Vocabulary

She can read a little bit over 100 Chinese characters. We did not teach her any English before she went to daycare. Here is the list of English words she picked up since she started daycare a month ago:

NO, yeah, nice, bubble, pillow, water, mommy, bagel, diaper, pull-ups, more, pee pee, poo poo, slide, swing, hi and bye.

one phrase: no more

Funny notes:
1. One day last week we were very surprised to hear her yelling at us "No, no, no, no!". Before that, she always said "Bu" -- No in Chinese.
2. When she cries, she is crying for "Mommy", but she is not looking for her mom. My guess is she does not what "Mommy" is, just learned from other kids in the daycare when they cry.
3. Her favorite song now is "ABCDEFG...", but she doesn't remember all the lyrics, so she repeats "ABCD" over and over again.
4. I change the lyrics from "ABCD" to "no more no more", and force her to sing along with me when she wants more juice but she already had enough :)

Face painting

April's daycare had a summer safari
yesterday. We had a lot of fun there. In the end, April had a blue dophin painted on her face.

Bye, Grandpa and Grandma

Over the past few weeks, we told April several times that Grandpa and Grandma are going to leave us and she will stay. Surely, she doesn't understand what all that means, but I can tell that she felt something was going to happen.

7:00 am this morning, while April was still sleeping, Grandpa and Grandma was already on the way to the airport. 18 hours from now, they will be in Beijing, China.

In the past two years, Grandpa and Grandma took really good care of April. During that 2 year span, April was only sick for once. She is happy, healthy, smart and beautiful.

I am sure Grandpa and Grandma will miss April a lot. So do we. When April gets a little bit older, we will take her back to China to visit her loved Grandpa and Grandma.