Wednesday, December 05, 2007
老二三岁
大宝会聊天,心情好了陌生人也能一句一句聊好久。我们不怕生,看着顺眼的,上去就打招呼,顺杆子就能搭上话。在学校里那更是如鱼得水,各个班的老师,大宝没有不认识的。去接孩子我最喜欢了,听到的都是夸我们的,各个班校友的家长都知道我们,everyone loves Kathy. 校长这么说的。大宝人缘看来不错哦,第一次peepee在potty里,全班唱歌跳舞烤蛋糕庆祝。当爹当妈的嘴都乐歪了。大宝人被懒爹妈训练得很是自力更生。全家人去Disney World, 大宝自己配好6套衣服,拎来一包diaper,爹妈乐呵呵给塞了箱子里。 Vacation 回来懒爹妈更乐了,洗好澡大宝自己擦干穿衣服。大宝会唠叨,当妈的给洗澡的当儿,基本掌握了当天学校情况,谁吃得多,谁今天feeling bad, 谁和大宝一起进厕所,等等等等。大宝也是个小娱乐玩具,唱杀鸡咏叹调基本能吓傻1里内的人们,当然,也有不吓人的时候,不多。
当然,不少时候咱们也是小宝。捏捏身上的肉肉,戳戳button就能笑得浑身肥肉飞。亲亲小屁股就能嘿嘿嘿笑得满床打滚。这种日子,要是能多过些就好了。当妈的就这么感慨一下。
Monday, October 08, 2007
有一种孩子,叫做不可雕也
顽固不化,故持己见
大的以前的中文书,我是天天给这小祖宗念啊,念一句我就让她重复一句。结果就成这样了,
- 一只小鸡想过河去外婆家。
- 一只小鸡·¥%#%¥·%(听不懂)婆家。
-哗哗的河水挡住了它的去路。
-哗哗哗。。。。。的路。
-呶,Kathy自己讲一遍。
- Once upon a time, there's baby chicken. (大喘气) She wants need (语法严重错误) go to Grandma's. She can not go there, (大喘气) because there's a big river.
- 这个故事要用中国话讲。
- No, I wanna go to sleep.
无理翻缠
我们俩做workbook中。最最简单的啦,数数,快吧?就那么一两分钟的时间就能搞定。这个人不行,一会儿要喝水,一会儿要juice,一会儿要tea, 一会儿要cookie,一会儿要看看姐姐在干什么,一会儿要peepee,一会儿说外面有人敲门。当然了,这些都伺候好了,人家祖宗也不一定好好给我学。就说上星期吧,
- Kathy, 数数有几个cookies?
- one, two, three, four. There are four cookies.
- Good job! 我们再数一数有几个扣子。
- Can I have my juice?
- 你先数,很快就数好了,然后妈妈给你juice。要不然小扣子们不知道自己有多少个,多伤心啊。
- I don't care. I wanna my juice now.
- 那不行,我们在写作业,不能一边喝,一边写。
- I wanna juice! I wanna juice! DADDY~~~~~~~~
伺候,我伺候你行吗?juice呈上,祖宗没意见了。
- There are seven buttons。
- 啊?瞎蒙的,重新数一遍。
- I just did it. DADDY~~~~~~~~ I WANNA GO TO SLEEP~~~~
今天我们写2,教了整整一个星期了,这位还是不会写,而且一点都不羞愧。怎么了这是?什么世道?
- 你看,2是这样写的。
- Let me draw you an apple. Here~~~
- 很好。那你写个2吧。看,就是这么写的。
- Mommy, I know how to draw pear too. Look~~~
- 嗯,非常好,你该写2了。
- Look, this is a monster。
- 写2,没完了你?
- OK, let me finish dad's picture. uh oh, this is a 6.
- 我不管了哈,你喜欢怎么地就怎么地吧。
- Can I have some honey tea?
你是祖宗!!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
小老二爱学习
1, 拒绝学习
这孩子发音不准由来已久了。父母姐姐奋力校正,目前为止效果甚微。比如,vanilla 和banana,这俩字,校正了一万遍了。老二急了,“banana, banana, all kinds of banana, why I have to say banana AGAIN?"
