Xinyi loves doing jumping jacks and the monkey dance and somersaults with daddy. She also loves singing songs to herself and asking other people to sing to her. She now asks for the ABC song, Old Macdonald, twinkle twinkle little star, the clean up time song, and head shoulders knees and toes by name! She cleans up toys on her own before moving on to new activities about half the time without my prompting. With prompting she cleans up almost always, but sometimes she needs mommy to do it with her. She's a sweet girl!
Here's a picture from our trip to the zoo last week from daddy's phone!
Daddy has also been teaching our big girl that orcas are called "panda whales" :). It's pretty funny! Xinyi soaked up all the time with daddy - and even tried on his shoes!
Sweet girl is getting pretty good at praying too. She even said a prayer the other day on her own, she said, "Dear Jesus, thank you mommy daddy." :D She also says please and thank you when she's prompted, and one day at Trader Joe's, she said thank you to the check out person for giving her stickers, without prompting!
Here she is about to eat the lime she demanded to have even after mommy told her she wouldn't like it.
I don't know how to post videos, but she did the cutest little shoulder jerk after she tasted it!
On Thursday, we had a playdate with Nate and Auntie Christina and Nai Nai!
Here is our big girl playing with her new turtle toy from the Moana movie! She's making the turtle "swim, swim, swim!"
On a particularly cold morning, daddy wrapped our big girl up in a big blanket and read books to her!
On Friday morning, we went to go hang out with a bunch of mommies and kiddos. She had so much fun and was so wiped out she nappedso well!
I love watching her little personality grow and develop. Some things I've learned about baby girl - she doesn't like to get her hands dirty. While at Gymboree art class, she refused to let the teacher or me or herself paint her hands with paint to make a handprint firework. She also asks to have her hands cleaned if she gets some food on her fingers. And she loves to wash her hands. She's a dainty girl who would rather be carried over sand in the playground than run through it. I'm trying to break her of that, and making some progress, but inherently she doesn't like it! It's so interesting because I don't like sand (unless I'm barefoot) either, and I wonder if she got that from me! Two weeks ago, she graduated to the 2 and 3 year old class at church. Before, when we would pick her up after church, she would be in the middle of the room, playing or talking to herself. Now, she usually at the edge of the class. The teacher says that she likes to watch before getting involved with the bigger kids. If they get too rowdy, she stays on the sides. While at home, she is very silly and loves to dance and make funny noises with her mouth. And most especially, she loves to be picked up and held and cuddled even though she's a big 2 year old now.
Xinyi also got a new book for Christmas called "Pajama Time" by SAndra Boyton. She looves it. She quotes it all the time! One of the phrases says, "Pajammy to the left, Pajammy to the right!" and I swing her to the left and to the right while we read it and she giggles with glee! Then during the daytime she loves saying it too! Another phrase she loves from the book is "Good night. Sleep tight!" She says this to her Little People and Sesame Street figurines while laying them down gently to sleep during her pretend play!
And finally, just for fun, a series of pictures of newborn, one year old, and two year old Clara!
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