Today Charlotte is 2 years and 4 months old! We went to walk daddy home for lunch, Charlotte copied what mommy did-Mama keeled down to take pictures for her, she keeled down too, when i squatted down, she did that too. She gave mama’s prenatal and wanted mama to open for her, like what she has always been doing. I told her to give to mama to eat, she played with it for a few seconds then gave to mama. She thought that’s Mama’s candy and grabbed it saying 妈妈的糖糖. She liked to sit in Kasia’s exersaucer to play, she could go in but couldn’t get out herself .
We walked to Target to buy some yogurt. it was so cold and windy. Charlotte didn’t want to wear her coat. Mama kept saying if she didn’t wear, she wouldn’t get to go out. She kept saying 不要不要，until Mama said ” 我再给你最后一次机会 i am giving you last chance”, she said 好 ok, lol.
Charlotte is learning so much at this age. A few things that she does:
-Sucks her finger regularly, especially when she’s tired or bored. it’s easy to tell whether she falls asleep because she would make “jiu jiu” sucking sound when she falls asleep. She likes to grab daddy or mommy‘s pinky finger while sucking.
– When mama shakes prenatal bottle, she runs to get the prenatal right away, Mama always tells her to feed Mama the prenatal . She would pretend that she’s not giving to mommy and hides her hands behind her, play with it for a few seconds and then puts into mommy’s mouth. She thinks that’s mama’s candy.
– She carries a stool with her a lot trying to reach higher, such as for brushing teeth, see daddy/mommy cooking, reach snacks.
-she loves climbing, on the slide, chair, couch by the fence,bed, sometimes table.
-if she realizes that we are going out, or eating something that she likes, she would say 快快快 (hurry….) while running over to daddy or mommy and stop whatever she’s doing.
-if she hears daddy saying going to work, she would run to daddy and have daddy hold her.
-she likes pulling mommy’s eyelids up because it’s funny, she would do it to Kasia and sometimes herself too
-she likes to wave at people on the street. if mommy ask her to say hello, she would wave say hello. Mommy asks her to say bye, she would wave and say bye-bye.
– she likes to eat animal crackers and candies and knows mommy have them in the purse and look through my purse. When she doesn’t know how to open, and ask for help, she would say 一个就好 (just one), because when mommy gives her a snack, I always tells her you can only eat one, and you need to be good and say it repeatly.
Days likes Alexa, Amazon echo, she says “happy” if she wants to listen. Mommy would then ask her if she wants to listen to a certain song, she always says “hao”, after the song ends, she would say “repeat” because that’s how mommy asks Alexa to repeat what she was playing.
– she likes putting things on her fingers like donut toys or little people and sing finger song.
-When she sees something that scares her , she tells mommy 怕怕 ( afraid), like bugs, Halloween videos, hair dryer noise
Words she can say: 好，不要，奶奶没了，爸爸/妈妈的袜子，裤子，毛巾，妹妹的床，妹妹哭哭，妹妹睡觉，姨姨，爸爸，妈妈，奶奶，徐妈妈，爷爷，糖糖, 爸爸上班班，外公/外婆上班，爸爸/妈妈/哥哥厉害, 谢谢妈妈/爸爸，happy birthday,,,, etc..
Translates into:
Yes, no, grandma is gone, daddy/mommy’s socks pants towel ， sister‘s bed, sister is crying , sister is sleeping, auntie, Baba, Mama, Mama Xu, candy, daddy is working, Grandpa/grandma is working, Daddy/ mommy/ brother is awesome, thank you Mommy/daddy
Songs she can sing quite well:
“Happy Birthday” (English and Chinese), “Wheels on the bus”, “finger songs”, “baby shark”, “twinkle twinkle little star”, “head shoulder knees and toes”, There are other songs that she would sing a sentence or two like: ” Johny Johny yes papa”, “ring around the Rosie” ，“Mary had a little lamb”, “itsy bitsy spider”. There are more because she loves listening to the kids songs.