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。

Happy Halloween 萬聖節

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.

Attending a wedding banque 參加喜宴

Angela週六中午陪Mommy參加弘敏阿姨的結婚喜宴。弘敏阿姨和Mommy曾經是同事，Angela出生不久，還送了一套粉色的洋裝給Angela，祝福Angela健康長大。

Angela很期待參加這個的活動。喜宴當天氣候暖和，Angela身上正穿著弘敏阿姨送的小洋裝。在喜宴開始前，Angela和Mommy先去看新娘子並合影留念。
雖然這是Angela第二次參加喜宴，但確是第一次近靠穿著白紗的新娘子。在小小Angela的眼中，新娘子的特殊裝扮，與一般人不同，讓新娘子近身與她照相，心中又是興奮又是緊張。雖然也想給弘敏阿姨抱抱，可是還是會害羞得往Mommy身上靠。


Angela 當天觀看著弘敏阿姨的爸爸牽弘敏阿姨進入喜宴會場，印像極為深刻。事後，還會常常念起「新娘子要來了！」

Double-Tenth National Day 國慶日

On the national day, Angela and Mommy went to see public parade nearby the presidential hall. The parade drawed a huge crowd to gather at Jen-Ai Road in the afternoon.

There were various characters bolloons. band performances, dance and people in the parade.

Angela watched happily and waved her little hands and said hello to them. However, because these characters were so big that Angela was afraid of shaking hands with them.

In the evening, Angela, Mommy, Grandma and Uncle watched beautiful fireworks displays, which is one of the most excited events on the national day. For an hour, the fireworks turned the night sky into a dazzling explosion of color, a perfect final hurrah for the nation's birthday party.

校外教學 Preschool excursion

Angela 今天參加班上的校外教學，地點是位於淡台北捷運淡水線水復興岡站的台北捷運逃生體驗營。活動內容包括：認識捷運、學習防災知識、模擬逃生體驗，最後的結束活動是在捷運的北投會館的兒童遊樂場玩耍。


Mommy和Anglea早上8:30到校，老師點完名，小朋友就開始整隊，兩個兩個手牽手準備出發。小朋友步行到中山捷運站 ，搭程淡水線到復興岡站下車。





這是Angela第一次和同學校外郊學，一出校門在路上就很興奮，一直想要脫隊落跑，上了捷運Mommy要Angela像姐姐一樣坐好照像，Angela卻很不自在，面有難色。


到站下車，同學們跟著老師上天橋前往目的地，Angela在天橋上很認真得看著經過的捷運。到了學習營模擬逃生體驗時，Angela 在老師的協助下，學習如何用手轉動開關，讓捷運的門可以在沒有電的情形下打開，以及有火災的時候，如何使用滅火器、打開逃生門窗及墜道中的躱避常識。 小恩恩雖然不見得每個都聽得懂，但是跟著大家一起學習體驗，也玩得不奕樂呼。




離開前，老師發給每個小朋友一個捷運車箱的小模型，小恩恩高興得愛不釋手，還一直唸著MRT。

First time to pee in the potty 第一次使用小馬桶

今天小恩恩第一次主動坐上她的小馬桶成功地撒了尿。為了鼓勵她的進步，Mommy和外婆都鼓掌歡呼，並熱烈地給小恩恩一個大的擁抱。


話說這個小馬桶是Mommy 今年4月的時候買的，小恩恩看到時覺得很好奇，經常站立在上面玩或是打開蓋子腳踩在裡頭蹲著玩。Mommy和外婆曾經嘗試要訓練她如厠的計畫一直沒有成功，每次要小恩恩坐上去，不到3秒鐘，一下就起身跑走。就這樣小馬桶放了將近半年，只能算是小恩恩的玩具。

這幾天或許是到學校的關係，小恩恩似乎有意願學習班上的同學上厠所的樣子了，希望小恩恩能愈來愈進步，早日向尿布說Bye-bye。