2, 胡乱篡改
今天晚上洗好澡,套上小裤头,老二低头一看,高兴了。嬉皮笑脸跟我说,I am sleeping beauty. (低头一指小裤头上的) She is sleeping 鼻涕。
3,一意孤行
昨天整理房间找出来大的以前的中文故事书,我就开始给老二讲了。今天晚上讲得是"小老鼠的新家”和“小猫和朋友”。刚讲完,大的近来让我给她检查作业,就这点功夫,小的拿起书来念了。我这一听,没晕过去,人家居然把每一页都翻译成英文了。天呢!中文教育天天失败中。
倒气儿去,以后再写。
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
家家有本难念的经
另,今天给老公买了一本cook book,老公看了几分钟,说了,这个周末,我给你整只chicken吃吃。好了,我的任务来了,到哪儿去找只便宜鸡给这位折腾呢?用小的的话说了,那叫做,this is very (s)cary啊。
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
小挑衅者
看见我的V8, 小的想喝,我说不行哈,你根本就不喝那个,不能浪费。小祖宗一脸不高兴,Why? Why I can not have it? Because you said that? 我,就是我说的,怎么滴吧?
她爸在热菜,小的一指头就把microware给戳停了。老公赶紧过去,no touchie! no touchie! 小的咚咚咚跑过来抱着我告状,Daddy 欺负 me. I am sad。
菜做好了,不用大人吩咐,小的爬上楼叫姐姐吃饭。姐姐,you come downstairs 吃饭饭,understand? You don't come now. You don't have 饭饭!下~~~来~~~~~now~~~~~!
Friday, September 14, 2007
太高兴了
直到昨天,daily report上说了,我们家的这位,peepee 在potty里两次,一天只用一个diaper,没有accident。我哈哈一笑,嗯,昙花啊,又是。小的估计很不愤,今天又是没有accident。晚上全家出去吃饭,回家的路上,还有差不多5分钟到家的样子。小的问了,Are we going home soon? I need go potty. 赶紧地对着小的唠叨,不要尿啊,千万不要尿啊,我们很快就到家了。忍着哈。
冲进家问,一把我就把小的放到Dora Potty上了,咱们Kathy还就真得peepee在potty里了。我和她爸这叫一个激动啊,抱着小的又唱又跳,连potty带着peepee 我们统统照相留念了。半小时以后,小的又在楼上自己peepee在potty里一次。
我们太激动了。这个就是trained了吧。咱们以后就不穿diaper了吧。小内裤咱们穿着就放心了是吧。语无伦次了我。
Thursday, September 13, 2007
笨孩子
- 一个树上有5只鸟,妈妈用枪打下一只来,树上还有几只鸟?
- Four. (想了一会儿). There is no bird on the tree. But there are four birds on the ground.
(基本上这个时候我和老公都半傻了。 再问,)
- 你有5个苹果。然后你吃了两个。现在还有几个苹果?
- Three.- (我哈哈哈哈哈。。。。)No, there are still five apples. Two in your tummy and three outside of your tummy.
然后祖宗就哭了。
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
What Kathy knows
As of this evening, I found that Kathy knows the following,
- Counting objects, not only purely counting from left to right, but she could count the mixed objects separately. For instants, on a page with several cats, dogs and pants, she could count each object separately without error.
- Comparison. Kathy knows big vs. small or little, more vs. less, tall vs. short, hot vs. cold.
- Major Colors.
- Basic Shapes.
- Link two same objects together.
- Link baby and mother animals.
左右分清
今天再教点什么呢?小人不会的东西太多了。伤心啊!
Writing improvement strategy - 2
Instead of having her writing her diary everyday, I asked her to write every other day but with more detail on some thing that happens on that specific day. To give her enough time to finish a completed article, she is also allowed not to have to do her writing and reading workbook on the days when she's writing her diary. We started with adding weather. My plan is to let her include some sentences on weather for couple weeks then include the second topic on her thought. By the end of this year, Sarah should be able to write the meaningful couple pages long diaries.
NO RUSH, LET HER TAKE HER TIME. - I will remind me this time to time.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Performance Plan
I want to start by saying thank you for your email. I appreciate you informing me of Sarah's accomplishments. Also let me add that it was very nice meeting you also. Please accept my apology for not responding to you sooner but I wanted to gather information regarding Sarah so I could make the best decisions for her. I looked through Sarah's records and spoke to many teachers that have worked with Sarah. Everyone shared positive comments.
