Story house! 故事屋

這天下午是個好天氣，Angela中午下課後和Mommy到故事島聽故事。這是Angela第一次到故事屋，故事屋的場景讓她覺得很新鮮，老師講了一隻小猴子如何請教他的朋友幫忙他克服害怕黑暗獨自睡覺的故事。說故事的老師一邊說，一邊用道具表演，Angela看得目不轉睛，相當投入。小猴子最後得到小仙子給他的彩虹魔術棒，終於可以不必害怕在黑暗中睡覺了。

故事聽完後，老師發了勞作材料，讓小朋友製作自己設計的魔術棒，Angela 很認真的在紙上畫上不同顏色的圓圈。

Angela 的magic wand看起來還作得不錯吧！

離開故事屋後，Angela又到Sogo休息區玩跳跳馬。遊戲區中就是Angela跳得最起勁，玩得開心不已，不小心跌倒了，爬起來，重新坐上Rudy，繼續跳。玩到精疲力盡，才坐上娃娃車回家。

On Angela's birthday 小恩恩的生日

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.

Advanced birthday celebration at ChangHau 預祝生日快樂！

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.
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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.

Hello! Jerry. 你好，Jerry！

這個週六早上，Angela好不容易有空又可以到圖書館去聽故事了。這一天Angela和Mommy很高興能遇到Jerry和Jerry的媽媽。Jerry比Angela 大兩歲，之前和Angela常常在說故事的活動中碰面，Angela 剛開始參加聽故事活動的時候，因為坐不住，常常在圖書館亂跑，Jerry有時候會去把她牽回來給Mommy，後來兩人比較熟了，就常常會在活動結束後追來追去玩起來。Angela之所以喜歡去圖書館的原因之一也是因為可以和Jerry哥哥玩。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。

At school playground. 在學校操場玩玩！

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.

Hello grandauntie and granduncle! 舅婆舅公好！

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.

Taking a nap. 小睡片刻

Angela 今天放學回家，竟然看電視看到睡著了，真得玩太累了。