Miss Responsible

Katrina has been carrying her baby doll David around and tucking him in every night lately. Out of the blue, she did a really long monologue in the car. I was impressed not only by her ability to speak such a long and complex sentence, but mainly astounded by her sense of responsibility:

係噃,我要記住擤鼻涕嗰陣時要擤完左邊先至擤右邊, 咁就唔會病到咩嘢咁喇 (ear infection), 如果唔係如果我病得好厲害, 咁邊個湊David 喎. 因為爸爸又病, 又要揸車, 媽咪又要返工, 爺爺又忙, 嫲嫲又有嘢做, 佢(points to Nathan)又細個唔識嘢, 姑姐又要瞓覺, 咁無人湊David點算呀! 咁唔得咖嘛,係咪 ?

終於識叫媽咪

For months, Nathan would only sound out objects that are phonetically "B-ish": 波波, 鼻鼻, 拜拜, 包包 (麵包), 爸爸, bear bear. The rest were all 嗰個. (Another favorite everyday word was 跌咗.)
After calling me 爸爸 forever, Nathan finally started calling me 媽咪 a couple weeks ago. Not that he couldn't pronounce the "M" sound before - whenever he was frustrated, he would go mamamama (媽媽聲) - maybe I should be glad he never called me 媽媽 and went straight to 媽咪 and didn't associate me with the sound of frustration ?

Costume Contest Winner

We participated in several Halloween festivities this year:
Oct 26: Katrina's school had its Fall festival and Nathan tagged along.

Oct 31: Whole Foods Kids got to Trick or Treat for healthy snacks while mom picks up groceries, perfect for our early sleepers who don't eat candy anyway.

Nov 3: A neighborhood church hosted a Costume Carnival with lots of games. Katrina has probably never thrown bean bags or bowled or tossed rings etc. but she did pretty well as a first-timer on all of them. It turned out there were secret judges walking around judging hundreds of costumes and Nathan won in one of the 4 categories ! Check out the album to see which category he won !

Halloween 2007