A long weekend with papa

finally papa can spend a long weekend at home, MM was very pleased.
taking advantage of papa's circus passion

taking advantage of papa's passion for saucissons

papa's passion for reading? more like MM's passion

and papa's passion for transporting stuffs up the attic? MM loves this one and did not want to come down at all!

papa cooks!

papa Antoine's poulet au cream

papa's boeuf bourguignon, I cooked the winter squash gartin. yum yum

we had an indian guest at dinner

Ming Ming has a pony tail!

looks really grown up!

miscellaneous pics

drawing, very seriously

謝謝婆婆寄來的一大箱禮物, 明明非常高興, 最喜歡這些頭飾和小書包. 今天早上扭傷脖子, 哭了很久, 又去了看醫生, 又不能上學... 從醫生那里回家不久, 收到包裹, 明明終於恢復笑容. 謝謝婆婆! (還有阿芬姐)!

doing nothing

using papa's book as a song book

Sunday

put her baby and animals in time out! But she was nice, prepared a book and some toys for them before she left the room.

doing craft in the high chair... escaped here because she was afraid of the vacuum robot.

Elizabeth and Enzo came for dinner before their return to Europe...

MM enjoyed Enzo's company

when ginkgo leaves turn yellow

Saturday - Christmas parade

MM and Julien after the Christmas parade. MM was sacred of people dressing up as stuff animal, or, Santa. It was rough to watch the parade with her, we really had to run away each time when stuffed humans approached.

PS: the first time spending a morning at the downtown mall without diaper. No accident. Great! MM has been going to school in underwear for a week already. 1 accident per day on average, mostly during nap time. Looks like I won't need to buy diapers very soon.

the discovery museum is better

have pizza with Maya. she almost finished one entire piece of tomato mozarella pizza, totally because Maya was eating her pizza so well. Here Maya was wipping MM's face for her.

MM wipping Maya's coat.

collecting and throwing leaves

parade photo: Santa

I thought even though she did not like Santa in real person, she would still appreciate the gifts he bought at Christmas. But no! Tonight I read her a story book about Christmas, she got very happy and excited when Santa arrived with a lot of presents. But when we finished the book and I asked her if she wanted Santa to bring her presents too. No No No, she said that she did not want anything from Santa. She did not like Santa. "我有書書就好了, 我不要禮物了" (exact word) ("I only want my books, I do not want presents" - I would be pretty happy to hear that from her when she will be 15). She has also declaimed that she did not like the book "Monkey and me", because I told her Santa brought her that book last year.

cowboys

and who represents China? Falun Dafa!!

明明funnies 之我要樹根

某天在車內:
明明: 我要樹根, 媽媽我要樹根
我: 甚麼樹根?
搞了半天, 終於知道了, 原來是 chewing gum (口香糖)
我開車時常嚼口香糖, 沒想到她也知道了.
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明明現在最愛問的問題:
1 這是甚麼?
2 媽媽你要___ 嗎?
3 我們現在要干甚麼? (洗澡睡覺) 那睡覺完要干甚麼? (吃早餐) 那吃完早餐要干甚麼? (去學校找Ms Beth) 那去完學校要干甚麼? (回家吃飯洗澡睡覺)
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還有她搞笑的中文文法:
我要吃媽媽的里面的盤子的飯飯 (我要吃媽媽的盤子里面的飯飯)
這是梳梳的baby (這是baby的梳梳)

a walk at the natural trail with papa and Julien

I have been walking on the railway..... HELLO


rolling down the hill

both dads trying to teach their juniors how to make noise/music with a leaf

Saturday morning

free pumkins

chocolates!

papa received a package of gifts

Ming Ming was the beneficiary!

MM's coloring from school, the first coloring that shows like she got an idea what she was doing.

food this week

Papa cooked this: potato puree, MM still does not like potatos

sweet peas puree, MM loves sweet peas but hates puree, ok, probably won't see any puree for a while

fish (flounder) and rice

chicken breast, cauliflower, pasta, olive in cheese sauce