Angela's Advance Birthday Celebration at Montessori！生日到了

Angela is turning 3 years old this coming Thanksgiving holiday! Mommy and Daddy prepared for cupcakes and birthday favors for Angela's advance third birthday celebration at her class this Friday. The past year, Angela has grown a lot and kept rapid progress in every aspects. While moving to a new environment, little Angela has not been hestitate to get to know her classmates in the daycare school.  Angela looked at the cupcakes as Daddy brought home and couldn't wait to share them with her friends.

The celebration was quite simple and efficient. During snack time, children happily sat on their seats in the dining room and waited for their cakes. Beofre starting to enjoy their cake, all the kids sang Angela happy birthday song.

  

Angela was pleased and satified when she knew that she was allowed to pick her favorite cupcake.

Later, Angela passed her birthday favors--little notebooks for each classmate and candies and thank you notes for class instructors.

 

At the end, children lined up and returned to classroom for next class session.

Meanwhile, Angela got her goody bag from school.

School Farewell Party 學校惜別會

Angela left for the US with Mommy and Daddy on Oct. 1. Before the journey, Mommy requested preschool teachers, Ms. Yen and Ms. Chen, for a farewell party for Angela.

On Angela's last day of school this month, the family brought mini cakes for the class and attended the farewell party. During the party, Ms. Yen also celebrated Angela's birthday in advance. All classmates clapped and sang happy brithday song. Thereafter, Angela made a wish and blowed out the candle.

Angela and each classmate embraced warmly and said miss you.

In the end, the kids danced and sang merrily together with the teachers.

Happy Mother's Day 母親節

今天Angela學校舉辦的母親節慶祝活動，Mommy 和外婆偕同參加。這是Angela、Mommy和外婆第一次在學校慶祝母親節。
老師先讓小朋友和媽媽玩，「抱抱」遊戲，讓大家暖身一下。

接下來小朋友一起唱一首「我愛媽咪」向參加的媽媽阿媽說「母親節快樂！」。小恩恩的韻動還不是很靈活，但是會跟著哥哥姐姐的肢體動作，模樣很有趣。

結束唱遊，老師讓小朋友休息一下，請參加的家長分享小朋友的趣事並說祝福期許的話。Mommy分享小恩恩咬同學的動作是不好的，希望小朋友動口多吃營養的食物、多歡笑並多歌唱。外婆也祝班上的小朋友多吃健康長大，將來成為能幹有用的人。

分享祝福的話之後，老師將小朋友分組進行插花的活動，讓小朋友認識康乃馨、桔梗、山櫻花及顏色，並發給小朋友一個小花籃，籃中有插花用的海棉。

Angela看到自己成功的插了第一朶康乃馨，高興得拿給Mommy看， 外婆也很高興一邊為小恩恩加油。

每個小朋友都很認真的在插花，這一排成品都是小朋友的傑作，準備下課後帶回家送給媽媽。
歷時2小時的母親節慶祝活動在插花結束時接近尾聲。最後老師幫家長和小朋友一起攝影留念。

看得出來，這時候小恩恩開始不耐煩又要照團體照的模樣，表情不是很愉快。

回家後，Angela很高興的將成品放在桌上讓大家一起欣賞。

Mommy希望小恩恩不僅像外婆說的能多吃，長高長大長健康聰明，將來成為能幹有用的人，也希望小恩恩有一個幸福美滿的人生。

School Sports Day Activities 運動會

Yesterday was Aangela's first sports day at preschool. The school teachers set up a series of activities that all of the children could participate in and that emphasized family interaction.
Angela and her classmates wearing head wreath marched around the playground at the sports day opening ceremony.
Grandma held Angela's hand and walked with her. Angela was excited and smiled while she was walking.

Angela sat next to her classmates and took a short break before next activity.

Grandma drawed Angela who was sitting on paperboard.

Little Angela sang and moved with her classmates happily. Though Angela seemed a bit ackward compared to the other older sisters and brothers, Mommy was proud of her rapid progress in motor skills.

Dined with Mommy's colleague 參加媽媽公司年終聚餐

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.

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.

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！」