potty train的第一小步

昨天的report上老二的老师激动地写了，hooray! Kathy peepee in the potty. We danced in the bathroom. 今天送孩子，每个人跟我打招呼都不一样了，

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。

名字

老二终于记住自己的中文名字了。累死我了，整教了半个月。天天唠叨你叫刘力瑄啊， 你叫刘力瑄。开始的时候老二曾经痛哭反抗，幸好我坚持不懈。这不，现在明白了。

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。

Grade 2 plan

Sarah's writing is at a very low level now. "No professional business skill in her writing", according to Steve. Our goal is to improve her writing skill to a formal and standard level with correct spelling and grammar.
Wish her luck.

凄惨的文盲

这一个星期的vacation就有后遗症了，老二今天晚上居然找不到曾几何时那么熟悉的“play" button了。吃饭的时候我把电视关了，连带着dvd一起都关了。老二吃完饭开了电视就噌地跳上sofa等~~~~play Elmo dvd.

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。

同情 Dora and Diego

老二刚开始看Dora, Diego的时候很老实，Dora, Diego 让找什么咱们老二就找什么，超级认真还跑到电视前面给人家指，深怕人家不知道。几个月下来，小老二也老道了。Dora, Diego现在也经常挨个训什么的。

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?!

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. Magic Kingdom will take two days if the girls are still interested in the events and shows. We may skip most of the MGM, Epcot and entire Sea World next time. Animal Kingdom, hmmm, we’ll think about it. We may also go to the Busch Garden if there the schedule allows. Only because I can see the girls love activities more than just sitting and watching.

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 Magic Kingdom today to go through the attractions that we did not have time to visit the other day. Our first stop was Fantasy Land. We all loved the “It’s a small world” musical indoor voyage and the 3D Mickey’s PhiharMagic. It was so funny to see Kathy trying to grab the banana coming to her and was confused that she only caught air in her fist. She took off the special glasses and looked around for where that banana went. The Queen in the Snow White’s Scary Adventures scared Kathy a little. For a short while after the Snow White journey, the little girl refused to go on any ride in dark. It took me a heck of time to talk her into the Peter Pan ride. Ended up she loved it. Though the ride was in dark, Kathy was still excited to see the sight of the city lights, the little mermaid (wondering why the mermaid was there), tinkle bell and some other little people that I had no idea what they were called.

In the afternoon we came back to the Tomorrow Land AGAIN and got on some rides there. Buzz light ride was absolutely the best. It was just way too much fun watching Kathy busy turning the cart with right hand, and trying to shoot with another. Monster's Inc. laugh floor was a new added. Sarah laughed from beginning to end. Kathy was cracked out by what some people said and repeated the words that she thought was funny. The blue ride was great to get on. Though Kathy was not happy when she tried to knee on the seat to see the objects, and was shouted to sit down by Sarah. After those I took the girls to the playground. Goodness! They were so bored! The Pooh Play lot and the tiny playground next to the Donald Boat water play area were purely designed for babies. Kathy came to me said, “I wanna go home.” She always says this when she’s bored. Sarah wondered around for couple minutes and told us that she wanted to leave. But both of them got soaked wet at the water area and again it was hard to drag them out of there. The Jungle Cruise at the Adventureland was pretty neat. Kathy imitated Monkey's noise and made people around cracked out. It worth the time waiting. Sarah was anxious to try the race car but turned down by not meeting the height restriction by just a little bit.

We had lunch in a Café at the Tomorrow Land. It was so crowded. There was a bird like animal playing music. Of course Kathy danced with music again. There were a couple of love birds feeding each other reminded me about the time that Steve and I fed each other with junk food in the mall’s food court, and felt that we were so much in love. Boy, we were so young then. Ten some years later we do like, “hey, eat healthy please. If you don’t live long enough, you’re in trouble.” We are still in love, just in a different way.

On the way out of the park, there were people sitting on the side way along the Main Street waiting for the fire work. One guy shouted out “Maryland!” I was like “yahoo! Maryland!” Yeah, people do silly things at Disney. I was sillier. LOL.

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 Echo Lake area since the attractions were more for grown ups from the descriptions. For the nine hours we were in the park, most of the time we were running to catch show after show. The girls were excited to see the characters that they knew came out from TV to talk, sing and dance right in front of them. The Disney MGM Backlot showed us a tour on making a Harbor Day movie piece, and some other movie-making magic. The Great Movie Ride was an introduction on the American movie history. I was so moved again by the Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart’s kiss. Girls shouted out excitedly the names during the ride. However, they were not so much into the old western cow boy films. Muppet show was hilarious that I laughed the entire time. But again Kathy was not so much into the 3D vision. Sarah thought the show was just so-so, coz it was talking almost about nothing. Well, I was naïve, OK? Later on both girls were so excited to see the Mermaid in the Little Mermaid Musical show. The Bear in the Big Blue House was another stage show that the girls got really involved. They went to the front and danced right below the stage. Kathy really wanted to go to the Beauty and the Beast stage show. But we ran out of time so we had to disappoint her this time.

