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.
On Thanksgiving day, Angela helped out to decorated the front door. Since the weather was so nice, Daddy took a family picture in front of the house. Angela was wearing her hand-made indian head wreath and showed a big smile on her face.
This year, Angela's third birthday was one day after Thanksgiving Holiday. Mommy and Daddy prepared traditional Chinese birthday cuisine -- thin noodles (Misua) with pig's trotters (port hocks) and red eggs expressing the hope for longevity and symbolizing future health and peace for celebrating Angela's birthday. Angela also picked a very big birthday cake decorated to look like a snowman for herself. Look! The birthday girl quite enjoyed her meal and cake.
Angela got Lego from Daddy and two books from Mommy for her birthday gifts.
May Angela continues to grow healthily and joyfully. Happy Birthday!
Angela went to see a puppet animation of Peter and Wolf this Thursday evening. The animation was played in a resturant and Angela was very excited about this new experience.
Angela has heard this musical fairy tale story since she was one year old. While never seeing such a puppet animation, Angela was quite familiar with the characters of the story, including Peter, Peter's grandpa, the Duck, the Bird, the Cat, the Wolf and the Hunters.
She likes the sound of the music instruments and melody as well. When the wolf show up in the screen, Angela became nervous and couldn't help wave her little fist toward the wolf. Before long, Angela showed happy face and smiled when Peter finally caught the wolf.
Mommy was glad to see little Angela concentract her attention on the animation until the play ended.
Since Angela has not been to night markets at Changhau, this Saturday Grandma agreed to go to the nearby night market with Mommy and Angela. On the way to the night market, Angela was so excited, especially when taking a ride on Grandma's motorcycle. After Grandma parked the motorcycle, Angela hopped down and jumped and ran into the market.
In the market, there were not only a lot of stands selling various stuffs, including food, beverage, clothing, accessory, pets and toys, but also stands provided with games and entertainment. Angela was fascinated with all kinds of games and had a wonderful time to play them.
She first had fun on pinball and pingpong.
Then she played shoot games and electric ride-on cars with Grandma.
See that Angela was so happy and laughed aloud when she shot the target cartoon characters.
After each game, Angela had a chance to pick a gift based on her score. As the picture showed, she got a toy truck, a top, a toy pinball and a toy flute.
After night market, Angela visited great grandma together with grandma and Mommy. Angela was in a happy mood when seeing great grandma. She hugged great grandma and showed her toys from the night market. During the time, Mommy took a photo of Angela and great grandma.
Before going home, Grandma took Angela and Mommy to her Saturday karaoke singing class. In the classroom, Angela held a microphone, pretending to sing with Grandma on the stage. Look at the little girl just completely showed her open and outgoing personality.
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 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.
May Angela continues to grow healthily and joyfully. Happy Birthday!
