Holding hands, the zoo, and a first haircut!

We started the week off with a play date with Nate Nate at UTC!

These two cuties held hands when we asked them to... and smiled for our pictures!

They even kept holding hands up the hill and down the slide!

Then we took our first trip to the San Diego Zoo! Here we are looking at the "mingos!" Oh and she calls giraffes, "Gir-ree-raffe!"

She's raising her hand up like an elephant's trunk!

Hello panda!!!

There's a panda in the background, and pandas on her outfit!!!

Xinyi did so well sitting on the lion statue by herself! So proud!

She's pointing at the ducks right off the screen!

Duckie goes "kack kack" - she doesn't quite have the qu- sound yet :).

Mommy bought some muffins intended for breakfast... baby girl decided she wanted a snack instead :).

Here's some of her art projects from Art Class at Gymboree! This one is a "pizza"

... and a flag...

and a dotted pillow :).

Xinyi also got her first haircut!!!

She did so so well! We were sure she would be so upset and cry, but she was so brave and enjoyed playing with toys and watching Elmo videos while she got her bangs trimmed and hair evened out :).

Such a big girl!

This week she has learned to ask for certain songs and even certain parts of songs. She asks for the ABC song and the itsy-bitsy spider and old McDonald. For old McDonald, which she calls "Old Donald," she'll ask me specifically for a cow and a pig and a sheep. She says, "sing Old Donald have a cow please momma..." or whatever animal she wants. She's even asked for a kitty cat and a kangaroo on Old Donald's farm :D.

This little girl also peed on the potty for the second time this week! We've been slowly introducing a potty and that big girls pee on the potty, and she did it again before bath time! So proud!

I had to include the pretty wreath we bought for Christmas! :D

Here's baby girl contemplating life with a donut in her hands...

Yup, it's good... let's have another bite!

Xinyi and her cousins after Gemmy's ballet performance! So cute!

During the whole performance, baby girl kept saying "Yay Gemma! Yaaay Gemma!" Love seeing these three together!

So Xinyi finally learned that her baby sister is in mommy's belly. For the first time ever she poked mommy's belly and said baby A! We've been trying to teach her that for months! She then promptly forgot and points to her own belly now when we ask where the baby is...

She likes to repeat after me for certain things we do every day like it's time to go and it's bedtime and it's naptime and it's clean up time. She even understands the day to day rhythm. When I say it's one minute to bedtime, she knows she will go to bed soon. And she happily runs to the room when it's nap and bedtime! She also loves asking to "do it again" "more please momma" and "open it please momma" and still loves "here gi go!" Most of the time she speaks in 3-4 word sentences like, "I did it!" and "Here you go momma" and "Sitting down with mommy" and likes to say "more toys" when she wants a different set of toys to play with! She is learning so much and copies everything everyone says!

Our little sweet love! :)