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 Publix Shopping Center on the orange lake road right off Rt. 192. Then in the evening we could not get reservation in the Play N Fine at Hollywood & Vine. I do need some good food tomorrow.

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 Magic Kingdom will open till late in the evening. The two girls were curious to see every event, check out every exhibit, get on every ride that they were allowed too, and of course go wild on every playground. We sure do need more time in each park.

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 4 PM. It was steamy hot then. We decided to stay in the Wild Arctic for a while before heading to the playground at Shamu’s Happy Harbor. The line was not long at all. It only took us couple minutes to get inside. The introduction film was not attractive to the girls but at least gave them an idea what they were about to see. The bear was sleeping; dolphins were busy swimming; and the sea loins (or were those sea loins?) could care less about our visitors. Sarah was busy hopping up and down on those fake rocks. Kathy was not happy that she was not allowed to climb all the way up to the cave, so she started counting dolphins to kill time. The bad thing is that the exit of the Wild Arctic was in a gift shop. The girls running around picking up stuffs they liked and acted like step children when I said “No, you can not have it.” Again, we showed them who was in charge.

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 Happy Harbor. I loved to see her exciting face. The day before she was turned down couple times by the height restrictions at Dino Land. When I took her to a gift shop to wait for Sarah and Steve riding a roller coaster, Kathy asked me, “Where are Sarah and Daddy?” I said that they went on a ride. Kathy looked at me with the saddest eyes and face, “I can not go?” Right at that moment, I decided not to come back before she reaches 48 inches. Lucky her 36 inches is not too far away from the target height. Anyway, I took her to the Swishy Fishies again just to see her happy face.

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 10 AM. We rented a stroller again today. Here I have to say that Disney staffs are really nice and helpful. While we were waiting in the line for the stroller, I asked a lady where to pick up the park map. She gave me the direction. I thanked her. Soon she came back with 4 maps and wished me a happy day in the park. I shared the maps with the parents behind me. Thought maps could be found at a lot of places; the thoughtful lady will be remembered and thanked by us for a long time. During the entire time we were in the park, no matter where we went, staffs were extremely helpful. I have to say that those people make the Disney more attractive to the world. Kids were greeted warmly everywhere. Strollers were right at the exit after every show we went at the Animal Kingdom. Staffs were pretty much everywhere at the playground to ensure the safety of the kids. The parks were made so convenient for the parents with young kids.

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. Discovery Island is famous for this big huge fancy fake tree. Well, there was also a 3D show called “It’s tough to be a bug”. Both girls were scared by the loud noise and the objects brought right in front your face by the special glasses. This is definitely too much for young kids. Lion King Show at the Camp Minnie-Mickey, and the Finding Nemo Musical Show at the DinoLand were two must to see. Both kids enjoyed the shows every much. The girls even sang with the performers. I could tell that Sarah came out some tunes, and Kathy sang purely without a tune at all. But she enjoyed. After the show, the little girl insisted to say good-bye to the big fake animals. I had to follow her around the big room to wave bye-bye to those unreal things. Laugh.

Animal Kingdom is much smaller than Magic Kingdom. One day in the park should be enough to cover all the rides and shows. Kathy took a good nap on the way from the Rafiki’s Planet Watch to the Finding Nemo Show, and half of the show. She woke up in the middle and enjoyed the rest of the show happily. The discovery play ground is a must go for energetic kids. I was afraid that I would end up asking the staffs there to find my kids for me. Coz in a blink, the girls were high somewhere on the third level, or one girl was running to the left and the other hopping to the right. It is a good place to burn kid’s energy to put them to nap.

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 6:30 PM anyway. We went to Black Angus Steak House on Rt. 192 for diner. My, I have to say that this restaurant had just the right steak I love. Steve was surprised that I finished my Cowgirl Cut. It was my first time ever that I ate up the whole piece of the steak in any restaurant or at home. Steaks here were much better cooked than those from Outback or Lone Star. Black Angus’ services were above average, and more important, it was kids friendly. 15 % off coupon could be found in the coupon book at Billy Boy’s or the visitor’s centers. The restaurant brought back the memory of Okalahoma.

Oh, and by the way, I found the best way to loose weight. Put on that Mickey Mouse outfit and do the Mickey dance everyday for couple weeks in the temperature of 95, I could lose all my 50 some pounds of fat without any problem. And will never get them back again. LOL.

Day Two August 19, 2007 – Magic Kingdom

The girls woke up around 7 AM this morning and were not very excited about the Disney deal today. I guessed it could because of the fact that they have not seen any real Disney stuffs yet. Steve cooked his famous scramble eggs, which, of course, is one of the hand full things that he could make in the kitchen. By the time we got to the Magic Kingdom right before 10 AM, it was already very hot. The girls were grumpy because of the heat. On top of this, we forgot the park’s map in the car and did not take one from the gate. Without a navigator, we choose to follow the crowd, which later on was approved to be a very bad decision.

