January Happenings

I’m trying to keep a list of some of the entertaining things the girls do each day, so I can make them a part of my blog entries.  Here are some things that have happened since my previous post.

Funny Happening #1

The setup: Lily and Mei Li were playing in their bedroom.  After a few minutes, I heard Lily crying.  She was pretty loud, but it sounded pretty fake.  (She’s really good at fake crying.)  Anyway, here’s the exchange that took place when I went to check the situation out.

Me: “What happened, Lily?”

Lily: “I didn’t hurt her head.” 

Lily immediately stopped crying after saying that, so I left the room (thinking that she just sounded SO guilty of doing something she shouldn’t have).   I was next door talking to Andrew when we heard the following.

Lily: (whispering ) If I hit you Mei Li, you cannot hit me back.  It is not okay for you to hit me back.

Mystery solved!  Andrew and I got a good, silent laugh out of that.

 

Vocabulary Happening (Mei Li’s Shubbie)

“Ba-um” is Mei Li’s “shubbie”.  When she was younger, Lily used the word “shubbie” to refer to strawberries, strollers, shovels, and one other thing I can’t remember.  So far, Mei Li has said “ba-um” for buckle, tomato, bubbles, potato and sweet potato.  It’s cute when she says it. 

Funny Happening #2

Lily put her little, pink toy thermometer up to my ear.  She held it there for a minute, then said, “You’re 86 dollars.” Yeah, she’s pretty funny.  

Holiday Happening

We celebrated Chinese New Year by going to the Lunar New Year festival at the Houston Chinese Community Center.  We’ve gone for the past few years, and it’s always fun and very, very crowded.  The food and the dragon dance are always highlights for the Pace family.  This year, they had a zodiac dance.  It was pretty entertaining with a handful of animals from the Chinese zodiac dancing around.  The costumes were much larger than the people inside, and it was hilarious to watch them awkwardly dance around, almost falling over sometimes.  I especially enjoyed the giant pigs.

 It was hard to get a good photo of things happening on stage - we were sitting pretty far back, and there were SO many people.  Below is an attempt to capture part of the dragon dance.

Lily seems to be going through a phase where she enjoys plopping all her food into a single bowl and eating everything together.  Sometimes this looks yummy, but I'm just not convinced about the macaroni and cheese (which already had tomatoes, spinach and chickpeas added by me) into which she added raw carrots (okay) and blackberries (not so sure about this addition).  She said she thought it tasted good, but I don't think I'll be trying it myself!