After looking at Sarah's records, we will be placing Sarah in a math group that will be taught third grade objectives. We will assess her knowledge on the second grade concepts as well. We want to make sure Sarah has a firm foundation on which to build more complex and abstract math skills. You asked how you could support Sarah at home. I would suggest that Sarah do several things at home. You can pick and choose these concepts. If you believe Sarah has mastered a particular concept, you may want to just review that strategy every few weeks. These are the concepts I would suggest: telling time, elapsed time, counting money and making change, basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills, adding and subtracting numbers up to three digits and with and without regrouping. In addition, I would suggest work on measuring items, talking about attributes of shapes both plane and 3-D, and solving word problems. Make sure Sarah can explain how she solved a problem both orally and in written form. This is just a start of the concepts and can share more as the year progresses. Also, the books that you are speaking of, I believe are the basic books that you find in educational stores. While these are certainly great practice tools, the skills covered in those books are not necessarily as rigorous as MCPS' curriculum. MCPS also requires students to be able to explain their thinking in both oral and written form.
This week, I will begin my Class reading testing. This will allow me to assess Sarah's reading level as well as her comprehension level. This is a test that is mandated by the county and requires both oral and written comprehension skills. Once I have determined Sarah's reading level, I will begin to plan my instruction so I can best serve Sarah's needs. If Sarah needs third grade reading materials, I will be using their texts. At home you can support Sarah by having her read at least 20 minutes a day. The text needs to be on her instructional level in order to best serve her needs. The way to determine this level is to look at texts that she does not know all the words but is not struggling with most of the words. In order for students to practice their reading skills, they need to actively engage in using these strategies. If she reads all the words without using reading strategies, then she is not engaging in text that is challenging enough for her level. Sarah must also be able to demonstrate comprehension in oral and written form. Be sure to ask her about the text and have her elaborate on the text. Again, the practice books aren't hurting Sarah's skills but I am not sure they are challenging her in the way that MCPS requires students to do so.
Ms. Liu, it was great to meet you at Back to School Night and I thank you for your active participation in Sarah's education. I hope I answered all of your questions and if I did not, please do not hesitate to email me again. I look forward to corresponding with you in the future regarding Sarah and her accomplishments.
Help Sarah to improve her writing skill - first draft
After reading Sarah’s diaries for two weeks, I am on a mission to help her. The reason is simple; I can not stand that I’d have to take several deep breaths to hold my temper while reading her several “then”, “after that” repeatedly. It is time to stop the free writing and for me to step in to help her.
Not being a good writer myself would definitely hold back the progress. However, a mission is a mission, I am determined. There are several steps that I am planning to take,
Explain to her constantly on how important writing skill is, in term of laying out the thoughts on paper to communicate with others, using the correct terminologies to express the ideas without letting the readers misinterpreted, and more.
Spend quality time together on writing one event per day. Explain the art of language while editing her work.
The last but not the least, give her time to improve, encourage and applause her, lower the standard.
I am looking forward to a six-month evaluation. Hopefully Sarah can write some meaningful short essays then.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
lunch box
今天早上,小的给自己lunch box里放了一小袋cookies, 一袋juice。怎么装着去的又怎么给装回来了。小人物居然没舍得吃。放学回家把cookie袋子让我打开,吃了两片,人家又给放回lunch box。估计明天又拎着上学了。
这孩子啊,也挺好玩的,一个lunch box也能拽起来。
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
美好的陪睡
Monday, September 03, 2007
长周末-2
我们家大的,永远都在说话,我就问她,你说这么多话累不累啊?人家说不累,一点都不累,而且,还有不少话都没来得及说就被time out了。
我们家小的,也不知道从哪里学来的,从楼梯上往下走着唱歌,下两登楼梯人家就高举双胳膊,吼几声杀鸡咏叹调,听得我啊,只有两个字可以形容了,痛苦啊。今天尿了裤子以后,这咏叹调也暂时休息了。天呢!
小的和我都感冒了,Steve喉咙不舒服。讨厌的天气,什么时候才能正常。一会儿热一会儿冷总搞得人浑身烦。
Saturday, September 01, 2007
长周末
下午睡起来开始整理小老大的房间,小的激动地一件一件穿了脱,脱了在穿姐姐穿小的留着给她的衣服。最后挑了一件背带top, 美了吧唧地穿着去吃饭。这衣服不是大嘛,一边的肩带总往下掉。她爹一边给往上拉一边教育,
- You cannot be this sexy.
K: What sexy? Me?
- Yes, 穿好了,不能露出来。
K (伸手就把两边肩带都拉下来了):Like this sexy?
