This blog is for Lewis and Harriet's beloved child, Angela. It has collected notes and pictures on Angela's growth and development as well as events and activities taken place between 11.25.2008 and 12.31.2011.
This evening Angela helped Mommy make cookies for dessert at home. Little Angela has learned to chant and sing "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man", but she hasn't played with dough and make cakes or cookies so far. Thanks to this two-week vacation, Angela finally got chance to bake cookies with Mommy and Daddy. Recently she heard "The gingerbread man" story and loves it so much. Anglea looked so excited when seeing Mommy shape a gingerbread man with dough.
Christmas is coming. This year Angela not only helped Mommy decorate little Christmas tree but also brought home her hand-made art work from preschool activities. The preschool teacher gave kids a little Christmas tree made of Styrofoams and asked them to put ornaments on it. With teacher's help, Angela completed a snowman with DIY materials. Moreover, Angela used round sticker and glittery string to decorate a Christmas wreath. Angela was quite satisfied with her art work. Since Angela is unable to participate the Christmas party held by the preschool, her teacher also gave two gingerbread cookies yesterday.
Recently, she has learned some Christmas song, and she was especially fascinated with Santa Claus is Coming to Town, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Jingle Bell.
Anyhow, with Angela's contribution, this holiday season certainly be more Christmasy and more joyful.
Angela dined with Mommy's colleagues at Eatogether, a buffet restaurant, in Q-square. Angela was not afraid at all when seeing a lot of strangers. She is open and conversed with Mommy's colleague who talked to her and gave them five. She had fun to play with Mommy's colleagues and allowed them to lift her high and carried her to see around. When Santa showed up, she was so excited and asked to touch Santa. Mommy took a picture of Angela while Santa carried her in hand.
This Saturday, Angela got a white bear-head shape coin bag as a prize for her 12th participation at ABC's story series at ChangAn municipal library.
During the class activity, Mommy drawed a picture for Angela's presentation . To teacher's surprise, little Angela is able to name each object in English when Mommy point to it in the picture.
This Thursday was Thanksgiving day and it also was the date of Angela's birth. To give Angela a surprise on her birthday, Mommy asked her preschool teacher to hold a small birthday party at snack time in class on Thursday morning. At the begining of the celebration, Angela's teacher, Miss Yen, invited Mommy to share with her students some Angela's milestones in her second year. Mommy told them that Angela has learned to walk, to run, to speak and to draw and she made a significant progress in these aspects after joining preschool program. Mommy is thankful for teacher's care and student's help.
Mommy had prepared a popular cartoon tiger face cake for Angela secretly. When the teacher presented the cake, Angela and the other kids were excited and laughed. After the teacher had lit the candle, kids sang Angela a Happy Birthday song. Grandma also accompanied Angela during the celebration.
Then kids and teacher gave their best wishes and each girl and boy came forward to hug little Angela, saying "Happy Birthday."
In the end, the teacher helped Angela cut and shared the cake. It was interesting for Mommy to see these kids around the teacher, asking differnt parts of the tiger face cake. Though Angela did not eat much cake, she really was happy to see everyone enjoyed the cake.
In early evening, Daddy celebrated Angela's birthday via MSN together with Grandma and Mommy at home. This time, Angela picked a birthday cake with little piggy and cottage for herself. Also, Angela's cousin, Kwan, called and said happy birthday via cell phone message. In late evening, Shangei, Angela's previous classmate as well as her neighbor, came to say Happy Birthday. Angela shared cake with guests and played blocks with Shangei. Here are birthday gifts Angela got from her classmates, a nice teddy bear and candies from HonE and a pretty shirt and coupon for story telling from Shangei.
Next Thursday Angela will be 2 years old, and an advanced celebration of her birthday was held at ChangHau Grandparents' house this weekend. Aunties and cousins came over to celebrated with Angela, Mommy and Grangparents after dinner.
Grandma picked up a tasty fruit cake for Angela.
When the candle was lit, Angela sang "Happy Birthday" song with family and relatives. She looked so happy and clapped her hands after singing. -
Thereafter, Angela cut the cake with Grandma's help and shared it with everyone.
Here are some birthday gifts that Angela got from Grandparents, Auntie, Ho-Ya and Mommy.
Angela had a play at school playground when Mommy picked her up after class the other day. She first ran straight to the swing set and played on it.
