Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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Daddy told me that he had a headache tonight (that’s a fancy word for “owie on your head”). I immediately knew what to do – I went and got my penguin ice pack and taught Daddy how to hold it on his head. He said it felt a little better, but it wasn’t until I gave him a kiss that he said he felt all better. I guess my kisses are like medicine. (Dad note: Bad medicine, of course.)
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Chris and I are trying to get in shape and we found this excellent new aerobics teacher. The best part is that she comes to our house and is really cheap – only 10 blueberries!
(Dad note: My favorite part is about 1:25 in…)
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We hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day. Maile woke us up this morning and we opened all our Valentine’s Day cards. Maile loved the cards everyone sent (thank you!) and the little necklace that came with the card Mommy and Daddy got for her. And we loved the cards Maile made for us.
Maile Girl's Valentine's Day outfit (+ new necklace).
Maile also made cards for all her classmates. We brought them into school to give out. Unfortunately, Maile apparently grew somewhat attached to them (she did make them after all) – so she wasn’t a big fan of giving them to her friends. Apparently, she carried them around in a bag all morning, but finally decided to share them with her friends after nap time. Good job, Maile Girl!
At the school all the kids have a mini mailbox – it’s ridiculously cute. Here’s Maile checking out what is in hers:
Maile also made Valentine’s at school for Mommy and Daddy. Here is the one she made for Mommy – can you tell what we’ve been working on?
Valentine's Day card that Maile made for Mommy
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My birthday is in July. But my daddy’s birthday is on February 7th. He’s going to be pretty old, more than 3 I think. We celebrated on Sunday and I helped him blow out the candles. We both made wishes. I hope mine comes true (his too).
(Dad note: My birthday is always a fun time to look back at how Maile has helped me celebrate. Check out last year and two years ago – which will absolutely blow your mind!)
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Contrary to what you might think reading this blog, we aren’t constantly following Maile around like the camera crew from a reality TV show. However, we do take more than our fair share of photos and videos of our little girl. She’s starting to take notice too and is becoming increasingly clear when she wants to ham it up for the cameras and when she wants Mommy and Daddy to leave her alone.
This video starts off capturing one of Maile’s cute new activities (reading made up stories from books), but quickly becomes an example of this new exertion of image control. If she starts demanding grilled cheese with the crust cut off brought to her trailer, we’ll know we have a diva on our hands…
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This one was a lesson for daddy.
On Saturday, Maile and I started to do an experiment that came in the latest Kiwi Crate. It involved seeing how different things floated in both regular water and salt water. We had fun, but the experiment quickly progressed to Maile dumping her half eaten pears into the bowl of water and creating pear soup.
I’ll admit, my initial gut reaction was “oh no, she’s making a mess” and “wait, that’s not how this experiment goes” – but then I realized, that sometimes, kids need to make a mess and, well, experiment. So I let her go with it.
Definitely, a good lesson for daddy!
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Guess what? Today is the Chinese New Year – we learned in school that it is different from the new year we celebrated in Hawaii because it’s based on the moon. I guess the moon was still sleeping or something. In any event, in Chinese you say xing nian kuai le (that means Happy New Year!)
On Friday my school had a big party to celebrate the new year. It was A LOT of fun. I got to run around with all my friends, eat lots of good food, listen to stories, sing and dance, AND, coolest of all, watch a lion dance.
As you can see from the video, I was really into the lion dance. Daddy kept trying to ask me questions and I’m like “can’t you see I’m trying to watch a lion dance here?” Sometimes that Daddy of mine…
Daddy did win a prize playing trivia though – he knew that 2012 is the year of the dragon (long nian). Check out the cool vest he won for me!
Mommy says I ate so much food that it was hard to snag a picture of me without something headed towards my mouth!
I hope everyone has a healthy and happy new year!
(Dad note: If you are interested you can see a bit more about the Chinese New Year celebration here.)
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