这孩子到底是懂还是不懂呢?我怎么糊涂了。她不应该懂。
对了,老二班里送旧迎新。三名三岁的老将升班,三名两岁的小小人加入。一对金发双胞胎cute得让人见了就想咬一口。白天玩得高兴,一见他们妈来接了马上热流盈眶痛哭惨烈。另外一个中国小女孩,两岁三个月,不懂英文又怕生,一个老师每分钟盯着,一步不离。小女孩不会自己吃饭,问她吃饱了没有,中文英文问都没反应。上周五我看了她10分钟,正好大家吃snack的时候,我这通喂啊。看着也吃饱了,问也没回答。于是把剩的一点杯底儿的奶准备倒了,这不是赶着全班都出去玩嘛。小女孩嚎啕啊。感情还要喝奶。那您这说话啊孩子。感慨啊,做daycare teacher真是不容易。
btw, 发现我真是一点都不会喂饭了,特别是喂水,孩子喝得累,我喂得更累。
As of 9/1/07, Sarah weighted 53 lb and Kathy was 33 lb. Both are around 75%.
Friday, August 31, 2007
potty train的第一小步
Did you know she pee in the potty yesterday?
She pee-ed in the potty yesterday afternoon.
Hooray, she pee-ed in the potty.
I heard Kathy pee-ed in the potty yesterday.
Did she pee in the potty this morning? She did yesterday.
..........
我们家的这位的peepee issue 看似已经学校里声明远扬了。
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
名字
我:你叫什么名字?
K: Kathy.
我:中文名字叫什么?
K: 刘力瑄 Kathy.
但是,第二遍就开始不正经了。
我:你叫什么名字?
K: Cookie.
我:中文名字叫什么?
K: Crocodile cookie.
基本到第三遍就彻底乱了。
我:你叫什么名字?
K: poo-pee. 嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿。。。。。。。
我:中文名字叫什么?
K: Dinosaur poo-pee. 哈哈哈哈哈。。。。。。
气晕了我了。
Monday, August 27, 2007
Grade 2 plan
Wish her luck.
凄惨的文盲
K: play~~~~~~~~~~~ play~~~~~~~~~~~~ (以为咱们家那是声控的,太先进了)
她爹: you need to press Play.
K: Where is “play"?
她爹: P-L-A-Y
K: Where is "P-L-A-Y"?
她爹: the triangle button
K: OK~~~
我太激动了,居然还记得什么是triangle。
Sunday, August 26, 2007
同情 Dora and Diego
Dora: We need your help.
K: I helped you last time!
Dora: Where do we go next?
K: The lake! I told ya!
(song) go Diego go........
K: Go fast Diego! Hurry up. You are too slow!
(whatever song)
K: That's not right, Dora. Sing it again.
Diego: Is that a bear or baby chinchilla?
K: YOU DON'T REMEMBER?!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Day Seven August 24, 2007 – Epcot and We will be back!
The heat index was 105 this morning. We were made extremely tired by the heat.
The Epcot was not a place for rides for people with young kids. There are only 9 attractions in the park and 4 of them have height restriction. Sarah decided not to get on them without Kathy. We only went on three rides then decided to head back to the resort. Ellen’s Energy Adventure, Journey into imagination and The Seas with Nemo and Friends were all great. Kathy was a little scared by the jungle with dinosaurs at the Ellen’s show at the beginning. Then she was so anxious to understand what the show was about by looking around herself so that she told me to "stop talking" when I tried to explain to her. Sarah went on stage to assist a Kodak digital instruction. The lines for taking pictures with Mickey and friends were way too long. We decided to skip the picture taken.
By the time we got up from nap, it was raining cats and dogs outside. For the next several days, there will be T thunder storms in every afternoon till evening. How lucky we were to have nice weather for the entire week. Of course, except the heat.
We are planning to come back when Kathy reaches 48 inches, and definitely before Sarah starts junior high and still can act like a kid. I saw some teenager in the park. They are not crazy about the shows as younger kids. The water parks and Orlando Universal Studio will be on the schedule next time.
