Charlotte was whining too much this morning after she got up and wanted Nainai to hold her. Nainai was holding Kasia though and wanted to put her down, Mama joked about Kasia not being held much so Nainai didn’t put her down. Mama took Charlotte to the room and talked to her, she understood what Mama was saying. Mama told her that I did not know why she was crying and I didn’t want her to keep crying, and told her that Nainai likes her but Baba and Mama loves her more. She stopped crying and just sucked her thumb and let Mama hold her. After a few minutes she wanted to go out and saw the door closed and cried wanting to open it. Mama told her if she’s not calmed yet Mama would not want her to go out that Mama wanted her to behave and be happy when she’s out. She then came back to the bed for another minute and went to the door to play with my purse and found a candy. she kind of wanted to eat, but Mama told Charlotte only if she eats her breakfast I would give her the candy. She then was smiling and was ready to go out. She went and sit down on the table and finished a whole bowl of rice herself and was happy all day. Charlotte is such a sweetheart.

Mama and auttie Emily went to Pastor Xu’s house to make moon cakes and brought Kasia with us. There was a lady that really liked her and was holding her a lot. Kasia smiled a lot when people play with her there. The lady joked about taking Kasia home saying Kasia is so easy to take care. S

Sophia, Landon and Sierra came in the afternoon. All the kids played so well. Sophia kept holding Kasia up, took her to bed and then moved to the bassinet. All the kids followed her and played Kasia as she’s a doll.

Kasia likes to turn to her right side rather than left side, so her head is a little flat. Dr. Greenlie referred her to physical therapy and she was at moderate. we all tried to let her turn to left side more and hold her more and went back for second check. She’s getting better now. Mama is not that worried since i see her being able to turn to left side too. It’s probably because mama always nursed Kasia on her right side since her bassinet is by our bed. Mama now nurse her on the other side instead, this should be able to correct her head direction.

We went to South Dakota for a week. Charlotte listened to baba and mama when she didn’t see nainai. We tried to convince her to put her shoes on and had hard time doing it. Even if she had her shoes on she would them them off in the car or after entering into a building.

The other day baba and mama was going out for a walk and Charlotte wanted to go, so mama asked her to put certain shoes on but she would not. so we went without her. She took the shoes and had nainai put them on for her and kept crying and wouldn’t take them off because Baba and Mama already left without her. Now when we go out for a walk, if she wants to go out she would put her shoes on before we tell her, although she would take them off once she gets into a building right away. Couple days ago Baba and Mama were going out for a walk again, she didn’t have diaper or pants on and wanted to go. Mama asked her to put them on first before going out but she wouldn’t. We left without her and she took diaper to Nainai to have her put on but we didn’t wait for her. I hope Charlotte can learn from the lessons and she would expect that she needs her shoes on or diaper and pants on before going out.

Charlotte learned how to make gesture 3 and 2 with her fingers and kept doing same gestures when someone is taking her a photo. She did 3 for a while. After she learned 2, she now keeps doing 2. Charlotte doesn’t like noises much. she would plug her ears when the kitchen fan is on or it’s too loud at surrounding. She gets scared when there are noises outside or the hair blower is on and will cry and come to mama or nainai or daddy.

Kasia sucks her fist now an d Mama tried to put a pacifier into her mouth and she started sucking. Kasia has stuffed nose especially in the morning after waking up. Mana tried to suck the stuff out and she’s against to it ,would grab Mama’s hand and turn her head away.

Charlotte got up and didn’t see Kasia outside, so she came to baba and Mama s room and got on the bed herself playing with Kasia who was also on the bed. She was holding her hand and talking to her.

Charlotte doesn’t want her shoes on at all now. We’ve been shopping for a few days and she just ran with barefeet at the mall. She likes to hide in the bunches of clothes so that she’s hard to be found. Last night we were going to the mall to return something, Charlotte wanted to go and Mama asked her to put a specific pair of shoes on but she wouldnt, we went without Charlotte. Nainai hurried her to have shoes on and came out, but we already started backing the car. We want her to learn that she didn’t get to have second chance. Nainai said she was sad and didn’t want to take her shoes off for a while. Such a sweet poor girl

Charlotte always do “3” gesture when taking pictures.

Kasia is very alert now. when we talking to her, she smiles so big and make “ah ah” sound. she melts everybody’s heart. Kasia has yeast infection and is being treated now and is getting better.

2 month appointment Kasia was 11 pounds, head is 13%, smaller than Charlotte. Dr. Greenlie referred Kasia to children physical Therapy because she likes to turn to right side and hard time to stay at left side, so has a moderate flat head.

Charlotte is talking more and more now and can point to the right person when we ask her  who is daddy etc..谁是爸爸，妈妈,妹妹，外公，奶奶，姨姨，哥哥姐姐. she can call Waigong too.  Yesterday we went shopping, when nainai got into the car, she hit mommy’s head. when coming home, nainai was trying to get in the car again, she moved her cup to make room for nainai to get into the car. she is so smart.

Charlotte likes to say “bu yao” (no). even when she dreams or wakes up in the middle of night, she would say 不要不要，but when she’s been asked, do you want to watch Tv, do you want a candy, do you want to go play with GeGe JieJie, she would say 好 （ok）. she’s got clear mind when it comes to the good stuff!