with pictures and new contents. But my schedule seems even busier :-) Guess too busy entertaining everyone, haha...

Grandma had a long trip, a one day trip turned out to be two days. But the time she was finally here last Sunday evening, we were all tired. It's funny that since Kaitlyn always sees grandma and grandpa on msn together, she assumes they're always together and are coming here together as well. And asked why only grandma is here? What happen to grandpa?

She didn't feel distance at all even though she hasn't met grandma face to face for more than 3 years. I'm so happy to see that. Since she occupied the guest room downstairs, we told her she need to either get back to her own room upstairs with grandma next door, or share the bed with grandma downstairs. Tough call; she quickly came up a solution - she'll sleep by herself downstairs from Monday through Thursday, then sleep with grandma upstairs (there are two twin beds in grandma's room) from Friday to Sunday! What a sneaky idea - basically she doesn't want to give up her room downstairs but doesn't want grandma feel bad. I seriously doubt she will do that...

One of the first thing grandma wants to do is try to feed her. She said the girl looks so skinny. I know, especially after this summer, she swims a lot, and plays outside a lot at school no putting any sunscreen. She is skinny and dark. The weekend before grandma got here, I weighted her at HEB when grocery shopping, she was only 28.9lbs, I can't believe it! Her last checkup was 34lbs in August (still way below average, like bottom 10%). Did she lose 5lbs because of the sickness right before the Hurricane? I feel so guilty... but she just won't put on any weight no matter how much she eats.

Amazingly, one week after grandma is here, I took her weight at HEB again this weekend, she is 35lbs! How could this happen, maybe the scale was broken last week (I hope so)! But I know grandma tried hard to bring her appetite back.

This is what grandma told me how much she eats for breakfast half of the time this week, Such a big breakfast eater - one whole boil egg, a cup of juice or milk, one Texas sized toast (or two small muffins), and small bowl of fruits. She eats slowly and quietly as grandma described...funny girl, is she really inspired by Michael Phelps?! When she gets home from school, grandma prepares special food every day, she loves the baby handmade dumplings grandma made. She eats 15-20 pieces each time. After finishing her homework and playing outside, she will eat dinner with us again around 7pm. Maybe she didn’t eat much lunch after her big breakfast, but was hungry when she gets home.

Another funny thing grandma noted is she is very particular about picking her clothes to school everyday. She stands in front her drawer for quite some time, picks the one (mainly by color) that best fit her mood, then matches socks and shoes, and hair band. I normally let her do this the night before to avoid time rush in the morning, but she changes her mind every so often. She has her own opinion of how to match, sometimes she listens your suggestion, sometimes she doesn't. As long as she doesn't go to school naked or wear something not allowed by school, we don't bother too much change her mind (such a nasty battle :-).

What else grandma noticed? Ohh, another big thing - she can't speak Chinese anymore! We know she speaks less and less Chinese at home, but she totally understands our conversions, just responds in English. So my mom pretends she doesn't understand English, try to get her speak more Chinese. She told me one big difference between two grandmas (daddy's mom and my mom) is Nainai speaks much better English! I also noticed when she speaks Chinese now; she pretty much lost the sense of four tones. I know we kind of let it go after her starts school, hoping she could catch up with her schoolmates faster. Now apparently she fits in new environment way faster than we expected, and forgets the other one already! See if we can get her back on track again.

So many interesting things grandma notice, I'll try to write down as it goes.