I think we did just fine not purchase the hopping choice. Only because the girls were too energetic and curious to get on every ride and visit every playground. As a six and half years old kid, Sarah could enjoy almost every ride, show and event. As for a two and half toddler, Kathy was scared several times by loud voice / noise and the worst, the combinations of darkness and sudden loud noise. Good thing was that she would not be scared for long, nor to cry. I'd say 90% of the time Kathy enjoyed the shows and understood a whole lot of them. She'd ask if she's lost in the show. Many times she had her own little mind what she wanted to do and made sure that we let her do it. Both girls love the playground with web climb, or called net climb, or stuffs like these which could challenge them. The Toontown tiny little playgrounds were simply too baby-like to them. Neither of the girls were much into taking pictures with the princesses. Somehow they don't believe those characters were real, which I think it's pretty sad for kids at their ages. Anther challenge to Kathy was the 3D movies. It took her couple times of try to not be scared by the objects flying right into her face. Mickey’s PhilarMargic was the third 3D vision that we watched, and was the first one Kathy really started to enjoy.
To conclude, seven days at Disney is definitely not enough. At all! It would be nice to extend to a two-week vacation so that we didn't have to stay in the parks till they closed almost every single day except last day at Epcot. Kathy asked where we were going tomorrow. I said we would be flying home. So she said, "are we going to Disney tomorrow tomorrow?" yeah, that'll be wonderful.
Day Six August 23, 2007 – Magic Kingdom AGAIN
Boy! I am crying for some good food! Ate twice in the park again today. Kathy threw up on the diner table. I’d do the exact same thing. The little girl was craving for fruits and 面条条. The grapes that we got for her could not satisfy her much. Tomorrow we are on the mission to hunt for good food.
Anyway, we were back to the
In the afternoon we came back to the
We had lunch in a Café at the
On the way out of the park, there were people sitting on the side way along the
Day Five August 22, 2007 – Disney MGM
Everyone in the family was exhausted from the last several days’ activities. MGM supposedly to be a relaxing place since Steve and I thought that the girls may not be interested in how movies were made and the stage shows. But the girls approved that we were wrong. They loved the shows!
Both girls were excited to have pictures taken with Goofy and Minnie, except Kathy was scared away when Goofy tried to give her a hug. After that we did not get any other characters to take pictures with.
We passed the entire
Our day ended with the Fantasmic. The show was a big deal to the visitors coming to MGM. People started to enter the stadium an hour and half prior to the show. We were there an hour before the show time, and it was hard to find a seat already. Luckily enough the assistant directed us to the row so close to the very front, almost right facing the center of the stage. People were bored while waiting, so we started a wave in the audient. Several rounds later, people got bored again. Started from somebody at somewhere, we began couple rounds of applause. Well, gonna have to entertain ourselves. Kathy sucked fingers for a while and bored by doing nothing. She stood on the stairs and danced with the music. People behind waved to her. Finally it came the show. Wow! It was nice! The girls shouted out the name of the characters. Kathy was scared a little by the bad dragon and the witches. But soon she was cheered up by the dancing princesses on the boats.
In conclusion, the girls said that they loved the “Honey, I shrunk the kids” playground the most. Why I am not surprised. That’s my girl. Right after stepped on that ground, I lost both of them in a blink. The next thing I knew was that they both were at the top of a three-story web climb. Then I made a wrong decision to try to grab them from the holes under the big mushrooms. The tunnels were half of my height, and were almost totally dark inside. I lost myself before I could catch either one of them. Yeah, go ahead laugh at me, Steve.
Today we hit the lottery to order the worst Chinese food ever. When it was lunch time, we did not know any good Chinese food around; I got in this Chinese place seeing no customer at all at lunch time, I should know something was not right. Being hungry definitely did not help. I ordered anyway. “I don’t like it. Yucky.” According to Kathy. The name of the restaurant is China Star located at the
Day Four August 21, 2007 – Sea World Adventure Park
Our plan yesterday was to the MGM. But we double checked the park schedules this morning and changed our mind to spend a day in the Sea World, simply because the next two days MGM and
Shamu was right at the entrance to let the kids taking pictures with him. The girls did not know Shamu before and called him “the walking big whale”. Kathy got a big kiss from Shamu on her head. The picture came out like Shamu was biting on the little girl’s head.
Stingray Lagoon was our first stop. The girls spent me 8 bucks for only two tiny boxes of the frozen fish for the stingrays, and gave out all the fish in one minute. That’s quite some expensive breakfast. The girls enjoyed touching the stingrays so much that Steve had to carry the struggling Kathy out of that place.
