baby sheep, momma sheep, daddy sheep

Xinyi finally let me put new shoes on her! The old pair have lasted so long and she loves them so much she didn't want me to put new ones on her... but finally! Success!

Here are some of her creations from art class :D.

And a selfie taken while momma wasn't paying attention... look at those cheeks!

Yeh Yeh and Nai Nai came to play with baby girl! They had lots of fun together!

She knows all her letters A through Z, and all her numbers zero through 12, loves counting and putting letters in order, and more! She also knows all her colors and is working on her shapes! They sound so cute! "Rectanle - shure - trianle - cirsle - oval" and more that I can't remember right now.

Fry in one hand, and cookie in the other. What a life :). Don't worry - before this, she had cheese, grapes, and pasta for dinner :).

Baby is watching Wizard of Oz. The wicked witch just showed up and she is very concerned...

Now for some Xinyi stories: We were reading a bedtime book that she loves and on the second to last page, there are three sheep. She points to the littlest one and says, "baby sheep" then points to the one next to it and says "momma sheep" and then points to the third one and says "daddy sheep." She understands this concept! My heart exploded <3!

She's learned Sophia's name and shouts at her. "Fiiissssaaaa, fiiissssaaaa" while trying to convince her to come and play. 

She finished her box of raisins and said "raisins done bye bye." I love that she's putting together phrases she independently understands to express a full concept she knows to be true. Raisins are all done, bye bye!

She went outside with daddy to see the moon and after a few seconds said "back mommy" because she wanted to come back inside to me.

Mommy told baby, "One more minute until bedtime." and baby said, "one minute" with perfect pronunciation. Mommy said, "holy crap!" baby happily mimicked "caapp!" Daddy said, "Be careful what you say now..." :T :D.

Xinyi always has to have whatever I'm eating. One day I was eating a cookie and she demanded the cookie so I gave it to her. Usually, I let her have the whole thing because it's usually a slice of apple or something better for her. So this time I took it back... then I gave her back the cookie to take another small bite. And repeat. And the end, I gave her what I thought would be the last piece of the cookie and turned my attention elsewhere. After a few seconds, I felt a tiny piece of cookie being shoved into my hand. She gave me the last piece :D.

She loves to say "Higi gooo baby!" which is her version of "Here you go, baby!" So close!

As a fun update requested by Grammy, we had our 19 week anatomy ultrasound for Baby Buttercup this last week! After a 45 minute ultrasound, we got lots of fun pictures, but this was definitely the most fun! A picture of her nose lips and chin! 

So of course, I had to take one of Xinyi's nose, lips and chin! She wasn't very helpful because she wanted to take a selfie, a proper selfie... so I had to distract her with Peppa Pig... :D

Baby Buttercup is the picture on the bottom, and Xinyi is the picture on the top - right around the same time! Buttercup is kicking and squirly and loves to roll around. It's fun to feel her moving!

This week is Thanksgiving and we are hosting for one of our Thanksgiving celebrations! We're so excited to have family all in our new home! Look at that polar bear on her sweater!!! :D

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!