Chau's World: 2011

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

KA's score for his preschool development test. He scored the top score of his school. Just being very proud parents. :)

During camping we were down by the river and a bunch of kids were gathering around looking at some fishes. They were like "ooh like at these little catfish".
KA comes up with his hand behind his back and goes "Excuse me guys, those are not catfish. They are little fishes called minnows".
It was late and everyone was sitting around the camp fire. I can tell AV is really tired and tell her to let's go to sleep. She start throwing a tantrum and move her camp chair away from me. Everytime I move next to her, she'll pick up her chair and move it away. She'll angrily look at me and say "I am NOT sitting by you." Amused with 3-4 times of her moving away, I pretend to be sad and start crying. Ai-Vy has a panicked look on her face and hastily say "mom, mom..it's okay, it's okay. I am going to sit by you...look...look." She then quickly move her chair to sit next to me and give me a big grin. :D

Now that Ai-Vy started school, both kids are speaking 90% English at home. I really have to work on that so they don't forget the language.

Ky-An:

Ky-An is still a kind, compassionate, loving, generous little boy.
He asked when he turned five why he doesn't feel any different? How come he's has not gotten big?
Everytime I am sad or pretend to cry, he panics and desperately do everything he can to make me smile.
He got a DS for his birthday but the only thing he's interested in is to take pictures and draw on it. He's my studious boy.
He likes Bagkugan, Pokemon, Sponge Bob, and is showing interested in super heroes.

Ai-Vy:

She is still a tough, independent little girl but starting to notice gender differences and exploring her own interest.
Ky-An accidentally crushed her fingers when he was closing the toy chest. She just whined a little bit, a little shushing and she was off playing again. No tears for this tough little girl.
She currently loves to wear dresses with either stocking or leggings. She loves to be prettied up and for me to do her hair.
She still has to do everything herself, including using the bathroom, putting her shoes or jacket on. It takes her about 5 times as long to put on her shoes but she has to do it herself. To put her jacket on, she would put the hood on her head first. She would then try to put her hands on both sleeves. It's funny to see her chase the sleeves around trying to put her little arms in it. So cute!
She loves to sing and would sing all the songs that she learned at school in random time.
She's starting to be interested in stuff animals, but only small ones. Big brother and her love to play pretend together.
She is starting to grasp the family concept. She looks for a bigger one and a smaller one of each toy animal and play "baby" and "mommy".
They like to use their couch or canvas tubs as shells and they hide under it.

Ai-Vy and I went to the restaurant first for Ky-An's birthday dinner. She wanted a lollipop so asked the waiter for not one, but two. "One for my brother" she said. She happily waited for big brother to come and give him his lollipop. Big brother came with two lollipops also from the hair salon. Apparently he had asked for two also, one for his little sister.
Ky-An got attention all day for his birthday. He got cupcakes brought to school, balloons, dinner at Cheesecake with the entire family. I was worry Ai-Vy may be jealous but she didn't show much sign of it. I am very proud of my little girl. When it's presents time, she excitedly helped big brother open his presents. Once she's done, she'll exclaimed "look what you got Hai!!!" Very sweet and cute to watch.