Dolphin Cove is right next to the Stingray, and we can spend money to feed them! Talking about spending money, the girls got excited. Gave out 10 bucks and got 10 fish in two tiny boxes. Next time I would bring some fish from super market. I’ll treat all of those cute dolphins breakfast. Yeah right, even more expensive. Just kidding. Both girls were upset after the fish were gone. One of Sarah’s fish was taken by a bird. Kathy’s arm was not long enough to pat the dolphin. Neither one of them wanted to leave. Guess what? As parents, it was our responsibility to drag them out of that place, and move on in the life. LOL.
We cared less about the Alligators. But definitely curious to see what Manatees were. The girls were not excited about seeing Manatees. They both walked out of the underwater view and headed to the Whale and Dolphin show next door without Steve and I hollering them. The Whale and Dolphin Show was telling a story about a little girl’s dream of swimming with the big ocean creatures came true. It was very well performed. We were lucky to get the center seats close enough to see every dolphin clearly, but far enough not to get wet. Interesting enough was that there was a Japanese TV station shouting right behind us.
At this point, all of us were ready for a nap.
Our afternoon at the park started again a little after
Net Climb was something new to Kathy. After she spent the first five minutes running up the stairs and sliding down the slides, this little girl discovered the cool Net Climb. The first time she climbed on the nets and moved for several feet only. After couple tries, she was experienced and walked quite a long way on the robes. She got half way to the other end before decided to head back. I seriously did not see anyone like her age on the Net Climb but kids at Sarah’s age. I have to give her credit on daring to try. After the Shamu show we came back to take the Swishy Fishies, which was the only ride Kathy was tall enough to get on at the Shamu’s
Oh, almost forgot to mention. When I saw the famous sand play ground that Dian Dian had good time couple years ago, I invited Kathy to play there. The little girl turned me down and ran up the stairs to the Net Climb.
Sharks Encounter was the other place that the girls like very much. Sharks and fishes swimming around was quite an exciting experience to them. The only disappointing part was the shark feeding place closed. I bet that if they let the kids pat the sharks; my girls will definitely touch those dangerous creatures without a second thought.
We dined at the Spice Mill Café with water view. The fish sandwich was really good. The girls discovered and immediately fell into with this plastic Shamu shaped cookie containers and forced me to buy food for the containers, otherwise, they’d make me miserable. The result was that I paid almost 10 bucks to get these two cheap Shamu shaped containers and ate couple cookies to generate extra fat on my body. I will time out them whenever they are not going to use those cheap containers back at home.
Day Three August 20, 2007 – Animal Kingdom
All four of us were exhausted after a long day. Kathy woke up the earliest around 7, and then fell asleep soon after climbed up to our bed. We arrived at the Animal Kingdom shortly after
The girls enjoyed the DinoLand so much that they almost got on every ride. There were couple rides had height restrictions. Kathy was sort of confused why she could not ride with Sarah. The big orange dinosaur is a great landmark when we got lost.
Animal Kingdom is much smaller than
There was no good restaurant in the Animal Kingdom Park. Burgers and Pizza were pretty much the main stream. Dining outside of the park tends to be a good idea. And the park closes at
Day Two August 19, 2007 – Magic Kingdom
The girls woke up around
The
We came back in the late afternoon around
Back to the topic on the park. We spent the entire afternoon and early evening in the Tomorrow Land. Both girls enjoyed the rides and the show very much. Only that Kathy was disappointed again by the height restriction to the Lilo and Stitch ride. I had to take her to the blue ride again. If we’d go back again, which might happen someday before we head back home, we would definitely start with the
Couple more things need to be written down. Staying till late at night in the park and with a long afternoon nap, it was impossible to have diner outside of the park. There was not much choice in the park, but good enough to fill up the stomachs. Stroller rentals were available at rates of $18 for double, and $10 for single. And couple bucks of discount if purchase multiple days.
Tomorrow we are going to the Animal Kingdom. Let's get ready.
Day One – Disney, we are coming!
Air Tran offers much cheaper tickets comparing to its competitors. Even I was short of time, I still could get pretty good deal from Air Tran. In the couple week I did the research, the airfares fluctuate to the lowest points on Friday then start another cycle from the upcoming Monday with the high figures. So does the car rental. However sometime could be opposite. Air Tran’s service is about average. The assistants were nice to the customers. The plane was almost full on the way to
The day was taken down by the Payless car rental. Our first car had one tire leaking air till it went to flat. Steve had to change on the spare tire, otherwise we were stocked. Should I appreciate that they actually had a spare tire? Fortunately Payless examined the bad tire and replaced with another car without any hassle. But anyway I will skip this car rental company from now on. Their cars are old and most of them are in below average conditions.
