Pumpkin Carving 南瓜雕刻

As Halloween approached, Angela learned about pumpkin carving and Helloween dressup in class. Angela has been looking forward to working with Mommy on pumpkin carving.

To let Angela experience how to carve a pumpkin, the family got two big pumpkins and carving kits home the other day.
Few steps for carving a pumpkin-clean the surface of the pumpkin, cut opening pumpkin, scoop out the seeds and scrape pulp from carving area, draw a pattern for the face, and follow the pattern and saw and cut.





After Angela pushed the cut-out feature gently from inside of the pumpkin, her carving work was done. Finally, nice work!









By the way, here are the byproducts after pumpkin carving -- pumpkin seeds and pulp, which can be roasted and cooked, see recipes for roast pumpkin seeds and pumpkin rice.

First-week report from daycare school 托兒所的報告

Angela started her daycare center at Montessori School of Downtown last Monday. Daddy drove her to school in the morning and Mommy picked up her in the afternoon. Angela has been excited about attending the class and making friends. Mommy and Daddy are happy to see Angela's high willingness to go to daycare center and hope that little Angela will have a lot of fun to play and learn.
While the teachers were pleased with Angela's self-adjustment in the past week, there still are things we need to work on. E.g. Angela needs to improve her table manner and stop running around or standing while eating meals. She also has to control her tantrums and reduces the frequency of wetting her pants, etc. The teachers introduce class rules and hopefully, in the following weeks, Angela will get used to the class instructions, be willing to obey the rules and still keep high spirit going to class.

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.