The Liberty Square could be skipped if one is not crazy about riding boats and American history. With young kids, I’d pass rides at Frontier Land as well but take some time to enjoy the Country Bear Show. The girls would go back for that show in a heart beat. After these two lands, we decided to go out for lunch and take a nap back at the resort. On the way back, we watched part of the Princesses dance right in front of the Castle. Kathy danced wherever there was music. She got people stopped and watched her dancing, and sometimes applauded.

We came back in the late afternoon around 4:40. This time we were all equipped with map, water, snack, and we even recharged our energy from nap. Here I have to change the topic a little to say something about Kathy. Today she made me to re-evaluate her. As a two and half year’s old child, she enjoyed every ride that she could get on, and behaved very well while waiting for her turn. She could name most of the Disney characters, and greeted them with cheerful voice and big smiles. Almost all the time she walked with big kids when stroller was not permitted.

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 Tomorrow Land then move on to the Fantasyland. Advenrureland seems to be very attractive with quite some young kid’s friendly rides and activities, but we didn’t have time to visit it today. Mickey’s Toontown Fair seemed more for younger kids. Neither of the girls was much interested in that section. The firework was nice but way too later for toddlers. The parade was fantastic but crowded. I’ll see if we could watch these two the next time.

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!

August 18, 2007 started beautifully with both kids woke up very early in the morning happily. Checking in at the airport was smooth. If I did not get lost on Rt. 66, the starting point would have been perfect.

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 Orlando. For a short flight from DC to Orlando, the airline serves drink and a piece of cookie. Zippy cups are allowed to bring with the young kids. The flight assistants even asked if we’d like to fill the cup with juice. Kathy fell to sleep shortly after we took off from DCA and woke up about 20 minutes before we landed at MCO. At only two and half, she behaved very well for her first flight.

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 Windsor located. Publix seems to be the major supermarket in Orlando.

Billy Boy’s Discount Tickets is about 10 miles from Windsor. Their services are good. Just don’t be rejected by its look. The store looks pretty creepy from outside. I ordered 3 four-day Disney tickets and was updated automatically by Billy Boy’s to five-days. The lady at the registration gave me some brochures and introductions on the Disney World. Now that I can save one of the one of the Sea world /Busch Garden / Sesame ticket for later. Sesame Street at Northeast Phila will be our next destination soon.

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 Magic Kingdom.

Couple others things to keep in mind. The water condition in Orlando is not very good. I could feel how hard it is. And boy, it smells bad. Next time I will invest some good shower gel and shampoo. On US 4 highway, though it is local right within Orlando area, we had to pay tolls several times within one day. Some roads could be confusing. Even with GPS, I still made couple wrong turns today. Good thing is that the Orlando drivers are not as aggressive as drives in Maryland.

Windsor locates in a nice quite area with houses and condos. The houses here have the attached outside swimming pond. Steve and I joked about if we should pay some extra money for an out door bath tub. See how small the pond is now? In the following days we saw quite some lizards, grasshoppers, and other kinds of bugs in the yard.

showoff

一个夏天的成果。
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=772503938790715706&pr=goog-sl

纯属捣乱的。
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7186220482498924155&pr=goog-sl

该挨屁股板子的老二

这些都是今天晚上这位小祖宗做的。

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。

发音， S

这个音，小孩子还真的发不出来。Daycare问一问，老师说了，孩子到三岁才能发好这个音。不过我急，在家里就不停地remind, “错了，S~~~~~~~~~~呢？” 骄傲地说，老二会发这个音了，忘了这个音还知道补上。

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

好像写日记一样了。；-）

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."

逗我乐呢

小老二洗澡的时候跟我说了，

"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..."

中文教育

我在家里，那真正的是一支独树啊。“说中国话！讲中文！中国话怎么说？” 口干舌燥外加脑袋疼。结果呢，我们家老二也说“中国话”了。

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 August 18, 2007, a family of four rather than two single students. Well, let’s get ready.

The packing list was modified from what it was last year. Car, flights, tickets to Disney World, Sea World and Busch Garden were all booked online. http://www.kayak.com/ is a terrific booking engine with links to many other travel websites and agents. I’ve got the car and flights from this site and the prices were not bad at all, given that week of August 18 will still be the peak travel week in the destination. I was not lucky enough to get all the tickets at my planned prices. What can I say? That’s the Disney World where we are going! It’s about the magical power. It’s the place where the dreams come true. Discount prices? Yeah, 20% off. Come on, people would pay full price to see those famous cartoon characters. 695 USD will give four of us four fabulous days at Orlando Disney. The happiness is priceless.

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.

On the day we arrive, we seem to have the entire afternoon to kill. Billy Boy opens till late afternoon so that we can pick up the tickets after the nap. 1st Oriental Supermarket at 5132 W Colonial Dr is about 19 miles from where the resort locates. It’s rated a full 5 stars by some customers. I am planning to fill up the refrigerator with quick breakfast, juice, milk and fruits. And of course some Chinese cookies, snacks, and most important, my sunflower seeds. On the way back, we can stop by the Publix Super Markets at 5350 Central Florida Pkwy to pick up a box of ice-cream and maybe something else depending on what in the mind then.

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.