As I planed, we stopped by the First Oriental Store. On the same street with this Chinese grocery store, we saw quite a few Chinese restaurants. There must be a pretty big Chinese population in that area. The store is big but does not have a variety of inventories as the stores in DC metro. I don’t see milk, 油条, and quite some other common Asian snacks in that store. But in a place thousands of miles from home, this store is good enough. There are many grocery stores along the US Rt. 192 in the area that
Billy Boy’s Discount Tickets is about 10 miles from
By the time I picked up the tickets and finished my grocery, I was hungry and tired. Felt like that I could faint anytime to scare the other three. Steve cooked some pan fried dumplings and steamed shrimps for dinner. And by the way, First Oriental carries very affordable seafood that was pretty fresh too. I started planning for the next day at
Couple others things to keep in mind. The water condition in
Thursday, August 16, 2007
该挨屁股板子的老二
添乱
我这边刚刚宣布洗澡水放好了。转身叫老公端上金银花水,身后只听小老二噼里啪啦往水里扔东西。仍完了咚咚咚跑到姐姐房间,一会儿手里拿着什么出来了,一拐就进了bathroom。赶紧跟进去一看,我的天呢!!bath tub 底沉着几条塑料鱼,水上漂满了鱼食,给真鱼吃的玩意儿那是!!!啊~~~~~~~~~,我就惨叫一声,全家其他三人全给我吓傻了。接着一阵打捞,累得我到现在腰疼。
改编
好歹把老二洗好了,穿上衣服。老二一高兴就给我唱歌了,两手一撩起上衣,指着肚脐眼儿,
Where is my button? Where is my button? Here it is. Here it is. I have two more, I have two more. (用力再把衣服往上拉),here they are, here they are。
这歌,咱孩子在学校里也唱过吧。
Dora 水鞋
下楼给小人冲茶水的功夫,人家就给穿上了,然后告诉我,
- No comfortable. (眉头皱着小嘴撅着,声情并茂)
- 那你还穿?
- Yeah~~~~~~, because I like Dora.
- 那我也没办法了。臭美就要付出代价。Understand?
- Understand? No understand.
- 女人啊,等你长大了就知道了。
- 。。。。。。。 I wanna watch Arthur's Chicken Pox.
最终,还是没understand。
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
发音, S
I wanna read a "tory". (眼珠子一转,想起来了, 冲着我龇牙咧嘴),S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
That's my "poon".(三秒钟之后, 一脸献媚状) S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~poon. Yeah!!!
2007 年 8 月 14 日,晴,热
这几天老二迷上luggage了,每天晚上推着比她小人家都大的箱子唠叨,
“I am going to a vacation."
"I am going to the beach."
"I am going to Disney World."
All of these sounds like a friendly reminder to me, "pack for the vacation, lazy mom."
Monday, August 13, 2007
逗我乐呢
"Mommy, I have one 屁(恩,我们家的叫“屁屁”就是简化的一个字“屁”,读“bi"四声). Daddy has one 屁. 姐姐 has one 屁. Mommy has one 屁. 。。。。。。。"
全家四口都说到了,该说同学们了。老二眼睛鼻子都挤到一起了,
"Sophie has TWO 屁. Michael has TWO 屁. Vicky has TWO 屁........."
我差点从凳子上摔下来之前,老二说了,
"I am just kidding. hahahah..."
Saturday, August 11, 2007
中文教育
K: I wanna some fish. (特指小鱼干)
我:说中国话。
K: I wanna some 说中国话 fish.
K: Mommy, can you read me some books?
我:说中国话。
K: 说中国话Mommy, I wanna read book.
我:说中国话,“妈妈,我要看书”。
K: NO!!! Not Mommy 要看书. Me 要看书.
Preparation - 07 Disney Vacation
OK, finally our family is going to Disney World Orlando this summer. The trip to this wonderful, fantastic, dreamful land was first brought up by Steve years ago, well, when we were dating. Guess what, I had to work during that summer. Then it was proponed many times for various reasons. Now we are heading there on
The packing list was modified from what it was last year. Car, flights, tickets to Disney World, Sea World and
Global booked me a two-bedroom at Windsor Palms resort. It seems to be quite nice in the pictures gallery on its website. Just hope our stay will turn out to be a quite pretty memory to the kids. The weather channel forecasts a 92 degree everyday that week. I guess an inside pool would be a big plus. But it seems that we’d have to arm ourselves with SF 50. Not too bad though.