Angela was in such a high spirit that she tried to engage in unsafe behaviors for playing on it. Look, she even placed her tummy on the swing set instead of sitting on it. While allowing Angela to continue to play and to have fun to her desire heart, Mommy kept saying "Be careful!" and kept an eye on her to prevent from any injures.
Daddy also was worried about Angela's seriously dangerous behavior when seeing the video. However, Angela was so happy to play around and enjoyed exercise.
Thereafter, Angela went on the stage where she jumped, sang and danced.
This week grandauntie Ching and granduncle Kwan came to visit grand grandpa and met up with Angela. It has been a year since Angela saw grandauntie and granduncle last time and Angela could not recognize their face when she saw them. Partly because Angela was sleepy at the time, she was shy to say hello to grandauntie and granduncle. Angela even cried and hid behind Mommy when grandauntie greeted and talked to her.
Before long, Angela showed interests in the prestzel packs and a box of scented dry leafs that grandauntie brought from the States.
She then gradually started to be active and talked few words. Grandauntie gave Angela a hug and Mommy took a picture of them.
Angela joined a Halloween activity for kids nearby the shopping area of Taipei Main Station last Saturday. Before that, Angela's preschool English teacher had talked about trick-or-treat in class, so she was quite looking forward to the event. The area was decorated by common Halloween imagery such as pumpkin lanterns, themes of death, witches, ghosts, etc.Unaffected by the gloomy weather, this event attracted lots of kids and toddler to have fun and to get free gifts.
Angela bumped into one of her preschool classmates, EuiShuan.
Many kids dressed in costume wigs, character masks. cloak and hats to make their Halloween costumes stand out. But, Mommy preferred Angela to be a sweet, cute bug in the ladybug costume.
The Halloween program included a series of interactive activities, storytelling, trick-or-treating, and a costume contest. Angela went for a DIY activity and used straws to make a dinosaur, as shown in the picture. Angela got a lot of toys provided by sponsor, MacDonald and a scarf and a pair of gloves. Cool.
During story time, Angela was sitting with kids to listened to the storytellers and watched their performance. She also paid attention to the conversation between storytellers and other kids.
This evening Angela helped Mommy make cookies for dessert at home. Little Angela has learned to chant and sing "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man", but she hasn't played with dough and make cakes or cookies so far.
Recently she heard "The gingerbread man" story and loves it so much. 
Angela and Mommy flew to Houston before Christmas holidays. Daddy picked up Angela at the airport. Angela was so happy to see Daddy
Christmas is coming. This year Angela not only helped Mommy decorate little Christmas tree but also brought home her hand-made art work from preschool activities.
The preschool teacher gave kids a little Christmas tree made of Styrofoams and asked them to put ornaments on it. With teacher's help, Angela completed a snowman with DIY materials. Moreover, Angela used round sticker and glittery string to decorate a Christmas wreath.
Angela was not afraid at all when seeing a lot 
of strangers. She is open and conversed with Mommy's colleague who talked to her and gave them five. 
During the class activity, Mommy drawed a picture for Angela's presentation . To teacher's surprise, little Angela is able to name each object in English when Mommy point to it in the picture.
Mommy had prepared a popular cartoon tiger face cake for Angela secretly. When the teacher presented the cake, Angela and the other kids were excited and laughed. After the teacher had lit the candle, kids sang Angela a Happy Birthday song. Grandma also accompanied Angela during the celebration.
上學後，Angela因為感冒，又長針眼已經有一個多月沒有參加圖書館的ABC說故事活動，因此也有一段時間沒有看到Jerry了。雖然Angela偶爾也會唸起Jerry的名字，但似乎印象已經有些模糊。今天Angela剛看到Jerry時，還有點害羞不太敢正視他和他握手。
老師很高興看到Jerry和Angela又一同出現在圖書館，兩個小朋友看起來都長高了，也變得比較成熟，老師也發現Angela的語言表達有明顯的進步。Mommy相信上學，讓Angela有更多練習語言表達的機會是最主要的原因。
Angela had a play at school playground when Mommy picked her up after class the other day. She first ran straight to the swing set and played on it.
The area was decorated by common Halloween imagery such as pumpkin lanterns, themes of death, witches, ghosts, etc.Unaffected by the gloomy weather, this event attracted lots of kids and toddler to have fun and to get free gifts.
Many kids dressed in costume wigs, character masks. cloak and hats to make their Halloween costumes stand out. But, Mommy preferred Angela to be a sweet, cute bug in the ladybug costume.
Angela got a lot of toys provided by sponsor, MacDonald and a scarf and a pair of gloves. Cool.
