Charlott started eating a lot more veggies like 3 weeks ago. She would eat broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, spianch, green beans, carrots and etc.. she didn’t like those veggies much, and suddenly started eating them. We were surprised and offered more to her. If we give her just white rice, she would not add veggies on the plate though and ends up eating just rice. Mommy usually try to mix the veggies in for her. Daddy was so happy to see it. He’s like we don’t need to worry about changing such smelly diapers anymore. Charlotte’s poop smells , in dad’s word ” 辣眼睛” like spice up his eyes, very smelly. Charlotte also surprised mommy for how much she understood when she pulled out a book and started reading. She was able to point to the animals and make their sounds. Yesterday she showed me the wood shapes and was telling me square, circle, oval. She also pulled out another book and pointed to the numbers and read ” one two three , heart”. She could recognize up to 8 for the book she showed mommy. She’s able to count to 10. Charlotte really surprised mommy because we never taught her those. She must have learned that from listening to the songs from YouTube. Kasia is very needy now. If mommy is out of her sight she would look for mommy. She’s able to lift her tummy of the floor and move her body a little bit, she does it a lot when she lay down. She’s starting to grab her toes and today she bites her toes.

We went to waipo’s house today since it’s her birthday. Kasia only wanted Mama. Waipo really wanted to help holding kasia so that Mama could eat. But Kasia started crying once Mama let go of her. Later Mama found out Kasia is already teething. She’s got tiny two little teeth on the bottom. Mama could feel them when putting finger in to let her bite. This might be why Kasia has been so attached to mommy lately. Kasia can roll herself over back and forth and lifts her tummy off the surface. She seems like trying to crawl. She roll herself to the wall by the window and got stuck in the gap between the wall and the bed in master bedroom this morning.Changing Kasia’s diaper can get tough. she tries to roll herself over all the time and grabs Mama’s arms. Charlotte treasures crackers and candies so much. She always holds them a long time before she eats them when Mama gives her one. When Mama gives her two animal crackers, she would eat one right away and keep the other one in hand and walk around with it, and sometimes she even loses it. But if Mama only gives her one she would just hold it for a while and sings finger song with the cracker. When she gets a vitamin candy, she plays with it for awhile too. When she finally start eating it, she eats little bites instead of putting whole candy in the mouth.

Charlotte eats two bowls of white congee for breakfast for like 3 days. She’s been so hungry in the morning since last week maybe. When she wakes up in the morning she says : 妈咪吃饭饭，妈咪肚子饿饿 mommy eat ,mommy tummy is hungry. Mommy gets her a bowl , when she finishes she brought the bowl in the bedroom and says 妈咪饭饭 again. When mommy starts eating she would want some of mommy’s too. Charlotte eats so much in the morning.

We were reading a book today , Charlotte surprised mommy. She knows so many animals.she pointed to cow and said cow, moo. Pointed to horse and said horse neigh…Pointed to sheep said sheep baa and sung baa baa black sheep. She can say many more: tiger, lion, giraffe, elephant, monkey and etc.. both Chinese and English. She was counting birds with 12345 and was clear. She’s so smart.

Charlotte likes to pick her nose. She would also put what she picks out into her mouth. It’s a bad habbit but it’s hard to stop her.

Charlotte wanted to take off her “all in one” pajamas off and mommy got mad and told her if she took it off I would not sleep with her. She didn’t listen and said bye to mommy, so mommy left her room and locked the door of our bedroom. She couldn’t open it and was crying so hard. As son she saw mommy she wanted to put the pajamas on and asked to go sleep. Mommy gave her 2 chances and she knew she couldn’t try to take off another time.

Kasia is too attached to mommy. When we were at the library and mommy had someone else holding her while I get Charlotte changed. Kasia just kept crying.

Charlotte was holding Kasia’s hand and sitting on bed talking: 爸爸飞走了，爸爸上班班，赚钱，买尿布，妹妹好乖，妹妹可爱。 Kasia was sitting and leaning her body back and forth. She likes to do this a lot when she sits.

Charlotte hops to the changing table waiting to be changed when mommy ask if she wants to be changed. She says 小鸟搭窝，头发盖眼睛 in the morning when she feels that her hair is long or when mommy asks her if she wants to do her hair. She didn’t want mommy to do her hair for a while and mommy held her and showed her hair through the mirror and told her the birds would come make a nest and her hair was covering her eyes that she couldn’t even see mommy.

she didn’t want mommy to brush her teeth suddenly in one day and mommy didn’t brother to brush. Now when I start counting 123 she came lay down to let me brush. Whenever she sees mommy brushing she wants to brush and would say “妈咪一个刷刷 one brush”. Charlott likes to dip the brush in the water.

Kasia is now able to sit for a long time, probably at least thirty minutes. She’s so attached to mommy though. When she sees mommy walks away, out of her sight, she would start crying like screaming. When she sees mommy her smile comes back right away. She would sit in the Bumbo chair for a long time in the toys room with the heater on. She grabs every toy and bites them.

Charlotte played with the giraffe tand kept showing mommy it’s a giraffe saying “妈咪，长颈鹿” all day long yesterday and was obesessed with the toy.

Charlotte was playing with mommy peek a boo by standing behind mommy while we were both on bed. When mommy turn the head to her at one side, she kissed mommy. When mommy turned to the other side, she came kissed at mommy again. She’s so sweet. When she heard Kasia crying waking up, she would run to Kasia. Sometimes she would even put a pacifier into Kasiaas mouth.

Charlotte loves playing with Kasia. She would grab a toy like a rattle, but usually the pacifier and says ” 给妹妹 give to meimei”. She’s such a caring sister. Charlotte would pat on Kasia’s head and Kasia loves playing with Charlotte too. Kasia smiles so big when Charlotte plays with her.

Kasia is able to sit by herself for a long time now, at least 10 or 15 minutes. She would sit and observe or play with her toy without crying. She’s able to roll herself over well, a few rounds.

When she had her 6 month check. Her weight was 16lb 12oz. 61st percentile, height was at 14th percentile, like 25inches. Head circumstances at 71st percentile- big head like Charlotte.

Everyone is sick in the family. We went to buy a car last Saturday and it was really cold, around -20c. Kasia wasn’t dressed warm enough..Well, we were not expecting that cold. The process took too long that we didn’t get to eat lunch or dinner. Good things is we bought the car with good deal. However, Charlotte and Kasia got sick the next day. Charlotte’s nose was dripping like the faucet. Both of them got runny nose and cough and fever. Kasia is still having a fever today.

When they sleep togethed closely, Charlotte would try to grab Kasia’s pinky since that’s Charlotte’s sleeping habbit. Kasia doesn’t like Charlotte to grab her hand and would cry and get herself off from Charlotte. Mommy needs to let them sleep far apart. Charlotte sometimes just put her legs on Kasia’s head or her body.

Daddy and mommy went out for a date for our 5 year anniversary and have auntie Emily watch Charlotte and Kasia. They both cried through. We only had dinner and came back for the kids. We were planning to go the movie but didn’t want to let them cry at auntie’s house. We we came back Charlotte was so happy and smiley and didn’t want to go back home. It seemed that her day just started. Maybe because mommy woke her up from the nap and left her at auntie’s house without playing with her a little bit.

Kasia can laugh out with giggle sounds when being entertained. Even when she’s sick she still smiles a lot.