There are quite a few restaurants along the Irlo Bronson Hwy,not far from the resort and Disney World. I am planning do some research on them and pick up 6 that we will have a taste on each day.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
生煎包
没承想俩祖宗不领情,大的说了,I don't wanna eat anything. 小的说了,I wanna ice cream.
怒了,都饿着,我吃。拿了盘子我就正经坐下了。小的凑上来刺探军情,Mommy, is that 肉肉?I wanna 肉肉, Mommy。大的闻声也过来了,I wanna 皮皮。
结果6个包子馅全都进了小的tummy。吃完了盒子见底儿了,小的不高兴了。Where is more 肉肉?Mommy, ah~~~~~~~~~~. Daddy, ah~~~~~~~~~~~。感情以为我们给吃了,大实话一个肉星儿都没进我们俩嘴里,啊什么啊?!
半点肉肉都没找到,小的很郁闷。瞪着两只酷似难民一样的眼问我了,where is the 肉肉?斜眼我一看那碟子豆腐皮包肉,就它了。夹了一下块儿给小的,来,吃这个。小的左右看看,问了,Is that 肉肉?吃了一小口,小眉头一皱,that's not the same 肉肉。
得了,明天还得去买。
哇!半年多没写东西了。
这么长的时候,大的没什么变化,一年级结束的时候拿了outstanding student award。然后就是在summer camp里晒得成了African American。
小的变化比较大,话多了,会顶嘴了。一句话,管不了了。
Friday, January 19, 2007
Thu Jan 18
you a job? is it closer to home?(我,经常说,经常说,洗脑了) how much money
will you get then? can you give me some?
我份特!
toothfairy is on vacation now
我们家小老大切磋的通。上次掉牙,我从5刀砍价砍到1刀。这次掉牙,说是不要钱了,
给我一张珠宝店广告,小指头一下就给我戳到一2000多刀的钻石戒指上,Mommy, this
one, I will ask toothfairy for this ring. 领导说了,it's holiday season,
toothfairy is on vacation now. so, you will have no ring this time. 偶狂笑。
出问题了
小老二今天在学校挨罚了。罪名有2。
1 是把玩的豆子撒了一地,故意的。老师让捡起来,小人居然和老师顶嘴。实在没办法
之后,小人一边唱着小曲一边捡,捡一个豆自己鼓一次掌。ft! 老师告状的时候都哭笑
不得的。刚刚还给她爸告状,no play (with) Cheryl.
2 是在Sophie被timeout的时候大声狂笑,且故意进行挑逗,拿着玩具诱惑Sophie,
Sophie play, come on, let's go. 结果是Sophie没把持住,挨了第二轮的to. 小老二
一边陪着。
人就是这么被气死的
祖宗今天花了一个小时的时间写了五十几个字的小作文,整个就是一个瞎编烂造结构混
乱,字写得惨不忍睹比烂地瓜都烂。数学题的分数部分做一道错一道。数coins倒是都
tnnd数对了加对了。
这么笨的孩子怎么会是我生的?
东风吹,战鼓擂,革命小将谁怕谁
我要
赤裸裸地showoff
showoff完了我还绝对不敲木头
我们小老二
今天
穿着同一件衣服上的学
穿着同一件衣服放的学
我们小老二
也有
一天只要一套衣服的时候
抬头180度!哼!小姐我
本星期也能少洗两件衣服!!!
报应
总有一天会来滴。
我这个人,最讨厌无缘无故地哭,很烦孩子whine,特别是不说话给我嗯嗯地。
报应呢,就是酱紫来滴。
我和领导在车前排说话,忘了什么话题了,我呢,就嗯~~~~~了那么一下。
结果就被后排的祖宗教训了,
shush! stop that. that sounds PU. was that you, mom?
never ever do it again. if you don't know how to talk, i'd love to teach you
.
我狂怒!!!!!!!!
都知道?!
鼻子上有饭粒。我这还没来得及给小祖宗擦呢,人家小人自己俩小指头把饭粒从鼻子上
抓起来放嘴里吃了。我说老公你教她鼻子在哪里?老公说没有。1?难道小祖宗是神童
?再问,你耳朵呢?眼睛呢?嘴?头?头发?后背?屁屁?腿?丫丫?
份特啊!都知道?全家一共4口人,三个都没教她。难道家里有鬼不成?那个那个测鬼
的,哪里有卖的?
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